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indicate that if Joe says that he sees something at a target site, it will be there three-quarters of the time. Since the targets in this series were very diverse  indoors and out, pastoral as well as technical  the results he obtained were both excellent and conclusive.
The events we are evaluating are themselves so improbable scientifically that their percentage of reliability is not the appropriate measure. It is as though Joe had been asked to walk across San Francisco Bay a hundred times without getting his feet wet, and we found that he could do that 75 percent of the time! What Joe demonstrated was an innate human capability rivaling the nation's most sophisticated technical assets in accuracy. It is clear why the government might be interested in ESP!
With regard to possible applications, we favor the government being as well informed as possible about what is happening in the world. We think this is one of the best ways to prevent war. However, during my decade at SRI, I felt that there was far too much emphasis placed on looking for ways to apply remote viewing, and not enough attention directed to the understanding of the phenomenology. I once expressed this concern directly to our on-site government contract monitor. He explained to me his view of his job, saying, ''I am not paid to think, I am paid to make sure that you do the work my boss is paying you to do." I left SRI shortly after that conversation.
Although there are still many fascinating government files on our experiments waiting to be opened, they will not contain any great new surprises about the nature of remote viewing. The examples described in this chapter reflect all the dimensions of our larger body of work. We believe they demonstrate beyond any doubt the human mind's potential to transcend its conventional "local" restrictions by opening a window to a boundless universe, where we can explore our fundamental interconnectedness with everything that exists. Similar experimental work in psychic healing is still in its beginning stages, but it strongly supports the ability of our untrammeled, nonlocal minds not only to roam at will through time and space, but also to make mind-to-mind, mind-to-body connections that influence the healing process. We will explore this in much greater depth in later chapters.

 
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