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is hard to read about their work and not be convinced of the reality of precognition, even though we don't understand how it works.
One of our great passions over the years concerns the issues of precognition and probable futures. An outstanding question that arose was our uncertainty as to whether a remote viewer sees the actual future, or the probable future. That is, does he or she view what is likely to happen, or what actually occurs? My daughter, Elisabeth Targ, and I (Russell) carried out an experiment to investigate this question. 19
She designed an ingenious experiment with twelve precognitive trials. For each trial there was a target pool of six possible target objects to be chosen by a 0 to 9 random number generator. One particular object would be the target if the generator came up with any number from 0 to 4. So that object had a 50 percent chance of being chosen. Each of the other five objects would be chosen if its corresponding number of 5, 6, 7, 8, or 9, came up. Thus, each of these objects had a one in ten probability of being chosen. The viewer's task, as always, was to describe the object that she would be shown at the end of each trial. The question asked by the experiment was whether the presence of a 50 percent likely target would interfere with the viewer's ability to correctly describe a 10 percent object when it was chosen by the random number generator. What we found was that there is no such interference. A viewer sees the actualized and chosen future, not the probable future. Thus, from a psychic point of view, what you see is what you get.
This suggested to us that we could design an experiment that could be tested in the marketplace, and use remote viewing to forecast the future.
Associative Remote Viewing
As we have described earlier, remote viewing is not generally suited to acquiring analytical information, such as words or numbers. So, in order to apply this capability to number-guessing tasks such as stock market or horse race forecasting, one would have to use another strategy. It would be nice if we could say to the viewer, "Close your eyes and tell me the number of the

 
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