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Pat Price and Ingo Swann had both been experienced in the psychic world long before they came to SRI, but Hella and I had to figure it out for ourselves from scratch. In the initial trial of the first formal series, I remember sitting on the floor of our laboratory while Hella settled on the couch and asked me, "What do I do now?" My partner Hal Puthoff had already driven off to an unknown target location, and our job was to describe where he had gone to hide. I didn't know what to tell Hella at that time, but now we can answer that question by writing this book. (Jane likes to think that Hella is helping us to complete the project.) |
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Hella taught us much of what we understand about the potential of remote viewing. During her nine trials of viewing distant geographical targets, she achieved a rating in which the odds of her seeing what she saw were almost one in a million even more successful than Pat Price had been in a similar series. We conducted successive studies in which Hella accurately described objects hidden in wooden boxes, small objects hidden in aluminum film cans, and even microscopic targets the size of a dot, such as those used by spies to conceal messages in letters. All these viewings were carefully judged, and found to be statistically significant. So in the end, our control subject became our most extensively published SRI psychic. |
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Hella was a cautious viewer, in that she did not elaborate on her descriptions beyond what she actually saw psychically. Pat Price, on the other hand, would go to extremes to give highly detailed descriptions of target sites. These were usually correct, but sometimes they were entirely off the mark. We would not say that one viewer was more psychic than the other. Rather, we would say that they had different styles. If a terrorist had planted a bomb somewhere in the city, I would probably call Pat to try and find it. If I had lost my keys somewhere in the house, I would call Hella to describe what piece of furniture they had fallen behind. |
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Hella's descriptions tended to be quite parsimonious. One day we did an experiment that did not have a person at the target, but instead provided geographical coordinates of the site. I showed her the coordinates of latitude and longitude, which were in binary form Is and Os instead of the usual degrees, minutes, and seconds. Hella got to see a card showing |
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