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Made famous in the mid-'90s when the U.S. government revealed using the technique in its espionage operations (discussed in Chapter 7), remote viewing has actually been a focal point of psi research since the 1970s. At that time, scientists Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in Menlo Park, California, chose to give clairvoyance more credibility by naming it ''remote viewing." |
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Early experiments with remote viewing involved a subject staying in a room at the lab, while a group went out to a randomly selected target sight. The subject then provided a verbal or drawn description of the images of the site that they received. Independent judges then assessed how closely the subject's description matched the actual site. |
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These techniques have become more scientifically controlled through the use of computers and more rigid procedures. Researchers wanted to rule out the possibility that the subject could be using telepathyby reading the mind of a person who visits or selects a target siterather than true clairvoyance. |
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To do this, they give the subject a sealed envelope that includes a random, computer-selected set of coordinates for a specific target site; but they don't allow anyone to read the coordinates until after the subject describes the target. Even without any information about the site, remote viewers are able to correctly describe target siteswith success rates as high as those in the earliest experiments! |
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