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SRI - the modern beginning...In the early 70's reports started filtering out from the former USSR that psychic research was being taken seriously. This coupled with the released of the book 'Psychic discoveries from behind the iron curtain' caused the intelligence community to look into psychic research or fall behind. In 1972 The CIA following up on these leads approached SRI. SRI (Stanford Research Institute) was tasked with the research and asked to come up with a repeatable, reliable method or psychic technique that could be used for intelligence and taught. For over a decade the remote viewing experiments of Targ & Puthoff continued at SRI. The team expanded remote viewing attempts over vast distances. One subject a photographer by the name of Hella Hammid, was judged to have described correctly five out of nine target sites, a feat that beat odds of 500,000 to 1. Hella Hammid Remote viewing demonstration with Targ (Below).
click here to see early SRI video experiments with Uri Geller
Targ & Puthoff with SRI in the background - circa 1970's Ingo Swann, an artist, author and well known intuitive, after reading a paper of theirs about quantum physics being a possible explanation for extra-sensory perception in 1972, offered to be tested by Puthoff and Targ at SRI, . During the earliest testing at SRI, Swann was accurately able to describe the features of a uniquely-designed magnetometer buried six feet in concrete beneath the floor. He also affected the output signal of the magnetometer on a strip chart recorder. Ingo soon became bored with the scientific repetition of experiments and suggested that he could travel psychically to anywhere on the planet. After an initial reaction this was tried, and proved to be successful. "Project Scannate", remote viewing by coordinates was born. Swann and other viewers, including Pat Price, were provided with latitude and longitude, and they attempted to view the geographical location at those coordinates. Ingo Swann and Pat Price proved to be remarkably accurate at this technique. Further rigorous testing of Swann, Price, photographer Hella Hamid, and others at SRI convinced Targ and Puthoff that remote viewing was not just an ability to be enjoyed by certain psychics but that anybody could do it. One of the best Remote viewing sessions & feedback in the public domain is the Ingo Swann Remote Viewing of planet Jupiter. This was done at SRI in 1973. Read it here. In 1977, Targ and Puthoff published the results of their remote viewing experiments in the book 'Mind-Reach' in which they evaluated the ways in which remote viewing could be put to practical use, they listed:
The results impressed the intelligence agencies namely the CIA, who were funding the research. But not all was well at SRI. Ingo Swann & Pat price allegedly did not get on well and the psychic contest that raged between them often felt like it would explode outside of SRI itself. In August of 1973 Ingo's contract ended and he left SRI. Late in 1974, as Pat price left SRI to work for the CIA directly, Ingo returned and was tasked with producing a methodology for remote viewing that was teachable and offered repeatable results. This method was CRV or Controlled Remote Viewing. Over the period 1978 - 1986, CRV was developed and tested out of SRI using first Ingo as the primary test subject then eventually the Military remote viewers who were trained in Ingo's techniques. CRV was used by the military right up till the end of the military and intel psychic spying program in 1995. Now CRV is taught to the general public by some of Ingo's military students and some have adapted CRV with changes creating their own methods and products over the years so that we now have CRV, TRV, SRV. TDS and other variants. The other side of the secret program based out of SRI and then later SAIC used initially CRV but then adopted a different my natural approach/method to remote viewing. This type of method is championed by people like Joe McMoneagle. In 1986 the Remote viewing program left SRI and Edwin C May took it to SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) where it continued with intel funding till 1995 when the CIA went public with the program and the 'official' program closed. Links:
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