|
Chapter 5 Dean Radin
Currently director of the Consciousness Research Division, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Click here for their home page. "AT&T Bell Laboratories, Columbus, Ohio. I did research and development on human-computer interfaces in national and global telecommunications systems, medical information systems, network control centers, and also some parapsychological research." "Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. I was Director of a multidisciplinary group interested in aspects of human information processing. I was also a scientist within the Psychology Department, where I did research on parapsychological phenomena." Radin also
worked with GTE, the Koestler Unit of Parapsychology, and with the program
at
SRI. "I took a leave of absence from Bell Labs in 1985, and spent that entire year at SRI International, working with Hal Puthoff and Ed May. Since then I spent about half my time in academia (Princeton, Edinburgh, UNLV) and half in industry (Contel Technology Center, GTE Labs). My academic research was exclusively on psi phenomena, and my industrial research included about 20% on psi." "I'm not in
favor of developing or using psi for any military purposes, but
unfortunately there are those in the world who would use psi as a weapon
if they could. Thus, I reluctantly suppose that R& D on psi for
intelligence and possibly military purposes can be justified for defensive
reasons. It would be naive to think that someone, somewhere is not working
on this right now" Radin is
currently working with
<>Joe McMoneagle, in a project involved with remote-viewing future
technology. Radin was once funded in part by Robert Bigelow's Bigelow Foundation, but according to Glenn Campbell, Bigelow stopped funding him after disputes over funding and academic freedom.(What's New at Area 51 and Ufomind: 9/96 Part I) (What's New at Area 51 and Ufomind: 9/96 Part II) On 9/17/95, Radin posted a want-ad on USENET: "Private, well-funded institute seeks a director for an innovative, long-term program of scientific and scholarly research on UFOs and related phenomena..." "This is a full time position located at the institute's new headquarters in Las Vegas, NV, near the University of Nevada (UNLV). The institute also supports a major research program on anomalies of human consciousness." Applications were to be sent to the Bigelow Foundation. UNLV professor explores the link between mind and matter On the board of advisors for "Subtle Energies: An International Journal of Energetic and Informational". Author of:
Dean Radin is the moving force behind one of the largest online remote viewing/ESP tests ever. This is what he has to say about it: "As of April 25th, we have recorded a total of 2.1 million trials, contributed by over 14,000 participants from 92 countries. In these tests we were interested in searching for possible psi talent, for testing hypotheses about individual personality, belief and environmental factors vs. psi performance, and for examining some ideas about perception through time." For sixteen years, Dean Radin has conducted experimental studies of psi phenomena in academia and industry, including appointments at Princeton University, University of Edinburgh, University of Nevada, and SRI International. At the latter he was a research scientist on a classified program of psi research. Prior to becoming President of the Boundary Institute, he was in charge of a psi research program at Interval Research Corporation in Palo Alto, California. Dean Radin earned a BSEE magna cum laude in electrical engineering, with honors, from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MS in electrical engineering and PhD (1979) in educational psychology, both from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. For ten years, he was a member of technical staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and later a principal member of the technical staff at GTE Laboratories, where he was engaged in R&D on a wide variety of advanced telecommunications products and systems.
(also see Manning,
Mary, The Scientific Edge broken link [check for article], Las Vegas Sun) Elizabeth Rauscher
The Speed of Thought: Investigation of a Complex Space-Time Metric to Describe Psychic Phenomena Abstract: Elizabeth will present a paper, co-authored by Russell Targ, submitted for publication to The Journal of Scientific Exploration. For more than 100 years scientists have attempted to determine the truth or falsity of claims that some people are able to describe and experience events or information blocked from ordinary perception. For the past 25 years, the authors of this paper - together with researchers in laboratories around the world - have carried out experiments in remote viewing. The evidence for this mode of perception, or direct knowing of distant events and objects, has convinced us of the validity of these claims. It has been widely observed that the accuracy and reliability of this sensory awareness do not diminish with either electromagnetic shielding, nor with increases in temporal or spatial separation between the percipient and the target to be described. Modern physics describes such a time and space independent connection between percipient and target as nonlocal. In this paper we present a geometrical model of space-time, which has already been extensively studied in the technical literature of mathematics and physics. This eight-dimensional metric is known as "complex Minkowski space," and has been shown to be consistent with our present understanding of the equations of Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and Schrödinger. It also has the interesting property of allowing a connection of zero distance between points in the complex manifold, which appear to be separate from one another in ordinary observation. We propose a model that describes the major elements of experimental parapsychology, and at the same time is consistent with the present highly successful structure of modern physics. Dr. Elizabeth A. Rauscher was associated with the University of California, Berkeley, CA (UCB), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) from 1964 until 1979, first as a graduate student and then as a research staff member. From 1964 until 1966 she was with the theoretical nuclear science division and from 1966-1969, with the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Theoretical Nuclear, Plasma and Astrophysical Program. From 1969 until 1974 she was associated with the theoretical particle physics group and from 1974 until 1977 she was associated with the Nuclear Science Theoretical and experimental Bevatron accelerator program from 1977 until 1979 she was on staff with the Nuclear Physics G.T. Seaborg research group. Dr. Rauscher held concurrent invited positions at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) from 1971 to 1972 and was a consultant of the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) Radio Physics Laboratory 1974-1977 in theoretical relativistic physics. She also held a Navy grant from 1970-1974 through U.C. Berkeley and also she held an Air Force consulting position in 1979 an antennae theory and in 1979 and 1989, she was a delegate to the United Nations on long term energy sources and environmental issues. As a consultant and adjunct professor at the University of Nevada, she conducted theoretical research and advised experimental programs on fast light ion-atom collisions, primarily helium to calculate high resolution extreme ultraviolet (EUV) emission cross sections 1990-1995 in which she worked with faculty and graduate students in completing their graduate programs. From 1997-1999 she conducted research on generalized quantum theory and relativistic invariance under a Stanford Engineering research grant. Dr. Rauscher has been a delegate to the United Nations in 1979, and 1989 and a research consultant to NASA (1983-1985), a staff researcher at Stanford Research Institute, SRI International (1974-1977) and held a Stanford University Grant, 1997-1999. She has conducted extensive consulting research and invited lectures in the U.S.A., England, Europe, Japan, Korea, India, Africa, South America, Canada, Mexico, and Bermuda. She has published over 200 papers, 4 books. She holds 3 U.S. patents and 1 European patent with Dr. W.L. Van Bise. Co-authored with Dr. William L. Van Bise a number of research papers on electromagnetic phenomena and geophysical activity and is a co-author on a US patent on an extremely sensitive magnetometer to measure the fluctuation in electromagnetic fields associated with and prior to earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and ionospheric disturbances. Besides developing some design features of the magnetometer system, data analysis and statistical analysis, she has developed geoelectric and geomagnetic theoretical models. She and Dr. Van Bise are conducting extensive research into geophysical phenomena at the Electromagnetic Laboratories of Arizona, U.S. Dr. Rauscher is a member of American Physical Society, The Mathematical Society of America, The American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Nuclear Society, Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers, International Society for the Study of Energy Medicine, American Associates of Medical Instruments and American Association of Mathematics. She has been recognized for her major contributions in Marquis Who's Who of Men and Women in Science, Golden State Who's Who in the West, Who's Who in California, Who's Who in Technology Today, Leading Consultants in Technology, who's Who Historical Society, Men of Achievement, Community Leaders of America, Who's Who of American Inventors, World Leadership Award (England), Outstanding Teachers Award, Award for Significant Research Joint ABC/USA, DOE top ten women in USA in science sward, USPA Leaders of America Life Time Membership Award, lota Sigma Pi fellow, Delta Delta Delta scholarships at UCB. She graduated with honors and presidential Commendation for service to the University of California, Berkeley. She has received numerous honors. Mel Riley
Military remote-viewer at Ft. Meade, 1978-90. A remote-viewing session with Riley monitored by Ed Dames was shown in the video "Psi-Files: The Real X-Files", written and narrated by Jim Schnabel. Riley left the Army in 1991, and lives in Wisconsin, where he is considered to be an expert in American Indian culture. He says that he now remote views constantly. Riley is part of
Lyn Buchanan's Assigned Wittness Program. Richard Heinberg identifies
him as being a remote viewer for 20 years, and a curator of a museum for
Native American history. Riley joined the
operational unit beginning with
Gondola Wish, and continued through
Grill Flame until he was reassigned to Wiesbaden, Germany in 1981,
where he served in an aerial reconnaissance unit. He returned to the
remote-viewing unit in the summer of 1986. Laurance RockefellerProvided original funding to the Human Potential Foundation, and funnels hundreds of thousands of dollars through them to John Mack and his research. Supporter of the
Green Earth Foundation, headed up by Terrance "DMT Elves" McKenna. Reportedly, Rockefeller has stopped funding Mack. He continues to fund PEAR (Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research), and is a Funding Advisor to the Joseph Campbell Foundation. He also funds the Starlight Coalition, which claims membership of several former government and military personnel who want to end government secrecy on UFOs. See also: Constantine, Alex, "Who is Laurance Rockefeller?" Charlie RoseCongressional Democrat from North Carolina, and one of the bigger supporters of the government remote viewing program. Friends with Ingo Swann and Jack Verona. (Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 271) Was friends with
Ira Einhorn. Jack Sarfatti
Physicist. Founding director of the Physics/Consciousness Research Group, president, Internet Science Education Project. Sarfatti Group,
1714 Stockton St Suite 100 San Francisco, CA 94133 As a child in 1952, Sarfatti claims to have received phone calls from the mechanical voice of a conscious computer aboard a spaceship, recruiting him along with 400 others for some special project. These calls have simularities to the mechanical voice which talked to Andrijah Puharich via his tape recorder. Sarfatti was later associated with Puharich. Director of a
physics program at the
Esalen Institute. He's been funded by
Werner Erhard and Jean Lanier, a friend of
Laurance Rockefeller. (Sarfatti, Jack,
"The Parsifal Effect", The Destiny Matrix is available at
http://www.amazon.com and
http://www.1stbooks.com) Sarfatti met with Puharich,
Uri Geller, and
Ira Einhorn at Puharich's Ossining ranch. Einhorn acted as a literary
agent for Sarfatti, and brought him to Esalen. "I was then
simply a young inexperienced naive 'useful idiot' in a very very
sophisticated and successful covert psychological warfare operation run by
the late Brendan O Regan of the
Institute of Noetic Sciences and the late Harold Chipman who was the
CIA station chief responsible for all mind-control research in the Bay
Area in the 70's. Chipman (aka "Orwell") funded me openly for awhile in
1985 when he was allegedly no longer in the CIA, and covertly before that,
and told me much of the story. In fact, he even introduced me to a
beautiful woman adventurer-agent who was one of his RV subjects who later
became my live-in 'significant other'" Some of the topics Sarfatti has researched: (and are documented on his website) include quantum physics, remote-viewing, reverse causality (i.e. time travel), and exotic propulsion systems. Author of:
Stephan Schwartz
Former Navy officer
and psychic researcher. Schwartz helped procure a submarine for a July
1977 experiment with
SRI. These experiments included some on behalf of
Dale Graff of the Air Force. Research associate with the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory. Dr. Igor Smirnov
Smirnov gave a series of closed meetings in Northern Virginia, starting on 3/17/93, to the FBI, CIA, DIA, and ARPA concerning Russian developments with a device that allegedly implanted thoughts in a subject's mind. The FBI was considering using this device to implant the voice of God in David Koresh's mind, telling him to surrender. Other, non-intelligence participants included Dr. Christopher Green and Dr. Richard Nakamura of the National Institute of Health [I think he may now be the director]. This technology was supposedly used by the Russians against civilians in Afghanistan, and possibly on the Red Army to prepare them for battle. The American rights to this technology is owned by a Richmond, Virginia company called Psycotechnologies Corp. (Defense Electronics, 7/93. Reprinted in Flatland #11) As of 1994,
Smirnov has worked at Moscow's Institute of Psycho-Correction, using
subliminal technology as therapy for drug abusers and others. The
Institute has been strapped for cash after the the fall of the Soviet
Union, but it has refused to accept business from the Russian Mafia. Has done work with the Human Potential Foundation and John Alexander. Note: I'm not sure how Smirnov's device is supposed to work. Later reports claim it would work using inaudible, subliminal suggestions (spliced into phone conversations in the case of David Koresh). The device is definitely supposed to make the subject "hear" voices, as the FBI wanted to use Charlton Heston as the voice of God. This is definitely a different strategy from other subliminal techniques, which are designed to produce mere suggestions. Paul Smith
Captain Paul
Smith joined the operational remote viewing unit at
Ft. Meade in 1983. Before joining, he was with an INSCOM operations
unit in Germany. "Paul served for seven years in the government's remote viewing program at Ft. Meade, MD (from September 1983 to August 1990). During 1984, he became one of only a handful of government personnel to be personally trained as coordinate remote viewers by Ingo Swann at SRI-International. Paul was the primary author of the government RV program's CRV training manual, and served as theory instructor for new CRV trainee personnel, as well as recruiting assessment officer and unit security officer. He is credited with over a thousand training and operational remote viewing sessions during his time with the unit at Ft. Meade." "Besides his
tour at Ft. Meade, his military assignments included Arabic linguist,
electronic warfare operator, strategic intelligence officer for a special
operations unit, Mid-East desk officer, tactical intelligence officer with
the 101st Airborne Division during Desert Shield and Storm, strategic
intelligence officer in the Collection Directorate of the Defense
Intelligence Agency, and chief of the intelligence and security division
for the Military District of Washington, from which he retired in 1996." Is it real, or is my mind just making it up? This is always the question remote viewers must ask themselves. Mental "noise" is the one thing that gets in the way of every attempt to "be psychic." How can you tell the difference between noise and signal? Did you know that there is psychological research that can help us understand this phenomenon... and that there are ways to work around it when we can, and adapt to it when we cannot? Come hear one of the leading teachers of remote viewing explain what it is, what it ain't, and what you can do about it! Paul H. Smith Major, US Army (ret.) is President and Chief Instructor for Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based company providing training and operational support for remote viewing, was for seven years a government remote viewer, working for the US Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Paul was the chief coordinate remote viewing (CRV) theory instructor for the government program, and was primary author of the government CRV manual. He performed hundreds of operational remote viewing sessions as a government Rver. Paul is Vice-President of the International Remote Viewing Association, and is chair of the organizing committee for the Year 2001 Remote Viewing Conference. Myron Stolaroff
Russian born inventor, founded Ampex, the first manufacturer of magnetic tape-recording equipment, supposedly based on German equipment Stolaroff acquired in WWII. Stolaroff
retired and concentrated on LSD research, founding the
International Foundation for Advanced Study, and leading seminars at
the
Esalen Institute. "Stolaroff was
born in Roswell, New Mexico on August 20, 1920. He received a B.A. and
then, in 1942, a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford. After
working for the Navy's Bureau of Ships during World War II, he pioneered
in the magnetic recording field at Ampex. Turned on to LSD by Alfred Hubbard, Stolaroff continued his studies privately after LSD and other drugs were criminalized. During his latter days at Ampex, he tried to use LSD to stimulate the creativity of the employees. He chronicles his experiences in Thanatos to Eros: 35 Years of Psychedelic Exploration, Thaneros Press, 1994. Former director and current secretary of the Albert Hoffman Foundation. Special consultant to the Heffter Research Institute. Author of:
Gen. Albert Stubblebine
Former head of the
U.S. Army Intelligence & Security Command (INSCOM) 1981-84 . Masters
degree in chemical engineering from Columbia. Signed classified contracts
with the
Monroe Institute. Stubblebine often met with Noriega while he was a US intelligence asset. (Emerson, 1988, pg 110-1) Former boss of
Col. John Alexander, and the two have held numerous "spoon-bending"
parties. Soon after becoming head of INSCOM, Stubblebbine began a program called the "High Performance Task Force", a series of methods to improve his officer's performance. These ranged from the neuro-linquistic programming of Tony Robbins to the hemisynch tapes of the Monroe Institute, where Stubblebine often sent his officers. (Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 276) The "spoon-bending parties" were initiated by a west coast defence industry consultant, Jack Houck. (Schnabel, 1997, pg 278) Following an incident involving an officer having a psychotic episode at the Monroe Institute, Stubblebine resigned in 1984. He was replaced by Major General Harry Soyster. (Schnabel, 1997, pg 316) "Formerly Vice President for 'Intelligence Systems' of BDM of McClean, Virginia." As of 1992, Chairman of PSI-TECH. "Laibow,
Stubblebine and ufologist Victoria Lacas (with
[C.B. Scott] Jones in the shadows) toured Europe and the Soviet Union,
where they have established a prodigious UFO/Psi network." Stubblebine gave a lecture at the International Symposium on UFO Research, sponsored by the International Association for New Science, in Denver, Colorado (May 22-25, 1992). This gives a good example of Stubblebine's coherence (or lack there of) and paranoia (he often threatened to destroy the tape). Stubblebine claimed that none of the members of the remote viewing program had prior psychic abilities or interests (all other sources state that they did). Ingo Swann
New York artist and subject in many psychic experiments. Swann served in the US Army from 1955-8, primarily serving in the Far East and Korea. I don't know the nature of his service, but he describes his work as being with the highest echelons of the military, and he retained a Top Secret clearance from his tour of duty. From 1958-68, he worked in the Secretariat of the United Nations. After leaving to pursue a career in writing and art, he became involved in a circle of parapsychologists. He has been a longtime friend of Robert Monroe of the Monroe Institute, and began working with Cleve Backster in September, 1971. "At some point,
I don't remember when exactly, Backster mentioned something along the
following lines: Ingo Swann heard about Hal Puthoff's proposal to study the basis of life processes through Cleve Backster. Swann wrote Puthoff (3/30/72) and suggested that he research psychic abilities. Swann met with Puthoff in June, 1972 (Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, Mind-Reach, Delacorte Press, 1977, pg 18-9). Swann then became the subject for a series of remote viewing studies with Puthoff and Russell Targ at SRI Swann came to California on 6/4/72, and came to SRI two days later, when he allegedly telekinetically perturbed a shielded magnetometer. (Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, pg 88-9) Swann returned
to SRI in October, when he did some clairvoyance tests. Some of these
tests were observed by two CIA agents, who set up a eight month pilot
program with SRI. Swann began this contract a few days before Christmas,
1972. Swann left SRI
in mid-august, 1973, when the CIA contract ran out. Reportedly, he left
angry, and vowed never to return. After leaving
SRI, Swann did some work with the American Society for Psychical Research
and the Maimonides Dream Laboratory. He also worked for Bill Keeler,
chairman of Philips Petroleum, to try to find oil deposits. After
Pat Price left SRI, Swann returned in the fall of 1974 as a
consultant, with the incentive of more money and creative freedom. Through the late
1970s and eraly 80s, Swann developed a strict protocal for remote viewing,
which he used to train new
Center Lane recruits in 1983. In the summer of 1984, Swann moved this
training course to New York. According to Peter Tomkins and Chirstopher Bird, Swann "attributes his success to techniques he learned in Scientology". (Tompkins, Peter and Bird, Christopher, The Secret Life of Plants, Harper and Row, 1973, pg 29) Swann and Puthoff attended the First International Congress on Psychotronic Research in Prague, Czechoslovakia. "Ingo was there to present a paper on the Scientology paradigm as model for developing and exploring paranormal abilities." (Targ, Russell and Puthoff, Harold E, pg 42) This paper is entitled "Scientological Techniques: A Modern Paradigm for the Exploration of Consciousness and Psychic Integration" in Proceedings of the First International Congress on Psychotronic Research (Virginia: U.S. Joint Publications Research Service, 9/6/74, Document No. JPRS L/5022-1) Swann had previously stated that he would never work for intelligence agents for fear of his life (Uri Geller has made similiar statments). He has recently stated that Puthoff never told him of the CIA sponsorship of the SRI studies until 12/29/95, but that it was common knowledge around the lab. (Swann, Ingo,"The Emergence of Project 'SCANATE'") "In 1983, Ingo
Swann, under the direction of Dr. Harold Puthoff at SRI, realized a
breakthrough, i.e., he developed an accurate model of how the collective
unconscious communicates (target) information to conscious awareness.
Swann believed that the ability to remote view, like language, is an
innate faculty--a birthright--but must be learned to be effective. Swann's
model provided a rigid set of instructions which theoretically allowed
anyone to actually be trained to produce accurate, detailed target data.
To test the model, the Army sent Major
[Ed] Dames and five others to Swann as a prototype trainee group."
Swann parted with this group in late 1983. Friends with
Rep. Charlie Rose. Swann left the program in 1988. He can be reached care of Thomas Burgin at thomasb@mindspring.com. Author of:
Russell Targ
"Russell Targ is
a senior research physicist at
Stanford Research Institute, having joined their electronics and
bioengineering laboratory in 1972. Prior to that, he spent 10 years in
laser and plasma physics research with Sylvania Corporation, developing
gas lasers...He is also president of the Parapsychology Research Group,
Inc., in Palo Alto, California." Partner with Hal Puthoff in the SRI remote viewing project (see SRI's page for more details.) "I have had dealings with Andrija Puharich intermittently since 1965.." "I could
remember back to my own activities at nineteen, when I was earning money
performing magic.." Brother-in-law
of former World Chess Champion Bobby Fischer. Interestingly, one of
Fischer's opponents, Boris Spassky, claimed he lost a match because he was
being beamed with confusion rays. "In May 1982,
Elisabeth Targ and I (R.T.) were invited to hold a workshop at
Esalen Institute for a group of twenty-five professional men and
women." This was part of a program with Stanislav Grof, who was studying
non-chemical alternatives for altered states of consciousness. The Targs'
goal was to show that psychic experiences did not require an altered
state. In 1982, Targ
left SRI and founded Delphi Associates with
Keith Harary. Delphi Associates was a consultancy which sought to
apply psi to finding oil, gas, etc. Using Harary as a viewer, they claimed
to have successfully traded in the silver market. In Spring, 1982, Targ turned in a research report to his DIA contract manager at SRI, Jim Salyer. Salyer and the DIA considered his work to be unprofessional, and they soon refused to pay his salary. Under SRI rules,
Targ had eight months to find new funding. In early 1983, he left SRI,
reportedly claiming that he left because he didn't like the military
applications of psychic research. After leaving SRI, he toured the world with Keith Harary, including travelling to many communist countries, which made some in the DIA very nervous. Before officially leaving SRI, Targ, along with Harary and businessman Tony White, founded Delphi Associates. Their first project was to develop a psi-related game for Atari, but Atari went under before the deal was completed. Delphi then went on to ty to predict silver futures on the market. After several reported successes, there were two misses, which scared off their investor. Each blamed each other for the failure, and the argument went public during a lecture Harary gave at the Esalen Institute. The feud continued into the 1990s. (Schnabel, 1997, pg 264-6) Russell Targ is now apparently working with Lockheed Martin Missiles & Space Co., where his work deals with using lasers to determine wind patterns. In April, 1996, he co-chaired a session on "Advanced Sensor Technologies" at the Aerospace/Defense Sensing and Controls conference. He is also indentified as being with the Bay Research Institute, 1010 Harriet St., Palo Alto, CA 94301, and was involved with the Physics/Consciousness Research Group. Author of:
Why I Teach
Remote Viewing? Russell Targ is a physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of the laser, and cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. He is co-author of Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities and The Mind Race: Understanding and Using Psychic Abilities. Targ recently retired from Lockheed Martin as a senior staff scientist, where he developed laser technology for peaceful applications. During the past few years, he co-authored with Jane Katra Miracles of Mind: Exploring Non-local Consciousness and Spiritual Healing and The Heart of the Mind: How to Experience God Without Belief. Russell is the President of the International Remote Viewing Association. Charles Tart
Click here for a Charles Tart home page. Studied
electrical engineering at MIT and received a PhD in psychology from the
University of North Carolina. Taught humanistic and experimental
psychology at the University of California, Davis. Has served as
Instructor in Psychiatry at the University of Virginia Medical School, and
as Lecturer in Psychology at Stanford University. His work has dealt with
parapsychology, sleep and dreaming, hypnoisis, and psychoactive drugs. Around 1979,
SRI funded a project of Tart's which screened university students and
faculty for psychic ability. Tart has taught at the California Institute of Integral Studies and has lead seminars at the Esalen Institute. Tart is
currently teaching at the University of Las Vegas as part of
Robert Bigelow's Bigelow Chair of Consciousness Studies. Author of:
Ed ThompsonAssistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI), US Army, 1977-81. During this time, he was briefed by SRI on the remote viewing program. After having tried it himself, viewing a Masonic temple near the target train station, Thompson set up Project Grill Flame at Fort Meade. Thompson left
the Army in 1985, and is in retirement in Maine. Jack Verona
Former nuclear
physicist, high ranking Pentagon scientist. Former head of the DIA's
Scientific and Technical Intelligence Directorate. In this capacity, he
oversaw the funding and tasking of
Grill Flame. Another project he oversaw, code-named Sleeping Beauty,
dealt with researching microwaves and how they effect the human mind. Friends with Rep. Charlie Rose. (Schnabel, 1997, pg 271) Reportedly the
former boss of
Michael Persinger. He retired in late 1989. Dr. Louis "Jolly" West
Air Force Major, chairman of the Psychiatry Department of UCLA, director of the Neuro-Psychiatric Institute, expert in hypnosis. West was a veteran of the CIA's MK ULTRA mind control program, and worked on interrogation techniques using hypnosis and LSD. West once killed an elephant by grossly overestimating a dose ofLSD (elsewhere, I have heard that the tranquilizers required to calm the animal caused its death). West also
studied the returning American POWs from Korea for the effects of
brainwashing. Friends with
Aldous Huxley. It was Huxley who suggested that West combine LSD and
hypnosis in his experiments. West was to be
the administrator of California Governor Ronald Reagan's proposed Violence
Center at UCLA. The threat of psychosurgery, along with West's desire to
acquire a closed Nike Missle base, derailed the plan. West examined Jack Ruby in prison after his assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald, concluded that he suffered from paranoid delusions, and prescribed medication. West was also a defense expert at the Patty Hearst trial. According to an
anonymous BBC television reporter, West headed up the medical oversight
for the
Ft. Meade remote-viewing operational unit. This article contains copyrighted material that has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. MCF is offering this article available to our readers for the general purpose of criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching and/or research. We believe that our use of this material falls under the "fair use" provision of Title 17, Section 107 of the United States Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes other than that provided by law, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. |
