SPECIAL ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES

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• Publication Date: May 27, 1980
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Final Report
Covering the Period from 1 May 1979 to 31 March 1980
SPECIAL ORIENTATION TECHNIQUES (U)
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I OBJECTIVE (U)
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The objectives of this
program are the optimization of ren,
viewing (RV) protocols
the orientation of selected individuals to reac,
enhanced levels of ability, and the establishment of screening procedures
to enlarge the population from which individuals are selected
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II INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY (U)
A. Basic Program Structure (U)
In this report we present results and assessments of a one-year
program for the optimization of remote viewing with kselected
individuals. The objective of this program was to familiarize these
individuals with the SRI remote viewing protocols, to produce enhanced
levels of ability, and to establish screening tests and procedures for
enlarging the population from which such individuals are selected.
(U) For the past seven years SRI International has been investigating
a human perceptual/processing ability called remote viewing (RV). This
is the subject matter of the current study, and it pertains to the
acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from
ordinary perception by distance or shielding and generally considered to
be secure from such access.
At the start .of this program, six individuals were chose
J to participate in an RV technology transfer.
With the exception of one of the six who had participated in an ESP study
several years earlier, these participants when selected were inexperienced
with regard to paranormal perception in general, and RV in particular.
A variety of different training protocols were examined with the goal of
helping the participants familiarize themselves with the SRI RV techniques.
Formal assessment and transfer series were carried out with each of the
six participants, in which they were asked to use mental imagery processes
to describe distant geographic locations (bridges, roads, buildings, etc.),
hidden 35-mm slides of similar sites, and objects placed in a controlled-
access location. Several other information series were carried out. These
are all described in later sections of this report.
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(U) Four of the six participants each produced results that de-
parted significantly from chance expectation in assessment series that
were formally judged by very strict criteria. The other two produced
results in the assessment series that were also suggestive of paranormal
perception. Overall, this result constitutes highly significant per-
formance (p = 4 X 10 5, or odds of one in 25,000 of such a result occurring
by chance).
~ We are including in this introduction one illustrative example
of an RV trial for a real-time San Francisco Bay Area outdoor target.
The viewer, No. 372, who contributed this data, produced a mixture of
responses, some excellent and some noncorresponding, in his two series
at SRI. Sevdral of his descriptions were among the best obtained in the
program, and his overall consistency in performance resulted in both of
his individual series reaching statistical significance.
(U) Current and proposed programs are directed at training partici-
pants to bring their RV ability under more conscious control, and to learn
to recognize and overcome the factors that limit RV reliability. These
limiting factors center around the generation of erroneous data by the
viewer from h s memory and imagination. An example of the successful
resolution of such noise is the following.
(U) The viewer was closeted with an interviewer in the laboratory
at SRI to await the target team's arrival at their destination. The
target was the Stanford Art Museum on the Stanford campus. The viewer
made several tentative outline sketches of different shapes that he said
were "associated with the face of a building." Finally, he made a careful
perspective drawing of the building he was visualizing. A photograph of
the target is shown in Figure 1(a), and the viewer's drawing is shown for
comparison in Figure 1(b). The viewer's narrative described the face of
the building as follows: "There is a white and black pattern, a white
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and black striped pattern." ... "It's like an inverted rectangle, with a
square fastened to the back, or a rectangle laid down behind it." "Like
two buildings in one. One building." "I have the sense that there is
dirt by the walls ...." He went on to talk about trees, flowers, and
bicycles, all of which can be found directly in front of the target
building.
B. Task Summary (U)
(U) In the following we briefly summarize results of the various
perceptual tasks that were undertaken:
? (U) 'Bay Area Target Site Remote Viewing. In the Phase one
activities, six RV trials with local San Francisco Bay Area
sites as targets were carried out with each of the six
viewers. In these six series, four of the viewers each
produced results that were independently significant
(p < 0.05), making the series as a whole strongly
significant (p = 4 X 10-5; odds of one in 25,000).
? Remote Viewing into a( Area. A viewer who was
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were carried out under varying conditions for five
viewers in Phase Two. One viewer, who generated
significant results in Phase One, was again independently
significant in his description of distant slides. A
second viewer, also producing significant results in-
Phase One, produced drawings in Phase Two that were
formally judged to have significant correlations with
the slide targets, although his verbal material did not.
A third viewer was asked to describe slides before they
were chosen, that would be shown to him at a later time.
His results were suggestive of success (p = 0.1) but not
statistically significant. Similar trials with two other
viewers were also encouraging-but- nonsignificant.
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successful in the slide viewing trials also carried out a
series using extended remote viewing, in which he spent
more than an hour on each of six attempts to describe
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C. Report Organization (U)
(U) In Section III we describe the SRI RV protocols, including
results from the past, and our expectations for the present program. We
also discuss the screening procedures used to select viewers and the
judging procedures used to evaluate the results of the investigations
carried out in the current program.
(U) In Section IV we describe the first phase of the study, in
which we systematically carried out RV trials with the participants to
obtain baseline data from each under similar experimental conditions.
I --jIn Section V we present the exploratory work carried out in
Phase Two in an effort to extend the repertoire of RV tools available
(U) Our conclusions and recommendations are presented in Section VI.
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VI CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS (U)
In this report we have presented the results and assessments
of a one-year program for the optimization of remote viewing with
selected individuals. To meet the objectives of the program we have
familiarized these individuals with the SRI RV protocol; pursued the
development of enhanced levels of RV ability through exposure to several
different orientation/training strategies, and established screening
tests and-procedures for enlarging the population from which such in-
dividuals: are selected.
I Our principal observation in working with the six
volunteers is that we have found considerable evidence for remote viewing
functioning among them. In the basic local-site RV-familiarization task
(Phase-One study), four of the six participants produces results that
were individually statistically significant (p < 0.05), rendering the
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series strongly significant as a whole (p = 4 X 10 , or odds of one in
25,000). (An entire summary of program data is shown in Table 5.)
A second observation from that study is that in general, there
is more variability from trial to trial for a given viewer than there is
between the viewers themselves. There are no viewers in the group who
have not shown some evidence for remote viewing, even though some of
their individual series may not have reached the p < 0.05 level of
departure from chance expectation.
(U) In fact, each of these four series exceeded this requirement 0b y003
more than an order of magnitude reaching significance at the p
level or better.
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~ With regard to screening:
(1) The individuals chosen to participate in the program
were pre-screenedl (from a population of
250 potential candidates, using broad personality
profile guidelines recommended by SRI, with final
selection determined on the basis of interview by the
SRI project leaders (R. T. and H. P.). The fact that
the overall study was successful lends support to the
effectiveness. of this initial screening-by-profile
procedure.
(2) The details of the results of the program indicate that
a half dozen local-site RV trials may constitute a
meaningful screening-by-performance procedure to
separate the more reliable from the less reliable
viewers. In order for screening-by-performance to be
successful, it is necessary that the performance of
a viewer be relatively consistent. We find that those
individuals who were the most successful in the Phase-
One trials, were also the most successful in Phase-Two,
even though different remote viewing tasks were pursued.
Of the four successful viewers in Phase-One, two produced
significant results and one near-significant (the fourth
was not available for the Phase-Two study). The two
viewers from Phase-One that were least successful there
(not reaching significance) again did not reach signifi-
cance in Phase-Two. Although the sample is too small
to be definitive, it appears that the Phase-One local-
site RV series itself offers evidence of constituting a
useful screening-by-performance procedure.
The data indicating that a viewer can describe an individual
slide as it is shown on a screen shows that targeting on high-resolution
transient targets (charts, maps, etc.) is not out of the question. This,
coupled with our findings that a viewer may be able to describe and identify
alphabet letters is a most encouraging development, and one deserving of
further work. Extension of the RV process to include high-resolution
material, especially with a reading ability, would constitute a significant
breakthroughs
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(Certain of the individual responses in the FRV (future remote
viewing) series, both with slides and with local sites as targets,
appeared to give striking evidence of contact with the target. However,
the trial-to-trial reliability was low and no series reached statistical
significance. Therefore, although individual results were encouraging,
no definitive statement can be made on the basis of this short study.
Given its obvious applications potential, should its existence be capable
of unambiguous verification, we consider it a high-priority item for
further exploration.
In the extended remote viewing (ERV) trials a viewer was able
in each trial of the series to identify .significant elements of an object
In these experiments the remote viewer worked alone over
extended periods of time (up to three hours). At a minimum, the good
results indicate that the RV process is not so fragile that it must be
carried out under rigidly-specified conditions, since in this case an
alternative style was in use and the results continued to be reliable.
Further work would be required, however, before a definitive comparison
of RV and ERV could be made.
1Finally, the encouraging results obtained in the CRV (coordinate
remote viewing) trials indicates that comparable accuracy
can be expected from experienced viewers
and reliability
a beacon person at the target, or on the basis of geographical latitude
and longitude alone. As a by-product of the CRV study, which involved
the use of special procedures being developed in another program for
reliability enhancement, the high-quality output provided additional
confirmation as to the effectiveness of certain new approaches being
taken with regard to monitor/viewer interaction and control of the RV
environment.
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To take advantage of the most recent developments in remote
viewing, and to achieve the goal of continuing to develop remote viewing
we strongly recommend further development
of capabilities in the following areas:
? Applications of Remote Viewing. A training procedure has
been developed that appeares to greatly increase both the
accuracy and reliability of remote viewing by coordinates.
This technique should continue to be examined, and applied
to targets
? Effects of-Feedback. An extensive examination should be made
of the necessity for providing feedback in remote viewing
trials. A systematic variation in the presence or absence
of, feedback should, be used to determine the importance of
this factor.
? Target Demarcation. Coordinate remote viewing experiments
should be carried out in which the target is demarcated by
means of various types of coordinates(
f This should be done in order to
discover a par e by the target coordinate in
determining remote viewing accuracy.
? Audio Analysis. In an effort to separate correct from
incorrect data available from taped subject descriptions
of remote viewing target sites, the use of speech and
audio analysis techniques should be investigated as a tool
to provide selective editing. This should include semantic
analysis, in which analysis of written transcripts'are
carried out to look for variations in grammar, style, or
vocabulary to help separate correct from incorrect statements
in the RV transcript.
SRI has under development certain
strategies involving FRV feedback, computer averaging of
multiple trials,.and so forth, which appear from pilot
efforts to hold promise.
? Spatial Resolution. A study should be carried out to
determine the extent to which it is possible to aid
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RV process whereby, instead of demarcating a location to
obtain a target description, one provides a target description
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A protocol has been developed to address the relative evaluation
portion of the overall RV transcript assessment problem. As a demonstra-
tion of the technique, we provide in the following Appendix an analysis
of a series of four remote viewings that were performed as calibrations
In this series the
remote viewing products were of relatively high quality, but nonetheless
require a sensitive technique to differentiate because of the similarity
of the targets and, hence, of the descriptions. (The series was chosen
primarily for that reason.) Application of the assessment technique
resulted in the correct blind matching (highest scoring in matches versus
cross matches) of three of the four.
(U) The material in this document thus constitutes an instruction
manual or protocol for application of a step-by-step procedure for quan-
titative assessment of the relative target/transcript correlations of a
series of transcripts matched into a series of targets.
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viewers in learning to read hidden and distant printed
material that is blocked from ordinary perception.
? Temporal Resolution. An ERV effort should be pursued
to determine the accuracy of remote viewing as a function
of time for future targets.
? ELF Experiments. Since one of the prevalent hypotheses
for paranormal perception requires the use of an ELF
electromagnetic carrier, we suggest carrying out
definitive experiments to examine this hypothesis
(e.g., by using ELF generators as beacons), and to
provide analyses correlating data from our past data
base with the daily record of geophysical parameters
known to affect ELF propagation.-
.Theoretical Studies. Modern physics offers several
mathematical descriptions of reality that may also
prove to be testable descriptions of paranormal
perception in general, and remote viewing in particular.
We recommend work with leading physicists who have
agreed to consult for SRI on these theoretical problems,
in an effort to develop a physical understanding of the
phenomena we observe in the laboratory and in the field,
and to apply this knowledge to improve remote viewing
functioning.
? Technical Meetings. SRI proposes to host private quarterly
conferences to bring together selected U.S. scientists
and government representatives who are concerned with the
technical issues in psychoenergetic research.
, Successful pursuit of the above priority items could be expected
to result in an increased reliability and breadth of utility of the RV
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