FINAL REPORT OF PARAPSYCHOLOGY STUDIES STANFORD RESEARCH INSTITUTE 30 AUGUST 1973

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MEMORANDUM FOR THE RECORD
30 August 1973
SUBJECT: Final Report of Parapsychology Studies
Stanford Research ~ Institute
Dr. H, Puthaff and Mr. R. Targ will present their
final report of parapsychology studies completed at
Stanford Research Institute (SItI) at lOQ(~ hours, 10
September 1973, in the East Building Conference room..
The report will include but not ba limited to results
obtained from studies of two exceptionally capable
individuals Mr, Ux4i Geller and 141r, Ingo Swann. Ex-~
perimental procedures, data and conclusions will be
presented, In the afternoon Dr, Puthaff and Mr. Targ
will be available for questions and more detailed
discussions. You are invited to the final report
presentation and/or infarmation sessions afterwards.
.Far your information, attached. you will find a copy
of one of the latest reports issued by SRI.
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EXPERIMENTS - Uri. Geller at SRI, August 4-11, 1973
QBJECTIVE
'The objective of. this group of experimental sessions is to
verify teller's apparent paranormal perception under carefully
controlled conditions and to head toward an understanding of the
physics:!. and psychological variables underlying his apparent
ability,
EXPERIMENTAL PROGRAM
In each of the eight days of this experimental period we conducted
pictu~~e drawing experiments. In these experiments Geller was sepaxated
from the target material either by an electrically isolated shielded-room
ar by the isolation provided by having the targets drawn on the .Bast Coast.
~'e have continued to work with picture drawing tasks in an effort to achieve
repeatability so that we could meaningfully vary the experimental conditions
to determine the effect of physical parameters on the phenomena. As a re-
sult of Ge11er's success in this ex erimental eriod consider that he
has dexizon tra ted his aranarm
unambiguous manner. nvincing and
Saturday, August 4. Two drawing experiments were conducted this day.
In both of these, Geller was closeted in an opaque, acoustically .and
eleetr=~.cally shielded raom. This room is the double--walled shielded roam
used far EEG research in the Life Sciences Division of SRI. It is locked
by means of an inner and outer door, each of kkzich is secured with a re-
frigerator-type locking mechanism. Figure 1.
1'he two drawings used in this experiment were selected by randomly
-opening a 1ar~e college dictionary and selecting the first word which
could reasonably be da?awn. The first word obtained in thisamanner was
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"fuse" and the ;object drawn was a firecracker. All target selection
and picture drawing was done-with Geller already in the shielded room.
Geller was notified via intercom when the target picture was drawn and
tan~?~i i..o the wall n~ttGicle hia an~r7nGiire.
His almost immediate response was that he saw "a cylinder with
.noise coming cut of it". (He was continuously monitored by a oiie-way
audir cixcuit.) His drawing to correspond to the target was a drum,
along with a number of other cylindrical-looping objects, Figs. 2 and 3.
The second word selected was "bunch," and the target was a bunch
of gx?apes. Geller?s immediate response was that he saw "drops of water
coming out of the picture." He then talked about "purple circles".
FfnaX.ly, he said that he was quite sure that he had the picture. IIis
drawing was indeed a bunch of grapes. Both the target picture and
teller's rendition had 24 grapes in the bunch. Figs. 4. and 5.
In this work the target picture is never discussed by the experi-
menters after the picture is drawn or brought near the shielded room.
The intercom operates only from the inside of the room to the outside,
except when the push-to-talk switch is depressed an the outside of the
roam, In our detailed examination of the shielded room and the protocol
used in these experiments no sensory leakage has been found, nor has any
defect in the protocal been brought to our attention.
Sunday, August 5. Geller is looked in the shielded room and the target
is drawn in the experimenter's office about a half mile away. The target
selected from the dictionary was an outline drawing of a man, which evolved
through the drawing process into a devil with a trident. To start the
experiment, Puthoff, who was with Geller, called Targ, who was with the
drawing. Geller spent almost a half hour working on the drawing before
pa?aducing the first of several responses.
His drawings were as follows. 1. "Iv~ases'Tablets" i.e., Ten Com-
mandments, inside the world with a trident on the outside. 2. Apple
with a worm coming out of it. A snake was in the same picture. 3. Com-
pasite picture with the Ten Commandments on top of the world, God inside
the world and the trident on the outside, clang with a neatly drawn leaf.
+4hte is led to speculate that the Garden of Eden representation in these
three drawings is perhaps associational material triggered by the target.
TIze inability on teller's part to draw tlae devil may be culturally in-
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Experiments - Uxi Geller August ~-11, 1973 ]~. Targ
With regard to the pictures., Geller did draw the trident from the
target picture, but he did not draw the man who was holding it. From
this :it seems clear that Ge11ex does not simply copy lines Pram the
target picture, but rather lie does nerfarm srsmP mental. nroeecsi.ng nn
them befare drawing them himself. Fig. 6-9.
The sec and target picture was drawn by an experimenter while he
was inside the shielded room with Geller outside the roam with anotYzer
experimenter. In this case the target was a representation.of the solar
system, drawn without the orbit lines. His immediate verbal reaction
before drawing was one of ,~space~~. Fig. 10 and 11. teller's drawn
xesponse to the target while outside floe room also omits the conventional
orbit lines and ~ppeaxs to have many similarities to the target drawing.
The block in the center o~ teller's picture, according to his statement,
was his afterthought suggested by the movie 2001 and was drawn an an
addition just befare comparing target with response.
Monday,_Au,gust B. The experiment to be done this day was a pure
clairvoyance task. A picture was dxawn by a scientist outside of the
usual experimental group, The picture was locked in the shielded room
before teller's arrival at SRI. Geller was then led by the experi-
menters to the shielded zoom, and asked to draw the picture inside the
room. He drew a number of pictures, all of which he rejected as not
being applicable. He said that he got no clear impression and passed.
The target-was a rabbit, and nothing Geller drew in any way resembled
a rabbit.. It should be added that the picture was drawn by a scientist
of whom Geller is not fond, and Geller asked at the outset if this was
the case, The experimenters said that this was not the case, since
they did not know who had drawn the picture. Geller felt vindicated
to same extent when tae found out that his initial guess as to the artist
had been cora?ect.
Tuesday, August 7. This day two target pictures were attempted with
Geller in the shielded roam. He was connected to an EEG apparatus to
allow measurement of his brain waves at the time that he was attempting
to perceive a hidden picture. The two target pictures were a tree anal
an envelt~pe. He experienced difficulty, did not make a drawing that
corresponded to either draeving and passed. Also, he found it very
difficult to hold adequately still to make good EFG recoxds. We will
repeat the EEG experiment another time to try and obtain. better data.
Tlae same skeptical experimenter who drew the rabbit was the EEG operator
on this second unsuccessful day.
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xper meats - Ua?i Geller August 4-11, 1973 R- Targ
Wednesday, August 8. Three targets were drawn during the course of
this d~?xy's work. In the first, the experimenters closed tlae outer
door of ttae laboratory in which the shielded room is located (ia1 ad-
dition to the inner double doors) and worked in an adjoining room.
fihe target picture in this case was a camel. Geller felt unsure
and passed, but his first choice drawing was a horse. Figs. 12 and 13.
The experimenters then returned to the room outside the shielded
room and drew the second picture which was the Golden Gate Bridge. Geller
inside the shielded room drew some curved lines with some squares tander-
neath. He said that he didn't know what the picture was and passed.
Fig. 14.
The third picture was a flying sea gull,- Geller almost immedi-~
ately said that tae saw a flying swan aver a hill. He drew several
birds and said that he was-sure that .his drawing was correct, which
it was? Figs. 15 and 16.
tra these experiments conducted with this shielded room, six day's
work was done.- Goad results were obtained on the four days when there
was na openly skeptical observer (except the experimenters whom Geller
has learned to accept).
~'hursday, August 9, We moved the experiments to a new shielded roam
from the Life Science to the Engineering building in order to make use
of the computer facilities available there.
After Geller was secured in a shielded room about 150 Poet down
the hall .and around a corner from the computer room, a picture was
drawn on the face of the TV screen driven by the computer's graphics
program. The picture drawn was a kite. Shortly after Geller was
-notified that the picture had been drawn, Foe had the computer room
called to determine if the target picture was a geometric picture
ar an +ab,joct- We told him that it was an object, by talking to an
ixatermeciiary, who was ignorant of the target picture. Geller's first
drawing iaa this case was a square with the diagonals drawn in. Ite
then also drew some triangular airplanes and passed. His first drawing
was a good representation of the actual target picture. Figs, 17 and 18.
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j''r~day, Augus~L 1[}, ~t~vo pictures were drawn and stored in the computer
memax?y s~ o thai;^no visible evidence was available in the computer room
a,ftex? the picture was drawn.
The first picture was a church, The picture was .drawn and stored
in the memory of the computer. teller`s responses are shown in the
attached collection of drawings. It is clear that bath of his attempts
have some elements in common with the target drawing, but he had no idea
that it was a church and he passed. Figs. 19-21.
The second target picture was stored on the face of the TV tube
with the intensity turned off so that no picture was visible with the
room :13ghts turned on. Geller immediately drew an arrow-under a rounded
brick and then drew another arrow inside a suitcase. We consider the
arrow in the suitcase similar to the target, which was an arrow through
a heart, Figs. 22-24.
These latter two experiments admit of at least two hypotheses
whiclg will require further work to differentiate; (1) clairvoyant
Perception of information stored in the computer, or (2} telepathy,
since there were several people in the computer roam, all of whom
knew t':he nature of the- target that was stored.
~ long distance telepathy experiment was also done on Friday.
An Easel; Coast scientist was called and asked to draw a simple repre-
sentational object for Gellex to copy. Following the experiment he
indicated that lie drew two peaked mountains with a sun in the upper
right, Geller drew two arches side by side with a circle in the
uppex right. teller's picture also had a train-like object running
through it. We consider this to be suggestive of communication but
not conclusive, We do not have the East Coast original.
Saturday, August 11. A lengthy long distance experiment was performed
with another East Coast scientist. In this case the man chose to draw
n cross-sectional view of the brain. (In retrospect we consider this
to be are un:suitable target since Geller would not recognize the dx?awing
even ifi successful. } Gellex? began by writing da~svn the words '}medical, "
"organic?'" and "living" on the top of his paper. Later he wrote the
-words ";aviation" and "architecture". Iie made two drawings, one of which
was complex and indescribable. Tlie second did sornewhat x?esemble an
anatoanical cross-section. These responses are being sent to the
ariginaik:ar for comparison.
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