Document Type: Book review. Length: 1, words. Translate Article. Set Interface Language. Decrease font size. Increase font size. Display options. Default More Most. And what about that woman who kept mentioning voter suppression? Was she the real Tyler Coburn? The workshop is dismissed. On my way out I ask Hatcher if he will reveal to us the target for our remote viewing session?
Undisclosed location, New York Thursday 15 November hours. I receive a message from Coburn through the regular telepathic channels in which he informs me of the following:. Bill was very loosely modeled on Ingo Swann, the queer remote viewer who had an art studio on the Bowery and was also a cosmic artist. So, as you peel back the layers of the workshop, the realization that she could be an actor throws everything into greater uncertainty.
I open up my Third Eye and respond to Coburn. What do you and Ian hope people might get from the experience of remote viewing?
I receive the following answer in the form of sigils mysteriously burned into the wall above my desk:. In these select cases, we have tried to talk things out with participants after the fact to provide more context for our decision making.
Our intent is never to make one feel like the butt of some obscure joke, or cheated, or deceived. Indeed, part of the reason the workshops are free is to offset the ethical problem at their centre. Rather, our hope is that people walk away with some seeds of doubt planted: doubt about how much of the workshop was scripted and constructed, about why the target was never revealed, and so on. Can this experience — disorienting and discomforting as it may be to some — help cultivate critical skepticism that we need today?
My hope is that these workshops help facilitate greater awareness and critical skepticism in participants. For me, that's the important takeaway. It could be argued that remote viewing is simply another way of expressing old Romantic ideas of the artist as conduit for higher truths and insights. Or a fuzzy metaphor for the workings of the imagination — the remoteness referring not to a specific physical location, but to the viewing of distant memory or experience, or to the representation of information via conceptual art strategies.
The remote viewing target of this workshop was the group itself. It was an exercise in self-perception — perception of our belief systems, a way of getting us to see how vulnerable each of us might be to manipulation, given specific emotional conditions.
By encouraging the participants to make, essentially, conceptual drawings, it was also an exercise in constructing information and truth for each other, using the simple creative constraints of paper, pencil and the basics of language.
Yet important questions remain unanswered. How much did the CIA spend on pencils and paper? Is there such a thing as military-grade clay? And can I take classes in psychic pottery? From its secret removal to its celebrated resurrection, Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung explores the lives and afterlives of the Kassel statue controversy. Musician Sumeet Samos on how Dalit music has helped mobilize against caste violence and institutional discrimination.
The French curator and critic on founding Montpellier Contemporain, the future of institutions and why museums will become editorial platforms. S community-oriented aims. Sign In My Account. Courtesy: the artist After the volunteers are settled and briefed on housekeeping protocols silencing phones, estimated duration of the workshop, etc. Hal Puthoff, the founder and first Director of the SRI Studies has given a graphic account of how it all began in his recollections of the programme.
To overcome this problem, parapsychology researchers at SRI started using a set of pictures taken from the National Geographic magazine instead of the zener cards.
Using advanced mathematical methods developed in the field of artificial intelligence and pattern recognition, the degree of success of the remote viewer was quantified. While the names of some of them have been revealed, others are only identified by a code number. Those revealed are briefly mentioned below:. Hal Puthoff and an associate Bart drove off to the target site, which was five miles away.
After the alloted time of 30 minutes, Pat Price was asked to view and describe the target site. He drew a diagram of the complex. Pat said that the site seemed to be a water purification plant and drew two water storage tanks and some rotating machinery such as pumps etc. Everything was remarkably accurate except for the two water tanks and the water purification plant, which were absent.
This amazing example brings out one of the remarkable features of remote viewing, namely the ability of consciousness to access the past. But when the Pioneer flyby did take place it confirmed the existence of rings around Jupiter. Interestingly, a Pune based medical doctor by the name of Dr. Vartak has contacted this writer and sent newspaper clippings describing his astral visits to the Moon, Mars and Jupiter.
The following are brief summaries of some very interesting operational assignments as reported in the declassified remote viewing literature. The receiver then described the detailed geographical features of the surroundings of the site as follows:.
Scrubby brush, tundra-type ground hummocks, rocky outcroppings, mountains with fairly steep slopes. Facing north for about 60 miles, ground slopes to marshland. A mountain chain runs off to the right, about degrees east of north.
Facing south, mountains run fairly north and south. Facing west, mountains drop down to foothills for 60 miles or so: some rivers running roughly north. Facing east, mountains are rather abrupt, dropping to rolling hills and to flat land. Area site underground, reinforced concrete, doorways of steel of the roll-up type. Unusually high ratio of women to men, at least at night. I see some helipads, concrete. Light rail tracks run from pads to another set of rails that parallel the doors into the mountain.
The above report was verified by personnel in the sponsor organisation as being substantially correct.
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