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A PROPOSAL TO CORRELATE REMOTE VIEWING WITH POSSIBLE ORGANIZING EFFECTS ON A QUANTUM BASED RANDOM EVENT GENERATOR

Melvin L Morse MD, FAAP
Paul H. Smith, MS, ABD
John P. Stahler


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John P. Stahler
P.O. Box 381
East Windsor Hill, CT 06028
(866) 374-4782
email: jstahler@irva.org

In conjunction with the International Remote Viewing Association


THE STUDY: Recent experiments have shown that events involving concentrated human consciousness may correlate synchronously with statistically-significant deviations from randomness in the data streams of random event generators (REG). These correlations seem consistent with a possible organizing effect which focused consciousness may exert on random processes that are intentionally associated. We propose to study whether similar excursions from randomness in the data stream of operating REGs will correlate with remote viewing sessions conducted concurrently. A set of five to eight experienced remote viewers (hereafter referred to as ‘viewers’) will each be tasked to describe remote viewing targets randomly selected from a larger target pool. The viewers will employ the Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) method (see ‘Definitions’). Viewers will access the intended remote viewing targets under double-blind conditions. We will assign each viewer and session to a synchronous REG episode to document any possible organizing effects of the remote viewing sessions on the random REG output.

We are employing controlled remote viewing in this study for three reasons: 1) The ordered sequence of events (‘stages’) in the CRV process particularly lends itself to correlation with mile-post events in REG data streams. 2) The accessibility of a pool of research subjects whose general performance level is already known. 3) The relatively uniform level of training and experience of this particular subject pool helps avoid the possible confounding variable of too much heterogeneity within the pool.

Members of a separate control group of beginning drawing students taken from a community college art class will perform activities requiring behaviors and cognitive effort approximately equivalent in complexity and difficulty to the tasks being performed by the viewers. The art students will be asked to sketch or draw familiar household objects or other subjects of similar complexity. They will also be encouraged to verbally describe what they are sketching and discuss their internal processes of deconstructing the object into its basic visual elements and reconstructing it on paper. As in the case of the remote viewing subjects, an intentionally-linked REG session will be conducted during each control subject’s performance. In both groups, the REG results will be chronologically indexed to the corresponding stages of the remote viewing or drawing experience respectively. As much as possible the verbal and physical mannerisms of the subject, the breaks and stages of the CRV protocol, and the informal breaks, casual conversation, and off task behavior of the art students will also be noted.

PRELIMINARY STUDIES: There is a growing body of published literature on REG effects observed during mass-consciousness events. However, we know of no published or informal studies attempting to correlate remote viewing with REG output. The basis of our proposed study is twofold: 1) There are theoretically-speculative reasons to suspect that the stages of CRV which involve "capturing the signal line" (see below) would have an organizing effect on the output of the REG, based on the considerable research of the Princeton Engineering Anomalous Research (PEAR) Lab and the Global Consciousness Project (Nelson and Radin, 1989; Nelson, et al, 1996; Nelson, et al, 1998). 2) In a single but striking preliminary study of one CRV session, there were apparent significant deviations from randomness, consistent with an organizing effect, in a concurrently-running REG’s output during the Stage 2 portion of the session (see below), and smaller, yet still significant effects during the Stage 3 portion, including the final and accurate impressionistic drawing of the target. (A further informal replication of this preliminary experiment by experimenters in the United Kingdom produced a similar result.)

DEFINITIONS:
1. Remote Viewing: Remote viewing might be typified as a disciplined form of clairvoyance (this is overly simplistic, but suffices for this brief proposal). One accepted definition of it is: "The acquisition and description by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance, shielding or time" (Defense Intelligence Agency, 1986). It has been argued that this definition is somewhat deficient, in that a full definition should also include reference to provisions or a mechanism to either avoid or ameliorate mental noise (see paragraph 2 below). To count as remote viewing, certain protocols must be in place. For example, (especially in research settings) the process must be executed under double-blind conditions, include provisions to avoid sensory leakage to the viewer from witting parties or other sources of contamination, employ a non-informative cuing method, and provide for feedback for the participant once the session is complete and all risk of biasing the experiment is past. When evaluative judging is employed, it should be conducted in a blinded, randomized manner, with any cues associated with or embedded in the transcripts that might bias the judging results removed.

2. Controlled Remote Viewing: Controlled Remote Viewing is a formally-structured remote viewing method originally developed under contract to the US Army by Harold E. Puthoff, Ph.D. and Ingo Swann at SRI-International (formerly Stanford Research Institute). In the CRV process sensory-like and other impressions are perceived by non-ordinary means and expressed verbally, in writing, and/or via sketching on paper. These perceptions are derived from subconscious impressions deposited by a hypothesized ‘signal-line’ (a term of art in CRV for the presumed stream of information about the intended target which becomes available in the course of a session). Perceived impressions are collated over the course of six incremental and increasingly information-rich "stages." Our experiment relies only on the first three of these stages:

• Stage 1 presents a brief gestaltic notion of the nature of the intended target (e.g., the target is human-made structure, water, land, etc., or is a combination of these elements).
• Stage 2 produces sense-related impressions of smells, tastes, textures, colors, qualities of light, and so on.
• Stage 3 incorporates the preceding elements plus comprehension of dimensional elements of the target. Central to Stage 3 is representational sketching of the target or of aspects and sub-elements of the target.

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