The CIA used to train men to use their mind's eye to remotely view things.
Instead of spy satellites, these men could put themselves into a meditative state and see things.
Some would simply touch the written coordinates of a place and see things.
That's the driving force behind the movie: Suspect Zero (2004) with Aaron Eckhart & Ben Kingsley. I didn't think it was real.
shareI saw Harry Blackstone do that trick with two goats and a handkerchief on the old Dean Martin show.
shareI view my remote when I'm trying to decide what to watch.
Signed, million man.
Was this when they were giving them hallucinogenics?
shareIsn’t that called telepathy? Maybe the CIA wasted some money researching something like that back in naive day, but seems way too sci fi to use to gather actionnable intelligence.
shareYep! I was curious so I found a place teaching it and meeting regularly. I was very accurate the first time I did it. That shocked me because I wasn't expecting it to work. There's something to it.
Basically, it teaches regular people ESP by giving them a step-by-step set of instructions to follow.
Damn, that's cool.
shareI call bullshit.
shareYour mind isn't very inquiring, is it?
shareHaving an inquiring mind means you have to apply your critical thinking skills to the subjects you are inquiring about, and therefore you should be skeptical of extraordinary claims. A skeptic is not the same as a denier. A skeptic inquires and comes to a conclusion based on credible evidence. And extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
When I inquired into Remote Viewing many years ago, I did not find any credible evidence that suggest that it is a real phenomenon.
It's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brain falls out.
"When I inquired into Remote Viewing..."
In other words, you only read about it. Reading and doing are not the same thing. Unlike you, I decided to actually learn about it first hand by doing.
You're close-minded, arrogant and entitled. You have zero right to tell me what MY experience with it was.
The easiest person to fool is yourself.
There used to be something called the One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge. It was an offer by the James Randi Educational Foundation (JREF) to pay out one million U.S. dollars to anyone who could demonstrate a supernatural or paranormal ability under agreed-upon scientific testing criteria. They tested a lot of people who claimed (and believed) to be able to do remote viewing. Over 45 years thousands of people were tested. Not a single one won the challenge. They all gave their anecdotal evidence of how they could do this or that, they all believed it, but as soon as they were asked to demonstrate it under rigorous double blind conditions, where all confirmation bias was removed, they failed to produce the goods.
Unfortunately, when James Randi died in 2015, the JREF organization terminated the challenge. But if it was still around, I would have told you to go take that challenge, and prove everyone wrong. Somehow I doubt that you'd have walked away with the prize.
So as long as you continue to make extraordinary claims without providing extraordinary evidence, I'm going to continue to call bullshit.
You're confused. The topic is remote viewing, not psychic ability. They are not the same thing, therefore Randi's scam test is irrelevant.
Btw, anyone can design a test to ensure failure like Randi did. For example, I can create a test for weathermen asking them to predict the exact weather on February 19, 2026 for Cheyenne, Wyoming using no equipment. Randi needed to ensure failure since his living depended on debunking. That's not open-minded skepticism! He didn't have $1 million dollars held in escrow in a third-party account.
The RV government program had to be funded each year. Skeptical gov. officials would ask the participants to prove it worked for the funds. They responded that the officials would believe it was a trick if they demonstrated. Instead, the officials were given an RV lesson in order to do it for themselves. The officials surprisingly succeeded and another year of funding was given.
The test had to be agreed upon by both Randi and the Remote Viewer. They agreed with the way the test was being done. They claimed that they could do it under these criteria, and still failed.
You are anti-intellectual and anti-science, and therefore no one should take anything you say seriously.
You cannot do what you claim to do, and by considering all the countervailing evidence and applying Bayesian reasoning, it is reasonable for me to assume that. So until you produce credible evidence that you can do what you claim to do, no one should take you seriously. Don't like it? Then prove me wrong.
Randi was a high school dropout. He wasn't qualified to design any scientifically-based test.
Scientists at The Division of Perceptual Studies of the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine do research and create objective tests.
It's obvious that you have no idea what remote viewing is nor how to do it.
Randi was a genius and an autodidact. He was an expert on self deception and human perception.
Scientific researchers would often hire him as an adviser in order to help them design scientific experiments.
He exposed scientists that had poorly designed experiments and showed how they were fooled. He also exposed fraud in the scientific community.
I don't know what "The Division of Perceptual Studies of the University of Virginia’s School of Medicine" is so I can't comment. I have no idea how credible they are. I would have to look at what they've published and whether it's peer reviewed. Then I would have to go by the scientific consensus.
It's obvious that you are scientifically illiterate and what you're promoting is pseudo-science.
Nothing Randi did was peer reviewed because he was a high school dropout. He was only good at self-promotion and pretending he had a million dollars. I see you're easily fooled by a scam artist.
"I don't know what "The Division of..."
It's obvious that you are close-minded, lazy and ignorant since it would've been easy to google. I suggest you change your username to CloseMind.
You're also illiterate since I never promoted anything. The OP asked if anyone heard of it and I responded with MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE with it.
You still have zero idea what remote viewing is, but still continue to post. You're not too bright, are you, CloseMind?
You are ignorant. Your impotent insults and vapid comments are devoid of merit. You are embarrassing yourself.
Your personal experience is irrelevant and worthless. You are an imbecile promoting pseudo-science.
Go learn some critical thinking skills so that you don't sound like an empty headed dunce.
I've heard this Remote Viewing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfDmyktGim0