Remote viewing
Physicist Russell Targ
Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind.[1] There is no scientific evidence that remote viewing exists, and the topic of remote viewing is generally regarded as pseudoscience.[2][3][4][5][6][7] A remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person, or location hidden from physical view and separated at some distance.[8] Physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, parapsychology researchers at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), are generally credited with coining the term "remote viewing" to distinguish it from the closely related concept of clairvoyance.[9][10] According to Targ, the term was first suggested by Ingo Swann in December 1971 during an experiment at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City.[11]
Remote viewing experiments have historically lacked proper controls and repeatability.
The idea of remote viewing received renewed attention in the 1990s upon the declassification of documents related to the Stargate Project, a $20 million research program sponsored by the U.S. government that attempted to determine potential military applications of psychic phenomena. The program ran from 1975 to 1995 and ended after evaluators concluded that remote viewers consistently failed to produce actionable intelligence information.
Selected study participants
- Courtney Brown, political scientist and founder of the Farsight Institute[citation ^needed]
- Uri Geller, the subject of a study by Targ and Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute[37]
- David Marks, a critic of remote viewing, after finding sensory cues and editing in the original transcripts generated by Targ and Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s[citation ^needed]
- Joseph McMoneagle, an early remote viewer[47] See: Stargate Project
- Pat Price, an early remote viewer[citation ^needed]
- Ingo Swann, a research participant in remote viewing[48]
See also
- Astral projection
- Bilocation
- Body of light
- Divination
- Edgar Cayce
- Extrasensory perception
- List of topics characterized as pseudoscience
- Lucid dreaming
- Parapsychology research at SRI
- Project MKUltra
- Scrying
- *Suspect Zero* (film)
- *The Men Who Stare at Goats* (film)
- Third eye
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