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Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program
If you thought The Manchurian Candidate was fiction or John Farris's The Fury, which featured a CIA mind-control program run amok, was the stuff of an overheated imagination, you were sorely mistaken.
From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and civilian spies in extra-sensory perception (ESP). Their objective: To search out the secrets of America's cold war enemies using a skill called "remote viewing." Paul H. Smith, a U.S. Army Major, was one of these viewers. Assigned to the remote viewing unit in 1983 at a pivotal time in its history, Smith served for the rest of the decade, witnessing and taking part in many of the seminal national-security crises of the twentieth century.
With the Star Gate secrets declassified and the program mothballed by the Central Intelligence Agency, the story can now be told of the ordinary soldiers drafted onto the battlefield of human consciousness. Using hundreds of interviews with the key players in the Star Gate program, and gathering thousands of pages of documents, Smith opens the records on this remarkable chapter in American military, scientific, and cultural history. He reveals many secrets about how remote viewing works and how it was used against enemy targets. Among these stories are the search for hostages in Lebanon; spying on Soviet directed energy weapons; investigating the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; tracking foreign testing of weapons of mass destruction; combating narco-trafficking off America's coasts; aiding in the Iranian hostage situation; finding KGB moles in the CIA; pursuing Middle East terrorists; and more.
Between the lines in the official records are revelations about unrelenting attempts from within and without to destroy the remote viewing program, and the efforts that kept Star Gate going for more than two decades in spite of its enemies. This is a story for the believer and the skeptic---a rare look at the innards of a top secret program and an eye-opening treatise on the power of the human mind to transcend the limitations of space and time.
From behind the cloak of U.S. military secrecy comes the story of Star Gate, the project that for nearly a quarter of a century trained soldiers and civilian spies in extra-sensory perception (ESP). Their objective: To search out the secrets of America's cold war enemies using a skill called "remote viewing." Paul H. Smith, a U.S. Army Major, was one of these viewers. Assigned to the remote viewing unit in 1983 at a pivotal time in its history, Smith served for the rest of the decade, witnessing and taking part in many of the seminal national-security crises of the twentieth century.
With the Star Gate secrets declassified and the program mothballed by the Central Intelligence Agency, the story can now be told of the ordinary soldiers drafted onto the battlefield of human consciousness. Using hundreds of interviews with the key players in the Star Gate program, and gathering thousands of pages of documents, Smith opens the records on this remarkable chapter in American military, scientific, and cultural history. He reveals many secrets about how remote viewing works and how it was used against enemy targets. Among these stories are the search for hostages in Lebanon; spying on Soviet directed energy weapons; investigating the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland; tracking foreign testing of weapons of mass destruction; combating narco-trafficking off America's coasts; aiding in the Iranian hostage situation; finding KGB moles in the CIA; pursuing Middle East terrorists; and more.
Between the lines in the official records are revelations about unrelenting attempts from within and without to destroy the remote viewing program, and the efforts that kept Star Gate going for more than two decades in spite of its enemies. This is a story for the believer and the skeptic---a rare look at the innards of a top secret program and an eye-opening treatise on the power of the human mind to transcend the limitations of space and time.
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First published January 1, 2005
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November 8, 2009
I read this book, of course, in honor of my brother who is involved in Remote Viewing, and to learn the history of the program that he is always talking about. To that end, the book met my needs. It explains, at least from the point of view of the Army program, how one particular type of Remote Viewing works, how it is taught, what it is useful for and what it's like to experience it. On the negative side, the book is way too long. At least half the book is not on RV, but on working within a huge bureaucracy, the U.S. Army. The Army structure places a high value on moving between units and geographic locations, so pages and pages of the book are devoted to the comings and goings of staff members, and the ups and downs of getting the somewhat unusual program continually funded for the decades of its existence.
Ultimately, of course, the question is what to make of this. I don't think this book will either make you a believer, or add to your skepticism. I think RV is like a religious experience, that you can't really believe it until it happens to you (if then, even). But I do think the author is sincere, and accurately described his experiences. In a way, that's a bit of a criticism, because he seems pretty strict in not describing anything BUT his experience. So, we don't really learn much about the other types of remote viewing, or other psychic experiments the Army and the CIA may have been researching.
Ultimately, of course, the question is what to make of this. I don't think this book will either make you a believer, or add to your skepticism. I think RV is like a religious experience, that you can't really believe it until it happens to you (if then, even). But I do think the author is sincere, and accurately described his experiences. In a way, that's a bit of a criticism, because he seems pretty strict in not describing anything BUT his experience. So, we don't really learn much about the other types of remote viewing, or other psychic experiments the Army and the CIA may have been researching.
October 30, 2016
This is a matter-of-fact account of the US military's involvement in remote-viewing. This is an unexpected revelation to many of us - realizing that our military intelligence has been actively seeking information through paranormal processes. Smith's account of this history is long and, at times, includes more quotidian information than the average reader will want to slog through. But the implication of this story is immense. Eventually the US shut down the program because remote viewing wasn't accurate all the time. And yet it was successful quite often. Psychics have been telling us this for centuries. This account, however, is different. Smith is not out to prove paranormal experience to anyone. He is just recounting the history that he was intimately involved with. The reader of sensationalist psi accounts might get bored with this history. The reader who wants to stretch his/her mind about a reality that challenges our reigning mechanistic model of reality will be greatly rewarded.
March 3, 2025
In "Reading The Enemy's Mind", Paul H. Smith details his experiences working with groups in secret government projects undergoing real-life Jedi mind-warrior training. He and his cohorts expand the limits of perception, uncovering the hidden potential that may indeed lie dormant within all humans. The group, consisting of an ever shifting cast of characters, are tasked with espionage operations from afar, not with high tech surveillance technology or covert infiltration, but by stretching and strengthening their third eyes. They learn to psychically hone in on Soviet secret weapons and bases, locate missing persons and equipment, find drug smugglers' contraband, and pinpoint moles working against US interests.
Throughout the development of this non-fictional Hogwarts academy, the group constantly shifts personnel and leadership, gets passed around from one intelligence agency to another, and fights to justify it's existence. Though their operations produce results that defy skepticism, the existence of this program creates controversy amongst the top brass of the US military and intelligence agencies. The viability of the psychic spy program falls not just on the question of whether or not extrasensory perception exists, but if it can be used reliably for actionable intelligence, and if so, are these findings worthy of the commitment of resources.
Paul H. Smith gives the reader insight into the process of developing remote viewing skills. He describes the process of learning to train one's mind to become receptive to impressions of people, places, and things in remote locations. He gives a first hand account about what it is like to perceive clairvoyant information, describing the mental process of experiencing this ability.
Most interestingly, he describes cases where these talents were taken beyond intelligence operations and expanded to their limit, mostly by Edward Dames, known today as having been a regular guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio show. With Dames, the techniques were expanded to be used to project the mind beyond earth, to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, to explore the moon and the planets, and even to travel inside the sun. In a major highlight of the book, Dames guides Smith through a remote viewing exercise involving time travel to ground zero at the exact instant the A-bomb exploded over Hiroshima.
There is a lot a captivating material in this book for anyone interested in ESP. However, much of the book deals with the office politics within the military and the government. Smith gets deep into the weeds of government bureaucracy as an intricate web of acronyms and departments work to either support or undermine the remote viewing project. Though I respect Smith's comprehensiveness in this respect, it makes for some tedious and confusing reading. I often found myself tempted to skip ahead of these sections and get back to the psychic stuff. I also had to flip back and forth a lot to keep all the different agencies, departments, sub-departments, and leadership roles straight. This book also involves a massive roster of major and minor players and can get convoluted.
Despite a lot of tedium and confusion, overall this is a well written book about a fascinating topic. It has the potential to appeal to readers interested in the mysteries of consciousness, and also those who want to learn about secret government intelligence programs. Smith tells his story without getting too deep into conjecture about mysterious spiritual forces or conspiracy theories. He deals with a seemingly otherworldly subject in a matter-of-fact way that allows his readers to come to their own conclusions.
Throughout the development of this non-fictional Hogwarts academy, the group constantly shifts personnel and leadership, gets passed around from one intelligence agency to another, and fights to justify it's existence. Though their operations produce results that defy skepticism, the existence of this program creates controversy amongst the top brass of the US military and intelligence agencies. The viability of the psychic spy program falls not just on the question of whether or not extrasensory perception exists, but if it can be used reliably for actionable intelligence, and if so, are these findings worthy of the commitment of resources.
Paul H. Smith gives the reader insight into the process of developing remote viewing skills. He describes the process of learning to train one's mind to become receptive to impressions of people, places, and things in remote locations. He gives a first hand account about what it is like to perceive clairvoyant information, describing the mental process of experiencing this ability.
Most interestingly, he describes cases where these talents were taken beyond intelligence operations and expanded to their limit, mostly by Edward Dames, known today as having been a regular guest on the Coast to Coast AM radio show. With Dames, the techniques were expanded to be used to project the mind beyond earth, to search for extraterrestrial intelligence, to explore the moon and the planets, and even to travel inside the sun. In a major highlight of the book, Dames guides Smith through a remote viewing exercise involving time travel to ground zero at the exact instant the A-bomb exploded over Hiroshima.
There is a lot a captivating material in this book for anyone interested in ESP. However, much of the book deals with the office politics within the military and the government. Smith gets deep into the weeds of government bureaucracy as an intricate web of acronyms and departments work to either support or undermine the remote viewing project. Though I respect Smith's comprehensiveness in this respect, it makes for some tedious and confusing reading. I often found myself tempted to skip ahead of these sections and get back to the psychic stuff. I also had to flip back and forth a lot to keep all the different agencies, departments, sub-departments, and leadership roles straight. This book also involves a massive roster of major and minor players and can get convoluted.
Despite a lot of tedium and confusion, overall this is a well written book about a fascinating topic. It has the potential to appeal to readers interested in the mysteries of consciousness, and also those who want to learn about secret government intelligence programs. Smith tells his story without getting too deep into conjecture about mysterious spiritual forces or conspiracy theories. He deals with a seemingly otherworldly subject in a matter-of-fact way that allows his readers to come to their own conclusions.
July 19, 2024
Mostly a critique of the writing style.
It was difficult for me to pay attention. You can certainly tell the author has a background in Mormonism and the United States Military. Too much of a military history, wherein names, dates and events are listed, under-described. This falls peril to many of those same pitfalls.
I would have really appreciated more visual reference, as though the history of the United States gum'mit clandestine psychic operations could be described as a sequential arts medium.
So much of this book is people being interviewed in a boring gray room, and an Army dude with closed eyes shadowing the outline of some physical object in the empty air with his fingers. That's great, but, so much of the Scientific interests of this study leave out the emotionally relevant details that would make this book easier to understand.
This book came at a time when I needed answers. Those answers were... unfulfilling for me, personally. Though this is the most comprehensive-at-the-time account of remote viewing procedure, organization, and accounting. For that field of information you will not be disappointed, which is why this gets ranked so highly.
Isn't it interesting how they spun Project Star Gate into the STARGATE film, and tv series? I feel like they don't talk about that enough.
It was difficult for me to pay attention. You can certainly tell the author has a background in Mormonism and the United States Military. Too much of a military history, wherein names, dates and events are listed, under-described. This falls peril to many of those same pitfalls.
I would have really appreciated more visual reference, as though the history of the United States gum'mit clandestine psychic operations could be described as a sequential arts medium.
So much of this book is people being interviewed in a boring gray room, and an Army dude with closed eyes shadowing the outline of some physical object in the empty air with his fingers. That's great, but, so much of the Scientific interests of this study leave out the emotionally relevant details that would make this book easier to understand.
This book came at a time when I needed answers. Those answers were... unfulfilling for me, personally. Though this is the most comprehensive-at-the-time account of remote viewing procedure, organization, and accounting. For that field of information you will not be disappointed, which is why this gets ranked so highly.
Isn't it interesting how they spun Project Star Gate into the STARGATE film, and tv series? I feel like they don't talk about that enough.
March 18, 2019
A very interesting account of the remote viewing programme run by the US Government. For the most part, it is a recollection of names and dates, military style, so not much of a thriller here. The army bureaucracy can turn even the most exciting stuff into something boring. But, although the book itself may not be that entertaining, it is still amazing to realise how the US government funded a psychic-spying unit for all those years, how adult grown men and women spent part of their career in the military working as psychics.
With an army mentality, they tried to take out all the hocus pocus out of the picture and tackle it in the most scientific possible way. They needed it to be useful and replicable, and the fact that they continued the project for all those years must mean that they achieved it.
Forget about mediums with special gifts and other mystic powers and expect narrow, barely but still usable, accuracy percentages, administrative problems, and office politics.
I wouldn't recommend it for the fun but it is indispensable if you enjoy the topic.
With an army mentality, they tried to take out all the hocus pocus out of the picture and tackle it in the most scientific possible way. They needed it to be useful and replicable, and the fact that they continued the project for all those years must mean that they achieved it.
Forget about mediums with special gifts and other mystic powers and expect narrow, barely but still usable, accuracy percentages, administrative problems, and office politics.
I wouldn't recommend it for the fun but it is indispensable if you enjoy the topic.
April 10, 2017
Rings true
Found this a very easy read. Had come across it in Overdrive, but lost access when moving between library systems. Ended up interested enough to finish that I purchased it.
The author presents the most credible narrative I've ever read regarding non-religious supernatural experiences. It is comically tragic how normal office politics and questionable leadership impacted their program and muddied the waters on this topic. The accounts of these setbacks make the story ring true, and the author never comes across as a braggart or showman. He is just this military intelligence guy who was caught up in something unique.
The timeline sometimes jumps around a bit, with the author getting a little ahead of himself here or there in order to cover a topic or to make a point, but I found this history compelling and enjoyed his writing style. 500+ pages but a quick read.
Found this a very easy read. Had come across it in Overdrive, but lost access when moving between library systems. Ended up interested enough to finish that I purchased it.
The author presents the most credible narrative I've ever read regarding non-religious supernatural experiences. It is comically tragic how normal office politics and questionable leadership impacted their program and muddied the waters on this topic. The accounts of these setbacks make the story ring true, and the author never comes across as a braggart or showman. He is just this military intelligence guy who was caught up in something unique.
The timeline sometimes jumps around a bit, with the author getting a little ahead of himself here or there in order to cover a topic or to make a point, but I found this history compelling and enjoyed his writing style. 500+ pages but a quick read.
June 5, 2017
What a long slog this boook was. A twisted, convoluted look at the bureaucracy in the military. Oh, and some stuff about remote viewing.
The book is weirdly written. More like a list of events. Actual details that I craved are left out. People are listed off at great length, but not really flushed out and developed, so many of the people get blurred together. (With some exceptions.) The book is both a tell-all memoir, but a carefully edited one, as Smith doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Even though he does take a few swings at people.
Ed Dames (who I had never heard of before) does not come out of this book unscathed. He's reknowned, it turns out, in the kook circles of conspiracy theory and alien radio. While Smith's damning of Ed is intense, it was also quite confusing. To paraphrase...
"Oh, that crazy Ed, with his alien galactic council and his repeated apocalyptic visions! What a nut. None of us took him seriously, as we worked with him for over a decade. We just learned not to take him seriously. Sure, he kept talking about the UFOs and the end of the world. And on regular occasions would task me with remote viewing things like Jupiter's moons as he looked for alien bases. And when we were no longer in the military together, and I continued to take remote viewing work from him, I still didn't take him seriously. Even though he kept asking me to remote view the end of the world and where the secret flying saucer bases are. Yeah, I never took him seriously. By the way, I did a remote viewing session of Area 51 and I know the real answers, but I'm not going to share them in this book."
(Is Smith joking with that last part? I genuinely couldn't tell.)
The above makes the book sound interesting, when it's mostly not. Sure, there are some passages that jump out. But overall it's boring. Smith is a very dry writer.
There are some details about remote viewing, but the author stresses that this is not a how to guide. So he just gives a lot of terminology and theory. Which is fine, if somewhat dense reading. But then Smith sort of dodges the issues with specific cases. He admits that it can be diffcult to tell when sessions are a success or not. He admits there's no double blind work. He talks about absolutely bonkers things like, (paraphrased)...
"We would work from a set of coordinates, and remote view there. But it was possible to guess what a site might be, based on a general knowledge of what part of the world you're in. So we started generating encrypted coordinates with a calculator. Only it turned out that it was just a random number generator, and not encrypted numbers. But remote viewing still works! I guess we telepathically pick up what we need from the intention of the monitor."
Sure. I mean, what else could it be, right?
It is interesting to read something from the perspective of a guy who hates the hard core skeptics. They don't have an open mind, Smith says, and so they dismiss it all out of hand. He even mentions the Amazing Randi and CSICOP (or whatever that organization is called). But Smith also praises Uri Geller and spoonbending as a real thing, so it's all quite a muddle from my perspective. I found myself wanting to believe Smith and his story and his arguments that remote viewing is real. It would make the world a more interesting place. But this book doesn't really contain any hard evidence at all. Details are left out in a lot of cases. And some of the so-called "hits" sound so improbable I can't believe them.
Someone tells Smith that they want him to RV something. So he immediate describes his sensations and has an accurate target. It's a building, or the ocean, or a swirling cloud of gas (meteor) or a submarine or...
It seems very improbable that he would get the fundamental ASK at all. And it feels like Smith wants us take this all on faith.
Smith also mentions a time when another remote viewer decided she wanted to use a technique involving channeling helpers. Like, spirit guides. Like, the channelers of the 1980s. Smith discusses in depth how this caused a rift among the remote viewers. What he does not do is describe what a channeling assisted session looks like. He also casually mentions the same remote viewer used tarot cards. (Only I'm not sure if he was kidding, because he never went into any detail about that at all.) Eventually, he was using dowsing rods too, in his own sessions.
Smith is a mormon, and clearly wants to be a decent and moral guy. He's not here to dish dirt -- which honestly gets frustrating. Sometimes it feels like he's avoiding details because he's not confident of his source, or it might make someone look bad. There is very little dialogue in the book, presumably because Smith didn't want to put words in people's mouths. He describes one man's affair and court-martial from the military and apologizes for describing it, but felt that it was an important part of the history of the end of RV in the military.
Simultaneously, there are also some weird grudges Smith goes out of his way to settle, which gave me the uncomfortable feeling that I'd walk in to the middle of something I knew nothing about. Some bundle of in-fighting and other nonsense in the remote viewing world.
It's a weird book. Not what I expected. Mostly a history of the military and how some fought to kill the program while some fought to save it. Smith admits near the end that his version of the story is pretty dull -- men and women in gray rooms napping, then working with a monitor who describes a task, then the RVer writing down impressions of a target, which an analyst assembles into intel. Not nearly as exciting as the words "psychic spies" would have you believe, or evidently the way others have described the hitsory of those times. Smith describes something more like a branch of the military that decided they needed to maybe try something goofy for a while.
Not an easy read.
The book is weirdly written. More like a list of events. Actual details that I craved are left out. People are listed off at great length, but not really flushed out and developed, so many of the people get blurred together. (With some exceptions.) The book is both a tell-all memoir, but a carefully edited one, as Smith doesn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Even though he does take a few swings at people.
Ed Dames (who I had never heard of before) does not come out of this book unscathed. He's reknowned, it turns out, in the kook circles of conspiracy theory and alien radio. While Smith's damning of Ed is intense, it was also quite confusing. To paraphrase...
"Oh, that crazy Ed, with his alien galactic council and his repeated apocalyptic visions! What a nut. None of us took him seriously, as we worked with him for over a decade. We just learned not to take him seriously. Sure, he kept talking about the UFOs and the end of the world. And on regular occasions would task me with remote viewing things like Jupiter's moons as he looked for alien bases. And when we were no longer in the military together, and I continued to take remote viewing work from him, I still didn't take him seriously. Even though he kept asking me to remote view the end of the world and where the secret flying saucer bases are. Yeah, I never took him seriously. By the way, I did a remote viewing session of Area 51 and I know the real answers, but I'm not going to share them in this book."
(Is Smith joking with that last part? I genuinely couldn't tell.)
The above makes the book sound interesting, when it's mostly not. Sure, there are some passages that jump out. But overall it's boring. Smith is a very dry writer.
There are some details about remote viewing, but the author stresses that this is not a how to guide. So he just gives a lot of terminology and theory. Which is fine, if somewhat dense reading. But then Smith sort of dodges the issues with specific cases. He admits that it can be diffcult to tell when sessions are a success or not. He admits there's no double blind work. He talks about absolutely bonkers things like, (paraphrased)...
"We would work from a set of coordinates, and remote view there. But it was possible to guess what a site might be, based on a general knowledge of what part of the world you're in. So we started generating encrypted coordinates with a calculator. Only it turned out that it was just a random number generator, and not encrypted numbers. But remote viewing still works! I guess we telepathically pick up what we need from the intention of the monitor."
Sure. I mean, what else could it be, right?
It is interesting to read something from the perspective of a guy who hates the hard core skeptics. They don't have an open mind, Smith says, and so they dismiss it all out of hand. He even mentions the Amazing Randi and CSICOP (or whatever that organization is called). But Smith also praises Uri Geller and spoonbending as a real thing, so it's all quite a muddle from my perspective. I found myself wanting to believe Smith and his story and his arguments that remote viewing is real. It would make the world a more interesting place. But this book doesn't really contain any hard evidence at all. Details are left out in a lot of cases. And some of the so-called "hits" sound so improbable I can't believe them.
Someone tells Smith that they want him to RV something. So he immediate describes his sensations and has an accurate target. It's a building, or the ocean, or a swirling cloud of gas (meteor) or a submarine or...
It seems very improbable that he would get the fundamental ASK at all. And it feels like Smith wants us take this all on faith.
Smith also mentions a time when another remote viewer decided she wanted to use a technique involving channeling helpers. Like, spirit guides. Like, the channelers of the 1980s. Smith discusses in depth how this caused a rift among the remote viewers. What he does not do is describe what a channeling assisted session looks like. He also casually mentions the same remote viewer used tarot cards. (Only I'm not sure if he was kidding, because he never went into any detail about that at all.) Eventually, he was using dowsing rods too, in his own sessions.
Smith is a mormon, and clearly wants to be a decent and moral guy. He's not here to dish dirt -- which honestly gets frustrating. Sometimes it feels like he's avoiding details because he's not confident of his source, or it might make someone look bad. There is very little dialogue in the book, presumably because Smith didn't want to put words in people's mouths. He describes one man's affair and court-martial from the military and apologizes for describing it, but felt that it was an important part of the history of the end of RV in the military.
Simultaneously, there are also some weird grudges Smith goes out of his way to settle, which gave me the uncomfortable feeling that I'd walk in to the middle of something I knew nothing about. Some bundle of in-fighting and other nonsense in the remote viewing world.
It's a weird book. Not what I expected. Mostly a history of the military and how some fought to kill the program while some fought to save it. Smith admits near the end that his version of the story is pretty dull -- men and women in gray rooms napping, then working with a monitor who describes a task, then the RVer writing down impressions of a target, which an analyst assembles into intel. Not nearly as exciting as the words "psychic spies" would have you believe, or evidently the way others have described the hitsory of those times. Smith describes something more like a branch of the military that decided they needed to maybe try something goofy for a while.
Not an easy read.
September 11, 2024
I was hesitant about picking this up to read due to its length and subject matter. But I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed this book, the author is a good writer with a knack for telling a complicated story. I'm not sure how I feel about the reality of remote viewing but I can't imagine anyone making a better case for its authenticity than the author. The longevity of the government program was startling and its interaction with various current events fascinating. Being familiar with some of the government entities involved also spurred my interest. I give the author high credit for taking pains to be objective by highlighting the prevalent fraud and sensationalism seekers in this field. Highly recommended for those interested in psychic phenomena and the history of clandestine U.S. government programs.
December 8, 2024
I read this book years ago and must recommend it! Paul is the real thing and it is hard to put the book down once you start reading. It gives the reader a view into how fabulous our minds are since many of the participants had no psychic abilities and just learned the protocol, which shows that every person can access this extra sense. Please read this book. It will fascinate you. I plan to buy it again as my first copy was lost.
November 3, 2015
A load of c**p.
October 9, 2017
Big investment in time 473 pages, very detailed about the history of the project. Felt it was Light on details of actual remote viewings although what is provided is convincing.
March 30, 2025
The best book to read on the history and subject of remote viewing
This book, along with Jim Schnabel Remote Viewers are the first to read on the subject for the best historical account. Paul's book goes into depth on the both the what and the why of the Protocols. It is not dry at all. You find out about all the characters involved while also learning about the science itself. Great read.
This book, along with Jim Schnabel Remote Viewers are the first to read on the subject for the best historical account. Paul's book goes into depth on the both the what and the why of the Protocols. It is not dry at all. You find out about all the characters involved while also learning about the science itself. Great read.
July 5, 2020
Straightforward and Insightful
An excellent history of remote viewing that highlights how bureaucracies often kill innovative thinking, especially when careers are perceived to be at risk. In general, the observations apply not only to military but corporate cultures. The story of remote viewing is straightforward and gripping without being over dramatic. I've become a fan of the author after reading this book and ordered his DVD to better understand and apply this skill that is nascent in anyone who has an open mind and realistic expectations.
An excellent history of remote viewing that highlights how bureaucracies often kill innovative thinking, especially when careers are perceived to be at risk. In general, the observations apply not only to military but corporate cultures. The story of remote viewing is straightforward and gripping without being over dramatic. I've become a fan of the author after reading this book and ordered his DVD to better understand and apply this skill that is nascent in anyone who has an open mind and realistic expectations.
September 17, 2007
In the late 1990's, one of Bill Clinton's lesser known acts as President was the cancellation and declassification of the Star Gate program. What was the Star Gate program? A decades-long, CIA sponsored, military approved experiment using psychic spies who, using "remote viewing", managed to track down Russian nuclear missile silos and missing American jets. Former President Jimmy Carter even referenced the program in a recent interview, saying the single most amazing thing to happen to him as President was when one of the Pentagon's psychics found a missing plane that hadn't yet been found with satellites, airplanes and ground crews. Hard to believe, yet there it is. At the very least, it's interesting to know what our government spent money on during the Cold War.
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December 28, 2007
Fascinating history by the actaul historian of the previously super-secret remote viewing intelligence corp.
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January 15, 2010Library
January 12, 2013
Very interesting look into some of America's more unknown projects.
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