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Tell Me What You See: Remote Viewing Cases from the World's Premier Psychic Spy
Decorated army officer Major Ed Dames tells the shocking true story of his time as operations and training officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency's top-secret Psychic Intelligence Unit. Together with his Psi Spy team, Dames used the practice of remote viewing to uncover accurate and verifiable military intelligence by going where no intel operatives on the ground could go -- into the very mind of the enemy. After retiring from the military, he turned his paranormal detective skills to finding missing persons such as millionaire pilot Steve Fossett, whose plane vanished in Nevada, and a young Colorado girl named Christina White, who disappeared seemingly without a trace. He has even located one of the most legendary missing objects in history, the Ark of the Covenant. In Tell Me What You See , cosmic Columbo Major Ed Dames takes you behind the scenes of some of his most mind-bending cases.
For anyone fascinated by the intersection of the military and the mysterious, Tell Me What You See is an amazing and completely absorbing must-read.
Q&A with Author Ed Dames
What got you interested in Remote Viewing?
Actually, I stumbled onto it by accident. As we detail in the book, once I had risen through the ranks of military intelligence, I was privy to the deepest darkest top-secret programs our government had to offer. When I learned there was this tested and proven capability out there to gather information about targets without actually sending operatives into the field, I jumped at it, I needed additional intelligence to crack critical problems at the time, and this breakthrough psychic technique was just what the doctor ordered. On a more personal level, I was always interested in the paranormal -- even as a boy, and remote viewing was the key to help unlock mysteries I’ve been curious about for a very long time. RV presented a world without secrets on so many levels, and in the spy biz especially -- that’s a really good world.
What was your greatest RV success?
There have been so many it’s hard to put my finger on just one. From finding missing and exploited children, to uncovering lost treasure like the Ark of the Covenant, to locating POWs and breaking the Soviet biological weapons program, the success rate in my career has been incredible. I suppose just keeping the military Psi Spy program alive as long as we did with so many enemies trying to shut us down could be considered a success. But I think taking the culmination of more than 25 years of developing this tool from the rigid confines of the military into the public arena has been most satisfying to me. To teach RV the way I do to eager and curious audiences around the world has been and continues to be an incredible experience. It makes it all worthwhile.
Why is RV important?
In Tell Me What You See we demonstrate in no uncertain terms the powerful abilities the mind has locked away inside -- abilities most of us have only dreamed of. The human mind is unlike anything else there is, and we have only half- realized our potential. Now through the correct use of remote viewing, we can realize the other half. We show how anyone can learn RV to know anything, to gather direct knowledge of any event, person, or object across time and space.
What are you currently working on?
I have recently completed work on an RV technique I call Geofix, where we can pinpoint the location of anything geographically with no margin of error whatsoever. This is a very exciting development and we are using Geofix to continue the work we’ve always done such as hunting down child killers, locating treasure and searching for extraterrestrial and extradimensional life across the universe. As always we also continue to make use of RV to see what’s coming in the future, to look for indicators of warning that affect all of us. In Tell Me What You See we attempt not so much to send a wake up call to people, as much as we want people to simply wake up. Here’s a world too many know nothing about. We hope to change that.
For anyone fascinated by the intersection of the military and the mysterious, Tell Me What You See is an amazing and completely absorbing must-read.
Q&A with Author Ed Dames
What got you interested in Remote Viewing?
Actually, I stumbled onto it by accident. As we detail in the book, once I had risen through the ranks of military intelligence, I was privy to the deepest darkest top-secret programs our government had to offer. When I learned there was this tested and proven capability out there to gather information about targets without actually sending operatives into the field, I jumped at it, I needed additional intelligence to crack critical problems at the time, and this breakthrough psychic technique was just what the doctor ordered. On a more personal level, I was always interested in the paranormal -- even as a boy, and remote viewing was the key to help unlock mysteries I’ve been curious about for a very long time. RV presented a world without secrets on so many levels, and in the spy biz especially -- that’s a really good world.
What was your greatest RV success?
There have been so many it’s hard to put my finger on just one. From finding missing and exploited children, to uncovering lost treasure like the Ark of the Covenant, to locating POWs and breaking the Soviet biological weapons program, the success rate in my career has been incredible. I suppose just keeping the military Psi Spy program alive as long as we did with so many enemies trying to shut us down could be considered a success. But I think taking the culmination of more than 25 years of developing this tool from the rigid confines of the military into the public arena has been most satisfying to me. To teach RV the way I do to eager and curious audiences around the world has been and continues to be an incredible experience. It makes it all worthwhile.
Why is RV important?
In Tell Me What You See we demonstrate in no uncertain terms the powerful abilities the mind has locked away inside -- abilities most of us have only dreamed of. The human mind is unlike anything else there is, and we have only half- realized our potential. Now through the correct use of remote viewing, we can realize the other half. We show how anyone can learn RV to know anything, to gather direct knowledge of any event, person, or object across time and space.
What are you currently working on?
I have recently completed work on an RV technique I call Geofix, where we can pinpoint the location of anything geographically with no margin of error whatsoever. This is a very exciting development and we are using Geofix to continue the work we’ve always done such as hunting down child killers, locating treasure and searching for extraterrestrial and extradimensional life across the universe. As always we also continue to make use of RV to see what’s coming in the future, to look for indicators of warning that affect all of us. In Tell Me What You See we attempt not so much to send a wake up call to people, as much as we want people to simply wake up. Here’s a world too many know nothing about. We hope to change that.
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288 pages, Paperback
First published November 19, 2010
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April 8, 2016
Books by former remote viewers from the military are such a trip to read. From Lyn Buchanan to David Morehouse, these guys were/are on the cutting edge of consciousness exploration. But, don't go to these books for feel good stories. I'm sure that it is because they were all trained as human weapons to root out threats to the government, but they all seem so dark and obsessed with shadows. Even when Major Dames sets out to have a "fun" RV session on the Ark of the Covenant, his viewers see mainly blood shed and despair.
The methods used in Dames' sessions were different from others that I've read. Morehouse and Buchanan described RV sessions in which separate viewers with handlers would run through coordinates, while in completely secluded rooms, and then the different sessions would be put together after the fact to try to create a complete picture. Dames described group RV sessions in which he'd act as the handler, give out the coordinates, and then his viewers would sit in a group setting and say what they were seeing, as they saw it. I found this approach to be interesting, but how would you prevent one mind from influencing the others? It sort of felt like having an enormous, continuous analytic overlay in the room. An AOL (analytic overlay) is essentially interpreting what you're seeing before the session is over, which makes the target fuzzy and ruins the connection. The groups that Dames described seemed to do this all the time. The reader especially picks up on this during the chapter entitled: Ether Wars.
I liked his description of RV: "Remote viewing is about reaching beyond the five senses into the unconscious mind, to look inside and miraculously gather information stored like web pages on a cosmic computer. Even more miraculous is that we all have the innate potential to do this, a prescient sixth sense." pg 16
The way the mainstream considers RV: "It's part of my regular curriculum to discuss how badly the authorities treat remote viewing. There's no reward for being right afterward, no party, no fanfare or parade down Broadway for us. No fingerprints left behind. What people can't pigeonhole they often reject. We were dealing with a system that treats what we do like watching someone have a seizure from behind a two-way mirror- uninvolved yet shamefully fascinated." pg 27
Which is why I was surprised when he so vehemently rejects the contributions of the natural psychics, mediums, channelers to his military unit: "Gauvin and his broomstick pals were running us into the ground... Angela's channeling was bound to be judged useless and scrapped and then maybe she'd go back to her crystal ball. But as Gauvin had correctly pointed out, she was an official member of the unit no matter what I thought about her. I decided to let Angela stay. Who knew, by participating in an actual session maybe she'd catch on to how remote viewing really works. Maybe." pg 120-121 Unlike mainstream folks, those types of spiritual "witches", as Dames describes them in other parts of his book, don't need to be convinced that there are levels of perception beyond those utilized in day to day life. If he had taken the time to look beyond their strange methods and encourage them to organize their natural talents within developed protocols, I think Dames could have found some powerful allies within the military RV program. But, that's not how he played the game. It was as if you were either completely with Major Dames or against him. I suppose it goes back to his role as a soldier.
Dames' comparison of RV to out-of-body experiences: "OBEs aren't anything new. The concept has been around and practiced for thousands of years, dating back to the monks of ancient China and India. Their wizened mystics called it "astral projection," a practice where, either awake or dreaming, certain adept individuals could cast off their earthly skin and propel their consciousness- astral body- into unknown spirit dimensions across time and space. A strikingly similar trajectory to remove viewing, only we go there mentally step by step, following a rigorous set of proven military protocols." pg 153
And possibilities for RV in the future: "The ability to remote view is the next step in the evolution of the mind... What started out as a military tool based on the desperate need of warriors seeking to destroy their enemies in battle has now developed into an invaluable instrument in the search for enlightenment. Remote viewing is a teachable psychic-like skill anyone can learn. What is often overlooked is its potential to help us more deeply experience life." pg 257 I would say so.
If you're interested in more books like Tell Me What You See, you may want to look into The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military by Lyn Buchanan or Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing by David Morehouse.
The methods used in Dames' sessions were different from others that I've read. Morehouse and Buchanan described RV sessions in which separate viewers with handlers would run through coordinates, while in completely secluded rooms, and then the different sessions would be put together after the fact to try to create a complete picture. Dames described group RV sessions in which he'd act as the handler, give out the coordinates, and then his viewers would sit in a group setting and say what they were seeing, as they saw it. I found this approach to be interesting, but how would you prevent one mind from influencing the others? It sort of felt like having an enormous, continuous analytic overlay in the room. An AOL (analytic overlay) is essentially interpreting what you're seeing before the session is over, which makes the target fuzzy and ruins the connection. The groups that Dames described seemed to do this all the time. The reader especially picks up on this during the chapter entitled: Ether Wars.
I liked his description of RV: "Remote viewing is about reaching beyond the five senses into the unconscious mind, to look inside and miraculously gather information stored like web pages on a cosmic computer. Even more miraculous is that we all have the innate potential to do this, a prescient sixth sense." pg 16
The way the mainstream considers RV: "It's part of my regular curriculum to discuss how badly the authorities treat remote viewing. There's no reward for being right afterward, no party, no fanfare or parade down Broadway for us. No fingerprints left behind. What people can't pigeonhole they often reject. We were dealing with a system that treats what we do like watching someone have a seizure from behind a two-way mirror- uninvolved yet shamefully fascinated." pg 27
Which is why I was surprised when he so vehemently rejects the contributions of the natural psychics, mediums, channelers to his military unit: "Gauvin and his broomstick pals were running us into the ground... Angela's channeling was bound to be judged useless and scrapped and then maybe she'd go back to her crystal ball. But as Gauvin had correctly pointed out, she was an official member of the unit no matter what I thought about her. I decided to let Angela stay. Who knew, by participating in an actual session maybe she'd catch on to how remote viewing really works. Maybe." pg 120-121 Unlike mainstream folks, those types of spiritual "witches", as Dames describes them in other parts of his book, don't need to be convinced that there are levels of perception beyond those utilized in day to day life. If he had taken the time to look beyond their strange methods and encourage them to organize their natural talents within developed protocols, I think Dames could have found some powerful allies within the military RV program. But, that's not how he played the game. It was as if you were either completely with Major Dames or against him. I suppose it goes back to his role as a soldier.
Dames' comparison of RV to out-of-body experiences: "OBEs aren't anything new. The concept has been around and practiced for thousands of years, dating back to the monks of ancient China and India. Their wizened mystics called it "astral projection," a practice where, either awake or dreaming, certain adept individuals could cast off their earthly skin and propel their consciousness- astral body- into unknown spirit dimensions across time and space. A strikingly similar trajectory to remove viewing, only we go there mentally step by step, following a rigorous set of proven military protocols." pg 153
And possibilities for RV in the future: "The ability to remote view is the next step in the evolution of the mind... What started out as a military tool based on the desperate need of warriors seeking to destroy their enemies in battle has now developed into an invaluable instrument in the search for enlightenment. Remote viewing is a teachable psychic-like skill anyone can learn. What is often overlooked is its potential to help us more deeply experience life." pg 257 I would say so.
If you're interested in more books like Tell Me What You See, you may want to look into The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military by Lyn Buchanan or Remote Viewing: The Complete User's Manual for Coordinate Remote Viewing by David Morehouse.
July 10, 2017
Regret the purchase
At first, I thought what a guy to overcome his abusive childhood, but then I continued to read. The most annoying thing was the author's massive ego that pervades the book and ruined it for me. Even though the remote viewers did the work and provided the information, and Dames does throw them the occasional bone, all throughout the book he takes credit for everything. I'm not saying the monitor doesn't have a purpose, but the author is shameless about making it all about him. And, yeah, he didn't want law enforcement to accompany him for their safety -- m-hmm. I believe it was because if he found the body, there wouldn't be any doubt that he was the one who made the discovery and he wouldn't have to share the credit or glory or the spotlight. There are individuals in and out of the military who have accomplished as much as and more than the author who display confidence but not the nauseating excessive ego that he does. UGH.
At first, I thought what a guy to overcome his abusive childhood, but then I continued to read. The most annoying thing was the author's massive ego that pervades the book and ruined it for me. Even though the remote viewers did the work and provided the information, and Dames does throw them the occasional bone, all throughout the book he takes credit for everything. I'm not saying the monitor doesn't have a purpose, but the author is shameless about making it all about him. And, yeah, he didn't want law enforcement to accompany him for their safety -- m-hmm. I believe it was because if he found the body, there wouldn't be any doubt that he was the one who made the discovery and he wouldn't have to share the credit or glory or the spotlight. There are individuals in and out of the military who have accomplished as much as and more than the author who display confidence but not the nauseating excessive ego that he does. UGH.
July 28, 2018
A well-written and engrossing account of the army's and DIA's opening adventures into remote viewing.
Major Dames has had a rough life, but a fruitful one. He is perhaps overly judgmental about other esoteric traditions than the one he has developed. He seems to think they're all crooks and liars but him. Many are, but not all. This is an important contribution to the literature of various disciplines which take advantage of the omnipresence of ether, or, as some call it, plasma, throughout the universe, and the fact that the mind can travel instantaneously through this plasma. It can be accessed for knowledge, healing, and, as Dames notes, for nefarious purposes as well. The case histories are fascinating and I will be learning this technique in coming weeks.
Major Dames has had a rough life, but a fruitful one. He is perhaps overly judgmental about other esoteric traditions than the one he has developed. He seems to think they're all crooks and liars but him. Many are, but not all. This is an important contribution to the literature of various disciplines which take advantage of the omnipresence of ether, or, as some call it, plasma, throughout the universe, and the fact that the mind can travel instantaneously through this plasma. It can be accessed for knowledge, healing, and, as Dames notes, for nefarious purposes as well. The case histories are fascinating and I will be learning this technique in coming weeks.
September 22, 2021
A long time ago, my brother called me at work and was able to see everything at my place of employment by using the technique called remote viewing. Ever since then I have been curious as to how this technique worked. One day I came across several videos on Youtube and watched Ed Dames talk about his book, "Tell me what you see." I went to my local library and checked out the book. Not only did I learn more about remote viewing but that the American Government had a special remote viewing unit that was in place during the Cold War. This was a very interesting read and I will be researching more about this subject.
December 21, 2021
I've always been interested in the power of our brain and intuition. Major Dames was involved to lead a team with the DIA and it's pretty amazing what they have accomplished by remote viewing. At the same time, it does illustrate how much we don't know of what is going on in this world, terrible terrible things. The book is at times hard to follow as it does mention a lot of military lingo but it is also very fascinating!
August 6, 2024
I enjoyed the read however, was confused at points about his purpose and what he was accomplishing vs the team.
September 21, 2015
When Major Ed Dames was a guest on George Noory's COAST TO COAST AM radio program after I had just returned from a two-year stint teaching in China, he unnerved me with his dire predictions. He advised listeners to learn Mandarin, something I had tried to while in Anshan. Despite my efforts to learn it upon returning to China for another five-year tour of teaching duty, I was unable to devote much time to the lessons because of my heavy teaching load (not the kind of reasonable classroom sizes or loads that are employed here in the US). However, while there his visions kept ringing in my ear, and I, not long after arriving, read Jim Marrs' book on the topic.
Many years before, I had read Robert Monroe's ground-breaking book on astral-projection or OBEs titled JOURNEYS OUT OF THE BODY, and was, as I recall, swept up in the current of what seemed to be paranormal information. When I recently read the major's book, I saw that he also was exposed to the Monroe doctrine . . . but in person. The major did not and does not teach astral-projection because that type of journey does not reveal retrievable and time-specific details. The major practices remote viewing and educates initiates on how to do it -- how to let one's mind (not astral-body) travel to near or far places and times and to make accurate sketches based on what the mind perceived.
This book reads like a fast-paced fictional spy novel, a page turner or page slider (I read the digital version of his novel on my Kindle). Noory refers to Dames as a psychic spy and this label appears appropriate when we are exposed to his true cases he worked on as a military operative and later as a civilian private investigator.
It is a fascinating read but also a frustrating one when we see how his group's findings are ignored or discredited, sometimes resulting in the loss of lives that could have been spared. Conversely, the major reports how, on one occasion at least, his vision resulted in an over-reaction and subsequent devastation of enemy soldiers. Unfortunately, the major saw this in an RV state and carries a guilt feeling with him forever.
Finally, the day arrives when the major ceases to support the policies of his own government and makes the extremely difficult decision (he loved being in the US Army) to better serve his country by operating outside the system. After all, the restrictions against remote viewing the past, the future, and even UFOs became daunting. The Psychic Spy Unit is created to allow its members to explore anything within limits, to become human versions of Google.
Unless one is unfavorably disposed to accept any knowledge that does not fit in with a rigid, preconceived belief structure, one should find the major's accounts to be compelling as well as overwhelmingly informative. As one graduate professor told our class: "Nothing beats interest."
If we are willing to be students, we can follow the major through every stage of the event. RV can be taught if we can let go of any presumptions and fore-knowledge of the the target; we must also turn off our imaginations lest they interfere with our perceptions of what is actually there.
So, prepare to be students and learn more, regardless of your age, than you probably thought possible. Major Ed Dames is a highly qualified, vastly experienced instructor. Just be glad that he, even though ex-military, is on our side. After all, there are plenty of remote viewers who are not on our side that are trying to RV us.
Review by Charles Justus Garard
author of a paranormal series THE DARK JOURNEY TRILOGY
and two time-travel novels.
Many years before, I had read Robert Monroe's ground-breaking book on astral-projection or OBEs titled JOURNEYS OUT OF THE BODY, and was, as I recall, swept up in the current of what seemed to be paranormal information. When I recently read the major's book, I saw that he also was exposed to the Monroe doctrine . . . but in person. The major did not and does not teach astral-projection because that type of journey does not reveal retrievable and time-specific details. The major practices remote viewing and educates initiates on how to do it -- how to let one's mind (not astral-body) travel to near or far places and times and to make accurate sketches based on what the mind perceived.
This book reads like a fast-paced fictional spy novel, a page turner or page slider (I read the digital version of his novel on my Kindle). Noory refers to Dames as a psychic spy and this label appears appropriate when we are exposed to his true cases he worked on as a military operative and later as a civilian private investigator.
It is a fascinating read but also a frustrating one when we see how his group's findings are ignored or discredited, sometimes resulting in the loss of lives that could have been spared. Conversely, the major reports how, on one occasion at least, his vision resulted in an over-reaction and subsequent devastation of enemy soldiers. Unfortunately, the major saw this in an RV state and carries a guilt feeling with him forever.
Finally, the day arrives when the major ceases to support the policies of his own government and makes the extremely difficult decision (he loved being in the US Army) to better serve his country by operating outside the system. After all, the restrictions against remote viewing the past, the future, and even UFOs became daunting. The Psychic Spy Unit is created to allow its members to explore anything within limits, to become human versions of Google.
Unless one is unfavorably disposed to accept any knowledge that does not fit in with a rigid, preconceived belief structure, one should find the major's accounts to be compelling as well as overwhelmingly informative. As one graduate professor told our class: "Nothing beats interest."
If we are willing to be students, we can follow the major through every stage of the event. RV can be taught if we can let go of any presumptions and fore-knowledge of the the target; we must also turn off our imaginations lest they interfere with our perceptions of what is actually there.
So, prepare to be students and learn more, regardless of your age, than you probably thought possible. Major Ed Dames is a highly qualified, vastly experienced instructor. Just be glad that he, even though ex-military, is on our side. After all, there are plenty of remote viewers who are not on our side that are trying to RV us.
Review by Charles Justus Garard
author of a paranormal series THE DARK JOURNEY TRILOGY
and two time-travel novels.
April 30, 2018
This book would deserve more stars as it was the first to expand my consciousness into the idea of remote viewing, outer body experience and our lost cosmic heritage, leading me to retreats that blew my mind but there’s a painful amount of the writers ego you need to filter out. Stick with it. He gives enough about his own childhood and military indoctrination that any armchair psychologist can understand why. Also if you read up on the good he’s doing in the world with his incredible gift it’ll make it a lot easier.
October 12, 2013
I have followed Ed Dames ever since I first heard him on Art Bell years ago. I have taken remote viewing courses and can confirm that it works. The problem with this book is the same as in Ed Dames interviews, they are good stories that end up contradicting themselves from tale to tale. A good book but I don't think we will ever know the full story from Major Dames.
September 20, 2012
Borrrring!
December 11, 2012
Not as interesting as the talk show he was on, but still a good read!
April 5, 2017
It is remarkable what the USA military psychic spy unit was able to achieve and uncover. This book makes you feel like you are right there with them. I keep thinking - how would politicians act if they knew that they were unable to lie or hide secrets? I'd love to see remote viewing applied to see what is really going on in our governments and with our leaders. What if there were a way to fact check everything and force transparency? How different would our politicians and government be?
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