Friday morning, Major Paul Smith told us how remote viewing joined the army, and again, if I don’t have any details it’s because he didn’t ask me soon enough to do this! Paul’s talk was followed by our first RV exercise, in which we were to intuit the contents of one of seven items, each inside a numbered paper bag, with the target to be chosen (by random number generator) after our viewing. That target, a small metal heart, was picked by 32 participants, out of 184. The other targets were selected by 33, 30, 28, 25, 23, and 13 people. A pretty scattered result, you will agree. (I was one of the 13, still not having gotten the hang of it.)
After lunch, James Spottiswoode demonstrated how scientists work by showing how he had repeatedly gone after new data and then new interpretations of the data, trying and repeatedly failing to find environmental factors that appear to affect psychic functioning, until at last he found a still-unexplained correlation between very good – and very bad – functioning and certain times of day in terms of local sidereal time.
Skip Atwater then talked about his work, which bridges Remote Viewing and The Monroe Institute’s Hemi-Sync sound patterns. An entertaining speaker (who remembered to urge his listeners to buy his book!) he told of his first encounter with Bob Monroe, back when Skip was still an Army lieutenant unable to tell Monroe the truth about why he was there.
Friday evening there was a banquet at the local Ramada Inn, where many conference participants stayed. After the banquet, Stephan Schwartz was set to give a power-point presentation, but the technology gods decreed otherwise, and instead he spoke to us, straight from the heart, about the degree to which one person could make a difference. I went up to him afterward and told him I was glad the computer hadn’t worked, as otherwise we wouldn’t have gotten to hear what he did wind up saying. (And later we got to hear the originally scheduled presentation anyway.)
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