The reports on remote viewing are now rather extensive and becoming
well documented. The practice through training, allows the
personality to disconnect from the body and as in the near death
experience, to travel around and view geography. In this case they
tracked down and identified a body before it happened physically. It
hardly could have been better targeted.
I share this particular report because it could not be less
ambiguous.
Recent efforts by the scientific community to investigate 'luminous
dreaming' represents a rearguard action to get into the game long
after the horse of hard evidence has left the barn.
The hard fact is that it is possible for the individual consciousness
to leave the body and to gather intelligence. This has been hinted
at in the past and is a startling development.
It is also obvious that as this methodology is perfected, it will be
integrated into police services to specifically run down the evidence
pattern of major crimes. In this case no crime was even known and
the victim had barely been understood to be missing. Yet a crime was
uncovered and a suspect located and run down even before he knew he
had a problem.
As the limitations of the tool are understood, effective protocols
will be applied to improve efficiency. Police may actually be able
to go on real fishing trips.
Seeing dead people:
‘Remote viewers’ in Nevada help solve California murder
LEILA NAVIDI
Angela Thompson Smith,
a remote viewer, at her home in Boulder City on Tuesday, April
24, 2012.
By Joe
Schoenmann (contact)
Saturday, May 5, 2012
| 2 a.m.
When practitioners of
paranormal “remote viewing” gather here in June, they will enjoy
a little more swagger than in the past.
Last year, a
California court convicted a swindler of murder in a case that was
solved partly, the lead police investigator said, with the help of
remote viewing, a type of extrasensory perception (ESP) that was
studied by the U.S. military starting in the 1970s as a way to gather
intelligence.
Remote viewing calls
for people to look at random numbers and letters and then let their
mind wander, during which they will be able to conjure mental images
of people, events and places.
Dozens of books have
been written about remote viewing by those who were part of the
government program, all of them talking about the government’s
funding of the Stargate program for some 20 years.
In 1979, during a
discussion of remote viewing in the House Permanent Select
Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Charlie Rose, D-N.C., surmised that
“it seems to me a hell of a cheap radar system. And if the Russians
have it and we don’t, we’re in serious trouble.”
Military applications
aside, others seek out remote viewers for reasons ranging from
business interests to locating missing people.
In 2006, Robert
Knight, a Las Vegas-based photographer known in rock ’n’
roll circles for concert photos and portraits of iconic guitarists,
was worried that he hadn’t heard from his close buddy, Stephen B.
Williams, for more than a month and was concerned for his well-being.
The two had been friends since childhood, and as Knight built a
photography career around music, Williams became a successful DJ,
pulling down $250,000 a year at a Denver radio station in the 1980s.
Knight, who said he
became a student of paranormal sciences as a teenager after watching
a flying saucer rise out of the water off a Hawaiian beach, turned to
Angela Thompson Smith in 2006 for help in finding Williams.
He knew Smith as a
teacher of remote viewing, and she apparently knew her stuff. From
the late 1980s through 1992, she worked with Princeton University’s
Engineering Anomalies Research team. She then moved to Boulder City
and became research coordinator for the Bigelow Foundation, which
engaged in paranormal research for its founder, Robert T. Bigelow,
owner of the Budget Suites of America chain and founder of Bigelow
Aerospace.
Smith, who
founded Nevada Remote Viewing Group in 2002, is one of the
scheduled speakers when theInternational Remote Viewing
Association gathers at Green Valley Ranch Resort to
commemorate remote viewing’s 40th anniversary. The keynote speaker:
Dr. Christopher “Kit” Green, a former analyst at the CIA’s
Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence and the CIA contract
monitor assigned to a significant remote viewing project conducted by
the Stanford Research Institute.
When Knight came to
her in 2006, Smith and six remote viewers she had trained went to
work. They included a retired airline captain from Henderson; a
retired U.S. Air Force nurse from Dayton, Ohio; a civilian Air Force
contractor from Texas; a civil engineer from Virginia; a photographer
from Baltimore, Md.; and a university librarian from Provo, Utah.
Each was given a coordinate — a random series of letters and
numbers — on which to focus.
The viewers each did
from one to three remote viewing sessions of about an hour each. They
were seeking information unknown at the time, working blind with only
the random numbers and letters provided by Smith to focus on. Smith
began the work with an initial viewing of the missing man, a
follow-up viewing of the suspect’s location, then a profile of the
suspect. The other viewers helped seek possible accomplices and the
location of the suspect after he fled.
The images they
gleaned painted a picture of a body in water, perhaps in
criss-crossed netting, near Catalina Island off the Southern
California coast.
Knight didn’t want
to believe it.
He received Smith’s
report while in California on a photo job. That night in his hotel
room, Knight’s wife caught the tail end of a newscast about an
unidentified body found off Catalina Island. He knew immediately it
was his friend.
The next morning he
called the county morgue.
“I know the identity
of that body,” he said.
The nonchalant voice
on the other end of the phone sounded skeptical: “Oh, you do? And
how would you know that?”
Knight said the body
would be missing three fingers from its left hand, the result of an
accident in ninth-grade shop class almost 50 years earlier.
The lady put him on
hold, then came back. Indeed, the decomposed body was missing three
fingers from the left hand.
Knight said his
friend’s body would not have been identified were it not for the
help of Angela Smith and her team of remote viewers.
There’s some truth
to that, says the lead detective in the investigation of Williams’
death.
“That’s the
crucial part of any murder investigation: (finding out) who the
person is,” said Sgt. Ken Clark of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s
Department.
Clark said
investigators might have identified the body without Knight’s help,
but it would have been very difficult.
“It was valuable in
that Robert was able to identify Steve and tell about other things,”
Clark said. “How he came about that (information) was not something
that we even explored.”
In the ocean for two
weeks, Williams’ body was as badly decomposed as any Clark had seen
as a homicide detective since 1998. (Although some websites
erroneously attribute the body identification to another California
resident, Clark verified Knight was the identifier.)
Clark remembers two
phone calls that day — one from Knight and the other from sheriff’s
department Commander Charles “Sid” Heal, who told Clark to take
the time to listen to Knight.
Heal, who retired in
2008 after almost 33 years of service, was head of the department’s
technology exploration program. The Los Angeles Times in
2007 described him as “a figure whose pursuit of improving
policing through advanced technologies made him a national figure in
law enforcement circles. Guys without last names from the CIA seek
his advice.”
Indeed, Heal’s job
at the end of his police career was to travel the world to find new
technologies that could be applied to law enforcement.
“We all become
critics, but some of the stuff literally stretched my mind,” Heal
said. “They say once it stretches, it never goes back to the way it
was before.”
One of those
technologies was remote viewing. By the time the Williams case came
around, Heal said he “had already become somewhat convinced” that
remote viewing worked.
“I would certainly
not throw it out,” he said of information collected through remote
viewing.
A friend of Knight’s,
retired Army Col. John Alexander, had called Heal to tell him about
Knight and the remote viewers. Alexander, who is now retired and
lives near Summerlin, explored the use of psychokinesis and psychic
abilities to create better soldiers and enhance intelligence
collection.
Clark remembers what
Heal told him: “It’s going to sound far-fetched, (but) I know
these people and they’re pretty damn accurate in what they have to
say.”
Clark doesn’t seek
out psychics. None are in his Rolodex.
“We stay away from
that,” he said.
But he had no problem
listening.
“Frankly, I don’t
discredit anybody,” he said.
Knight’s information
went beyond the body identification. He told police about a man
named Harvey Morrow, a supposed investment adviser, who had
befriended Williams and was investing Williams’ money — a few
million dollars — on his behalf.
Investigators looked
into it and found that Morrow was stealing Williams’ money. By now,
after Williams’ death, Morrow wasn’t to be found.
Knight told detectives
that remote viewers believed Morrow had fled to the British Virgin
Islands. One of the viewers even sketched a boat with Morrow on
board.
Both observations
turned out to be accurate.
Clark said Morrow
appeared to have no clue he was a suspect. He left the Caribbean for
a job as a used car salesman in Montana — for a boss who was a
former cop. He Googled Morrow and discovered he was sought for
questioning in the Williams homicide.
Morrow was arrested
and convicted in November and is now serving a life sentence
without possibility of parole.
Did remote viewing
really help break the case?
Critics of remote
viewing say the practice isn’t the most reliable, especially
compared with human-to-human, on-the-ground intelligence. It has also
proven difficult to reproduce remote viewing test results in the
laboratory.
Physicist Hal Puthoff,
one of the founders of the government’s Stargate remote viewing
program, isn’t taken aback by skeptics.
“People seem to fall
into two categories: those who have been intimately involved with the
phenomenon and know it works, and those who haven’t and know it
can’t,” he said.
Smith said she is
beyond answering questions about whether remote viewing works. She
now is trying to understand why it works.
“It’s not a matter
of, ‘Do I believe in remote viewing?’ The intriguing questions
now are how does it work and how can it be further developed?” she
said.
For his part, Clark
reaffirms that he isn’t likely to seek out a psychic or remote
viewer for assistance to aid in a murder case. Still, he doesn’t
discredit it, either.
“Who am I to judge?”
he said.
The information
provided by Knight and the remote viewers, he said, reached the level
of, “Oh, wow, this is more than I expected.”
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