By
Steve Hammons
The
potential of human consciousness is the focus of the annual conference of the
International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) being held this weekend in
Henderson, Nevada, at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, Friday, June 15 through
Sunday, June 17.
Speakers,
workshops and even a psychic or psychokinesis “spoon-bending party” (kids
welcome!) will be part of the conference activities. As usual, the line-up of
speakers is impressive.
The
keynote speaker this year is Christopher “Kit” Green, M.D., Ph.D. Green has a significant
background in scientific activities within the U.S. defense community. His
keynote presentation is titled “Separation
Anxiety: A view from the inside of the two scientific worlds of remote viewing."
Bill Ray
will be the master of ceremonies. Ray was an intelligence officer
during his decades of service with the Army.
The IRVA conference website (http://www.irvaconference.org)
notes that, “This year we will be celebrating
the 40th anniversary of remote viewing, commemorating the day in June 1972 when
Hal Puthoff and Ingo Swann executed their remote viewing magneto-meter
experiment at the Stanford Research Institute.”
SPEAKERS
HAVE IMPRESSIVE BACKGROUNDS
Each year the conference lines up
impressive speakers with rich backgrounds related to remote viewing.
According to the conference website, “The speakers at the
2012 International Remote Viewing conference will discuss remote viewing,
alternative training, research, the future of remote viewing, and the past.”
This year some of the speakers
include the following:
Skip
Atwater – an Army lieutenant back in the 1970s when the
Army began the counter-intelligence research based on Soviet activities in
psychic warfare and spying (reportedly including trying to affect the minds of
U.S. leaders).
Paul Smith, Ph.D. – former Army major recruited into U.S.
remote viewing program. Smith wrote the book “Reading the Enemy's Mind"
about Project STAR GATE remote viewing activities.
Russel Targ, Ph.D. – physicist who joined Hal Puthoff as a
lead scientist in the early days of U.S. remote viewing research after Puthoff took
on a small CIA contract to do some research about Soviet “psychic spying.” Targ
has also written books on these topics.
Jim
Channon – retired as an Army lieutenant colonel and headed the Army project known as the "First Earth
Battalion” that the movie "Men Who Stare at Goats" touched on in a
semi-fictional way.
Lyn
Buchannan – a former Army NCO recruited into the Project STAR GATE program.
He now has a remote viewing training and consulting firm.
Angela Thompson Smith, Ph.D. – a remote
viewer and researcher recently in the news for assisting law enforcement
authorities in a murder case.
Several other highly-qualified and
fascinating speakers will also make presentations and conduct workshops.
ASSOCIATION EDUCATES PUBLIC
The IRVA describes itself as “a non-profit organization dedicated to
promoting the responsible use and development of remote viewing. We are an
independently formed member organization of scientists, remote viewing
professionals, students, and other interested persons.”
The
IRVA website (http://www.irva.org/) explains
that “remote viewing is a novel perceptual discipline for gaining information
not available to the ordinary physical senses.”
“Used
extensively by so-called ‘psychic spies’ during the Cold War for classified
military projects, it has a long history both as an intelligence gathering tool
and as the subject of research and applications in the civilian world,”
according to the website.
The
organization also points out that, “remote viewing has now taken a long step
into the public domain with the formation of a professional association to
educate, research, propose standards, test performance, and promote public
awareness of this unique human mental capacity.”
From
initial formal research in the 1970s to the 1990s when remote viewing was
reportedly terminated and also made public, many interesting developments about this
type of extrasensory perception (ESP) or “anomalous cognition” have occurred.
Now, in
2012, as more Americans and people around the world learn about the
implications of remote viewing, we may find that a significant breakthrough in
understanding may occur.
Maybe
it will be this weekend at the IRVA conference.
