8 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
British-American journalist who wrote Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies — the most detailed journalistic account of the US military's STARGATE remote viewing program — providing the historical record of the program's personnel, methods, and results.
Retired US Army Warrant Officer who was Remote Viewer #001 in the STARGATE program — the first and most successful operational remote viewer — and who had a near-death experience in 1970 that he credits with activating his psychic abilities.
Retired US Army sergeant who was a remote viewer in the STARGATE program and who has since taught Controlled Remote Viewing to civilians — one of the primary transmitters of military remote viewing methodology to the civilian world.
Former Burbank police commissioner who became one of the most gifted remote viewers in the CIA-funded Stanford Research Institute program — producing accurate descriptions of remote targets including Soviet military installations — before his unexplained death in 1975.
Retired US Army Major who was one of the military's primary remote viewing trainers in the STARGATE program — trained by Ingo Swann in Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) — and who wrote The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing after leaving the military.
American physicist and laser physicist who co-founded the SRI remote viewing program with Hal Puthoff — co-authored Mind Reach and The Mind's Big Bang — and who has spent his career arguing that remote viewing has been scientifically demonstrated and that consciousness extends beyond the brain.
American consciousness researcher who studied remote viewing at the Monroe Institute and wrote Opening Minds — exploring the relationship between resonance, consciousness, and anomalous phenomena — and who has researched crop circle phenomena.
Ingo Swann was an American psychic, artist, and consciousness researcher who played a foundational role in the development of remote viewing — a technique for perceiving distant or shielded locations through extrasensory means — at the Stanford Research Institute in collaboration with Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff during the 1970s. His protocols became the foundation for the US government's classified STARGATE program.