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REMOTE VIEWING SECRETS: A HANDBOOK by Joseph McMoneagle. Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, 2000. Pp. 296. $14.95 (paperback). ISBN 1-5717-159-3.
This is a book long-awaited by students of remote viewing. Joseph McMoneagle, Remote Viewer #001 at the Army's Fort Mead Remote Viewing Unit, has put together the wealth of his experience and come up with a handbook of most everything you ever wanted to know about remote viewing. In their promotional literature, Hampton Roads Publishing Company has described Remote Viewing Secrets as "The most complete and ultimate do-it-yourself guide to remote viewing."
McMoneagle has written two other books on remote viewing: Mind Trek (1993) and The Ultimate Time Machine (1999), also published by Hampton Roads Publishing. In Mind Trek, McMoneagle relates how he was recruited into the Fort Mead Unit and gives the readers instruction in the stages of Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV). The Ultimate Time Machine relates 150 detailed predictions for the future. But, who is Joseph McMoneagle, what is remote viewing, and does McMoneagle's new book live up to its marketing?
The term "remote viewing' was first coined in the early 1970's by artist/writer Ingo Swann and colleagues at the American Society for Psychical Research in NewYork. Remote viewing is defined as a process whereby an individual may perceive information about a distant location using "something other" than the known five senses.
In 1972, Swann joined Hal Puthoff and Russ Targ and other researchers at Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in Palo Alto, California. In 1976, Puthoff and Targ published the results of their early remote viewing research in a peer-reviewed IEEE paper titled "A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer Over Kilometer Distances." This paper has become a classic in the field, and sums up the state of the art, at that time, in remote viewing research.
In the early 1980's, SRI was commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army to devise a way for soldiers to be taught remote viewing for applications purposes, and the CRV protocol was developed by Ingo Swann. The CRV protocol is based on a very structured, sequential order of stages or phases that facilitates increasing mental access to the target.
McMoneagle trained in both Extended Remote Viewing (ERV) and CRV at Fort Mead and...