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Remote Viewing: The ESP of Espionage
Remote Viewing: The ESP of Espionage
By Turan Rifat
Nexus Magazine
MILITARY DEVELOPMENT OF REMOTE MIND-CONTROL TECHNOLOGY
Military/intelligence
interest in remote-viewing (RV) goes back to at least the 1950s.
Remote-viewing-the ability to see things far from one's physical
body-was developed during the Cold War to enable security organisations
to gain information about top-secret enemy sites in which they had no
assets. The
Russians have always been more advanced than their American
counterparts in the study and development of RV and biophysical remote
mind-control technology (RMCT). This did not go unnoticed by the CIA
and the US military, who started experimenting with biophysical RMCT in
the 1960s. However, because it proved difficult to control, the
Americans concentrated instead on electronic techniques-until quite
recently. US military research into RV was implemented with Project
Scangate, and continued with many different projects including Grill
Flame, Center Lane, Sunstreak and Stargate.
As
a scientist I became fascinated by the implications of RV, for if it
really worked it totally upset the paradigm upon which our scientific
model of reality is based. The work of Dr Jessica Utts-a Professor of
Statistics at Stanford who has scientifically proven that RV phenomena
exist-was significant in this respect for it showed that science as we
know it is crucially flawed. We have developed atomic energy, yet it is
as if we have less knowledge than our cave ancestors about the
essential nature of reality. The sceptics rebutted the Utts paper and
have denied that any paranormal phenomena could possibly exist. This
might be more comfortable for the scientific community, but RMCT is
being used more and more by the military/intelligence community.
To
mask this, the US military's position on RV was stated by CIA
spokesperson David Christian, who accepted that no further official US
research into RV was warranted: "We think the intelligence community
shouldn't pursue research on this and that it is best left to the
private sector..."
Is
there a campaign of disinformation to cover up their continued and
accelerated study of the subject? Could programmes such as The Real
X-Files (shown on Channel 4, UK)-created by Jim Schnabel, an alleged
CIA operative-be designed to act as red herrings, to mask the US
security organisation's true intent? If so, wouldn't the public's
interest in this area mean that the privately-run US RV organisations
(all headed by 'retired' US security officers), to which the public
could turn for training, would have a large number of applicants? This
would be useful if the US intelligence community were trawling for
undiscovered psi-able people to recruit for a burgeoning RMCT military
programme.
THE SCIENTIFIC BASIS OF REMOTE-VIEWING
This led me to ask whether there could be a scientific basis to RV and RMCT. As a proponent of RV, I knew that it worked.
Joe
McMoneagle, a retired US Army intelligence officer-who claims to have
left Stargate in 1984 with a Legion of Merit award for providing
information on 150 targets that was unavailable from other sources-used
RV to go into the mind of Shaw Taylor, to see through his eyes, in an
experiment carried out on The Paranormal World of Paul McKenna (ITV,
UK). This method of using RV to enter the brains of other people is
called remote sensing (RS). Biophysical RMCT can be considered to have
the explanation for how ESP and telepathy work.
I
have had many people ask me whether there is information available on
the scientific basis of RV. Having looked through the Internet at the
web sites purporting to be leaders in RV technology, I came to the
conclusion that either the knowledge base of Western experts was
feeble, or most of the real information was classified. Most of the
leading research done in the US on brain function with respect to
electronic RMCT is classified. The excellent articles in NEXUS (e.g.,
vol. 3, no. 3) have covered electronic RMCT in more depth than is
available elsewhere, but to my knowledge there has been little
scientific discussion of biophysical RMCT, so the following is a brief
introduction.
The
Russians have been the world experts in biophysics since the 1950s.
Their research in this area has concentrated on military uses of
biophysical field effects and telekinesis (the ability to move objects
at a distance), as well as the search for 'psi genes' that promote and
mediate RV and the biophysical fields involved in telekinesis. This has
led the Russians to study the biological basis of RV.
For
RV to work, 'something' must leave the body so that remote locations
can be seen. Research seems to indicate that RV uses biophysical field
effects to manifest perception outside the body.
The
Russians have used all means at their disposal to develop biophysical
RMCT-drugs, hypnosis, invasive brain surgery, electronic implant
technology and a number of electromagnetic, electrostatic, magnetic and
psychotronic means to boost the latent psi abilities of carefully
selected psi-able Russians.
There
is reason to believe that their research in the biophysical domain
became so advanced that they opened doorways to other continuums and
themselves fell prey to malevolent forces. US research into these areas
will eventually lead the Americans to the same crossroads. Indeed, in a
secret underground base they are already experimenting with electronic
extradimensional doorways, exposing the US consciousness to incredible
levels of extradimensional influences.
It
is well known that the physical body is surrounded by a mantle of
electromagnetic (EM) energy. The eyes pick up this photonic emission,
though 90 per cent of this information is filtered out in the thalamus,
with the remainder fitted into a visual-mental model which we see as
reality. Once visual perception can be unfiltered, auras can be seen
around people.
EMF-INDUCED CALCIUM EFFLUX EVENTS
The
US Government started researching electronic RMCT as a result of early
work on the effects of EM radiation on human behaviour.
Microwave
stimulation of the brain with extra-low-frequency (ELF) audiograms has
been shown to affect brain function for RMCT. This methodology is the
basis of US RMCT. However, the EM field around the body can also be
affected by other types of EM irradiation, electric fields and magnetic
fields.
Dr
Ross Adey, formerly of the Brain Research Center at the University of
Southern California, and now at the Loma Linda University Medical
School, California, worked on the CIA's infamous Pandora project. His
research involved inducing of specific behaviour modifications by
electromagnetic means, as well as inducing calcium efflux events to
interfere with brain function-the so-called "confusion weaponry". (More
recently, Dr Adey has been warning against the biological hazards of EM
emissions from mobile phones.)
Dr
Adey's research at the Brain Research Center has shown the existence of
a biological reaction to EM radiation. This reaction was found to be
dependent on the frequency, amplitude and dose of the microwave
radiation used.
In
the 1980s Dr Adey performed some crucial experiments using microwave
carrier-waves modulated with ELF waves to modify brain tissue
responses. He carried out experiments with cat brain tissue, showing
that the binding of calcium ions to neuronal sites was affected by weak
EM fields. These fields were of a frequency and amplitude similar to
fields produced in mammalian bodies and detected on
electroencephalographs (EEGs).
Dr
Adey demonstrated how a 147-megahertz (MHz) field, which at tissue
level had an intensity of 0.8 milliwatts per square centimetre, caused
an efflux or release of calcium ions from the irradiated brain tissue.
This response only occurred when the ELF modulation of the microwave
carrier-wave had an amplitude modulated at 6-20 hertz (Hz). The maximum
stimulation of the neurones took place at 16 Hz, but to either side of
this frequency-range parameter there was no effect.
Microwaves
of a similar waveform were used in a US research facility by C. S.
Blackman, who worked on the theory underlying the electronic RMCT
devices now deployed worldwide. He noted a set of narrow field
intensity parameters of microwave irradiation effects that was greatest
at 0.75 milliwatts per square centimetre, causing the neurones to
efflux calcium to the greatest extent.
Adey
repeated Blackman's experiments and confirmed a microwave intensity
parametric area of between 0.1 and 1.0 milliwatt per square centimetre,
using a 450-MHz microwave carrier-wave amplitude modulated by an ELF of
16 Hz. He found that this set of EM parameters caused the largest
calcium efflux in the neurones. When other EM parameters were used,
they caused no response.
In
comparison, ELF-modulated microwave radiation in the range of 6-20 Hz,
at field intensifies lower by several orders of magnitude than the
above, caused a decrease of calcium ion efflux in the neurones. A
useful observation was that the frequency and amplitude of the response
of the neuronal brain tissue was the same whether it was stimulated or
damped. There was a consistency in the magnitude of the response, i.e.,
a 10 to 15 per cent increase in calcium ion efflux using the higher
intensities, and an identical reduction using the lower intensities
described above.
Since
the neurones are affected by EM fields, the EM mantle around our
bodies-and anything that affects it-will also affect brain function.
The mechanism for this is that ELF-modulated microwaves can affect
calcium efflux in the neurones, which can affect short- and long-term
potentiation of the neurones with a concomitant effect on memory.
STRATEGIC ELECTRONIC WEAPONRY
It
was inevitable that military/intelligence interests would develop
electronic RMCT weapons systems. These weapons fall into a number of
classes, the simplest being the use of microwaves at low amplitudes,
e.g., 10,000 microwatts per square centimetre, to cause local hot-spots
in the victim's body areas that have poor circulation, such as the eyes
and gall bladder. The microwaves heat up the tissue, which does not
have the blood circulation to carry away the excess heat. The victim
feels nothing, but sustains acute and chronic illness in these areas.
Intelligence organisations in the West use this technology to disable
permanently the 'subversive elements' they cannot scare off.
When
ELF-modulated microwaves are used, they are keyed to distinctive
patterns of brainwaves called preparation sets, which exist for every
mechanical gesture the body makes. There are also specific excitation
potentials which exist for specific emotional states. Intelligence
operatives can induce remote conditioning by creating
information-processing effects which can cause excitatory reactions,
subliminal stress, behavioural arousal, enhanced suggestibility by
inhibition of higher functions, and patterned behaviours. It is alleged
that this technology is used by the CIA and MI5 to modify the behaviour
of 'high-profile subversives'.
The
more advanced electronic RMCT utilises ELF-modulated masers for
long-range, penetrative, invasive EM mind-control. Together with
Doppler-shifted interrogative RMCT masers, a victim's brain-states can
be analysed at a distance-and the 'subversive' can be modified at a
distance. Developments on this technique, and the use of low-frequency
EM radiation to see through walls, have allowed intelligence agencies
in the US to make useful inroads on the path to synthetic telepathy.
Much
of this research has been funded by the CIA which began this work on
electronic mind-control with its Pandora project. This research was
used to build devices like RHIC-EDOM (Radio Hypnotic Intracerebral
Control - Electronic Dissolution of Memory), which is allegedly used
for forced induction of hypnotic trance in the abduction of and
experimentation upon civilians by US Government agencies.
REMOTE-VIEWING AS A BIOPHYSICAL FIELD EFFECT?
My
research interest has been in the biological and biophysical basis of
paranormal phenomena. Since the body has an intrinsic EM mantle, could
this EM field be projected outside the body?
Dr
Ross Adey's research has identified a pathway by which EM fields can
directly affect the brain. Could information-gleaning by roving
biophysical EM field effects be the basis for RV? These EM fields could
be picking up information, then transferring it to the brain by the
above mechanism. It seems a valid basis for RV. Unfortunately, it is
not the whole picture.
Remote-viewing
operators can travel to distant star systems, travel backwards and
forwards in time, and enter US facilities that are protected by metal
Faraday cages and armed with EM flytrap field generators.
All
of these phenomena indicate that something not limited by Einstein's
special theory of relativity and Maxwell's EM field equations is acting
as the carrier for RV.
Perhaps
US researchers investigating remote viewers' capabilities have learnt
to manipulate EM field effects for their RV experiments using
electronic enhancement of psi effects. This methodology is the basis
for US experiments into biological synthetic telepathy-the use of EM
fields to boost latent psi-gene activity to the level where it is
useful. My research seems to indicate that they are only scratching the
surface of the RV envelope.
What
is interesting to note from Dr Ross Adey's research is that a 6-20-Hz
frequency is needed for neuronal calcium efflux events. 'Normal' people
are entrained to function at high beta, which pushes their EEG-measured
brainwave frequency above the 20-Hz threshold. This means that they
have no contact with neuronal calcium efflux events. If these events
are, as I believe, an integral part of RV and other psi operations, the
general public will be psi-damped, not exhibiting parapsychological
talents to any marked degree.
Alpha
training, which teaches people to work in the 7-14 Hz range, seems to
open up psi abilities. If neuronal calcium efflux events are crucial to
psi operation, we can begin to see a reason why simple techniques of
alpha entrainment and biofeedback can bring on paranormal functioning
in humans.
Major
Ed Dames (Retired) has stated that military remote-viewers operate in
theta. This is a brainwave frequency of 4-7 Hz. So it may be that lower
frequencies in the 6-20 Hz window are more powerful for psi activity.
Since the energy of the EM wave is related to frequency, if we lower
the frequency of our brainwaves we can think with less energy and our
biophysical RV vehicles are therefore more efficient.
To
understand what is really going on beyond the EM bandwidth of RMCT
events, we need to reappraise physics. In the early part of this
century, Einstein formulated his general theory of relativity which
linked the curvature of space-time with gravity. In formulating the
field equations to link curvature of space-time with gravity, Einstein
found that the energy-momentum tensor (simplistically, the sum total of
mass-energy) did not equate to the Ricci tensor (a sort of one-term
summary of curvature which varies from point to point). To balance his
equation, Einstein had to subtract from the Ricci tensor, R. As a
scientist, I was intrigued by the question of why this should be so. It
would seem to indicate that reality is not singular but has a duality.
The Einstein tensor only balances when one subtracts the mathematical
summation of the curvature of this other reality, from the curvature of
physical space.
The
dual nature of reality has been written about in many books. Could RV
be a biophysical field effect moving in this parallel reality? If so,
our knowledge of the nature of reality may be so limited that we are
completely blind to this second reality which is contiguous with our
own and only makes itself known to us in the quantum realm.
This
parallel reality is seen in lucid dreaming and OOBEs (out-of-body
experiences) and is glimpsed in daydreaming states. Australian
Aborigines have a whole body of knowledge about their Dreamtime
reality. Remote-viewers are relearning abilities that our ancestors had
direct knowledge of millennia ago.
My
research has led me to believe that this 'dreamtime' reality is not
electromagnetic in nature, but is composed of a new set of field
effects. These field effects are the basis of biophysical, biotronic
and bioplasmic phenomena. The electronic RMCT of the US Government
mind-control devices and related weapons systems mimics these
higher-order field effects.
SELECTIVE PRESSURE ON PSI GENES
Remote-viewing
would have been of great use to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. Hunters
who could find game would have been, by natural selection, more likely
to breed. This would mean that any 'psi genes' would have been
selected. Throughout our hunter-gatherer past, psi genes would have
increased, as those carrying these genes would have been more likely to
survive.
With
the onset of agriculture, the selective pressure would have ceased to
be so important. Consequently, highly developed cultures such as our
own would have lost the psi genes to some extent, whilst
hunter-gatherers such as the Aborigines of Australia or the Kalahari
Bushmen would still have RV capabilities at large in the population.
Only cultures which have not persecuted paranormal ability would have
kept a high level of psi genes. The North American Indians venerated
paranormal abilities, so they would have been a repository of these
genes had Europeans not slaughtered them.
It
would seem that women in many parts of Europe during the Middle Ages
had a number of psi genes removed from their genomes due to the
selective pressure from the widespread burning and persecution of
'witches'-indeed, of any woman who showed paranormal ability. This
deselection would have made psi genes much rarer, and my research seems
to indicate that European men would score significantly better at RMCT
than would European women. However, cultures which have not persecuted
their females may have many women in their populations with enhanced
RMCT performance, as there appears to be significant sex-related
psi-amplification in females.
The
world wars in Europe would have acted on any males in combat as a
considerable selective pressure to choose in favour of those
individuals carrying psi genes, as in all probability they were more
likely to survive. This would mean that the progeny of Europeans who
fought in the wars would have more psi genes in the population than
they would normally have had, had it been peacetime.
The
former Soviet Union has been researching psi genes for decades. KGB
operatives were told to pick up people displaying paranormal abilities
for use in their vast parapsychological research projects.
The
Americans only tacitly began to research the subject in the 1960s
'because the Communists were doing it'. Their research was based on
'new age' phenomena and methodology. This meant the Americans never
achieved any great breakthroughs in biophysical field phenomena,
hampered as they were by 'new-age thinking' at the expense of
scientific methodology.
In
1995 the US security establishment decided to take a new interest in
biophysical RMCT. This meant that the CIA had to release disinformation
that purported to state that the Americans had given up this
research-even though it worked!
From
our research, it does seem that some people can display significant RV
capabilities. Indeed, people who do RV courses could have psi genes in
their genomes that affect their ability to view remotely. This would
seem to indicate that not all the psi genes have been deselected from
the population in mankind's long history. Interestingly, the magazine
Fortune has stated that the 'top 500' CEOs have greater-than-normal
psi-intuition and gut-feeling, symptomatic, precognitive reactions.
My
research seems to indicate that there are primary and secondary psi
genes. Primary psi genes are those that give enhanced RMCT capability
by the specific nature of the proteins they code for, which act as
biophysical batteries, and other more obscure phenomena which are
involved with biophysical processing, storage and utilisation. The
secondary psi genes are those that facilitate biophysical integration
with the organism and which code for richer and higher-function neural
networks to interface with the biophysical energy.
It also appears that some peoples' bodies act as natural psychotronic generators and can store psi energy.
SWITCHING ON LATENT REMOTE-VIEWING ABILITIES
The
high basal stress levels of Western man release a torrent of
neurohormonal and electrical stimuli that appear to switch off the psi
genes. Instead, this overstimulation would seem to switch on the
oncogenes that cause cancer. This also means that paranormal abilities
are rare in the general population and lack the repeatability needed
for scientific verification.
Since
stress interferes with the mechanism of RV, it is vital that the stress
neurohormones and electrical overstimulation that switch off psi genes
be lowered to the point where they cannot inhibit RV activity.
It
is necessary to learn new mental software (memes) to run remote-viewing
programmes to increase the signal-to-noise ratio of psi phenomena.15
Learning new memes to switch off the negative-feedback cycle that keeps
people in a state of anxiety is also vital to initiating RV. Simple new
habits and software, that people can use at work to inculcate RV
ability, also amplify the process of RV initiation. Built into this
methodology are techniques to free-up biophysical energy and develop RV
abilities. This is done with the knowledge that people expend much of
their biophysical energy at work.
An
effective system of RV training must bring in people's working habits
and training, to show them that enhancing their effectiveness at work
by use of psi-enabling memes will invariably open up paranormal
abilities. The rationale behind this is that if you are more effective
at work, you have more biophysical energy left over at the end of the
day for use in building an RV biophysical body!
By
including your normal day-to-day work memes and incorporating them into
RV training, people will automatically be practising their RMCT. The
net effect of this is tremendous improvement in RV abilities.
The
'cinema method' of clearing one's mind, using RV as the moving
pictures, is a fundamental next step. When watching the cinema screen,
we all stop talking to ourselves. This switches off the internal
dialogue, the incessant mental conversation that we have inside our
heads. Mental silence is the second major initiator of RV. The first is
habitual relaxation, which can be achieved with the use of psi-enabling
stress-management techniques.
Clearing
the mind by focussing directed attention on RV is the most powerful way
to develop biophysical RMCT. Directed attention is the guided use of
perception for the study of RV. Once directed attention has been set
up, it can be used for remote- viewing of distant locations. First
practice is on known locations; then on more obscure sights. (A
discussion of ways to improve RV abilities is covered at length on my
web site.)
Another
factor I looked at was the phenomenon of being able to be aware of two
places at once. Physical perception and RV can be practised at the same
time. This has dramatic implications, for it means that our brains and
our biophysical field effects can have awareness separate from one
another.
REDESIGNING OUR OWN DNA
Dr
Gerald Edelman, a leading neurophysiologist, has formulated the theory
of neural Darwinism. This postulates that neurones compete with each
other by natural selection and, in the process, neuronal group
selection forms neural networks which have the capability of primary
consciousness. As the process is iterated, high-order consciousness
develops, leading to sapience in man.
Connecting
this work with that of Dr Ross Adey, there is an indication that the
brain can think without biophysical field effects; but these field
effects, through their link with calcium efflux-modulated neuronal
potentiation events, can interact in a synergistic manner.
Research
into RV and OOBEs indicates that biophysical field effects also have
high-order consciousness. The mechanism of high-order consciousness in
biophysical field effects is derived from similar processes of
Darwinian selection in morphogenetic fields.
It
is known by morphogenetic development researchers that the human genome
does not contain enough information to turn the blastocyst (the small
clump of fertilised cells) into an embryo. Morphogenetic field effects
are needed to switch on specific gene groupings depending on their
position in the blastocyst. These biophysical morphogenetic fields
switch on specific genes and turn off other genes, all based upon their
location in space-time.
It
was a profound revelation when I realised that the biophysical fields
contain large amounts of information not held in the genome and,
further to this, that the biophysical fields can control gene
expression.
It
then did not take me long to realise that a natural consequence of RMCT
was the development in RV practitioners of an evolution in their
morphogenetic fields. Like the neurones affected by neural Darwinism,
morphogenetic fields could evolve through primary consciousness to
high-order consciousness. This would enable powerful RV abilities but,
more importantly, it could enable psi-able operators to switch their
genes on and off. The health and gerontology implications of this are
far-reaching.
I
have developed a technique which I call paranormal psychoneural
immunology-the use of RMCT to raise morphogenetic field effects to
high-order consciousness. And with the discovery that a gene can change
naturally into a normal version in a patient suffering from a lethal
genetic disease, it appears that our genome can be changed in vivo.
RMCT,
then, in its guise of paranormal psychoneural immunology, can be used
to change our own genome. It would also seem that the use of theta
states can enable psi-able operators to rewrite their own DNA.
I
am using this line of research in an attempt to increase the telomeres
on the ends of my chromosomes by selective stimulation of telomerase
enzymes in the nuclei.
Since
telomere loss is associated with ageing, this may boost longevity
without the risks associated with the US drug rejuvenation programmes
being developed by American corporations for the NWO super-rich.
REMOTE-INFLUENCING
To
conclude this introduction to the science of biophysical RMCT, a
technique known as sleep-wake hypnosis can enable a hypnotist to
transfer hypnotic commands telepathically to a subject, whether a few
feet or even a thousand miles away.
A
Ukrainian, Albert Ignatenko, demonstrated on the TV show, The
Paranormal World of Paul McKenna, that he could raise or lower the
pulse rate of people who were at a remote location. This was a dramatic
demonstration of remote-influencing (RI), which is the basis of
hypnosis.
My
research would seem to indicate that the psi-able operator is capable
of affecting the neuronal calcium efflux of another person through
remote-viewing, rather like the US National Security Agency's
electronic microwave mind-control machines.
The
use of RI could therefore be used to affect, for instance, the money
markets by working on the brains of the market-makers. Since these
biophysical field effects reside in us all, it would seem probable that
RI will be seen as a threat to the New World Order ruling class.
PRIVACY AND SURVEILLANCE
With
the growth of electronic means of spying on the public, privacy is
something that is vanishing completely. For example, my phone and flat
are bugged and MI5 operatives regularly search my flat when I am out.
The whole of Brighton is covered by cameras linked to the police
station, which is a major node in the UK underground command centre
structure. E-mail and faxes are interfered with and monitored, and the
web sites that go against US policies are being closed down by
frightened Americans.
In
this context, RV/RMCT can be seen as a way that the public can put the
authorities under surveillance. Since the US and UK governments are
deploying electronic RMCT against internal 'subversives', I would find
it ironic if the public's use of biophysical RMCT were directed at NWO
personnel and their leadership.
As
more people use RV, the technique will become more effective. This
means that the authorities will try to restrict advanced information
about RV and RI as carried out by Paranormal Management Systems and
other non-military groups. And with the burgeoning of RV/RI companies
run by 'retired' US military personnel, one can be sure that effective
know-how will be kept out of the public domain.
PMS
offers RV courses that can enable the public to put the authorities
under the spotlight. As a caveat, if I were to receive complaints from
irate members of the public about infringements to their privacy by
PMS-trained people, I would have to close the facility. A proper
self-regulatory procedure is a must in this new field of RMCT.
At present, biophysical RMCT is not legislated against and, in any case, the Russian military have almost exclusive use of it.
A REMOTE-CONTROLLED FUTURE?
The
ability of the RV attention to affect the body, and the bodies of other
people, could have tremendous implications for healing and for the
health of nations. Some aspects of alternative healing can be thought
of as a crude, common usage of RI, as the RI effect is the scientific
basis of mind-over-matter phenomena. However, the forthcoming European
Union 'bans' on some alternative therapies, vitamins and herbal
remedies may just be precursors of what's to come.
In
the future it may be illegal to think in anything but beta, with only a
select few authorised to work in psi-enabling theta. The rising tension
in the world, media fearmongering and the mind-deadening effect of TV
may be coincidental, but, yet again, perhaps they may not...
The
science and technology of remote viewing and mind-control are still
relatively young, but they may well prove to be key agents in the
affairs of the 21st century.
