A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances
Harold E. Puthoff, Russell Targ
(published in Proceedings of the IEEE, Volume 64, March 1976)
Authors:
Dr. Harold Puthoff, Physicist, Stanford Research Institute
Russell Targ, Physicist, Stanford Research Institute
Summary:
For more than 100 years scientists have attempted to determine the truth or falsity of claims for the existance of a perceptual channel whereby certain individuals are able to perceive and describe remote data not presented to any known sense.
This paper presents an outline of history of scientific inquiry into such so-called paranormal perception and surveys the current state of the art in parapsychological research in the United States and abroad.
The nature of this perceptual channel is examined in a series of experiments carried out in the Electronics and Bioengineering Laboratory of Stanford Research Institute. The perceptual modality most extensively investigated is the ability of both experienced subjects and inexperienced volunteers to view, by innate mental process, remote geographical or technical targets including buildings, roads, and laboratory apparatus. The accumulated data indicate that the phenomenon is not a sensitive function of distance and Faraday cage shielding does not in any apparent way degrade the quality and accuracy of perception. On the basis of this research, some areas of physics are suggested from which a description or explanation of the phenomenon could be forthcoming.
Additional information from this publication:
For the last 3 years over 50 high quality "remote viewing" experiments have been conducted at the Stanford Research Institute. Most of the correct information that subjects relate is of a nonanalytic nature pertaining to shape, form, color and material rather than to function or name. This aspect suggests a hypothesis that information transmission under condictions of sensory shielding may be mediated primarity by the brain's right hemisphere. The principal difference between experienced subjects and inexperienced volunteers is not that the latter never exhibit the faculty but rather that their results are less reliable.
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Additional information:
A lecture by Russell Targ on Remote Viewing is available in the Resource section.
A lecture by Dr. Hal Puthoff on the "CIA-initiated Remote Viewing Program" is available in the Resource section.
