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Volume 14: Number 1: Article 7
Remote Viewing in a Group Setting
Russell Targ, Interval Research Corp., Palo Alto, CA 94304
Jane E. Katra, 1010 Harriet St., Palo Alto, CA 94301
Remote viewing (RV) is a perceptual ability whereby individuals are
able to describe and experience objects, pictures and locations which
are blocked from ordinary perception, either by distance, shielding
or time. RV is usually carried out as a team effort, consisting of a
viewer who is attempting to describe a target, and an interviewer who
assists the viewer in extracting images and sensations from his or her
subconscious processes. We report a remote viewing experiment carried
out at a conference in Arco, Northern Italy, with a class of 24 participants,
many of whom were healers and "energy workers." Based on previous work
of the authors, great attention was given to creating a feeling of community
and coherence of intention within the group during the three-day class.
In the fourth of the five sessions of the class, a formal double blind
remote viewing experiment was conducted, with class members working
in pairs, wherein each person served alternately as viewer and interviewer.
Viewers were asked to describe a picture of an outdoor scene, encased
in an opaque sealed envelope which they would be shown immediately after
the session. The interviewer was then directed to take the viewer's
sketches and written impressions to the front of the room, and rank
order the material (1 to 4) against the four possible pictures from
a pre-set target package. The target picture was unknown to the interviewer
at this point. In this blind ranking protocol, 6 first place matches
would be expected by chance from the 24 viewers. Instead, 14 first place
matches were achieved as determined by the independent scientist tracking
the target pictures. The binomial probability of this outcome is 5 10-4
, with an effect size (Z / (N)1/2 = 0.64.
Keywords: remote viewing, psi, ESP
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