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Volume 9: Number 3: Article 5
Viewing the Future: A Pilot Study with an Error-Detecting Protocol
Russell Targ, Jane Katra, Dean Brown and Wenden Wiegand, Bay Research
Institute, 1010 Harriet Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301
This paper describes a precognition experiment in which two researchers
took the part of viewers, and worked with two judges to design and implement
an experiment in associative remote viewing. We used a redundant protocol
to eliminate some of the problems experienced by many of us who have
tried to harness psi for real world applications. We carried
out nine weeks of remote viewing trials, in which the viewer was to
describe the target that he or she would be shown two days in the future.
At each trial the viewers had their own target pools of two targets
about which they knew nothing. A total of 18 viewings were carried out
at the rate of one per person per week. Targets were randomly assigned
"up" or "down" status by the judges previous to the viewing. If the
viewers both accurately described targets of discrepant directions,
then the trial was considered a pass. Additionally, if a viewer's target
description failed to be awarded a rating of 4 or more on a 0-7 point
rating scale, his or her call was declared a pass. Of the 12 viewings
that were not rated pass by the judges, 11 correctly described the object
that the viewer was shown at a later time (p = 0.003). The objects
shown to each viewer corresponded to the direction of the one-day change
in the price of May Silver futures. Of the nine trials carried out,
two were passed for various reasons, and seven were recorded as traded
in the market, although no purchases were actually made. Six of the
seven trade forecasts were correct.
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