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Remote Viewing Library

The IRVA Remote Viewing Libary is a searchable web-based collection of remote viewing related articles, papers, book reviews and excerpts, and news items. This area is a work in progress and we will continue to make improvements in both the quantity and quality of contained materials.

If you have a work that you would like to see added to the IRVA Library please contact us at contact@irva.org.

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Articles: Remote Viewing & Psychic Functioning

• A Perceptual Channel for Information Transfer over Kilometer Distances: Historical Perspective and Recent Research [pdf]
  ~ H. E. Puthoff and R. Targ, Proc. IEEE 64, 329 (1976).
• CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing At Stanford Research Institute
  ~ H.E. Puthoff, Ph.D.
• Remote Viewing at Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s:  A Memoir
  ~ Russell Targ
• Remote Viewing in a Group Setting
  ~ Russell Targ & Jane Katra
• What We Know About Remote Viewing
  ~ Russell Targ & Jane Katra
• ESPD Blue [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz
• An Anomalous Cognition Protocol Employing Fuzzy-Set Theory To Accelerate Breakthroughs In Disease Process Research [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz, S. James P. Spottiswoode, Edwin C. May, Ph.D., and Jessica Utts, Ph.D.
• Therapeutic Intent and the Art of Observation [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz
• NIH and the Harkin Directive: Subtle Energies and Social Policy [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz
• Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review & Conclusions
  ~ Dr. Kenneth A. Kress
• Unconventional Human Intelligence Support:
  Transcendent and Asymmetric Warfare Implications of Remote Viewing [pdf]
  ~ Commander L. R. Bremseth, United States Navy 28 April 2001
• Parapsychology FAQ
  ~ Dean Radin
• Acknowledging and Dealing With the Fear of Psi
  ~ Charles T. Tart
• Psychics' Fears of Psychic Powers
  ~ Charles T. Tart
• A Field Guide to Skepticism
  ~ Dean Radin
• The Skeptical Invaders
  ~ Guy Lyon Playfair
• The DIA CRV Manual [1986]
• Coordinate Remote Viewing: Stages I - VI And Beyond [February, 1985] [pdf]
• CIA Star Gate Archive: The Truth is Out There -- Finally!
  ~ Paul H. Smith
• Precognition, Presentiment & Remote Viewing
  ~ Dean Radin
• The Paranormal: The Evidence And Its Implications For Consciousness
  ~ Jessica Utts and Brian D. Josephson
• Overview of Current Parapsychology Research in the Former Soviet Union [pdf]
  ~ Edwin C. May, Ph.D. and Larissa Vilenskaya
• Anomalous Mental Phenomena Research in Russia and the Former Soviet Union: A Follow Up [pdf]
  ~ Edwin C. May, Ph.D. and Larissa Vilenskaya
• They Think They Know [pdf]
  ~ Paul H. Smith

Articles: Research, Studies, & Projects

• Preliminary Analysis of a Suite of Informal Web-Based Psi Experiments [pdf]
  ~ Dean I. Radin, Ph.D. - Boundary Institute
• Time-reversed human experience: Experimental evidence and implications [pdf]
  ~ Dean Radin
• The Speed of Thought: Investigation of a Complex Space-Time Metric to Describe Psychic Phenomena [pdf]
  ~ Elizabeth A. Rauscher and Russell Targ
• PEAR - Research Activities in Remote Perception
• Information and Uncertainty in Remote Perception Research [pdf]
  ~ Brenda J. Dunne and Robert G. Jahn
• The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory (PEAR)
  & Precognitive Remote Perception Studies
  ~ Angela Thompson-Smith
• The Psychophysical Research Laboratory (PRL) & Psi Ganzfeld Studies
  ~ Angela Thompson-Smith
• A Possible Relationship Between the Ability of Couples to Establish EEG Phase Coherence and their Ability to do Remote Viewing Successfully
  ~ Data from a study by Jean Millay
• The Caravel Project: The Location, Description, and Reconstruction of Marine Sites Through Remote Viewing, Including Comparison With Aerial Photography, Geologic Coring, and Electronic Remote Sensing [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz, Randall J. De Mattei, and Roger Smith
• The Discovery of An American Brig: Fieldwork Involving Applied Remote Viewing Including a Comparison With Electronic Remote Sensing [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz and Randall J. De Mattei
• Preliminary Survey of the Eastern Harbor, Alexandria Egypt, Including a Comparison of Side Scan Sonar and Remote Viewing [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz
• The Location and Reconstruction of a Bysantine Structure in Marea, Egypt - Including a Comparison of Electronic Remote Sensing and Remote Viewing [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz
• Infrared Spectra Alteration in Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners [pdf]
  ~ Stephan A. Schwartz, Randall J. DeMattei, Edward G. Brame, Jr.,S. James P. Spottiswoode

Articles: CIA/AIR Report

In the federal budget language for Fiscal Year 1994, Congress directed the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to assume responsibility for a closely-held program then managed by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Known as STAR GATE, the program was mandated to explore and exploit the reputed parapsychological phenomenon known as "remote viewing" in support of U.S. intelligence activities. STAR GATE's mission was three-fold: Assess foreign programs in the field; contract for basic research into the existence and cause-and-effect of the phenomenon; and, most importantly, to see if remote viewing might be a useful intelligence tool. ~ from Bologna on Wry Bread

The articles below address the CIA- sponsored report by the American Institutes of Research (AIR) of its evaluation of the U.S. government's twenty-four year long remote viewing program.

• Report for AIR on Remote Viewing
  ~ Jessica Utts
• Report for AIR on Remote Viewing
  ~ Ray Hyman
• Dr. Utt's Response to Dr. Hyman
  ~ Jessica Utts
• Commentary on the AIR Remote Viewing Report
  ~ Edwin May
• Bologna on Wry Bread
  ~ Paul H. Smith
• A Second Helping
  ~ Paul H. Smith
• Scraps and Crumbs
  ~ Paul H. Smith
• Addendum and Corrections
  ~ Paul H. Smith

Book Excerpts

• The Conscious Universe
  ~ Dean Radin, Ph.D.
• Do You See What I See: Memoirs of a Blind Biker [pdf]
  ~ Russell Targ
• Mind-Reach
  ~ Russell Targ & Harold E. Puthoff
• The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military [pdf]
  ~ Lyn Buchanan

Book Reviews

• Reading The Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate -- America's Psychic Espionage Program
  ~ Paul H. Smith; Reviewed by Jim Schnabel
• Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities
  ~ Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff; Reviewed by Paul H. Smith
• Mind At Large
  ~ Harold Puthoff & Russell Targ; Reviewed by Christine Simmonds
• Limitless Mind
  ~ Russell Targ; Reviewed by William P. Eigles
• The Stargate Chronicles
  ~ Joseph McMoneagle; Reviewed by Paul H. Smith
• Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook
  ~ Joseph McMoneagle; Reviewed by Skye Turell
• The Seventh Sense
  ~ Lyn Buchanan; Reviewed by Dale E. Graff
• A Response to Questions about The Seventh Sense
  ~ Lyn Buchanan
• Captain Of My Ship, Master Of My Soul: Living with Guidance
  ~ F. Holmes Atwater; Reviewed by Shelia Massey
• Unseen Forces
  ~ Ed Kovacs; Reviewed by Skye Turell

In The News

• IRVA announces their 2010 Remote Viewing Conference to be held June 18th-20th at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, Spa and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
  ~ IRVA, 2009 Oct 15
• Psychic was first to run rings around Jupiter
  ~ Roy Stemman, Paranormal Review, 2009 Oct 11
• Derren Brown Believes He Can Duplicate Remote Viewing Without ESP.
  ~ IRVA, 2009 Sep 22
• The International Remote Viewing Association Questions Details of Twitter Remote Viewing Experiment.
  ~ IRVA, 2009 Jun 07
• IRVA Board of Directors proposes a Code of Ethics.
  ~ IRVA, 2009 May 09
• Discover Magaine's 25 Greatest Science Books - Nobel laureate Kary B. Mullis ponders on the firmament of science books: "Books like Radin's [Entangled Mind] doggedly pursue scientific evidence for ideas that have been widely, but unreasonably, discredited for decades, or even centuries."
  ~ Discover Magazine, 2006 Nov 17
• Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate -- America's Psychic Espionage Program, is chosen as the Reader's Digest's Book Bonus/Editor's Choice
  ~ Reader's Digest, March 2006.
• "How the ASD's Chesapeake Chapter Helped Win the Cold War" in the Winter 2006 issue of The American Dowser
• Psychic Spy "Sees" Military Intelligence
  ~ Kathyrn H. Kidd, Meridian Magazine, 2005 May 11
• Enemies in the mind's eye
  ~ US News & World Report, 2003 Jan 27
• Is it global consciousness or mere coincidence?
  ~ Bill Bishop, Austin American-Statesman, 2001 Oct 3
• An E.S.P. Gap, Exploring Psychic Weapons
  ~ Time magazine, 1984 Jan 23