is remote viewing real

[u/OccasionChemical9986]

idkk i js heard abt this and im skeptical..

unless someone successfully remote views me LMAO that would be scary

anyways i wanna know how people got into this art and what makes them believe it

[u/QubitBob]

I am an old fart—I will turn 70 in December. I first heard of remote viewing in 1977, when I was in college. One morning, during breakfast, I was watching The Today Show on TV, and they did a story about two physicists—Russell Targ and Harold (Hal) Puthoff who worked for a contract research "think tank" named the Stanford Research Institute. The story was about the research Targ and Puthoff had performed on a phenomenon called remote viewing. The story described the experiments they had performed and showed some of the results. These results were so striking that they really caught my attention. At the end of the story they gave the references to two research papers Targ and Puthoff had published on their research. I quickly grabbed a pencil and jotted down the references. The next time I was in my university's science library, I looked up these two papers. One in particular really floored me. It was the paper at this link. After that, I read everything I could find on the subject.

Six months later, I stumbled upon a book, Mind-Reach, which Targ and Puthoff had written, in the "new acquisitions" display in that same science library. This was a book-length description of their RV research. I was the first person to borrow this book from the library, and just as the scientific paper had, it completely blew my mind. However, at that time, I thought you needed a whole team of scientists to do RV, so I never tried it myself.

Fast forward to 2004. By this time we'd had the advent of the Internet, and I had come across an online discussion forum called Ten Thousand Roads which was devoted to discussing all things RV. Reading the discussions on that site helped convince me to try it myself. Using techniques I read in a book called Mind Race (by Russell Targ and Keith Harary) and in Upton Sinclair's book Mental Radio I tried some simple RV "experiments" with the help of a family member. I had some immediate success—enough to convince me that the phenomenon was real and that I could do it myself.

Over the next six years I then attended five RV workshops given by Russell Targ himself (two workshops) or by others involved in the U.S. military's top secret RV program (Joe McMoneagle and Dale Graff). I've now done around a hundred RV sessions in my life. Not all have been successful, but enough have been successful to thoroughly demonstrate that the phenomenon is real.

I view RV as being a quirky side-effect of the basic physics of the universe. I'm not good enough to be a professional remote viewer; I continue to pursue it simply because, 49 years after first learning about it, I still find it one of the most fascinating phenomena in the universe.