Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies

Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies
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A Recommended Book of Interest

A great introduction book.

Remote Viewing Primer

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Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies
Jim Schnabel
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Release Date: 1997-01-13

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Remote Viewers is a tale of the Pentagon's attempts to develop the perfect tool for espionage: psychic spies. These psychic spies, or "remote viewers," were able to infiltrate any target, elude any form of security, and never risk scratch. For twenty years, the government selected civilian and military personnel for psychic ability, trained them, and put them to work, full-time, at taxpayers' expense, against real intelligence targets. The results were so astonishing that the program soon involved more than a dozen separate agencies, including the CIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Security Council, the FBI, the National Security Agency, the Secret Service, the Navy, the Army, the Air Force, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the US Customs Service, the US Special Forces Command, and at least one Pentagon drug-interaction task force. Most of this material is still officially classified.

After three years of research, with access to numerous sources in the intelligence community--including the remote viewers themselves--science writer Jim Schnabel reveals for the first time the secret details of the strangest chapter in the history of espionage.

From the Paperback edition.

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A Recommended Book of Interest.......2007-01-10

This book is a highly interesting book on psychic research and its practical applications. Numerous federal agencies have done serious experimentation in the field and found the subject to be quite valid and practical. Many high ranking officials, Generals, and even a past American President speak to the good utility of psychic applications. And numerous specific and previously confidential cases are illustrated. I highly recommend this book to all interested in this subject. I also hope the author will consider doing a new edition of the book.

A great introduction book........2005-02-17

This was the first book that I read concerning Remote Viewing. It was well written and easy to read. It had some meat and substance as well as some great stories of the Remote Viewing sequences. It got me interested in the subject and made me hunger for more. I recommend this book. It is really quite good, and the paperback version is just the right size for carting along with you.

Remote Viewing Primer.......2004-03-21

"Remote Viewers" by Jim Schnabel remains as the most comprehensive book on the history and development of the Remote Viewing Program within the United States as any I have ever read. His perspective as an investigative reporter from the outsider being exposed to the phenomenon of RV research for the first time, gave him the unique opportunity to take a more broad view of the entire history of the subject, and the personalities involved. The astounding developments of notable "psi events" obtained through the methods employed by the various RV teams keep the reader turning pages in fascination while at the same time weaving in the history and step by step development of the different techniques used to achieve those astounding events. Instead of a singular biography, as so many of the RV books have become, this book is more of a collection of biographies, and unabashedly even covers the tensions and personality clashes that occurred under such a stressful and competitive project.
Such "psi events" include seeing and being able to accurately illustrate people and places distant in space and time, the ability to influence the health of individuals by mental prowess, telekinesis, even the ability to affect electronic equipment at a distance by powers of the mind alone. Further to his credit, the author gives a detailed description of the competition between various countries to develop such techniques, leaving this reader further convinced of the urgency of continued and more varied research into this subject. In reading this book for the second time, I became more acutely aware of a phenomenon called telepathic interrogation, where remote viewers were able to negotiate with the mind of soviet spies over a distance, without the soviet spies even realizing what was taking place! It makes one wonder, when contemplating to the conversations we have in our minds when making decisions, who it is we are actually debating with! Like any great goal that is sought, the RV phenomenon is not without risks as well, and those are discussed in this book, although few specific cases are given.
I found the information within this book both encouraging; in as far as we have come in this taboo subject in a relatively short time. On the other hand, it is also discouraging, in that at least as far as we are told, the lack of funding for research in this field has resulted in a stagnation of what should become the greatest hope for humanity, rather than a mere instrument for war. I cannot help but wonder, does it never occur to any of these countries, rather than "remote influencing" a target into cardiac arrest, why not "remote influence" the target into philanthropic, or humanitarian goals? I am further discouraged that loss of funding seems to prohibit a broader investigation, such as the Chinese work with light frequencies showing up on sensitive film as a result of remote viewing, on page 233. It would seem there are several avenues largely open to further investigation, such as historical procedures for engaging the "signal line", or remote viewing under hypnosis.
"Remote Viewers" by Jim Schnabel remains, in this reader's opinion, the primer for all those interested in exploring first hand the mysteries of psychic phenomenon and its application in today's world.

Comprehensive.......2003-03-22

This is one of the most comprehensive and detailed books I have ever read on the remote viewing program. It is a well balanced look at the program and the various remote viewers who were part of it. Despite the "findings" of the likes of Ray Hyman, there was a lot of good work done by the likes of Ingo Swann, Patrick Price, Joe McMoneagle, etc. I highly recommend this book.

TWO THUMBS UP.......2003-01-30

I have read most of the books out there on remote viewing and this one -- REMOTE VIEWERS -- is by far the most professional and engaging effort. The writer, Jim Schnabel (whose most recent book was on aging and immortality) is a science journalist and an outsider, and a clever and funny writer with a streak of wry humor this reader very much appreciated. So many non-fiction books today are written by participants in the stories, but few if any of those authors can resist the temptation to varnish the truth. Pick up (but don't be foolish enough to buy) a book by McMoneagle, Morehouse, or one of these other characters and within a few pages you'll know what I mean. A lot of them weren't even aware of the history of their own government program, but clearly got bits of that history (and even then did a poor job of putting it together) by cribbing from Schnabel's book. Schnabel seems to have done the fundamental historical work on this subject. I notice that his book still outsells the other ones, even though it's been out of print for over a year!

Remote Viewers: The Secret history of America's Psychic Spies

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Remote Viewers: The Secret history of America's Psychic Spies
Jim Schnabel
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The Journey of Civilization: An Interactive Cd-Rom Exploring World and Western Traditions (Western Civilization Series)
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Peter; Olsen, Patrice; Redles, David; Spielvogel, Jackson Angelos
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In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century's most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley's landmark study: Maria Cummins, Caroline Howard Gilman, Caroline Lee Hentz, Mary Jane Holmes, Maria McIntosh, Sara Parton, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, E.D.E.N. Southworth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mary Virginia Terhune, Susan Warner, and Augusta Evans Wilson. These women shared more than commercial success. Collectively they created fictions that Kelley terms "literary domesticity," books that both embraced and called into question the complicated expectations shaping the lives of so many nineteenth-century women. Matured in a culture of domesticity and dismissed by a male writing establishment, they struggled to reconcile public recognition with the traditional roles of wife and mother.

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Pamela Gilbert argues that popular fiction in mid-Victorian Britain was regarded as both feminine and diseased. She discusses work by three popular women novelists of the time: M. E. Braddon, Rhoda Broughton and "Ouida". Early and later novels of each writer are interpreted in the context of their reception, showing that attitudes toward fiction drew on Victorian beliefs about health, nationality, class and the body, beliefs that the fictions themselves both resisted and exploited.

The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)

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The Gothic Body: Sexuality, Materialism, and Degeneration at the Fin de Siècle (Cambridge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture)
Kelly Hurley
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This book accounts for the resurgence of Gothic, and its immense popularity, during the British fin de siècle. In particular, Kelly Hurley explores a key scenario that haunts the genre: the loss of a unified and stable human identity, and the emergence of a chaotic and transformative "abhuman" identity in its place. Gothic is revealed as a highly productive and speculative genre, strongly indebted to nineteenth-century scientific, medical and social theories, including evolutionism, criminal anthropology and degeneration theory.

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Thanks for the heads up........2007-07-03

Thanks to this review, I now know to stay away from this book. There was, there is, and there always will be an essential human nature. The likes of Harold Bloom, Camille Paglia, and Steven Pinker should have proven this to any sensible person's satisfaction. This review is a perfect example of the irrational, anti-science, intellectually soft, "blank slate" nonsense that overwhelmingly dominates modern American academe, and which is single-handedly responsible for my dropping out of graduate studies when I was almost done with the program. It is not the responsibility of literary academics to make the world a better place and stop genocide: it is their responsibility to shed light on literary texts so we can appreciate their aesthetics, their respective cultures, and general human nature better. The mentality in this review perfectly illustrates how leftist ideology has poisoned and corroded literary studies over the last 35 years: we have subjugated literary and psychological theory towards certain politically correct ends. Never mind if the theories have any truth to them, just as long as they bring to fruition the desired objectives (which they won't, since they have no truth to them). It is disgusting to witness the appalling proportions of the liberal arrogance of those that believe it is their prerogative and duty to impose their non-literary, political agenda on an intellectual endeavor that should be concerned with aesthetics, psychology, and culture rather than Darfur; and it is more than a bit sad to witness this death of American academic intellect. Damn those French imbeciles Foucault and Lacan.

Insightful & fun book from prestigious Cambridge Press serie.......1999-11-02

At long last, humanism is coming into question. Critics and theorists such as Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault began this process; critics and theorists such as Kelly Hurley continue the process, and in so doing, carry out one of the most important cultural and intellectual tasks of our time.

We must move beyond humanism -- which includes the belief in an essential human nature -- if we are to stop the cycle of genocidal violence, to build fair and free communities for all, and to save our planet and its remaining species.

But to move beyond humanism, we must be able to step outside of it. 'The Gothic Body' help us to do just that. Prof. Hurley carefully investigates some of the most revealing artifacts of humanism: the literature of the fantastic, which includes Stoker's Dracula, Stevenson's Jekyll and Hyde, and Well's Island of Dr. Moreau. Hurley analyzes these and other works within the context of their times, using early criminology studies, for instance. And thanks to her post-structuralist/postmodernist perspective, Hurley points to a range of important insights about these works, about their times, and about our times.

Read this book, enjoy it, and think about it. It may change your appreciation of the significance of literary (and cinematic) genres. And it may help to change your worldview in some very central ways -- if you allow it to, and hopefully you will. It *is* a detailed literary study of important works seldom studied so closely and taken so seriously. But the works deserve this attention. And the issues raise by these works through Hurley's analysis are of great importance. It is no exercise in esoterica.

Finally, the person behind this book, is a truly great teacher and person. Not only does she provide original and incisive ideas and insights, she does so in a remarkably accessible and enjoyable manner. If you cannot take one of her university courses, then do the next best thing by reading 'The Gothic Body.'

If you are interested in the issues raised by her book, you should also look at 'Posthuman Bodies,' a 1995 anthology in which Hurley contributes an article entitled "Reading Like an Alien: Posthuman Identity in Ridley Scott's 'Alien' and David Cronenberg's 'Rabid." Also, you should check out 'The Cinematic Body' by Steven Shaviro, a like-minded thinker who is also represented in the 1995 anthology.

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A tad too methodical.......2007-08-07

Enticing jacket blurb: "In Surinam, plant hunter F.W. Hostmann allowed vampire bats to suck his toes; Thomas Drummond was attached by a bear in the North American woods; George Forrest narrowly escaped rampaging lamas in Western China; and, in Fiji, Berthold Seemann recorded which plants cannibals used as an accompaniment to human flesh."

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