Friday, September 17, 2010

Measurable Precognition

In their remote-viewing experiments at Stanford Research Institute, [Hal] Puthoff and [Russell] Targ found that, in addition to being able to psychically describe remote locations that experimenters were visiting in the present, test subjects could also describe locations experimenters would be visiting in the future, before the locations had even been decided upon.
In one instance, for example, an unusually talented subject named Hella Hammid, a photographer by vocation, was asked to describe a spot Puthoff would be visiting one half-hour hence. She concentrated and said she could see him entering "a black iron triangle." The triangle was "bigger than a man," and although she did not know precisely what it was, she could hear a rhythmic squeaking sound occurring "about once a second."

Ten minutes before she did this, Puthoff had set out on a half-hour drive in Menlo Park and Palo Alto areas. At the end of the half-hour, and well after Hammid had recorded her perception of the black triangle, Puthoff took out ten sealed envelopes containing ten different target locations. Using a random number generator, he chose one at random. Inside was the address of a small park about six miles from the laboratory. He drove to the park, and when he got there he found a children's swing - the black iron triangle - and walked into its midst. When he sat down on the swing it squeaked rhythmically as it swung back and forth.

Puthoff and Targ's precognitive remote-viewing findings have been duplicated by numerous laboratories around the world, including Jahn and Dunne's research facility at Princeton. Indeed, in 334 formal trials Jahn and Dunne found that volunteers were able to come up with accurate precognitive information 62 percent of the time.

- from Chapter 7 of Michael Talbot's The Holographic Universe

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