HISTORICAL VIEWING
To understand what remote viewing the future is all about, we have to have a clear idea of the kind of political and social pressures that exist around remote viewing itself. None bring these more quickly to the surface than remote viewing the past and publishing the results.
We live in a world filled with mystery, especially about our past. Remote viewing can bring a lot of the past into the light of day. By targeting these mysteries, producing information relative to them, then publishing or opening up access to this information, one voluntarily opens to doing battle on many fronts.
Even when there is a lack of hard evidence to argue or stand up against the remote viewing data, someone will come forward to attack it, simply because of its source.
Historians, anthropologists, archaeologists, or theologians will most frequently generate negative comments. Their comments are usually based on their experience with other subjects, or they may stem purely from their viewpoints or beliefs regarding the paranormal.
Where remote viewing may support some of their viewpoints or beliefs, one can expect either no comment, or an "I told you so." Where there is disagreement, however, you can count on an attack on all fronts.
To illustrate this, I will give an example of a target in the past that I remote viewed back in 1980. It's a good example, since I can now provide evidence that most of what I said at the time was eventually proven correct.
Surprise Example
I was working a series of remote viewings that were intended to evaluate a remote viewer's capability of distinguishing between one kind of technology and another. The pool (a collection of targets), by necessity, was constructed of what were considered to be "higher technology targets." Of course, the pool, as well as its contents, was kept blind to me as the remote viewer. Targets selected from this randomized pool included such things as a deep-fat frying machine, a computer mother-board, an aircraft engine, a weather satellite, the inner workings of a ballpoint pen, etc. The exercise was designed to determine the quality and depth of detail that could be achieved through remote viewing.
To regress a bit, most who have worked at studying the paranormal within a lab environment know that after a while, when a psychic or remote viewer has been repeatedly tasked with somewhat similar targets, or a lot of targets, in a repetitive fashion—aside from fighting off the obvious overlay problems that begin to encroach on the mind of the viewer—boredom with lab work begins to set in.
Boredom will inevitably produce a slow but sure slide backward to what might be considered a "normal" condition. That is, a condition that for a remote viewer translates to mean no psychic functioning is taking place. Since I usually do a number of targets in an experiment, we tried something new to reduce or eliminate the boredom factor.
They decided that somewhere within any series of targets, in this case twelve, they would insert an extra (thirteenth) target that would be completely different from all of the rest. Because I was told there would be a radically different target somewhere in the pile, it was hoped that this would keep me interested and focused. No one knew when this target would come up, because it was inserted within the series, which was being selected from randomly. So the wild card could have been the first target I was to work, the fifth, the eleventh, or the last. Providence would provide.
I want to point out that although the twelve targets were technology targets of varying degrees, I was not privy to that information at the time. The expectation or reason for targeting that I was given before each remote viewing was simply "We are looking for as much detail as possible on these targets."
I can't recall when the radically different target came up, but I do remember that it occurred in the second half of the thirteen-target series, perhaps seventh or eighth.
The individual targets were usually pictures with the names of specific machines, each placed within a larger, double-wrapped and opaque envelope, not unlike the large manila envelopes you will find at any office supply. I was not allowed to handle the envelopes, but they were placed on a table in the room in which I was doing the remote viewing. All envelopes were identified with numbers randomly chosen at the time they were placed in the pool. The person who chose the random numbers was not the person who had selected the targets, so there was no way to know in which order they would appear.
At the beginning of the session for the mystery target, I was asked to provide as much detail as I could, the same requirement as with all those that preceded it. By then, I had developed a "feel" for the pool, which means I knew it would probably pertain to some kind of technology. What technology, I couldn't say. In a sense this created a form of overlay, which was also creating a great deal of difficulty for me at the time.
After a cool-down period of about half an hour, I opened to the target and got my first impressions, which surprised the monitor almost as much as it surprised me.
My first impression was of a very large and placid lake—a lake just before sunrise. The surface was light blue and very smooth, barely a perceived ripple. It was fed from the south by a large river, moving swiftly, but also smooth. Water exited the lake to the north also by a river, but in the latter case, it had been partially dammed, helping to create a much larger lake than would normally have been there. A jungle of green foliage, giving a sense of a tropical or near-tropical climate surrounded the lake. The jungle was lush, green, and abundant—filled with food.
Within the lake, somewhere near the edge, I perceived two very large rafts. These were lashed firmly in place and facing one another. Other, slightly smaller, rafts were traveling toward or away from these two larger rafts, and appeared to be in some kind of a procession. I had a sense they were all somehow being used for the same thing. Stacked across the center of both the larger rafts were huge blocks of stone. Each stone was cut perfectly smooth on five sides, with the sixth side left somewhat rough. One very large block was actually being lowered into the water with a swing type of crane, sort of an A-frame on the front of the raft. Ropes from the second raft were guiding the stone.
Beside the rafts were men who appeared to be walking on the surface of the smooth water. Some of them were bending over or crouched on their knees, and some had tools in their hands. All a very curious display.
Of course my monitor, who was also blind to whatever target I was working on, was quite intrigued by all this. Men walking on water? Rafts sinking large blocks of stone into a lake? None of it seemed to make any sense.
And of course, the gist of the information differed radically from any previous information I had been giving on the earlier targets.
The monitor suggested that I might want to collect my thoughts and readdress the target. I tried very hard to blank my mind and do what he suggested.
My second attempt at this particular target only added more mystery to the session. I followed the departing rafts as they slowly moved against the slight current within the lake, toward a place somewhere in the south. There, a few kilometers from the base of some cliffs, was a formal docking area, constructed also of large cut blocks of stone that had been carefully interlocked. Two piers jutted outward into the lake, each being only inches above the water line. I reported that the source of the stones apparently was these cliff-like areas, where they were being cut and shaped using somewhat primitive tools.
The stones, once prepared, were then placed on sleds that were moved down a formal road to the docks. This road was also constructed from large segments of stone, cut into thick layers, then paved with some kind of hardened material, not unlike a smooth, hard-baked clay finish.
It appeared that every way in which water could be used to assist or aid in the work, it was being used.
The surface of the lake itself was being used as a near-perfect reference plane for the large pad of stones being laid just below its surface. Once lowered into the water, the stones were being carefully and deliberately shaved to within fractions of an inch of level, using the plane of water as a guide. The first two or three courses of stone thus being laid perfectly flat, fitted exactly, and with great precision. Water lubricated the saws, which were made of soft metal and which otherwise would not have worked. Large fires and heat were being used against the cliff face to prepare great portions of rock for removal. Once heated in narrow channels, the rock was being doused with the cold water from the lake, forming cracks into which more heat could be placed. The rock was doused again, reheated, then doused again, eventually creating larger and larger cracks, until huge slabs of stone sheared away from the cliff face, falling into a work area where the pieces were then being sized and squared. Again, using water as a lubricant, large soaking pits contained segments of stone yet to be worked. The water apparently had some softening effect on the stone, making it more malleable to the types of primitive tools being used. The tools included water-lubricated saws and small flat chisels, made of a soft alloy or cast metal. Not ideal for working stone, but given the type of stone, the use of water and soaking, good enough to get the job done.
Once sized, the large stones were jacked up on one side and a sled was constructed piecemeal beneath them—first one side then the other. Once the sled was finished, the stones were moved along the smooth paved road to the waiting rafts. Again water was used, this time to lubricate the roadway, which was constructed at an angle and fell toward the lake.
Following a suggestion from the monitor to move forward in time (an interesting perception—targeting the future in the past), I noticed some interesting cycles occurring within the lake. Its size and depth were increasing over time. This controlled flooding was being accomplished with the annual addition of more stone to the dam, the same kinds of stones being used at the primary construction site. A narrow neck of the river was selected for the construction of the dam.
As the water level rose, so did the levels of construction, both at the primary site as well as the dam site.
It is difficult to say the period of time involved in the construction at the primary site. Sense of time or its accuracy varies greatly among remote viewers. Some are good at it; some are not. Being prodded by the monitor for an estimate of how long this construction might have gone on, I remember saying that it probably did not exceed a lifetime. My guess would be fifty years.
Trying to pin down how long ago the construction might have taken place is a whole different story. Nothing about the dress, tools, rafts, or people matched anything I remember from my history books. My sense is that what I was witnessing was being accomplished by a race of people who vanished long before our earliest recorded history. These people probably existed at the very least fifteen to twenty thousand years ago.
We terminated the remote viewing session as mystified as we had been when we started. Turning in the materials, the monitor and I asked for feedback on the target. Inside the envelope was the following:
"Describe how the Great Pyramid of Giza was constructed."
Fascinated with the possibilities, on a later trip to SRI-International, I attempted to turn over the information to their Egyptology lab, and was laughed out of the room. Such information simply flies in the face of common belief (at least it did so back then). I was told there was not a scintilla of evidence that would support any of the information I had produced.
Talk about no feedback. In 1980, there was no one who would entertain even a notion that there might be something of value contained within my remote viewing. Having no feedback, it could only be considered "science fiction." While it may have been of great interest to me or to my monitor, it had no value outside simply being "interesting." As much as I might not like it, I had to agree, and simply filed it away as fun but useless.
Let's now look at what could have been done with this information. I've always said that even if a remote viewing can't be verified, it may still be worth a closer look. If it were simply used to target or direct other information-collection systems, it would have value. In this case, archaeologists, anthropologists, geologists, or engineers could have gotten a leg up on their peers had they simply been open enough to the possibilities.
Based on the information from this remote viewing, an insightful geologist could have computed the expected location of the lakeshore, consistent with the depth of flooding required to build the lower layers of the pyramid. That would have given a possible location for the docks and ramps that were used to load the rafts. Certainly finding such docks or ramps would be a strong indication that some of the other remote viewing information might have also been correct.
The molecular content of deposits between the stones, obtained through core sampling, particularly at the lower levels of the pyramid, might show signs of those stones having being submerged for an extended period of time.
It may be that a lake large enough or deep enough to build the great pyramid was then, and is now, beyond the capacity of man. However, the remote viewing provides a strong link to the possibility that the stones were at least transported by water. Perhaps, too, a shallow version of the dammed lake described within the remote viewing might have been sufficient to lay in the first two or three layers of base stone, ensuring the nearly impossible task of beginning with a near-perfect foundation plane.
My current understanding of the level of difficulty regarding the construction of the pyramid, at least from an engineering standpoint, is the near impossibility of achieving a perfectly flat and balanced plane in the first few courses of stone. Attempts at replicating pyramid construction using modem construction techniques and equipment have essentially failed because of an inability to produce this very exact and near perfect plane of reference at the base. If one doesn't begin with a near-perfect base, the difference in weight from corner to corner when combined with gravity tends to cause a pyramid to self-destruct long before it is finished.
Using rafts to transport the stones in a land where heavy wheels were usually replaced with sleds for moving extremely large objects makes perfect sense.
Projections could have been made of what the Nile Delta might have looked like fifteen thousand years ago. There might not have even been a delta per se during that specific time period. Owing to the fact that a lush and tropical jungle was perceived as circling the lake, both the river and its effluence into the Mediterranean Basin area could have been entirely different at that time. There might not have been a Mediterranean Sea as we now know it, but instead mighty waterfalls.
The area surrounding the Great Pyramid, which is now arid and dry, most certainly has an effect on how the Nile appears to us today. It has everything to do with its flow, rate of surge, and the creation of the great Nile Delta that now exists north of Cairo. One would have to believe that such an arid place would have to have developed rather rapidly to have gone from near Congo-type jungle to desert in so short a period as 15,000 years. But there are currently other areas on our planet that are changing to desert in an even more rapid fashion, so this is not an impossibility. Such changes are usually due to a rapid or sudden change in the local ecosystem. Recent core samples from the deepest portions of the Mediterranean show the upper portions of the cores to contain nearly pure salt. This would imply that at some time in the past the Mediterranean Basin was probably dry. In other words, the Mediterranean Sea didn't exist. Perhaps the gateway to the ocean at Gibraltar was sealed fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, and the bulk of humanity (world population at the time) resided where the sea is today. Brings a whole new perspective to the idea of Noah's Flood, doesn't it?
In any event, the sudden flooding of the Mediterranean Basin would have had a major impact on the ecological balance in the area, especially when combined with prevailing winds.
But . . . I forget. I'm obviously getting too far out in front of myself. While this is all fascinating stuff, without appropriate feedback, it will have to remain science fiction.
Or does it?
Feedback
I can now provide an answer to my viewing in 1980, by referring to an article that was published in the Los Angeles Times on Saturday, May 7, 1994:
American researchers have discovered what they say is the world's oldest paved road: a 4,600-year-old highway that linked a basalt quarry in a desolate, deserted region of the Egyptian desert to waterways that carried basalt blocks to monument sites along the Nile.
The eight-mile-long road is at least 500 years older than any previously discovered road and is the only paved road discovered in ancient Egypt, said geologist Thomas Bown of the U.S. Geological Survey in Denver, who will report the discovery Friday at a regional meeting of the Geological Society of America in Durango, Colorado. The road probably doesn't rank with the pyramids as a construction feat, but it is a major engineering achievement, said his colleague, geologist James Harrell of the University of Toledo in Ohio. Not only is the road earlier than we thought possible, we didn't even think they built roads.
The researchers made an additional discovery in the quarry at the northern end of the road, the first evidence that the Egyptians used rock saws for cutting the basalt into blocks. This is the oldest example of saws being used for cutting stone, said archaeologist James K. Hoffmeier of Wheaton College in Illinois. That's two technologies we didn't know they had, Harrell said in a telephone interview. And we don't know why they were both abandoned. The road was discovered in the Faiyum Depression, a low area about 45 miles southwest of Cairo. Short segments of the road had been observed by earlier explorers of the area, Bown said, but they failed to realize its significance or to follow up on their observations. Bown and his colleagues stumbled across it accidentally while they were doing geological mapping in the region.
The road was clearly built to serve the newly discovered quarry, where the heavy black basalt was laid down by volcanic eruptions about 30 million years ago. Bown and Harrell have found the camp that housed the workers at the quarry, and numerous pottery shards and artifacts date the site to the Egyptian 'Old Kingdom,' which began about 2600 B.C.
The road appears today to go nowhere, ending in the middle of the parched desert. When it was built, however, its terminus was a quay on the shore of Lake Moeris, which had an elevation of about 66 feet above sea level, the same as the quay. Birket Qarun, the lake that is now at the bottom of the depression, has a surface elevation of 148 feet below sea level, reflecting the sharp change in climate in the region. Lake Moeris received its water from the annual floods of the Nile River. At the time of the floods, the river and lake were at the same level and connected through a gap in the hills near the modern villages of el-Lahun and Hawara. Harrell and Bown believe basalt blocks were loaded onto barges during the dry season, then floated over to the Nile during the floods to be shipped off to the monument sites at Giza and Saqqara.
The road was constructed with flagstones, large slabs of stone that were laid on the sand without any surface preparation. The nature of the stones varies according to location on the road. It's clear they just used whatever was handy, Bown said.
The road is a little over six feet wide—almost exactly four cubits, Bown said. Although the main road is just under eight miles long, branches at the quarry bring the total to about 11 miles."
Suddenly the remote viewing doesn't read so much like science fiction any longer.
I actually began talking about this remote viewing with participants in Gateway Programs, at The Monroe Institute, as early as 1985. I shared some of this remote viewing with hundreds of people, primarily to show that while remote viewing history may make for fascinating copy, there is really very little one can do to get someone to accept it as real information.
In this case, I waited seventeen years for feedback that partially validates what I was perceiving back in 1980.
Again, I reiterate, the accuracy of remote viewing is seldom 100 percent. In this example, there is still a lot unknown about the target. But I believe there will be more data coming in relative to this remote viewing. Perhaps within my lifetime I will know that I was right about how the Great Pyramid was constructed.
The Kennedy Assassination
Rather than go into a long and complex venue, describing word for word, or item by item, my perceptions regarding the assassination of John F. Kennedy, I can sum up these perceptions quite succinctly by specifically addressing who, how, and why.
1. Who?
Ultimately this question leads to Cuba and the motive. If one insists on trying to blame a single element of the government, the Mafia, enemies of America, or a lone gunman, there is no answer. Also, if one insists on creating a very large, complex, and extensive conspiracy to carry the blame, this will also lead to a dead end.
In reality, it was part or a portion of both. A conspiracy—certainly--but a small one. One based on a single string of connections that ran from the top down. A line of interest within which all the participants viewed their actions as being patriotic, but for different reasons.
To understand where it all began, one would have to go back to the Cuban Missile Crisis. As Americans, our perception of this event is heavily tainted with our national pride and emotion. When viewed under a bright light however, what we find is this:
A less-than-popular president, faced with a direct Soviet threat, chose to go toe-to-toe with a less-than-sophisticated student of Stalin. If and when all the classified material relevant to this event is finally released, we will see a situation that was probably the most dangerous ever faced by humanity (never mind America or Russia.) We probably came about as close to thermonuclear war as one would ever want to come in any form of crisis. I strongly believe that there were at least a handful of men within the upper echelon of our government that viewed this as primarily Kennedy's fault, or at a minimum, badly handled by him.
Whether true or not, as a result, there was a very real belief (at least within their minds) that there was a strong possibility for such an event occurring again at some future date.
If so, what do you do?
You now suddenly have a very popular president, both politically (on the inside) as well as publicly (on the outside). And . . . God forbid . . . as a result, an improved probability for another confrontation—one no one will walk away from.
Radically concerned with the welfare and survival of their nation, and with their ability for action severely restricted, I can see where the idea of assassination would become a possible alternative.
2. How?
Having made up your mind to take such a despicable action, how do you do it? You need someone who is willing to take the risk, do the job. Certainly, at that level of government, you aren't going to do the job yourself. In this case, we have a lot to select from.
Cuban Expatriates.
There are a lot of people who say that the newly arriving Cuban refugees to America were general supporters of Kennedy. This is true, but only in the sense that they saw him as their only hope to return to their homeland. After the Bay of Pigs fiasco, there was no doubt on the streets of Miami how most of the Cuban Freedom Fighters felt about JFK. One might be able to argue a case that a majority of the refugee population eventually realized that, both politically and reasonably, taking back Cuba by force was not an appropriate solution. However, for sake of our argument, it only requires a few people within a loosely knit organizational structure to provide necessary support to an assassination. The bonus is that they are probably already trained militarily, as well as in the arts of clandestine operations.
Organized Crime.
In my lifetime, I've met members of organized crime. Most of them would die before they would allow something to happen to the president of the United States. However, having said that, I must also say that those who might have had their "business" interfered with are not so patriotic.
During World War II, there were a number of noted organized crime figures who participated in our efforts against the Nazi or Japanese war machines. Make no mistake, they did this because it was good for business. They scratched our government's back; we scratched theirs.
A couple of notable crime families were dealt heavy blows by Castro's nationalizing of casinos in Havana. The damage might have been repaired if the United States government had backed off in some of its policies toward Cuba. However, JFK was instrumental in pursuing policies that guaranteed the door to Cuba would be slammed shut for good. This was a crime against "business," and one that any member of those families would have jumped at reconciling.
I believe the organization, manning, coordination, and execution of JFK's assassination was engineered and carried out by at least one of those crime families, in conjunction with at least one of the Cuban expatriate organizations that existed at that time.
They provided the equipment, which included at a minimum transportation, guns, money, safe houses, and protection for at least four shooters. They also provided a plan and the patsy—one Lee Harvey Oswald.
While there may have been some rogue contract agents working as interface between the Central Intelligence Agency and the Cuban/organized crime groups that were directly involved, I do not believe any badge-carrying member of the CIA, FBI, or Secret Service was privy to the operation.
I do believe the originators/initiators of the plan came from at least the cabinet level of the government, and they probably used less than a handful of resources within their offices (DoD) to effect coordination between them and the Cuban/organized crime organizations concerned.
When JFK was shot, he was fired on from at least three (possibly four) positions. The bullet that killed him struck him from the front, and was fired through a street-level storm drain—hence the perception that the rifle fire was coming from all directions. In actuality, that was the only rifle that did not have a silencer on it, because of the range from which it was being fired.
3. Why?
There has been quite a lot of speculation that Kennedy was shot to prevent him from giving a speech in Dallas where he would be talking about unidentified flying objects and aliens. I don't believe this to be true. The kind of planning necessary to carry out his assassination required many more months of planning than would have been possible following the writing of his speech.
There are also those who think the plot runs deeper and wider than I may be outlining here, but I doubt that it does. I do not think that Vice President Johnson was in any way implicated in the plot because of Vietnam or any other political situation ongoing at the time. In subsequent historical viewings that revolved around President Johnson, I have always gotten a sense that this man was genuinely disturbed by the whole issue of Vietnam and carried these issues and the decisions he was forced to make regarding the policies there with a great deal of personal pain and hidden anguish. I think Johnson regretted every American life lost in Vietnam. Unfortunately, he was associated in part with people who chose not to take any personal responsibility for their thoughts, recommendations, or actions.
There are also rumors that JFK had planned to announce the breaking up and dissolution of the Central Intelligence Agency. Even if this were so, it would not have been a reason to kill him. The jobs that were being carried out by the CIA at the time would have simply shifted to new agencies and carried on where they had left off.
As an example, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) was established on August 21, 1961, in reaction to the missile gap "crisis" of the late 1950s. One of thirteen Department of Defense (DoD) agencies, its primary job is to perform counterintelligence in support of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, supervise the DoD Indications and Warning System, and manage the General Defense Intelligence Program, the Defense Attaché System, Target Data Inventory for the DoD, and contribute to the NIE/NFIB, (National Intelligence Estimates/Special National Intelligence Estimates Board, and is a member of the National Foreign Intelligence Board.) In conjunction with the National Security Agency (NSA), the two agencies probably control about 98 percent of the defense reconnaissance taking place across the world.
I think the CIA and its personnel, while officially ceasing to exist, would have simply been absorbed into one of these major agencies. Back then (1962), very few people even knew that the National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) existed. In 1990, the last reliable figures I have within my files indicate that NSAJCSS had an estimated personnel strength of twenty to twenty-four thousand, and an annual budget of over three billion dollars; this does not include support from the Army, Air Force, and Navy. The Army support alone in 1990 constituted approximately 120 thousand personnel in 183 installations across the world.
In fact, anyone generating any effort within any of the defense or intelligence agencies that included the planned assassination of an American president would have been vulnerable to the very institution for which they would have been working. While not all systems are perfect, I seriously doubt that they could have hidden such operations completely, or prevented them from eventually being discovered. One might postulate that were such a covert operation uncovered in the future, every effort would be made to bury it by the controlling agency. I believe just the opposite would occur. Uncovering the full details behind the assassination of an American president would probably be the single greatest intelligence coup in the history of intelligence. Not something anyone would want to see buried, for obvious political and personal reasons.
So why was he killed? He was killed by a handful of people whose sole intention was to prevent what they believed would be an eventual war to end all wars—and the thermonuclear destruction of the planet. Their plan was engineered and carried out by players who had their own, more personal motivations, most of which were probably not political.
Could Kennedy's assassination have been prevented?
Possibly, but given the attitude of the time, I doubt it. I think he was killed because of the kind of man he was. He had a very firm grasp on and understanding of the political use of power, probably something he learned at a very early age from his father. That political savvy, mixed with his persona, projected a volatile and threatening personality to some of the men who felt they had been tasked with a higher responsibility to the country—albeit a twisted one. Contrary to these men's fears, had John F. Kennedy lived, I think we would have seen a very different world by the early 1970s—one in which the doctrine of reciprocal deterrence, or Mutual Assured Destruction, could not have operated or survived. Now we will never know.