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

When I was stationed at Fort Meade I had an interesting experience while standing in formation for an inspection. I saw a woman in another formation across the room from my formation and in my imagination I saw her take one step forward, sway back and forth a little bit then fall flat on her face on the concrete. I was struck by the vividness and violence of the vision and wondered why I would imagine such a horrible thing. Then, only a few seconds later I saw her take that step forward in real life. My reflexes kicked in and I sprinted across the room at full speed. I remember thinking that I hoped no one else got between us because at the speed I was traveling the collision would be brutal. Luckily no one did, I reached her as she began swaying and caught her as she started to fall. Me and a chief pulled her off to the side unharmed.

I think it is entirely possible that my subconscious picked up on some infinitely small clue from her body language and my imagination filled in the rest. But the similarity between what I saw in my mind and what actually happened a few seconds later was uncanny. It's the kind of thing that might lead some people to wonder if there could be some other unseen mechanisms of perception at work. Interestingly enough, Fort Meade is the base where they conducted the remote viewing experiments for 20 years where military men would sit in rooms and try to draw pictures of military installations on the other side of the planet. There is a pretty detailed book on the history of the remote viewing program. Remote Viewers by Jim Schnabel So... is that sort of thing really possible or just a silly waste of tax dollars? I'm not going to waste my breath trying to argue one side of that argument or the other because I think it is too easy for any of us to just believe what we want to believe. I say that if you find the idea curious or entertaining then you might want to do the research, conduct the experiments yourself and make up your own mind. That's what I call being a scientist.

Other books that provide more of a "how to do it" approach:
Remote Viewing Secrets by Joseph McMoneagle
Remote Viewing by David Morehouse
Learn Remote Viewing DVDs

So this is the definitive journalistic book on the history of Remote Viewing. I post it everytime Remote Viewing comes up.

Schnabel also did a doc with BBC called "America's Psychic Spies" which is on YouTube, where he interviews Ingo Swann. A number of the program participants and command staff appear on screen.

The book covers the program from inception, to recruitment, to the eventual dissolution of the program. Most of the parties at the time were directly interviewed.

As far as McMoneagle, he's often referred to as themost successful remote viewer out of any program. he's written a few books. I'm not sure if it was in a book other than Mind Trek, or if it wasin the Schnabel book, but there's a much more comprehensive explanation of his history of OBEs, psychic tendencies, and heart attacks. He's had few.

While most of the remote viewing books by participants are OK, everybody got in on the act when the subject was popular, and they vary wildly in both quality and perceived veracity.

The Schnabel book also has some detail on the personnel interactions of the RV unit, including Ed Dames. (The last remote viewer on earth I'd believe, but that's just me. He's been predicting the end of the world for 20 years and when that gets old, he remote views Lucifer the crystalline intelligence.)