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From: "PJ Gaenir" <palyne@zmatrix.com> Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 13:01:17 -0800 |
[Originally posted to http://www.dejanews.com/] From: palyne@zmatrix.com Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 17:18:07 -0600 Subject: Re: 'REMOTE VIEWING' Revealed As FLAWED! "Peter P." <ptp@primenet.com> wrote: > There is now an article available, written by former Farsight Institute > employee Prudence Calabrese, that sheds new light on the inner workings of > modern "scientific" remote viewing, as practiced by Courtney Brown & the > Farsight Institute (and, by extension, Psi-Tech's "technical" r.v.), that > shows, step by step, how objectivity was lost & scientific priniciples > ignored, ultimately resulting in the "Hale Bopp campanion ship" fiasco. It's a good article. Your title about RV being flawed is not really fair, though. Most the "real" people in the RV field have been complaining that Brown (and Dames, his instructor) are clueless bozos from day 1. They have no right to "represent" the remote viewing subject. They don't even understand it, let alone are they experts. Just so you don't think I am ranting without cause, a few small examples. Ed Dames has claimed (you can find all this in transcripts on Art Bell's web site): -- To have been a founder of the gov't RV intelligence unit. In fact, he joined in January 1986. It began in 1978. -- To have been in it for "most of its life." In fact, he left the unit in mid-1988 physically (his paperwork, which sort of followed his physical transfer, put him in his next unit at January 1989). Less than three years -- the unit existed for seventeen years. -- To have been "in charge of" the unit. In fact, he was a Captain in the unit, and he was equalled and outranked his entire time there. He was not even promoted to Major until not long before he retired from his next unit. -- To have been "THE" Operations and Training Officer. In fact, he was one of a number of them, and he was NOT the senior Ops officer, either. -- To have "innovated the advanced training of remote viewers." In fact, he did not even qualify to be a Viewer himself, despite personally training in the early-stages of methodology with Ingo Swann. According to six individuals from that unit I have spoken with personally, Dames did ops-related duties (monitoring, analysis, some theory training lectures, and scheduling) and was transferred out of the unit at the first normal rotation. In all fairness, his obsession with aliens, inability to focus on military targets et al. may have been as much or more a contributor to his transfer as his lack of Viewing skills. Dames briefly, and to a very selected number of people (including Art Bell) presented his military records for review. I saw them and showed them to other soldiers (including equal ranking officers) that were in the unit with him. They pointed out that many are from units prior to his work in the RV unit and have nothing to do with his RV work (and are included partly to obscure his brief tenure there). Deliberately disengenious. The cornerstone, the glorious OER document he brags about, actually was not a typical document. His commander didn't even give him a write-up when he left the unit -- something which can seriously impede the advancement of an officer, and which in itself may have been a statement. Dames had transferred into a "Strategic Deception" unit along with his best friend of the time, David Morehouse (they were both Captains at the time). Together while in this unit they founded Psi-Tech Corp. (name taken from David's former business "House-Tech"). So, they were buddies, they were in the same unit, and they jointly owned a business. Then David wrote up (two years AFTER the fact) a glorious OER for Ed, went around the chain of command, and filed it directly with the records clerk, whose boss signed it. (That's legal as David was an officer.) The records themselves presented by Dames make this clear (as did commentary from a number of people he served with, one of equal rank and far greater experience in the unit). This final date also helps obscure Ed's brief tenure in the unit. Unfortunately Art Bell is apparently not aware of this, or not concerned about this, one of the two. He announced on the air that Dames had proven himself to him by showing him his military records -- and then, when Courtney fell on his face partly thanks to Dames's complete lack of proper RV education with him, Ed insulted him and Art disowned him, clueless apparently that Ed is the cause of this. (Although -- Courtney DID know better -- he was told by others after his training with Ed... he chose the easy way). Art doesn't care. Art's media. He wants what sells, he sells fear and aliens, and Dames and Brown gave him fear and aliens. He never called ONE legitimate human being -- like a scientist -- to find out if these guys knew JACK about the subject before he put them on the air, Ed in particular to terrorize 30 million people about how their kids are gonna die. (But if you buy Ed's product, MAYBE you can save yourself and your family! Oh puhleeeze! "Radiovangelism" takes a new turn. Now, you don't even need religion!) Art Bell has the info. I sent him the info. I have been sending him legitimate contact info of people in the RV field for two years, pointing out documented facts and telling him to get a clue. He isn't interested. Unfortunately, Art's fear-media is the only mass-media that RV tends to get, so the world gets introduced to remote viewing via his show, and they get such a bizarre and inaccurate presentation of it that as a result, I've had to spend a great deal of MY personal time the last year-and-a-half re-educating people out of the combination of disinformation, wishful thinking and downright lunacy they thought was RV. And watching a lot of potentially good student Viewers and RV applications customers walk away from the field in disgust due to the weird and flaming and crazy BS that Dames and/or Brown have created and promoted. "Strategic deception," indeed. So, it was good to see Prudence's article. It proves that I was right nearly two years ago when I said the complete lack of proper protocol in Dames's RV led only to cults and deluding yourself, and was potentially damaging to students. Courtney has proved that in a big way. Both of them have RV'd one too many aliens and -- like people "dabbling in the psychic and occult arts" for eons, have gone completely around the bend. PJ Gaenir palyne@zmatrix.com +--------------------------------------------------------------- | UFOMIND MAILING LIST - Supporting the Ufomind/PsiSpy Website | http://www.ufomind.com/misc/ - Glenn Campbell, Moderator | Submissions to: ufomind@lists.best.com | "unsubscribe" (in body) to: ufomind-request@lists.best.com | | RELEVANCE OF THIS MESSAGE: Parapsychology personalities | | Index: Ed Dames | Index: Courtney Brown +---------------------------------------------------------------
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