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Ah, OK--that was quite a cultural thing at the time too, right? Isn't that where the Columbo episode "Columbo Goes to the Guillotine" got its inspiration? It st

Ah, OK--that was quite a cultural thing at the time too, right? Isn't that where the Columbo episode "Columbo Goes to the Guillotine" got its inspiration? It starts out with a fraudulent remote-viewing scam, with the pentagon brass as marks. I think there was a MacGyver episode with remote viewing, too...GX-1 or something.

heavyset_go 4y ago
I believe Stargate and SRI are the origins of the concept of remote viewing as it became popularly known.
- aa-jv 4y ago
  Scientology is where it comes from (exteriorization), 'remote viewing' is the US governments' re-brand .. Ingo Swann was a scientologist before he became a government-paid spook. There are some in the psychic community who believe the US government and Scientology are in cahoots to further weaponise things, and that this is why the Trementina base-swap was done...
  - heavyset_go 4y ago
    > Ingo Swann was a scientologist before he became a government-paid spook. I didn't know this, but it makes so much sense now that I do. > There are some in the psychic community who believe the US government and Scientology are in cahoots to further weaponise things, and that this is why the Trementina base-swap was done... I'm mostly familiar with what the key figures in SRI did and have done since then, they've seemed to foster weird cottage industry around remote viewing that still exists (and are run by those same key figures) today. I've worked backwards from today to their origins at SRI, so there's a lot of that history that I'm unfamiliar with, like the Scientology connection. Looks like they've done a good job at moving away from those types of associations. Really puts into context phenomena like early RVers viewing aliens, UFOs and whatnot that fit into Scientology beliefs and mythos.
    - aa-jv 4y ago
      You'd be surprised how 'real' all of this seems to its proponents. I think thats the part that interests the spooks the most - how you can get sub-cultures like this to believe, almost anything ..

heavyset_go 4y ago

I believe Stargate and SRI are the origins of the concept of remote viewing as it became popularly known.

aa-jv 4y ago
Scientology is where it comes from (exteriorization), 'remote viewing' is the US governments' re-brand .. Ingo Swann was a scientologist before he became a government-paid spook. There are some in the psychic community who believe the US government and Scientology are in cahoots to further weaponise things, and that this is why the Trementina base-swap was done...
- heavyset_go 4y ago
  > Ingo Swann was a scientologist before he became a government-paid spook. I didn't know this, but it makes so much sense now that I do. > There are some in the psychic community who believe the US government and Scientology are in cahoots to further weaponise things, and that this is why the Trementina base-swap was done... I'm mostly familiar with what the key figures in SRI did and have done since then, they've seemed to foster weird cottage industry around remote viewing that still exists (and are run by those same key figures) today. I've worked backwards from today to their origins at SRI, so there's a lot of that history that I'm unfamiliar with, like the Scientology connection. Looks like they've done a good job at moving away from those types of associations. Really puts into context phenomena like early RVers viewing aliens, UFOs and whatnot that fit into Scientology beliefs and mythos.
  - aa-jv 4y ago
    You'd be surprised how 'real' all of this seems to its proponents. I think thats the part that interests the spooks the most - how you can get sub-cultures like this to believe, almost anything ..