Mindblogging

The New York Daily News, reports that Jimmy Carter recalls the CIA’s use of psychics. The article quotes an interview Carter gave which appears in the January issue of GQ magazine.

GQ: One of the promises you made in 1976 was that if you were elected, you would look into the [UFO] reports from Roswell and see if there had been any cover-ups. Did you look into that?

Carter: Well, in a way. I became more aware of what our intelligence services were doing. There was only one instance that I’ll talk about now. We had a plane go down in the Central African Republic–a twin-engine plane, small plane. And we couldn’t find it. And so we oriented satellites that were going around the earth every ninety minutes to fly over that spot where we thought it might be and take photographs. We couldn’t find it. So the director of the CIA came and told me that he had contacted a woman in California that claimed to have supernatural capabilities. And she went in a trance, and she wrote down latitudes and longitudes, and we sent our satellites over that latitude and longitude, and there was the plane.

As readers of Mindblogging know, the CIA and Army did use psychics very successfully to gather intelligence in the Stargate remote-viewing program. One of Stargate’s missions was to locate the downed plane that Carter mentioned.

I’m guessing Carter may not be aware that the story of Stargate’s success in locating the plane is now public knowledge. Perhaps his story that a California woman was the source of the psychic information is a cover story he used to disguise the Stargate source. Or perhaps the California woman was on the Stargate team.

Today’s news brings word of Lebanon’s most famous psychic, Michel Hayek.

In his once-a-year appearance on LBC TV, which is broadcast internationally, Hayek said that a big attack in the capital, Beirut, would disrupt life downtown. Six weeks later, a car bomb killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others, setting off protests in the downtown area that led Syria to end its 29-year military presence in Lebanon.

Hayek also said that five prominent Lebanese would be targeted for assassination, including anti-Syrian legislator Gibran Tueni, an unnamed minister and President Emile Lahoud.

Tueni was killed Dec. 12, Defense Minister Elias Murr survived a car bombing July 12, and journalist and activist Samir Kassir and politician George Hawi, both anti-Syrian, were killed by car bombs in June. There has been no reported attempt on Lahoud’s life, and Hayek freely acknowledges that he makes mistakes.

Predicting a bombing will occur in Beirut sometime during the year is a bit like predicting rain will fall. Still, the Lebanese take what Hayek says so seriously that his name is invoked in many email hoaxes:

An e-mail read “Attention: Michel Hayek reported that a very weird and sudden thing is going to hit Beirut, specifically Downtown, next Saturday so everyone pay attention and pass this message to all your online contacts.”

Hayek rejected this as nonsense. “Everything like this you read in e-mails or hear by word of mouth is a rumor,” he said. “The only credible sources of my predictions are television, magazines or newspaper interviews.”

The Islamic world seems a strange place for a psychic to openlf flourish. If Hayek can produce the goods in such a world, he must be good.

I’ve not been practicing my remote viewing skills since taking that wonderful class in February. I’m not sure why that is. I suppose I’ve talked myself into thinking I’m too busy for it, in spite of proving to myself that I can be good at it.

Over the Christmas holiday, though, I found myself a bit bored and with some time on my hands. I visited the Ten Thousand Roads website, selected a few targets from the practice gallery, and tried to quiet my mind long enough to RV.

My results were mixed, which is not surprising for not having done it in close to a year. Still, there were some definite features that I picked up on. My main problem is having my mind impatiently jump to conclusions about what it is seeing. Supressing this urge is key to successful remote viewing.

Remote viewing is like putting a jigsaw puzzle together: your mind gathers a small piece of the target at a time. Only when you’ve got enough pieces can you figure out what you’re looking at.

Right now I’m at the stage where I can gather one or two pieces, but not enough to know for sure what I’m seeing. Only with practice can I learn to get more, and only then when the practices aren’t done while I’m distracted with other things.

The Rhine Research Center is sponsoring a number of seminars in the upcoming months, the highlight of which is a return visit by Joe McMoneagle, one of the stellar remote viewers for the military’s Project Stargate program. I attended Joe’s class last February and can say that you won’t want to miss this chance to learn this amazing skill.

After just a few hours practice, Joe had taught me enough that I successfully remote viewed. What I accomplished in those few seconds defies all traditional explanation. Yet I did it – the seemingly impossible task of seeing something for the first time in my mind’s eye alone. Read about the experience here, here, here, and here.

What was even more amazing is the way the class opened up my psychic skills afterward. For days following, I felt incredibly psychic – and was to a large extent. My mind somehow didn’t quite fit back into my brain. It was an unexpected side effect, but a welcome one. I hope that I get that effect again!

Other cool Rhine courses include learning how to be a psychic detective. Anne Poole, the woman who organized the State Capitol ghost hunt, will be sharing the skills she honed from 25 years of psychic work for police. Anne takes the stage in January. It should be fascinating, too.

In April, Dr. Jim Tucker, M.D., a child psychiatrist at the University of Virginia, will speak on a Friday evening on An Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives. I have had an interest in reincarnation my whole lives (hah!). You bet I’ll be there!

Check out the Rhine website for more details. Happy psychicing!

[Update: 07 Feb 06] Joe has had to cancel his workshop due to personal reasons. Please check the Rhine website for other exciting seminars!

I came across this link last week and have finally gotten around to posting it. Joseph McMoneagle, the famous remote viewer, has written about remote viewing sessions he as done that targeted Mars, specifically the Cydonia region. The session writeups (and drawings) are fascinating in themselves, as this area seems to be the former home of extraterrestrials.

Skip Atwater, one of Project Stargate’s directors, happened to tape record the Mars session and has converted it to Flash format. It is the first time I’ve heard Joe do a session, and it is captivating to hear. The cadence is completely different from what I imagined.

Listen to Joe remote-view the strange structures on Mars.

I had two premonition-type events this week. The first came when I flew Southwest into Chicago’s Midway field on Tuesday morning. As I studied the snow and soggy runway rushing by as the plane landed, I felt a touch of irrational fear of the plane not stopping. My plane’s landing was perfect, of course. I’ve flown many times and have no fear of flying whatsoever, so the feeling was quite out of place for me. I was surprised to hear Kelly tell me Friday morning of the Southwest crash at Midway two days later.

Premonition two was about Richard Pryor, who passed away Saturday morning at the age of 65. I was at a party last night, listening to my brother tell some story. Something about his story reminded me of Richard Pryor’s movie Stir Crazy. I had not been thinking of Pryor or the movie. It was something that came out of nowhere. Only when reading this morning’s paper did I learn of his death. Did I somehow subconsciously know of his death?