TRANSCONTINENTAL REMOTE VIEWING (SCHLITZ, GRUBER)

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• Collection: STARGATE
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP96-00792R000400240002-6
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 7
• Document Creation Date: November 4, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 5, 2000
• Sequence Number: 2
• Publication Date: December 1, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN

The Journal of
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Parapsychology
Volume 44 Number 4 December 1980
TRANSCONTINENTAL REMOTE VIEWING
By MARILYN SGHLI "z AND ELMAR GRUBER
ABSTRACT: Two experimenters carried out a long-distance remote-viewing experiment,
with one of them, in Detroit, Michigan, acting as percipient and the other, in Rome, Italy,
as the agent. From a pool of 40 geographical target locations in Rome, 10 were randomly
chosen without replacement, and the agent visited them one at a time for 15 minutes on each
of 10 consecutive days. The percipient, at the same time, recorded in words and sketches
her impressions of the agent's location. Later, five independent judges received copies of
these sketches, and the impressions translated into Italian. They visited the locations and
judged the protocols with respect to their correspondence to the target sites. Analysis of the
results by a direct-count-of-permutations method yielded ap of 4.7 x 1076 for judges' ratings
and 5.8 x 10-6 for rankings. The authors point out that free-response remote viewing maybe
a psi-conducive procedure, but that the results may also have been influenced by
exceptionally high motivation on the part of the two experimenters.
Experimental parapsychology basically utilizes two forms of ESP
testing: forced-choice, in which the range of target/responses is
restricted, and free-response, which allows for a vast scope of
target/response possibilities. The forced-choice paradigm has been
highly influential in establishing parapsychology within the scientific
framework. This is largely due to the ease with which statistical
methods are applied to it. The early free-response work by such
researchers as Thaw (1892), Sinclair (1930), and Warcollier (1938),
however, provided great quantities of rich qualitative materials.
Although these early studies are devoid of any true form of statistical
assessment, the available protocols are provocative, to say the least.
This paper is a modified version of one presented at the twenty-third annual
convention of the Parapsychological Association at the University of Iceland in
Reykjavik, August 13-16, 1980. The authors would like to thank Debra Weiner, K.
Ramakrishna Rao, and Robert Morris for their useful suggestions at various stages in
the preparation of the paper, and would like to give special thanks to James Kennedy
for his invaluable help and encouragement throughout.
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