REVIEW: Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing

Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing by Joseph McMoneagle

McMoneagle's book Mind Trek is an amazing book on remote viewing (attested to by my copy having tons of highlighted sections and dog-eared pages). In the first several chapters he talks about his NDEs (Near Death Experiences) and how that lead to Remote Viewing.

From there, chapters covers things like: altering perceptions about reality; different stages of RV; how RVers "see" the information and what kind of information comes through; best types of targets to select; early testing and examples; and lots of other fascinating stuff. The book covers a wide range of different aspects of RV, all tightly focused on McMoneagle's experiences with RV, and its life altering affects.

What really makes this a wonderful book on Remote Viewing is his coverage of some very heavy topics: like how doing RV tends to make you question your religious/spiritual beliefs; and what is reality (a question that comes up when you realize that you can access information anywhere - past, present and future - solely with your mind.) This is really deep stuff that I hadn't thought about in relation to RV until I read this book.

For example, in Chapter 11 - "Getting to I Know", McMoneagle talks about how he had suspended his disbeliefs in order to do remote viewing.

"...I had modified a sufficient number of personal realities or concepts, to unhinge my understanding of time/space, or at least the way I had been originally taught and understood it to work."

He says he needed to get from "I believe" to "I know" in order to construct a new way of viewing the world that he was now floundering around in. McMoneagle goes on to say he thinks its important for anyone who wants to learn RV to read some books on what reality might be and how it might be constructed.

"Concepts of how reality works are important to remote viewing because they have a direct bearing on where the information comes from and how it might be getting to a remote viewer. They also affect the allowances that might be made within the viewer's mind, the degree of temporary belief suspension, or how far a viewer is willing to go in order to accomplish psychic functioning."

I'm adding another rather long passage from that chapter here because I think it really sums up what a thought-provoking book this is if you are thinking about doing remote viewing and what kinds of mind bending beliefs you might encounter in the process:

"Information passes from the past to the present and from the future to the present. Over the years, through the remote viewing experience, I have come to know this as truth. Quantum waves do travel in both directions through time. Therefore, in the fullest sense of the word, existence becomes a sum of all information. Like a great sea with far-reaching shores. Its' a place where all possibilities exist simultaneously. There is no past, no present, and no future - there just is."

(Don't let the "quantum waves" thing scare you off, its not a book on physics.) I love books that make me rethink my own beliefs about reality. And this is such a book.

In chapter 16 - "Another World", McMoneagle talks about how there are NO LIMITS to what can be viewed via RV. He then includes a dialogue from an RV session he did that absolutely blew my mind. I'd tell you more but you might want to read it yourself without knowing what the target is. All I can say is WOW, WOW, WOW. The book is worth getting just for that chapter alone.

An amazing book, one you must have for your library if you are interested in Remote Viewing, physic phenomenon, and other things we currently refer to as "paranormal".

REVIEW: Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program

Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate:
America's Psychic Espionage Program
by Paul Smith

I just finished reading this and its a great book to read if you want to know the history behind the military RV program. The author goes into massive detail about his time spent in the military with Remote Viewing. He covers the history of RV and knows most of the original RVers.

He talks about the "hits" and the 'misses". In other words, he's not trying to convince the reader that RV really works, he's just telling the facts. (and the facts are fascinating). I've been reading some other books on RV (Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul by F. H. Atwater, and Psychic Warrior by D. Morehouse, among others) and I like this book the best so far.

Smith is a really good writer and focuses on telling the story of RV. (Unlike Atwater who keeps talking about how its all part of the masterplan. Or Morehouse, who goes into way too much detail about his marriage, etc.) Smith stays focused on RV and that's what the reader gets - the whole story and history of RV. And he backs up his tale with tons of end notes.

He also breaks down the remote viewing stages into various chapters which give us an idea of just how long it took to learn each stage. (It makes me wonder how anyone can learn RV from the CDs that Ed Dames is selling in which he takes viewers through the first 4 stages in the first lesson.)

The author has also really done his homework in writing this book. Even though he was part of the RV training in the military, he doesn't rely just on his memory to tell the story: he gets input from other people who were involved, refers to documents now declassified, and has obviously done extensive research by reading other people's books and published papers and articles on RV.

Its a well-rounded, big book (over 600 pages) that goes into great detail about the history, training stages, military politics surrounding RV, and the various characters involved. And he gives the reader lots of detailed information about the RV sessions themselves. A must read if you're interested in those aspects of RV.

If you want to know about the history and characters involved in the U.S. military's RV program, this is THE book to read.

What is remote viewing?

Remote Viewing (RV) is the attempt to gather information about a distant, unseen target using extra-sensory perception. A remote viewer is asked to give information about an object or place that is hidden from physical view and/or separated by distance. Parapsychologists Russell Targ and Dr. Hal Puthoff coined the term in 1974.

Remote viewers are generally given coordinates of a site and after "cooling down" (entering a state of deep relaxation) give impressions of what they "see". Remote viewers have claimed to be able to see things not only at a distance (including long distances such as Mars and our moon) but also see things back and forward in time.

Remote viewing is generally considered as pseudoscience due to the need to overcome fundamental ideas about causality, time, and other principles held by the scientific community, and the lack of a positive theory that explains the outcomes.

Remote viewing was popularized in the 1990s, following the declassification of documents related to the Stargate Project, a 20 million dollar research program sponsored by the U.S. Federal Government to determine any potential military application of psychic phenomena.

One of the most famous, and considered the father of RV, is Ingo Swann whose ability to correctly describe targets was considered far beyond coincidence. Much of what is known about RV came from the experiments done with Swann. At SRI, Swann and Puthoff developed a remote-viewing training program meant to enable any individual with a suitable background to produce useful data. As part of this project, a number of military officers and civilians were trained and formed a military remote viewing unit. The viewing methodology (now called "controlled" remote viewing, or CRV) they created is the core of almost all remote viewing training programs today.

The government RV program was terminated in 1995, citing a lack of documented evidence that the program had any value to the intelligence community. Although it looks more like politics within various government agencies, rather then lack of success, was what really caused the program to be terminated.

Many of the original RVers have since started their own RV institutes to train the general public on how to do RV. They have also written numerous books on the subject of RV, the military's use of RV, and how to learn RV. I'll talk about some of those books later. But one you could read immediately, and should if you are interested in RV, is Ingo Swanns' book called "Penetration: the Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy." This book is out of print and hard to find but there is an online pdf download source here.
(if the link doesn't work, go to http://www.scribd.com and do a search for Ingo Swann Penetration.)

Swann's Penetration is a fast and fasinating read. The story he tells about his involvement with RV, Men in Black, and extraterrestials reads like a sci-fi thriller. But he says its all true.

I'm currently reading some other books on RV and will post my opinions on them here later.

The Ute Indians and Little Green Men

I'm very interested in what Native American people have to say about UFOS (being a Native myself and being fasinated by the subject of UFOs). I'm always looking for myths and folklore from Native Tribes about little green people and objects flying around in the air before the invention of airplanes. (Image: Star Beings" engraved thousands of years ago in Dry Fork Canyon, Utah)

So I was very pleased to find this information in Francis Densmore's book "Northern Ute Music", which was published in 1922.

"Concerning the source of his power, Pa'gitá said that he treated the sick under the tutelage of a " little green man" and that numerous other medicine men were under the same guidance, there being many of the little green men. He first saw the little green man when he was a boy of about 12 years and has seen him at intervals ever since.

The songs used in his treatment of the sick were received by him about three years previous to giving this information. At that time he was in the mountains and fell asleep. He then heard the little green man singing these songs and learned them in this manner.

Describing the "little green man," Pa'gitá indicated his height as about 2 feet, saying he was green from head to foot and carried a bow and arrows. In disposition he was "good to those he liked," and especially favored medicine men. He could hear those who spoke unkindly of him and "shot his arrow" into them. These "arrows" were removed by the medicine men, who were paid for the treatment.

Pa'gitá said that the little green man "came around only at night." If Pa'gitá wished to talk with the little green man he sat outdoors in the early morning before sunrise. He sat facing the east and smoked. No ceremonial act was connected with this and he had no drum or rattle, neither did he sing. Sometimes it was not even necessary for him to smoke in order to talk with the little green man. If he wished to make a present to the little green man he left it beside the "hole " which was the door of his dwelling. He was not obliged to give him a present after each successful treatment of the sick, but once in a while he gave him a handkerchief or other small gift.

The abodes of the little green men were said to look little chimneys and to be scattered through the mountains or any unsettled country. Those who pass such a dwelling and recognize it always throw a little branch of cedar or some other offering in front of it so the little man will not be angry with them.

Tradition says that one night some white people filled the door of a little green man's house with stones, but in the morning all the stones had been removed. Pa'gitá said: "The little man makes a fire at night, and you can see a little light. In the early morning you can see smoke coming out of his house."

Those who summoned Pa'gitá to treat a sick person brought with them a stick about 18 inches long, painted green and forked at the end. This was his particular token and he made one for the writer. When he reached the abode of the sick person he was directed by the little green man as to what he should do. He always questioned the sick person about what he had been doing, with a view to ascertaining the cause of his distress.... Pa'gitá said that throughout his treatments the little green man stayed outside the tent, and he could see him and hear what he said, every phase of the treatment being according to his direction."

UFOs have been here for thousands of years

What would make me say that? Take a look at some of these bits of information from long ago and decide for yourself.

• Between 1561 and 1566 residents of Nuremberg, Germany and Basel, Switzerland witnessed spectacular displays of spheres, disks and tubes zooming about the sky and engaging in an aerial ballet. (The image is a woodcut, from the Wickiana collection, Zurich.)

• On August 7, 1566 citizens of Baslem (Switzerland) saw black spheres involved in a aerial battle with lasted for several hours. "...at the time when the sun rose, one saw many large black balls which moved at high speed in the air towards the sun, then made half-turns, banging one against the others as if they were fighting a battle out a combat, a great number of them became red and igneous, thereafter they were consumed and died out," wrote Samuel Coccius, the student in "crowned writings and liberal arts" who consigned the strange events in the city's gazette.

• From Egyptian hieroglyphics in a document dating back to 1500 B.C.: "A circle of fire coming in the sky, noiseless, one rod long with its body and one rod wide. After some days these things become more numerous, shining more than the brightness of the sun."

• An archbishop from France in the ninth century recorded the account of three men and a woman who were witnessed being placed down on Earth by an "aerial ship". The people said they have been abducted by "miraculous men" who showed them "unheard of marvels".

• A "bright ball of fire and light in a hurricane in England, Sept. 2, 1786. This phenomenon was visible for forty minutes. That's about 800 times the duration that the orthodox give to meteors and meteorites." –from Book of the Damned



• On April 4, 1561 in Nuremberg (Germany), men and women saw various objects in the sky, including balls "approximately 3 in the length, from time to time, four in a square, much remained insulated, and between these balls, one saw a number of crosses with the color of blood. Then one saw two large pipes, in which small and large pipes, were 3 balls, also four or more. All these elements started to fight one against the other." (Gazette of the town of Nuremberg). The event was said to last for about an hour and later was and dran by artist Hans Glaser in woodcut.

Ancient art and text are filled with stories like these. There are also Native American tribes who have stories of "little green men". I'll talk about a couple of those later. If you want to find out more, just do a search for "ancient ufos" and you'll find tons of stuff. I'll also post my favorite ones here in the future posts.

Why I created UFOs & Remote Viewing Blog

Since childhood I've been interested in UFOs, paranormal events, and most recently, remote viewing. I believe that UFOs are extraterrestrials from other worlds who have been here for thousands of years, and have bases on the moon and in the oceans. I believe this has been documented throughout history and in folklore.

I think that, given that they've been here for thousands of years, they are not harmful to humans but are just trying to live among us without disrupting our world. Although recently it seems that (based on all the daytime visual sightings in large populated areas that are happening) they are now attempting to make themselves known to us. I also think that the governments (our included) know about UFOs and alien beings, have made contact with them, and are covering it all up for their own personal gains. And I predict that within the next 20 years, this will all be revealed to us through accident or through a government's official announcement.

I have become very interested in remote viewing just recently. Having never heard of it before, I stumbled upon some books about it on Amazon while looking for UFO books. Remote viewing in itself is fascinating, but the connection between remote viewing and UFOs is mind boggling.
I know it sounds ludicrous because that's what I thought when I first starting researching this subject.

I find it interesting that the Euro-American mindset always assumes that they are the only ones: to have souls (their reasoning for enslaving black people and killing millions of Native Americans); to be created in God's image (their reasoning for the way we currently treat animals, and the planet); and that the universe is void of intelligent beings except for us (thankfully this view is finally coming into question.) Having said that, I hope you will at least look at the information that exists (here and at other sources) before you close your mind to the possibility that the universe is filled with all kinds of intelligent being, and that some have found their way to our tiny blue planet.