Joe McMoneagle -
Joe McMoneagle is
considered to be one of the greatest "naturals." In the early 1970's
Joe had a Near Death Experience (NDE) which seems to have been given him the
ability to achieve telepathic and altered states at will. Joe has stated that a
viewer's ability to remote view is dependent upon each individuals innate
talent. In other words, their achievements in remote viewing are limited by the
amount of natural ability they are born with.
However, this contradicts the findings of those who routinely train viewers in Ingo Swann's Coordinate Remote Viewing system. Individuals who are properly trained and practice CRV methodologies, who have had no prior psi or psychic experiences, usually meet or exceed the capabilities of the "naturals." In fact, for the majority of the viewers at Fort Meade, CRV was the preferred method.
Joe's definition of remote viewing is somewhat more loose than those who teach it as a trainable skill. Joe's definition implies that remote viewing is any psychic undertaking that is performed under scientific protocols.
Paul H. Smith commented:
| "With all due respect to Joe, the problem with what is being taken for his "defintion" of remote viewing is that it doesn't define remote viewing. What is being described is a set of scientific protocols used to guarantee as much as possible a "clean" experiment. As such, these protocols are not unique to remote viewing experiments, nor even to _psi_ experiments. Part or all of them apply to medical studies, psychology studies, and even public opinion polls. If we accept this as our full and only definition of remote viewing, then do we call ALL experiments using similar protocols "remote viewing"? That would sound more than a little strange..."Well, here is an interesting report about a remote viewing aspirin study!" or "Hey, did you hear about the new remote viewing poll that shows that 90% of the American public hates Barf Mouthwash?" |
Joe is the author of several books: Mind Trek, The Ultimate Time Machine, and Remote Viewing Secrets. In the latter, Joe suggest remote viewing techniques for people to try, even though Joe once said remote viewing could not be trained. Joe has made many predictions for the 21st century. Most of these are so far off into the future that we won't be able to judge their accuracy any time soon. One prediction that was made against a near-term event, was the death of Pope John Paul II, which McMoneagle said was to occur in 1999. Of course, it did not happen.
In a 1999 interview, Joe described how he self-tasked himself with the "future" targets:
| "In the case of "Ultimate Time Machine," the way I did the targeting was by outlining what I thought would be interesting to know about the future, and then addressing specific questions on 3 x 5 cards. I placed the 3 x 5 cards in opaque envelopes and randomly selected them over the course of a three-year period. After selecting an unmarked envelope, I would pin it to my computer screen and type whatever came into my mind that related directly to that envelope. I would then open the envelope and if the information seemed to relate to the question, I would label that screen with the question and save it to file. If not, I would delete the screen and return the card to a new envelope putting it back in the pile. to add to that, I've been describing targets prior to their being selected for nearly 18 years anyway! The near-perfect method for defeating fraud. ;-)" |
Joe has recently stated, "If you want to refer to the 'father of remote viewing,' you would have to go back half a century to the French parapsychologist, René Warcollier."
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