Paul H. Smith is a Retired U.S. Army Major and intelligence officer. Paul was one of the five people trained as a prototype test subject in Ingo Swann's psychic development of the Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) protocols in 1983. Paul was later assigned to work part time in the Defense Intelligence Agency’s remote viewing unit. He was the main author of what is known today as the “CRV Manual” which was written as an effort to describe CRV technology for the sole purpose to solicit continued annual funding for the unit from congress. The CRV manual was not written under the guidance of Ingo Swann, nor was it written for the purpose of teaching CRV.
Paul, having natural artistic abilities, produced impressive CRV session sketches. He always preferred to remote view in the blind, being tasked with CRV coordinates by a project manager. Paul rarely took the initiative to perform CRV session analysis of his own work or to operate as the team project manager. He was fairly aloof and seemed uninterested in CRV data but performed sessions on request like a good soldier.
In 1989 the CRV unit began to fall into a state of chaos. New civilian administrators, who were unfamiliar with CRV protocols, brought in "witches", tarot card readers and channelers under the guise of psi research. The CRVers were pushed aside and left with little to do.
Paul Smith was one of the CRVers who was hired and worked for the Psi-Tech corporation on a regular basis until his military retirement in 1997. In 1998 Paul organized his own remote viewing venture called Remote Viewing Instructional Services. Paul is currently pursuing a PhD in philosophy. He is of the Mormon faith and regularly contributes writings to the Mormon Church Newsletter. He is married with several children and resides in the State of Texas.
Paul, as a trained CRVer, uses and teaches the structured training techniques and protocols that were developed by Ingo Swann. Swann's techniques, which teach remote viewing as a learned skill, allow any person, regardless of "talent" to be able to perceive accurate information while engaged in the process. Joe McMoneagle, on the other hand, believes that one's ability to remote view is determined by the amount of natural talent that they possess. It has been sufficiently demonstrated by many that McMoneagle's assertion is incorrect. But as a natural psychic who considers himself to have "the gift", it is probably hard to admit that what he does is not really exclusive to "gifted" individuals. In response to Joe McMoneagle, a natural psychic who defines remote viewing as essentially any psychic endeavour performed under a scientific controlled protocol, Paul stated:
| "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?" |
Paul Smith in 1999 commented on Lyn Buchanan, who also teaches a version of CRV:
| "His version of CRV differs in that at the request of Ingo Swann he adopted alternate terminology for CRV terms, but he still teaches essentially the same principles." |
In 2000, Paul commented on David Morehouse and his book Psychic Warrior:
| "Please don't take too much of what Dave Morehouse says in his book and his interviews too seriously. There are very good reasons why he is odd-man-out in the RV community--many of them similar reasons to why Ed Dames is, too." |
However, in 2000, Smith credits Dames and Morehouse with the availability of remote viewing to the public:
| "Remote viewing is not available to the public because the Clinton administration wanted it to be, but (I have to admit) largely thanks to a few "rogue RVers" (Dames, Morehouse) who had their own agendas and didn't pay much attention to standard security practice." |
In 1999, Smith launched an attack against Morehouse's "PhD" from LaSalle:
| "To get a Ph.D. diploma from LaSalle, all you needed was to send them transcripts of your previous education, write a thirty-page paper on any topic you wanted (believe it or not, this requirement was waiveable), pay them anywhere up to around 2000 bucks, and they would send you your diploma through the mail in a minimum elapsed time of about two weeks. Apparently a number of federal and state employees who needed advanced degrees to qualify for promotion were availing themselves of this short cut to "higher education." But as I said, the "president" of the "university" is now in jail for mail fraud, and a number of those civil servants who patronized the establishment for the bogus degrees it offered are themselves under investigation." |
Paul Smith has been an unabashed critic of those who have attempted to weasel their way into the remote viewing field, by making outlandish unfounded "rv military background" claims, such as the following on Glenn Wheaton:
| "What we have heard from others that you have said is that you (Wheaton), too learned your methodology from a government-sponsored program--one managed by the SF, the existence of which program was and is unknown to anyone else who would otherwise be in a position to know. This information (whether true or false) is used in such a way as to imply your methods have equal claim to legitimacy as those used by other experienced military viewers in the RV community. However, other people besides you have made similar claims about being involved in various and sundry government remote viewing programs, and have provided just as much evidence as you have in support (that is, as yet, none) and turned out to be fabricating their claims. All we're asking from you is some good reason to believe what you've reportedly said about the origins of your RV knowledge." |
Paul recently hired Gabrielle Pettingell and Bill Ray as instructors for his company RVIS. Soon after, he also attempted to hire Mel Riley, however there was much confusion surrounding this. In May of 2001, Lyn Buchanan announced:
| "Problems Solutions Innovations and Lyn Buchanan are very proud to announce that we have been joined by Mel Riley, remote viewer for the STARGATE military team for almost two decades." |
This was followed the same day by Paul Smith saying:
| "I just talked to Mel last night about coming on board with RVIS as an adjunct instructor! ...I thought it was funny that Lyn and I had the same sort of idea at the same time." |
That was followed the next day with the following by Paul:
| " I recently posted a notice that Mel Riley had agreed to be an adjunct instructor for my company, RVIS, Inc. I have subsequently found that confidential negotations had already occurred between Mel and P>S>I, and that Mel apparently has an exclusivity agreement with P>S>I. This bars him from any relationship with RVIS, Inc., formal or informal, that does not involve P>S>I. At the time Mel and I spoke, I was unaware of the P>S>I connection, and Mel was under the impression that he could work for both of us. However, we both now know that the provisions of Mel's contract with P>S>I do not allow this, and that consequently it would be inappropriate for Mel to provide such service for RVIS, Inc. Mel and I have since talked, and are both disappointed that things could not have worked out differently, but we remain good friends. I wish him well." |
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