Remote Viewing is the name that was created in the 70s during the USA military program, whose task was to investigate the potential of extrasensory perception and use it for espionage purposes.
These were the days of the Cold War between the US and the Soviet Union, when every possible way of gaining an advantage over the enemy was searched with great commitment and every possibility was tested. A strong motivation was the fear that ignoring a possibility could give the opponent an advantage. On the other side of the Iron Curtain, of course, the situation was similar.
The consequences of the Second World War and the groundbreaking arms race that began then were still felt. Scientific and military communities still realized that what seemed impossible until recently may actually be possible. Until a few decades earlier, mankind was at the stage of experimenting with the first jet engines. In a relatively short time, modern aviation was created. In a shockingly short time, the development of the space program and the first landing on the moon were undertaken, atomic bombs were built, and the first computers, the Internet, etc. were created.
In such a climate of rapid development, an attempt to use extrasensory perception, which had been around for centuries and was not new in the 1970s – made sense. They wanted to check whether the possibilities of the human mind, so far slightly disposed of and being out of the way of what science was interested and recognized – could be used for practical and mundane applications.

In 1978, in the USA, in the state of Maryland, in Fort Meade, a then-secret unit was established, whose task was to develop the potential of extrasensory perception for intelligence applications.
One of the founders and the first people to take part in the program was Ingo Swann, then associated with the Stanford Research Institute. Swann, also working with the American Society for Psychical Research, first used the term Remote Viewing in 1971 to give the extrasensory perception used in experiments a more neutral tone, rather than the so far used term of “clairvoyance.”

The beginnings of the military project “Stargate” (the codenames of the then secret project) date back to 1974. It was then that the activities of researchers such as Ingo Swann and Russell Targ, working at the Stanford Institute, were officially engaged by the intelligence agencies, obtaining a budget of $ 20 million. (According to official sources, this sum was spent in total throughout the existence of the “Stargate” program.)
The aforementioned creation of a military unit using Remote Viewing in 1978 was a confirmation of the effectiveness of the achievements of the research program to date and the start of its use for intelligence purposes.

The world learned about the use of Remote Viewing by the American intelligence service in 1990, thanks to the declassification of parts of the Stargate program documents.

The program had a hit success rate of over 70%, and let’s remember that it was done under strictly controlled conditions of a scientific experiment, eliminating the possibility of obtaining knowledge about the target, other than through extrasensory perception.
You can probably agree that if, when researching targets that we cannot obtain information about in any other way, we accurately describe them using the Remote Viewing method in 7 cases out of 10 – then we can talk about the success and noticeable effectiveness of this method.
Meanwhile, the program officially ended in 1995, allegedly due to the lack of satisfactory results. The fact that this is complete made up nonsense will be realized by any person practicing Remote Viewing. The results of the experiments are repeatable and easy to check on your own. You will learn about how this can be done later in this book.

Thanks to the declassification and the official ending of the Remote Viewing program, many participants related to it could finally start talking about their research and unusual discoveries. Thanks to this, both Ingo Swann and many other researchers began to share their knowledge with interested parties, teaching Remote Viewing and publishing books on the subject.

For me, one such groundbreaking book was not “Penetration” by Ingo Swann, but a book by researcher Courtney Brown called “Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth.”
I appreciate Courtney Brown for the fact that he is the most effective RV researcher to date, introducing this topic to a wider audience and presenting the potential of Remote Viewing.
His book “Cosmic Voyage” was my first meeting with the subject of Remote Viewing in the late 90s and it gave me the basis of knowledge that allowed me to establish the first Polish Remote Viewing research group around 2000.

I will only add here that I had some useful experience at that time to explore this topic and to use the practical information extracted from this book, because already then I was well acquainted with the phenomenon of OOBE (Out Of Body Experience), which I had experienced many times, and some other issues of extrasensory perception.

We will come back to this topic in the following chapters. It is enough to say that Remote Viewing turned out to be a great technique for me, allowing for a much more objective collection of research material using extrasensory perception methods. More on that in the following chapters.

In summary of the history of the Remote Viewing research in the USA, the experiment of passionate researchers became a military intelligence program, and then it came full circle and became knowledge available and usable by all of us.

It was fragment from my ebook “Remote Viewing – Development through perception“, which I share for free here on the website.

Jacob Qba Niegowski