Remote Viewing (R.V.) is the practice of seeking to obtain impressionistic information about a remote, distant or unseen target (person, place, object etc.) through the employment of extrasensory perception (ESP).

Similarly, remote Influencing (R.I.) is the practice of seeking to affect a distant or unseen target (person, place, object, etc.) through the employment of psychokinesis to biological systems.

Co-creators of Remote Viewing and the infamous Stargate Project include Dr. Harold (Hal) E. Puthoff, Ph.D., Quantum Electronics — Co-founder and Vice President, Science and Technology at To the Stars Academy of Arts and Science, President and CEO of EarthTech International, and owner of its research division: the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin (a privately-funded research organization exploring novel ideas in basic and applied physics and engineering)— Russell Targ, BSc, Physics, previous President at Bay Research Institute and author of such works as “THE REALITY OF ESP: A PHYSICIST’S PROOF OF PSYCHIC ABILITIES,” producer of the Third Eye Spies and inspiration behind the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats. The SRI remote viewing project also encompassed the work of such consulting “consciousness researchers” as the late artist/writer Ingo Swann (1933-2013) who was dubbed the “Scientific Psychic”.

Initial research into the process of remote viewing commenced at SRI International, with experiments that caught the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Swann is credited with proposing the idea of controlled remote viewing (CRV), which is the process by which viewers would “view” an undisclosed location with no information but geographical coordinates in a highly controlled manner.

Stargate Project was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1978 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and the Standford Research Institute (SRI International ), which is an American not-for-profit scientific research institute and were tasked with the investigation into the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications. The project, and its precursor/sister projects, went by various code names until 1991 when they were consolidated and renamed as “Stargate Project.” In 1991, the research program was transferred to Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) as part of the Stargate Project. While the SRI projects were classified at the time, the research materials were subsequently made public in 1995, and a summary of the early history of SRI and the origins of Stargate was published the following year.

In November 2001, there was an article by Michael Persinger published in The Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences. The results with Swann suggested that during his remote viewing there were associated measurable changes in brain activity. There was bipolar electroencephalographic activity over the occipital, temporal and frontal lobes. Persinger concluded that there was “significant congruence” between the stimuli and Swann’s electroencephalographic activity. ” The Neuropsychiatry of Paranormal Experiences — Persinger 13 (4): 515 — J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci”. Neuro.psychiatryonline.org. doi:10.1176/appi.neuropsych.13.4.515. Retrieved 6 January 2010.