MEMOIRS OF A PSYCHIC SPY
By Joseph McMoneagle
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Meet the Author
JOSEPH W. MCMONEAGLE, CW2, US Army, Ret., CStS
Joe McMoneagle has spent the past 34 years of his professional life developing his expertise as a Remote Viewer and researcher in the unique world of the paranormal. He came to the field with a rich background in the research and development of numerous multi-level technical collection systems designed for United States Army Intelligence. His specific area of educational expertise is within the social and psychological sciences. His experience also includes: ADP equipment and technology management, data systems analysis for mainframe, mini-mainframe, and desktop systems supporting information collection for military and civilian intelligence purposes.
He is owner of Intuitive Intelligenc Applications, Inc., which he started following his retirement from the Army in 1984. His company has provided support to multiple research facilities and corporations across the world. He is also a full time Research Associate with The Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Palo Alto, California for more than 30 years. He also consulted for SRI-International and Science Applications International Corporation, Inc. from 1984 through 1995, participating in protocol design, R&D evaluations, thousands of remote viewing trials in support of both experimental research as well as active intelligence operations for Project STARGATE.
During his career, Joe provided professional intelligence and creative/inovative informational support to the CIA, DIA, NSA, DEA, Secret Service, FBI, US Customs, the NSC, major commands within the DoD, and hundreds of other individuals, companies, and corporations. He successfully demonstrated Remote Viewing, double-blind, under strict scientific control while on-camera for national networks in five countries more than 85 times.
In the Army, he was in charge of his Military Occupational Specialty [MOS] world-wide. He was responsible for all tactical and strategic equipment and tasking, aircraft and vehicles, development of new or future technology as well as all planning, support, maintenance, funding, training, and personnel. He acted as a direct consultant to the Commanding General, United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), Washington D.C., as well as the Army Chief of Staff for Intelligence (ACSI), Pentagon.
In his earlier years, he assisted the Security Officer for a multi-billion dollar overseas intelligence facility, was a Detachment Commander at two remote intelligence collection sites overseas, served on an Air and Sea Rescue team, in Long Range Reconnaissance, as a Quick Reaction Strike Force team leader, and rifleman in war zones. He has earned 28 military decorations and numerous awards, to include a Legion of Merit for his RV support to the Nations Intelligence Community, and he holds the rank of Knight Commander in the Order of St. Stanislas.
Book List
Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001
Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing
Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook
The Stargate Chronicles
The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer’s Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium
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MEMOIRS OF A PSYCHIC SPY
Table of Contents
Foreword by Brig. Gen. L Robert Castorr
What Is Remote Viewing?
Preface to the 2006 Edition
Acknowledgements
Introduction, by Edwin C. May, Ph.D.
Chapter One: Childhood: Troubles and Experience
Chapter Two: From Enlistment through School
Chapter Three: From My First Assignment to a Near-Death Experience
Chapter Four: Reaching the Top
Chapter Five: The Special Project
Chapter Six: A New Remote Viewer
Chapter Seven: A Crisis
Chapter Eight: Fighting the System
Chapter Nine: Downward Spiral
Chapter Ten: The Army and Bob Monroe
Chapter Eleven: End of the Line
Chapter Twelve: Retirement
Chapter Thirteen: Exploring New Territories
Chapter Fourteen: Research
Chapter Fifteen: Mind Trek and Searches
Chapter Sixteen: Put to the Test—on Live TV
Chapter Seventeen: The AIR Report
Chapter Eighteen: Going Public
Chapter Nineteen: Curtain Call
Final Words
Appendix A: Parapsychology in Intelligence: A Personal Review and Conclusions
Appendix B: "Psi Conducive States," Journal of Communications
Appendix C: Legion of Merit and Certificate
Works Cited
Foreword
The Stargate Chronicles [first edition title] is a brilliantly written documentation of a very provocative subject. Its author demonstrates a superb in-depth psychic undertaking of paranormal activities of the mind. His humble beginning in life, coupled with many obstacles and sacrifices made during his military career in addition to death-threatening health conditions, may have given him this incredible, phenomenal gift, the ability to tell this story of bringing the unknown into reality.
It is a must for all to read and then to pause and reflect upon the mystery within.
Those who do not possess an adventurous mind open to the challenging or the unusual, and those who are not willing to explore it, may classify The Stargate Chronicles as an exercise in futility. The unsophisticated or uninformed leave the mysteries of life as simply that–mysteries. But for those who have inquisitive minds, the paranormal experiences described by the author lead to the exploration of baffling questions. Joseph McMoneagle should be recognized as being as much a pioneer in this field as were our astronauts traversing the unthinkable far reaches of outer space.
Brigadier General L. Robert Castorr
United States Army Infantry
Retired OWE, VM, GCSTS, GCPR, CMWS, MV, BSML, OSJ
Ambassador-at-large, The Order of St. Stanislas
What Is Remote Viewing?
Remote viewing is a human ability to produce information about a targeted object, person, place, or event, while being completely isolated from the target by space, time, and other forms of shielding. This isolation is guaranteed by following a very specific scientific protocol. This protocol was developed at Stanford Research Institute in the early 1970s and has become more rigorous and specific since then.
Remote viewing can be considered to have taken place only when the remote viewer and anyone else in the room with the remote viewer are completely blind to the specifically targeted object,
person, place, or event of interest. They must remain blind to the target of interest prior to and during the production of information. In scientific terms, this is called a double-blind condition. That is, the viewer and all the people associated with the viewer are unaware of the target material. There are no exceptions to this protocol.
A specific technique or system used to produce the information is called a "method." Specific methods have been designed for use within a remote viewing protocol. However, regardless of the method used, a method is never considered an acceptable substitute for the protocol.
In common parlance, some of the methods developed for use within a remote viewing protocol are sometimes referred to as "remote viewing." This is not accurate or appropriate. Utilization of such methods outside a valid protocol not only violates the definition of what makes psychic work "remote viewing," but it also violates both the design and intent of the methods themselves.
If any exception to a protocol is made during training in any technique or method, then it is considered a "training method" and not a valid remote viewing protocol.
Psychic functioning, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, and other methods or techniques are considered to be remote viewing when the person using these methods and everyone in the room with that person during information production has been guaranteed blind to the targeted object, person, place, or event. If everyone is blind to the target, they are fulfilling the requirements for a remote viewing protocol.
Preface to the 2006 Paperback Edition
It has been some time since the original release of this book in early 2002 and much has happened. What I find of particular interest is the growing number of writers both on and off the Internet who claim to have been members of the Star Gate Program who never had anything to do with it, or those who had a passing connection who now claim far greater abilities than any human could possess after a lifetime of involvement with psychic functioning. Some have even claimed to have developed sufficient research expertise in six or seven months to magically solve problems that have confounded knowledgeable researchers and investigators for nearly 30 years. A few—gifted with inside access by reason of position or, perhaps, chance—have given in to the weighty burden of ego and now manipulate the unaware public selling magic potions, or lie by omission—leaving out important facts that should have been stated—further raising their dais in the public eye.
Yes, a lot has happened; most of it unreal.
For whatever reason, the remote viewing subject seems to have developed a split personality: one good, one bad. On the good side, remote viewing empowers us and teaches us something about our mental abilities and our sensitivity to the environment in which we live. If we pay careful attention, we can learn more about how we process information and how it is intricately woven into the framework of time within which we exist and operate; how past, present, and future intercorrelate with one another. But, unfortunately, there is a bad side, one filled with sidetracks that lead nowhere. Regrettably, there are a lot of sidetracks and a lot of people using them to make money.
Rather than try to make a living selling remote viewing training, I chose to put it to use in support of people, businesses, police, and those who need it. I created a company called Intuitive Intelligence
Applications in the early 1980s and began providing remote viewing as a service. One guarantee I chose to provide was to never disclose the name of a client or speak about the work that I have done for any of those clients. Obviously this created an immediate problem. Since I didn't teach remote viewing and didn't talk about what I did for my clients, there wasn't much information available about me or what I did. To rectify this problem, I decided to do what others did not—I demonstrated it, and I did so in public.
Beginning with an ABC special in November 1995, I have demonstrated more than 95 remote viewings live and on camera on national television in six countries. This has included looking for 28 missing persons whose names were placed inside sealed envelopes and targeted from my home in Virginia. Many of these individuals have been missing for 10 to 63 years. All were missing in the country of Japan. So far, I have successfully located 11 of these individuals and they have been reunited with their families. My overall success rate for 90 targets currently exceeds 60 percent, all filmed under scientific protocol in front of a live audience.
How do you reach a point in which you can remote view in front of a live television audience? I could say: practice, practice, practice; but I would be lying. There's a lot more to it.
When I first joined the Army and was recruited into Army Intelligence, I had no idea that at some point in my career I would be asked to participate as a psychic in the defense of my nation. I spent 12-plus years overseas doing things most people would never volunteer to do at a time when most wouldn't have volunteered to do them. J was also usually living in conditions that weren't pleasant.
(Not that I would complain. I came from a neighborhood where my living conditions were sometimes worse.) Most of my duties were unpleasant and difficult at best, and contributed to the destruction of two marriages, but I usually did jobs that gave me great personal satisfaction and had tremendous immediate feedback. So when I was asked to volunteer for duty with the Star Gate Program, I knew from the beginning it would be not only demanding but, well . . . thorny. As it turned out, I was only partially correct—it was a whole lot worse.
The ridicule and derision encountered during contact with outside personnel on a week-to-week basis is difficult to relate. At least within the project there were rules—a single and simple protocol, scientific in origin, which was originally developed at SRI-International. This protocol is still followed today. That is what differentiates remote viewing from psychic functioning. It's simply stated: "The psychic is kept totally blind to the target, and anyone else who might be in the room with the psychic is also kept blind to the target." Anything else is a methodology and doesn't really matter—I simply don't care what the argument is.
Of course, there's a lot of other material in this book. Most of it is a story about a young man who joined the Army at a time when it wasn't fashionable to do so; who voluntarily served in Southeast Asia at a time when no one else wanted to; who spent more time overseas than he did in his own homeland, fighting an active mission in a Cold War. Then, when he returned home, he volunteered for duty in a classified project filled with great controversy, performing under tremendous stress in support of every major Intelligence Agency in America, including the CIA, NSA, NSC, DIA, DEA, FBI, DoD, Secret Service, and White House. Going to work each day was like a knife fight in a phone booth.
This is not a book about world-class talent that's right 95 percent of the time. It is about a real talent that sometime fails as much as it succeeds. It's not about what you can buy from someone or teach but what everyone carries inside them, what everyone is born with that is as natural as breathing or walking. This book is as much about exploring the limits of self as it is about pushing back and challenging one's own limits. It's not about dissecting the secrets of how remote viewing works. To date, 100 years of research has failed to crack the code, so I feel that probably isn't going to happen very soon. It goes without saying that this book is about standing up for something simply because it's the right thing to do, even though others automatically ridicule it. But why—why is it the right thing to do?
It doesn't take long to look around and see that we as a nation are in serious trouble. Since September 11, 2001, we have been under a terrible and growing threat of terrorism. Having spent 28 years of my life fighting terrorism, I have a serious concern for what is currently being done to combat this growing threat. If one takes a moment to focus through the clouds of defensive and political posturing, the personalized embarrassment, and the politically motivated reputation enhancements taking place on either side of the ongoing arguments, one of the first things that one will notice is that the face of war and the world has changed dramatically and our way of dealing with it h
asn't.
We are moving into a period when new methods of warfare are being developed and these will be and are already being used against us, and I'm not talking here about some shiny new technology; I'm talking about a "transcendent form of warfare," a warfare of the mind. It's already being fought in new ways that are hardly recognizable. In this style of warfare, the battles are fought with information and mental constructs, exposing seams of weakness never before recognized, first and foremost how we conceptualize threat itself. These are commodities our own people, media, and self-proclaimed skeptics (better termed "debunkers"), in particular, are far too willing to sell, trade, or profit from at the expense of rational action. This is deleterious not only to paranormal subject matter, but to all new forms of counter-intelligence and counter-terrorist activities.
I'm really tired, very tired, of demonstrating what's right about remote viewing and why people should be paying attention to it. Enough is enough. Either mount the horse or get out of the way. If we don't find a way to use what we already know about the proper application of remote viewing to our own advantage someone else will—and that's a very easy prediction to make. All it takes is courage and a will to follow the rules.
So, having said the above, why should I do it? Why would I trash a perfectly good career as an Army Intelligence officer, put up with so much ridicule and irrationality, and take on such a challenge as this? Was it just to become known as a psychic spy? Was it so that I could call myself Remote Viewer #001? Hardly. (This was a classified project buried in the bowels of the Army.) I did it for the same reasons the others did. It was absolutely necessary and needed to be done.
The reason for this entire book is to talk about how and why I made that decision, in the face of overwhelming odds, paralyzing fears, crushing difficulties, stupefying roadblocks, and against the advice of just about everyone closest to me. The short answer is that based on what I read in a classified document one morning back in late 1977, I felt the reality of remote viewing was too important to ignore.
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