I haven't seen "Sunshine Makers" - does it get into Scully's involvement in the SRI Remote Viewing program at all?
@longtheriverrun My impression is it's more "We Thought We Were Saving the World But It All Went Sideways" than " I Was A Nuke Physicist Who Worked For CIA."
An interview with Scully where he talks about his paranormal experiences but doesn't mention SRI or Remote Viewing highexistence.com
Remote Viewing was one of the few SRI programs where CIA involvement was undeniable and they had to admit to it with a very elaborate story
about how the CIA needed to close the psychic gap with the USSR so they hired all these high-energy physicists to study parapsychology.
"CIA-Initiated Remote Viewing Program at Stanford Research Institute" - Hal Puthoff web.archive.org
Puthoff was an Operathing Thetan Level 7 while doing this work for the CIA at SRI.
Btw Puthoff's partner Russell Targ was the inspiration for the Egon Spengler character in Ghostbusters
Scully's Aquarius Electronics built "ESP Training Machines" for this project based on Targ's designs #v=onepage&q=%22aquarius%20electronics%22%20%22russell%20targ%22&f=false" target="_blank" rel="noopener" onclick="event.stopPropagation()">books.google.com
Btw Atari founder Noah Bushnell also got his start building "pizza parlor" ESP testing machines wearethemutants.com
(I'd just link to the @hylo_cereus thread on this stuff but I think they're taking a break right now)
Targ's background was in lasers, and Scully, before joining the LSD underground, was a nuclear physicist
Maybe this made them good candidates for measuring psi-waves, or maybe this is all an example of the information warfare practices SRI
developed while researching radar jammers and stealth aircraft going into effect and Remote Viewing was all theater that covered for
something else - possibly spy satellites, given how often remote viewers were viewing Soviet military installations or urban guerrilla
maneuvers in Beirut, or possibly some human-intelligence infiltration of these targets ("Our collaboration with Soviet Parapsychologists
was a turing point in the Cold War") or maybe this was some nefarious experimentation in electroshock + induced hallucinations.
Remote viewers trying to find Terry Anderson in Beirut
1974 NY Times article on the "Inner Space Craze" has the whole gang plus Israeli con artist Uri Geller nytimes.com
Andrija Puharich, Geller's handler, is also profiled. Puharich played himself on an episode of Perry Mason about ESP
So between Targ / Spengler and Puharich / Perry Mason that's like 20 years of these guys getting Much Serious ESP Science into pop culture.
I mean, if the NY Times reports on hyper-intelligent alien supercomputer Phombus 4D then it must be real
This kind of raised-eyebrow dismissal from the NY Times was the 1970's verson of "lol CIA" - just aging hippies scamming the Pentagon.
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