Dear Friends,
We apologize for the length of time it has taken to report on Joe’s most recent trip to Japan for the tenth “FBI: Psychic Investigators” Japanese TV show. He has been inundated with clearing the large numbers of remote viewing tasks from his desk before his upcoming back surgery, while at the same time we’ve also been overwhelmed with last minute details and tasks relative to some ongoing construction projects taking place in our home. Our other formal business commitments and writing have also required continual focus during this period, thus the delay in keeping you updated.
On March 3rd a three-person film team arrived at our home to film Joe’s remote viewing for the television show to be broadcast during prime time in Tokyo April 1st on Channel 4 (Nihon Teribi). The filming director and camera/sound operator flew to Charlottesville, Virginia from Tokyo, arriving with a translator provided from the studio offices located in Los Angeles. As ever, the production assistant had already sent me the names and, when available, the birth dates of the missing people they were looking for. I then put this information in sealed, opaque envelopes, identifying each envelope with a series of different numbers. Attached to each envelope I put a sticky note asking for a description of the target (missing person) and the target’s exact physical location.
For the next two days, Joe was filmed for more than eight hours a day as he produced detailed remote viewing information under totally blind conditions in response to these three targeted individuals. Keep in mind the targets’ locations were unknown to anyone in America or Japan. The director carried Joe’s remote viewing results back to Japan to help locate the missing people, as well as to use for the studio portion of the show which was to be filmed live at the end of the month.
On March 27th Joe and I flew to Tokyo Japan for his 10th appearance on what has become the highest ranked and longest running paranormal show in Japanese history, “Chounouryoku Sousakan” (FBI: Psychic Investigators). As a result of Joe’s remote viewing information, detailed maps and drawings of landmarks, they were able to locate a woman who had been missing for a period exceeding seven years. She was found in a small city to the north-northwest of Osaka, approximately 200 kilometers from the town from which she had disappeared. She has since been reunited with her family and friends. On the show, it was formally announced that Joe had at that point searched for 26 missing individuals and was successful in finding 13, some of whom had been missing as long as 60+ years who even the police and private investigators had been unable to locate after many years of searching.
During the same show, they reported that a woman who had escaped from North Korea into China whom Joe had been tracking for a period of almost two years from location to location, had finally been able to extricate herself from the Mainland and return to her family in Japan. In an interview with studio executives, she reported having followed the specific routes and having been in the specific cities at the same time that Joe had reported her as being in during her travels. At one point she even stated that she had changed locations because she felt that someone was inside her head and was warning her to move to a different location because the Chinese were close behind—an action that was later verified to have saved her from imminent capture, and to have coincided with statements in Joe’s RV reporting. A coincidence? Maybe, but it’s hard to say!
While in Japan, Joe and I made a special pilgrimage to visit the huge, sitting Buddha at Kamakura, which was part of Joe’s intended preparation for his upcoming surgery. Joe’s back surgery will be done this coming Tuesday, June 13th .
Due to the continued deterioration of Joe’s spine (a result of a helicopter accident he experienced in Southeast Asia in the latter part of 1967), the upcoming surgery involves five vertebrae and four disc spaces in his lower back area L-1 through S-1. Dr. Chris Shaffrey with his neurological team and a cardiovascular team will be doing what’s expected to be at least an 8-hour surgical process on Joe starting early Tuesday morning at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. If there are significant complications during surgery and it goes beyond 8 hours, then he will spend three days in the intensive care unit, followed by additional surgery on the 16th of June. Following surgery, Joe will be in the hospital for about seven to ten days, followed by three months of recuperation and approximately one to three months of supervised rehabilitation, some of which may be in the rehabilitation center of the hospital, dependent again on possible complications during surgery. We’re hoping—make that intending and anticipating—that this surgery will eliminate Joe’s intractable back pain, making it a thing of the past.
As usual, Joe’s attitude is extremely positive, and he plans on looking over the doctor’s shoulder during the surgery to watch him work! I’m confident he’ll do extremely well with this, as he has with all the other surgical procedures he’s undergone, and that he will once again astound the medical folks with his speedy recovery. We will keep everyone posted on the outcome of the surgery on this website.
In the meantime, we welcome and would appreciate your good thoughts and prayers for Joe’s successful surgery and swift healing – and for peace of mind and heart for all who love and care for him!
Blessings to all,
Nancy “Scooter” McMoneagle
Pics: Joe & Scooter; Joe & Ed May
