Live RV on National Geographic
Onto another topic… There used to be a day when you could trust a name like National Geographic. These were the folks who ferreted out the truth with cameras. I remember as a child sitting for hours in front of the television simply because National Geographic was going to show films of Africa, the undersea world, or something special about the world I otherwise wouldn’t have been able to see. They were the guys who went out there and found the truth and shot it for us folks who would never have the opportunity to otherwise see it. There was never any question as to their honesty. They’d never engineer a lie!
So let’s review exactly how my remote viewing segment, totally controlled by National Geographic, was filmed for National level television. We gave them the scientific rules for a hard core, replicable, double-blind remote viewing experiment. We told them it had been replicated in our lab and a number of other labs across the world thousands of times with significant results under the same conditions, and proffered the research for review. We also offered to put them in contact with other scientists who had also run exactly the same protocols in those labs. They accepted both the materials and the contact information. This is how the experiment was run:
1) They brought in their own person to select a large number of possible target sites within the San Francisco Bay area. This person was never introduced to me and was put up in a hotel in a completely different town. The name of the person and the town were not shared with either me or Dr. Ed May. This was to insure that we would never meet with nor contact this person throughout the experiment or the shoot.
2) All of the locations that had been selected as possible target sites were photographed and were kept under lock and key, secured by a law firm which was hired by National Geographic, also unknown to either Ed or me.
3) On the day of the shoot, the target was randomly chosen at the law firm and was carried to the location of the filming by a police officer who was hired by National Geographic. He carried a sealed envelope containing the target site to which an Outbounder was to travel. He also carried a sealed envelope containing five photographs, one of the actual target site and four additional sites which were bogus sites for judging. All of these had been prepared so that no one had touched them, so there were no fingerprints on them to tip anyone as to which site was the actual target site. He also carried a sealed envelope with a photograph of the Outbounder contained inside who no one up until that point had seen.
4) The Outbounder went directly from the law firm to the randomly selected site (at least I believe so, as they never told me exactly how the Outbounder got there.)
5) Once the cameras were rolling, Ed was handed the sealed target and the sealed envelope with the Outbounder’s photograph. He opened the Outbounder photo envelope and showed me the Outbounder photo. He asked me if I had ever seen the woman before. I said no. He then asked me to describe where she was standing.
6) I described and drew the actual target in less than 30 seconds. “Circle of dirt or gravel, with an art form in the middle. Flat.”
7) It was done so fast in fact, the National Geographic observer was extremely disappointed. So, I then said; “Gee, I guess that’s not much for a National level television show, is it.” I thought for a moment about the target. Then said; “So, why don’t I describe exactly how the Outbounder got to the targeted site,” which I then proceeded to do.
8) That is when I produced the drawings of the arches and entry into the area. When I was finished, I was asked to leave the area and they then handed the packet of five photographs to Ed. To reiterate, care had been taken to insure that no one had ever handled any of the five photographs inside the packet, so there would be no hints as to which photograph was actually the real target. Ed, who usually takes quite a bit of time and care to do his judging, took less than a minute to give me a first place match to the actual target site based on my drawings. He said on film that it was quite clear from my drawings which place was the target.
9) The Producer then called the Outbounder to ask where she was actually located. On finding out where she actually was, he asked that I sit in the front seat of the van so the man filming could film my reactions to our arrival at the site. He later told me he knew that what I had drawn was nearly a perfect rendition of the actual target.
10) Arriving at the site, we found two police officers who were not part of the production. One was California Highway Patrol who had been assigned to Home Security for Anti-Terrorism. He had seen them photographing down along the edge of the bridge and drove down to make sure they weren’t doing something wrong. The other man was State Security and he had arrived for the same reason. Both stayed when they heard that I was doing the RV, and had called in to their superiors for permission to stay so they could meet me. Both reviewed all of the materials. Both officers said based on what they saw, they would have gone directly to the bridge based on my drawings alone. They were both impressed, and I was asked to sign and autograph their day logs for both them and their Watch Commanders.
All through dinner that evening, all the producer and other personnel from National Geographic did was talk about how amazing the experience was and how they simply could not believe what they had witnessed. It was very clear that they were convinced that it was successful, replicable, and real. That was my 86th live demonstration of double-blind remote viewing on national level television, and at the time I was running an approximate 88% success rate.
By National Geographic standards, it’s a failure, non-scientific, non-replicable, and a waste of time. In the future, I might travel to Hell with their film crew to see snow balls form, but only if they bring their check book.
