Remote Viewing as Applied to Futures Studies
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This opinion piece in a mainstream forecasting journal asks a wild question: could psychic "remote viewing" be useful for predicting the future? The author walks through several remote viewing protocols and highlights eye-catching past results. In one study, remote viewing was used to predict silver market prices, nailing 9 out of 9 correct calls. A large meta-analysis of over 300 precognition experiments found that when four key success factors aligned, 87.5% of studies reached significance. Strangest of all, one researcher found psychic performance spiked 340% at a specific time relative to the stars. The author is a futures studies student rather than an experimental psychologist, so this reads more as enthusiastic synthesis than hard-nosed critique.
Research Notes
Opinion column in a mainstream Elsevier forecasting journal, providing a rare application-oriented perspective on RV. Authored by a graduate student in futures studies, not an experimental psychologist — accessible but lacking critical rigor. Useful for its synthesis of CRV/ARV/ERV protocols and the Spottiswoode sidereal time finding.
Reviews remote viewing protocols — Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV), Associative Remote Viewing (ARV), Extended Remote Viewing (ERV), and Virtual Time Travel — as potential tools for technological forecasting. Summarizes key findings from Targ and Puthoff's SRI experiments (p < .05 in 5 of 6 experiments), Targ's ARV silver futures application (9/9 and 11/12 correct predictions, p = 0.003), Honorton and Ferrari's meta-analysis of 309 forced-choice precognition experiments (87.5% significant with all four success factors present), and Spottiswoode's discovery of a 340% increase in anomalous cognition effect size at 13.5h local sidereal time (p = 0.001). Concludes remote viewing merits further exploration as a futurist tool.
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Lee, James H (2008). Remote Viewing as Applied to Futures Studies. Technological Forecasting & Social Change. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2006.09.001
@article{lee_2008_remote_viewing_futures,
title = {Remote Viewing as Applied to Futures Studies},
author = {Lee, James H},
year = {2008},
journal = {Technological Forecasting & Social Change},
doi = {10.1016/j.techfore.2006.09.001},
}