MARA have engaged in its own remote viewing (RV) program to see if it is possible to train individuals to remote view objects which are either distant from the remote viewer or separated from the remote viewer by a boundary such as a wall.  We are using some of the principles outlined in Project Stargate which was the USA's psychic spying project.  We are aware that published documents about project Stargate might be misinformation and hence we are trying different approaches too.  For more information on Remote viewing, I recommend this website http://www.stargate.net-hed.co.uk

One of MARA's pilot RV experiments involved a member who went to the USA on holiday who acted as a transmitter of what he was viewing.  The time on the East coast of the USA was 3:00pm and it was 8:00pm BST in the UK when a MARA meeting was being held.  The group was split into two halves and one half was told to remote view the transmitters thoughts while the other half were told to just imagine anything and draw it (the control group).  The transmitter took photographs of what he was viewing and these are shown below along with the diagram that one of our participants drew.

The picture on the left shows a vehicle outside a UFO museum and the middle picture is of a Dennys fast food restaurant. The diagram on the right is what one of our participants drew during the experiment.  The diagram drawer claimed that the ellipse above the vehicle is a flying saucer shining light beams down on the vehicle.  Dunkin doughnuts is another form of fast food restaurant and this was written on the diagram.  The bad news is that the person who drew the diagram was in the control group, not the RV group and in theory, anything she drew which matches the transmitter must be pure co-incidence.  RV requires a state of relaxation in order to achieve any success and it is just possible that our participant who (regularly meditates) was relaxed more than the other members and remote viewed the transmitters thoughts by accident.  I understand that this is speculation and I am not claiming that this is correct, just that it is a possibility.  We have not achieved such a success with subsequent experiments and it is possible that we have experienced something which is documented called the 'first time effect'.  The first time effect is analogous to beginners luck but quite often happens in RV experiments. The explanation for it is that the subconscious brain must be used to RV a target and this works the first time someone remote views, but the conscious brain then takes over because it doesn't like the subconscious to be in control of any part of brain activity during consciousness.  Subsequent RV attempts fail because the conscious brain blocks the signal line until intensive training is undergone to suppress the conscious brain.

Experiment carried out on 28th March 2003

We have taken to performing RV experiments at our monthly meetings by placing unknown small targets outside the meeting room and asking people to observe them by RV.  We usually make two experiments whereby we have someone observing the target and transmitting their thoughts to the rest of the group for two experiments and a further two experiments with no transmitter, with members passively observing the small targets outside of the room.  The results shown below are the best results we had on the meeting held on the 28th March2003.  MARA make no claims to these being evidence of RV working as it should do, but the results below are shown as an example for the public who maybe interested in RV.

Experiment 3 involving passive observation of an object outside the meeting room.  Our Remote viewer wrote the words glass object and drew the diagram on the left of the object which was the light bulb shown below.

Experiment 4 was again passive observation of an object outside the room which was a 60 ml plastic syringe with blue writing on it.  One of our members wrote the words Blue and Plastic and drew the diagram on the left which looks like plunger end of the syringe.  Another member in the same experiment did not write any descriptive words but drew a diagram which looked like the needle end of the syringe.

Update 1st August 2003

After several months of experiments were we didn't get any hits at MARA meetings, we decided to change tactics because we knew that the meeting room was not the best place to perform RV experiments so we are now embarking on co-ordinate remote viewing (CRV).  Once a month, I will place an object on my dining room table and leave it there for a whole weekend and invite MARA members to RV that object and bring a diagram of it along to the next MARA meeting.  A reference number is given to each object but this is not the grid coordinates of my house, it is simply a reference number.  This is documented as being an important part of the RV procedure.  

At our last meeting on 25th July 2003, we appeared to have a hit with the same member who had the hits in the first 3 pictures on this page.  The object and the RV diagram are shown below.  Notice how the looping pattern of the 3rd diagram matches that of the looping pattern of the string on the cat scratch pole which was the target.  The looping pattern axis on the diagram is rotated through 90 degrees compared to the target but this is a well documented phenomenon in remote viewing.

Bill Bimson

Target:  Cat scratch pole with looping pattern of string                   RV diagram with looping pattern in the 3rd diagram