ABOUT IRVA
The International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA) was organized March 18, 1999, by selected scientists and practitioners meeting in Alamogordo, New Mexico in conjunction with the first professional conference on Remote Viewing in Ruiduso, New Mexico.
The concluded objective was to create an organization that would provide a mechanism for evaluating the discipline called "remote viewing", encourage scientifically sound research, propose ethical standards and provide overview educational information to the public.
One of IRVA's major tasks is to maintain a credible and responsible Remote-Viewing focused internet site which presents.....
- Key existing published scientific findings
- Newly-Breaking scientific published articles
- Current educational options/considerations
- Standardized On-Line testing
Founding Members
Photo courtesy of Robert Knight
(standing - left to right) Hal Puthoff, David Hathcock, John Alexander,
Lyn Buchannan, Paul Smith, Skip Atwater, Angela Thompson-Smith,
Marcello Truzzi, (seated) Russell Targ & Stephan Schwartz
Current Executive Board:
John B. Alexander, Ph. D., Colonel, US Army (ret), of Las Vegas, Nevada, author of recently published Winning the War, a sequel to Future War: Non-lethal Weapons in Twenty-first-century Warfare, and of The Warrior’s Edge. In 1980 his seminal article The New Mental Battlefield, describing how psychic warfare might be employed on the battlefield, was published in Military Review. As a staff officer in the early 1980s working directly under Gen. Burt Stubblebine, Commanding General for the US Army Intelligence and Security Command, Col. Alexander was prominent in INSCOM’s programs for exploring human potentials. He currently is the science director for a private research organization in Las Vegas, NV.
Leonard Buchanan, Sergeant First Class, US Army (ret.), Remote Viewer, Database Manager, Property Book Officer and Trainer in the US Army Remote Viewing Unit from 1984 to 1992; author of The Seventh Sense; currently Executive Director of Problems>Solutions>Innovations, a Controlled Remote Viewing Training Enterprise, and founder of the Assigned Witness Program, a non-profit CRV applications and research corporation based in New Mexico.
William P. Eigles, is a former telecommunications attorney who has been a longtime aficionado of remote viewing and many other forms of paranormal cognition. Currently serving as the managing editor of Aperture, IRVA's quarterly publication, he is a writer, advocate, and noetic advisor.
William F. Higgins, is a businessman from New York City, a former FBI agent and Naval Reserve officer who has been associated with Remote Viewing and psychokinesis research since 1989.
Stephan A. Schwartz, Research Director of the Mobius Group, and an Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. Author and researcher in extraordinary human performance for more than 30 years, focusing on anthropology and parapsychology. Stephan's most recent book is Mind Rover: Explorations with Remote Viewing; his two classics, The Alexandria Project (1983) and The Secret Vaults of Time (1978), were revised and reissued in 2000. He has written and produced a considerable body of work in documentary film.
Paul H. Smith, Major, US Army (ret.), seven-year veteran of the military remote viewing program and author of the remote-viewing program’s CRV training manual; author of the soon to be released Reading the Enemy's Mind; and, President and Chief Instructor for Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., of Austin, Texas.
Russell Targ, of Palo Alto, California, physicist and author, founder of Bay Research Institute ESP Research; and recently retired senior staff scientist from Lockheed-Martin. Russell was a pioneer in the development of remote viewing and cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute's investigation into psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s. Russell has authored many titles including recently released Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness. President Emeritus of IRVA.
Dr. Jessica Utts, professor of statistics at the University of California at Davis. She spent a year as a Visiting Scientist with the Remote Viewing Program at SRI International in 1988-89 and was a consultant for the duration of the program at SRI and SAIC. Dr. Utts was one of the evaluators of the government remote viewing program when it was declassified in 1995 (see the AIR report).
OFFICERS:
President - Paul H. Smith
Vice President - William F. Higgins
Treasurer - Sandra Ray
Secretary - John Stahler
Founders Emeriti:
Advisor Emeritus: H. E. Puthoff, Ph.D., of Austin, Texas, theoretical and experimental physicist; Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin.
Organizing Facilitator: David Hathcock, Retired Business Executive
Past Advisor: Marcello Truzzi, Ph. D., Professor of Sociology at Eastern Michigan University; Director of the Independent Center for Scientific Anomalies Research (CSAR). Marcello remained an advisor to IRVA from it's founding meeting until his death. His insightful guidance will be missed.
Past Presidents:
- [2004-2006] Stephan A. Schwartz
- [2002-2004] F. Holmes Atwater, Captain, US Army (ret.), Operations and Training Officer of the US Army Remote Viewing Unit from 1977 to 1987; currently Research Director at The Monroe Institute in Nellysford, Virginia; Author of Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living with Guidance.
- [1999 - 2002] Russell Targ