IRVA News
IRVA Announces Executive Officer Elections
Pam Coronado has been elected as the new President of IRVA.
Pam, star of the popular television series, Sensing Murder, has been involved in psi criminal work
since 1996 and has consulted as a psychic detective to government and private agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
on some of the nation's highest profile crimes. A constant advocate for victims and their families, she is the
founder of the non-profit
Project Search for Hope.
Pam also provides training
for those interested in assisting with psychic detective work.
William F. Higgins has been elected as the new Treasurer of IRVA.
Bill is a businessman from New York City, a former Special Agent with the Federal
Bureau of Investigation, and a Naval Reserve officer who has been associated with remote viewing and psychokinesis
research since 1989. As former director of PEAR Inc., he assisted in the funding of their process patent on the
effect of intention on random events. He is a former vice-president of IRVA, and currently a director and
vice-president of the Rhine Research Center.
The Remote Viewing World Mourns the Loss of a Legend
Photo by Dr. Elmar R. Gruber
Often referred to as the "father" of remote viewing, and the originator of the coordinate remote viewing (CRV) protocol,
Ingo Swann passed away this week from complications after a stroke. He was 79.
Ingo Swann worked with over 38 cutting-edge researchers in the fields of parapsychology and cognitive perception, with an additional
14 projects governed by non-disclosure agreements. His early 1970-1972 work with parapsychology researchers based in New York produced
results that attracted international attention and acclaim. By 1973, with thousands of experimental trials counted up, he was broadly
noted as parapsychology's most tested "guinea-pig."
However, he is best known for his long-term association with Dr. Hal Puthoff at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). This work
(between 1972 and 1988 in the field of remote viewing) achieved high luminosity because of sponsorship by U.S. intelligence and military
agencies. Through these years, hundreds of thousands of experimental trials contributed to increases of knowledge that had not been attained elsewhere.
IRVA 2012 Conference DVDs Now Available
For those of you that missed the 2012 IRVA Remote Viewing Conference, DVD videos of the proceedings are now available in the
IRVA Video Store.
The complete set of 16 DVDs are available for $319 (a 20% discount), or individual presentations can be purchased for $24.95 each.
The 2012 offerings include presentations by Skip Atwater, Marsha Adams, Marty Rosenblatt, Melvin Morse, Russell Targ, Jim Channon,
Kit Green, Paul H. Smith, Lori Williams, Glenn Wheaton, Courtney Brown, Angela Thompson Smith, Tom McNear, Lyn Buchanan, Pam Coronado,
Debra Lynne Katz, and Lance William Beem.
Volunteer Subjects Needed for Parapsychological Study
The 2012 Warcollier Prize winner, the Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies (INACS), is looking for healthy volunteers to participate
in a study of remote searching, which is sometimes referred to as grid dowsing. Volunteers will use a pendulum and
string to dowse for a familiar object in an unknown location on a hidden coordinate grid. INACS is strongly encouraging
participation both by people who are skeptical about whether dowsing works and by those who are convinced that it
does work. In addition, INACS would especially like to encourage anyone who has received formal professional training
in either remote viewing or dowsing to volunteer for this study. Volunteers will receive a free, one-year membership
to INACS for their participation in the study. For more information, or to apply, please visit the INACS website at
INACS.
New Issue of Aperture Now Available!
The Spring/Summer 2012 issue features: Russell Targ on a physicist's view of psychic abilities; Angela Thompson Smith on
extended remote viewing; Primasita Seery on remote viewing on the asymmetric battlefield; and Jed Bendix interviews Ingo Swann
trained remote viewer and former Ft. Meade Remote Viewing Unit Commander, Bill Ray.
The new online Aperture is available in two formats: a downloadable Adobe PDF
file, and a full color printed version that can be purchased (at cost), from MagCloud,
and delivered to your door.
Members can download their copy by logging-in when requested. Click the "lost password" link if this is your first time
logging-in.
New Member Benefits!
IRVA is proud to announce an array of new member benefits, including streaming conference video, Aperture back issues,
and online access to the declassified CIA Star gate archives! Members can access the new benefits by logging-in when requested.
Click the "lost password" link if this is your first time logging-in.
Not a member? Join now for instant access.
Close to 70 hours of streaming video from the years 2000-2004 are now available on-line for IRVA members to view.
Included are presentations by Ingo Swann, Hal Puthoff, Russell Targ, Cleve Backster, Charles Tart, Jack Houck, Skip Atwater,
Lyn Buchanan, Pam Coronado, Stephan Schwartz, Angela Thompson Smith, Paul H. Smith, Jessica Utts, and many more.
Each of the IRVA Aperture publications (20 issues), plus the current spring/summer issue, are now available on the IRVA web
site for members to read or download.
The Central Intelligence Agency's Star Gate Archives are now available in
an easy-to-access online format featuring over 12,000 declassified documents. The included Guide to the Archives is derived
from the Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc. (RVIS) Guide to the Central Intelligence Agency's Star Gate Collection
Archives, and has been adapted for this online edition with the generous permission of
RVIS, Inc.
New Addition to the IRVA Public Library
IRVA has added a new section to the IRVA public library that features links to YouTube and other videos
related to remote viewing. Included is a presentation by Hal Puthoff; interviews with Ingo Swann, Russell Targ,
and Joe McMoneagle; an "Outbounder" experiment with Hella Hammid; and the 1995 ABC Nightline segment that broke the story of
the U.S. government's use of remote viewing.
Remote Viewer and Intuitive Survey
Dr. Dominique Surel and Doctoral candidate Anna Haight from the Energy Medicine University are conducting a short survey
to begin exploring possible characteristics and trends of professional intuitives and trained remote viewers.
If you are a remote viewer, and have a few moments to complete the online survey, your participation in the project would be appreciated.
The results will be compiled and analyzed, and the resulting paper will be published in a future issue of Aperture.
To participate, please complete this brief survey.
(THE SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED -- THANK YOU TO THOSE THAT PARTICIPATED)
Board of Directors Election
IRVA would like to welcome back Angela Thompson Smith, Ph.D., to the IRVA Board of Directors.
Angela is a founding member of IRVA and has wide experience in research and management. She was a staff member with the Princeton
Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory, a Research Coordinator with the Bigelow Foundation, and a published author of
several books and research papers.
Over the past 9 years she has worked as a private business contractor for individuals, businesses, and organizations around the
United States and abroad. She currently works as a life coach and remote viewing trainer in Boulder City, NV.
For more information about Angela, please visit her website at
Mindwise Consulting.
IRVA Concludes a Successful 2012 Conference
The International Remote Viewing Association, would like to express its appreciation to each conference attendee, speaker and
volunteer for helping to make the 2012 Conference and the celebration of the 40th anniversary of remote viewing such a success.
Our attendees and speakers came from many cities and countries, and
their participation in the sessions, workshops and events contributed to making the conference a fun and educational experience.
IRVA and IRIS-PA Award The 2012 Warcollier Prize
The International Remote Viewing Association, in collaboration with IRIS-Psi & Applications (IRIS-PA), is pleased to announce the winner
of the 2012 René Warcollier Prize. The winners of this year's award are Robert Price, Ph.D., principal investigator, and co-investigators
Sirley M. Bonham, Ph.D., James L. King, Jan A.E. Six, Ph.D.
In order to conduct a blind study, and not bias participating remote viewers, the title and abstract of the winning submission is
being withheld until publication of the results. The results of the study will be published in June 2013.
IRVA 2012 Master of Ceremonies, Bill Ray Interview On Coast To Coast AM
Photo by Robert M. Knight
Date: May 31, 2012
Host: George Noory
Guest: William "Bill" Ray
A professional Intelligence Officer with 50 years of service with the US Army, Bill Ray, will talk about how he was trained to be a remote
viewer at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) by Ingo Swann in the late 8Os. He'll discuss the current state of remote viewing, and the
various ways the technique has been used to gather intelligence, as well as how it can benefit individuals.
Seeing dead people: 'Remote viewers' in Nevada help solve California murder
Photo by Leila Navidi
Las Vegas Sun
By Joe Schoenmann
Saturday, May 5, 2012
"When practitioners of paranormal 'remote viewing' gather here in June, they will enjoy a little more swagger than in the past.
Last year, a California court convicted a swindler of murder in a case that was solved partly, the lead police investigator said,
with the help of remote viewing, a type of extrasensory perception (ESP) that was studied by the U.S. military starting in the 1970s
as a way to gather intelligence . . ."
IRVA 2012 Remote Viewing Conference
Photo by Robert M. Knight
This year we will be celebrating the 40th anniversary of remote viewing, commemorating the day in June 1972 when Hal Puthoff
and Ingo Swann executed their remote viewing magnetometer experiment at the Stanford Research Institute. The speakers at the anniversary conference will discuss remote viewing, alternative training, research, the future of remote viewing, and the past.
Our speaker line up is now complete, and we are honored to announce Christopher (Kit) Green, M.D., Ph.D., as our keynote speaker.
Dr. Green is a former analyst at the CIA's Office of Scientific and Weapons Intelligence, and the CIA contract monitor assigned to
the Stanford Research Institute remote viewing project.
Our distinguished speakers include Marsha Adams; Skip Atwater; Courtney Brown, Ph.D.;
Lyn Buchanan; Jim Channon; Pam Coronado; Melvin Morse, M.D.; Tom McNear; Angela Thompson Smith, Ph.D.; Paul H. Smith, Ph.D.; Russell Targ;
Glenn Wheaton and Lori Williams.
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IRVA and IRIS-PA Sponsor the René Warcollier Prize
The International Remote Viewing Association, in collaboration with IRIS-Psi & Applications (IRIS-PA), is pleased to announce the
competition for an international research award in order to encourage original research on all aspects of remote viewing, and to uphold
distinguished examples of fresh research with a view to engaging intellectual attention on the future role of remote viewing.
The Warcollier Prize is a $3,000 USD financial prize jointly created by IRVA and IRIS-PA, to be presented to the winner of a judged
competition for the best research proposal investigating some aspect of remote viewing at the IRVA 2012 Remote Viewing Conference.
Announcing IRVA 2012 Call For Papers
The IRVA 2012 Remote Viewing Conference seeks to provide a
forum for the presentation and discussion of remote viewing. Our aim is to enrich the issues
and contribute to the understanding of remote viewing with empirical research and an overall perspective.
We solicit submissions in any area that explores issues relevant to remote viewing or related fields. Appropriate topics include
remote viewing history, philosophy, theory, practice, training techniques, research, etc. Innovative contributions that do
not fit within these parameters will also be considered if they may be of interest to conference attendees.
The conference will be held June 15-17, 2012, at the Green Valley Ranch in Las Vegas, Nevada.
(Download the Call for Papers.)
Next Issue of Aperture Now Available!
We received such a positive response from the last issue of Aperture that we decided to provide one more issue free to the public.
IRVA members and friends can download the Fall/Winter 2012 issue from the IRVA website. Subsequent issues will only be available
to members through the IRVA forum and newsgroup.
The FallWinter 2012 issue contains: "The Hemi-Sync® Effect", "ARV", "Meditation", "Las Vegas 2011", "Monitoring"
and a review of "Tell Me What You See".
The new online Aperture is available in two formats: a downloadable Adobe PDF
file, and a full color printed version that can be purchased (at cost), from MagCloud,
and delivered to your door.
IRVA Announces Board Member Changes
Pam Coronado has been elected to the IRVA Board of Directors.
Pam, star of the popular television series, Sensing Murder, has been involved in psi criminal work
since 1996 and has consulted as a psychic detective to government and private agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation,
on some of the nation's highest profile crimes. A constant advocate for victims and their families, she is the founder of the non-profit
Project Search for Hope. Pam also provides training
for those interested in assisting with psychic detective work.
Glenn B. Wheaton, Sergeant First Class, US Army (ret.), has been elected to the IRVA Board of Directors.
Glenn is the co-founder and president of the non-profit
Hawaii Remote Viewer's Guild dedicated to the research and training of remote viewing. He is a retired military intelligence professional having
served in the Army Security Agency and later in Special Forces. He retired in 1993 as Senior SIGINT Advisor
for the 1st Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, and currently works in Honolulu as a radio frequency engineer.
To allow for the addition of the new directors, Stephan A. Schwartz and Russell Targ have graciously offered to move to IRVA's Board
of Advisors. We thank them for their long and dedicated service on the Board of Directors, and welcome them in their new role. We also want
to thank and acknowledge the efforts of William P. Eigles, a long-time officer, director of IRVA, and managing editor of Aperture, who
stepped down from the board in September to pursue other activities.
IRVA 2011 Conference DVDs Now Available
For those of you that missed the 2011 IRVA Remote Viewing Conference, DVD videos of the proceedings are now available in the
IRVA Video Store.
The complete set of 13 DVDs are available for $259 (a 20% discount), or individual presentations can be purchased for $24.95 each.
The 2011 offerings include presentations by Dick Allgire, Stephan Schwartz, Lyn Buchanan, David J. Oates, Lori Williams, Courtney Brown,
Marty Rosenblatt, Paul H. Smith, Christopher C. Smith, Alexis Champion, Jim Channon, Pam Coronado, Melvin Morse, Glenn Wheaton, Stephen Braude,
Debra Lynne Katz, and Jeffrey W. Smith.
Aperture Now Online And In Color
All of us love paper, and we love the pleasure of finding a new issue of Aperture in the mail. However,
making Aperture available online will help IRVA "go green," and also reduce expenses so we can keep our membership
dues as low as possible.
Starting with the next issue, members will find Aperture on their computer, and not in their mailbox. We hope you will
understand and appreciate our efforts, and enjoy the convenience of the new online color version.
IRVA members and friends can download the introductory online Summer/Fall
issue from the IRVA website for free. Subsequent issues will only be available to members through the IRVA forum and newsgroup.
The Spring/Summer issue contains: "Forensic Remote Viewing: the Mackenzie Cowell Murder Case", "Paris 2011: the Remote Viewing
Conference", "Conscious Research and the Mind-Body Problem", "My PEAR Experiment", "Meetings with the Matrix", and a review of "The
Gold Leaf Lady".
The new online Aperture is available in two formats: a downloadable Adobe PDF
file, and a full color printed version that can be purchased (at cost), from MagCloud,
and delivered to your door.
IRVA Launches FOCAL POINT Target Discussion Group
FOCAL POINT is a service for IRVA members who wish to actively remote view new
practice targets.
A new target will be posted every two weeks.
After two weeks, the target feedback will be provided, and members can upload their sessions and discuss the results. All remote viewing
methodologies and skill levels are welcome!
IRVA's Board Elects Hopton and Becera
IRVA proudly announces the addition of Cheryle L. Hopton to the Board of Directors, and Jason D. Becera
to the office of Secretary.
Cheryle has been a self employed graphic artist and web designer
since 1995, after having worked in the securities industry for many years in various management positions, and also as a consultant
for James McClatchy and McClatchy Newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently serves as IRVA's Vice President, managing editor of
Aperture, moderator for the IRVA forum and newsgroups, and coordinator of IRVA's annual conferences.
Jason currently resides on the island of Oahu, Hawaii and is employed as a Network Analyst for the
Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). Jason's interests in parapsychology subjects started in the early 1990's, and in 1996 he began
his Remote Viewing training with Glenn Wheaton, President of the Hawaii Remote Viewers' Guild (HRVG). Jason is a certified instructor of the HRVG
methodology and has been a member of the Hawaii Remote Viewers' Guild since 1996.
IRVA Concludes a Successful 2011 Conference
The International Remote Viewing Association, would like to express its appreciation to each conference attendee, speaker and
volunteer for helping to make the 2011 Conference a success. Our attendees and speakers came from many cities and countries, and
their participation in the sessions, workshops and events contributed to making the conference a fun and educational experience.
Based on our conference survey everyone loved the Green Valley Ranch Resort, and we are pleased to announce that the next IRVA
conference will be held at the same hotel, June 15-17, 2012.
IRVA and IRIS-PA Award the René Warcollier Prize
The International Remote Viewing Association, in collaboration with IRIS-Psi & Applications, is pleased to announce the
winner of the 2011 Rene Warcollier prize. The winners of this year's award are Lance William Beem, principal investigator, and co-investigators,
Debra Katz, Melvin Morse, MD, and John Peter Thompson.
In order to conduct a blind study, and not bias participating remote viewers, the title and abstract of the winning submission is being withheld until publication of the results. The results of the study will be presented at IRVA 2012.
The Warcollier Prize is an annual financial prize to be presented to the winner of a judged
competition for the best research proposal investigating some aspect of remote viewing.
Stephen E. Braude to present IRVA 2011 Keynote
Stephen E. Braude is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Department at the University of Maryland Baltimore County.
He is also Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration. He will present "Psi and the Nature of Abilities."
Prof. Braude is past President of the Parapsychological Association and is the recipient of several grants and fellowships, has
published more than 60 philosophical essays in prominent journals, and has written five books: ESP and Psychokinesis: A Philosophical
Examination; The Limits of Influence: Psychokinesis and the Philosophy of Science; First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the
Philosophy of Mind; Immortal Remains: The Evidence for Life After Death; and most recently, The Gold Leaf Lady and Other Parapsychological
Investigations, which describes Prof. Braude's own encounters with the paranormal.
IRVA Launches New Merchandise Store
Help support IRVA by visiting the new IRVA merchandise store powered by Zazzle! IRVA branded products including mousepads,
key-rings, buttons, stickers, t-shirts, polo shirts, sweatshirts, hats, and coffee mugs, make great gifts and start for as little as $2.95.
Of course, we continue to offer our series of Remote Viewing Conference DVDs and Ingo Swann books, and you can also help IRVA
by starting your Amazon shopping through the link at the right.
IRVA and IRIS-PA Sponsor the René Warcollier Prize
The International Remote Viewing Association, in collaboration with IRIS-Psi & Applications (IRIS-PA), is pleased to announce the
competition for an international research award in order to encourage original research on all aspects of remote viewing, and to uphold
distinguished examples of fresh research with a view to engaging intellectual attention on the future role of remote viewing.
The Warcollier Prize is a financial prize jointly created by the IRVA and IRIS-PA, to be presented to the winner of a judged
competition for the best research proposal investigating some aspect of remote viewing at the IRVA 2011 Remote Viewing Conference.
IRVA Sponsors IRIS International Remote Viewing Conference
Sponsored by the IRVA, the IRIS Intuition Consulting organized
Remote Viewing Conference, March 12 & 13, 2011, will be a unique European
event with a day of lectures by world-renowned specialists and films never-yet released in France, followed by a day of workshops.
This conference, the first of its kind ever held in France, will feature Dr. Alexis Champion, Paul O'Connor, Dr. Dominique Surel,
Alexis Tournier, Dr. Jacques F. Vallee, and IRVA Directors Stephan A. Schwartz, Dr. Paul H. Smith, and Russell Targ,
who will share with you their experiences and different approaches to Remote Viewing. The conference presents the
scientific evidence, and six workshops allow you to directly experience this unique human ability.
The conference, open to the public and held at the Novotel Paris Est., will feature simultaneous translations from English to French,
and from French to English.
IRVA 2010 Conference DVDs Now Available
For those of you that missed the 2010 IRVA Remote Viewing Conference, DVD videos of the proceedings are now available in the
IRVA Video Store.
The complete set of 13 DVDs are available for $259 (a 20% discount), or individual presentations can be purchased for $24.95 each.
The 2010 offerings include presentations by Lyn Buchanan, Courtney Brown, Alexis Champion, Jim Channon, Pam Coronado, Brenda Dunne,
Donald D. Hoffman, Paul O'Conner, Bill Ray, Noreen Renier, Marty Rosenblatt, Stephan Schwartz, Paul H. Smith, and Russell Targ.
IRVA Director William F. Higgins To Be Honored
The Rhine Research Center
in Durham, North Carolina is pleased to announce presentation of the first J.B. and Louisa Rhine
Distinguished Service Award to William F. Higgins, a tribute to his extraordinary support of the Center's research into the
fundamental nature of human consciousness. The award will be presented at a Benefit Concert on Friday evening, February 4, 2011,
in the Nelson Music Room on the Duke University Campus.
Mr. Higgins, who virtually saved the Rhine from financial disaster, is the CEO of the real estate investment firm Higgins Group LLC
in New Jersey. He is a retired naval captain and former FBI agent whose distinguished military career included service in Seoul, Korea
and active duty in the first Gulf War Desert Storm. Mr. Higgins' long interest in Psi and human consciousness studies began during his
years at the Naval Academy and led to his involvement and support of the PEAR Laboratory at Princeton and the Rhine Research Center in
Durham, as well as his own personal work with remote viewing.
IRVA's Board Adopts Ethical Guidelines for Remote Viewers
The purpose of these Ethical Guidelines
is to provide our members with a clear understanding of their responsibilities as active members
of the Association and operational remote viewers. These Guidelines are also intended to protect the public and the Association from the
unethical practice of remote viewing, wherever and in whatever nation remote viewers train, practice, and operate worldwide.
IRVA's 2011 Remote Viewing Conference
IRVA's 2011 Remote Viewing Conference will be held in Las Vegas over the weekend of June 17-19, at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, Spa, Casino.
Up-to-date information on the conference, including specific details concerning speakers and their presentations, can be found at the
IRVA 2011 Conference website.
IRVA's Board Elects Stahler and Hopton
The IRVA board would like to announce that Paul H. Smith is stepping aside after serving four years as President.
John P. Stahler is the newly elected President, and Cheryle L. Hopton, IRVA's current Secretary, was elected
Vice President. Sandy Ray was re-elected as Treasurer.
John has served as IRVA Vice President and Secretary. He studied controlled remote viewing with IRVA directors
Paul H. Smith, Ph.D. and Lyn Buchanan, and with Ed Dames and David Morehouse. Formerly the president of a San Diego
electronic design and manufacturing firm specializing in digital video-processing devices, he has been awarded several
domestic and international patents. His designs have flown as experiments in NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
Cheryle has served as IRVA Secretary, moderator for the IRVA members forum, and the conference coordinator for
several of IRVA's past conferences. She studied controlled remote viewing with IRVA director Lyn Buchanan and was
the webmaster for the on-line Newsletter of the Hawaii Remote Viewers' Guild (HRVG). She has been a self employed
graphic artist and webmaster since 1995, after having worked in the securities industry for many years in various
management positions, and also as a consultant for James McClatchy and McClatchy Newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area
IRVA Concludes a Successful 2010 Conference
On behalf of the Board of Directors of the International Remote Viewing Association, we would like to
express our appreciation to each conference attendee, speaker and volunteer for helping to make the 2010
Conference a success. Our attendees and speakers came from many cities and countries, and their participation
in the sessions, workshops and events contributed to making the conference a fun and educational experience.
Based on our 2010 conference survey everyone loved the Green Valley Ranch Resort, and we are pleased to
announce that the next IRVA conference will be held at the same hotel, June 17-19, 2011.
Free ESP Trainer for iPod, iPhone, and iPad Now Available
The ESP trainer was developed under a NASA program by IRVA Board Member and President Emeritus, Russell Targ,
while at Stanford Research Institute. The trainer is designed to help improve your ability to recognize your
intuitive impressions. It has now been adapted for the for iPod, iPhone, and iPad and be found in our
"Online PSI" section.
Jim Channon Announced as IRVA 2010 Keynote Speaker
Jim Channon, Lt. Colonel, US Army (Ret.), will present on the First Earth Battalion, Task Force Delta, and his
charge "to think the unthinkable." Jim will discuss how the techniques he developed for the Army can be applied to
the challenges of remote viewing, including improving sketching and drawing skills, and the capture of perceptual data.
IRVA's 2010 Remote Viewing Conference
IRVA's 2010 Remote Viewing Conference will be held in Las Vegas over the weekend of June 18-20, at the Green Valley Ranch Resort, Spa, Casino.
Up-to-date information on the conference, including specific details concerning speakers and their presentations, can be found at the
IRVA 2010 Conference website.
Derren Brown's Remote Viewing Event
British Entertainer Derren Brown Believes He Can Duplicate Remote Viewing Without ESP.
Twitter Remote Viewing Experiment
The International Remote Viewing Association Questions Details of
Twitter Remote Viewing Experiment.