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Conference 2026
IRVA German Conference 2026
Learn, Explore, Experience Remote Viewing at a Global Level
IRVA has been created as an international organization to promote the responsible practice of, education and training in, and research into the art, science, and phenomenon of remote viewing globally.
Speakers
Paul H. Smith
For seven years, Paul H. Smith, PhD was a member of the military's Star Gate remote viewing (RV) program as a remote viewer, training instructor, unit security officer, and unit historian. Former president of the non-profit International Remote Viewing Association, he heads Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc. (https://rviewer.com).
His book Reading the Enemy's Mind was a Readers Digest Book Bonus Feature and Editors Choice selection. He is also author of The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing. Paul has a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in philosophy of mind, consciousness, philosophy of science and philosophy of parapsychology. His BA is from BYU, and MS from the National Defense University (both in Middle East studies). He is a board member of the Rhine Research Center, past president of the International Remote Viewing Association, and former board member of the Parapsychological Association.
Paul is a frequent interview guest on Coast to Coast AM and many other radio and podcast shows, as well as documentaries and television shows for A&E, the History Channel, the Travel Channel, Discovery, CBS Sunday Morning, “Joe Rogan Questions Everything,” “The Lowe Files,” including Caroline Cory's documentary “Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible” and “Cosmosis: UFOs & a New Reality.”
Thomas McNear
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (ret.) Tom McNear was a member of the STAR GATE program from 1981–1985 as military personnel.
Tom was personally trained in Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) by Ingo Swann and was the only viewer Ingo Swann trained up to level VI at the time. In those early days of the development of the CRV protocol, he acted as a “guinea pig to prove the principle”. Tom’s sessions later also began to develop to level VII (phonetics), naming many places about phonetics. Paul Smith wrote: “Tom’s results were not all impressive. Some could even be described as spectacular.”
In 1985 Tom wrote the first CRV manual based on his training with Ingo Swann. After leaving the Army’s remote viewing program in 1985, Tom continued his successful career in Army counter-espionage. He retired from military service in 1997. In 2011, after a 26 year hiatus, Tom had a successful CRV session with Ingo Swann as his monitor (see video below). He holds a master’s degree in counseling psychology from Saint Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas and continues to serve in the Army as a civil servant. He now lives in Seaford with his wife.
