International Remote Viewer's Association
2007 Annual Meeting

19-21 October 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada

Presentation Title: Remote Viewing and the Displaced-Target Phenomenon

Abstract: The "displaced-target phenomenon" occurs when a remote viewer accurately describes a target that is one among a small pool of targets, but that target is not the one chosen by an external event. This situation often occurs with associative remote viewing experiments, but it also manifests in experiments that seek proof of psychic functioning that have repeatedly appeared in the scientific literature. In the latter case, remote-viewing data are typically given to a panel of judges who compare those data with a short list of potential targets (usually five total) in which one target is considered "real" and the others "decoys." The real target is determined by a random event that is unknown to the judges at the time that they are evaluating the remote-viewing data. In the past, scientists have often repeated this experiment to assemble hit or miss data sets with sufficient sample sizes to offer statistical proof of psychic functioning. However, it is now known that this experimental design fatally interferes with (and thus corrupts) the remote-viewing data collection process itself, leading to markedly diminished evidence of psychic functioning. The cause of this corruption is connected to a quantum interpretation of the remote-viewing phenomenon. This presentation explains this, and offers a new means of statistically evaluating remote-viewing data based on individual sessions using the SAM (Session Analysis Machine) free software. Using this software, it may also be possible to potentially resolve the displaced target phenomenon for associative remote viewing experiments. The use of the SAM software is explained. The SAM software works equally well with all styles of remote viewing (e.g., CRV, HRVG, SRV, etc.)