Michael White

For just over two decades, the U.S. government's intelligence agencies (the CIA and others) spent several million dollars funding remote—viewing research to discover whether ESP could be used as a spy tool. This was a tiny sum compared to other common intelligence expenditures and could have paid off in major ways if the research was successful. But after twenty—two years, the government decided to end its funding for the research. The government's conclusions were not that ESP did not work, but that it was not a practical tool despite many apparent astonishing remote—viewing successes.
But were the program's successes as impressive as they seemed? The program was operated jointly by a private research organization (Stanford Research Institute) and government agencies. Many scientists felt that the program was not operated as...