CIA scientists began investigating psychic powers in the 1970s, including a power known as remote viewing. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli discuss the surprising successes they reported with remote viewing, the secret Stargate program established to exploit it, and whether any of it is plausible.AI-powered
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Remote Viewing (Psychic Spies! Stargate Program!)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Psychics in a Faraday Cage
Psychics like ingo were kept in a faraday cage to prevent them from receiving electromagnetic signals. This meant that they couldn't be wearing devices that would help them cheat, for example. It also let the researchers establish that their powers were not based on the electromagnetic spectrum.
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