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(2) Administered by: SUN STREAK Project personnel and
selected contractor and subcontractors.
(3) Location: Fort George G. Meade, Maryland and other
designated locations.
(4) Duration: One to six months.
(5) Description of Procedures: Orientation
testing/training is developed from the practical application of
state-of-the-art psychoenergetic technology drawn from academic
institutions, scientific laboratories, and research
establishments around the world. It is an eclectic approach,
using those methods which have applications potential.
Orientation testing is designed to determine if new personnel
have aptitudes which would be of operational value and could be
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developed through training. This orientation testing consists
of a series of controlled exercises in psychoenergetic
functioning. New personnel may be asked to attempt to perceive,
communicate with, and/or perturb characteristics of a designated
target, person, or event remote in space and/or time from that
individual. Orientation training is composed of practical
exercises in Remote Viewing, lectures, literature review, and
observation of others. It includes the use of locally
significant sites, as well as more remote geographical locations
as targets. A target pool consists of a controlled group of
sites or targets and their associated targeting information.
Prior to the beginning of a training session, a target is
randomly selected from this target pool. Information available
concerning the target is kept from the trainee until after the
session.
(6) Training Session Preliminaries: Before a first
training session is scheduled, the person being trained is
oriented fully to the procedure to be followed by the monitor.
The trainee is instructed that he or she should state only raw
perceptions, since experience has shown that specific
definitions are quite often wrong while initial raw perception
tends to be correct. Personnel being trained are always
encouraged to express their feelings and ideas for enhancing all
aspects of the psychoenergetics collection process.
(7) Training Session Dynamics: During the 30-60
minutes prior to the agreed-upon time of a training session, the
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monitor offers some encouragement to the trainee in the same
manner that a coach might give a pep talk to his team. During
the 15 minutes immediately before the session the trainee and
monitor are generally silent. Experience has shown (unpublished
data) that this quiet time enhances the training process. The
training room is homogeneously-colored, acoustic-tiled, and
featureless, with light controlled by a dimmer, so that
environmental distractions can be minimized, During the entire
process the trainee and monitor function as a team. The monitor
provides encouragement with words of reassurance that the task
is, in fact, possible, At no time is the session conducted by
the trainee in the absence of all other persons. If the trainee
does not have any immediate sensory impressions, the monitor
applies no pressure. Rather, the monitor reassures the trainee
that there is no time limit for the training session. If it
appears to the monitor that the impressions are in some way
contradictory or inconsistent, the monitor may then attempt
clarification by asking questions in order to verify what the
trainee first describes. All sessions are tape-recorded, and
pen and paper are available for the trainee to sketch his or her
perceptions. Experience has shown that some trainees prefer to
awd
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combine written and oral descriptions, while some prefer to work
sequentially. The average training session for orientation is
approximately 15 minutes of actual perception. Trainees
generally are not permitted to go beyond 30 minutes as this
leads to perceptual confusion and eventual loss of the training
affect.
(8) Post Session Dynamics: After the training session
is over, the trainee and monitor obtain specific information
about the target, either in picture descriptive form for remote
geographic sites, or--as in the case of local sites--by actually
visiting the target site. The trainee and monitor then discuss
the session results, The purpose of this post-session activity
is to provide the trainee with the satisfaction of knowing how
well he or she did while mental perceptions of the targeted site
are still fresh in mind.
b. (S/NOFORN) CRV_Training:
(1) Purpose: To provide trainees with the requisite
skills necessary to perform certain psychoenergetic applications.
(2) Administered by: In-house, contractor and
subcontractor personnel.
(3) Location: Ft. Meade, MD; SRI-I Menlo Park, CA;
SRI-I New York, NY; SRI-I Washington D.C.; and other mutually
agreed locations as required.
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(4) Duration: 12 to 18 months.
(5) Description of Procedure: CRV training is a
contracted service provided by SRI-I. The training involves
lectures on theory coupled with practical exercises and drills.
Particularly effective instructional procedures include active
participation wherein the trainee interacts with the curriculum
materials by responding, practicing, and testing each step of
the material to be mastered; information feedback, wherein the
trainee finds out with minimal delay whether the response is
correct; and individualized instruction, wherein the trainee
moves ahead at his or her own rate. The training procedures
have been broken down into several stages representing various
elements of CRV phenomena. These stages both facilitate
training and actually follow the predictable course of
increasing perception which builds itself in specific increments
and impact. Stages 1 through 3 appertain to general site
features, which become increasingly refined as individual
competency with Stage 3 techniques develops. Stage 4 involves
perception of specific site elements, a good portion of which
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may not be available to any other intelligence techniques, save
for actual penetration of the site. Stage 5 allows the trainee
in a sense to reverse the procedure and "interrogate" his
perceptions, allowing clarification of various specific or
subtle features of the site. Stage 6 permits the construction
of 3-dimensional models of major site characteristics, with
increasing refinements in detail. Experience and theory
extension indicates that additional increments exist beyond
Stage 6. Research is underway to develop and define the
parameters and potentials of these additional fields
(6) Session Dynamics: In conducting a CRV session, a
remote viewer or trainee and a monitor begin by seating
themselves at the opposite ends of a table in a special remote
viewing room equipped with paper and pens, a tape recorder, and
an overhead TV camera which allows either recording for
documentation, or monitoring by individuals outside the room.
whe room is homogeneously-colored, acoustic-tiled, and
featureless, with light controlled by a dimmer, so that
environmental distractions can be minimized. The session begins
when the monitor provides targeting information, in the form of
specific site coordinates, to the trainee. For training
purposes the monitor is allowed to know enough about the site to
enable him to determine when accurate versus inaccurate
information is being provided. The session then proceeds with
the monitor repeating the targeting information at appropriate
intervals and providing necessary feedback. ‘The feedback
procedure was designed to reinforce the trainee's contact with
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the site but not to assist him by random cuing. The remote
viewer generates verbal responses and sketches, until a coherent
response to the overall task requirement emerges. The use of
the quick reaction-response procedure has been found useful in
minimizing imaginative embellishment.
(7) Post Session Dynamics: After the training session
is over, the trainee and monitor obtain specific information
about the target. As in the case of orientation training, this
is presented in picture descriptive form for remote geographic
sites, or in the case of local sites, may involve actually
visiting the target site. ‘The trainee and monitor then discuss
the session results, again with the purpose of providing the
trainee with the satisfaction of knowing how well he or she did
while mental perceptions of the targeted site are still fresh.
(S/NOFORN) Applications Training:
(1) Purpose: To enable advanced trainees to integrate
and expand acquired skills for psychoenergetic applications.
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(2) Administered by: SUN STREAK Project personnel.
(3) Location: Fort George G. Meade, Maryland.
(4) Duration: Continuous.
(5) Description of Procedure: Procedures for
applications training are essentially identical as those
previously presented except in the style of target presented.
Applications targets are actual targets of military interest,
such as US facilities or USSR sites from which data are
available or can eventually be obtained. Targets of this type
provide a basis for judgements regarding utility, accuracy,
calibration, and depth of detail for any given trainee in a real
world environment.
d. (S/NOFORN) Advanced Individual Training:
(1) Purpose: To provide experienced sources with
advanced individual training to meet applications requirements.
(2) Administered by: SUN STREAK Project personnel, and
selected contractors and subcontractors.
(3) Location: Fort Meade, Maryland and various
contractor locations.
(4) Duration: Continuous.
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(5) Description of Procedure: Individualized advanced
training programs are developed to meet specific applications
needs. Such programs may involve training in biofeedback,
communications skills, perturbation techniques, discrete state,
hemi~sync, search, Neuro-linguistic Programming, and alternate
target acquisition methods. One program of particular interest
is hemi-sync training conducted by the Monroe Institute of
Applied Sciences (MIAS), Faber, VA:
The MIAS hemi-syne techniques are used to teach sources to
control highly specialized mental states conducive to
psychoenergetic performance. This form of advanced
individual training is only used with sources of proven
performance and a recognized degree of maturity. Training
is accomplished in four essential phases; (1) application of
the Monroe "Discovery" series done at Fort Meade to screen
personnel and prepare for phase two; (2) Attendance at the
MIAS Gateway program for qualified personnel, conducted in a
seminar atmosphere; (3) One-on-one training sessions with
Robert A, Monroe at MIAS, which are designed to “customize”
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individual techniques for specific individual needs; (4) use
of specially designed hemi-sync environments during
applications training done at Fort Meade.