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@RyanGraham@JackMurphyRGR

What'dya know, there's a video of Entangled Minds:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5395328394840268986 (1 of 2)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4101652548153526244 (2 of 2)

@RyanGraham@JackMurphyRGR

"While the answers to these questions remain obscured, there is some literature, mostly anecdotal, that supports the notion that remote influence is a distinct possibility. During my training in the Washington area, Savelli described to us a technique he called the mind stops. In it, he claimed that he could confront an adversary, and then he would maneuver himself behind that person without them being aware of his movement.

This capability is not unique and has been reported by other researchers. One fairly well documented case is that of Wolf Messing, a German Jew who fled to the USSR at the beginning stages of World War II. His unusual mental skills attracted the attention of Stalin who arranged for a series of tests. During one dramatic demonstration he was able to pass by attentive guards and enter Stalin’s well-protected house. When questioned, the guards claimed that they had witnessed Lavrenti Beria, dreaded head of the NKVD, enter the premises, not Messing."

LOL! This is how I got my gf in bed after a Papa John's pizza 2 for 1 dinner.

Great book recommendations, gents, will check 'em out.

@JackMurphyRGR Yup, the government's research into these areas resulted in the conclusions of pretty much everyone involved that remote viewing was a legitimate phenomenon. Unfortunately, it was also largely worthless in producing actionable intelligence. That's why it was abandoned. Beyond the books you mentioned, Lynne McTaggart's "The Field" also provides a good synopsis of Puthoff's unclassified past work. As you said, who knows what he's doing now.

I haven't watched the movie and don't plan to, but I gave the book a cursory glance. I think Jon Ronson botched this story in a big way. The documentary he did was also a mess. The best part was when he was touring Ft. Bragg talking about the sinister looking building (which was actually the HALO wind tunnel) and making PSYOPS out to be some world class conspiracy theory type unit. The real story is actually far more interesting. The Army's remote viewing program was actually stood up with the assistance of two scientists named Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ along with Ingo Swann who is a very interesting character to say the least. I suggest the book "Mind Reach" that these guys wrote based on their research at SRI. Several former members of the Remote Viewing unit wrote their memoirs like Lyn Buchanan and Paul Smith which are very good. Entangled Minds by Dean Radin is also worth your time. Interesting topic...I think there is something to Remote Viewing, Radin provides some very compelling evidence. I think Puthoff is still doing reseach for the US government that is in the black but that's just some speculation on my part.

Hojo-jutsu: Samurai control & tying of enemy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBqPP0MKpo8 (if all you have is a 550 cord and no cuffs or plastic ties)

If you haven’t seen The Men Who Stare at Goats, I can’t hate you for it. It was largely panned by word of mouth and critics, and its producers opted (I think wisely) not to give anything away in the trailers, so their case wasn’t made. It was a good movie, though, and I wish so badly that you’d go see it. Please, just go see it.

So, the premise of the movie (and the book it’s based on) is a military battalion assembled and trained to engage in deadly combat using telekinesis, spy using remote viewing and other types of generally scientifically unfounded techniques of the mind as soldiers. The goats in the title are test subjects used to demonstrate the mental power of the soldiers to kill another being just by concentrating on it. What’s awesome is that not only is it based largely on fact, one of the main characters has come out to correct the author. There was indeed, at least one goat.

http://www.firstearthbattalion.org/?q=node/89

In an essay by retired Army Col. John B. Alexander (above link), a central figure in the book, the goat was not killed using mental acuity, but something not too terribly less mundane. There was a guy named Nick Rowe, a Special Forces operator who spent 62 months imprisoned in a Vietnamese POW camp. While there, Rowe developed some pretty clear firsthand observations about living as a military prisoner. One of these was that, due to starvation and other types of deprivation, a POW generally wouldn’t have enough energy to launch any kind of physical attack on his captors. This kind of leaves escape out of the question.

Rowe left the Army for a decade after he was rescued in 1968 and returned to the states. He was called back to service, however, in 1981. His time spent alive as a POW was too valuable and he was asked to run the Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape (SERE) training program. He had a lot of resources at his disposal, and he used them to pursue ways to satisfy that puzzlement he’d developed as a POW, how to attack a captor using minimal force. Enter dim mak, the “death touch,” the Far Eastern martial art of killing a person with merely a soft blow.

Rowe recruited a civilian named Guy Savelli, a martial artist who had mastered the dim mak. Savelli trained an officer of Rowe’s in the art and back at SERE headquarters at Ft. Bragg, the officer demonstrated the death touch — on a goat. After just a slight blow delivered by the officer, the goat died several hours later.

Army doctors performed a necropsy on the goat and found that the tissue and organs inside its chest showed a massive cavitation wound, very much like a bullet would make, Col. Alexander describes it. The problem was, there was no entrance or exit wound.

@JackMurphyRGR

Here's more videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYI9H7L93iQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgE5WDiG2AM

@LCpl X @BrandonWebb I knew the man, he was for real, and he was the closest thing to a Real Life Yoda I've ever met, and truly still my personal hero. 

I only got to this because every once in a while since he passed I google his name. 

@BrandonWebb

Contact Troy Sacquety, he's into OSS and SF history.

@BrandonWebb

That's wasn't suppose to be a joke, I'm asking if you, Jack, Bill and the readership has heard of this fella. I heard of Detonics, since I have uncles who were cops, but never heard of Sid Woodcock. OSS in China during WWII, that's bad ass man! I'm learning Mandarin via Rosetta Stone right now and hoping to get stationed in Darwin. Anything Chinese, US military would be great to read and explore.