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Although remote viewing, the art of mind travel, is typically associated with clairvoyance, it is actually a multisensory experience that relies on all of the psychic senses. The most convincing demonstration of remote viewing that I have ever seen—or even thought possible—took place in November 2003 during an historic conference, Remote Viewing: Beyond Time and Space, hosted by Edgar Cayce’s A.R.E. in Virginia Beach, VA. Stephan A. Schwartz, anthropologist, author, and remote-viewing pioneer, convened the scientific and military founders of remote viewing and opened the event with an experiment for the three hundred scientists and healers in attendance. (See Resources at the end of this chapter.)

Schwartz introduced two people who would serve as monitors and asked them to draw a number from the basket of a random number generator. The number drawn by the monitors directed them to one of four locations within a twenty-minute drive of the A.R.E. Schwartz led a discussion on remote viewing until the monitors phoned to let him know of their arrival at the target location. At that point he asked us to close our eyes, relax, and draw our attention to the target. “Sketch what immediately comes to mind,” he instructed.

I drew a tall, narrow, vertical object rising out of a round base and to the right of it, little peaks of water. Next, Schwartz asked us to imagine ourselves as being “life-size” at the site. Standing there, what were our sensory impressions?

I wrote the words: blue skies, surf, asphalt, grass, birds, and the sounds of people on a boardwalk. This gave way to clear visions of two places in Virginia Beach that I had visited: a museum related to boats and the sea, and the city’s contemporary arts center and museum.

When the two monitors returned with digital photos of a historic lighthouse on Cape Henry Beach, a collective gasp of surprise rolled like a wave through the auditorium. I wasn’t the only one who had tuned in to the target: ninety percent of the people in the audience—some 270 people—had drawn and verbally described the tall lighthouse in striking detail.

The compelling story of remote viewing held the audience spellbound for four days. During a follow-up intensive workshop, Schwartz asked the hundred or so people attending to remote-view the location of Saddam Hussein. Several months later, Schwartz reported that the vast majority of trainees, with me included, had closely described the underground hiding place, nearby structures, and bedraggled condition of the newly captured Iraqi dictator.