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Post by Blu on Nov 27, 2004 9:33:49 GMT -5
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Post by Blu on Jan 24, 2005 8:31:59 GMT -5
Remote viewers predict Saddam’s capture
dgar Cayce’s clairvoyance is a remarkable example of remote viewing, but how well can ordinary people do the same? Those who took part in the November 2003 Atlantic University remote viewing seminar, conducted by researcher Stephan A. Schwartz, discovered the real-world answer.
On November 3, students were asked to “remote view” the future to solve what was then one of the most pressing challenges facing the United States: Where was Saddam Hussein?
Schwartz is the internationally recognized author of The Secret Vaults of Time, The Alexandria Project, Mind Rover, Remote Viewing: The Modern Mental Martial Art, and other books. After teaching the basic skills, students were asked to “describe the location of Saddam Hussein at the time of his capture or discovery by U.S. or Coalition forces.”
The session was conducted as an authentic double-blind experiment, as neither Schwartz, nor the viewers, nor anyone else in the U.S. knew the whereabouts of the former Iraqi leader. This same consensus protocol was used by Schwartz in previous experiments, in which lost archaeological sites and shipwrecks were found. The sense impression data produced by the seminar students was photocopied and distributed to several people, and the originals turned over to an independent third party – in this case, Atlantic University Administrator Herk Stokely, who placed the session documents in an envelope, which was then sealed before a notary and placed in the A.R.E. vault.
After being collected, the students’ data was analyzed, and two categories of impressions were given particular consideration: (1) points of consensus concerning Saddam’s physical location; and, (2) “low a priori” observations (hard-to-predict details, such as his appearance) about the day of his capture.
“This consensus analysis technique is analogous to that used by police detectives when reconstructing an event based on eyewitness observations,”
Schwartz said. “Each person provides independent data. Not everyone will see every aspect, and not everything they say will be correct, however sincerely they mean it.”
By comparing the individual impressions, patterns can emerge, and certain observations stand out. Through the use of this consensus approach, a reasonable approximation of what actually occurred was constructed. The remote viewing data is used in the same way, though it describes an event that has not yet occurred.
Analysis of the sense impressions of the 47 participants yielded the following future scenario: Saddam Hussein will be found crouching in a subterranean room or cave, which is reached by a tunnel. It will be beneath an ordinary-looking house on the outskirts of a small village near Tikrit. The house will be part of a small compound that is bordered on one side by a dirt road and, on the other, by a nearby river. There will be vegetation, including a large palm tree in the area.
Hussein himself will look like a homeless person, with dirty rough clothing, long ratty hair, and a substantial and equally ratty salt-and-pepper beard. He will have only two or three supporters with him at the time of his discovery. He will have a gun, and a quantity of money with him. He will be defiant but will not put up any resistance; in fact he will be tired and dispirited.
On November 7, the Pentagon announced that a special “covert commando force to hunt Saddam Hussein” had been established. On December 15, hundreds of soldiers from the Raider Brigade, along with cavalry engineers, artillery, aviation, and special operations forces, prepared to move on two locations.
“In terms of the remote viewing information,” Schwartz said, “it is ironic that even with reliable information provided by an informant, U.S. forces initially failed to grab Saddam in the Tikrit area.”
The following day, in that same area, U.S. troops finally captured Saddam beneath a building in a “spider hole,” disheveled, and with money and a gun.
Comparing the remote viewers’ consensus with published newspaper accounts of Hussein’s capture revealed some striking correlations (quotes are from various news sources):
“Inside that shack, a Styrofoam plug closed Saddam’s subterranean hideaway. Dirt and a rug covered the entryway to the hole.”
“U.S. forces encountered no resistance during Red Dawn.”
“Saddam was armed with a pistol, but showed no resistance during his capture.”
“He was a tired man and also a man resigned to his fate,” said Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, commander of U.S. forces.
“Soldiers also recovered two AK-47 rifles, $750,000 in $100 denominations… in the raid.”
“Troops took two other unidentified Iraqis affiliated with Saddam into custody.”
As impressive as the written descriptions of the capture were drawings that accompanied them. A few examples make this clear. Compare a remote viewed drawing of the capture house (Figure A) with the schematic of the site provided by the military (Figure B).
“This was just an experiment,” Schwartz emphasized. “We had no access to military forces, and, without that, there is no way to operationalize such information. People often forget that remote viewing is just a piece of a complex puzzle, not some magic bullet that alone solves the problem. However, it is difficult to resist the conclusion that, had we been able to get it to someone in the command structure who was prepared to act on it, this data might have been quite useful.”
Schwartz said that in addition to archaeological sites, remote viewing has been used in the past to describe sites in the former Soviet Union, and to locate a downed aircraft important to National Security, a fact acknowledged by President Jimmy Carter. Schwartz also says that literally hundreds of cases are documented in which remote viewing has helped in solving crimes.
Schwartz will again teach the techniques used in the Saddam Hussein remote viewing in a three-day Atlantic University seminar, April 3-5. For information, call 1-800-428-1512, or e-mail registrar @atlanticuniv.edu.
www.edgarcayce.org/venture_inward/03042004/column.asp?ID=ARE_News
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