>
> It's hard to understand what is and is not really going on here.
>
> On the one hand this stuff is so obviously easy to dismiss. Then on the
> other...
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> Abstract - In July 1995 the CIA declassified, and approved for release,
> documents revealing its sponsorship in the 1970s of a program at Stanford
> Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, to determine whether such phenomena
> as remote viewing "might have any utility for intelligence
> collection" [1]. Thus began disclosure to the public of a two-decade-plus
> involvement of the intelligence community in the investigation of so-
> called parapsychological or psi phenomena. Presented here by the
> program's Founder and first Director (1972 - 1985) is the early history
> of the program, including discussion of some of the first, now
> declassified, results that drove early
interest.http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/Pages/CIA-InitiatedRV.html
> ==================================================
>
> Which brings up an uncomfortable point if one where to actually think
> about it but since few do....
>
> The point is any advances in this type of uhh thing would be snatched up
> and spun, one way or another, by the military or some extension of the
> military/CIA-ish.
>
> On Sept 10, 2001 the US Defense Sec. announced that the US military could
> not account for 2.3 trillion dollars in expenditures.
>
> 2.3 trillion dollars.... let's let this sink in for a while... moving on..
>
> I am not saying that they plowed all or part of this money into some
> psychic program but they certainly could have and no one would be any the
> wiser. If this seems silly, absurd or, my favorite, 'unthinkable', see:
> $2,000,000,000,000.00. How 'thinkable' it that!?
