Joseph McMoneagle: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy
Joseph McMoneagle has been acclaimed the best operational Remote Viewer in the history of the U.S. Army’s Special Project Stargate.
To one unfamiliar with “remote viewing” this means little, so a definition, right from book is in order: “Remote viewing is a human ability to produce information about a targeted object, person, place, or event, while being completely isolated from the target by space, time, and other forms of shielding.” (For those who would claim this is impossible, I suggest they stay open to the evidence presented in this book and several others on the subject.)
At the start of the book, The Stargate Chronicales: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, McMoneagle states why he dedicated his life to the perilous pursuit of a seemingly odd intelligence activity that exposed him to ridicule and beyond: “It was then and still is my opinion that remote viewing is the greatest threat to my nation, and at the same time, possibly the single greatest discovery in our species’ history. Remote viewing, when used correctly, has a capacity to make extensively destructive and creative contributions in our development.”
A must-read for anyone interested in the theory and practice of scientific remote viewing for any purpose, but one also peppered with critical details on other paranormal phenomena to be found in the toolbox of a psychic practitioner. McMoneagle also has much to say, based on extensive observation and experience, on the genesis of paranormal perception. An example of his balanced appraisal of the role of the Near-Death Experience (NDE) in the subsequent development of remote-viewing capacity: To those who cited his NDE (he had several) as the primary factor behind his exceptional remote viewing ability, he says, “I vehemently disagree with such a perception. It takes a lot more than a single experience to build the philosophic and spiritual structure of an individual. Certainly, an NDE has a great deal of impact, but it is more the straw that breaks the camel’s back than a single transformational event.”
For those interested in the history of remote viewing and its connection to the US Intelligence establishment, McMoneagle’s several decades behind that firewall gave him access to many of the people, places and activities that constituted the various official remote viewing programs, of which Stargate was one. He tells of the experiments that started at Stanford Research Institute in the early ‘70s with pioneers like Ingo Swann, Hal Puthoff, and Pat Price. He spent years in related programs at Fort Meade as a remote viewer for the government agencies. McMoneagle collaborated with Robert Monroe and his Institute for studying the development of consciousness during and after his military career. In other words, wherever remote viewing was being developed, by the government or private effort, McMoneagle was there, and his frank appraisal of all such endeavors under one cover are priceless.
In the book, he concludes: “Regardless of how one might feel about the efficacy of using the paranormal for intelligence gathering, I can emphatically state that it works, it’s here, and it will continue to be reinvented from time to time, until it becomes part of the established, historically accepted background. Wishing it can’t, or won’t, doesn’t make it go away, and doesn’t make it any less effective in the new understanding of modern warfare techniques.”
We have been duly warned. We remain ignorant of the paranormal at our own risk.