Stanford Research Institute (SRI)

Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is a research institute in Menlo Park, California, that the Central Intelligence Agency covertly funded from the early 1970s to research psychic phenomena, including remote viewing.

Menlo Park, California, USA

The Stanford Research Institute (SRI) is a research institute in USA, California, Menlo Park. In response to Soviet spending on psychic phenomena, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) began covertly funding its own research into psychic phenomena at SRI.¹

Ingo Swann was approached by SRI scientists to take part in this research.² At SRI, Swann developed a distinctive approach to remote viewing called Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV).³ In 1973 he began working with SRI scientists to explore the possibility of remote-viewing planetary objects,⁴ an effort that included the Jupiter remote viewing session. This work formed part of a wider programme, later known as the Stanford Research Institute psychic spy program and run for the CIA under the name Project STARGATE from 1972.⁵ The programme originated during the Project MKUltra period, prompted by Soviet extrasensory perception (ESP) research.⁶

In 1973, Pat Price, one of the leading psychics in SRI’s remote-viewing programme, gave Harold E. Puthoff an unsolicited package of remote-viewing notes describing four alleged “UFO bases” on Earth, an episode recorded as the 1973 Pat Price remote-viewing of alleged “UFO bases” for Hal Puthoff.⁷

Jacques Vallée said that the SRI experiments with Swann and Price suggest that remote viewing is based on an addressing scheme.⁸ According to Vallée’s book “The Invisible College”, a contact of his observed an unusual object rise from a depression near the Stanford linear accelerator, west of Menlo Park, one evening in February 1972.⁹

Uri Geller said that during his first interview with SRI scientists, he told them that the computers of SPECTRA, the alleged cosmic intelligence he attributed his powers to, “were fed millions of light-years in the future”, using light-years as a unit of time.¹⁰

SRI’s involvement extended beyond remote viewing. After discussions with Vince Dipietro and Greg Molenaar, Richard C. Hoagland secured funding for the first Independent Mars Investigation under SRI’s auspices.¹¹ More broadly, parapsychologists at institutions such as the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Lab and SRI conducted consciousness research studies.¹²

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CIA began covertly funding psychic-phenomena research at SRI in response to Soviet spending on the subject
“In response, the CIA began to fund their own research in secret at the Stanford Research Institute, SRI, in Menlo Park, California.”
How The CIA Spent Millions On Psychic Spies - PROJECT: STARGATE (Documentary 1 of 3) 00:03:22.9-00:03:30.6
Ingo Swann was approached by SRI scientists to take part in psychic phenomena research
“He'd already gained some fame for his psychic abilities and was approached by scientists at SRI to participate in the research on psychic phenomena.”
How The CIA Spent Millions On Psychic Spies - PROJECT: STARGATE (Documentary 1 of 3) 00:04:26.3-00:04:33.2
At SRI, Swann developed Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV)
“It was at SRI that Swan developed his unique approach to remote viewing, which he called Coordinate Remote Viewing, or CRV.”
How The CIA Spent Millions On Psychic Spies - PROJECT: STARGATE (Documentary 1 of 3) 00:04:41.5-00:04:48.4
In 1973 Swann began working with SRI scientists to explore remote viewing of planetary objects
“In 1973, Swan began working with scientists at SRI to explore the possibility of remote viewing planetary objects.”
How The CIA Spent Millions On Psychic Spies - PROJECT: STARGATE (Documentary 1 of 3) 00:05:20.2-00:05:27.0
A remote viewing programme, Project Stargate, was run for the CIA at SRI from 1972
“A famous remote viewing program, known as Project Stargate, was run for the Central Intelligence Agency at the Stanford Research Institute starting in 1972”
The Fourth Mind ch22:13288-13439
The SRI psychic spy programme originated during the Project MKUltra period, prompted by Soviet ESP research
“During that period, the psychic spy program at Stanford Research Institute was created because once again, Russia was experimenting in this extrasensory perception and kind of the more woo type stuff.”
David Grusch: The Whistleblower Who Told Congress We're Not Alone 00:11:35.1-00:11:48.9
In 1973 Pat Price gave Hal Puthoff notes describing four alleged UFO bases
“In 1973 Pat Price, one of the “stars” of the Stanford Research Institute’s (SRI) genesis RV program, gave an unsolicited package to Hal Puthoff, one of the key scientists running the SRI project. It contained Price’s remote viewing notes of four “UFO bases” on Earth.”
Hair of the Alien: DNA and Other Forensic Evidence for Alien Abductions ch23:30560-30821
Vallée's view that the SRI experiments with Swann and Price suggest remote viewing works via an addressing scheme
“The SRI experiments with Swann and Price, for example, suggest that remote viewing is based on an addressing scheme.”
Messengers of Deception: UFO Contacts and Cults ch13:62704-62813
Vallée's contact saw an object rise near the Stanford linear accelerator, February 1972
“It is from that depression that a man saw an unusual object rise one evening in February, 1972.”
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race ch9:7751-7841
Geller told SRI scientists that SPECTRA's computers were 'fed millions of light-years in the future'
“During his first interview with scientists from the Stanford Research Institute, Uri explained the concept of SPECTRA’s computers guiding his “powers” and said: “You see, they are computers, which were fed millions of light-years in the future.””
THE INVISIBLE COLLEGE: What a Group of Scientists Has Discovered About UFO Influences on the Human Race ch11:24578-24815
Hoagland secured funding for the first Independent Mars Investigation under SRI's auspices
“After some discussions with them Hoagland was able to secure funding for the first Independent Mars Investigation under the auspices of the Stanford Research Institute.”
Dark Mission ch8:6298-6456
Parapsychologists at PEAR and SRI conducted consciousness research studies
“with all the studies done by parapsychologists at, you know, places like Princeton Parapsychology Lab, SRI, all of this stuff goes through the same thing.”
UFO Witness Reveals CHILLING Daytime Alien Encounter - Peter Khoury - DEBRIEFED ep. 58 02:09:02.7-02:09:10.6

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