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Monday, 10 December 2007 |
JIM CHANNON
From www.firstearthbattalion.org
with permission-Jim Channon
Renaissance Man of the Twenty-First Century
By: Susanne Sims
© 2009
Often referred to as the “Fastest Magic Marker in the West,” Jim
Channon is an out-of the-box strategic visionary and a high-speed
graphic illustrator. His unique combination of imagination, wit and
intellect has been likened to that of Walt Disney, Jim Henson and Bucky
Fuller. Channon’s career of 50 years spans the military and corporate
worlds where he has developed far-reaching ideas, beauty, and
conceptual tools to make Spaceship Earth a better place for us all. Jim
has pioneered and perfected a specific set of skills that create an
archetype for the new Renaissance Man of the Twenty-First Century.
Following our interview, I summarized these primary skill sets into six
categories: Eco Warrior, Social Architect, Visionary Artist,
Storyteller, Renaissance Man and Global Shaman. I believe the
combination of these aptitudes could be taught in a college setting as
an exciting course on leadership for change agents. Enjoy ~
ECO-WARRIOR/ ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARD “Our earthly inheritance … the
plants, insects, animals, geology … and our children are the lasting
legacy that each person on this planet has the sacred duty to nurture
and to protect. No matter what our profession, it is a matter of
courage and will that each of us find a way to cultivate that sacred
ground.” - J. Channon
In 1978, as a Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, Jim announced “he
worked for the planet. ” He had just published this commitment on the
back cover of “Evolutionary Tactics” a field manual he created for the
First Earth Battalion, a think-tank in the U.S. Army. Inspired by the
human potential and advance human performance movements, Jim had
conceptualized dozens of tactics that involved military units working
in concert with nature. It was his version of a Whole Earth Catalog for
military leaders. During the late 1980s, media maverick Ted Turner was
inspired by the conversations he had with his friend Jim Channon. These
conversations led to the creation of the back-story and characters for
Turner’s leading syndicated environmental cartoon “Captain Planet.” The
series played heavily during the 1990s and Jim’s signature cheer, “Go
Planet,” was heard across the globe.
More recently, Jim has been the lead guest instructor for the SAMS
course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. This special advanced training
program brings together the brightest and most promising officers from
all branches of the American military and other allied nations. During
this course Jim takes these future generals from eleven nations though
large classroom exercises, purposing them to use military resources to
reconstitute the Earth’s biosphere – a mission he calls “our most
unavoidable global task.”
At his personal residence in Hawaii, Jim pioneers an eco-homestead
and leads his twelve-member family of choice toward sustainability for
2012. On Jim's version of "the shire" he has integrated permaculture,
bio-dynamic gardening, ancient land practice, and social architecture
to make the land not only self-sustaining but a heavenly experience.
With physical nourishment and mental serenity as his goals Jim is
unabashedly aiming high and heading for paradise in this lifetime. The
primary skill set here is what he calls proto-mythology, or embedding a
new idea inside a cultural setting then feeling it into being. His work
is a pro-spiracy not a con-spiracy. He organizes concepts that will
attract his clients to a positive future.
SOCIAL ARCHITECT Social architecture is a term Jim helped to define
and popularize. Social architects are innovators of social inventions
and they are concerned with how human beings interact with each other
within specific environments, dwellings and in commerce. Social
architecture harbors civilization. From spiritual country clubs to
community recycling centers, Jim has illustrated and designed numerous
new environments. This includes an award-winning green chateau in the
Czech Republic, a sacred water palace in Bali Indonesia, and the
renovated waterfront plan for Waikiki Beach in Oahu, Hawaii. He as
captured the strategic visions (development plans) for dozens of towns,
districts, and special zones on the planet. In Lawton, Oklahoma he
helped the town reinvent itself and create a new economic identity by
conceptualizing Lawton as a global recovery center, able to respond to
worldwide natural disasters and civil crises. The plan integrates the
airport, warehouses, and even a university where attending personnel
can train in crisis response.
The key to Jim’s success is this arena is his ability to listen to
the emerging ideas of others as they are proposed and discussed in
strategic sessions. He then assembles the key concepts and delivers
them in a high speed, three–dimensional rendering. He can assemble
dozens of ideas in one strategic design in which all participants
involved see their respective thoughts in action. This skill set is
unparalleled and among the 50 strategic visions he has rendered, he has
received distinction as the only man on the planet to have assembled
the visions of 10 of the top 100 multinational corporations. In every
vision he requests the group first identify their higher purpose.
Of the many projects Jim has worked on, one of his favorites is the
80 square mile National Training Center for the army which he helped
design near Barstow, California. It includes lanes and fairways where
military units practice force on force engagements with non-lethal
laser adapted weapons and sensors so that simulated battles can be
scored with credible measures. He added fireside settings into the
structure so that, at the end of the day, members of the units could
gather at night to socialize and discuss their performances like
athletes do improve their teamwork.
VISIONARY STRATEGIC ARTIST Jim began painting in his early twenties
while in Vietnam. His exquisite oil paintings were displayed in the
Army War Art Collection and the chief of staff’s office. While on
combat missions, his mapping of terrain and illustrations of combat
zones proved to be extremely useful. He first mapped the Viet Cong
underground tunnel systems. It was this extraordinary graphic overview
skill, eventually recognized at top levels, which pulled him out of the
trenches and landed him in the strategic design centers of the military
world. As he worked he included his mission to bring warfare to a new
level of sanity. He furthered the invincible in war and persuasive in
peace concept. He worked with other concepts that took a wider range of
new thinking such as non-lethal weapons, peaceful interventions, and
remote viewing to new levels of acceptance.
The picture machine inside Jim’s head can capture not only what he
sees, but goes well beyond to include imaginary worlds and environments
unseen. From unseen ideas and vaguely understood structures, Jim
explains how he CAD/CAMs (rolls the idea around in his mind) until he
lands on the perfect view or perspective then instantly renders it onto
a large white board. “I’ve drawn automobile assembly lines after just
one walk through the space,” he tells me while assuring me that this is
not a photographic mind or a God-given talent but something others can
do as well. “People can load images into their brain just like words,”
he claims. He calls this Visual Language and has written manuals and
produced videos that explain how it works.
Jim has imagined and illustrated airfoil sailing ships, folding
wing dirigibles, and buildings that seem to come from a combination of
“tomorrow-land” and the “shire.” He is a futurist who insists on
cherry-picking the past. He engineers like a Bucky Fuller with the
social charm of Jim Henson.
John Strand, a client who worked with Jim on designing a new Sprint
Communications Center describes why this skill is so valuable. “What
Jim can illustrate in a few hours allows a planner, for example, to
initially calculate the number of work stations, count the workforce
members, cost out the building requirements and infrastructure, and
define the scope of the work. This allows decision-making, rapid
prototyping, and concept development to proceed at light speed.” Walt
Disney called this “Imagineering” where concepts could become a built
reality overnight.
STORY-TELLER/PRANKSTER We have all been trained by the movie
industry to desire and expect a high level of stimulation; it is almost
a prerequisite to motivate us to action. For this reason, Jim adds
story telling, heraldry, mythology and costuming into his bag of
tricks. He creates a total immersion experience for the ideas people
have decided they want to realize.
It is common, at the end of his strategic visioning sessions, for
him to flip on a CD, crank up a rousing musical theme and appear
suddenly in costume to tell a legend as a bold character. The legend
might be about how this group of committed workers surmount the odds
and push forward, united on their heroic journey to make the world’s
best computer, create that healing hospital, or develop innovative
strategies to get them through a downturn in their industry.
Playing with every tool he can muster –gesture, tonality, accents,
humor, and even the lighting – Jim sends people on their way, inspired
to fulfill their mission. He embellishes the adventure story of their
upcoming success with a navigational map and a cheer to help them
remember their higher purpose and their commitment. Channon takes his
inspiration from Joseph Campbell's hero's journeywork and his foray
into the magic kingdom of fairy tale and myth helps override one’s
current reality and creates a psychic shift in one’s state of being.
“These were their ideals, I just help them believe they are possible,”
he says. One client describes Channon’s summation process as ‘riveting
and motivating, leaving a lasting impression.’
Jim’s theatrical work began early in his army career when,
contemplating how to dramatically make his point about “energy” being
as powerful as “concepts” to a room of 1000 Army officers, he boldly
played Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” while spray painting his message in
fluorescent colors on a large 60 foot black lit backboard. “It was then
that I realized the power of ‘out of the box’ storytelling and its use
as a key piece in communication,” he recalls. “There is a huge
difference between simply discussing a concept and otherwise giving
people the experience of it,” he says.
His story telling grew to new heights when he flew 300 mutual fund
executives by Indonesian military aircraft into the Great Western
Desert in Australia and had them believe they were lost. Just before
panic and sunset set in, Jim emerged in an orangutan outfit and gave
them the opening to a three-day challenge course. This was six years
before the show “Survivor” and reality TV. This gave the participants
of Seal Corp the ‘reboot’ they needed to accept their new values and
vision.
RENAISSANCE MAN (Adapted from Magical Blend Magazine) The early
Renaissance in Europe was a cauldron of beliefs. While Christianity had
consolidated its power during the medieval period, large pockets of
pagan beliefs still thrived, and a new spirit of scientific
investigation was taking hold that, when technically applied turned
city states into nations and nations into empires. It was a time when
the dragon, the cross, and the human mind vied for the future and
stirred the imagination of a continent rethinking a
thousand-year-old-paradigm. Perhaps we are overdue for another rethink
of our world as a unified global civilization? “Indeed,” says Jim. “For
the first time in history we are a united planetary civilization and
have been for thirty years. But you cannot expect nation states to
announce this, it will diminish their control.”
That hasn't stopped the World Business Academy from pursuing such a
notion. Jim has been an Academy fellow for ten years and completed the
first positive vision for planet earth 100 years out. It was called
PROJECT EARTHRISE. This vision is very much more a cultural vision than
an economic one with the essential idea being that we see earth as
fully capable of being paradise. 2000 Leaders participated in the
polling on the final 12 solutions. See youtube series.
On his own three acres in Hawaii, Jim set about creating an
amphitheatre in his back yard. Known as Artesia, the amphitheatre has
provided his community with a venue for some 20 mini festivals. It
serves as a laboratory for social inventions and was designed and built
primarily with a backhoe. “Painting with tractors,” is what Jim fondly
refers to when he recalls the building of Artesia. The seats, walls and
stage are all terra-formed and surrounded by seven fresh water ponds.
He designed the village like buildings and rooflines and made the
cheerful masks that adorn them along. He even creates new costuming for
each occasion.
Jim’s approach is to provide 12 to 15 layers of stimulation when
putting on an event, going well beyond just the sound and lighting to
include the birds, croaking frogs, wind chimes, fire pit and other
natural elements. He then digs into a box to show me a dozen puppets he
recently bought together with a portable puppet stage.
Where did Jim learn about stagecraft and production design? He
laughs and says: “I garnered that skill first as the social chairman of
my college fraternity and then later from having personally directed
five different 50 man rifle platoons in the army. My voice and arms can
move people or back hoes convincingly at a distance. But why is it we
can’t get a degree in event production in college?” he asks.
Community venues are disappearing, he laments. It is horrifying to
him that people shuffle from work, to mall, to sub-division without
places for community to gather. “The renaissance happens when and where
we celebrate together ... in beauty ...with music...with dancing. And
that means everybody, not just the people on stage,” he says. When
asked what a Renaissance individual is, Jim responds: Expansive,
inclusive, expressive, and extra-ordinary! My personal approach is to
assemble the most viscerally rewarding civilization about me and my
friends while alive. It is life force living in a time of magic. It is
the need to delight ourselves with the situation we are in. It is the
anti-thesis of the industrial economy.” He turns on some Italian music
then launches into a Michelangelo character who tells me about the
Renaissance Humanists and the development of their romance language.
GLOBAL SHAMAN I asked Jim how he sees fully employing all his five
skill sets and he replied: “I recently underwent a review of my life
during a seven-year archiving process which turned out to be a highly
satisfying pursuit. I recommend every elder take part in some kind of
life review. The unexamined life is not worth living, it has been said.
During this time I discovered that I had been using a similar overall
strategy in all my work. To my great surprise, it turned out to be a
classic shamanic practice.
Of course no one imagines they can be a shaman in the 21st Century
but that’s because we have all been raised with a project manager
mentality and we are stuck there simply because the Industrial Age had
its way with us,” he chides. “Change Agent is as close as we get, but
that job is not defined as such.” Like every shaman, his first
objective has always been to discover the deep need of the organization
or individual he was serving ¬– whether that be military, governmental,
collegiate or corporate. Knowing their angst or unfulfilled desire, he
could calculate a solution or response by soliciting and generating the
answer from within them. Using whatever culturally dramatic forum he
could, he was a mirror, there to present them with the life and death
story of their destiny.
“The process is dynamic, instinct based, and requires the
preparation of more than one solution. But what always emerges is
magical and often I just need to step out of the way to let it birth
itself. I like the odds. Eventually it all leads to some sort of
initiation, ritual or rites of passage to assume this new identity,” he
continues.
“I have now completed four positive strategic plans for our planet
Earth. They are each important because each activates a different
dimension of the citizenry, the institutions, and the concepts needed
for the global overhaul. I’d like to take this skill set onto the world
stage but I don’t know how to reach that level. The Internet is such a
gift and at the same time such a hairball – it’s hard for any one
person to punch thru,” says Channon.
But punch through he has and now Channon’s work is about to go very
public. Jim’s First Earth Battalion is the inspiration behind a soon to
be released major motion picture called “The Men Who Stare at Goats.”
The movie is based on the book of the same title written by Guardian
columnist Jon Ronson and it stars four of the most brilliant actors of
our time: George Clooney, Jeff Bridges, Kevin Spacey and Ewan McGregor.
Bridges plays Channon in his role as Bill Django.
“The film is being billed as a satire and a dark comedy,” says
Channon who wonders if his life’s work is about to be terribly twisted
and misinterpreted. “I’ve read the script and let’s just say they took
wide artistic license. You know, they gotta sell movie tickets,” he
says. Early reviewers privy to the pre-release version of the movie
report that they love Channon’s character, as portrayed by Bridges, and
say that he is one cool dude. And that should abide well for Jim
Channon as he proceeds along on his own hero’s journey.
Go Planet!
FYI Jim has 75 videos on you tube press the button for high definition for best downloads.
ABOUT THE WRITER
Susanne Sims
honolulu
Susanne Sims is the author of Healing Vacations in Hawaii and the
founder of the New Millennium Institute. Her passion is interviewing
maverick minds of the future and spiritual healers, to interpret their
words and worlds to others. She worked extensively with Terence McKenna
before his passing in 2000, and with Hank Wesselman and Native Hawaiian
elder Hale Makua, teaching Hawaiian Shamanism. She is also a vocalist
and has performed at Jim Channon’s Artesia.
Professional photo's of Jim available from Monica schwartz photography honolulu.
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
QUOTED FROM:
Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology * 4th Ed.
Swann, Ingo (1933- )
Prominent American psychic research subject, parapsychologist, and
author. Born September 14, 1933, at Telluride, Colorado, he studied at
Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah, receiving a double
bachelor's degree in biology and art. He enlisted in the U.S. Army and
served three years in Korea, after which he worked for twelve years at
the United Nations Secretariat while pursuing an independent art career.
Swann's active participation in parapsychology research began in 1969
when he was 36 years old. During the next twenty years he worked only
in controlled laboratory settings with scientific researchers. Although
he lectured widely on the importance of psychic faculties and
potentials, he has never publicly demonstrated his abilities. Because
of his participation in hundreds of thousands of experimental trials,
author Martin Ebon wrote of him as "parapsychology's most tested guinea
pig," and Psychic News and other media often refer to him as "the scientific psychic."
During the 1950s and 1960s, because of psychic potentials partly
evident in childhood, he became actively interested in occult and
parapsychological literature and in a variety of novel mind-development
programs which took positive approaches to the enhancement of ESP
potentials.
Swann early distinguished between psychic phenomenon and psychic mind-dynamic processes.
He especially noticed that while parapsychology researched the
existence of paranormal phenomena (such as ESP, telepathy, and
psychokinesis), there was little interest in the mental processes
involved in producing evidence of them. From this distinction he slowly
developed unique theoretical approaches to process enhancement
of psi perceptions, which was in keeping with ancient descriptions of
Siddhis as found in various Eastern Yoga literature and Abraham
Maslow's developmental abilitism theories.
In 1970-71 Swann experimented with Cleve Backster in attempting to
influence plants by mental activity. In 1971-72 psychokinetic
experiments involved successfully influencing temperature recorded in a
controlled setting devised by parapsychologists Gertrude Schmeidler and
Larry Lewis at City College, New York. this involved PK effects upon
target thermistors (temperature measuring devices) in insulted thermos
bottles at a distance of 25 feet from Swann. (For a report, see G.R.
Schmeidler, "PK Effects Upon Continuously Recorded Temperature," Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, no. 4, Oct. 1973).
Swann was also the subject of experiments in out-of-body travel, or
psychic perception at a distance. These took place during 1971-73 at
the American Society for Psychical Research. They involved Swann
sitting in a chair and attempting to project his consciousness into
sealed boxes on a small platform several feet above his head, in which
there was a target symbol completely shielded from view. Swann was
monitored by electrodes that would have recorded any movement from the
chair.
Under these difficult laboratory conditions, Swann nevertheless scored
significant successes in describing the targets. In one test he was
actually able to state correctly that a light that should have
illuminated the target was inoperative. There was no normal way of
ascertaining this fact without opening the box.
In 1972-73, at the American Society for Psychical Research, Swann began
suggesting experimental protocols to test for the existence of
mind-dynamic processes that would enhance ESP and Dr. Gertrude
Schmeidler, he coined the term "remote viewing" to describe the
experiments in which subjects attempted to view targets at a far
distance. His original remote-viewing protocols were later utilized and
expanded upon in collaboration with the researchers Dr. H.E. Puthoff
and Russell Targ. Other laboratories ultimately repeated various kinds
of remote-viewing experiments.
Swann's successes on the East Coast attracted the attention of the
quantum physicist Harold E. Puthoff, at the Standford Research
Institute, in Menlo Park, California (later renamed SRI International).
From late 1973 until 1989 Swann worked principally at SRI's
"psychoenergetics project" established by Puthoff to examine important
psi faculties (rather than psychic phenomena per se).
One of the first most remarkable experiments involved a successful
attempt to influence the stable magnetic field of a super-cooled
Josephson junction inside a quark detector (a complex apparatus
designed to detect subatomic particles). The apparatus was completely
inaccessible, being encased in aluminum and copper containers and
buried in five feet of concrete. When Swann mentally visualized the
hidden target, significant variations were recorded in sine waves. This
PK effect was reported at a conference on quantum physics and
parapsychology.
On April 27, 1973, in another extraordinary experiment, Swann "visited"
the planet Jupiter in a joint "psychic probe" shared by fellow psychic
Harold Sherman. Swann's drawings made during the experiment showed a
'ring' of tiny asteroids around the planet which scientists at the time
said did not exist. The existence of the ring was later scientifically
confirmed in 1979.
From the first experiments, Swann was increasingly considered a very
unique test subject because, at the command of the experimenters, he
could reproduce and sustain the desired effects over time at a
significant rate of success. Throughout the history of parapsychology,
other test subjects had been temporarily or spontaneously successful.
But these subjects typically suffered from the well-known "decline
effect" or "psi-missing effect" which statistically erased the
successes, and thus permitted skeptics to believe that the successes
were due to some outside factor other than claimed human psi abilities.
Most books and articles written after 1973 about parapsychology and
psychic matters refer to Swann's work in some way. Many analysts of
science and parapsychology generally concede that his work and the high
levels of official sponsorship it obtained gradually influenced
positive reevaluations of the validity of psi in human experiencing.
After nineteen years on the cutting edge of psi developments, the
"longest run" of any subject on record, Swann retired from full-time
research to undertake independent research into the problems and states
of consciousness. In final interviews regarding the dimensions of his
past work, he stated that the long-term stresses of laboratory work and
the constant need to defend the validity of psi faculties and
exceptional experiencing had taken their toll. He occasionally accepts
invitations to lecture but refuses to talk to the media. In a paper
read at the United Nations in March 1994 (entitled "Scientists find the
basis for seventeen-plus human senses and perceptions"), he stated that
psi faculties and exceptional experiencing are not purely scientific
issues. Their discovery and development involve larger social,
philosophical, political, and religious problems not amenable to
objective research and rational appreciation.
Sources:
Berger, Arthur S., and Joyce Berger. The Encyclopedia of Parapsychology and Psychical Research. New York: Paragon House, 1991.
Puthoff, H.E., and Russell Targ. "Physics, Entrophy, and Psychokinesis." In Proceedings of the Conference on Quantum Physics and Parapsychology, Geneva, August 26-27, 1974. New York: Parapsychology Foundation, 1975.
Schmeidler, Gertrude R. "PK Effects Upon Continuously Recorded Temperature," Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, 4 (October 1973).
Swann, Ingo. Cosmic Art. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1975.
Swann, Ingo. Natural ESP: A Layman's Guide to Unlocking the Extra Sensory Power of Your Mind. New York:Bantam, 1987.
Swann, Ingo. To Kiss Earth Goodbye. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974. Reprint, New York: Laurel/Dell, 1975.
Swann, Ingo. Star Fire. New York: Dell, 1978,
Swann, Ingo. Your Nostradamus Factor: Accessing Your Innate Ability to See into the Future. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
 Gen.
Albert Stubblebine III is the top of the four of the
names most often cited as promoters of programs like the "Goat Lab," the "Jedi
Warriors," "Grill Flame," "Task Force Delta," and the "First Earth Battalion,"
have held top posts within the military intelligence and Special Operations
commands.
Gen.
Albert Stubblebine III was the head of U.S. Army Intelligence, INSCOM
(Intelligence and Security Command), from 1981-84, during which time he launched
a series of secret projects at Fort Meade, Md., involving remote viewing and
other occult practices. General Stubblebine was, perhaps, the U.S. Army's most
senior and loudest advocate of the full gamut of New Age warfare."Bert" is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (West Point, class
of 52) who enjoyed a distinguished 32 year career in the U.S. Army. He
retired as the Commanding General of the United States Army
Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). Prior to this assignment he
commanded the US Army Electronics Research and Development Command
(ERADCOM). During his active duty career he commanded soldiers at every
level. After his retirement he served as the VP for Intelligence
Systems with BDM, a major defense contractor. He has brought these
experiences to leading-edge medical research and development in
collaboration with his wife Rima E. Laibow, M.D.
He is a long-term out-of-the-box thinker who redesigned the U.S.
Army's Intelligence Architecture while serving as the Commanding
General of the U.S. Army's Intelligence School and Center. This
intelligence restructuring earned him his place in the Intelligence
Hall of Fame.
Among his other accomplishments, he participated in a special task
force which defined the requirements of the U.S. Army for future
conflict. Many of the innovations he developed helped the U.S. to
conduct the First Gulf War effectively and swiftly with a very low
casualty rate.
Having defended his country for 32 years and having then worked for
the remainder of his career to build better ways of being and becoming
well, Bert is determined not to let the forces which are threatening
American?s health freedoms prevail. Formerly a warrior for America?s
military, now he is a warrior for America?s health and personal freedom. |
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Sunday, 02 December 2007 |
NAME: Major Ed Dames
DESIGNATION:
RV INSTRUCTOR/INNOVATOR
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BIOGRAPHICAL BRIEF
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The world's foremost remote viewing
teacher, and creator of Technical Remote Viewing, Major Edward A.
Dames, U.S. Army (ret.), is a decorated military intelligence officer
and an original member of the U.S. Army prototype remote viewing
training program. He served as both training and operations officer for
the U.S. government's TOP SECRET psychic espionage unit.
Background:
Edward Dames is a ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate of the
University of California, Berkeley. Between 1979 and 1983, Major Dames
served as an electronic warfare officer and scientific and technical
intelligence officer.
In 1982, Ingo Swann, under the direction of Dr. Harold Puthoff, head of
the Remote Viewing Laboratory at Stanford Research Institute, realized
a breakthrough. Swann developed a working model for how the unconscious
mind communicates information to conscious awareness. To test the
model, the Army sent Major Dames and five others to Swann as a
prototype trainee group.
The results exceeded all expectations - even those of Swann. In
six months, Major Dames' teammates were producing psychically-derived
data with more consistency and accuracy than had ever been seen in
similar intelligence projects using even the best 'natural' psychics.
In late 1983, the team parted company with Swann. As the new operations
and training officer for the unit, Dames took this breakthrough skill,
dubbed 'Coordinate Remote Viewing,' and began a new phase of research,
testing, and evaluation in order to both uncover its true capabilities,
and to perfect its application to fit crucial intelligence collection
needs.
Major Dames receives his first Meritorious Service Medal
Citation Details: For distinguishing himself by outstanding
meritorious achievement as targeting and analysis officer, United
States Army Systems Exploitation Detachment, from 5 January 1983 to 30
September 1984. CPT Dames identified and confirmed the existence of an
entirely new Soviet offensive weapon, and then personally briefed
senior officials of the National Intelligence Agencies regarding the
significance of this new Soviet capability. As a result of CPT Dames'
efforts in uncovering this program, new resources are being programmed
to develop the appropriate defense measures to deal with this new and
highly disturbing Soviet capability. CPT Dames' achievements are
clearly outstanding and reflect utmost credit upon himself, his
organization, and the United States Army.
Major Dames supplied the U.S. President and NSC with proof that the
Soviets had clandestinely developed a new generation of biochemical
warfare agents. As a result, Congress approved funds for a new DIA
Biological Threat Analysis Center. Under the standard military rigor
and discipline, combined with a team approach and countless hours of
applying the new tool against a wide range of operational and training
targets, 'psychic intelligence' (PSIINT) methods and techniques became
dependable enough to be considered by some individuals in leadership
positions for use in support of life-or-death missions, or special
operations in which the application of deadly (military) force was
authorized.
 Major Dames receives his second Meritorious Service Medal
Citation Details: For distinguishing himself by outstanding
meritorious achievement as targeting and analysis officer, United
States Army Systems Exploitation Detachment, from 1 June 1983 to 1
November 1984. CPT Dames identified a new and unique Soviet weapons
program. The national security implications of CPT Dames' findings have
been characterized by top U.S. policymakers as revolutionary, and were
briefed by him to officials in all the national intelligence agencies,
the Secretary of the Army, the Office of the Secretary of Defense, and
members of the National Security Council and Congress, who subsequently
briefed the president of the United States. CPT Dames' achievements are
clearly outstanding and reflect utmost credit upon himself, his
organization and the United States Army.
The Army passed control of the 'psi spy' unit to the Defense
Intelligence Agency in 1986. DIA is an analytical agency, and has no
charter to collect intelligence - it did not know what to do with the
unit. The unit was ferreted away within DIA's Scientific and Technical
Intelligence Directorate.
Dale Graff, a civilian, was assigned by DIA to administratively oversee
the unit. Since the unit was no longer being utilized to any real
operational potential, Major Dames' focus shifted almost entirely to
developing advanced remote viewing techniques. Quietly, however, he
also utilized the team to support projects on behalf of clients in the
classified research community. By 1989, civilian Dale Graff, through a
complete lack of understanding about remote viewing capabilities and
'real world' applications, began recruiting natural psychics as
additional members of the team - an act that effectively administered
the coup de grace to the unit's value - and future - as an intelligence
collection asset.
In the same year, Major Dames brought remote viewing technology
out of the military and to the public. He formed a company that started
out by hiring virtually all of the original military remote viewers,
who were still on active duty. Today, all of the now evolved, enabling
remote viewing expertise and knowledge resides in the civilian sector,
where Dames continues to teach the techniques and employ this powerful
tool in commercial operations.
Major Dames receives The Legion of Merit
Citation Details: For distinguishing himself by exceptionally
meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services as an
intelligence officer in the United States Army Intelligence and
Security Command and the Defense Intelligence Agency from 1 October
1982 to 1 October 1991. His insightful threat analysis has contributed
significantly to this country's ability to maintain its military
superiority. Major Dames' distinguished performance of duty throughout
this period represents outstanding accomplishments in the most
cherished traditions of the United States Army and reflects the utmost
credit upon himself and the military service.
Major Dames retired from the U.S. Army in 1991 and began a full-time
effort to advance remote viewing technology, and to create teams of
professional civilian Remote Viewers to work on complex projects.
In 1992, Ingo Swann wrote a letter to The American Society of
Psychical Research, which included, among other things, a brief summary
of his knowledge about Ed: "He [Major Dames] was Targeting Director (sic) of
the U.S. Intelligence Electronic & Security Command (sic), and
assistant director of special operations (sic) in the DIA Directorate
of Scientific and Technical Intelligence, and an area controller of
special operations (sic) of Headquarters Department of the Army. For
several years, he was mandated to brief on a daily and/or weekly basis
DIA, NSA, other agencies, and, when circumstances required, the
President and his advisors."
Major Dames released his initial VHS RV training tape set in 1997.
Unfortunately, a VHS tape does not allow for a menu system and,
therefore, cannot provide an efficiently structured method of
presenting RV training targets along with the necessary feedback. By
today's standards, attempting to learn remote viewing from VHS tapes is
neither practical nor effective. Attempting to adapt RV training to a
CD format does not overcome this problem.
From 2000 through 2004, Major Dames held remote viewing
workshops around the country in an effort to build a base of
vocationally oriented remote viewers.
Finally, in September, 2004, Major Dames released the long awaited, groundbreaking Learn Remote Viewing 4-disk DVD course (www.LearnRV.com). The Learn Remote Viewing
course is now the most advanced RV training program in the world,
incorporating 17 years of evolved, post-'psi spy' operational
knowledge. The training set utilizes the natural DVD menu system to
provide a structured, comfortably paced training environment, with an
effective mix of training targets, lectures, and feedback.
Additionally, a free online forum is manned daily by the teacher
himself and his staff of professional remote viewers, providing
unlimited assistance to students during and after their training. No
other remote viewing training course provides this degree of support
and educational excellence.
Today, Major Dames remains the leader in this brave new world - a world
without secrets. He continues to advance Remote Viewing technology, and
to teach the latest remote viewing techniques via the LearnRV DVD
course and the RV Community Forum. And, as always, he devotes much of
his free time to humanitarian projects
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The US Army's Historical Project Jedi |
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A new concept to free the oppressed!
Introduction
 "In 1979, the Peoples’ Republic of China publicly reported that several
thousand of its children aged 8-14 were capable of telepathy, clairvoyance,
X-ray vision, or psychokinesis. (See source links at the end of the article.) Having already
heard about this program, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), National
Security Agency (NSA), Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), Lawrence Livermore
Laboratories, and the US Army were simultaneously pouring billions of dollars
into their own similar research.
 The Army program was headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland, and was
part of the Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). Leaders included
Generals Edmund Thompson and Albert Stubblebine, and Colonel John Alexander.
Officers assigned to the US Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania
contributed research to the project, and "The First Earth Battalion" is
essentially a textual copy of one group's unclassified briefing slides.
 Although decidedly New Age, the War College project was not entirely
theoretical. Colonel Alexander, for example, went on to become a leader
in the Los Alamos National Lab's non-lethal weapons program. Likewise, during the early 1980s Special Forces hired Richard Strozzi Heckler
and other outside contractors to provide two A-teams, a total of 25 men,
with training in biofeedback, aikido, and "mind-body psychology." In the
latter program, a typical training day included running, swimming, "industrial-strength"
calisthenics, and 1-1/2 hours of aikido practice. After six months, the
soldiers were not aikido masters but they were quantifiably 75% more physically
fit than when they started.
Quoting Channon: "The ideas circulated by this mythical force [First Earth Battalion]
began with combat of the collective conscience… the principal that if any
contest is viewed by the television audience, it will be judged in the
end on ethical superiority. The world will be watching and investigating soldiers after any major international military event."
However you want to be seen in the end requires a commitment in the begining.
Historical US Army's Project Jedi Today:
The Wormhole Squadron
 First official online activity of the FirstEarthBattalion.com was activated August 2007 by remote viewing instructor Jaybird as a place tor expanding on our understanding of human potential in honor Jim Channon & the tradition started in the military. By utilizing this place to carry on that tradition, early activity was a place to congragate for research, live projects & remote viewing but ultimately grew beyond our wildest dreams.
The member activity of this site for years was full of serious research
into the potential of the human mind. So strong was the interest in
human mental potential that these ideas began to dominate the site
topics and activities. As the project grew it became exceedingly clear
that we had a full sqadron in need of thier own site; human
mental/physical advancement is only one facet of the FEB. Today FEB members interested in the US Army's Project Jedi are known as the Wormhole Squadron.
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