A little while later I seemingly providentially ran across Courtney Brown PhD s book Cosmic Voyage and his Farsight Institute. He spoke of some former CIA psychics turning their efforts from spying on Russia from afar (Remote Viewing) to searching the heavens for extraterrestrials and also even trying to contact Jesus and other religious figures. Such searches in his mind at least, proved to be possible. Suddenly and rather purposely, the entire subject of Remote Viewing opened up to me as a vehicle for my artistic endeavors. Not that I actually thought that such modalities were appropriate or indeed even legitimate but rather they provided a unique vehicle for developing my ideas.

My first novel, The Great Harpazo Deception: the real story of UFOs, (also excerpted in UFO Digest) made ample use of Remote Viewing. Israeli Colonel Judah Meier, my main protagonist, went to work at the CIA s Remote Viewing facility after graduating from West Point even though he did not have the right security clearances. When this program got scrapped by the CIA because of funding cutbacks (as it did in real life) Judah went to work for the Lazant Institute (aka, the Farsight Institute) where Dr.Lazant used Remote Viewers to scan the heavens. They located not only Azazel, the extraterrestrial fallen angel who dominates my novels, but they also communicated with an entity calling himself jesus who spews forth an all inclusive non judgmental gospel which is exactly what the Farsight Institute supposedly found also. This enabled me to write about extraterrestrials as a manifestation of demonic New Age beliefs as I believed that they actually were.

Thus my novel while obviously fiction was also what I would call faction as well. All of the talk of ETs as fallen angels was I believe actually true, and the talk of Remote Viewing as a way to possibly contact them was also a real endeavor. I did not question its existence or its viability but rather its conclusions and thus its validity.

Remote Viewing is a technique advocated by people as diverse as the journalist Jim Mars in his book Alien Agenda, Dr.Courney Brown in his book Cosmic Voyage and his Farsight Institute, Major General Stubblebine, Chairman of the Board of Psi Tech, psychic Ingo Swann, Dr. Steven Greer s Disclosure Project and the Center for the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (CSETI) as well as a score of other groups like Exopolitics and the Star Dream Initiative. Dr. Greer s book Hidden Truth: Forbidden Knowledge presents a Gnostic modality of meditation, lucid dreaming, Remote Viewing and higher states of consciousness as ways to contact ETs.

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