"Our results are significant," says Dr Roe."They suggest that remote viewing, or clairvoyance, is something that should be taken seriously." The military is also taking a keen interest. The Ministry of Defence takes the phenomena seriously enough to have commissioned its own research. Documents only recently released under the Freedom of Information Act detail a series of experiments on psychic phenomena.
Unfortunately, the actual details of the experiments that were carried out - and what the conclusions were - are still classified, and intriguingly the MoD refuses to say whether they were a success. They claim that releasing such details would imperil the defence of the nation, and what little information has been released is described as "poor quality" by Dr Roe.
"Their analysis of the data is quite frankly, woeful," he says. But the very existence of such files suggests that the military are taking the possibility of psychic phenomena seriously. In fact, most existing scientific knowledge on clairvoyance is based on other recently declassified military research undertaken in America during the Cold War.
During the Sixties and Seventies, paranoia gripped the US military establishment. Strange rumours began circulating that the Russians had found a way of harnessing psychic powers and begun wielding them as weapons. Psychic skills such as telekinesis - the ability to move objects or control machines using nothing more than the power of the mind - were apparently being taught to soldiers in elite combat units.
They were also said to be using clairvoyants to gather intelligence from top-secret American bases. If true, the American's believed, it would mean that the Russians could discover their most important secrets and even control the minds of their Generals.
Unfortunately, the actual details of the experiments that were carried out - and what the conclusions were - are still classified, and intriguingly the MoD refuses to say whether they were a success. They claim that releasing such details would imperil the defence of the nation, and what little information has been released is described as "poor quality" by Dr Roe.
"Their analysis of the data is quite frankly, woeful," he says. But the very existence of such files suggests that the military are taking the possibility of psychic phenomena seriously. In fact, most existing scientific knowledge on clairvoyance is based on other recently declassified military research undertaken in America during the Cold War.
During the Sixties and Seventies, paranoia gripped the US military establishment. Strange rumours began circulating that the Russians had found a way of harnessing psychic powers and begun wielding them as weapons. Psychic skills such as telekinesis - the ability to move objects or control machines using nothing more than the power of the mind - were apparently being taught to soldiers in elite combat units.
They were also said to be using clairvoyants to gather intelligence from top-secret American bases. If true, the American's believed, it would mean that the Russians could discover their most important secrets and even control the minds of their Generals.
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