Joseph McMoneagle

Last updated
Joseph McMoneagle
Nickname(s)Remote Viewer No. 1
Born (1946-01-10) January 10, 1946 (age 78)
Miami, Florida
Allegiance United States
Service / branch United States Army
Years of service1964–1984 (20 years)
Rank Chief Warrant Officer
Unit Stargate Project, DIA
Awards Legion of Merit
Other work Monroe Institute

Joseph McMoneagle (born January 11, 1946) is a retired U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer. He was involved in remote viewing (RV) operations and experiments conducted by U.S. Army Intelligence and the Stanford Research Institute. He was among the first personnel recruited for the classified program now known as the Stargate Project (1978–95). [1] Along with colleague Ingo Swann, McMoneagle is best known for claims surrounding the investigation of RV and the use of paranormal abilities for military intelligence gathering. His interests also include near-death experiences, out-of-body travel, and unidentified flying objects.

Contents

Biography

Early years

McMoneagle grew up surrounded by alcoholism, abuse and poverty. As a child, he had visions at night when scared, and believed that his psychic abilities protected him when he hitchhiked. He enlisted in the Army in 1964, at the age of 18, to get away from the family turmoil. [2]

Military career

McMoneagle's early career was as an NCO and he retired after 20 years as a chief warrant officer. He was severely injured in a helicopter accident in Vietnam. He was involved in intelligence work for 15 years. From 1978, he was known as "Remote Viewer No. 1" at Project Stargate — the U.S. Army's psychic intelligence unit at Fort Meade, Maryland. [3]

At his retirement McMoneagle earned his Legion of Merit for his last ten years of service, including five years of work in SIGINT (SIGnals INTelligence) and five years in the RV program. [4] [5] [6] [7] He retired from the Army in 1984, but continued work as a consultant at Stargate until 1993.

Post-retirement

In 1995, funding for Project Stargate was terminated and the unit was decommissioned after the official finding that "no discernible benefit had been established". [1] McMoneagle became a speaker at the Monroe Institute, [8] where he had previously been sent as part of his RV training. [9] McMoneagle then ran an RV business aimed at the corporate world called Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc. [10] His services included that "he can help a wildcatter find an oil well or a quarry operator know where to mine". [11]

Views and assertions

Contrary to accepted expert consensus that regards remote viewing as a pseudoscience, according to McMoneagle, remote viewing is possible and accurate outside the boundaries of time. [2] He believes he has remote-viewed into the past, present, and future and has predicted events. [12] [3] According to Paul H. Smith, who was himself involved in the Star Gate Program, McMoneagle predicted "several months" into the future, [13] and McMoneagle's own accounts provide differing claims of the accuracy of his remote viewing, varying from 5 to 95 percent [14] to between 65 and 75 percent. [15] McMoneagle claims that remote viewing is not always accurate but that it was able to locate hostages and downed airplanes. [16] Of other psychics, he says that "Ninety-eight percent of the people are kooks." [16] McMoneagle's claims to have predicted the passing of a teenager's "Right to Work" Bill, [17] a new religion without the emphasis of Christianity, a science of the soul, [18] a vaccine for AIDS, [19] a movement to eliminate television, [18] and a 'temporary tattoo' craze that would replace the wearing of clothing, [20] all of which were supposed to take place between 2002 and 2006.

McMoneagle says the military remote viewing program was ended partly due to stigma: "Everybody wanted to use it, but nobody wanted to be caught dead standing next to it. There's an automatic ridicule factor. 'Oh, yeah, psychics.' Anybody associated with it could kiss their career goodbye." [16] Supporters of his claims include parapsychologists such as Charles Tart. [21]

McMoneagle worked with Dean Radin at the Consciousness Research Laboratory, University of Nevada, Las Vegas to seek patentable ideas via remote viewing for a "future machine" Radin conceived. [22] McMoneagle also says he has worked on missing person cases in Washington, San Francisco, New York and Chicago, [16] as well as employing remote viewing as a time machine to make various observations such as the origin of the human species. According to McMoneagle, humans came from creatures somewhat like sea otters rather than primates and were created in a laboratory by creators who "seeded" the earth and then departed. [23]

Media appearances

McMoneagle was featured on a National Geographic Channel episode of "Naked Science" [5] along with parapsychologist Edwin C. May [24] who tested McMoneagle's ability to "remote view" six locations in the San Francisco Bay area, with mixed results. [25]

In 1994, McMoneagle appeared on an ABC network television special Put to the Test. [26] Paranormal researcher Brian Dunning remarked, "The only thing I found impressive about McMoneagle's demonstration was their editing and narration job to make it look like the most amazing and miraculous psychic feat in history." The show took a 15-minute test and edited it down to 2 minutes leaving only what the producers felt were the best hits. After McMoneagle's vague pronouncements of a metallic sound, a pedestrian bridge, something tall that is not a building, a river or running water, something with a stripe on it and perpendicular lines. [27]

In 1995, McMoneagle defended the Stargate program in an interview for the Washington Post . [28]

McMoneagle co-wrote an episode of the psychic science fiction show The Dead Zone . In the episode, remote viewing was used in the hunt for Osama Bin Laden. USA Network, which aired The Dead Zone, canceled the episode's initially scheduled broadcast because of concern about the subject matter, but did air the program a few months later, after the series returned from a mid-season hiatus. [29]

In 2002, McMoneagle started receiving regular coverage on Nippon Television's prime-time Chounouryoku Sousakan show (roughly translated, "FBI: Psychic Investigator"), during which he performed remote viewings related to unsolved police cases. [30]

In 2004, in Jon Ronson's Crazy Rulers of the World documentary (Episode 3, "The Psychic Footsoldiers", Channel 4), McMoneagle was interviewed and vividly described his technique for traveling "out of body" to Communist China to remotely view a trigger mechanism in a military nuclear weapons laboratory.

Books

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Parapsychology</span> Study of paranormal and psychic phenomena

Parapsychology is the study of alleged psychic phenomena and other paranormal claims, for example, those related to near-death experiences, synchronicity, apparitional experiences, etc. Criticized as being a pseudoscience, the majority of mainstream scientists reject it. Parapsychology has also been criticized by mainstream critics for claims by many of its practitioners that their studies are plausible despite a lack of convincing evidence after more than a century of research for the existence of any psychic phenomena.

Parapsychology is a field of research that studies a number of ostensible paranormal phenomena, including telepathy, precognition, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, near-death experiences, reincarnation, and apparitional experiences.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Remote viewing</span> Pseudoscientific concept

Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind. A remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person, or location hidden from physical view and separated at some distance. Physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, parapsychology researchers at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), are generally credited with coining the term "remote viewing" to distinguish it from the closely related concept of clairvoyance. According to Targ, the term was first suggested by Ingo Swann in December 1971 during an experiment at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City.

The Stargate Project was a secret U.S. Army unit established in 1977 at Fort Meade, Maryland, by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) and SRI International to investigate the potential for psychic phenomena in military and domestic intelligence applications. The project, and its precursors and sister projects, originally went by various code names – 'Gondola Wish', 'Stargate', 'Grill Flame', 'Center Lane', 'Project CF', 'Sun Streak', and 'Scanate' – until 1991 when they were consolidated and rechristened as the "Stargate Project".

The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) is an American non-profit parapsychological research institute. It was co-founded in 1973 by former astronaut Edgar Mitchell, the sixth man to walk on the Moon, along with investor Paul N. Temple and others interested in purported paranormal phenomena, in order to encourage and conduct research on noetics and human potentials.

Bob Monroe was an American radio broadcasting executive who became known for his ideas about altered states of consciousness and for co-working at The Monroe Institute which continues to promote those ideas. His 1971 book Journeys Out of the Body is credited with popularizing the term "out-of-body experience".

Jessica Utts is a parapsychologist and statistics professor at the University of California, Irvine. She is known for her textbooks on statistics and her investigation into remote viewing.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Charles Tart</span> American psychologist and parapsychologist

Charles T. Tart is an American psychologist and parapsychologist known for his psychological work on the nature of consciousness, as one of the founders of the field of transpersonal psychology, and for his research in parapsychology.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rodney McKay</span> Fictional character

Meredith Rodney McKay, Ph.D, is a fictional character in the 2004 Canadian-American Sci-Fi Channel television series Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, two military science fiction television shows about military teams exploring two galaxies via a network of alien transportation devices.

Elizabeth Weir (<i>Stargate</i>) Character from the television series Stargate Atlantis

Dr. Elizabeth Weir is a fictional character in the Canadian-American Sci-Fi Channel television series Stargate Atlantis, a military science fiction show about a military team exploring another galaxy via a network of alien transportation devices. Elizabeth Weir is introduced as a recurring character in the Stargate SG-1 season seven two-parter, Lost City. She does not hold any military rank since she is a civilian. Weir is the leader of the Atlantis expedition in Stargate Atlantis until the last episode of season three, titled "First Strike".

Ingo Douglass Swann was an American psychic, artist, and author, whose claims of clairvoyance were investigated as a part of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Stargate Project. Swann is credited as the creator of the term “Remote Viewing," a term which refers to the use of extrasensory perception to perceive distant persons, places, or events.

Harold Edward Puthoff is an American electrical engineer and parapsychologist.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Russell Targ</span> American physicist, parapsychologist, and author

Russell Targ is an American physicist, parapsychologist, and author who is best known for his work on remote viewing.

The use of nanotechnology in fiction has attracted scholarly attention. The first use of the distinguishing concepts of nanotechnology was "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom", a talk given by physicist Richard Feynman in 1959. K. Eric Drexler's 1986 book Engines of Creation introduced the general public to the concept of nanotechnology. Since then, nanotechnology has been used frequently in a diverse range of fiction, often as a justification for unusual or far-fetched occurrences featured in speculative fiction.

Gary E. Schwartz is an American psychologist, author, parapsychologist and professor at the University of Arizona and the director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. Schwartz researches the veracity of mediums and energy healing. His mediumship experiments have been described as flawed by critics who have argued that they failed to use adequate precautions against fraud and sensory leakage, relied on non-standardized, untested dependent variables and unaccounted for researcher degrees of freedom.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Albert Stubblebine</span> United States Army general (1930–2017)

Albert "Bert" Newton Stubblebine III was a United States Army major general whose active-duty career spanned 32 years. Beginning as an armor officer, he later transferred to intelligence. He is credited with redesigning the U.S. Army intelligence architecture during his time as commanding general of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) from 1981 to 1984, after which he retired from active service.

<i>The Men Who Stare at Goats</i> 2004 nonfiction book by Jon Ronson

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2004) is a non-fiction book by Jon Ronson concerning the U.S. Army's exploration of New Age concepts and the potential military applications of the paranormal. The title refers to attempts to kill goats by staring at them and stopping their hearts. The book is a companion to a three-part TV series broadcast in Britain on Channel 4—Crazy Rulers of the World (2004)—the first episode of which is also entitled "The Men Who Stare at Goats". The same title was used a third time for a loose feature film adaptation in 2009.

"The Shrine" is the sixth episode of the fifth season of the science fiction television series Stargate Atlantis. The episode is also the 300th produced episode in the overall Stargate franchise. The episode first aired on August 22, 2008 on the Sci Fi Channel in the United States, and subsequently aired on October 23 on Sky1 in the United Kingdom. The episode was nominated for a Nebula Award, and a further four Leo Awards.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">How to Be a Psychic Spy</span> Episode of Derren Brown: The Events

"How to Be a Psychic Spy" is the third special in British psychological illusionist Derren Brown's The Events television series. In the programme, supposedly as part of an experiment into remote viewing, Brown invited viewers to guess what was painted onto a concealed canvas. He later revealed that he attempted to subliminally influence viewers' choices by placing advertisements in major newspapers instructing them to draw concentric circles.

Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, California carried out research on various phenomena characterized by the term parapsychology from 1972 until 1991. Early studies indicating that phenomena such as remote viewing and psychokinesis could be scientifically studied were published in such mainstream journals as Proceedings of the IEEE and Nature. This attracted the sponsorship of such groups as NASA and The Central Intelligence Agency.

References

  1. 1 2 Nigel West (26 June 2006). Historical Dictionary of International Intelligence. Scarecrow Press. pp. 242–. ISBN   978-0-8108-6493-1.
  2. 1 2 Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001 by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2002, 2006, Revised and updated version of McMoneagles' The Stargate Chronicles, first edition.
  3. 1 2 Szegedy-Maszak, Marianne; Charles Fenyvesi (19 January 2003). "Enemies in the mind's eye". US News. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  4. ↑ See the complete text of Joseph McMoneagle's Legion of Merit and Certificate in Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001 by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2002, 2006, pp. 287–88, This book is an updated version of McMoneagle's The Stargate Chronicles, The first edition [ self-published source? ]
  5. 1 2 National Geographic program about Remote Viewing and McMoneagle [ dead link ], February 2005.
  6. ↑ Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate: America's Psychic Espionage Program By Paul H. Smith, Forge Books, 2004.
  7. ↑ Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads, Publishing Co., Inc., 1997 [ self-published source? ]
  8. ↑ Ronald, Bryan (2007-11-07). "Looking into Higher Dimensions: Research with Joseph McMoneagle" (PDF). Preprint: 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-05-08.
  9. ↑ "Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul", F. Holmes Atwater, p. 127 ISBN   1-57174-247-6.
  10. ↑ http://www.manta.com/coms2/dnbcompany_g0vj5v Company listing for Intuitive Intelligence Applications
  11. ↑ Weeks, Linton, "Up Close & Personal with a Remote Viewer: Joe McMoneagle Defends the Secret Project", The Washington Post, 4 December 1995.
  12. ↑ Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001 by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., 2002, 2006, p. 123, Revised and updated version of McMoneagles' The Stargate Chronicles, first edition
  13. ↑ Reading the Enemy's Mind: Inside Star Gate America's Psychic Espionage Program by Paul H. Smith, Forge Books, 2005, pp. 128–29
  14. ↑ Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space Through Remote Viewing by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads, Publishing Co., Inc., 1997, p. 216
  15. ↑ "Remote Viewing - Joseph 'Joe' McMoneagle interviewed in the June 1998 edition of Psychic World Magazine. Part of PJ Gaenir's Firedocs Remote Viewing Collection". Archived from the original on 2007-10-12. Retrieved 2008-01-23. Psychic World / Summer 1998
  16. 1 2 3 4 Cote, John (5 January 2003). "Psychics, Others Offer to Help Police in Search". The Modesto Bee. Retrieved 2009-05-04.
  17. ↑ McMoneagle, The Ultimate Time Machine, p. 173.
  18. 1 2 McMoneagle, The Ultimate Time Machine, p. 170.
  19. ↑ McMoneagle, The Ultimate Time Machine, p. 244.
  20. ↑ McMoneagle, The Ultimate Time Machine, p. 158.
  21. ↑ The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millennium by Joseph McMoneagle, Foreword by Charles T. Tart, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., 1998
  22. ↑ The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millennium by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads, Publishing Co., Inc., 1998, p. 109.
  23. ↑ The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millennium by Joseph McMoneagle, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc., 1998, pp. 93–94.
  24. ↑ Institute of Noetic Sciences | Consciousness | Science | Spirituality | Wisdom Archived 2007-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ↑ remote viewing
  26. ↑ Memoirs of a Psychic Spy: The Remarkable Life of U.S. Government Remote Viewer 001, Hampton Roads Publishing Co., Inc, 2002, 2006, pp. 230–36
  27. ↑ Dunning, Brian. "Skeptoid #44: The Truth About Remote Viewing". Skeptoid . Retrieved 2011-11-09.
  28. ↑ Weeks, Linton. "Up Close & Personal with a Remote Viewer: Joe McMoneagle Defends the Secret Project" Washington Post , December 4, 1995.
  29. ↑ Sullivan, Brian Ford. "USA to Air Banned Episode of 'Dead Zone'". The Futon Critic. Retrieved September 23, 2012.
  30. ↑ "Mcmoneagle walks the talk | SERIOUSKILOWATT.COM". Archived from the original on 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2009-07-05. Footage from Chounouryoku Sousakan 8
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.