Paul H. Smith

Paul H. Smith

THE SMOKING GUN:
Extraordinary Claims vs. Exceptional Proof?

Abstract:

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" has long been the battle cry of those who criticize claims of the paranormal -- particularly when it comes to extra-sensory perception (ESP). Providing such "extraordinary proof" is made doubly hard because the critics raise the standards of what is acceptable as evidence whenever parapsychologists meet the previous standards. The playing field is not level.

The truth is that the evidence for ESP has long ago gone beyond the "normal" standards of evidence to the exceptional and is rapidly approaching the extraordinary. I will talk briefly about why the insistence on extraordinary proof, but will spend most of my time showing you the actual evidence, starting with summaries of some of the state-of-the-art parapsychology research (presentiment, staring, Ganzfeld experiments, and perhaps others) but spending the lions' share of the time displaying and discussing for you many actual remote viewing results. Even the most doubtful will find it hard to dismiss the "exceptional" evidence they will see in the course of this presentation.  

Bio

Paul H. Smith, Major, US Army (ret.) is President and Chief Instructor for Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based company providing training and operational support for remote viewing, was for seven years a government remote viewer, working for the US Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency.  Paul was the chief coordinate remote viewing (CRV) theory instructor for the government program, and was primary author of the government CRV manual.  He performed hundreds of operational remote viewing sessions as a government Rver. Paul is Vice-President of the International Remote Viewing Association, and is chair of the organizing committee for the Year 2004 Remote Viewing Conference.