Jim Marrs - PSI Spies - Amazon S3

War in the Ether 163Morehouse said that the remote viewers in any givengroup were not told their target, so as to act as a control group.The control group is kept in the dark because once you becomeaware of something, you may lose many other subtlethings, he explained. “For example, let’s say you were lookingfor a camouflaged sniper. You notice the trees, the birds,the grass, but you don’t see the sniper. But if the sniper iscalled to your attention, you focus on that and might missother things—like a second sniper.”During the early 1980s, the Psi Spies conducted their operationsusing altered states of consciousness to facilitate theremote viewing. It required about six years to go from hitand-missremote viewing operations to a calibrated teamapproach, utilizing soldiers who had demonstrated somenatural psychic ability.A typical early operation went similar to this: At first, amonitor—often another unit member—sat at a desk next tothe viewer, who was lying on a bed in a small, dark room. Adim red lamp allowed the monitor to take notes after theviewer had reached an altered state. Later, electrodes,hooked up to a remote voltmeter, were affixed to the viewer.The unit commander and operations officer often wouldmonitor this operation. Both the viewer and the facilitator wereequipped with earphones and a microphone. The facilitatorwatched the voltmeter specifically looking for a whole bodypolarity shift. When a 180-degree voltage polarity shift fromhead to toe occurred, this almost always indicated that theviewer was in the desired altered state. At that point, the facilitatorsimply instructed the viewer to “Move to the targetarea” or “There is a person you need to locate,” or something