Until the early 1990s, the remote viewing project would continue at the heart of the American intelligence industry, during one of its phases using the project name “Stargate”. One question remained. Why did it last? Officially, the project was a reaction to rumours that the Soviet Union had a similar project underway and hence the Americans needed to start immediately so as not to be outdone by the opposition.
“Tests,” CIA big wig Helms had stated, “were necessary to keep up with the Soviets.” However, Helms reversed his own position in 1964 when testifying before the Warren Commission, which was investigating the JFK assassination. There he claimed that “Soviet research has consistently lagged five years behind Western research.”
But using the Soviets as the scapegoat why such research was occurring in the 1960s did not apply to the early origins of the endeavour. Why, in 1952, with no such rumours of Soviet involvement floating around, did a military doctor, a powerful aeroplane developer and other influential people receive the backing of the American government in their endeavours to contact a “higher intelligence” on a “higher plane”? One nagging thought kept lingering in my mind, and this was a disturbing one: did the US government somehow know that such intelligences existed? That they could be contacted? The idea seemed to belong in a bad “B science fiction movie”, but the strangeness of the question is merely because we all “know” that there are – of course – no such denizens of a hyper-dimension. Much later, in the 1980s and 1990s, when people described encounters that in medieval times would have been labelled as “witches’ experiences of being taken on a ride with the devil to his world”, these encounters were labelled “UFO abductions”, i.e. abductions by extra-terrestrial beings of humans to spaceships orbiting our planet. Even though science was progressing with quantum physics and required many more dimensions than we experience, those same scientists apparently could not accept that there were intelligences existing in those higher dimensions. Furthermore, many of the best and earliest quantum physicists were part of the small circle that hung around Puharich. Coincidence?
