Spoon Bending In The White House? The Pentagon? Who’s In Charge, Here?

Various strange studies were funded [by the U.S. Army] for several years seeking answers …

Telepathy, telekinesis, firewalking, spoonbending, distant viewing, political warfare and propaganda against both hostile and friendly targets were all studied and experimented in by men who under normal circumstances were more stable and certainly less imaginative. … continued below …

 (See the interesting work, “The Men Who Stare at Goats”)

In the end the Army rejected all this and returned to its usual preoccupation, but the tendency survived in the persons of several officers who have risen to high rank. Some have been high officials in the counter-terrorism and homeland defense fields. Some are now major media figures and others officials of the Department of Defense, but outside the “mainstream” of the Army. None are in the intelligence business.

Jack Houck is a retired defense consultant who spent 42 years with Boeing Aerospace as a systems consultant. He is also a “researcher of paranormal phenomena,” who has been throwing “psychokinesis parties” for 25 years.

Houck dates his interest in the paranormal to the mid-70s, when he learned of Stanford Research Institute’s remote viewing program, and was encouraged by SRI’s Harold Puthoff and Russell Targ to conduct his own experiments. The results persuaded Houck of the reality of remote viewing and the significance of psi research, and ever since he has been instructing thousands around the world, many in defense industries, “how to use the power of your mind” to perform PK feats such as metal bending. Including, yes, spoons.

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Retired Major General Albert Stubblebine, then commanding officer of the US Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), was an attendee of Houck’s parties, and was so impressed he added it to the itinerary of a retreat for senior INSCOM staff officers at a conference facility near Leesburg, Virginia. Jim Schnabel tells the story in his book Remote Viewers:

Someone handed out spoons and forks, and Stubblebine gave a short talk on how it was done, and then 25 to 30 colonels and generals stood around holding these eating utensils and staring at them, waiting for something to happen.

At one point, a somewhat skeptical colonel turned his head to say something to a colleague, and as he did, his fork suddenly drooped into a ninety-degree angle. Everyone looked at him and his fork, at which point the fork bent back up, then down again, and finally settled into an angle of about forty-five degrees. The colonel whose fork it was put the thing down, shaking his head, evidently unsettled. He was a Christian, and later would denounce the entire thing as the trickery of the devil.

“I wish that hadn’t happened,” said the colonel.

I don’t think there can be true comprehension of how America got here from there, without assuming that sentiment has been often thought and voiced in the halls of the cryptocracy.

I may be wrong, but I doubt there are great wizards in the Pentagon. I imagine, instead, a bunch of sociopathic punks playing with the Necronomicon and thinking they have the power, seeing something about it seems to work but not understanding why, or how that could be a bad thing. Meanwhile, the silent witnesses and conflicted perpetrators mutter to themselves, “I wish that hadn’t happened.”

Technical Remote Viewing University Training Courses

“It (TRV) is a very systematic, very controlled method of accessing information that is not normally available by any other source… It is independent of time.. I can go present, I can go future. It is independent of location, so I can go anywhere on this earth, I can go into any closet, I can go into any mind..It is independent of space, therefore, I can access that information any place on the planet or off of it if I choose.”
– Major General Albert Stubblebine,
former PSI TECH Chairman Of The Board and commanding officer of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)

Remote Viewing

Recently Declassified Project

Remote Viewing – U.S. Military – C.I.A.

Espionage and Parapsychology

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Major Ed Dames, Remote-Viewing Unit, US Army, 1984-1989…was trained by Ingo Swann in Remote Viewing, and began to train others. He claims to be Swann’s protégé and caretaker of the technology, and provided advanced training for many top level people from many different agencies.

Some psychics specialized in things like, Nuclear Weapons, Soviet Tanks Location, Chemical and Biological Weapons Location, (all located by remote viewers), as well as the location of Mohmar Khadaffi, in Lybia. They used the predictions of the psychics to locate Khadaffi and drop bombs on him in the 80’s.

The Pentagon claims that only on occasion were the results of remote viewing and other similar projects used in decision making at the top level. The projects received the highest level of support and they claim some remarkable psychic achievements in locating Soviet Submarines, Nuclear Research installations and even locating Hostages in the Middle East. There was never a shortage of volunteers for this paranormal duty.

Major Ed Dames says that he trained people from different agencies and apparently they were satisfied because they kept coming back! Agencies like CIA, FBI, Defense Intelligence Agency, Navy, Air Force and the Drug Enforcement Agency. Dames claims they are happy customers of the psychic training, and would not keep coming back if they did not receive something useful.

The program developed to the point where the coordinates were not even given to the psychics, and it did not matter, they still got it right. The coordinates were more a formality which was done away with, because the psychics “knew” what the targets were with out any clues. The nature of the project began to expand beyond remote viewing to include other psychic abilities.

Major Ed Thompson US Army left the project in 1981, but the main supporter was:

Major General Albert Stubblebine.

Major General Stubblebine was enthusiastic about the project and its expansion. Head of Armies Intelligence and Securities. He did experiments with his senior officers to attempt to bend spoons with psychic power. He received the nickname of “Spoonbender” as a result.

Colonel John Alexander was a staff officer close to Major General Stubblebine during this time.

Colonel John Alexander – US Army Intelligence and Security Command, 1982-1984… tells of a meeting with Major General Stubblebine and about 30 Generals and high ranking men, in which all were attempting to bend cutlery (Psychokinesis). Alexander has 2 forks that were identical, until an interesting event occurred. One of the untrained individuals in the meeting held up a fork and in the plain view of everyone, one fork simply bent to a 90 degree angle, then it returned to an upright position, then bent again to a position of about 45 degrees and it remained there! He held up the actual fork for the TV camera and showed it bent.

This occurred in the presence of Top Level Military men, and witnessed by many qualified observers. It occurred in plain view of all. This is a fact and Colonel John Alexander appeared on TV with this story and with the forks, one of which was bent and showed to the TV camera.

When Colonel John Alexander was asked the question, “What are you going to do, try to bend tank barrels?” he said, “No, that’s ridiculous, but we do think we can impact electronics, and things of that nature.” He goes on to say that instead of trying to move large mass of matter, we are just dealing with electrons.

Major General Stubblebine felt that confronting his officers to the paranormal would keep them intellectually on their toes, and shake up their world views. But it was having a deep impact on everyone exposed to the reality of the paranormal. Suddenly the mundane things of life seemed so unimportant when the foundations of reality (or what was perceived as reality) are shaken.

The reality of the psychic phenomena in “Remote Viewing” and now in “Spoon Bending” was enough to cause great interest from the CIA & DIA in particular. The project became known as Star Gate. From this point on the facts become unclear because of so much denial by CIA and DIA of their involvement.

There was a shake up in the hierarchy and the psychics did not like the changes the programs were going through. There were some who left the military and began researching on their own.

 Major General Stubblebine resigned in 1984, in part because of pressure that he had gone too far in this psychic research. The project was taken over totally by the Defense Intelligence Agency and out of the Army (who had overseen the project since 1972.

The DIA explored all forms of psychic abilities, with a less structured approach. The Navy began its independent psychic research, as well as the Army, CIA, DEA, FBI and others. Various code names from the different groups were GRILL FRAME, CENTER LANE, and STARGATE. The CIA had a research project code named SCANTE.

Major Ed Dames used remote viewing to attempt to locate the Ark of the Covenant, Noah’s Ark and UFO’s. He said that he could not give the information to his superiors because of reprisals for searching for such non authorized things. He did not say where they were but implied they knew.

In the 1980’s the Pentagon began to scrutinize various groups like the remote viewers. The Secretary of Defense Carlucci  sent an inspector general team to examine the remote viewing project operations. They burned and shredded all the documents of the years of study. Major Ed Dames says they literally burned up 2 paper shredders destroying the remote viewing project data. Why would the Pentagon and the Secretary of Defense do that?

With support from congress the Remote Viewing Project survived and it was used in locating SCUD missiles in the Gulf War, as well as other intelligence targets.

The DIA claimed that it no longer wanted the project. In 1995 the congress transferred the project to the CIA. The official stand is that the CIA did not want the remote viewing project. The CIA claimed to have shut the project down. What a laugh.

Ballad Of A Thin man-Bob Dylan

You walk into the room
With your pencil in your hand
You see somebody naked
And you say, “Who is that man?”
You try so hard
But you don’t understand
Just what you’ll say
When you get home

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You raise up your head
And you ask, “Is this where it is?”
And somebody points to you and says
“It’s his”
And you say, “What’s mine?”
And somebody else says, “Where what is?”
And you say, “Oh my God
Am I here all alone?”

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You hand in your ticket
And you go watch the geek
Who immediately walks up to you
When he hears you speak
And says, “How does it feel
To be such a freak?”
And you say, “Impossible”
As he hands you a bone

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

You have many contacts
Among the lumberjacks
To get you facts
When someone attacks your imagination
But nobody has any respect
Anyway they already expect you
To just give a check
To tax-deductible charity organizations

You’ve been with the professors
And they’ve all liked your looks
With great lawyers you have
Discussed lepers and crooks
You’ve been through all of
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s books
You’re very well read
It’s well known

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Well, the sword swallower, he comes up to you
And then he kneels
He crosses himself
And then he clicks his high heels
And without further notice
He asks you how it feels
And he says, “Here is your throat back
Thanks for the loan”

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Now you see this one-eyed midget
Shouting the word “NOW”
And you say, “For what reason?”
And he says, “How?”
And you say, “What does this mean?”
And he screams back, “You’re a cow
Give me some milk
Or else go home”

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?

Well, you walk into the room
Like a camel and then you frown
You put your eyes in your pocket
And your nose on the ground
There ought to be a law
Against you comin’ around
You should be made
To wear earphones

Because something is happening here
But you don’t know what it is
Do you, Mister Jones?