ALPHABETICS

The front half of “alphanumerics”

e.g. BZDQ vs. BZDQ2213

Dazchat – Feb 18, 2022

Goals

1. See what’s behind the “Alphabetics” door

2. Convey the promise of alphabetics experiments done at SRI

3. Learn from Tom McNear’s success with phonetics

4. Report on two experiments exploring the potential of a new approach: “terminal salience”

5. Stimulate interest in conducting further experiments in alphabetics and alphanumerics

• Slide show – 35-40 minutes
• Comments by viewers Debra, Elisa, Henni & Lily on the two “terminal salience” experiments
• Brief Q&A
• Alphabetics experiments done (separately) by Julia Ashley and Christine
• More Q&A and discussion

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In remote viewing we start with basic sensory impressions

Many targets are real life scenes from which we get visuals and other sensory impressions which are often distorted, unclear, or not well defined

We are gifted with this ‘simple’ perceptual mechanism

We sense shapes and borders

textures and colors

But we find numbers hard

They seldom come parachuting down from a Great Airplane in the Sky…

Names are difficult

Even simple nouns can be difficult

Which is why this advice is widespread:��“Describe, don’t name”

“Matching the target”

In many remote viewing approaches, the viewer mention nouns (e.g. river, mountain).

Matching a target can occur at the Basic level (common) or at the Subordinate level (rare) in Embodied Mind theory.

Trials have been carried out by telephone communication and recorded on magnetic recording tape of a case of alleged telepathy between a mother and her son…The distance between the telephones has varied from 0.59 to 9.7 kilometres... Letters or numbers were presented to the mother and the replies of the son were recorded, as well as the mother’s remarks. Over 30% of the letters or numbers were guessed correctly the first time. Of the two possibilities that an unconscious code or telepathy is in operation, the writers incline to the view that it is a case of telepathy.

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Recordon, E. G., Stratton, F. J. M., and Peters, R. A. Some Trials in a Case of Alleged Telepathy, Journal 44, 1968, pp. 390-99.

�Tom McNear on “Phonetics” during the Star Gate project.�

S-4 Training: 10 Feb 84, Kariba Dam, Zimbabwe

Tom’s First Ever Stage 7

1. SRI Memo to Dr. H.E. Puthoff from I. Swann, Subject: S-4 Completion Report, 5 Jun 84

Slide by Tom McNear

S-6 Training: 18 May 84, Alachua General Hospital, Alachua County, FL

Slide by Tom McNear

Relationship Between Stage-2 and Stage-7

• Aspects of the site perceivable by the normal five senses.
• Colors
• Kinesthetic (textures, temperatures, hard, soft, wet, etc)
• Smells
• Tastes
• Sounds

Stage 2: Sensory Data

• Water Sounds
• Rushing/Roaring Sounds
• People Sounds
• Splashing Sounds
• Wind Sounds
• Bird Sounds
• Open Sounds

• Name Sounds
• Vowels
• Consonants
• Syllables
• Words/Names
• Knowing

Krka National Park, Croatia

Sonics: Site Relevant

Phonetics: Analytically Relevant

Slide by Tom McNear

Phonetics: Discovering CRV Stage Seven Eleven Known Instances of Stage-7

CRV Stage 6: Three Dimensional Contact, Modeling

Slide by Tom McNear

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Gibberish-Name

Name/Location

• Name?
• Location?
• Did I recognize

the site?

What Can We Learn From These Sessions?

S-4, 10 Feb 84 (25)

S-4, 13 Mar 84 (27)

S-6, 18 Apr 84 (1)

S-6, 19 Apr 84 (2)

S-6, 24 Apr 84 (3)

S-6, 15 May 84 (9)

S-6, 16 May 84 (10)

S-6, 18 May 84 (12)

S-6, 26 Jun 84 (13)

N/A, 16 Jul 2011

S-4, 22 Mar 84 (31)

First Ever

S-7

First

Time

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Syllabic

Experimentation

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Knowing

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Slide by Tom McNear

Tom McNear’s recommendations:

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The remote viewer’s task: Sense and feel, calmly and clearly, being careful not to rush to judgment or conclusion, but to go on sensing.

Sense, listen and feel with your mind (write it down): sounds, syllables, words, knowings

If your mouth wants to speak, let it (write what you are hearing your mouth say). Try to articulate but stick with what feels correct - don’t embellish

Stick with what you are perceiving.

Too little is probably better than too much.

Better to get a few accurate sounds than to introduce AOL

Spontaneous!

Prompt for Stage 7: “Name?” (take what comes to you). Prompt, don’t imagine.

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Experiments with

• letters
• words

 Debra Lynne Katz and Jon Knowles, Associative Remote Viewing: The Art & Science of Predicting Outcomes for Sports, Politics, Finances and the Lottery (2021)

https://www.amazon.com/Associative-Remote-Viewing-Predicting-Outcomes-ebook/dp/B098KLC3Q9

“The results, shown in Table 1, provide evidence for successful alphabet reading… The overall probability of obtaining the number of correct guesses by chance exhibited in this series is less than 1 in 105 ( i.e., p <10-5). Therefore, this technique will be pursued as a training device in alphabet reading.”��Harold E. Puthoff, Russell Targ, Remote Sensing Experiments from March to August 1976 (September 1976), “Automated Alphabet Experiments”� �

In the experiments with this subject, she was told to consider the alphabet reading to be the same as the remote viewing which she had already done excellently. Rather than try to guess what the letter was, she was asked to describe it as though it was a remote viewing target. She was asked to make a drawing and describe it in a non-analytic fashion. Someone else would then look at her drawings and description and make the final assessment as to what the letter was. She was specifically instructed not to guess the letter.

(Harold E. Puthoff, Russell Targ, Remote Sensing Experiments from March to August 1976 (September 1976), pp 14-16)

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In the first experiment (between non-adjacent labs at SRI) she said that the letter was like a “J”, curvey at the bottom. "Or maybe it is a backwards ‘J’." Her drawings consisted of the two J's forward and backward, both with heavy markings at the bottom. Her final words on the tape were that “... It could be a ‘U’ but I don't think so.”

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Hal Puthoff was given the subject-generated data and, on a blind basis, correctly identified the target letter as a “U”.

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The following day a second experiment was done. The subject described a letter “with an acute angle...as though there is a trench... like a whole stack of V’s." She drew a pile of overlapping V's. Again, on a blind basis, Puthoff had no difficulty in correctly identifying the target letter as a “V”.

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“These experiments strongly suggest that the way to increase the resolution capability is to arrange to separate the perception from the analysis, to encourage the subject to simply describe his or her perceptions, followed up by having a different person do the final analysis. Similar results have recently been obtained with subject H1.”

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• “…the results obtained in the remote viewing and machine approaches to reading alphabet characters do indicate a potential for developing acceptable levels of reliability in reading text for operational purposes. Further study is required to determine whether this reliability can be achieved with a reasonable effort.”

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This speaks to the Rver in us – our gut sense. But we need spreadsheets too – we need solid data.

Which variables to use in experiments in Alphabetics ?

• Targets: words (specific letters), names, phrases
• Form of presentation of targets: text, image, video
• RV Methods: Phonetics, visualization, drawing, just knowing
• Scoring: several methods (four in first experiment)

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Variables in bold were chosen for two experiments – AB1 and AB2

��Two new experiments��

AB1: Names of people�(19^th & 20^th century)

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AB2: Intersections of streets (in USA)

AB1: First experiment

• Team: Viewers: Debra, Elisa, Jon.
• Goal: To get names of people or initial and last letters of their first and last names. (If a middle name comes up, that is counted in the scoring as well.)
• Protocol and other points: 20 events in this set.
• Method: use any method(s) you wish. OK to change method during the trial but please keep a record of this.
• The tasks will be the name of a person or persons, mainly from the 20th Century. E.g. the Governor of Missouri in 1956.

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“Terminal salience”

Nash, Carroll. [TERMINAL SALIENCE], Journal 49, 1977, pp. 563-4. Speculates on the reasons for ‘terminal salience’, the occurrence of higher scores at both ends of an ESP experiment.

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Nash, Carroll B. CLAIRVOYANT DETERMINATION OF THE MOST FREQUENT OF FIVE CARDS, Journal 53, 1985, pp. 26-30.

Author’s abstract: Three experimenters each performed a test of clairvoyance with 20 subjects for a total of 60 different subjects. Each subject attempted to call the most frequent card (MFC) in each of 100 sets of five cards, the sets being removed successively from the top of a randomly arranged, open, ESP deck. While the combined results of the three experiments were significant, the deviation was independently significant only in the results of one of them. Analysis of her results indicates that the ESP of the five cards was diametric and that the success in identifying the MFC carried directly with the difference between its frequency and the frequency of the next MFC in the set. The cards in the MFC hits had a higher proportional frequency of the next MFC in the set.

The cards in the MFC hits had a higher proportional frequency in the two terminal positions of the five-card set than in the inner three. The results are interpreted to indicate that the ESP process took place by an act of diametric paranormal perception of the five cards, followed by normal psychophysiological determination of which of the cards was the most frequent.

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Salience of letters in a word/name

The first three and last letter proved to the most effective letters in designing the basic rule of an effective typing abbreviation system. There are other rules for prefixes, two-word phrases, & longer phrases.� http://jonknowles.net/

Examples of main rule of ABCZ typing abbreviation system: tyll, typg, typl, typn shown in Instant Text

AB1: First experiment

• Team: Viewers: Debra, Elisa, Jon.
• Goal: To get full names of people or initial and last letters of their first and last names. (If a middle name comes up, that is counted in the scoring as well.)
• Protocol and other points: 20 events in this set.
• Method: use any method(s) you wish. OK to change method during the trial but please keep a record of this.
• The tasks will be the name of a person or persons, mainly from the 20th Century. E.g. the Governor of Missouri in 1956.
• Several scoring methods will be applied.

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Scoring methods for AB1

Method 1. Percent of matches of first and last letter with target names counting each instance of a first or last letter in the viewer’s session

Method 2: Percent of matches of first and last letter with target names counting only one instance of a first or last letter in the viewer’s session

Method 3a: Ratio of number of letters in each target name compared to number of letters in names in viewer’s session

Method 3B: Ratio of number of syllables in each target name compared to number of syllables in names in viewer’s session

Method 4: Exact match of name in target and in viewer’s session

Example of Scoring Method 1

How many times an initial or terminal letter occurs in the data and how many of those match the target. For example, if your data is: Peter, P…r, Shelling, M…n.

The score would be initial letter: P2, S1, M1. Last letter: r2, g1, n1.

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Trial 2: session by Ear3

Feedback (to Ear3)

Feedback to Debra and Elisa (Excel doc)

Elisa, Trial 1

Feedback:

George Whipple

William P. Murphy

George Minot

Scoring method 1: Debra and Elisa data

Result for Scoring Method 1: The three viewers had 23-31% accuracy with first and last letters of names when scoring total session data against the initial and last letters.

�Result for Scoring Method 2: Viewers had 19-42% accuracy with first and last letters of names when counting just one appearance of an initial or last letter in the session data.

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Scoring Method 2: count of total first & last letters in target names compared with total matches in viewers’ session.��FN= First Name. LN= Last name.

Scoring methods 3a and 3b: number of syllables and number of letters in first and last name compared with number of syllables and letters in session data

�Scoring Method 4: Viewers got three names correct out of forty-two total names. �

Suggestion: The number of letters and the number of syllables could be used along with terminal salience to compile a “profile” of the name and perhaps identify it.

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This should be tested with real world cases.

Possible uses of terminal salience:

 Terminal salience is more likely to be useful when you know some alternatives and suspect the target is among them.

1. Persons: You have names of multiple suspects in a crime. TS helps identify the criminal. Similarly, combined with RV descriptors, TS could help identify a specific person out of a known set/group of them.

 2. Places: You know the objective relates to one of several streets, cities, states, counties, countries, etc.

 3. Tangibles: License plates, billboards, signs. Structural failures.

 4. Intangibles: Passwords, phone numbers, codes, formulas, equations.

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• Experiment 2 - AB2: Intersections of streets

Guidelines for informal experiment AB2 - Intersections � �

• Goal: To get initial and last letters (or full names) of two streets/ roads/avenues that form an intersection. In four of these, an event took place on a given day and time. The fifth is a “mysterioso” intersection. The idea is to explore real world examples in which alphabetics could play a role. Lily came up with the idea of viewing intersections for this series.
•  Team: Elisa, Debra, Lily and Henni will view.
• Jon K will task and evaluate.
• Henni will analyze sessions for intersections 3 and 4 and will view for intersections 1, 2 and 5.
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AB2 - Intersection Taskings�

AB2 Location 1

Cue: Viewer will provide information sufficient to identify the names on the street/road signs at the intersection at or near where a robbery took place on February 10, 2021. 

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Feedback for Location 1

Location 3: target and ‘decoys’

• Viewed by Debra, Elisa, Lily
• Analyzed by Henni

Henni's analysis of AB2, Location 3:

Debra and Elisa both got capital W, Debra had d (which is part of Warder) and the word „Word”, Elisa noted n after the W, which in shape is similar to r. Lily also had letters w and r in her visuals, although not paired as parts of the same street name. No one had Q, Debra and Elisa had C, Lily had K (those can be phonetic matches to Q but that is a far stretch maybe). Elisa had an n after C, which is present in Quincy. Lily had data indicating y as one of the last letters. �

Comment by Jon: The intended intersection received the fewest letter matches so the analyst would not have been able to discover the target from this data. I doubt this is a case of "psi-missing".

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Sample of data analysis tab

Location 5: Lily

Samples pages

From viewers’ sessions

Location 5: Henni

Location 5: Elisa

AB2 # 5

Peters.

Jeremy

Either a number 1 at the start or a letter I.

I see a truck, its white but some colors spray painted on like cheaply homemade décorations on a smaller size truck.

Observations on Experiment AB2

In Locations #1,2 and 5, the percentages of matches are low and it would be difficult to select initial or last letters of street names based on those percentages.

In the two locations (#3 and #4) which were analyzed along with “decoys”, the match percentages did not provide a basis for the analyst to be able to select the intended location.

Further experimentation might however show that "terminal salience" is a useful approach. This is a new approach in RVland and it might take time to develop skill with it.

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ONWORDS AND UPWORDS!

Jon’s portal : https://jonknowles8.wixsite.com/mprv

Remote viewing page: http://www.mprv.net/one20.html

Book: Remote Viewing from the Ground Up (2017)

https://www.amazon.com/Remote-Viewing-Ground-Jon-Knowles/dp/1546702156

ABCZ Typing Abbreviation System: http://jonknowles.net/

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Debra Lynne Katz and Jon Knowles, Associative Remote Viewing: The Art & Science of Predicting Outcomes for Sports, Politics, Finances and the Lottery (2021)

https://www.amazon.com/Associative-Remote-Viewing-Predicting-Outcomes-ebook/dp/B098KLC3Q9

Web page for ARV book: https://www.arvbook.com/

�Remote Viewing links (formerly 120+): https://remoteviewing.link/

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