Here he points out that his remote-viewing mentor, Ingo Swann, expressed concern that alien entities were influencing earth’s population so as to stifle cultivation of our parapsychological skills. Swann felt that human have enormous psychic potentials and aliens find this threatening. He provides some details of his own potential alien encounters in the context of [...]

Here he shares his unique perspective as a committed member of the LDS church as well as a teacher of remote viewing. He points out that there has been very little conflict between these two roles. Mormon metaphysics has a strong materialist component. Additionally, Mormon doctrine is that the soul extends infinitely throughout all time. [...]

Here he discusses a variety of issues faced by students of his remote viewing classes. One concern is dealing with criticisms and objections that come from family and friends. As with most other skills, professional practice requires a level of commitment and discipline that goes far beyond establishing the validity of the phenomena. As remote [...]

Here he describes the history of the use of the ideogram in remote viewing. The technique was developed by Ingo Swann and was based, in part, on the drawings of children. Subsequently some remote viewing trainers have expanded the technique in order to create something of a lexicon of ambience symbols. Smith discusses both the [...]

Here he points out that parapsychologists and remote viewing researchers have benefitted from critical comments that have enabled them to design better experiments. Contrary to some popular accounts, when conditions are tightened, the experimental results continue to remain strong. Smith goes into some detail explaining why the program was closed in 1995, in spite of [...]

Here he reviews examples, from the remote viewing unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, of tasks involving UFO-related targets. He explains the various methodological hazards of this approach, but also argues for a balanced approach in which remote-viewing related information can be considered as one source among others. He suggests that there are a variety of [...]

Here he reviews the history of what is now known as remote viewing. He describes early experiments in free-response clairvoyance. He also explains how he was recruited into the military unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, that was developed to employ remote viewing for intelligence purposes. He describes the evolution of that unit and the subsequent [...]

Here he notes that physicalism is the current term for what was once known as materialism. It has somewhat broader implications, so that it includes phenomena that have originated in the physical world. It is a metaphysical philosophy and can be thought of as the dominant paradigm within the scientific and academic communities. Smith raises [...]

Here he describes how his interest in dowsing developed during his time as a remote viewer for the Army at Fort Meade, Maryland. He discovered that dowsing was capable of providing information regarding locations that often proved to be elusive to the remote viewing process. As a result of his interest, he was eventually elected [...]