Science Can’t Explain Why This Worked | Project Stargate
The CIA's Psychic Spies
The CIA ran a psychic spy program during the Cold War. I got my hands on the original documents … and was blown away by what they achieved. Science has no way of explaining this.
Project Stargate is a program that lasted over two decades which used remote viewing to gain military intelligence. Viewers sit in a dark room, are given nothing but an anonymized reference number — a hash corresponding to a military target — and try to psychically “tap into” the target. They draw out whatever sensory signals they receive to be analyzed later.
I thought this was all voodoo nonsense, a complete psy-op, until I spent a few days digging through the original, declassified files now housed at Rice university. The amount and accuracy of successful “hits” were uncanny. The personnel leading the program were secular physicists. This is not something that can be explained away by sheer chance.
What’s even weirder is that the Soviet Union and China had (have?) their own psychic military units! Behind the well-known spy battles of the Cold-War was a secret game of psychic espionage and counter-espionage.
But the Soviet Union were communists, and communists are materialists. How did a materialist superpower legitimize starting a psychic division within their intelligence apparatus? They disliked even psychoanalysis for not being “materialist” enough. It turns out that there is a heated and fascinating philosophical debate about how remote viewing actually works, and even key leaders of the program on the American side remained materialists, convinced that there was a “physical” explanation. This is why Stargate is worth investigating today, for the philosophical “payoff” on fundamental questions of ontology.
In this episode, I will take you through the highlights from the original documents of Stargate and, more importantly, discuss what this means philosophically for the world we live in.
What We Cover:
2:12 The Best “Hits” from Stargate
9:36 Is Stargate a Psy-Op?
12:04 Why Christians Shutdown Stargate
15:01 Is Remote Viewing Nature or Nurture?
18:26 How Consciousness Influences Matter
21:07 How the Army Chose Remote Viewers
26:23 The Materialist Explanation for Remote Viewing
30:18 Remote Viewers Could See the Past
35:08 Why was Stargate Declassified?