Book People

603 North Lamar

(3rd FLOOR) 512-472-5050

Visitors are welcome, the meeting is free

EVIDENCE OF A HIGHER ORDER

A conversation between remote viewer/philosopher Paul H. Smith and writer/consultant Ira Israel about physics, consciousness, and the spoor of the non-local mind.

For more information about the INACS Discussion Group, please contact Don Switlick @ 258-9878.

Paul H. Smith served for seven years in the government’s remote viewing program at Ft. Meade, MD (from September 1983 to August 1990).  During 1984, he became one of only a handful of government personnel to be personally trained as coordinate remote viewers by Ingo Swann at SRI-International.  Paul was the primary author of the government RV program’s CRV training manual, and served as theory instructor for new CRV trainee personnel, as well as recruiting officer and unit security officer.  He is credited with over a thousand training and operational remote viewing sessions during his time with the unit at Ft. Meade.

Raised in Boulder City, Nevada, he enlisted in the Army in 1976 for Arabic training, attended Officer Candidate School, and was commissioned as a Military Intelligence officer.  Besides his tour at Ft.  Meade, his military assignments included Arabic linguist, electronic warfare operator, strategic intelligence officer for a special operations unit, Mid-East desk officer, tactical intelligence officer with the 101st Airborne Division during Desert Storm/Shield, strategic intelligence officer in the Collection Directorate of the Defense Intelligence Agency, and chief of the intelligence and security division for the Military District of Washington, from which he retired in 1996.

Paul has a BA from Brigham Young University in Mid-East Affairs, Art, and English; an MS from the Defense Intelligence College (Mid-East Concentration); and is enrolled in a Ph.D program in Philosophy, specializing in consciousness and philosophy of mind.

He or his work as a remote viewer have been featured on television programs such as the Arts & Entertainment Network’s “The Unexplained,” the History Channel’s “History Undercover” series, “Strange Universe,” “Inside Edition,” and two documentaries on remote viewing produced for German television.  He has also been a guest on Art Bell’s “Coast to Coast” radio show [Transcript: 03-25-1997], George Noory’s Coast to Coast [Archived on StreamLink], and Jeff Rense’s “Sightings on the Radio” [Transcript: 10-01-2000]   [Transcript: 11-14-2001]

Besides serving as President of Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc., a company offering remote viewing training courses to individuals and small groups, he also works as a remote viewer and RV consultant, is a founding director of the International Remote Viewing Association, and serves as the organization’s vice-president.   Paul and RVIS, Inc. can be reached via:

• Telephone: (866) 229-7847
• Mail: PO Box 1003, Round Rock, TX 78680
• Web site www.rviewer.com

Ira Israel, M.A. Clinical Psychology, M.A. Religious Studies, M.A. Philosophy has written extensively.

His topics include but are not limited to action/thrillers, comedies, French/English adaptations, mystical narratives, treatments, television speeches and academic papers. Some of his academic papers are “Yoga in the Upanishads”, “The Myth of Romantic Love”, “Hinduism, Buddhism, and Kabbalah” and “Remote Viewing”.

Ira’s writings can be viewed on his web site .  

www.iraisrael.com

I just sent you an answer telepathically. For those of you who need to communicate in a more traditional manner, the answer is yes. Austin is home to the Institute for Neuroscience and Consciousness Studies, a nonprofit organization whose membership includes doctors in the field of psychology. Stephen Miles Lewis, vice president of the group, defines parapsychology as the science of anomalous cognition, or nontraditional means of thinking and awareness. The group’s mission is to “expand the scientific understanding of human consciousness and to develop practical applications of this understanding for public benefit, by conducting scientific research in psi (psychic abilities) and related phenomena and by offering educational opportunities to the public.”Research topics include lucid dreams and other altered states of consciousness. The group meets periodically (its most recent meeting took place at BookPeople and featured the author of a book on hypnosis). For more information, visit www.inacs.org. Lewis is also involved in the Anomaly Archive, www.anomalyarchives.org, which maintains a library of books related to parapsychology for its members.

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The proposed group is designed for individuals who wish to explore methods to open a dialogue and connection with their “deeper selves.”  The deeper self has been referred to by many names over the years, from Freud’s “unconscious,” to Jung’s “Self” or “collective unconscious,” to “subconscious”, “super-conscious,” etc.  Although all these terms have a slightly different meaning, they also overlap to a great degree.  They all refer to a deeper, more knowing aspect of the self that is more connected to levels of reality much deeper than our day-to-day surface reality.

Many methods and techniques of self-exploration have been proposed as leading to the deeper self.  In this group, we will study various methods and each participant will select one or more that appeals personally to him or herself.  Each individual will then study this method and practice it on a regular basis, reporting back to the group on his or her experiences.  In this way, the individuals in the group will contribute to a rich group experience as we explore and learn from each other.  Some of the techniques that might be explored include:

Hypnagogic and Hypnapompic phenomena (sensations on the sleep-wake boundary)

* Meditation (of various forms)
* Dream exploration
* Lucid dreaming
* Energetic development
* Out-of-body experience (OBE)
* Remote-viewing

These are a few examples of the types of techniques that individuals will study and may choose to select as their personal vehicle to develop a dialogue with the deeper self.  Many of these techniques appear to share a developing awareness of hypnagogic and hypnapompic imagery, so this area will be explored in depth.

The group will meet on a monthly basis for an initial period of 6 months to one year.  If you’re interested, please contact Sirley Bonham at 210 310-5432.