CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May

Dr. Edwin C. May (physicist, former director of the U. S. Government's infamous Star Gate remote viewing program, and one of the world's leading researchers into extrasensory perception) reveals what decades of classified research actually uncovered about psychic phenomena. In this episode of Mayim Bialik's Breakdown, he breaks down the science behind remote viewing and telepathy, explains why he believes these phenomena are real, and shares the remarkable evidence that convinced him as a scientist. We discuss: - The truth about the U. S. Government's Star Gate program, why it existed, and what really happened behind the scenes - Why the government became interested in telepathy and whether there was a remote viewing arms race with Russia - Astonishing statistics behind remote viewing experiments, and why many people underestimate just how accurate they were - Incredible cases of remote viewers identifying ships smuggling illegal drugs - Why Dr. May believes around 10% of the population can successfully remote view under double-blind laboratory conditions - Why no personality test, intelligence test, psychological evaluation, or health assessment ever predicted who would become a successful remote viewer - How new remote viewers were discovered and tested using rigorous scientific protocols - Biggest divide within today's remote viewing community, and why he disagrees with many modern training methods - Why remote viewers can't simply predict lottery numbers - Which types of information are easiest and hardest to perceive through remote viewing - Who tends to become the best remote viewers and whether meditation actually improves performance - His take on Lisa Kudrow's surprising remote viewing experience Dr. May also explains the physics he believes may underlie psi phenomena, including: - His scientific model for how telepathy and remote viewing could work - Why these models are scientifically testable, not just philosophical speculation - How entropy may play a critical role in extrasensory perception - What detecting entropy shifts could tell us about accessing psi information - Why an unusually high number of elite remote viewers experience synesthesia, and what that might reveal about the brain We also explore the bigger questions surrounding consciousness and reality: - Why so many scientists remain opposed to studying remote viewing - Why Dr. May actually prefers skeptics over believers - Why he still considers himself a materialist despite spending his career researching paranormal phenomena - How he reconciles precognition with a materialist worldview - Why he does not believe consciousness survives bodily death - What removing mysticism from Western religion may have cost our understanding of extraordinary human experiences Whether you're skeptical, curious, or already fascinated by consciousness research, this is one of the deepest conversations you'll hear on the science, history, and controversy surrounding remote viewing, telepathy, precognition, and the limits of human perception! Kava Haven: All the Buzz, None of the Booze — get 15% off your first order at http://kavahaven.com/breakerUse code BREAKER at https://jonesroadbeauty.com to get a Free Gift with your first purchase! Real movement. Real muscle activation. Get $20 OFF the Waver Vibration Plate and Free Shipping at https://lifeprofitness.com/ with code BREAKER at checkout. #JonesRoadBeauty #adVisithttps://drinkag1.com/BREAKDOWN http://drinkag1.com/BREAKDOWN and get a FREE AG1 Flavor Sampler and a FREE bottle of Vitamin D3 + K2 in your Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order. Go to https://alyahealth.com/s/breaker and use code BREAKER for 20% off your first order. Get 15% off at https://orionsleep.com/mayimMake your summer wardrobe feel easier. Go to https://www.quince.com/breakdown for free shipping on your order and 365-day returns. Upgrade your kitchen with Our Place today. Visit fromourplace.com/BREAK http://fromourplace.com/BREAK and use code BREAK for 10% off sitewide. Learn more about the STAR GATE era and the research since then, including the complete set of publications: http://www. LFR. ORG Follow us on Substack for Exclusive Bonus Content: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://bialikbreakdown.substack.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://bialikbreakdown.substack.com/%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠BialikBreakdown.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.bialikbreakdown.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube.com/mayimbialik⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/mayimbialik%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0%E2%81%A0See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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• 0:00Speaker 00

  The brain has more than five senses. We all use remote viewing, whether you've heard of it.

• 0:05Mayim Bialik?

  Explain for us what Stargate is.

• 0:08Speaker 00

  From 1975 for the next 20 years, the intelligence community tasked us with over 500 separate missions to collect intelligence. A Russian said he knows how telepathy works. That frightened the West.

• 0:23Jonathan Cohen?

  What was your role in the program?

• 0:25Speaker 00

  Figure out how it works. There's only one form of using ESP to gather information, and that's called precognition.

• 0:32Mayim Bialik?

  Physicist Dr. Edwin C. May is one of the foremost authorities on parapsychology, remote viewing, and the expansion of human capability.

• 0:41Speaker 00

  Those 500 missions were spread across 19 federal agencies like NSA, CIA, State Department.

• 0:49Jonathan Cohen?

  It was kept secret?

• 0:50Speaker 00

  Totally. China, Cuba. Are they posing a threat? People tunneling under the North Korean, South Korean border. We were tasked, can we figure out which tunnels we should go look at?

• 1:01Mayim Bialik?

  What is your understanding as a scientist?

• 1:03Speaker 00

  Telepathy scares people. It's considered bizarre and crazy. Absolutely no doubt in my mind that a certain aspect of this is totally real. I have to tell you something that you won't believe.

• 1:22Mayim Bialik?

  Hi, I'm Mayim Bialik.

• 1:23Jonathan Cohen?

  And I'm Jonathan Cohen.

• 1:24Mayim Bialik?

  And welcome to Our Breakdown. Whether you're a skeptic, a true believer, or maybe you're curious about one of the most controversial subjects in science, this episode is going to challenge all assumptions you have and leave you questioning what is really possible in this reality as well as the future. Today, we're speaking to Dr. Edwin C. May. He was interested in psi phenomenon before anyone was talking about it, and he joined the ongoing US government sponsored work at what was formerly the Stanford Research Institute and then became the Stargate Program. Dr. May is one of the foremost authorities, not only on

• 2:06Mayim Bialik?

  remote viewing, but on the feasibility of human capability. He has managed complex interdisciplinary research projects for the federal government and has accumulated dozens of years of research into understanding the phenomena of remote viewing as well as its limitations.

• 2:25Jonathan Cohen?

  Ed is going to talk to us about how remote viewing was used across all agencies of the government, from CIA to FBI, DEA, NASA, and so many more agencies continue to come back to that team because of their success.

• 2:41Mayim Bialik?

  He's done hundreds of studies and published hundreds of reports exploring what are the best ways to access the skills of those who seem to be intuitively gifted at remote viewing. If you've listened to our episode with Angela Ford, he has worked extensively with Angela. He's the guy who has really touched every single remote viewer that you have heard of, who has worked for the government. He's done extensive research and exploration across Russia to figure out what they know about remote viewing that we can learn from.

• 3:11Jonathan Cohen?

  He's also going to explain what makes the best remote viewer, how they do it differently, what happened when they tried to implement a protocol and teach it in a very specific way, what went wrong, and what not to do if you want to become a remote viewer.

• 3:28Mayim Bialik?

  If you're curious to learn more about the Stargate era and all of the research since then, please go to LFR.org. And you'll probably be surprised to hear that Dr. May describes himself as a staunch materialist, and he's going to explain why. It's a pleasure to welcome to The Breakdown Dr. Edwin C. May. Break it down. Dr. Edwin May, welcome to The Breakdown.

• 3:52Speaker 00

  Thank you. My pleasure.

• 3:54Mayim Bialik?

  I wonder if you can start us off by explaining how you got from kind of your scientific origin to the world of parapsychology. What was that transition like?

• 4:07Speaker 00

  I was 35 years old as a postdoctoral person at the University of California in Davis, California, doing physics. And I'd never heard of anything like extrasensory perception in my whole life or an out of the body experience, none of that. I saw an advert, because I was bored, said, please come in here about out of body experiences by Bob Monroe. Never heard of that guy before. Okay. Nothing else to do, I go and I listen for about an hour, and he's talking about this magnificent thing that he did. He gets out of his body and he goes and he pinched his girlfriend on the butt and raised a welt while he's out of his body. I said, yeah, sure, sure.

• 4:51Speaker 00

  So I bought the book that he had. It's called Journeys Out of the Body, and it's on my shelf here somewhere. Read it in two sittings, and the next thing I know, I tried it, and nothing worked. I thought, this is ridiculous. I stuck it back in the shelf. So I was doing some physics at UC Berkeley, doing some work, and I saw another flyer, this time by a guy named Chuck Honerton, come in here, the science of extrasensory perception. I said, oh, yeah, science, BS, that's nonsense. When I went and listened to him, and by God, he was talking science. I thought, really? That's fantastic. So I invited him to go to dinner, and we talked and ate for about two hours over dinner, and he had all the

• 5:35Speaker 00

  right answers to really difficult questions I asked him. And he became my mentor, actually. And that got me started in this field. Maybe it is worth looking into.

• 5:47Mayim Bialik?

  What did you come to understand about the science of paranormal extrasensory perception? What is your understanding as a scientist?

• 5:57Speaker 00

  The brain has more than five senses. I mean, that's news. You know, echolocation and magnetic field sensing and all that. Let's focus on the big five that we're all used to. And the idea is that every one of those sensory systems are better when things are changing in front of them. Like, somebody walks in the room, there were too much cologne on, you notice it immediately, and then you, the technical term is you habituate to it, right? So you get used to it. So I thought, well, if ESP, if the S in ESP is really a sensory system, there must be something that when that thing is changing, you get better responses than if it's not changing.

• 6:41Speaker 00

  And by God, we found it. I'll say it technically, and then we'll drop it. And that is the gradient of entropy of the target system. And it works. It works beautifully well. We've made tremendous progress, my colleagues and I, especially after Stargate's gone away.

• 6:58Mayim Bialik?

  I wonder if you can explain for us what Stargate is. Pretend like no one knows. Get us into that phase of history.

• 7:08Speaker 00

  I joined the program in late 1975, but the program was started before that. And I saw some data that just blew me away with a guy by the name of Pat Price, who was a police chief in Burbank, California, and he used his, quote, psychic ability to find the bad guys, and he was really good at it. He was so good at it, he left our program and went off to work for the CIA directly. And he told one of his minder at CIA, I'm going out to Las Vegas, and I'm going to die there. He went out to Las Vegas and dropped dead.

• 7:53Speaker 00

  And but later, it was discovered that he was shoveling classified data to the Church of Scientology. He was a member of the Church of Scientology, and nobody knew about it at the time.

• 8:07Jonathan Cohen?

  What type of data was he sharing?

• 8:10Speaker 00

  One of the kidnapped victims early on in the 70s. Pat was able to go and pick out the perpetrators from mugshots of a whole lot of people, and he picked out the right people.

• 8:22Jonathan Cohen?

  So the Stargate program, from my understanding, is using, for lack of a better term, psi abilities to get clues. We spoke to Angela Ford, who was using remote viewing to try and find information on fugitives. The mandate was to scale that. Is that accurate?

• 8:44Speaker 00

  Yes and no, because we all complained bitterly, because for the first decade of the program, we couldn't do basic research, and we're all screaming, give us money to help figure out how this stuff actually works. No, no, continue your spying activity. Yeah, boring as hell, but we did it.

• 9:01Jonathan Cohen?

  Was there a race going on at that time between the US and other countries to try to understand this technology and utilize it? Was it kind of a psychic arms race?

• 9:13Speaker 00

  I wish there were. There was not, because it's considered bizarre and crazy and probably not true by most people, except the Russians. The Russians are very, when I've been to Russia, to Moscow many times, and out to Novosibirsk a couple of times, and they're falling all over themselves to be involved in some sort of psychic program, one way or another. Here, literally, I had some money from the Air Force, about one and a half million dollars worth, and an undersecretary of the Air Force, and who will remain nameless, said, kill that program, it is the work of the devil. And they came and took our money back from the time of

• 9:55Speaker 00

  Luther and nailing his stuff on the board. What's happened is, the West has taken mysticism out of the practice of religion, and the Roman Catholic Church gave their stuff in Latin. Who the hell knew anything about Latin? Nobody did, hardly. But in Russia, there's nothing more mystical than going to a Russian Orthodox church. What happens is, first of all, there's no pews to sit in, all right? You walk in and hold a candle. Wow, that's great. And the priest comes in and never once looks at you, not once. He walks in, and there on the wall is an icon of one form or another, and he's mumbling something totally incoherent to that icon, and then he walks out the door.

• 10:40Speaker 00

  What's more mystical than that?

• 10:42Jonathan Cohen?

  Going back to the Stargate program.

• 10:46Jonathan Cohen?

  What was the initial mandate? What type of cases did came across your desk?

• 10:53Speaker 00

  A Russian, Ipolet Mosevich Kogan, who in 1969, and I have his paper in Russian and in English, said, he knows how telepathy works. And, you know, like an AM radio station, you at 5:50 on the dial and your voice modulates that. And that's how an AM radio actually works. And Kogan was saying, well, that's how telepathy works. You have a 10 hertz carrier, your beta rhythms in your brain, and your thoughts modulate that. And 10 hertz radiation will go all over the planet. Okay, years went by and that frightened the West here. It really did. God, you know, if they could read our minds, this is really horrible.

• 11:38Speaker 00

  But when I first met Kogan, I said, Professor, it's an honor to meet you. I've got bad news and good news for you. And he said, what are you talking about? I said, your model of how telepathy works is completely wrong. He says, oh, I'm so glad to hear you that because over time I now believe it was wrong.

• 11:56Speaker 00

  Telepathy cannot possibly exist. I'll tell you why.

• 12:01Speaker 00

  Suppose, let's do a little trial right now. Okay, I'm thinking of a number between one and 100. Tell me what it is, please, any, either of you.

• 12:10Mayim Bialik?

  Thirty-seven.

• 12:11Jonathan Cohen?

  Seventeen.

• 12:12Speaker 00

  Okay, I take a pistol out and shoot myself in the head and kill myself. I carry to the grave whether or not you got it right. If I then say, instead of killing myself, I say, hey, you got it right, then you don't have to get that information out of my mind. You use your precognitive ability because I tell you what the answer is.

• 12:33Mayim Bialik?

  This is some of why, you know, so many people are trying to figure out, are there ways to appropriately, you know, measure an ability that is not only rare, but also has so much variability? And, you know, some of the stats on, you know, people who remote view and absolutely, you know, we have people like Angela who are, you know, better than chance, right? I mean, that's pretty incredible. But I think there is sort of this question of what is going on? The fact that all of these kind of, you know, abilities come along with, you know, synesthesia? I would say that's a place where we get to say, what's going on that creates synesthesia, which might also be creating extrasensory perception?

• 13:18Speaker 00

  There are people who are decent, remote viewers, to use that term, who are not synesthetes. So synesthesia is not a necessary condition for good functioning. But it's just a clue. Four percent of the population are synesthetes. Back to try to answer your question. My colleague in India, who's the brains of the operation, came up with an idea and we've published it. And that is, there's only one form of using ESP to gather information, and that's called precognition. You can peek into the answer book. For example, if you're doing, taking an exam in college, oh, boy, and you sneak into the professor's office and you study the answer book and come back to your, you're going to do really well on the exam, right?

• 14:03Speaker 00

  Well, if you could use your precognitive ability, if you have it, to look into the answer book, hasn't even been written yet, but it's going to be written in the future. But you're looking at it from a future perspective. That's how we think this stuff works.

• 14:19Mayim Bialik?

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• 18:28Mayim Bialik?

  There's a mystical concept, you know? People talk about the Akashic records. People talk about that all information is, you know, existing in some sort of plane. I mean, precognition is presupposing that information exists as bits, right? Or as code that you can access?

• 18:45Speaker 00

  Not necessary. It doesn't even exist yet. For example, if we're going to do a remote viewing, I'd call up my friend in India and say, tomorrow at whatever time, we have a, we have a set of photographs, 300 of them. I said, pick one of those photographs, tomorrow, pick it out, and I'll get back to you. So I have no idea which one she's going to choose. And I sit down and say to you, okay, please access and describe a photograph I'm going to show you tomorrow. And you can use your precognition to look at a photograph that hasn't even been chosen yet.

• 19:19Jonathan Cohen?

  The practical application for the government was?

• 19:23Speaker 00

  Well, it was mixed. For example, one, one thing was to assess whether a particular country, China, Cuba, whatever, are they posing a threat to us? For example, there, there were people tunneling under the North Korean, South Korean border, and they were tunneling under that. And we were tasked, can we figure out which tunnels we should go look at and send the, send the people out to dig in to catch these, catch these people who are underground?

• 19:56Jonathan Cohen?

  It's interesting to think about North Korea, you know? It's, that's so practical, right? Like, there are people tunneling and they need to deploy army or they need to deploy military operations to a specific location. They don't have AI at the, at that point. So what they're asking for is evidence or suggestions. Were you guys able to direct them in, in a particular way?

• 20:23Speaker 00

  Yes, we would, for example, one of the big applications was not for the military, is for law enforcement. You may remember there was a big scandal in Washington DC. One of the members of the House of Representatives was accused of murdering a girl. And no one could find evidence that that actually happened. And the girl's, woman's, young woman's father called up Joe and said, will you help us find this body, if she's alive or not? And Joe put a pin in the mat within 30 feet of the body.

• 20:59Jonathan Cohen?

  That type of?

• 21:02Jonathan Cohen?

  Specific story is so unbelievable because you're like, how could he possibly know? You're not doing traditional detective work. What was the reaction when he's able to lead law enforcement to something that was otherwise hidden in that way?

• 21:19Speaker 00

  Delightful. Come to work for us. Are you kidding?

• 21:22Jonathan Cohen?

  I'm curious about the divide, right? Was it just like everyone accepted it? Or was there still backlash that like, this is nuts? And you guys are a bunch of like rogue psychics that must have gotten lucky?

• 21:34Speaker 00

  No, not true. Not, simply not true. Let me give you a non-statistical example. Suppose you want to open up a new restaurant where you live in, okay? And you have modest amount of funding and you find a place that only seats 19 people when the place is packed full, alright? And you got the best chef in the area and you have a great wine cellar and a waitstaff and decor is beautiful. On opening night, you have 19 people come up and fill up your restaurant. Fantastic. For the next week, 17 of those original 19 customers come back to your restaurant. What would you say about the quality of your restaurant?

• 22:09Jonathan Cohen?

  Pretty good.

• 22:10Speaker 00

  Gold star on your forehead, John Jonathan. From 1975 to the next 20 years, various elements of the intelligence community had tasked us with over 500 separate missions to collect intelligence, alright? Those 500 missions were spread across 19 federal agencies like NSA and CIA and State Department and what have you. Of those 19 agencies, 17 of them returned with additional new missions. Even the skeptical CIA came back 41 separate new missions. Was it perfect? Hell, no. A long way from that, but good enough to solve some of their problems.

• 22:54Speaker 00

  And I have letters from NSA and I've letters from them thanking the remote viewers because we were able to solve problems they were unable to solve.

• 23:04Jonathan Cohen?

  I don't think a lot of people realize that this service is being harnessed by all these different government agencies, but it wasn't shared with the public, right? It was kept secret?

• 23:16Speaker 00

  Totally.

• 23:17Jonathan Cohen?

  Totally kept secret, top, like no one spoke about it? You weren't allowed to share that information?

• 23:23Speaker 00

  That's why we had these funny names for them.

• 23:25Jonathan Cohen?

  How did you recruit new remote viewers? Like, there was a training methodology that came out of Stanford that, you know, has circulated.

• 23:34Speaker 00

  That's terrible because it was a mistake.

• 23:37Jonathan Cohen?

  It wasn't supposed to be released, obviously.

• 23:39Speaker 00

  It was released. It was Ingo Swan, a good friend of mine, he's no longer with us. He invented a training procedure and when he tried to introduce it with the participants at SRI, Stanford Research Institute, we had a rebolt on our hands. Because Ingo was a very colorful character. He says, "Content be damned, structure is all that matters." We said, "No, you got that backwards, Ingo." We don't care about your damned structure, but content is what we're doing this for. And unfortunately, that started a problem. And I will use a phrase, a strange phrase, and then tell you who invented that phrase.

• 24:22Speaker 00

  It spawned a Ingo Swan cult. And the Ingo Swan cult still exists today and it drives up those of us nuts. But the man who invented that term was Ingo Swan himself.

• 24:35Jonathan Cohen?

  So the Ingo Swan divide, the cult that developed, he believed that you needed a specific structure, that all viewers should have a specific way of doing things. And anyone who violated from that is not doing the collection of data properly.

• 24:50Speaker 00

  Yes, and that doesn't work.

• 24:52Jonathan Cohen?

  So when we spoke to Angela Ford, one of the things she brought up is that, and I forget the exact distinction she made, but she said she would go out of body. And when this protocol came in, she said, "You shouldn't go out of body. You should only get information in a different way." But then she was like, "Well, you're limiting my greatest capability of how I get information." So, you know, it's this divide between is this a science or is it an art? Because if it's pure science, then you want it to be replicatable by the same methods, by the same steps and the same models.

• 25:27Speaker 00

  The psychologists use the term individual differences. We, my former colleagues in Brazil hosted a meeting in Washington, not classified at the time, to, there were five top of the line remote viewers and three managers. I was one of the managers. And what was interesting and not at all surprising, no two people of those five excellent remote viewers did their work the same way. One person did it by dreaming. Someone, Nevin Lance, a psychologist, he did it by sitting across the table in a very professional sort of way, and so on.

• 26:07Speaker 00

  Everybody did, Angela Ford starts her stuff off with automatic writing. And then she turns the paper over and gets to work. So there is no single way in which there, one can have this experience. If this stuff is real, and our estimate is about 1% of selected populations have data that could be verified in the laboratory. It's probably larger than that because, you know, we didn't, we surveyed 600 people at various, like SRI and the alumnis of Stanford University and so on. But probably, if that's wrong by a factor of 10, that's still, 10% of the population

• 26:49Speaker 00

  have the ability to muster under laboratory double bond conditions. That's extraordinary. Now, people, there's a guy named Rick Stanford, no longer with us, a psychologist from New York University. He wrote a paper on how people use their unconscious psi ability to make their life easier. And I have a firsthand experience like that myself. I was living in San Francisco at the time. And a friend of mine was coming out from the East Coast to a conference in downtown San Francisco. He says, "Let's meet out in front of the hotel at 5:00 PM and we'll go have a nice meal here in San Francisco." "All right, except it's rush hour."

• 27:33Speaker 00

  And I, you know, I'm thinking, "Oh, man, I gave 100 different excuses why I can't leave to meet him in front of the hotel at 5 o'clock." And I know he's going to be really pissed off. This is before cell phones and all that kind of silliness. And so finally I get in the car and I drive down there. I'm an hour late. I pull up in front of the hotel. My friend comes running out of the hotel and says, "How long you been here?" I said, "We just got here." "Oh, thank God." I was being held up. I couldn't possibly reach you. I didn't know how to reach you. There's an example of my using my unconscious psi ability, and I don't claim to be a big psychic, no way. And I maneuvered life to work out the way.

• 28:14Jonathan Cohen?

  When you claim that you're not at all psychic, what was your role in the program?

• 28:19Speaker 00

  Figure out how it works and design protocols. I'm really good at both of those things.

• 28:23Jonathan Cohen?

  How do you design a protocol when everyone does it differently?

• 28:26Speaker 00

  We had what was called a scientific oversight committee. But we have a number of different committees. That is where initially we had 11 of the top scientists in the country at various disciplines. And they were, they were chosen by an undersecretary of the army to watch over us. The only thing that we could do is bring a room full of people, try to have them do remote viewing, take the 10 best people and have them come in one at a time and do a very careful double bond controlled study. And of those, about 1% met our criteria.

• 29:05Jonathan Cohen?

  Where would you recruit from? It's a, it's a strange thing to post on a job board.

• 29:10Speaker 00

  Yeah, believe me, it was. We sampled people from the Mensa society. So we had groups of people like that, including SRI. We went, we had a round bag lunch and it was advertised over the, over the group at SRI. And what was fun about that is that we sat in a room and these guys showed up and one fellow was sitting in the front row with his arms crossed like this. "Oh, yeah, right." He didn't buy one thing about it at all. But he scored high enough of the room full of 50 people to get the second round around. And he scored the best in the second round. He said, "I'll buy this story. I don't care if you buy it or not, you're damn good at the job."

• 29:50Jonathan Cohen?

  Does being smart, like a Mensa candidate or a person who are part of Mensa, does that actually make you worse at this because you have to quiet the intellect?

• 30:00Speaker 00

  We don't understand it well enough to answer that question. What you don't want to, it's like trying to play golf. My wife convinced me to play golf. And if you're a physicist, you should be able to play golf. And it turns out because I'm a physicist, I'm thinking too much in my damned head instead of just swinging the club and get off of the game. Same thing happens this way. If you, if you want to do anything like run 100 yards in 10 seconds and you're in your head thinking, "Well, gee, I might stumble on the way" and all these kinds of stuff in your head, you're not going to do as well. You know, you're afraid of the big slope on the mountains and you're skiing, you're going to go tumbling. So this isn't anything new for psychic functioning. It's the way we humans screw it up.

• 30:43Mayim Bialik?

  Do you believe that anyone can learn to do this? We're friends with Julia Mossbridge.

• 30:47Speaker 00

  No, absolutely not.

• 30:49Mayim Bialik?

  Okay, so talk about that because some people like Julia Mossbridge believe like, "I could teach you to do it right now. I don't get it."

• 30:55Speaker 00

  Oh, she's so full of it. I know her really well. We're good friends. That's bullshit and I'll tell you why. For example, you could get hired the best track and field person in the world to teach me to do high jumping, alright?

• 31:09Mayim Bialik?

  That's right. You're going to hit a limit, though.

• 31:11Speaker 00

  And I can clear six without a problem. Inches, not feet. You cannot train a natural ability. And that's in, in track and field, it's, you can't train anything, including ESP. You can't train people to do it.

• 31:26Jonathan Cohen?

  We did a session with Ma'im where she tried to train, teach Ma'im to do a remote viewing and she picked a target. We didn't know what the target was. She didn't know, Julia didn't know what the target was.

• 31:38Speaker 00

  You're good.

• 31:38Jonathan Cohen?

  The target was, it turned out to be the seventh picture on my phone's camera roll.

• 31:45Speaker 00

  Okay.

• 31:46Jonathan Cohen?

  All right, so we go through this entire exercise.

• 31:49Mayim Bialik?

  And I didn't have the guts to say to her, "Julia, I think you're full of it." Like you just said.

• 31:54Speaker 00

  No, but how'd you do, though?

• 31:56Mayim Bialik?

  I don't even understand what we were doing. And I'm a very rational mind. I have a lot of ego that just holds on to everything. I'm trained as a neuroscientist. And I said to her, I don't know what the fuck we're doing. And she's like, that's the fun of it. And I'm like, I don't think this is fun.

• 32:12Speaker 00

  I can conduct a remote viewing session using Zoom with you in your house.

• 32:17Jonathan Cohen?

  We would love that. But I want to explain a little bit the way that Julia explained the process that she was walking mime through, both because I think our audience is curious about the theory and maybe you have a different explanation of how you would describe it.

• 32:31Mayim Bialik?

  She had a board. So yeah, one side I was allowed to write words. She would ask me things, I'd write words. And the other side, I was supposed to put feelings and pictures.

• 32:40Jonathan Cohen?

  So you're trying to move away from the logical side. And then those symbols were then more, and this, look, this also was in the middle of a podcast. It was for demonstration purposes. It wasn't for, you know, and this was her first time. But what the idea was is that you are trying to quiet the rational mind a little bit, which is why I asked sort of about, you know, the people who are overly analytical, can they put that down a little bit? And then, you know, allow that receptive, non-language part of your brain to sort of open in a way. And in my own life, I've been extremely logical and rational. And I've, through meditation and breath work and trying to move outside of that, especially

• 33:22Jonathan Cohen?

  when I'm not overly busy at work, because work is an energy of getting things done. I feel like I have an ability to open that other receptive side up. Now, would I ever be a good remote viewer? Maybe not. But I do feel that people can train to be more receptive than not.

• 33:42Speaker 00

  No, they cannot be. Literally, I mean, my God, we spent literally millions of your tax dollar money to try to find a way to train military officers or anybody else to do spying missions. And we were unable, we failed categorically at that. And one of the reasons is, everybody's different. And so what might work for you to train, in other words, to teach you, actually, there's a book you can buy by Joe McMonigal called Remote Viewing Secrets. And there's not one piece of data or paragraph in that whole book about what to do. Because everything in that book is what's not to do.

• 34:22Jonathan Cohen?

  What are the top things not to do?

• 34:24Speaker 00

  Worry about it.

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• 35:55Mayim Bialik?

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• 36:08Speaker 00

  Are you Jewish by some sense?

• 36:10Mayim Bialik?

  Yes, I am. Very good guess.

• 36:11Speaker 00

  Me too. Except I'm a non-observant Jew.

• 36:14Mayim Bialik?

  It doesn't matter. Our genetics are the same.

• 36:16Jonathan Cohen?

  That's the analytical, right? Like, you have to, if you're, if the number one thing is not to worry, what we're saying is that either you're genetically able to quiet that part, or you're not. My perspective is, just personally, this is only for me. I can't say what would happen for other people. I can train myself, or I can change my state to be more or less worried. And then maybe I'm unlocking whatever natural ability I have or not. So I'm not changing my natural ability, but I'm changing how much I can access my ability.

• 36:51Mayim Bialik?

  There's a bell curve of ability, you know? And there's a ceiling effect to certain skills. I'm a decent piano player, but I will, no matter how many hours I train, I will never be Rachmaninoff. Like, I will never be at that level.

• 37:09Speaker 00

  Exactly true. Love to hear you say that.

• 37:12Mayim Bialik?

  Right, thank you. I mean, my mother would say, you could do anything. You could be President of the United States if you want. And I would tell her as a child, you're wrong. But what we're talking about is there's a ceiling effect, right? To certain, you know, cultivation of ability. But I think what is important, and hopefully, I would think, Ed, you know, might be something hopeful, is that if you were to take someone who, let's say, like me, you know, grew up very anxious, I operated, like, I rev high, I'm a type A person, you know, that's me. At a certain point in life, it was suggested to me that there's a set of skills which I could learn, which can lower my nervous systems, you know, kind of startle reflex, that can, you know, try and calm the system down.

• 37:57Mayim Bialik?

  And those are techniques of like, learning how to, you know, access your vagus nerve's natural ability to calm you down. Like, tap into the sympathetic nervous system, right? Like, all these things, like, try and activate those things. It's our understanding, you know, from most of the people we've spoken to in this space, that it's in that state, a state that many of us find very hard to get to. It's in that state of being able to quiet all of that noise, that in many cases, information drops in, or things feel, like, he'll say, like, oh, I feel it in my body. I don't know what that means. I'm like, one of those people, just like, you know, cut off at the thyroid. But that's sort of the understanding, is that once people are taught to, they call

• 38:42Mayim Bialik?

  it dropping in, right? Once you drop in and you learn that as a skill, it is a muscle that you can exercise and strengthen. So people who study TM, for example, they are practicing, right? A state of getting to that, like, theta place, like, those are things you can entrain.

• 39:01Speaker 00

  Well, there's something else that's underneath all of this. The Army folks at Fort Meade try to convince people this stuff is very, very reliable and accurate. And it's terrible, actually, like other human experiences. It's terrible. For example, Joe McMonigal is one of the best remote viewers it is. And I have 1,500 of his trials where there's a way, I'll leave the statistics aside, there's a 20% chance he'd get it by luck alone. But he was scoring 44% accuracy of his data. 100 minus 44, he failed.

• 39:44Mayim Bialik?

  Correct.

• 39:45Speaker 00

  We have judging procedure of one in five, one in five photographs, one of which is the right answer, okay? And, all right, so either got it right or got it wrong. There's no in-between here. And that's one statistic. There are better statistics now than that. But nonetheless, Joe got 44% of his data out of 1,500 trials where he gave the right answer. 44%. So 100 minus 44 is whatever it is. I don't do arithmetic in my head very well.

• 40:16Mayim Bialik?

  It's 56.

• 40:17Speaker 00

  That's how many times he failed.

• 40:19Mayim Bialik?

  If you have to choose one of five things, you have a 20% chance of being correct, just statistically, meaning, you know, like, that's just, so what we're saying is that even the best remote viewers are about doubling that. So that means that if you're like, where's the dead body? You've got less than a 50% chance that they're going to get it right. It's still remarkable. And we're still talking about, like, what? Where's this information? How are they even seeing anything?

• 40:46Jonathan Cohen?

  Double chance is still, again, I'm not a mathematician or a statistician, I'm a writer. So I like a good story, but still, that means that that's a significant improvement over chance alone.

• 41:01Speaker 00

  You bet, big time. The statistics of that are off the charts. Will you allow me to be a little bit geeky here?

• 41:08Jonathan Cohen?

  Please.

• 41:09Speaker 00

  Turn on the geek switch?

• 41:10Jonathan Cohen?

  Yes, please.

• 41:11Speaker 00

  We invented a procedure, which goes by the name Figure of Merit. And Figure of Merit is, how accurately was the remote view describing the target? But that's not enough to let you know whether remote viewing was good or not, because someone could read the Encyclopedia Britannica as the answer, they will get 100% accurate regardless of what the target is, right? So to control that, we said, okay, out of all the things you said, what percentage of what you said were correct? Those two numbers, we multiply to get together to get the figure of merit. And I have to tell you something that you won't believe, but it's true, that if the

• 41:53Speaker 00

  figure of merit above a certain level almost never fails of predicting the output of the experiment. In my job right now, working with some neuroscientists in Brazil, is to figure out, we have actually made tremendous progress on how it works. So we take the problem space and divide it into two and a half chunks. One chunk is, how the hell does the data get from tomorrow in India to right here in front of your nose today? That is 100% a physics problem. And the person, the physicists looking at that don't have to know anything at all about ESP or any of that, probably wouldn't believe it. There's actually a whole physics domain called quantum retrocausation, which talks

• 42:37Speaker 00

  about information going backward in time. We didn't invent that. Okay, so once the data is here to your nose, how does it get into the damn brain? That's a big problem. We have no idea how that works. But once it's in the brain, neuroscience takes over. And neuroscience can approach that problem without having to worry about how it got there in the first place. We have testable models of how precognition might work. If you have too much going on in your brain worrying about, we have brought that up earlier, you're not going to do well in anything in your life.

• 43:11Jonathan Cohen?

  It's a little bit of an indictment of her. She's done okay so far, but she could do better.

• 43:15Mayim Bialik?

  I've been nominated for five Emmys and I haven't won one.

• 43:18Jonathan Cohen?

  If you were less worried, you may have won a few more.

• 43:22Speaker 00

  I'm the other way around. I believe too many things too fast and get screwed about that a lot. But, but the point is that we have some idea and testable idea about how to measure the amount of cross-tark there is in the brain. And that's what we're looking at now. Do you know what DIT, diffusion tensor imaging? Do you know that term in neuroscience?

• 43:48Jonathan Cohen?

  No.

• 43:49Speaker 00

  Look it up. It's really important because what we're able to do with DTI is track the neural pathways through the white matter of the brain. And if there are a lot of neural pathways, we are positing a, we don't know whether it's true or not, but if you have lots of neural pathways in the brain, then you're probably likely to be a better psychic than if you don't have as many. And that DTI is the way to measuring that quantitatively.

• 44:19Jonathan Cohen?

  So that's partially what could be contributing to precognition?

• 44:25Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 44:25Jonathan Cohen?

  And we don't know how the information gets there. That's what we're looking at is what is the quality, quality of the receiver, the brain? Are there cases or information, types of information that remote viewing is better for than others? For example, you know, when you speak about Angela doing tests on the stock market, the, the pure materialist will say, well, if this is possible, why doesn't everyone just win the lottery?

• 44:53Speaker 00

  What we know about the nature of remote viewing. First of all, people get tired immediately.

• 45:01Speaker 00

  And we also have what's called bitrate, very reasonable estimate of what the bitrate for that channel is. Bitrate means, well, if you want to listen to your favorite concert and you'd listen to it through two tin cans and a piece of string, it'll sound terrible because the bitrate possibility of a vibrating string is terrible compared to FM radio or, or other, other schemes. So we have a bitrate such that if you were to win the lottery, it would take 50 straight hours of being psychic to win the lottery, to get enough information with this terrible bitrate of how ESP works. It's awful.

• 45:40Mayim Bialik?

  Well, you know what? But you know who does that? Who meditates for that long?

• 45:44Jonathan Cohen?

  Monks.

• 45:45Mayim Bialik?

  Monks and Kabbalists. They used to have days-long meditations. They would sit in meditation for days.

• 45:52Speaker 00

  There have been studies of the monks who spent 30 years meditating and they're no better good than somebody who's never even tried meditation.

• 46:00Mayim Bialik?

  But they're less anxious.

• 46:02Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 46:02Jonathan Cohen?

  This to me is like the biggest conundrum I have that I can't quite reconcile. The notion that people who are doing these practices are no better than people who aren't, especially if the first rule in what not to do is not to worry. You would think that the meditation practice is, you know, tackling the first rule of what not to do. So that's one less thing down on the list that would get you better at this.

• 46:30Speaker 00

  There are huge amounts of literature on exactly that point. Does meditation help you do remote viewing or Gansfeld techniques or any of the other techniques that are flying around? It doesn't work.

• 46:43Jonathan Cohen?

  What are the other four things not to do?

• 46:46Speaker 00

  They're different for every person. Some people would be fine to sit down there and say, okay. In fact, Nevin Lance, one of our top remote viewers, a psychologist, he likes to sit down across a desk from me and he does this like it is just straight ass physics. He works on a stimulus response basis. I say, Nevin, please access and describe a photograph I'm going to show you in about 20 minutes. And access to that is through the keyword now. So when he hears now, he gives me a one sentence answer.

• 47:17Mayim Bialik?

  What does he say? Give me an example. Like what, like you show a picture of a, a horse riding a tricycle? And he says, horse riding a tricycle?

• 47:25Speaker 00

  No, no, no, no, no. This is all double blind. I don't know what the target is.

• 47:29Mayim Bialik?

  But how accurate are his descriptions of these images?

• 47:32Speaker 00

  Pretty good.

• 47:33Mayim Bialik?

  Well, what's pretty good, Ed? Come on.

• 47:36Speaker 00

  I give you numbers. You want numbers?

• 47:38Mayim Bialik?

  I do. Well, I want to know, like, this is the thing that a lot of people say, like, oh, everything is so vague. It's kind of like when you go to a, you know, a magician or a mentalist. And it's like, oh, they're like getting like a little bit close and so, but, but you're talking about a level of precision. Like Angela Ford was like, this is where the guy is, right? Like she had the name of the town. She was off by one letter, right? That's what I want.

• 48:03Speaker 00

  And Nevin does exactly the same thing.

• 48:05Mayim Bialik?

  Got it.

• 48:06Speaker 00

  Everybody works differently. And what would work well for Nevin, sitting across the table with me would, would cause Angela to go bonkers.

• 48:15Jonathan Cohen?

  So the bitrate for ESP is far too low for, for the lottery. Cause there's so many variables in the lottery. It's too complicated a, a data set. What types of data sets are easier?

• 48:32Speaker 00

  It was a binary option market. So she either got it right or got it wrong. And we made $8,000.

• 48:42Jonathan Cohen?

  But you can imagine if you increased the investment, you could have made exponentially more.

• 48:46Speaker 00

  I'll tell you what, I had a big fight with my boss from Brazil. George wanted to replicate the study of Angela Ford. And I said, fantastic. You guys got some people in Brazil. I'm ready to go down to Brazil and advise them how to do a proper protocol and all that. Says, no, no, we're going to do it over with Angela Ford. Both of you guys know that's a huge mistake. Maybe there's a mistake in our protocol, maybe. And if you just ask us to do it again, we'll, we'll commit the same mistake. The way you do, you need an independent replication. Us doing the same thing is not an independent replication. And we ended up splitting apart. He was furious with me about that.

• 49:31Speaker 00

  And we tried it and it didn't work. She could not remote view her way out of a paper bag the second time around.

• 49:36Jonathan Cohen?

  What do you make of that?

• 49:38Speaker 00

  Borged out of his, out of her minds.

• 49:40Jonathan Cohen?

  She's just, the novelty's off.

• 49:42Speaker 00

  You just can't keep doing the same job over and over and over and over and over again, whether you're an athlete or whether you're a psychic.

• 49:49Mayim Bialik?

  I can't help but sort of think of this on, you know, somewhat of like a systems level. What are we actually saying? And, and novelty matters a lot to the brain. Novelty matters, patterns matter and fatigue matters, you know? Like Angela Ford, when we spoke to her, like, you know, there's a chillness about her, like she's a chill person. But she also, you know, when you talk to her, she had many experiences as a child of leaving her body and talking to entities that other people could not see. So there's something different. And this is sort of, you know, what our interest is here on this podcast, you know? What can we quantify? What can't we?

• 50:31Mayim Bialik?

  And what can we say, you know, about what it means for our larger brain capacity? Our consciousness, reality itself, you know? We speak to many, you know, theoretical physicists in particular who are like, oh, well, we're all wearing virtual reality goggles, which, you know, is also kind of what Plato said and what, you know, all the mystics have said for thousands of years, right? None of this is real and this is all of some sort of projection or it's a simulation. But, you know, there's certain things that we know about, let's say, the brain and its capacity. And it's, you know, that is a limiting factor.

• 51:02Jonathan Cohen?

  We have a candidate for you for remote viewing. This was an actor who we spoke to recently, our friend Lisa Kudrow, our new friend. She describes an experience where she believes in psi abilities. And she was like, I just want to check in on my husband. Her husband was out in Joshua Tree. And so she like got calm, quieted herself. She had never done this. She had not ever been taught. She didn't know a protocol. And she just kind of like sent her awareness to her husband and then just kind of looked around. And her husband was supposed to be camping in Joshua Tree in tents.

• 51:43Mayim Bialik?

  She saw a building and some chairs.

• 51:45Jonathan Cohen?

  In a fire pit and she saw cigars and she's like, well, that's not accurate.

• 51:50Mayim Bialik?

  Cause she knew they were supposed to be camping, not, not near buildings or chairs.

• 51:54Jonathan Cohen?

  So she goes, she hangs out, she looks around, she sees all this information. She, she then comes back to herself. She said she felt extremely tired afterwards. And then the next day she, she speaks to her husband and that there was a change of plans. Instead of going camping, they went into town to a restaurant, sitting around a fireplace at the location, smoking cigars by a fire pit.

• 52:21Speaker 00

  That doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

• 52:24Jonathan Cohen?

  Why doesn't that surprise you?

• 52:26Speaker 00

  Why? Because if she's a competent remote viewer, she's telling you what her experience is.

• 52:31Jonathan Cohen?

  She's never done this before in her life.

• 52:34Speaker 00

  It doesn't matter. We all use remote viewing, whether you've even, even heard of it. There's a natural ability for some people have, some people, most people do not have a good ability, but they have some. And we use that on a day-to-day basis to make your life easier. And that's the case with just happened.

• 52:52Jonathan Cohen?

  I love it. And you just, and I love your classification that she's now a remote viewer because she's done it one time and then she just seems, she just has that ability.

• 53:01Speaker 00

  Yeah. And if she is curious, I'm happy to, to run a session with her online.

• 53:05Mayim Bialik?

  I'll text her right now.

• 53:06Jonathan Cohen?

  Mime is texting her right now. Mime should go to the session too. Although she's going to compare herself to Lisa and then it's going to be a big problem.

• 53:14Mayim Bialik?

  But also like, what does this mean? Like I have to go through, I'm 50 years old. I have to go through life knowing I can never remote view. I just didn't get that.

• 53:22Speaker 00

  No, it's ridiculous.

• 53:23Mayim Bialik?

  I do other things. I'm a very good tap dancer and I'm an excellent whistler.

• 53:27Jonathan Cohen?

  As soon as Stargate and the CIA start a whistling program, you are going to be the first recruit.

• 53:33Mayim Bialik?

  I'm a great whistler. My grandfather was also a great whistler. And you know what he was during World War II? A dental assistant.

• 53:42Jonathan Cohen?

  I'd love to hear a little bit more about some of the backlash that you got because what struck me earlier in the conversation was you saying that someone in the army, a general, thought this was playing with demonic forces. And I think, you know, you have the data and we're talking about this from a very scientific level, but it's true that people think peering into the future or being able to use this type of ability is, it's crossing the line, right?

• 54:15Speaker 00

  It scares people. It scares people. And I understand that. Telepathy scares people, even though it's impossible to do telepathy. They get, "Why are you reading my brain? That's my private world. Why are you doing that?"

• 54:26Jonathan Cohen?

  Anything that really fundamentally challenges your worldview is scary. We spoke to Chris Bledsoe not long ago, and he tells us about this experience that he had, being abducted by what he calls aliens. You can see that he's still impacted by what he saw in that day, in a way that, you know, just is profound. So I think anything that's going to shatter your worldview of this is how the world works is going to be very dangerous to you.

• 55:03Speaker 00

  Well, it could be, but it also could be thrilling to you. "Hey, I thought the world worked this way. Wait a minute. This is a much better way to approach life."

• 55:11Jonathan Cohen?

  Unless you're getting pushback from people, right? Unless you're getting ostracized, unless those people who feel scared are going to then come attack, either emotionally or psychologically.

• 55:21Speaker 00

  Well, I'll tell you something that'll probably surprise you. I much prefer skeptics than I do believers. Believers buy ink and nonsense. And I've learned more from skeptics than from believers.

• 55:33Jonathan Cohen?

  I mean, your shirt says, "Deny everything."

• 55:35Speaker 00

  Yeah.

• 55:37Jonathan Cohen?

  You continue, a few times in the interview, to say, "If it, if it works," or "if it's real." And yet, you have the data to explain that it's far more than chance.

• 55:49Speaker 00

  Absolutely no doubt in my mind that a certain aspect of this stuff is totally real. I can demonstrate that by a variety of range from sociological issues to actually hard-line statistics, reviewed by everybody. The fact is that the US government and its 19 agencies kept coming back. Actually, the all-time winner crossed the bay from where I'm sitting, in Alameda, after the Cold War was over, their remit was to interdict boats coming into California territorial waters carrying drugs. They came back to us 171 different missions.

• 56:29Jonathan Cohen?

  All to spot drugs on boats coming in.

• 56:32Speaker 00

  But it did work, and they were very pleased.

• 56:34Jonathan Cohen?

  So, given these repeated customers that are probably start-off skeptical, these are law enforcement agencies in the government. We're not talking about people sitting under trees, channeling angels. We're talking about pragmatic people in law enforcement with real-world outcomes that they're trying to get. And they're using these skills. Does that translate into anything that you understand about reality and how consciousness works and how being human works?

• 57:11Speaker 00

  No. I mean, we humans, what's wonderful about we humans, we're all different. And psychologists refer to that as individual differences. I'm what's called a materialist. You know the difference between materialism and non-materialism?

• 57:27Jonathan Cohen?

  Yeah, it strikes me that it's very difficult to understand you as a materialist with all the data that you have about people like Angela and Joseph, who are clearly breaking the rules of materialism.

• 57:41Speaker 00

  No, they're not. Why do you say that? They're not at all breaking the rules.

• 57:46Jonathan Cohen?

  I don't think a materialist can believe in precognition.

• 57:49Speaker 00

  Sure they can, because I can quantify it. I can meet all the necessary aspects of hard-ass science to do those kinds of studies, and it works. That's, that's materialism. Materialism has to do with, let's talk about whether we survive our bodily deaths or not.

• 58:06Jonathan Cohen?

  Do we survive our bodily deaths, in your opinion?

• 58:09Speaker 00

  None whatsoever.

• 58:10Jonathan Cohen?

  And what brings you to that belief?

• 58:13Speaker 00

  I've felt that way my entire life.

• 58:17Jonathan Cohen?

  What's interesting is Angela would say that you do.

• 58:21Speaker 00

  No. Angela might, I don't care. There are other people that disagree with that. But my, the woman I work with, she is an Indian philosopher, psychologist, and she doesn't believe in survival after bodily death either.

• 58:37Mayim Bialik?

  What about near-death experiences? What's your take on those experiences?

• 58:40Speaker 00

  This was not an organization studying near-death, but they decided to look at near-death. And they spent $5 million and set out hiring the best people they could hire across the country, at different universities, different disciplines, to study the phenomenon of near-death experiences. Okay? What came out of that was that it was a standard procedure having nothing to do with surviving somebody's death. That's a tough issue for people. And my colleague and I argued daily about it with our colleagues, about whether near-death is, can you survive your bodily death? And the answer, if you're a materialist, like

• 59:23Speaker 00

  we both are, I'm comfortable with the idea that when I take my last breath, it's going to be my last breath. And it's like going to sleep. Gone.

• 59:31Mayim Bialik?

  Right. But we, obviously, we speak to people. One gentleman, you know, was zipped up in a body bag. His consciousness observed the whole thing. He reported things that happened in the next room. He was locked in a bathroom and passed out and died. He was zipped into a body bag and driven to the hospital.

• 59:47Jonathan Cohen?

  Pronounced dead on-site by the paramedics.

• 59:50Mayim Bialik?

  And this went on for, I mean, he was gone for almost two hours. And a rogue paramedic, he remembers seeing the paramedic have a thought, and the thought was, "This guy's not dead." And he opened the bag, and he revived this man while he watched his own body be revived. And like, I've got a hard time as a scientist, you know, explaining around that. And people are, "Oh, well, the pulse must have been hard to find." Like, I don't know. How many people are dying and we don't know, and we're zipping them up and burying them? I don't know.

• 1:00:22Speaker 00

  Joe was in Vienna, and he basically was poisoned because he was doing counter-narcotics for the army. And he was at the hospital, showing no signs of life whatsoever. He was actually clinically dead. They brought him back.

• 1:00:40Jonathan Cohen?

  Who was he poisoned by?

• 1:00:42Speaker 00

  I don't know the answer to that, nor does he.

• 1:00:44Jonathan Cohen?

  That's, yeah, it's terrifying. What do you think has prevented this from becoming more widely accepted, given the data and the success rates, given all the agencies that have come back? There isn't currently an active program. Is that, is that accurate?

• 1:01:01Speaker 00

  I think that's accurate. I hope it's wrong.

• 1:01:04Jonathan Cohen?

  You're hoping that there's some other version of it that's underground or top-secret somewhere?

• 1:01:10Speaker 00

  We need it, because it's a good way of gathering intelligence. And the more intelligent country A can have, the less likely he's going to get involved in a war like in Iran, for example. Funny thing about that.

• 1:01:21Jonathan Cohen?

  You know, it's, it's more than saying, "Should we or shouldn't we do this?" You would build scenarios and ask questions about probability of, of negative outcomes. Is that accurate?

• 1:01:30Speaker 00

  Sure, of course.

• 1:01:31Jonathan Cohen?

  What else should we keep in mind for people who are thinking about this area?

• 1:01:35Speaker 00

  It's a challenge. It truly is a challenge, and I'm thrilled by the challenge of it. And, you know, I'm 86. If I last another 10 years, it'll be amazing. But I would like to be around long enough to, hopefully, some smarter people than I will figure out how it actually works. Now, if you know in physics, there are four known forces in physics. There are two types of nuclear force, and the electromagnetic force, and then gravity. And Eric Ferland says, "You know, gravity is the only one that doesn't have a quantum mechanical base to it. Let's ditch it. We don't need gravity." Even Einstein said it's not a force. He wants to replace it with what's called entropic force. And I cannot

• 1:02:14Speaker 00

  wait to get to Amsterdam and have a conversation with this guy, because he said he would replace the gravity with another kind of force involving entropy, an entropic force. And I said, "I would like to tell him that we have done a great deal of work with a lot of trials, and a lot of different trials, and a lot of different protocols, that entropy is a very important part of all this works. And I'd like to know, maybe, that's how backward causation comes, how it is possible for you to sit in a chair right now and know what's going to happen tomorrow."

• 1:02:49Mayim Bialik?

  Well, we are excited and grateful for all of the work that you've put in for your entire career that has, you know, brought us here. You're one of those people who everyone is standing on your shoulders. So, thank you for your work and for talking to us.

• 1:03:03Jonathan Cohen?

  Yeah, thank you so much for coming today and for, you know, sharing your experience and your insight. We're really grateful.

• 1:03:08Speaker 00

  Well, you guys asked really intelligent questions, and I appreciate that. Most of the time, I get bullshit questions.

• 1:03:17Mayim Bialik?

  The thing that I remember most from this conversation with Dr. Edwin May is that he told me, "With my level of anxiety, I will never be a remote viewer." That's all I heard. I'm gonna have to talk to my therapist about it.

• 1:03:30Jonathan Cohen?

  Julia would say otherwise. I would like to pit him and Julia against each other. Julia will be like, "Anyone can do it."

• 1:03:38Mayim Bialik?

  He'll be like, "No, they can't."

• 1:03:39Jonathan Cohen?

  Ed would be like, "F' no, they can't."

• 1:03:43Mayim Bialik?

  He's been talking about this, you know, for over 50 years. Um, you know, at least 50 years. And, you know, I think that the notion that's important to remember is that there are, you know, scientific theories and conversations around entropy, about the way that things tend towards chaos. And when there are patterns that change, and there are patterns that change in ways that are more coherent, there are people who seem to have, and it's not a lot of people, they seem to have an intuitive innate ability to sense that shift.

• 1:04:23Mayim Bialik?

  And that tuning in to that shift is what allows some access to information that exists. That's the best way to sort of understand it. And, you know, the thing that I'm, you know, drawing on is when we talk to people about transcendental experiences and about psychedelic experiences, this is the notion, there's peace, there's love, there's wholeness. That peace is, I think, part of this entropy conversation. That place, that's the place where we're accessing something else. And yeah, you don't get there from a loud mind, you know, you, you know, generally, Thomas Campbell was probably that guy, you know, in college, so that when he was like,

• 1:05:08Mayim Bialik?

  "Oh, what's transcendental meditation? I'd like to go." He was like, "Oh, I'm off in another aspect of the atmosphere and my consciousness just left my body," right? Those are people who are kind of more naturally tuned in. Do I believe that there's a set of kind of like, skills and things you can learn to tap into? Yes, but what I think was missing from our remote viewing exercise with Julia Mossbridge is she doesn't understand what's going on in here.

• 1:05:28Jonathan Cohen?

  Like, I appreciate what he's talking about, and I want to offer another hypothesis. Julia's notion that everyone is capable of doing it doesn't mean that they're able to do it right now. I've described my cellular release holotropic breath work, where I went into that crazy state. And if you haven't heard that story, come find me on Substack and I will, I have to do, I have to do a version of that story. I haven't done it yet. Um, I was writing it up, haven't, haven't shared it, but it was a crazy trance-like experience that took over my entire body.

• 1:06:06Jonathan Cohen?

  For weeks after, I had an opening to a psychic ability and a channel, a frequency, that whatever, you know, bit rate that he was talking about, that AM tuning channel.

• 1:06:18Mayim Bialik?

  Psychic ability?

• 1:06:19Jonathan Cohen?

  It was much more open than before.

• 1:06:22Mayim Bialik?

  It got amplified, that's...

• 1:06:23Jonathan Cohen?

  Exactly. So I think that where Julia comes from is that we all have an inherent capability as a birthright. Over time, that gets, not mingled, but it gets obscured in certain ways. And that either doing some work or revisiting that, you can re-access it. But I think what he, what is, what Ed is right about is that not everyone can just like, open up that channel at any time, anywhere.

• 1:06:52Mayim Bialik?

  You know, holotropic breath work is a rhythmic kind of breathing that's usually guided by, you know, an experienced person or practitioner, usually. And it is allowing you to access unordinary states of consciousness. So the idea of what Jonathan's describing is not just like, out there like hippie dippy stuff. He's saying that a certain procedure that was facilitated allowed a shift in, in his consciousness and his access to that. And that once that was opened, and this is not unusual, um, trauma or, you know, painful memories that typically are hidden were easier to access.

• 1:07:33Mayim Bialik?

  And that process then opened up some sort of window, right, or a portal, that for a certain period of time, and you probably could have kept it going if you had like, left your life and gone to an ashram and like, never come back, right? I think it was the second time I did holotropic breath work. It might have been the first time. Um, I had a very significant car accident and my hand was significantly damaged. And after this session, my hand froze in the position it was after my accident. And I could not open it. And it was astounding. It was in pain. I mean, it was very bizarre, but it was as if that, you know, sent me to another time in my life.

• 1:08:15Mayim Bialik?

  I wasn't thinking about it, I wasn't processing it, I had no conscious thinking during the holotropic breath work about my accident. It had been, gosh, it had been at least 10 years since my accident. Um, and at least eight, seven or eight years since my, my sex, my second surgery on my hand. Um, anyway, that, that's the place that holotropic breath work takes you, and it's very, very freaky. It's very freaky.

• 1:08:40Jonathan Cohen?

  We are gonna do a Substack on why it is that that breath work could take you there. What is held in your hand that returns to the position that it was injured in?

• 1:08:51Mayim Bialik?

  Yeah, we can also, I mean, talking about the science of holotropic breath work is one of the things also that we can explore. Go to biologicbreakdown.substack.com. We have content there that doesn't live anywhere else, so if you want it, you have to go to Substack.

• 1:09:02Jonathan Cohen?

  Also, if you're at the end of this episode, it means that you like hanging out with us. Come hang out with us there.

• 1:09:07Mayim Bialik?

  And we like you too. From our breakdown to the one we hope you never have, we'll see you in the future of next time.