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* CPYRGHT PEDESTRIAN OVERPASS TARGET O Lee a i Fig. 4. Subject Hammid (S4) drawing, described TABLE II DISTRIBUTION OF RANKINGS ASSIGNED TO TRANSCRIPTS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH TARGET LOCATION FOR EXPERIENCED SuBJEcT Price (81) ice | km Rank of Assoctated Target Location Transcript Roover Tower, Stanford | Baylands Nature Preserve, Palo Alto Radio telescope, Portola Valley Marina, Redwood City Bridge toll plaza, Fremont Drive-in theater, Palo Alto Arts and Crafts Plaza, Menlo Park Catholic Church, Portola Valley or ee Swimming pool complex, Palo Alto Total sum of ranks 16 (p=2.9x1078 ) who felt that he used his remote-viewing ability in his every- day life. ’ In comparison with the latter two, many people are more influenced by their environment and are reluctant under public scrutiny to attempt activities that are generally thought to be impossible. Society often provides inhibition and nega- tive feedback to the individual who might otherwise have explored his own nonregular perceptual ability. We all share an historical tradition of “the stoning of prophets and the burning of witches” and, in more modern times, the hospitaliza- tion of those who clai ive thi t jority d not admit ABRENES ERE HELE aaa AATOLORIGH a ictNatgD as “some kind of diagonal trough up in the air.” scientific rigor, one of our primary tasks as researchers is to provide an environment in which the subject feels safe to explore the possibility of paranormal perception. With a new subject, we also try to stress the nonuniqueness of the ability because from our experience paranormal functioning appears to be a latent ability that all subjects can articulate to some degree. Because of Mrs. Hammid’s artistic background, she was ca- pable of drawing and describing visual images that she could not identify in any cognitive or analytic sense. When the target demarcation team went to a target location which was a pedestrian overpass, the subject said that she saw “a kind of trough up in the air,”? which she indicated in the upper part of her drawing in Fig. 4. She went on to explain, “If you stand where they are standing you will see something like this,” indicating the nested squares at the bottom of Fig. 4. As it turned out, a judge standing where she indicated would have a view closely resembling what she had drawn, as can be seen from the accompanying photographs of the target loca- tion. It needs to be emphasized, however, that judges did not have access to our photographs of the site, used here for illustrative purposes only, but rather they proceeded to each of the target locations by list. In another experiment, the subject described seeing “an open barnlike structure with a pitched roof.” She also saw a “kind of slatted side to the structure making light and dark bars on the wall.” Her drawing and a photograph of the associated bicycle shed target are shown in Fig. 5. (Subjects are encouraged to make drawings of anything they visualize and associate with the remote location because drawings they re jn general more accurate than their verbal description.) PBR OAT AURBROEDUMOURA Price, the results of the nine