ANGELA THOMPSON SMITH - AUTHOR - RESEARCHER
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 "Extraordinary Claims require Extraordinary Proof."
This statement is attributed to the astronomer and science author Carl Sagan, who points out that unusual claims should be
looked at with a skeptical eye .
"In science, the burden of proof falls upon the
claimant; and the more extraordinary a claim, the heavier is the burden of proof demanded."
Marcello Truzzi, skeptic, In The Zetetic Scholar, 1987. VALIDATION STATS
Training and Solo Remote Viewing
Sessions Lottery ARV work with Dr. James Spottiswoode and Dr. Ed May, SAIC
- results tabulated March 27th, 1999. 16 ARV sessions with rankings converted to Z scores. Trials 2 through 6 were 4 target ARVs, the remainder were 5 target ARVs. Total Stouffer's Z for all 16 sessions was 1.57 with a p value of 0.058 (just shy of significance). Retrocausal Psychokinesis In studies performed as an external participant Dr. Smith took part in research that attempted to psychokinetically affect tones that had been pre-recorded at the Rhine Research Center. In a series conducted in 1986, Dr. Smith was able to significantly shift tones to a lower frequency with a z score of 1.87. The tones that were successfully lowered were Slow Piano and Organ. Remote Perception sessions performed at the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory in April and May 1992 between a remote viewing participant traveling in Korea and Dr. Angela Smith resident in Princeton, NJ. Z score for Angela Smith's sessions (involving the perception of information about the Korean locations) was significant with a Z score of 1.767. The other participant scored a highly significant Z score of 3.135 with Dr. Smith acting as sender to the participant traveling in Korea. Stock Market ARV Predictions for
a Private Client Psychokinesis data (REG Database):
PEAR Laboratory 1988-1992. Psychokinesis Data Linear Pendulum:
PEAR Laboratory 1988-1992
54 Datasets. Difference between Intention and Baseline Difference = 12.06, sd = 64.18, T score = 1.38, p = .09 Ref: A Linear Pendulum Experiment: Effects of Operator Intention and Damping Rate. (1993), Nelson R., and Bradish, J. Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research. Princeton University. Technical Note PEAR 93003. Psychic Reward PK software distributed
by Dr. Jack Houck - 1993-1994
Score Summary 07/01/1993 ESP: Z score = -0.06 Probability 4.78% PK: Z score = 1.99 Probability 95.34% (significant) Score Summary 10/26/1993 ESP: Z score = 2.21 Probability 97.28% PK: Z score = 2.03 Probability 95.76% TOTAL: Z score = 2.56 Probability 98.96% (all significant) Score Summary 12/13/1993 ESP: Z score = 2.00 Probability 95.44% PK: Z score = 2.13 Probability 96.68% TOTAL: Z score = 2.59 Probability 99.04% (all significant) Score Summary 1/12/1994 ESP: Z score = 2.00 Probability 95.44% PK: Z score = 2.06 Probability 96.06% TOTAL: Z score = 2.71 Probability 99.32% (all significant) Intention work with Psychic Reward
to produce a Low score, The Psychic Reward test results listed above were
documented in research papers:
Vaughan, A., & Houck, J. (1993). A “success” test of precognition and attitude toward the future. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 59(833), 259-268. Vaughan, A., & Houck, J. (2000). Intuition training software: A second pilot study. Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 64(3), 177-184 Other Training Scores
MUFON Field Investigator Trainee Examination - 91% Exploratory In April, 1998, a colleague and investor asked
Dr. Smith to come up with a novel method to predict stock market changes, specifically the Dow Jones. As Dr. Smith was then
currently using a Random Number Generator (RNG) in her doctoral research, she decided to use this as her measuring instrument.
The RNG puts out strings of electronic ones and zeros, in a random order, that accumulate over time to an average output.
Any deviation from this average output must be due to something impinging on the data stream of ones and zeros. Data is usually
collected in a random order to exclude any existing biases within the data stream. An intent is usually written prior to data
collection i.e. to produce more ones (high output); to produce more zeros (low output); or to produce a baseline. The intent,
for this experiment was to allow the RNG to trace a random walk that would approximate the random walk of the stock market,
over the next three "quarters".
The intention was written prior to the collection of data and the RNG allowed to run for a specified period. This was done for all three quarters. The data was then divided, into three monthly periods and an analysis of the data made i.e. "Data rises rapidly over the first month, to a plateau over the following month, only to fall to below its starting point in the third month." The three analyses and raw data were sent to the colleague. A stock market analyst tracked the predictions against the actual Dow Jones outcomes. For the first quarter there was a strong correspondence between the predictions and actual outcomes. The correspondences became weaker during the second quarter and were off track by the end of the third quarter. |
Remote viewers may have to wait many years before receiving feedback on their sessions. This one has taken 11 years. In Remote Perceptions (1998) I documented a remote viewing project, performed in 1994, for Intuition Services, CA. The project focused on anomalies in the Rings of Saturn. Now, in 2005, feedback was available! "On July 1, 2004, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft performed the SOI (Saturn Orbit Insertion) manoever and enter into orbit around Saturn....The primary mission ends in 2008, when the spacecraft has completed 74 orbits around the planet." (www.crystalinks.com/saturn.html)
Science News, November 19th, 2005. Vol.
168, 328-329. Groovy Science: Cassini gets the skinny on Saturn's rings, Ron Cowen). "Now, the Cassini spacecraft,
which entered orbit around Saturn, last year, has completed the most thorough examination ever of the rings......Until
last May, the craft has spent most of its time orbiting Saturn's equator. That orientation is great for close-up studies of
the planet's moons but provided only an obscured, edge view of the intricate ring system. Then, Cassini got a ringside seat.
Just as scientists had planned the craft rose out of the equitorial plane and for the next 5 months viewed the rings from
above and below the planet's equator. From those perches, it has studied the full breadth of the rings in unprecedented detail.
With the flood of new data, astronomers may be on the verge of answering some centuries-old questions about the rings."
The positive findings from the feedback was published as a Feature Article in IRVA's
newsletter: The Aperture, Vol. 3, No.2.
The Foreword to Angela Thompson Smith's book Remote Perceptions (1998) was graciously written by Ingo Swann who wrote: Angela possesses a highly qualified background as a researcher, and is personally articulate as well. She is also one more thing; she is what is called "objective" throughout....an experiencer, both exceedingly articulate and scientifically based, and an explorer and frontier fighter person as well.
In the mid 1990s Dr. Smith was interviewed by Pamela Rae Heath M.D., Psy.D. who was conducting doctoral dissertation research on psychokinesis in everyday life. Dr. Smith's personal experiences with micro-PK and macro-PK are included in Dr. Ray's book The PK Zone: A Cross Cultural Review of Psychokinesis (PK): (2003) iUniverse, Inc: New York.
In 2003, the Nevada Remote Viewing Group was tasked by Mr. George Knapp to provide several remote viewing sessions regarding a property in Utah. This ranch had been the site of multiple, anomalous events over the years. These sessions became part of a chapter in George Knapp and Colm Kelleher's 2005 book entitled Hunt for the Skinwalker: Science Confronts the Unexplained at a Remote Ranch in Utah.
An autobiographical article of Angela Thompson Smith was published by Dr. Rhea White in Exceptional Human Experience" Studies of the Unitive, Spontaneous, Imaginal, EHE Autobiography 6, Voume 14, Number 1, June, 1966, pages 1 through 11, entitled "Angels Tread Where Wise Men Fear to Go."
Researchers Dean Radin & Joseph Lubin, at Princeton University, in 1988, conducted a computer neural networks study using 4 REG datasets from the PEAR Laboratory. (After the fact I was informed that my dataset was that labeled as belonging to Person 2). At the time, the researchers were not aware of the identities of the operators and the datasets were randomized. The aim of the study was to find datasets that could be correctly identified by a computer program (neural network) as belonging to the same REG operator. In a training session the computer was fed a batch of unidentified data from the 4 operators. When a different batch of the same 4 datasets was fed into the computer, the computer was able to identify Person 2's data more frequently than the other three datasets. Radin and Lubin wrote that Person 2's data was correctly identified more often than the remaining three people's. This indicated that Person 2's data had more internal consistency and could be more readilly identified from an earlier training dataset. That is, the data had a "signature" that could be identified by a computer. These results were later published by Radin:
Radin, D.I. (1989) Searching for "signatures" in anomalous human-machine interaction research: A neural network approach. JSE 3:185-200