An Open-Ended ConversationwithEdwin C. May

Edwin C May

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Edwin C. May, PhD, was involved in the military intelligence psychic spying program, popularly referred to as Stargate, for over twenty years. During the last decade, he was the director of research for that program. In this context, he produced over a hundred scientific publications. His academic training was in experimental nuclear physics. He is coauthor of ESP Wars: East and West. He is the coeditor of Anomalous Cognition: Remote Viewing Research and Theory and a two-volume anthology titled Extrasensory Perception: Support, Skepticism, and Science, and also co-editor of the four-volume anthology, Star Gate Archives. His website is https://www.lfr.org/.

Here he reviews the successes of the Stargate program that ran approximately twenty years until about 1996. He also discusses current interest as well as his hypothesis concerning neural connectivity and psychic functioning.

00:00 Introduction

03:22 National Security Agency museum exhibit

04:50 Government utilization of remote viewing

07:12 Why the government cancelled the remote viewing program

12:33 ESP Wars documentary

19:05 New government remote viewing programs?

21:26 Neuroscience research with remote viewers

29:50 Methodology in parapsychology and remote viewing

34:38 Mysticism in the U.S. and in Russia

40:05 Conclusion

Edited subtitles for this video are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Polish, and Swedish.

(Recorded on July 19, 2024)

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Published on August 21, 2024

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