Lehal Library

In their living memory, some of those were reasonably familiar with the whole story, others with important parts of it. It’s surprising how many of those people are dead by now. And, after a while more, all those who possess the important living memory will also become absent. And then the real insider story will be gone -- lost -- replaced by versions of it emanating from those with their own mindsets, agendas, and what is fashionably dignified as "their own realities." And, indeed, this replacement has already commenced via many garbled and truncated versions in which agenda-hype excels over the facts. In pondering all of this, as I have done for the last three years, it boils down to either of two choices for me. I can write the living-memory book -- or I can let the living memory slide into oblivion. What would you do? There are three sectors, or layers, to the real story of remote viewing, as well as several quite subtle ones. The three sectors need to be pointed up here at the start to help expand the reader’s overview of the real story and that phenomenon named "remote viewing" -- but which, in hindsight, probably should have been called something else. The first sector is the most visible one. It concerns the long-term involvement of the American intelligence community with remote viewing which was commenced in 1973 by the Central Intelligence Agency. This sector is visible for two reasons.