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Book: The Seventh Sense

The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military

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TitleThe Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military
AuthorLyn Buchanan
Year2003
PublisherParaview Pocket Books (Simon & Schuster)
CategoryMilitary Memoir / Remote Viewing / Consciousness Training
Charter Fit Score9/10
Evidence StrengthSTRONG EVIDENCE

Why This Book Matters to the Charter​

Lyn Buchanan's The Seventh Sense is a firsthand insider account from one of the U.S. Army's trained psychic spies who served in the classified remote viewing unit at Fort Meade, Maryland from 1984 to 1992. Unlike journalistic accounts written by outsiders, this book comes from a participant who was recruited, trained, and deployed as an operational remote viewer for military intelligence. Buchanan served as a viewer, database manager, trainer, and training officer -- giving him a comprehensive view of how the program functioned from the inside.

For the charter's documentation of suppressed consciousness research and the weaponization of psi abilities, this book is a primary source. Buchanan describes the specific techniques and mental exercises used to train remote viewers in Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) -- a protocol developed at Stanford Research Institute and refined for military application. He demonstrates that remote viewing is not a mystical gift possessed by a few special individuals but a trainable skill that, according to his account, virtually anyone can develop. This claim -- that psychic perception is a dormant human capability that can be systematically awakened -- strikes at the heart of what the deep state may have suppressed: evidence that ordinary humans possess consciousness capabilities far beyond what mainstream science acknowledges.

The book also serves as a training manual of sorts, making it significant to the charter's interest in how consciousness research was simultaneously weaponized by the military and kept from the public. Buchanan made a deliberate choice after declassification in 1995 to teach CRV to civilians through his company Problems Solutions Innovations, effectively democratizing a technology that the government had classified for decades.

Key Claims & Evidence​

  • Buchanan was assigned to the classified Army remote viewing unit at Fort Meade, Maryland, where he served from 1984 to 1992
  • The unit used Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) -- a structured, six-stage protocol for accessing non-local information through trained mental processes
  • Remote viewers were tasked against real intelligence targets during active military operations, including the Iranian hostage crisis, the Chernobyl disaster, and the Gulf War (Operation Desert Storm)
  • CRV is described as a "mental martial art" -- a disciplined, systematic process, not a mystical experience
  • Remote viewing ability is inherent in all humans and can be trained and developed through specific mental exercises
  • The military maintained detailed databases of remote viewing sessions, tracking accuracy rates and operational utility
  • Buchanan personally trained military personnel in CRV techniques
  • After declassification in 1995, Buchanan founded Problems Solutions Innovations to offer remote viewing services and training to civilians, law enforcement agencies, and corporations
  • The book provides practical instructions for developing one's own remote viewing capabilities

Charter-Relevant Content​

Inside the Classified Unit​

Buchanan provides a firsthand account of daily life inside the Army's remote viewing unit at Fort Meade. He describes the operational security protocols, the chain of command, the tasking process by which viewers received intelligence targets, and the evaluation methods used to assess session accuracy. This insider perspective documents how the military institutionalized consciousness research -- turning subjective psychic perception into a standardized intelligence collection method with protocols, quality control, and operational metrics.

Controlled Remote Viewing Methodology​

The book describes the six stages of CRV in detail:

  • Stage 1 -- Initial ideogram response to coordinates or target reference number
  • Stage 2 -- Sensory data (colors, textures, temperatures, sounds, smells)
  • Stage 3 -- Dimensional data (size, shape, spatial relationships)
  • Stage 4 -- Emotional and aesthetic impact data
  • Stage 5 -- Detailed analytical data and site sketches
  • Stage 6 -- Three-dimensional modeling and advanced target contact

This documentation is significant because it shows that the military developed a reproducible, trainable methodology for accessing non-local consciousness -- then classified it for over two decades.

Operational Missions​

Buchanan describes being tasked against real-world intelligence targets:

  • Iranian hostage crisis -- Remote viewing was used to gather information on the location and condition of American hostages
  • Chernobyl disaster -- Viewers were tasked to assess the extent of the nuclear meltdown and its effects
  • Gulf War / Desert Storm -- Remote viewing intelligence was collected on Iraqi military positions, weapons systems, and command structures
  • Counter-narcotics operations -- Viewers assisted in locating drug trafficking operations
  • Missing persons and kidnapping cases -- The unit was occasionally tasked with locating kidnapped individuals

The "Seventh Sense" Concept​

Buchanan's central thesis is that remote viewing represents a "seventh sense" -- a perceptual capability beyond the five physical senses and beyond intuition (which he considers the sixth sense). He argues this seventh sense is a natural human faculty that has been systematically ignored by Western science and education. The deep state implications are clear: if every human possesses latent psychic abilities that can be trained and developed, then the suppression of this knowledge represents a profound form of consciousness control -- keeping the population unaware of their own cognitive capabilities.

Democratization After Declassification​

After the program was declassified in 1995, Buchanan made a conscious decision to teach CRV to the civilian population. He founded Problems Solutions Innovations (PSI) in Alamogordo, New Mexico, offering training to individuals, police departments, and corporations. This democratization of previously classified consciousness technology is directly relevant to the charter's interest in how suppressed research eventually reaches the public -- and what happens when it does.

Personality Conflicts and Program Politics​

Buchanan does not shy away from describing the interpersonal conflicts, bureaucratic politics, and institutional resistance that the remote viewing unit faced within the larger military and intelligence community. He documents how skeptics within the defense establishment sought to undermine and defund the program, how turf wars between agencies affected operations, and how the unit's members dealt with the psychological strain of doing classified psychic work that they could not discuss with anyone outside the program.

Key Quotes​

"Controlled Remote Viewing is a mental martial art developed at Stanford Research Institute International for the U.S. military." -- Lyn Buchanan, describing the CRV methodology

"It was used extensively by the U.S. military to provide information useful for bringing home soldiers alive, preventing and resolving battles, predicting foreign leaders' plans and intentions, and gaining valuable information about enemy resources so our soldiers could survive and come home." -- Lyn Buchanan, on the operational use of remote viewing

The Counterargument​

Critics and skeptics raise several objections:

  • Self-serving narrative -- As someone who now earns a living teaching remote viewing to civilians, Buchanan has a financial incentive to present the technology as effective and trainable. His account should be read with awareness of this commercial interest
  • Unverifiable classified claims -- Many of Buchanan's most dramatic claims involve classified operations that cannot be independently verified because the supporting documents remain classified or were destroyed
  • Credibility gap -- One reviewer noted that "the more you read, the more you wonder if this expose is really a put-on," reflecting the inherent difficulty of evaluating claims about psychic espionage
  • No controlled scientific evidence -- Skeptics argue that military remote viewing has never been validated under conditions that meet modern scientific standards for controlled experimentation
  • Selection bias in mission reporting -- Critics argue that insiders like Buchanan naturally remember and emphasize successful sessions while downplaying or omitting failures, creating an inflated impression of accuracy
  • The 1995 AIR evaluation -- The official CIA-commissioned evaluation concluded that remote viewing had not demonstrated operational intelligence value, directly contradicting Buchanan's claims

Connection to Other Project Entries​

  • Joe McMoneagle -- Fellow remote viewer in the same Fort Meade unit; McMoneagle was Remote Viewer 001 while Buchanan joined later
  • Book: The Stargate Chronicles -- McMoneagle's parallel memoir of the same program from a different perspective
  • Book: Remote Viewers -- Schnabel's journalistic account that covers the same program from an outsider perspective
  • Non-Local Psi / Information Field -- The thesis that consciousness operates as a non-local information field, which CRV methodology implicitly supports
  • Gateway / Consciousness Simulator -- Monroe Institute's Hemi-Sync was used alongside CRV in some training contexts
  • Robert Monroe -- Monroe Institute provided training facilities and technology for some military remote viewers
  • Stephan Schwartz -- Independent remote viewing researcher who conducted archaeological applications
  • Courtney Brown -- Academic remote viewing researcher who studied under military-trained viewers
  • Dean Radin -- Psi researcher whose statistical meta-analyses support the reality of remote viewing
  • Book: Mind-Reach -- Targ and Puthoff's original scientific account of the SRI experiments that developed the CRV protocol Buchanan was trained in

Other Coverage Worth Reading​

Sources​

This information was compiled by Claude AI research.