David Moorehouse was a US soldier who began to have psychic experiences after a close encounter between a bullet and his head. His troubled experiences drew the attention of certain people in the military and ultimately he was recruited and trained as part of the CIA Stargate program. The Stargate Program lends some credibility to the fact that Out of Body Experiences are a possibility for those who may be sceptical. The CIA put a great deal of effort into researching the subject and devising methods of training and best practice to enable their recruits to effectively practice a method called Remote Viewing.
Remote Viewing is unlike the OBEs I have discussed so far in that a part of the viewers mind or being is projected whilst consciousness is maintained. The participants in the Stargate program would sit with another person in the room who would act as a guide asking questions about what they saw in their environment and tell them to come back if things became too much for the viewer.
Some of the earlier use of remote viewers or psychic spies as they are often referred to, ran as various black ops programs headed by the pioneer in the feild for the USA Ingo Swan. These programmes became declassified around some time in the 1980s and information was released to the public under freedom for information requests . At that time the authorities claimed that remote viewing programmes had been discontinued however David Moorehouse accounts of being recalled to carry out remote viewing missions during the first Iraq war suggests otherwise.
It would seem that after the amount of time and resources spent by the USA in pursuing remote viewing programmes suggests that it provided valuable results for their purposes and therefore it would also seem unlikely that they would therefore terminate the program completely.
David Moorehouse' story also illustrates how much a closely guarded secret it is that remote viewing missions continue. When David's doubts about the morality of the Stargate program convinced him to get out and go public it very nearly cost him his life. He was extremely brave to speak out and very lucky to survive.
