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Stargate was a CIA project that explored parasciences: telepathy, twin telepathy, astral projection and remote viewing. It was scrapped in 93 after 25 years of not showing anything, despite some parasciences 'professionals' who participated claiming it did.

The CIA declassified all information, and while the 70s documents show clear interest and weird results, reading it in chronological order is very interesting as you can feel desillusions set in as experimental protocols hardens and results prove irreproducible.



Hahaha! Omg, this comment above is the unhinged fantasy version, a surprisingly common misrepresentation. Impressive how you condensed so much misinformation into only a couple of sentences - I guess you had to try. Do you often foreclose your curiosity with invented fantasies?

It was not a "CIA project" - it was a US Army unit; the name "STAR GATE" is merely the final public program name for a bunch of related programs; collectively, their intelligence missions served government customers including the special forces, CIA, NSA, DIA, NRO, etc.

- They didn't "declassify everything", there's lots of redactions and more documents;

- it wasn't "scrapped after not showing anything despite some participants claiming it did", RV has a very high success rate (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42584264), and Stargate became an unacknowledged program - these are facts despite some unhinged internet commenters seemingly having an issue with it; and

- "reading it in chronological order" - you don't see disillusion or non-reproducible results, you see 25 years in a row of renewed funding on the back of quality intelligence product continued being ordered by government customers.

I wonder, with all the ways you went wrong, did you have to try very hard to make that up?

It also didn't "explore parasciences: telepathy, twin telepathy" as if that was the main thing - Stargate mostly researched, developed and practiced remote viewing. Which you can try too, which probably would be a good idea, so maybe you come up with more accurate stuff than you did here. Head to https://reddit.com/r/remoteviewing/ and learn something before you talk next time. Good idea, right? Hahaha!




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