The term “remote viewing,” which is gaining scientific acceptance, seems like a cold, clinical expression for something that has always been highly emotional and traditionally connected with the occult.

But I suppose, a rose is a rose is a rose, and if clinical terms are what is necessary to get a serious study of the phenomenon, then so be it.

If it had not been for the Cold War and Soviet interest in the techniques, then it seems unlikely the US equivalent in the form of Project Stargate would ever have been launched.

The author, who was engaged in aerospace engineering and physics with the US Air Force’s Foreign Technology Division, back in 1975, wrote a paper on forecasting future technology, and included the then daring step of making a case for the existence of psi.

That opened the door, and a few months later, he received an invitation to attend a briefing on remote viewing.

At first, he took a removed attitude, then became personally involved when he discovered he had psychic abilities and was able to score some remarkable successes, such as accurately transmitting the presence of an unexpected intruder to his sender.

He later met famed author/psychic Harold Sherman, who agreed to reprise his famous Arctic telepathy experiments (conducted in 1937 with Sir Hubert Wilkins, British aviator and explorer).

The results, communicated telepathically while Graff was on a canoe trip on the Coppermine River in Canada’s Northwest Territories, were equally a success, as were the Wilkins communications many decades earlier.

In fact, Sherman was on the point of urging a rescue team be sent, when he sensed Graff was in serious trouble. As indeed he was, when he became ill and nearly capsized his canoe in the rushing waters.

The author discusses at length the problems entailed in attempting to interpret precognitive material that appears in dreams.

He believes that if the psi element could be clarified it would prove useful in identifying landmarks in missing persons cases, hostage incidents and the like.

One very unusual “hit” was when a psychic named Alison managed to insert an imaginary tall black clergyman figure with owl-like eyes into Graff’s dream. The figure actually spoke and communicated relevant information.

Perhaps the most dramatic form psychic impressions take is that of synchronicity – actual physical events in the material world that communicate a benefit or warning. It is amazing how people shrug off these things as “merely coincidence.”

As with the sections on remote viewing and dreams, Graff adds interest by relating his own experiences, such as the fortunate meeting with an elderly couple who knew his friend when he was on the verge of being stranded in a strange town, out of gas, and with only a dime to his name.

Synchronicities are also present in dreams, we need only pay attention. It is easy to deceive yourself, thinking something you initiated is an unusual event.

The key is to watch for something that emerges out of the blue, seemingly without warning.

Synchronicity gives rise to suspicions that reality is essentially a unity, perhaps a giant hologram of consciousness.

Finally, Graff concludes with a section on how you may experience all three aspects of the psyche personally, if you have not already done so.

You definitely require a laid-back, relaxed approach, while keeping your motivation high – two apparently contradictory possibilities to our driven society.

While perhaps not as concerned with scientific details as some would wish, Graff’s approach is well-suited to the layman, and makes for easy reading.

It convinces us there is a lot more to the human mind than we think there is.

Good solid insights into psi from someone who was intimately involved with government experiments, and who has a scientific background.

– Reviewed by W. Ritchie Benedict in New Dawn No. 93