Like alwyn, I like Hugh and always read his posts, from which I've learned a tremendous amount about psyops. But on the subject of whether psychic abilities exist or not, he's simply incorrect. OTOH, the way that the field has been (is being?) used by the intelligence agencies is likely to warp the view of anyone who studies psyops as deeply as Hugh does. There, they've so thoroughly muddied the waters that it would take generations to clear it again, assuming we ever crawl out from under their manipulation long enough to do so.
I too met a former intelligence agency psychic years ago here in the Bay Area and he was the real thing. He "read" a photo of one of my paintings that I handed him and told me detailed information about someone who'd had quite a bit of influence on the artwork's final form. He'd never met me before and certainly knew nothing about the artist friend who'd done extensive critiquing on that particular painting. But he not only described the guy physically, but he also saw us put the painting on the floor in a small cottage and walk around it, yelling at each other--surely a highly unusual, if not unique, critique method
And I was very psychic as a child and young adult myself, so I've seen first-hand how accurate psychically-derived information can be. I also have reason to believe that my abilities were either one of the reasons why I was selected for experimentation as a small child or that they (possibly) were the result of those experiments. I do know that the handler who shut down my abilities after testing them one last time in the mid- to late-70's was extremely interested in them and fully convinced of their genuineness.
Prior to that time, I was in a dream research program that studied precognition. The woman scientist who ran it told me that my accuracy rate was high enough to really skew her data, so she removed me from the program and studied me privately. I was told that all my data was forwarded to Dr. Thelma Moss, who I learned (just in the past few years) was working under an MKULTRA-connected professor.
While I realize that nothing I can tell you will convince a skeptic like Hugh, I know that if I was able to do these things for nearly 30 years, then others are doing them now. For real. No matter how many frauds pollute the field, psychic abilities are absolutely genuine and completely real. It was easy for me to document my own precognition all those years ago (with signed, dated witness statements) and I'm sure there are psychics today who are doing the same thing. The problems begin when they try to produce results on-demand in a laboratory setting. And the continuing exploitation of the field by intelligence agencies assures that we'll hear most about the fraudulent or self-deluded "professional psychics." Many of the most gifted ones are either practicing their talents in obscurity or are lab rats or working voluntarily for the Bad Guys.
But the abilities are absolutely real and verifiable, no matter how much disinformation is generated for the benefit of their exploiters.
LilyPat
