FEATURE STORY Page 2 Edward A. Dames, Major, U.S. Army (Ret.) Past, Present and Future Continued The Junkyard Dog One of those sessions in the files concerns the demise of the Soviet Phobos 2 Probe, sent to rendezvous with the Martian Moon Phobos in 1989. The space probe disappeared suddenly on March 25, 1989. UFO buffs claim the last images transmitted by the spacecraft show a large, oval UFO looming in the final frames. Dames says the Soviets asked for information through back channels, and viewers in the Ft. Meade unit worked the disappearance event as a target. When describing one particularly interesting session on the Phobos disappearance, he becomes even more animated than usual. He was struggling to describe a machine he perceived on the surface of Mars. “It looked like a sand dollar,” recalls Dames. “Actually a machine that looked like this big 30-foot sand dollar, nestled in a shallow depression on the surface of the planet. It popped right up and actually came in physical contact with the probe and disabled it.” “So I’m viewing this thing,” Dames continues, “and you know, you take what you get. I’m writing it down, I’m drawing the sketches, and my description verbatim matched Paul Smith’s. We were both having a problem describing this machine, so we used an allegory, allegorical overlay. Because we had no other way of conceiving it.” “And what I said was, ’This was like a junk yard dog. It had the mentality of a guard dog that was obedient to its owner.’ I’ll be damned if Paul Smith didn’t say the same thing, almost verbatim. I’ll never forget that. It was so neat. It was one of the most memorable things I’ve ever seen. We were just struggling to describe this, so I reached back in and said ‘guard dog, faithful to owner’ and all this kind of stuff. I said ‘its like a bird dog that mangles its prey, you know because it doesn’t know any better.’ Anyway I went into all this and here comes Paul Smith with almost the same exact allegory. I love it.” Dames does love remote viewing, and his life in Hawaii. He lives in Kihei, on Maui, and commutes to the mainland two weeks a month to teach at his Technical Remote Viewing Institute located in Los Angeles. When he has time in Hawaii he makes the most of it. “I dive every morning,” Dames says. “I’m a free diver and I’m a fish watcher. I play with the turtles and the fish. I’m in the water every morning down to about 50 feet by myself. I’m on the road about 2 weeks a month. But when I’m back here I enjoy it. I bike, I run - - - I love it - - - I really do.” He says he remote views every day, sometimes working three targets simultaneously. “I work about once a day. I usually run about three different targets at the same time. You know its like reading three different books, you just stick a bookmark in one after 45 minutes, and you pick up another one. There’s no continuity problem when you work like that.” Dames says he has no specific ritual or “cool down” prior to working a session. “I usually throw rocks at my neighbor’s dog,” he says with a chuckle. “No, I don’t have any cool down. I usually make a cup of coffee or tea and take a few sips of it, because in Technical Remote Viewing you can only take breaks at certain points. You can’t sit there and sip tea. So that’s the only thing that I do. Just sit down and relax, pen goes to paper, and it’s off to town.” Dames sees the physical set up as important to successful remote viewing. “It is an issue,” states Dames. “In the last place I lived it was a resort. And there were palm trees, swimming pools and things like that. It’s very distracting. You really do need a place, not necessarily hermetically sealed and homogeneously colored, but you can’t have a lot of distractions. We are very visual creatures as you know. Human beings are very visual. And you can’t have any bright colors around you, particularly bright colors. That’s extremely distracting. Subliminally you can’t get away from that. You also don’t want any motion around you. Motion is the primal thing. Before we were ever Neanderthals, when we were swimming around in some primordial sea, motion meant things; it meant either something to eat or something that was going to eat us. That is the number one thing that the subliminal is attracted to. You cannot avoid it. After about 20 minutes into a session you can, but when you start out it’s an impediment.” “I cue my own targets. I work almost entirely frontloaded . . . . ” What Dames seems to feel is not an impediment, is knowing what the target is when he sits down to remote view. While many top people in the field maintain working frontloaded can not even be considered remote viewing, it is what Dames does almost exclusively. “I cue my own targets,” Dames states matter-of-factly. “I work almost entirely frontloaded. Unless I’m in the classroom with my students, then I do an instructor demo and they’ll give it to me blind. Or if I work for the camera, many times I’ll do that blind. For instance if I’m doing a television program in Los Angeles, then I’ll do blind targets.” Edward Dames Page 3 Privacy Statement Copyright © 2001, H.R.V.G. All rights reserved.

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