| One of the more extraordinary stories about Edgar | | | | would seem that intuition, or psychic ability, first had to |
| Cayce's psychic ability is the time he was preparing to | | | | be put into the most sterile, technological, and practical |
| do a reading for a client in a distant location. As he | | | | terms to gain recognition, and now can be rejoined |
| began, he noted that the client was not present at the | | | | with its spiritual roots. |
| location mentioned in the client's letter requesting the | | | | A supreme example of this evolution has its seeds in |
| reading. In a moment, Cayce announced, "Oh, here he | | | | the military's Stargate program itself. It is the book by F. |
| comes now," and began the reading. The client had | | | | Holmes "Skip" Atwater, Captain of My Ship: Master of |
| just returned home. | | | | My Soul (Hampton Roads). Atwater was in Army |
| A few years back, on a television program called "Put | | | | Intelligence when he "happened" to be |
| it to the Test," they showed a demonstration of | | | | Johnny-on-the-spot with his knowledge of remote |
| Joseph McMoneagle, who had worked as a "psychic | | | | viewing to create the military's psychic spying |
| spy" for the CIA. In the session, McMoneagle was | | | | operation. He was, in fact, McMoneagle's trainer. I used |
| asked to psychically spy a location far away known | | | | the word happened deliberately, as the subtitle of |
| only to a couple of individuals. It was the Los Angeles | | | | Atwater's book is "Living with Guidance." Atwater |
| harbor. | | | | reports that he had many psychic experiences as a |
| McMoneagle does a pretty good sketch of the major | | | | child. His parents, members of the Unity Church, |
| visual elements of the scene. As he does so, a large | | | | normalized his experiences with responses that made |
| freighter passes through that point in the harbor. | | | | him feel that "everyone knew that." His parents also |
| McMoneagle notes that something has come onto the | | | | taught him about spiritual guidance. As a teenager, he |
| scene that is blocking the view. | | | | used his abilities to see into his hot rod's engine to |
| The television reporter was flabbergasted at the | | | | facilitate repairs. He was guided to join the army, to |
| immediacy and accuracy of McMoneagle's | | | | apply for the intelligence division, and to then start the |
| demonstrable psychic abilities. | | | | remote viewing operation. |
| That particular television program was in response to | | | | After retiring from the Army, Atwater joined the |
| the startling revelation that the CIA had been using | | | | psychic training organization, the Monroe Institute, near |
| psychic spies. In an unusual break with secrecy, the | | | | Charlottesville, Virginia. In this atmosphere, Atwater |
| existence of "Stargate," the code name for the | | | | expanded the remote viewing methodology to |
| government project to use the clairvoyant skill of | | | | embrace spiritual guidance. He proposes a variation of |
| remote viewing as an intelligence gathering method, | | | | Cayce's vision of "oneness" with the idea of "All That |
| was headline news. The fallout of this revelation was | | | | Is." Psychic ability is a natural byproduct of our being |
| gradual "coming out" of persons who had participated | | | | one with "All That Is." He explains that remote viewing |
| as psychic spies. Another fallout was that remote | | | | is not really "traveling" or "seeing," but merely an |
| viewing catapulted from an arcane laboratory | | | | expression of our being "All That Is." |
| methodology to the subject of many new consulting | | | | Atwater's tone is down to earth, personable, and |
| firms serving corporations and investment firms who | | | | reassuring. Reading the book makes you feel that you, |
| wanted to gain the latest advantage. | | | | too, can realize your connection with "All That Is," to |
| The impression created about remote viewing from | | | | know your spiritual identity, to realize your purpose for |
| the publicity surrounding its birth into public awareness | | | | this lifetime, and to gain the necessary guidance for the |
| was that it was a "psychic power" with all the | | | | next step of your mission. The book certainly turned |
| ambivalence that the word power evokes. It could be | | | | around my feelings about remote viewing. |
| used for competitive advantage and personal profit. It | | | | In his final words, echoing Cayce's ideal of "individuality |
| was lacking in spiritual value. The term remote viewing, | | | | in oneness" Atwater writes, "Open your heart. And |
| with its technological tone, adds to that impression of | | | | with an open heart, speak the truth. Say to yourself |
| sterility. What would be a spiritual use of remote | | | | from your heart, 'I reveal the truth and realize that I |
| viewing? Edgar Cayce once surmised that the highest | | | | Am.' Put a smile on your face and carry love in your |
| use of psychic ability would be to hear the voice of | | | | heart. Show the world you know that you are a divine |
| God. As remote viewing is coming of age, it is | | | | expression of God I Am. See you around the |
| beginning to approach the idealism of Cayce's vision. It | | | | campfire. |