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1 decided to relax. Weil, as you may know, I did my first extensive clairvoyant experiments at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York with a woman named Janet Mitchell and, of course, with Dr. Karlis Osis, the director of research there. "After a while, I got bored with trying to see targets in boxes and the next room. One day I decided to see what else I could see, and found I thought I could see people going down the street outside. "One day, I thought I saw a woman dressed in orange and green walking along the street. We rushed downstairs just in time to see orange and green disappearing around the corner. "There was really no way I could have seen her visually, since I had been sitting in a closed room- I got to thinking. I proposed then a larger experiment. "I would try to see things at greater distance, provided we could figure out a way to get easy feedback about what was being seen. "We thought about this for a while, and finally decided that I could try to see the weather going on in major cities, and then call up their weather numbers to see if I was correct or not," "How did you specify which city?" Axel asked. "Well, we decided that Janet would compile a list of cities, and select one at random. She would then say: the city is such and so, go there, Ingo, and see what the weather is doing. "After I had said what the weather was, Janet would pick up a telephone, call longdistance and get the current weather report. "This didn't work too well at first, but I suggested we try a number of times. Finally, we got a number of hits in a row. "For example, she gave me Phoenix as a target. I saw it was raining there, or at least had just rained. Sure enough, Phoenix had just had a rain storm, which was unusual because they don't often have any. Well anyway, we did this for a few days with pretty good results. "Since these cities were remote from New York, we decided to refer to this kind of experiment as remote viewing. This started in December 1971. That's how it all got started." Axel had his fingers pressed against his lips. He was no longer smiling, and seemed pensive. So I asked: "I gather you want me to try to remote view something?" "Oh, absolutely, absolutely," he responded, resuming his smile. "After the American Society, then, you went to SRI and developed a coordinate-ordinate system for remote viewing?" "Well, that came about because we wanted to try to view sites around the world. The CIA was interested, you know. "When we tried to target the cities by their names, we realized that the name had too many clues which might aid me in identifying the target. w We felt that skeptics and critics would point this out, making our work useless. So we felt we couldn't do that kind of experiment. After all, if you say 'New York' for example, anyone would know enough to say they see skyscrapers, and so forth.