Joe Rogan Experience #2541 - Thomas Campbell · Aired Aug 18, 2026
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Remote viewing is a testable attribute of human consciousness that involves collecting data from a database.
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It was tested, for about two decades and with government money, under the program that ended up called Star Gate. That is the part people get wrong in the other direction. But the 1995 review the CIA commissioned found no demonstrated intelligence value and the program was shut down. The description of it as pulling data from a database is Campbell's own model of consciousness, not a finding from any of that research.
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Is it true that Remote viewing is a testable attribute of human consciousness that involves collecting data from a database?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. It was tested, for about two decades and with government money, under the program that ended up called Star Gate. That is the part people get wrong in the other direction. Thomas Campbell said it (matched by voice) on Joe Rogan Experience #2541 - Thomas Campbell, aired Aug 18, 2026, at 37:56. The supporting source is irp.fas.org, linked below.
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