Remote Viewing: Can the mind see through time?

The following statement was written in 1997 and published in 1998:
"Within five years, 1998 to 2003, there will be a second war in
Northern Iraq. It will probably be much bigger than the one in
which Iraq was soundly defeated in 1991 by a coalition effort in
what is now known as the Persian Gulf War." The author of that
statement was a former military remote viewer, Joseph McMoneagle.
Remote viewing is a modern description of using some form of
psychic ability to sense things at a distance, or from other points
in time. So, did he really manage to see forward in time and
predict the war in Iraq?

In 1977, McMoneagle was recruited into a top-secret army research
project called 'Stargate' (not to be confused with the movie and TV
show). This was during the cold war, and the military had large
budgets to spend, even on speculative projects such as 'psychic
spying'. And they also had reason to believe that the Russians were
engaged in this form of spying activity. For ten years McMoneagle
worked on this project, and apparently became very good at sensing
at a distance. Basically the researchers would place the name or
co-ordinates of the location they wanted McMoneagle to view into a
sealed envelope without telling them to him. Then he would sit in a
darkened room and concentrate, and then draw and talk about
whatever images came to mind.

The idea that the future can be predicted is not totally
unscientific. For example, we can obviously predict things that run
in cycles, such as the seasons. We can also predict the weather,
with some accuracy a few days in advance (one British researcher
runs a business making very long range weather predictions using
sun-spots, but that's another story!). Also, physicists now say
that in some respects time does not really exist, or rather that
there is nothing particularly 'special' about the present moment.
Some scientists believe that all times exist right now, just like
all the pages in a book exist - not just the one your currently
reading. Also, we know that time flows at different rates according
to the speed you are moving at and the strength of the
gravitational field that you are in. Then there is the fact that
our conscious awareness actually lags behind reality by a fraction
of a second (so, in a sense, our bodies live a fraction of a second
ahead of time of our minds. If you burned your finger, it would
flinch away from the heat before you were even consciously aware of
the heat!). Not to mention the fact that because they are extremely
far away from us, the light from the stars takes a long time to
reach us, so that whenever we look at the night sky we are actually
seeing how the stars looked thousands or millions of years ago - we
are looking back in time. So, time is clearly more fluid than our
common sense experience might lead us to believe.

In his book 'The Ultimate Time Machine', Mr McMoneagle describes
some fascinating 'targets' that he remote viewed, including the
origins of man, mars, the building of the pyramids, and even the
life of Jesus Christ. However, the majority of the book is composed
of predictions for the 21st Century. The predictions cover a wide
range of areas, such as technology, sports, sex, the arts, natural
disasters, lifestyles and planetary issues.

Here are some of the predictions that I found most interesting:

"As early as 2050, the world population will already begin to
exceed the 10,000 million people mark - easily 50 years ahead of
schedule." (P 143)

"By 2015, the four-day workweek will be commonplace. People will
choose when they begin their week and when they end it, with some
going to work Sunday through Wednesday, and some Tuesday through
Friday." (P.170)

On the stock markets: "The two greatest rises in the market will be
just prior to two of the most significant falls: 2020 and 2050."
(P.188)

"A solid object four inches in diameter will actually be teleported
from a point A to a point B, by the year 2050." (P.193)

"By the year 2030, techniques will exist for the creation of
'designer animals.' Originally developed for the pet industry,
there will be toy goats, toy deer, toy horses, palm-sized raccoons
etc." (P.195)

"By the year 2050, civilians will be visiting a second space
station that will be privately owned and financed by a consortium
of six large corporations." (P.218)

"A coherent signal will be discovered emanating from another
planet, in another solar system within our galaxy by 2018. While
the signal will make no sense to us, it will aid in our discovery
that we are not alone." (P.218)

"We will know how to create clouds and produce rain in selected
places of the Earth's surface by the year 2015." (P. 218)

"Fossilized human remains will be discovered in southeastern Syria
in 2008-2009, which will establish that humankind developed an
artistic capability, e.g. jewelry making, painting, statues, etc.,
100,000 years earlier than currently believed." (P.237)

"Human artwork will be found in caves in Australia by the year 2016
to 2017. This will confirm creativity in humankind approximately
175 to 325,000 years earlier than originally thought." (P. 237)

"By the year 2025, we will be flying into and out of space in a
plane very much like today's Concorde." (P. 255)

The book then ends with an astonishing vision of the year 3,000. In
which technology is advanced almost beyond our imagining, but is
invisible and unobtrusive. The Earth has largely been turned in a
beautiful national park, with many more forests and meadows than
exist now. Cities are all moved away from the coastlines (so as to
be less vulnerable from tsunamis and flooding?) and recycle all
their own waste. The Earth is free of war, and

How did Mr McMoneagle so accurately predict the war in Iraq? Did
his insider military knowledge make him subconsciously realise it
was inevitable? Or does remote viewing genuinely work? The truth is
that I don't know. But if you are interested in remote viewing,
McMoneagle also has a book that teaches you the techniques. It's a
lot cheaper than the courses that are on sale and you can pick it
up on Amazon.com. It's called 'Remote viewing secrets: A handbook'.
There is also a fairly good article containing more links on the
subject here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote_viewing