2002 INTERNATIONAL REMOTE VIEWING ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

2002 IRVA CONFERENCE
Austin, Texas
June 14th through 16th

CONFERENCE PHOTO REGISTER

Dr. John Alexander
Colonel, US Army (Retired.).
Member of the Board of Directors, IRVA.
Past President, International Association for Near Death Studies.
Author.

F. Holmes “Skip” Atwater
www.skipatwater.com
Captain, U.S. Army (Retired), counter-intelligence special agent.
Initiated the remote viewing intelligence program
now known by the code name STAR GATE.
Military remote viewing operations officer for 10 years.
Author.
Member of the Board of Directors, IRVA.
Lab Director & Instructor, The Monroe Institute.
www.monroeinstitute.org

Cleve Backster
Former naval officer in the West Pacific theater.
Established the polygraphy program at the Central Intelligence
Agency beginning in 1947. In the mid-1960s, he began experiments
with plants and other biological entities to see if they exhibited
electromagnetic responses to distant stimuli. Associated with this
were a number of psychokinetic experiments conducted with a newly
emerging parapsychology researcher named Ingo Swann.
www.backster.net

Lyn Buchanan
Sergeant First Class, US Army (Retired).
Former member of the US government’s remote viewing program
from 1984 to 1992.
Author.
Member of the Board of Directors, IRVA.
Problems> Solutions> Innovations (PSI)
www.crviewer.com

Prudence Calabrese
Founder/Director, The Larger Universe.
Author and remote viewing instructor
Author.
Trans Dimensional Systems (TDS)
www.largeruniverse.com

Dr. Wayne E. Carr
Executive Director, The Western Institute of Remote Viewing.
Psychologist and remote viewing instructor.
The Western Institute of Remote Viewing (WIRV)
www.remoteviewers.com

Pam Coronado
Private Investigator and Professional Intuitive.
She has been actively involved with local, state, federal,
international and private agencies in psi criminal work since 1996.

Bob Durant
Former airline pilot.
CRV student of Ingo Swann.

Bill Eigles
Media Relations Director, IRVA Conference.
Secretary, IRVA.
www.irva.org

Dale E. Graff
A physicist and a former Director of Project STAR GATE.
Participated in numerous documentaries, TV and radio
programs on remote viewing.
Author.

Kent D. Johnson
Master of Ceremonies, IRVA Conference.
www.irva.org

Dr. Jane Katra
Practicing spiritual healer for twenty-five years.
She holds a doctorate in health education and has taught
nutrition and health classes at the University of Oregon.
Co-author with Russell Targ on Miracles of Mind.

Shelia Massey
Natural Intuitive, CRV student of Paul Smith,
Webmaster and Web Designer, IRVA
www.active-stream.com

Dr. Michael O'Bannon
Psychologist and business executive.
CRV student of Paul Smith.

Dr. Hal Puthoff
Director, Institute for Advanced Studies at Austin,
Austin, Texas
Physicist, Researcher, Author, and Founder of the SRI
remote viewing project.
Listed in American Men and Women of Science, Who's Who
in Science and Engineering, and Who's Who in the World;
and has been designated a Fetzer Fellow.

Bill Ray
Major, US Army (Retired).
A former head of the Ft. Meade remote viewing unit.
Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc. (RVIS, Inc.)
www.rviewer.com

Sandy Ray
Remote Viewer.
Treasurer, IRVA.
www.irva.org

Mel Riley
Former member of the Ft. Meade Army unit. Developmental as well
as operational. Assisted in developing policies, standards
and techniques around which the government’s remote viewing
program was later based. He also participated in the scientific
research program the US had with Stanford Research International.
Currently associated with Problems>Solutions>Innovations as a
viewer, monitor and technical advisor.
Problems> Solutions> Innovations (PSI)
www.crviewer.com

Marty Rosenblatt
Has a B.A. and M.S. in Physics from UCLA. He worked as a
computational physicist and managed many projects in the
development and application of sophisticated computer programs
for analyzing high-energy problems of interest to the Dept. of
Defense and NASA, e.g. hypervelocity impact and nuclear weapons
effects. He was a founder, CEO and senior staff scientist of
PhysiComp Corporation (1994) and its internet subsidiary.
President, Physics-Intuition-Applications (p-i-a)
www.p-i-a.com

Paul Smith
Major, US Army (Retired), and former military remote viewer.
Worked for the US Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Paul was the chief coordinate remote viewing (CRV) theory
instructor for the government program, and was primary author
of the government CRV manual.
Vice-President, IRVA
Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc. (RVIS, Inc.)
www.rviewer.com

Dr. Angela Thompson-Smith
Author, Psi Researcher and remote viewing instructor.
Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals
including the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry,
Cortex, and the Journal of Humanistic Psychology.
Member of the Board of Directors, IRVA.
Remote Viewing Consulting and Classes.
www.psychicvista.com

Ingo Swann
Keynote Speaker.
Renowned PSI Researcher.
Author & Artist.
Participant, CIA funded research project at Stanford Research Institute.
Superpowers of the Human Biomind
www.biomindsuperpowers.com

Russell Targ
Physicist and author who was a pioneer in the development of the laser,
and cofounder of the Stanford Research Institute's investigation into
psychic abilities in the 1970s and 1980s.
Author.
President, IRVA
Bay Research Institute.
www.ESPresearch.com

Gene Troy
CRV student of Paul Smith.

Ed Wilde
CRV student of Lyn Buchanan.