The Location and Reconstruction of a Byzantine Structure in Marea, Egypt Including a Comparison of Electronic Remote Sensing and Remote Viewing (Full Article PDF)

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This paper reports the location and reconstruction of a Byzantine structure in the now buried city of Marea along the shores of Lake Maryut, some 44 km southwest of Alexandria, Egypt. A Pharonic trade center that was occupied until the 16th Century, the city has been long abandoned and lies buried around what formerly was the lakeshore. This paper reports on an applied Remote Viewing experiment in which two Remote Viewers were asked to first locate Marea, and then a buried building within the city and, finally, to describe what would be found within the building site selected, with a particularly emphasis on tile and other decorative material. It also includes a comparison of Remote Viewing data with electronic remote sensing, and geographical data for the same area done independently three years earlier. The comparison is striking because while the Remote Viewers were successfully able to locate a building, including staking out its door, and corners, as well as providing a wealth of reconstructive and descriptive material about what would be found at the site, the electronic remote sensing and geographical analysis produced no suggestion whatever that there was a site at this location. For this reason, prior to discovery, much of the Remote Viewing data seemed extremely improbable, and notably contradicted the informed judgment of an archaeologist deemed by the University of Alexandria to be the leading authority on Marea.

History: The Marea Probe: An Experiment in Applied Parapsychology involving the Location, Reconstruction, and Excavation of a Byzantine Structure – Marea, Egypt. Invited Paper. Annual Meetings of The American Research Center in Egypt. De Young Museum. 14 April 1980. Also presented at the annual meetings of the Parapsychology Association 1980. Proceedings of the Parapsychology Association – 1980.

© copyright 1980 and 2000 by The Mobius Group. All Rights Reserved.

The Discovery of an American Brig: Fieldwork Involving Applied Remote Viewing Including a Comparison with Electronic Remote Sensing -Download the PDF

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In the fall of 1987 Mobius began fieldwork, under a license from the Bahamian Government, to carry out an archaeological survey in an area of the Grand Bahama Banks encompassing some 579.15 square miles (1500 sq. km). This report compares the Remote Viewing, electronic remote sensing, and visual search process used to locate the wreck site of a previously undiscovered armed American merchantman believed to be the Brig Leander, which was found in a sub-section of the License Area known as Consensus Zone C; an area of 11.81 sq. miles (30.59 sq. km) of water. It concludes that Remote Viewing was the source of information which led to the site’s location, and that electronic remote sensing was not useful in this instance. Leander was under the Command of Captain William Johnson when she sank for unknown reasons near Beaks Cay on 6 April 1834, while returning from Manzanilla, Cuba to her homeport in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to
location information, a total of 193 conceptual descriptive concepts concerning the site were proffered by twelve Remote Viewers. Of this, 148 concepts, or 75% of the total, could be evaluated through direct field observations, or historical research. An evaluation of this material reveals 84% Correct, 12% Partially Correct, 4% Incorrect. There is little accuracy variation across the sequence of material from the Los Angeles interviews ( 84% Corr., 13% Part. Corr., 3% Incorr.), to the on-site data (81% Corr., 11% Part. Corr., 8% Incorr.). Approximately 300 notable wrecks went down, not just in the License Area but across the entire Banks, from 1500 to 1876 as determined by a thorough search of historical records and archival material in the U.S., the U.K., Spain and the Bahamas. To make a conservative assessment of this location occurring by chance, assume the wrecks are evenly distributed not throughout the Banks, but only within the License Area. That
said, we should expect to see 6.12 boats in Consensus Zone C (11.81/579.15 x 300 6.12). The brig site is 5000 square feet (464.5 sq. m), equaling 0.00018 of a square mile. Within Consensus Zone C 65,849 sites of this size could be placed, thus yielding a grid of 65,849 cells.. If the probability of selecting this particular cell in the grid by chance exceeds p³ 0.05 then Remote Viewing can be considered a determinative factor. The probability of finding this one 5,000 square feet area is then 6.12/65,849 = p0.00009, which strongly suggests that chance is not an explanation for the location of Leander.

© copyright 1988 and 2000 by The Mobius Society

The Caravel Project: The Location, Description, and Reconstruction of Marine Sites Through Remote Viewing – Download the full article PDF

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The Columbus Caravels Project is a multi-phase research program designed to locate and excavate from St. Ann’s Bay, Jamaica the remains of Columbus’ last two ships, Capitana and Santiago de Palos. After an enforced exile of a year and five days, Columbus and his marooned crew were finally rescued on 29 June 1504. They departed for Hispaniola and Spain, leaving behind two of the oldest recorded shipwrecks in the Western Hemisphere, and the earliest European site in Jamaica. The Caravel Project was organized in 1982 by the Institute for Nautical Archaeology (INA) in conjunction with the Institute of Jamaica. The Mobius Society joined in the search during the summer field season of 1985. This report presents only that phase of the work involving the use of Remote Viewing data subjected to field confirmation, after employing a specialized analysis developed by Mobius for use in archaeological field searches. There were two subsequent survey’s of the Bay, and these are also addressed in the discussion section.

Location: Within a Search Area of 4.35 sq. mile during three previous seasons prior to Mobius’ investigation by magnetometer, radar, and side-scan sonar, as well as coring and caisson excavations under water and on land had produced materials from 18th-century English plantation activities, including the remains of two abandoned vessels. Remote Viewing, using a previously reported technique and prior to, and after the Mobius teams coming to Jamaica selected, and then confirmed on-site, an area of 1041 feet x 541 feet = 0.02 sq. miles as the area where finds would be made. The discovery of artifact and ship remains were made within the Remote Viewing predicted areas, and nowhere else, although substantial areas outside of the Remote Viewing locations were searched. As described and located by the Remote Viewers, previously unknown shipwreck was found in Consensus Area I. One viewer also provided a much smaller location site which, on the basis of initial success in Consensus Area I, was also pursued, with good results. Two other small single viewer sites were unproductive supporting the research premise that consensually predicted locations are more likely to be productive. A second Consensus Area because of time and sea conditions was not searched. Visual diver inspection was the confirming source of each location prediction. No excavation was carried out, although Remote Viewing suggested that ship remains were covered by several feet of overburden. Discoveries by subsequent expeditions under different direction made such discoveries. To calculate the probability of selecting these locations by chance within the Search Area, consider the finds reported as a cell in a grid of 217 similar cells. The probability of finding this one = p0.0046, which strongly suggests that chance is not an explanation for the locations. The much smaller location of material on the north side of the bay’s outer reef, as predicted by one Remote Viewer would, correspondingly, be even more improbable. Some of these remains are from unidentified ships of a period later than the Columbus wrecks, but much of the debris is unidentified, even as to period. Ultimately, for non-parapyschological reasons, identification of Capitana and Santiago de Palos may never be achieved because there may not be enough to answer in an absolute way the question of where the caravels are located.

Description and Reconstruction: Remote Viewing in addition to providing location, described the underwater and surface geography of the area to be searched, as well as providing descriptive and reconstructive data on the objects that would be found there. Overall 1012 concepts concerning Remote Viewing locations, descriptions, and reconstructions were presented during individual interviews by eight Remote Viewers, whose psychological profiles are defined by the PAS system, with the Saunders correction. An evaluation of the accuracy of Remote Viewing data, was carried out by the INA Archaeological Field Director, based on archaeological, geological, and electronic remote sensing field surveys and historical analysis. It is presented with each concept evaluated on a four point scale: “Correct,” “Partially Correct,” “Incorrect,” and “Not Evaluable.” Forty five per cent (45%) of the concepts received other than “Not Evaluable.” These concepts are arranged within a category outline, in accordance with the described methodology. This study has ten major subsets of information developed from the Remote Viewing interviews. The headings and archaeologically useful “hit” rates, comprised of a combination of “Correct” and “Partially Correct”, are: Remains, 54 per cent; Bottom Features, 80 per cent; Overburden, 90 per cent; Events Subsequent to Abandoning Ships, 62 per cent; Position of Ship Remains, 81 per cent; Differentiation of Two Ships, 60 per cent; Geology, 95 per cent; Roger Smith Archaeologist, 78 per cent; Comments re: Project, 53 per cent; Other & Miscellaneous, 76 per cent.

© copyright 1986 and 2001 by Stephan A. Schwartz, Randall J. De Mattei, and Roger C. Smith

A Preliminary Survey of the Eastern Harbor, Alexandria, Egypt (PDF)

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This paper reports a preliminary survey of one of humanity’s most historic harbors, Alexandria, Egypt. It constitutes one phase of a broader joint land/sea examination of the largest and most famous city to bear Alexander the Great’s name. The research overall had two goals: 1.) To resolve locational uncertainties concerning the city’s past configuration, particularly its Ptolemaic antecedents; and, 2.) to compare electronic remote sensing survey technologies with Remote Viewing generally, and the applications methodology developed by the Mobius Group, specifically. In the area of the Eastern Harbor, the aim of the research was: 1.) The location of the ancient shore line; the location and predictive description of several sites including: the island of Antirrhodus and the Emporium/Poseidium/Timonium complex; a palace complex associated with Cleopatra; and, a further elaboration, both in terms of location and predictive description, of the Pharos lighthouse area. 2.) A comparison of Remote Viewing and side scan sonar data after each approach had surveyed the same area. This paper describes the probable location of the Emporium, the Poseidium, and the Timonium, the palace complex of Cleopatra, the island of Antirrhodus, a site at the tip of Fort Sisila (known previously as Point Lochias), new discoveries pertaining to the lighthouse, and an associated temple. The most important discovery though is the identification and location of the ancient seawall which extends some 65 meters further out into the harbor than was previously suspected, and whose location resolves a key piece in the puzzle of the ancient city’s layout. The discoveries reported were principally the result of Remote Viewing. Except for one clear “hit” side scan sonar proved unproductive because of the large amount of particulate in the water.