Buchanan discusses the distinction between natural psychic ability and controlled remote viewing, explaining that the military method provides a structured framework for accessing information across time and space. He describes a "collective conscious" that trained viewers can tap into, comparing it to searching Google for hidden knowledge. Art and Buchanan explore the practical applications, including work done informally with intelligence agents after September 11 and the tantalizing possibility that remote viewing has quietly helped prevent subsequent attacks on American soil.
The conversation takes a dramatic turn when Buchanan reveals his background in remote influencing, describing how intense anger once caused him to destroy millions of dollars in computer equipment with his mind. General Stubblebine personally recruited him after witnessing the incident. Buchanan also shares his unit's remote viewing of Mars, describing an ancient civilization that perished due to catastrophic climate change.
Key Moments
CRV is not psychic - it's control: Buchanan distinguishes natural psychic ability from controlled remote viewing, framing CRV as a methodology developed by Ingo Swann to give the military reproducible, controlled access to information.
Tasker pollution problem: Buchanan admits there is undeniable telepathic pollution between the person assigning a target and the viewer - the viewer tends to find what the tasker wants - and that half of CRV protocols exist to weed it out.
Inside Saddam Hussein's mind: Buchanan says one of his strengths was mentally accessing people, and Saddam Hussein was an assigned target during the Gulf War - he describes Hussein as not irrational but deluded that God wanted him to rule the world.
Post-9/11 freelance viewers: Buchanan reveals that after watching the towers fall, he reached out to former contacts; agents (not the U.S. government officially) used his viewers when Bush told the agencies to think outside the box.
His own pre-9/11 foreboding: Buchanan recounts pacing with his wife the night of September 9th saying 'don't go to New York' - then watched the towers fall after his plane finally got him there at 1 AM. He never thought to ask his own remote-viewing wife why.