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[narrator] In the mid 1990s

is when the U.S. government declassified their remote viewing project.

I was in the military unit

for remote viewing.

What I do know is the Soviets have remote viewers.

[narrator] U.S. Intelligence and Security Command

recruited psychic spying.

...So I taught my platoon to be totally stealthy.

[narrator] The top secret task force

implemented in Vietnam,

known as the First Earth Battalion.

Then I began to milk out all their paranormal skills.

[narrator] Is there a secret paranormal psychic war

between the United States, Russia, and China?

The issue of whether other countries

like China would be using this

to gather intellectual information

from us and other countries,

uh, is a real possibility.

[narrator] The downfalls of a secret spy program.

General Stubblebine, he took me into the Commander's office,

got up in my face, scowling,

"Did you kill my computers with your mind?"

[narrator] The real men behind The Men Who Stare at Goats.

We're being taught to believe there's fear, dangerous people,

and it's all designed out for us to get off our asses.

[narrator] What are the implications

if our governments have no secrets to hide?

Imagine a world where there's no need

for secrets.

That would be a true paradigm shift.

[narrator] In this special presentation,

we'll be speaking with the top remote viewers

in regards to the origin on remote viewing.

Where it is today,

and what the future holds.

The secret spy program,

the men who weren't even there.

[instrumental music playing]

[narrator] The First Earth Battalion.

Lieutenant Colonel Channon created the Evolutionary Tactics field manual.

Its goal was a non-lethal and peaceful solutions

to potentially change the shape of war as we know it,

and save lives in the process.

He was known for his ability to imagine and illustrate

the future battlefield

and its advanced applications.

Channon is portrayed by actor Jeff Bridges

in his role as character Bill Django.

How accurate really was the film The Men Who Stare At Goats?

Was The First Battalion a secret paranormal force

in the U.S. Military?

Is Jim Channon still working for the U.S. Military,

or the CIA?

These are some of the questions I wanted to find out.

My name is Blake Cousins.

I run a large YouTube channel in regards to the UFO

and alien phenomenon.

I consider myself a distributor of information to the public.

With over eight years of research

into military programs,

it's when I found out that Jim Channon

lives on the Big Island of Hawaii.

That's where I live.

I decided to try and meet the man himself.

I got the word.

I had three hours to meet with Jim

at his dwelling,

located just 45 miles from where I live.

So I called my production team

along with my twin brother, Brent,

and headed to the Kohala Coast,

destination Artesia.

Now I finally get the chance to meet the man himself.

Jim Channon.

I had many questions that I wanted to ask, so we got to it right away.

So, a couple of things happened along the way.

One of 'em is I wrote Evolutionary Tactics.

A field manual to bring out all the unknown intelligences in soldiers.

It was coming out at the time of the Whole Earth Catalog,

which you could pass through,

and the army officers were passing through

this Evolutionary Tactics manual.

So, here, I break it a little bit to a mythology format.

And besides that, for instance,

I wake up one day, and the phone rings, and they say,

"Mr. Channon, we wanna make a movie about your field manual.

And it's called Men Who Stare At Goats."

And after I saw the script,

and because I had worked in Hollywood before,

I know these guys can't make a movie that's all straight.

So I'm gonna have to tolerate 50% side gags,

in, you know... [laughs] The rest of it.

Jeff Bridges is gonna play me?

Halle-fucking-lujah!

[Bill] You have to dream a new America.

That no longer has--

[Blake] The Men Who Stare at Goats was inspired

by Jon Ronson's non-fiction bestseller.

The New Earth Army is changing the way wars are fought.

A legion of warrior monks with unparalleled psychic powers

can read the enemy's thoughts,

pass through solid walls,

and even kill a goat by simply staring at it?

In this quirky dark comedy

inspired by a real life story you can hardly believe,

is actually true.

I wanted to get down to the bottom of

what the true Jim Channon is all about,

and the role by Jeff Bridges, Bill Django.

Jim insisted on giving me a tour of Artesia,

which is a mini eco-village,

dotted with a few exotic small buildings.

In the amphitheater we have 20 feet of top soil.

So you're able to go down and create this beautiful...

[Blake] Jim also practices what he preaches.

Aiming for full sustainability,

and implementing permaculture,

biodynamic gardening,

ancient land practices,

and social architecture

to make the land not only self-sustaining,

but a heavenly expanse.

You come out of this amphitheater

with sort of microcultures,

small plants, lots of rocks, the way the land...

[Blake] Jim's first year as Lieutenant Colonel in Vietnam,

he began to flush out the early beginnings

of The First Earth Battalion

and its clairvoyant applications

on the battlefield.

I see what happens in an emotional situation

and a completely conflicted set of ethics.

And at the same time,

I'm learning to sit in a deep forest

for most of the time.

So I became fundamentally

welded to nature there.

And then welded to the way we had to move through the jungle

to find these so-called Viet Cong,

and search and destroy them.

At the same time, so I taught my platoon

to be totally stealthy.

Then I began to milk out all their paranormal skills.

And I had a whole set of sentient intelligences working with me.

So I came home a year later,

with all but one of my guys,

and we never had to kill an innocent villager.

[Blake] When did the psychic phenomenon known as "remote viewing" begin,

and who started it?

The late Ingo Swann was acclaimed psychic,

artist, and author for being the co-creator of remote viewing,

and specifically the Star Gate Project.

The Star Gate Project was a code name for a secret army unit

established in 1978, at Fort Meade, Maryland,

by the Defense Intelligence Agency

to investigate the potential for the psychic phenomenon

in the military in domestic intelligence applications.

Swann helped develop the process of remote viewing

at the Stanford Research Institute experiments

that caught the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency,

which was developed and tested

with CIA funding.

He's commonly credited with proposing the idea

of controlled remote viewing,

a process in which viewers would view a location,

given nothing but its geographical coordinates.

For the past 30 years,

the United States Government has secretly trained

a select corps of military personnel

in the art of remote viewing.

The psychic ability to perceive the thoughts of experiences

of the others through the power of the human mind.

Now, Lyn Buchanan, a world renowned expert on remote viewing

and its potential,

he resides in Alamogordo, New Mexico.

He was assigned nearly a decade

to a clandestine U.S. Army Intelligence group.

Buchanan trained military personnel

who utilizes the inherent psychic abilities

as a data collection tool

during the Iran hostage crisis,

and the Chernobyl disaster,

including the Gulf War.

[Buchanan] Back in the early '80s,

I was a Sergeant First Class in the army,

working for the Intelligence Command.

I was in Hausberg, Germany.

And an incident happened,

parts of which are still classified,

so I don't usually talk about it.

It cost the U.S. Government millions in computers.

Commanding General, Burt Stubblebine,

of the U.S. Intelligence

and Security Command

came and got me, took me back to D.C.,

and wanted to form a unit

that would do the same to enemy computers.

[Blake] General Burt Stubblebine has an impressive career,

including being credited

with the re-designing of the Intelligence structure

of the entire U.S. Army.

This was apparently somehow accomplished

without the man ever becoming aware

of a 25-year-old CIA mind control effort

that exploits thousands of unlisted personnel

at locations,

including the army's Edgewood Arsenal.

Stubblebine claims he was never into

the mind operations program.

However, he now believes mind control projects

continued after the Congress ordered them halted in the 1970s.

Congress said that it's a mode of mind control,

and they wouldn't do it,

because they had been caught in the '60s,

doing mind control on U.S. citizens,

they really didn't want to have anything to do with

anything like it again.

He took me out to Fort Meade

to this unit that had been doing

something called Controlled Remote Viewing.

Uh, I had never heard of that before.

Didn't know what it was.

But he just put me in that unit and said,

"Here, you're going to learn to be a psychic."

And, uh, you know,

in the military, a General tells you that,

"Yes, sir. I'll do it."

I was in the military unit

for remote viewing

for the rest of my military career.

Which is very unusual,

because, you know, soldiers get moved.

But I was there for the rest of my career

and wound up being the trainer for the unit.

Because it was a Black unit

that didn't exist,

I officially didn't exist.

And so, I had to give up all rights to

promotions and everything else.

But it was worth it.

Oh, it was fantastic.

It was the most interesting job I've ever had.

[Blake] So I meet up in Woodland Hills

to meet Marty Rosenblatt,

one of the co-founders of the Applied Precognition Project.

Since the methods of remote viewing

were made available to the public,

advances in techniques and technology

have made dramatic improvements in accuracy.

Utilizing his background in physics,

understanding the role of precognition and empathy.

He explains the role of consciousness

and how humanity's collective mind

can communicate across time.

I first learned about remote viewing,

using that name,

in an article that was published in the IEEE

in the early 1970s.

At that time, I had security clearances.

I was working for a private company

doing contract work predicting nuclear weapon effects,

but that gave me contacts with the Defense Intelligence Agency.

And the Defense Intelligence Agency, I went and showed them this,

and they sent me to Stanford Research Institute,

where I met Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ.

And their work was incredible.

The first time I had ever seen

scientific work on psychic phenomenon,

like remote viewing.

[Blake] Hundreds of remote viewing experiments

were carried out at the Stanford Research Institute,

from 1972 to 1986.

Physicist Russell Targ was a co-founder of the secret CIA-funded program

into the investigation of psychic abilities.

Hal Puthoff directed the CIA program

and collaborated with Russell.

Both Hal and Russell, captured in this 1974 photo,

with retired police commissioner Pat Price,

and CIA contractor monitor Christopher Green.

Both Hal and Russell were utterly convinced

of the reality of psychic abilities.

They learned the accuracy of reliability of remote viewing

was not in any way affected by distance,

size, or electromagnetic shielding,

and discovered the more exciting of the demand and task,

the more likely they were successful.

One of the main targets of the operation

was the Kremlin.

Yeah, the military got involved officially

in like the 1970s.

Largely because the Soviet Union was involved.

We were somewhat concerned at that time

about the Cold War and all that.

What was going on was just real.

And in fact, there was a guy, Skip Atwater, in Fort Meade,

and he was directed to start a unit

to look into this.

And they started bringing in

remote viewers from the military.

And that lasted for like 20 years.

[Blake] Skip Atwater was the Operations and Training Officer

for the secret remote viewing program.

He recruited and trained

an elite group of professional intelligence officers

to do remote viewing for the Department of Defense

and various members of the National Intelligence community.

He initiated the U.S. Army's remote viewing intelligence program,

now known to the world by the code name Star Gate.

How did I know I had the capability of remote viewing?

I didn't.

General Stubblebine stuck me in this unit.

And they were doing all of this remote viewing work,

and I watched them, and they trained me in it.

But for the first months or so I was there,

I thought there's a gimmick going on.

There's something. They can't really do this.

And finally, after they had taught me all of the steps

for how to do it,

they started handing me

pictures that were sealed in envelopes,

and saying,

"Without opening the envelope, describe the picture."

I thought that's crazy, you know.

And, of course, there was no way I could do that.

But I followed the steps that they had taught me,

and opened the envelope,

and I had described the picture.

And all of a sudden-- I knew I hadn't cheated,

and all of a sudden I thought,

[chuckles]

"Maybe this works."

And I took to it like a duck to water.

And I was extremely happy

to spend the next eight and a half years

in that one military unit doing that.

Fantastic job.

How did the First Earth Battalion materialize?

Where did the people come from?

Well, we started as a think tank.

Once we popped the First Earth Battalion with the field manual,

the country went berserk.

And all these really talented, creative people

came to our meetings.

So, that was the battalion.

It wasn't soldiers that were acting in a new way.

We hadn't gotten that far.

At that point, the whole army went on a mission

to collect extrasensory abilities.

It was a reasonably large program.

Put about $20 million of the U.S. government's funds

into the remote viewing project.

In fact, one with Joe McMoneagle.

He was asked to get information

about a facility

that was hidden.

It was in a mountain in the Soviet Union.

Joe said they're building this huge submarine.

Much bigger than anything that anybody had,

including the Soviets, of course.

And at first, the CIA thought that was crazy.

They weren't even that close to water.

He even predicted when it was going to be launched,

using remote viewing.

Well, it turned out, a few days, either before or after,

it wasn't actually on, but pretty darned close,

they dug a trench

and put out the biggest submarine that had ever been launched.

And that information came first through remote viewing.

Remote viewing kind of shows

the ultimate connectivity

in our world.

We're all connected.

When we accept the reality

of the capabilities of consciousness,

which include remote viewing,

include precognition,

include the ability to influence matter at a distance,

that we'll be much better for it,

because the universe works that way.

Science has in fact proven remote viewing.

It's proven precognition

using all scientific techniques.

Guess what? Most scientists still don't believe it.

Because it is so different,

which is what makes it a paradigm shift.

[Blake] So you're saying right now

that there's people within the military

that could remote view into sensitive military factions from other governments?

Yes.

But, what's not normally known

is that you imagine one person

had got this amazing ability

to project themselves somewhere into the enemy territory,

read the general's battle plan,

and come back.

Twelve people do way better than one person.

And they do it by layers.

And it's a real protocol.

Some... One of the layers is sort of

uh, emotional.

One of the layers is shape.

One of the layers is color.

And they go after these as a group,

and then they give a great filtering process

in order to finally pop out what they believe to be true.

As far as what the government is doing now,

I sincerely hope

that they still have a project going.

When you retire from a classified unit,

they quit telling you things.

And so, I don't know,

uh, but, it would be really dumb of the government

not to have an ongoing project like this.

The issue of whether other countries

like China, but any country,

would be using this to gather intellectual information

from us and other countries,

is a real possibility.

It's hard to imagine that some countries

would not do this.

The kind of ethics involved

when you see somebody else

as your enemy, and possibly doing the same to you.

And we certainly know that there's a lot of cyber

um, espionage, if you will, going on.

I would have to think,

and I haven't been thinking much about this,

but now that you asked the question,

I'd have to think that that is going on.

Now how successful are they at it,

I don't know.

And I hope, just like we have counter-cyber,

right, to stop hackers...

I hope our government is in fact coming up with techniques

to protect our information.

Because we're not through the paradigm shift yet,

where there are no secrets.

As far as destroying the enemy computers, uh,

it was a great plan, and General Stubblebine

was all set up to form a unit to do this.

And it would have worked.

The Russians were doing the same kind of research

and they were having success at it.

We could have had success at it, too.

But Congress said, "No, that's modes of mind control,

and we're not gonna fund that,

because that's political death,

you know, to any politician."

So they wouldn't fund it.

And because they wouldn't fund it...

It was a matter of money.

In Washington D.C., there are always

two answers to any question you can ask.

One is politics, the other is money.

The politics and the money were both against such a unit.

So it didn't happen.

Human nature is gonna have to change.

Because we do have some evil people out there.

I have this faith,

and there's some things you just can't prove.

The good, once we accept that consciousness

that our own abilities are so incredibly powerful,

that there's no need for evil.

The evil that we see,

and it looks like evil, it is evil,

perhaps can only be understood

in this bigger concept

of the ultimate good.

[Blake] As intellectual property

and nuclear weapons become more dependent on computers,

the vulnerability of governments

to protect oneself becomes apparent.

The CIA's mission was to apply psychic super-soldiers

to penetrate the enemy's electric grid,

control networks, and the missile navigation data.

At one point, Lyn Buchanan and General Stubblebine

realized that this power is very real.

I've always, since childhood,

I was one of those poltergeist kids, you know,

I get angry, things fall off shelves and all that.

Well, I had written a computer program for the computer systems

and I was to give a demonstration

of the computer program.

This other sergeant who had wanted that job

and didn't get it, I was picked over him,

came in while I was in, combing my hair,

and making sure that there were no wrinkles in my uniform

for the presentation.

He came in and did something.

And when I gave the presentation

in front of all these generals

from all these different native countries...

I gave my little song and dance,

and then I hit the enter key to start the program and demonstrate it,

and the computer went out.

It cost the government,

I hear, an estimated $500 million

to replace computers,

to replace systems, electronic systems, and all that.

General Stubblebine, of course,

being the Head of Intelligence and Security Command,

got wind of this.

He took me into the commander's office,

got up in my face scowling,

"Did you kill my computers with your mind?"

I just sort of heard myself say,

"Yes, sir. I did."

And this grin came across his face and he said,

"For effing out, have I ever got a job for you!"

You can't deny

that their remote viewers can pick up information from the future.

So precognitive remote viewing

is a reality as well.

It's an intelligence collection effort.

We're teaching it to police departments

to find missing children,

to find missing evidence, and so forth.

And it's very quietly being used

for businesses.

We've done projects for Moon exploration,

research and development of electronics,

uh, for development of businesses,

and so on.

Is remote viewing paranormal?

First of all, I hate that word.

Because remote viewing is real,

like many other psychic phenomenon.

Telepathy, precognition... All of those are real.

Capabilities, natural capabilities of human beings.

So I don't like that term.

I also believe it is indeed spiritual.

It is getting to the very essence

of what consciousness can do.

And this thing we call consciousness,

which is right now in the forefront of science,

in terms of trying to be understood.

In fact, I believe consciousness is the fundamental.

You're not gonna get a scientific theory

which can explain consciousness,

but consciousness is at the very fundamental nature

of reality.

A lot of soldiers who are home with their families now,

and they'll never know that the information that we provided

kept them from being killed.

The ups are when we had success.

The downs were mostly

when we had success in the remote viewing,

and nobody would pay attention,

and because of that, nothing happened.

One of the sessions I had done was Gaddafi.

They were going to raid Gaddafi and try to kill Gaddafi.

Air and Naval Forces of the United States

launched a series of strikes against the headquarters,

terrorist facilities, and military assets

that support Muammar Gaddafi's subversive activities.

[Blake] In 1986, United States' bombing of Libya

code name Operation El Dorado Canyon.

In Libya, there were over 40 casualties

and one U.S. plane was shot down

due to the lack of the military abilities

to properly pursue Lyn Buchanan's predictions.

It could have perhaps prevented worldwide catastrophes.

[Buchanan] I predicted the Chernobyl meltdown

three days before it happened.

And I told them it was going to happen.

Described it. Described the way it did happen.

And nothing was done about it.

When Saddam Hussein pulled out of Kuwait,

I said, "You've got to drive him to the west

and then north.

'Cause if you drive him to the north,

he's gonna like set fire to all these wells."

And they said, "Oh, he wouldn't do that."

Well, they drove him north,

and he did.

[Blake] The applications of remote viewing

go far beyond the battlefield.

Are the remote viewers of today

reaching out to a universal consciousness

far beyond our Earth?

Every thought that any sentient being,

any person, any animal,

anybody and anything that has consciousness,

here on Earth,

anywhere in the universe, ETs,

are all collected in this Universe of Collective Consciousness.

And what seems to be the reality is

each of us has access

to that entire UCC.

Universal Collective Consciousness.

We can go into it to get information from the future.

In fact, that's one of the most valuable things about precognition.

It shows that we can get information

from the future

that blows the normal concepts of time.

We live in a universe which is really integrated

into a oneness through this Universe of Collective Consciousness.

[Blake] Do you think that the world's ready for

alien visitation on a massive scale in front of the public eye?

I think it's going to be done

like any good movie is gonna be done.

On page 78 of the script,

there's a reversal.

And right now, we're going through the reversal.

We're being taught to believe there's fear,

dangerous people,

and it's all designed for us to get off our asses

and do something.

So, it's a perfect drama.

Why would they invent a civilization like this

on a star ship planet with so many dimensions

not to have a graduation?

And you know what?

They don't have to come in a big, conky ship.

All they have to do is just appear sitting next to you

as they join you in the fifth dimension,

or you join them in the fifth dimension.

Imagine having

a kind of people who could live within the crust of a planet,

you know?

It would be really nice if they were big and strong and white

so they could see each other down there,

and they had some scales on them

so that they wouldn't scratch themselves

as they were moving through,

and they had night vision eyes.

So these terrible Dracos

are perfect for an inter-terrestrial life,

where they have and create all the things they need.

There's between the top of the surface,

and say, 60 miles down,

it's honeycomb.

And every creature has a place.

You know...

I mean, if snakes were 30 feet tall and stood on legs,

you'd be scared of them, too.

So the trick is for us to wake up to a loving connection

so we can all do this thing together.

There are ETs, extraterrestrials out there some place.

The fact that we would be the only ones here

in the entire universe that have consciousness...

So, once you accept that,

then to assume that we're the people who have had it

on this planet for the longest is also ridiculous.

I believe there are ETs.

I believe there are ETs who are

probably millions of years more advanced than us,

older than us,

that have probably gone through similar stages.

Basically, I think they're good.

Otherwise, with the technology that they apparently have,

why are we still here?

If they wanted to destroy us, I would think that they could.

And that's one of the reasons I believe

that consciousness,

the advanced consciousness

that I presume they have,

because they're thousands of years ahead of where we are,

and I believe our next paradigm

is going to be where advanced consciousness

is the accepted norm.

And I think they're there,

and are probably watching our transition

with great interest,

and probably rooting for us.

Because they know on the other side,

there is a wonderful new reality.

An expanded understanding

and really, appreciation

of the marvelous universe we live in.

[Channon] The important thing here to know

is, as we think about our future,

we should be thinking,

"We're about to be the new neighbor

in the solar system.

Don't you think we ought to consider what they would like

as a new neighbor?"

We don't know what the behavior of the new neighbor would be.

And so, I would say, "Taking care of their planet?

Well, I don't know if they're doing such a good job with that."

My dream and what I'm preparing the army for

is to be at the watersheds with the veterans,

to set up the star ports,

so the aliens would know where to come,

and they'd get other people in the country by the water.

We'll get the high-tech energy devices

and all those other devices.

And I think there's not a chance in hell

that they won't melt the whole biosphere down with love,

and that's what I think is going on right now.

They will use six days of sweet music,

coming from we don't know where.

And I've actually written that landing scenario

so my guides can at least...

'Cause, you know, if somebody on planet Earth

doesn't have the consciousness,

they can't give us the results.

We have to earn the consciousness

before they can operate with it.

So this would be a series of

atmospheric, musical,

temperature shifts, smells,

for three days.

And then, certain things would appear,

I think.

And they could appear in the country first, that's good.

They could appear at the indigenous tribal places first, that's good.

Um, and...

All I can say is they're not gonna pull this off

without having arranged the biosphere

to be the most beautiful, soft, warm, loving container

they can possibly make out of it.

So, you're starting to feel it change right now.

And if you're not playing with that new feeling,

I think you ought to try,

because you wanna get plugged in to the spiritual dimension

as soon as you can,

so you're not panicked,

you know, if you see some blue person arrive

with the newspaper in the morning.

Yeah. No...

The universe is not going to all this trouble,

not having a great ending.

And we're now going through the reversal and the third act,

We think... [in comical high-pitched voice] "All is lost!

No! Oil Can Harry is back out there,

and he's got Pearl Pureheart on the railroad track,

and here comes the train!"

Yeah, this is the faith test, guys and gals.

So open up, get your heart in shape,

stay outta here as much as you can,

stop talking shit about each other,

and don't be afraid of any one group.

We're all responsible for the mess we're in,

and we all have the ability to help us get out of it.

Now, think about what consciousness is.

Consciousness is sort of a non-physical thing.

The difference between the brain and the mind.

And consciousness...

Remote viewing show that these connections

go much deeper than we usually take for granted

in terms of what's possible.

Remote viewing shows that you can get information from a distance,

and distance includes space and time.

You make connections with people in the past,

in the future.

Remote viewing kind of shows the ultimate connectivity

in our world. We're all connected.

We're all one.

That's spiritual.

And consciousness really is the thing which binds us all together.

Trees... lots of fruit.

About 45% of our food on this land comes from above.

The trees do the job.

Then we have regular gardens

with about 20%,

and we have edible landscaping

that just fills in the cracks the whole way around.

All together we can feed 15 people.

And we have water catchment for 15 people.

So we're ready to go any time.

Yes, we love the fact that we support almost all kinds of animal life here.

Smaller versions,

but there's at least six cats.

And we have 12 species of birds.

And that's it.

One of the aviaries right here

that we made out of a really sexy, new, dynamic design.

And this is a Polish chicken.

And she thinks she's in charge.

She's gonna show you how she finds her food.

[chuckling]

So here is a Cherokee garden

[laughs] that the Chief showed us how to make.

And it's got corn in the middle.

And over here is our tool shop.

And the tool shop was made

by simply taking these kinds of palettes from the grocery store,

knocking off the edge pieces,

staining them a little bit,

and making a place like that.

That's where we drive our vehicles in

for vehicle work.

So, we have a surplus area,

and a... What do you call it?

What kind of shop is that where

you just put things, crazy things back together in different ways.

Well, it's one of those.

[stutters] So, like most shrines

and botanical gardens,

you gotta have maintenance.

I was born in Tarrytown, New York, in 1939.

[Blake] What were your mother and father like?

My mother and father were...

so, um, budding upper-class, I would say.

Dad was super practical.

Logistician. His family came from nuts and bolts.

My mom's super empathic and deaf.

[Blake] Tell me about your family's military history.

My family's military history

goes back as far as George Washington,

and maybe to Rome,

uh, 23 generations ago,

and Mark Antony.

I have Robert E. Lee as a fourth great-grandfather.

So, that side of the tradition was really

in the gentlemen department.

So I'd say they weren't all cunning fighters,

but they were gentlemen.

1962, I got a degree from the University of Kentucky,

in Distinguished Military Graduate,

Regular Army Commission.

And off I went to Fort Riley, Kansas,

to be in the Infantry.

So, first day in combat in Vietnam,

fourteen things happened.

I'd been trained in two of them.

I did the two things quite well.

But the first thing that shocked me

is when I asked my soldiers

to shoot somebody they saw down the path.

They did, but they shot all overhead.

They were all crap shots.

I saw 'em on the rifle range

with a machine gun at 500 feet,

just knocking the head out of it.

So, like history shows us,

only 30% can eventually be

taught to be happy about shooting someone.

So, it didn't turn out that--

Later, it did turn out later,

in the war, they were counting body count

as a measure of a soldier's effectiveness,

and a leader's effectiveness.

And that was... It was totally corrupted at that point.

The problem, dual problem of having my soldiers

not being discovered in a killing zone,

made me train them to be stealthy.

Having to find the enemy without them knowing we found them had...

I had to train them to be sentient.

You know, extrasensory.

So, both of those things carried through my career

as I began to teach other leaders.

1978, I was assigned to the Public Affairs Office

in Los Angeles to help the film industry

get the army right.

And when I was there, it turned out

that was the time, a season when

Hollywood didn't give a damn about getting the army right.

There, Sgt. Bilko would have been fine, but nothing more than that.

And that upset me.

But I was also able to move about in California.

So when I was elected to also be a part of this think tank,

I had my-- I just put my scouting shoes on.

And I'm a good illustrator, and a good writer.

And I wrote that manual by myself at night, one page at a time,

and then popped it on the army.

So, after I left the army,

um, I found... [chuckles]

that they had a name for me.

I was called the Lightning Rod.

And I think it stems from an experience at Fort Knox,

where after collecting my material

about all this lovely technology,

I said, "This would be better as a mythology."

And so, the name, as I was flying to Fort Knox,

on the plane, I got the word, "The First Earth Battalion."

It was just delivered to my head.

So when I got there, I said,

I'm not giving these guys another death by powerpoint,

you know, pitch.

Giving them the data, you know.

This type of tool, that type of tool bullshit.

That was not gonna...

Culture eats strategy for breakfast.

So I'm standing there and they say,

"Colonel... Major Channon..." I was a major.

"Major Channon, would you give us your...

report on your trip through these esoteric technologies?"

And I said, "I'm not giving you an information briefing.

Join me in the officer's club on Wednesday night,

and I will take you into a ceremony

where you will see all these ideas put into real effect,

so you can feel them."

And they just sort of went, "Oh!

California has been working on this guy."

So, sure enough, on Wednesday, they come in.

I have them take off their shoes.

I have the back of the officer's club, all the lights down.

Some plastic plants in there.

A candle on a dollar bill in the middle of the room,

and I said, "Gentlemen, we're about to enter a ceremony.

We will give resonance to the field we're in

by saying the mantra, 'Eee' for the earth."

Ready?"

And...

Eee!

They just stumbled their way through it.

They were afraid to show the other guys

that they were gonna really play this esoteric game.

But I nailed them like a platoon sergeant.

You know, I said, "Look, that's not up to standard.

This time, take a breath, if you will, before you make the sound."

And they did.

And... "Eee..."

came out. And if you know anything about sound,

it unifies the energy field.

So then I had Colonel Mike Malone come out

and do a black belt karate dance, kata.

Ooh! Then they went, "Okay. This is real soldier stuff now.

Now we're back into it."

Then I told them the story of the dollar bill.

And eventually, I began to say,

"You are about to join the First Earth Battalion."

This is our new world.

And then I gave them the rationale for that.

And then they all kind of sort of quietly walked out.

Next day I go into the conference room,

I'm standing outside, about to go in,

there's a guy out there, says,

"Colonel Channon, you're not to go in."

And I could hear inside they were going... [garbling]

And I thought, "Oh, I've gone too far this time."

And then the doors open,

and the guy says, "Colonel Channon, report."

And I know that sounds all... [imitates military marching]

I went in and I stood at attention.

The room was at attention.

And they read me the orders.

Official orders, and I can show you a copy of 'em,

that I am to be the commander of The First Earth Battalion

to go forward in space and time,

and dare to think the unthinkable.

And that was the pop.

And I'm still doing it,

because I'm still under orders.

[sentimental music plays]

He's just a great personality.

He always was just fun to watch.

He'll be missed.

The movie part of it,

I personally think that was just too Hollywood.

It just didn't take the importance and significance

of remote viewing and consciousness in general

as seriously as it should have.

This is a real important subject.

But I think the thing that I will remember him most for

was his aggressive work

in really wanting to lay out a place

where ETs would land to make contact with Earth.

I mean, you know,

a lot of us, more and more, are coming to

just accept that ETs are out there somewhere.

But he basically invited them in.

And that's remarkable.

And I just have great respect for him

for doing that in a very open way.

I was very sad to hear that Jim Channon had died.

And, you know, I guess the way he had died would...

would be the way he would wanna die.

Just to keel over.

I think he was out working in his garden, and just keeled over.

And, um...

A lot of people think that Jim Channon

was crazy 'cause of the way he acted.

I think "crazy like a fox" may be a better term.

He was an absolute genius.

But he was one of those flamboyant geniuses

that come along once in a lifetime.

I was very lucky to be friends with Jim.

Sort of like, um,

Salvador Dali.

He was one of those flamboyant geniuses.

And Jim had...

[chuckles]

made a presentation in front of a whole roomful of generals one time,

and he took flowers and gave flowers to each general.

Uh, he was always doing something flamboyant

in such a way

that it would pull out the reaction that he wanted from a person.

You never knew what he was gonna say,

never knew what he was gonna do.

But it was always for a purpose,

and it was always a good purpose.

Jim was...

one of the greatest people I've ever known.

And the fact that he was a flamboyant genius like that

and succeeded in the military

shows just how much of a genius he was.

Fantastic man.

When he died,

I think one of the brightest bulbs

in the Christmas tree of life burned out.

[sentimental music playing]

It came to a shock to all of us.

We miss him dearly.

We were deep into the project.

Little did I realize the second interview with Jim Channon

would be the last time I would see him.

He had a lot of things to say

that goes far beyond remote viewing.

It's spirituality, it's lifestyle.

What you're about to see is what makes Jim Channon an endearing figure

in the world of remote viewing

and beyond.

♪

...Sanctuary type of a tunnel here.

[speaking indistinctly]

[continues indistinctly]

♪

So, this is where my social architect brain

gets to plaster itself

all over the walls and whatnot.

I've downloaded some of this stuff in dreams,

and painted it just a dream at a time.

I've calculated, in some cases,

a certain set of things in a story.

So, here's a big, compelling piece here.

And a lot of people ask me, so...

"How do you marry your spiritual intelligence

with your architectural drawing,

and your painting,

and come up with something?"

Well, this guy started off as a dream,

and it only covered this part.

But the message was "Agartha Rising."

So you can see this piece rising.

And after I put it up,

I said, "Well, if we have the people from inside the planet coming forward,

how do we wanna greet them?"

And then, on the other side here we have

all the extraterrestrials-- ancestors, I prefer that word,

coming in, big ships like this,

into an area where biospheric recovery

is a big part of the deal.

And then we have our Earth Battalions down here

trained to receive them,

and as a team, work together.

In the meantime, we see spiritual intelligence

growing and growing and growing.

And eventually,

this will be a counsel

of all the planetary star ships.

I call our planet a star ship.

It really is an amazing star.

It was made, like all the rest of 'em.

Something about my military heritage and whatnot.

Here's a set of medals that both myself and my father won.

So this is sort of blood.

[Blake] What about this one right here?

It had like a Russian symbol.

Did you work for the Russian government?

[Channon] No, but my father got a Russian medal

when his division

landed on the river where they met the Russians.

So, hello.

They're in the picture, too.

Which one of these medals are you most proud of?

The Bronze Star, three times.

Uh, doesn't make me a superhero,

but it meant I was steady.

[laughs]

In order to get a silver star,

you have to sort of lose a lot more soldiers,

and I didn't do that.

[Blake] All right, Jim. Can you tell us about this soldier here?

Yeah, this is first day of combat,

first man shot.

Had him on a helicopter in four minutes.

But I noticed

he needs a little touch up.

[Blake] So he's the first soldier that you lost in the battlefield?

[Channon] Yes. First and last.

You only lost one soldier that was under your command?

In 319 days of search and destroy,

I lost one soldier,

and I never shot an innocent civilian.

So, this is a Balinese version of Rama,

who is a Hindu God,

but the Balinese know how to do things a little more sweetly.

And I know how to make the statue look, um,

better by highlighting

the parts that are a little bit mildewed.

But look at that. It pops right out.

Okay, Jim, I know the movie was quite controversial,

but I wanna ask you, why did they not use your name "Jim Channon,"

and they went with "Django"?

Uh, Blake, that was my choice.

I only had the first screenplay in my hands.

And from what I could tell,

uh, we didn't need to incriminate

soldiers and officers and scientists who had

stuck their neck out this far to be creative,

by having Hollywood make another sort of,

you know, joke out of it.

No. Enough Sgt. Bilko.

At the end of the movie, they portray you

as escaping from a military base in Iraq,

and putting LSD in the food.

And this was your escape opportunity.

Was this real?

No. They-- They just made up...

That was sort of any site, Middle East,

any army compound, Middle East.

But it was hilarious.

And so, it's good.

Yeah, but me, kind of fat,

shirt out, sipping things that dribble down my face,

acting sort of out of it?

Not accurate.

[Blake] They kind of made you look like a klutz.

Yeah, pretty much.

Well, when you get a screenplay from BBC,

you know that MI6 probably wrote it.

So they didn't wanna make me any more famous

than necessary.

So you believe that the MI6 might be behind

discrediting your message, basically, to the army,

and now they're discrediting the messenger?

You don't have to study the broadcasting world very long

to find out that BBC and MI6

are pretty much the same thing.

And they've been in the business of

defaming people they wanted to for a long time.

The public needs to know.

The army has no value in going around and spending time killing goats.

If you can make somebody go unconscious for two hours,

which might have been a real objective,

then you can walk into

the place you wanna walk into,

do your business, come out, and they wake up okay.

It was a peaceful incursion.

That's the idea.

[Blake] Talk about the super-soldier.

That was about increasing the capacity of a soldier

to survive on the battlefield.

That was about strength, ability to carry extra equipment,

having a more volatile set of weapons.

Paranormal soldiers needed a whole another set.

All right. So super-soldiers and paranormal soldiers,

they're altogether different?

Tell me about the paranormal soldier.

The paranormal soldier has more range

to discover what's out there.

And there are a lot of tools for that.

We used to have men in the army

who were all hunters.

They knew how to judge what they heard.

They knew how to field life force.

They knew how to look at the trail.

They knew all those sentient skills.

But the last generations of soldiers haven't had those.

So, they are super soldiers,

'cause they can get there,

but they are paranormal soldiers

so they don't get ambushed.

[chiming]

[Blake] There's been rumors stating that

the military's preparing for a major false flag.

A fake alien invasion

using possibly holographic imagery

to deceive the public.

Have you heard anything about this?

Should we worry about this?

Of course, part of the military,

Air Force, army, are all aware

of what might happen if things change.

False flags? The government's been doing that consistently

for 50 or 100 years.

It's so old,

they don't even have to defend themselves anymore from it.

So let me ask you this.

Do you believe that there are alien hybrid beings

within our own governments

in control of the people?

I can't imagine an intelligent galaxy

that wouldn't have penetrated

all aspects of our local civilizations,

since we are the petri dish.

We're the experimental culture.

And so, oh, every imaginable combination

would be found somewhere.

Mostly, they're good at staying either out of sight underground,

or modifying their appearance to look like us.

I hope they're here.

Over six million people reported every year, worldwide,

that they've been abducted by aliens.

Taken up into spacecraft.

Some people say that these aliens are

nothing but manufactured biological creatures

made by our own governments

to do a false flag of an alien abduction phenomenon.

Do you believe that aliens are truly abducting people?

Is this real?

[Channon] I believe that the smarter intelligences in the galaxy

know that Planet Earth is an experiment.

And they know everybody's gonna live eternally.

So, they're coming in to get information about their own genetic improvements.

So, in some cases, that means you put somebody on a table

and take their DNA.

If it means you cut the rectum out of a cow very carefully

to get some genetic material,

that's al used for their upgrade.

They're just being normal, opportunistic,

awake, civilized beings.

Yes, they want our genetics as well as our mineral deposits

and things that they can't normally get.

That's one of the reasons why they're underneath the planet.

There's so much going on underneath.

Area 51, by the way, is a tiny little airport

compared to, you know, maybe a thousand miles of underground tunnels

all operating in the honeycomb, soft part of the crust,

so they can just wander through.

We need a place for the people who are, say, Draconian.

Others,

when you look at them, they're all white.

They have scales.

They have everything they need to live underground,

where they've always lived.

So, we should get used to them as neighbors

and figure out how we can cooperate.

We have a thousand cultures on this planet.

We have many genotypes and phenotypes, animals...

And we're under pressure to learn how to get along.

We provide that library to the people in the galaxy,

and some other materials that aren't available to them,

and we will be accepted.

That's our best defense strategy.

Go, planet!

Imagine a world where this was taken for granted.

That's what I see as our next paradigm.

The next big paradigm shift

is gonna be a consciousness paradigm shift,

where things like remote viewing,

telepathy, maybe even psychokinesis,

are taken for granted.

It's a step by step by step process.

Back when they started giving me pictures in envelopes,

there's no way I could have told you what was in those envelopes.

But I followed the steps they had taught me,

and it worked.

[Rosenblatt] Accepted within society,

it'll be a positive aspect of society.

But with this, comes the idea that there may be no secrets.

If you can remote view things which we would normally think would be hidden,

well, maybe you get to a place where there are no secrets.

Imagine a world where there's no need for secrets.

That would be a true paradigm shift.

I'm Jim Channon.

I call myself a social architect.

One of the things social architects do

is they design spaces

so that people can have a bigger sense of life,

life force, actually an experience.

There is data, then information,

then knowledge, then wisdom,

then experience,

then maybe rapture.

Well, we're looking at the highly charged experience

you can get when you bring a group of people together

in full play.

And if it's colorful,

you'll pay attention to it.

And if it has music behind, it'll be even better.

So I help people make up stories about their organizations

and try to take 'em to another level.

I never ask people in corporations

what their higher purpose was,

if they didn't go...

"Jack, what is our higher purpose?"

[audience laughing]

"John, we're gonna be out here 1600 tonight.

We got two hours to figure this out.

Get on it."

No, they never say it. "You can't ask us that.

That's a cultural question."

No, they just don't know much about culture.

So, here we are,

a connected civilization

looking for something as big as what we did

in the last century,

which was to connect the planet.

And that something is

to go for paradise.

[instrumental music playing]