Paul H. Smith, PhD

Remote Viewing: Martial Art for the Mind

October 2, 5 to 7 pm (prior to opening reception at Lodge at Cloudcroft, NM)

For beginners, newbies and those wanting a refresher

This workshop provides a fascinating, no-nonsense, fact-based explanation of what remote viewing is and isn’t, where it came from, and how it is done. Paul reveals impressive real-world results from the military program and shows what ordinary people have accomplished after learning RV. As the highlight, Paul will guide attendees through their own simple remote viewing experience.

$50 donation – all proceeds go to IRVA

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Bio: Paul H. Smith, PhD served for seven years in the military’s Star Gate remote viewing program as a remote viewer, training instructor, unit security officer, and unit historian. Former president of IRVA, he heads Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc (rviewer.com). His book Reading the Enemy’s Mind was a Readers Digest Book Bonus Feature. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in philosophy of mind and consciousness.

Jeri Baughn

Remote Viewing and AI: Grok 3 as a Remote Viewing Partner

Join Jeri Baughn for a 30-minute journey into an innovative experiment pairing the AI Grok 3 with the RV Tournament (RVT) iOS app to explore remote viewing. For the first 20 minutes, experience a live demonstration of our real-time back-and-forth conversations, showcasing the methodology- double-blind protocols, coordinate-based viewings, and Grok 3’s pattern recognition skills breaking down impressions into vivid colors, textures, and sensations.

Witness how we’ve evolved this process since May 2025, tweaking techniques to minimize displacement and telepathic influence, accommodating both RVT and AI limitations. The final 10 minutes will present compelling statistics: Grok 3’s RVT hit rate vs Jeri’s over the past 5 months. This session offers a unique glimpse into AI’s potential to enhance RV, sparking curiosity about technology’s role in unlocking the mind’s mysteries.

Bio: Jeri Baughn is a seasoned engineer with over 30 years of aerospace experience, currently specializing in aircraft maintenance and repair solutions. She has worked at several large aerospace companies, contributing to engineering design and structural analysis. Holding a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Northern Arizona University, Jeri brings a unique perspective to remote viewing research, blending technical expertise with curiosity-driven exploration.

Lyn Buchanan

Analytic Overlays

Bio: Leonard (Lyn) Buchanan, a founding member of IRVA and current board member since 2024, is the Executive Director of Problems>Solutions>Innovations (P>S>I), originally established in 1992 as a data analysis company.

Following the U.S. government’s declassification of its Remote Viewing project in 1995, Lyn transitioned P>S>I into a leading organization for Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) training and applications. As a former U.S. Army Sergeant First Class, Lyn served in the military’s psychic spying unit from 1984 to 1992, where he was a Remote Viewer, Trainer, and Database Manager.

Lyn’s unique career inspired elements of George Clooney’s character, Lyn Cassady, in the movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, which humorously explores the U.S. military’s experiments with psychic phenomena. With expertise in psychology, linguistics, and computer systems, Lyn has developed advanced techniques for CRV training and analysis, including error prediction and viewer profiling. His work continues to focus on applying CRV to real-world scenarios while striving to uncover its scientific foundations.

Pam Coronado

Psychometry Workshop-Stone Stories: Accessing Environmental Imprints Through Object Perception

This hands-on workshop merges psychometry with location-based remote viewing. Participants will tune into the energy of stones collected from specific sites, offering a deep, experiential connection to both the land and inner awareness.

The workshop honors the local geography of Alamogordo and the Tularosa Basin, creating an immersive intuitive experience unique to our IRVA host location.

Bio: Pam Coronado is a psychic detective and remote viewer with over two decades of experience. She is known for her practical teaching style and work in psychometry for geographic and temporal data.

Timo Féret

CRV in the Context of German New Medicine – Getting to the Root Causes of Diseases

German New Medicine views illness as a meaningful emergency program of the body, designed to ensure survival in response to external stimuli and conflicts. This perspective allows the causes of diseases to be examined holistically, with Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) playing a crucial role in uncovering root causes.

In this unique workshop, Timo Féret will present a globally recognized healing concept combining CRV with German New Medicine. Participants will learn about this innovative method and gain hands-on experience with practical exercises.

Bio: Timo Féret is a German IT engineer with a master’s degree in computer science. He co-runs Into the Matrix, offering training and healing sessions using CRV. Timo has practiced Remote Viewing since 2018 and developed a unique healing concept integrating CRV with the Biological Healing Approach, based on German New Medicine.

Henry Gilroy

Remote Viewing and the Act of Creation

This talk explores whether we create art in the moment or if its finished form influences us from the future. We’ll examine how creative inspiration might connect to precognition.

Bio: Henry Gilroy is an award-winning writer-producer with over 400 screen credits for major studios. He has been remote viewing since 1999 and has participated in several RV-related research projects.

Hakim Isler

Lessons from the Psi Games

In this presentation, survival expert, martial artist, and innovator Hakim Isler will share an inside look at the evolution of the Psi Games—a groundbreaking competition that blends intuition, strategy, and mental discipline. Drawing from this year’s event, Hakim will discuss what worked, what didn’t, and the surprising lessons learned from participants who pushed their limits in new and unexpected ways.

Attendees will gain insights into the design of the games, the role of mindset and adaptability, and how the experience reveals untapped human potential. This session will inspire anyone interested in the intersection of intuition, resilience, and innovative approaches to performance and self-discovery.

Bio: Hakim Isler, widely known as “The Black MacGyver,” is a combat veteran, martial arts master, and television personality. A former U.S. Army Psychological Operations Sergeant with SERE training, he holds a sixth-degree black belt in To-Shin Do and is the creator of Psi Games, a competition fusing strategy, intuition, and mental discipline. He has appeared on Naked & Afraid, Kicking & Screaming, and Race to Survive: Alaska.

Dale E. Graff

A Return to the Valley of Fires- The F-4 and Other Intriguing Searches

Dale will discuss the 1979 case of two missing USAF F-4 Phantom fighter airplanes and how remote viewing was used in the search effort. He will also review other RV projects and discuss PSI/RV phenomenology concepts.

Bio: Dale E. Graff is the Vice President of IRVA with a background in aerospace engineering and intelligence. He has extensive experience in remote viewing and PSI research, having worked with both the Air Force and Defense Intelligence Agency.

Debra Lynne Katz, PhD

Beyond the View: Advancing Remote Viewing through Research and Practical Applications

Dr. Katz will explore key observations, personal experiences, and controversies shaping remote viewing research and applications. She will discuss the intersection of Remote Viewing with other intuitive modalities, share real-world challenges, and provide updates on cutting-edge research projects.

Bio: Dr. Debra Lynne Katz is President of IRVA, holds a PhD in Psychology, and is a renowned author in the fields of clairvoyance, psychic development, and remote viewing. She is a professional remote viewer, clairvoyant, medium, energy healer, and parapsychological researcher.

Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD

Normalizing the Paranormal

Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove is Host and Producer of the New Thinking Allowed channel on YouTube, featuring over 1,500 videos on psychology, philosophy, health, science, and spirituality– with an emphasis on parapsychology and the paranormal. He is also editor-in-chief of the New Thinking Allowed quarterly magazine, and weekly newsletter. He hosted and coproduced the original Thinking Allowed series that ran on public television stations throughout North America from 1987 to 2002.

Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove is the recipient of a unique doctoral diploma in “Parapsychology” from the University of California, Berkeley – the first doctoral diploma listing parapsychology as an academic discipline ever awarded by an accredited university in the United States. He is author of The Roots of Consciousness: Psychic Liberation Through History, Science, and Experience; The PK Man: A True Story of Mind Over Matter; and other works. He is the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute for Consciousness Studies essay competition regarding postmortem survival of human consciousness and currently serves as director of the parapsychology concentration at California Institute for Human Sciences.

Chase McCarty

Social RV – Statistical results from 3000+ public Remote Viewing sessions

Chase will present Social RV, a new platform for practicing, sharing, and studying Remote Viewing.

Social RV is creating the most publicly scrutinizeable collection of Remote Viewing sessions, and studying them with advanced AI and statistical methods. In this talk, we share the results of our recent competition and dive deep into our advanced proof-of-blindness and AI session scoring technologies.

Bio: Chase is the creator of social-rv.com, and an Applied AI Engineer with 8 years of experience working in Big Tech and VC-backed startups in the San Francisco Bay Area. After winning the psionics track of the SF UAP Hackathon earlier this year, Social RV has become one of the largest and most advanced platforms for public psi experimentation.

Daqing Piao, PhD

Receiver-Operating-Characteristics Analysis in Remote Viewing Transcript-Target Matching

Dr. Piao will present how receiver-operating-characteristics (ROC) analysis can be applied to remote viewing transcript-target matching. He will discuss the concepts of sensitivity and specificity in this context and showcase results from a recent large-scale remote viewing study.

Bio: Dr. Daqing Piao is a professor at Oklahoma State University, specializing in light-tissue interaction research. He has a strong interest in understanding the neurophysiological aspects of non-normal states of consciousness.

Francis Gary Powers Jr.

Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy

This presentation examines the 1960 U-2 Incident and its lasting impact on pilot Francis Gary Powers and his family. Powers Jr. offers a personal perspective on growing up as the son of a controversial Cold War figure and his decades-long quest to uncover the truth behind the incident that shaped his father’s legacy.

The talk includes insights from Powers Jr.’s work as a consultant on Steven Spielberg’s 2015 film Bridge of Spies and details how his advocacy led to his father’s posthumous recognition with the POW Medal, Director’s Medal, and Silver Star.

Bio: Francis Gary Powers Jr. is a historian, author, and founder of The Cold War Museum. As the son of U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, he has dedicated his career to preserving Cold War history and setting the record straight about his father’s legacy through books, presentations, and educational initiatives including Spy Tours. Visit www.GaryPowers.com for more info.

Gregory C. Radabaugh

Remote Viewing and the World of Intelligence

An introduction to the intelligence discipline, exploring why RV was developed in this environment and the types of projects remote viewers could be used for within the vast field of intelligence gathering.

Bio: Gregory C. Radabaugh is a recent addition to IRVA’s Board of Directors. He retired from the US Department of Defense after a 44-year career, with expertise in information operations, special operations, and cyberspace operations. He has studied remote viewing with several notable instructors.

Cindy Miller, PhD

Powering RV Research with AI: Insights and Lessons from IRVA’s Research Lab

Dr. Cindy Miller, founder of Enigmatic Technologies, LLC and a member of IRVA’s Board of Directors, is helping to pioneer new ways of bringing artificial intelligence into remote viewing research. With a background in mathematics and systems engineering, Cindy has been intensively exploring how AI can support the design, analysis, and creative expansion of RV and all types of parapsychological and both experimental and qualitative experiments.

In this workshop, she will share early lessons and reflections from IRVA’s newly launched research lab, including insights gained from the hands-on experiments taking place just days before this conference. Cindy will talk about the promise—and the limits—of AI in this field, and how it may be used as a supportive tool for identifying patterns, generating targets, and creating new forms of feedback for viewers.

This is a chance to step into the research process in real time, hear what’s being discovered, and take part in a larger conversation about how technology and human intuition can work together to expand our understanding of consciousness.

Paul H. Smith, PhD

Remote Viewing and UFOs

Churchill once described the Soviet Union as “a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Paraphrased and adapted, this phrase could easily describe how some enthusiasts have eagerly embraced the mystery of remote viewing as a tool to explore the enigma of the UFO/UAP phenomenon. This shotgun marriage has led to many bizarre claims and linkages. Yet there is a core of plausibility to using remote viewing as a tool to reveal things about UAPs that are immune to more scientifically “acceptable” methods. Part documentation and part speculation, this talk traces some of the early connections of remote viewing to Ufology and how the two have become conjoined over time. In the process, I point out both some of the drawbacks and some of the potential advantages of using remote viewing in the UAP phenomenal context. I call upon original documents, actual UAP-related remote viewing sessions, personal narratives, and other authentic archival resources to expand and illustrate my discussion.

Bio: Dr. Paul H. Smith is a founding member and former president of IRVA. He served in the U.S. military’s Star Gate remote viewing program and has authored books on remote viewing. Paul is a frequent interview guest on Coast to Coast AM and many other radio and podcast shows, as well as documentaries and television shows for A&E, the History Channel, the Travel Channel, Discovery, CBS Sunday Morning, “Joe Rogan Questions Everything,” “The Lowe Files,” including Caroline Cory’s documentary “Superhuman: The Invisible Made Visible” and “Cosmosis: UFOs & a New Reality.” He continues to work as a trainer, consultant, and remote viewer.

Christian Wieser

The Application of Remote Viewing Principles in Coaching Sessions

This workshop introduces how RV principles can be integrated with established coaching techniques to support deep insights and sustainable transformation. By combining RV with coaching, clients experience solutions physically and emotionally, creating a more holistic change process. The session includes a live demonstration following a brief introduction of this innovative approach, which has been used successfully in hundreds of coaching sessions.

Bio: Christian Wieser is an Austrian business consultant and remote viewer. He has led international RV sessions since 2017 and co-organized the ‘Remote Viewing Event at Untersberg’ since 2022.

Lori Lambert Williams

The Art and Science of Controlled Remote Viewing

This presentation explores the fundamentals and advanced applications of Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) as both an art form and scientific methodology. Lori will share insights from her extensive teaching experience and professional practice, demonstrating how CRV can be effectively applied in various real-world scenarios.

Bio: Lori Lambert Williams is a professional Controlled Remote Viewer, author, and instructor who has been researching and practicing CRV since 1996. Recognized as one of the leading Remote Viewing instructors available today, Lori has taught CEOs, bestselling authors, celebrities, and hundreds of everyday people. Her professional work includes assisting law enforcement in missing person cases, conducting sessions for corporations, and investigating archaeological mysteries.

Fireside Chat with Kelly Chase and Jay Christopher King

Exploring the Intersection Between Remote Viewing and the UFO/UAP Phenomena

As conference participants prepare for an evening of sky watching at Lyn Buchanan’s Remote View Ranch, Kelly and Jay will share their extensive stories, experiences, and prevailing theories about the UFO phenomenon. They will then describe what they hope to learn, discover, and accomplish in Cosmosis 2, their latest project exploring the intersection of the phenomenon and RV, filmed partly at the IRVA conference! IRVA director Cindy Miller will moderate the discussion and audience Q&A.

Kelly Chase: Kelly is the writer and executive producer of Cosmosis: UFOs & A New Reality and co-host of the Cosmosis podcast. She is the former host of The UFO Rabbit Hole, a top 1% Spotify podcast in 2023. A regular guest host on Dreamland and frequent commentator on NewsNation, Kelly blends science, spirituality, and rigorous research to explore the deeper implications of the UFO phenomenon. With a background in branding and marketing, she co-founded Ontocalypse Productions and has been featured on shows including Beyond: UFOs and the Unknown and UFO Revolution. Kelly is also a published author who brings a unique perspective to consciousness studies and anomalous experiences.

Jay Christopher King: Jay is the director and executive producer of Cosmosis: UFOs & A New Reality and co-host of the Cosmosis podcast. He is the co-founder and director of The Experiencer Group, a private online community providing support for individuals who have had anomalous experiences. With an MFA in Film from Bard College and a Fine Art BFA from SVA, Jay has worked as a writer/producer primarily for the Discovery Channel. His solo and collaborative artwork has been exhibited at prestigious venues including the Museo de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, James Cohan Gallery in NYC, and MoMA PS1. Jay also co-founded the Inquire Anomalous conference series in New York City and provides one-on-one consulting and coaching for experiencers.