Angela Thompson – IRVA Conference

Speaker Bio

Dr. Angela Thompson Smith’s primary qualifications are in nursing and social work in the U.K. She emigrated to the U.S. in 1981, where she worked in medical research in New Jersey and volunteered with the Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL) until being hired by the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) Laboratory. Her five fascinating years at PEAR preceded a move to Las Vegas, NV, where she worked as Mr. Robert Bigelow’s Research Coordinator. In the mid-1990s, while studying for her Ph.D., she also trained in Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) with Paul Smith (RVIS) and Lyn Buchanan (PSI). In 1999, Dr. Smith became a Founding Director and Member of IRVA and has served as a Board Member. Since the early 1990s, she has been training others in remote viewing, consulting on applications projects in the U.S. and abroad, and has written multiple books, including Remote Perceptions, SEER, SCRIBE, and Tactical Remote Viewing.

Abstract:

In the fall of 1998, I was approached by a colleague who asked me to take over the running of the American Association of Remote Viewers (AARV). I declined and discussed starting a new one with Paul Smith and one of Paul’s colleagues who offered some financing. The plan was to hold a one-day meeting in March 1999 in Alamogordo, NM to discuss the formation of a new remote viewing Association. The one-day meeting would be followed by a two-day conference organized by Lyn Buchanan and PSI, at which some of the new IRVA members would give talks and presentations. 25 years later we can look back at this auspicious beginning and see the, sometimes convoluted, path that the organization travelled. The talk will be illustrated by photographs and memorabilia taken from Dr. Smith’s files.