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PAUL H. SMITH, PH.D<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Curriculum Vitae<\/em><\/h4>\n

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EDUCATION<\/h4>\n

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2009. Doctorate of Philosophy in philosophy.  Dissertation: Is Physicalism “Really” True?  An Empirical Argument Against the Universal Construal of Physicalism<\/strong><\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

MS, National Intelligence University, 1993. Masters of Science of Strategic Intelligence. Middle East concentration; subconcentration in Terrorism and Low Intensity Conflict. Thesis:  Assessing the Viability of a Palestinian State<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

University of Southern California, 1980-81. Masters Program in International Relations (Mid-East emphasis). Munich Germany Center. 16 (of 32) credit hours completed.<\/p>\n

BA, Brigham Young University, 1982. Major: University Studies. Emphasis in Middle Eastern Languages and Affairs, sub-emphases in Fine Art and English.<\/p>\n

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SUMMARY OF EXPERIENCE<\/h4>\n

President and Chief Instructor of Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc. since 1997.  Prior to that, twenty years as a military intelligence professional, including combat and tactical, national-level strategic, and special operations intelligence experience. Mid-East specialist, with considerable foreign language and area studies background. Extensive experience as an operational remote viewer and remote viewing instructor, both in the military and civilian environments.<\/p>\n

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CURRENT POSITION<\/h4>\n

President and primary instructor, Remote Viewing Instructional Services, Inc.  (1997-present)<\/p>\n

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PREVIOUS TITLES AND POSITIONS<\/h4>\n

President, The International Remote Viewing Association.  (2006-2010, 2015-2016)<\/p>\n

Vice-president, The International Remote Viewing Association.  (1999-2006)<\/p>\n

Chief, Intelligence and Security Division, DCSOPS, Military District of Washington, Ft. McNair, Washington, D.C.  (1993-1996)<\/p>\n

Strategic Intelligence Officer, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).  (1991-1993)<\/p>\n

Intelligence Staff Officer, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Operation Desert Shield\/Desert Storm.  (1990-1991)<\/p>\n

Intelligence Project Officer (remote viewer), Training Officer, Unit Historian, Deputy Branch Chief, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command and DIA.  (1983-1990)<\/p>\n

Mid-East Desk Officer, U.S. Army Operations Group, Ft. Meade, MD.  (1983)<\/p>\n

Special Operations Tactical\/Strategic Intelligence Officer, Special Forces Detachment (Airborne), Europe, Bad Toelz, Germany. (1979-1982)<\/p>\n

Arabic Linguist, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Ft. Campbell, KY.  (1977)<\/p>\n

Botanical Illustrator. Brigham Young University.   (1970-1973, 1976)<\/p>\n

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LANGUAGE SKILLS<\/h4>\n

German (fluent); Arabic, Hebrew (knowledgeable).<\/p>\n

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WRITING<\/h4>\n

BOOKS<\/strong>      <\/strong><\/h5>\n

Reading the Enemy\u2019s Mind: Inside Star Gate\u2013America\u2019s Psychic Espionage Program.<\/em> (2005, Tor\/Forge). Selected as Editor\u2019s Choice and Book Bonus, The Readers Digest<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing\u2013the Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn<\/em>. (2015, Intentional Press).<\/p>\n

The Foundations of Controlled Remote Viewing: PSI.VISION Series on Remote Viewing, Vol. 2<\/em>. Co-editor. (2023, Center Lane Books).<\/p>\n

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Remote Viewing and Parapsychology<\/h5>\n

“What\u2019s in a Name? A Lot, Actually.” Journal of Parapsychology<\/em>. (Vol. 85 \/ No. 1) Spring 2021<\/p>\n

\u201cForeword.\u201d In Edison vs. Tesla: The Battle over Their Last Invention<\/em>. Joel Martin and William J. Birnes. (Skyhorse Publishing, 2017).<\/p>\n

Book chapter. “Applied Psi,” (with Garrett Moddel) in Parapsychology: A Handbook for the 21st Century,<\/em> Carde\u00f1a, Etzel, Palmer, John and Marcusson-Clavertz, David (eds.) (McFarland & Company, 2015).<\/p>\n

\u201cAssociative Remote Viewing: News From the Future.\u201d  Aperture<\/em>.  Fall\/Winter 2012.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemote Viewing: State of the Field.\u201d  EdgeScience<\/em>, No. 8 (Jul-Sep 2011).  13-16.<\/p>\n

Review.  In Journal of Scientific Exploration<\/em>, Vol. 19, No. 4, of  Mind Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities<\/em>, by Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost Secret Agent.\u201d  Readers Digest<\/em>, March 2006 (Book Bonus Features and Editors Choice)<\/p>\n

\u201cHow the ASD\u2019s Chesapeake Chapter Helped Win the Cold War.\u201d  The American Dowser<\/em> Vol. 46, No.1 (Winter 2006), pp. 20-24.<\/p>\n

Review.  In   Aperture<\/em>, Vol. 1, Nos 3&4, of The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy<\/em>, by Joseph McMoneagle.<\/p>\n

\u201cScience, Not Magic,\u201d The Intelligencer: Journal of US Intelligence Studies<\/em>, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Summer 2001).  pp. 68-72.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfterword,\u201d in Atwater, F. Holmes, Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul<\/em> (Hampton Roads, 2001).<\/p>\n

\u201cA Brief Time Line of Remote Viewing History,\u201d Aperture<\/em> Vol. 1, No.2<\/p>\n

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Military\/Intelligence\/International Relations<\/h5>\n

Collected, collated, and edited the entire intelligence collection management portion of the 1994 revision of the Joint Tactical Exploitation of National Systems (J-TENS) <\/em>manual, and authored significant portions of it.<\/p>\n

Wrote the entire collection management section for a revision of Joint Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures manuals 2-01 <\/em>and 2-02<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Primary author for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Coordinate Remote Viewing <\/em>technical training manual.<\/p>\n

Authored  Assessing the Viability of a Palestinian State<\/em>, a 260-page thesis on the survival prospects for a possible Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

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SELECTED PUBLISHED WORK<\/h4>\n

Guest columnist, Washington Merry-go-round <\/em>(Jack Anderson column), January 1997.<\/p>\n

Review. In Military Review<\/em>, July-August 1996, of Lightning in the Storm: The 101st Air Assault Division in the Gulf War<\/em>, by Thomas Taylor.<\/p>\n

Article. “The Changing of the Guard.” Vigor<\/em> (newsletter). Issue 10 (September 1995).<\/p>\n

Review. In Military Review<\/em>, September-October 1995, of Special Operations Forces: An Assessment<\/em>, by John M. Collins.<\/p>\n

Review. In Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin<\/em>, July-September 1994, of Riding the Tiger: The Middle East Challenge After the Cold War<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Review. In Military Intelligence Professional Bulletin<\/em>, January-March 1993, of The Wald Report: The Decline of Israeli Security Since 1967<\/em>, by Emmanuel Wald.<\/p>\n

Script. “Sailing Through the System,” a 20-minute orientation film for new cancer outpatients produced under the auspices of the Johns Hopkins Hospital Oncology Center and the American Cancer Society, 1987.<\/p>\n

Review. In Military Intelligence<\/em>, Vol. 9, No. 4, Oct-Dec 1983, of Intelligence Requirements for the 1980’s: Clandestine Intelligence<\/em>, Roy Godson, ed..<\/p>\n

Article. “Ultimate Red Chip in the Middle East: The Soviet Intervention Threat,” Army<\/em>, Nov. 1983, pp. 18-27. (Cover article on potential for Soviet intervention in a Syrian-Israeli confrontation scenario.)<\/p>\n

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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS<\/h4>\n
Academic<\/h5>\n

“Remote Viewing and Consciousness.” 2021 IRVA Remote Viewing Conference. Rhinebeck New York. 9-12 September 2021.<\/p>\n

“What\u2019s in a Name? A Lot, Actually.” 62nd Annual Convention of the Parapsychological Association. Paris, France. 4-6 July 2019.<\/p>\n

“What Makes “Scientific” Evidence Scientific?” 2019 Society for Scientific Exploration Conference. Broomfield, Colorado. 5-8 June 2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Paradigm Argument Against Psi.\u201d  29th<\/sup> Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration<\/em>.  Boulder, CO. 10-12 June 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cAssociative Remote Viewing (ARV): The Next Candidate for the Paradigmatic Psi Experiment?\u201d  52nd<\/sup> Annual Parapsychological Convention<\/em>.  Seattle, WA, 6-9 August 2009.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy ESP is Consciousness\u2019 Only Hope\u201d (Invited address).  27th<\/sup> Annual Conference of the Society for Scientific Exploration. <\/em> Boulder, CO, 25-28 June 2008.   (Also, panelist, \u201cRemote Viewing the Future: Hot Controversies.\u201d)<\/p>\n

\u201cRemote Viewing: A Martial Art for the Mind\u201d (Perspective Lecture Series #13), The Parapsychology Foundation, New York, New York, October 1999.<\/p>\n

\u201cScience, Religion, and Remote Viewing.\u201d  Department of Sociology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 4 November 1998 (supported by a Templeton grant).<\/p>\n

\u201cWittgenstein and the Ineffable: Tractatus 7 (What there is to say about ‘that whereof one cannot speak’),\u201d the University of Texas at Austin Second Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Conference, Austin, TX 18 April 1998.<\/p>\n

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Theology\/Mormonism<\/h5>\n

“The Poverty of Neurotheology: Why Recent Discoveries about the Brain Tell Us Nothing Conclusive about the Interface Between Religious Experience and Psychology.” 2015 Sunstone Salt Lake Summer Symposium. Salt Lake City, Utah. August 2015.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeerstones, Scrying, and \u2018Translating\u2019 Holy Writ: Can a Government Espionage Program Help Us Understand Joseph Smith’s Translation Methods?\u201d  Sunstone Theological Symposium XXIII, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 9, 2002<\/p>\n

“Confessions of a Mormon Psychic Spy,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT, Aug 1, 1998 (and Washington, DC, May 10, 1997).<\/p>\n

“War in Heaven, War on Earth: The Militaristic Gospel of Jesus Christ,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, Salt Lake City, UT, Aug 20, 1994, (and Washington, DC, 12 March, 1994).<\/p>\n

“Mormonism Seduced: The LDS Church and the Materialist Worldview,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, Washington, DC, 15 March 1993; also Salt Lake City, August 12, 1993.<\/p>\n

“Sacred, Yes–But Secret, Too: Ambivalent Attitudes Toward the Temple,” Sunstone Theological Symposium, Washington, DC, April 1992.<\/p>\n

“Illusions of Autocracy,” Sunstone Theological Symposium XI, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 25 1989, and Sunstone Theological Symposium, Washington, DC, April 1990.  (Also, panel member, Men And Mormon Feminism: Am I My Sister’s Keeper?\u201d)<\/p>\n

“Mormonism and the New Age.” Sunstone Theological Symposium, Washington, DC, April 1989.<\/p>\n

“Mormonism and the Hundredth Monkey: LDS Doctrine In Light of Rupert Sheldrake’s Hypothesis of Formative Causation,” Sunstone Theological Symposium X, Salt Lake City, Utah, August 18, 1988.<\/p>\n

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Professional Organizations<\/h4>\n

Professional member and former member of the board, The Parapsychological Association<\/p>\n

Professional member and associate journal editor, The Society for Scientific Exploration<\/p>\n

Enrolled member and member of the board, The Rhine Research Center<\/p>\n

Founding director,two-times past president, past vice-president, past board and advisory board, member, The International Remote Viewing Association<\/p>\n

Life member, The American Society of Dowsers<\/p>\n

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