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An interview with A. Edward Moch on some of the trenchant issues surrounding Remote Viewing and its long history in these United States of America.
Q. What is Remote Viewing ?
A. It is an ability which is innate in almost all human beings. It is a mental ability or talent. It consists of both intuition and what is sometimes called precognition. It is the ability to sense events before they happen, to sense them during their development, and afterwards –- from a distance.
Q. Remote Viewing is about more than just ‘sensing,’ though ?
A. Certain aspects of Remote Viewing can exhibit themselves outside of the realm of the psychical senses, and manifest themselves physically, within the five senses of our bodies.
Q. The story is that Remote Viewing is a 20th Century phenomenon. But you insist that this is inaccurate.
A. That’s true. Evidence shows that it was under consideration, even if by another name, as early as 1830. Some very prominent creative or artistic personalities of that time were definitely involved in what has become known as psychical research.
Q. Can you give us an example of one these creative minds ?
A. There was a young man at West Point, the military academy, who for reasons which are not wholly disclosed, quit his studies and assumed a different name within the confines of the military. He became an expert in the development of ciphers and codes and code breaking. In his civilian days, much of his writings still show portions of what he was involved in as a military expert. This dual life apparently continued until his untimely passing, in 1849. Even the circumstances around his death are strange, and have remained in dispute for over a hundred years. He was closely associated with a female expert – who allegedly died in 1850 – but the circumstances of her passing are still unclear. It was strongly suggested by Dr. Robert Moran, who wrote a book regarding the controversy, that the person in question may have been alive well past 1875. Moran’s book was entitled “In Defense of Poe”, and came out around that time ( 1875 ).
Q. So the former staff sergeant in question here, was also known as Edgar Allan Poe ?
A. Yes. And the woman’s real name was Frances Sargent Osgood. Her maiden name was Frances Locke of the famous Locke family.
Q. This seems to be a characteristic of certain very prominent families, all of whom have connections to what we have come to call “The Enlightenment,” or the late Renaissance era of intellectual ferment. Do you think that the basics of psychical research go back to that era -- or even beyond it ??
A. I feel that this era was extremely important in the eventual scientific establishment and acceptance of psychical research, and that it can be traced – in philosophy if not science – to the times of ancient Greece and the early Roman Republic. There are many questions about what people like Archimedes and Pythagoras really knew, what they could do with their knowledge, and what their natural limits were – in that ancient era.
Q. You mentioned that the Oracles at Delphi were clearly more than just spirit mediums or soothsayers. For example, you mentioned the legendary figure of Helen, known as Helen of Troy although she was Greek.
A. Helen and her sister -- had these abilities associated with the Oracles of Delphi, and this may be another hidden aspect of what we now call the Trojan Wars. Many experts in classical times, believed that Marseilles and much of southern France or Provence was settled by refugees from Troy. They may have migrated to Brittany and Britain, as well. These families, and their bloodlines, clearly play an important part in all subsequent developments of western European history. So whoever they were, wherever they really came from, these bloodlines are tied into the families where psychical abilities are either acute, or nascent, in every generation.
Q. In your case, your abilities began to manifest themselves at a very young age – six years or so – which is consistent with the legend of Helen being abducted as a child ? so this is commonplace ?
A. Yes. Early developments of psychic abilites or tendencies are very common. Unfortunately they’re sometimes mistaken or deliberately repressed by fearful parents or ignorance and superstitions.
Q. Do you think that in the troubadour age of early France, that some of the songs of the traveling musicians, were carrying code for the identification of promising young men or women ? You’ve said that music is definitely closely linked to the opening of certain abilities and psychical triggers.
A. Yes, it is possible. Many of these abilities were respected by the indigenous people that the refugees from Troy encountered, and with whom they mingled over the subsequent generations. And yes, it is going on even today – with the proliferation of psychical images or triggers in both the arts and popular music.
Q. Do you mean that some rock and roll bands are creating music that enhances these dormant psychic abilities ?
A. Yes.
Q. Getting back to Edgar Allan Poe – his poetry and his short fiction are well-remembered and well-studied. But what about some of his lesser known or obscure writings ? And wasn’t Baltimore, at that time, the hub of certain kinds of revolutionary thinking and research ?
A. Yes. Poe wrote “The Murders In The Rue Morgue” ( 1841 ) … which is clearly more than just a crime story or detective fiction. He wrote “Mesmeric Revelation” which was published in the Columbian magazine in 1845. It is an almost explicit description of early Remote Viewing !! Shortly before his alleged death, he wrote what I would refer to as “a thesis” on metaphysical dynamics. By this I mean something which was suppressed for many years: in a volume of the complete works of E.Allan Poe that was published in 1927, the thesis in question “Eureka ( An Essay On The Material And Spiritual Universe ) was published. This was written in 1848. It was apparently suppressed until it was included in this 1927 edition of his works. It disappeared again until the late 1980s. Then it appeared again.
Q. Did Dr. Moran believe that Edgar Allan Poe lived much longer than has been officially recorded ?
A. It’s possible. He notes in his book, something that happened at the ceremony dedicating a monument to Poe in 1875. Towards the end of his book, he relates seeing two priests, one young and one rather old, at this dedication. Dr. Moran’s description of the older priest – regarding one who was very imaginative in his writing and poetry – hinting that the priest was more than just a priest at the dedication.
Q. Poe was married to a distant cousin, is that correct ?
A. Yes, her name was Virginia Clemm and she accompanied him to a cottage up the hill from what is now known as Fordham University in the Bronx. This was in the 1840s. Virginia died of consumption or something similar, well before Poe is alleged to have died. After Virginia died, he had a bad case of “the Lonelies.” He would go down the hill from his cottage to St. John’s, now Fordham University, to chat with the priests. One of the priests became a very good friend of Poe and after his death, defended his name against the slurs of those who said he was dissolute and a drunkard.
Q. Why was Poe slandered after his death ?
A. From what I have been able to gather, he may have been on a secret assignment that simply went bad. We do not know all the details, of this assignment – however – his whereabouts and movements suggested that he may have been in transit as an agent, which was verified by various witnesses right up to the unfortunate incident of him being found, near death, in Baltimore in 1849. It has some connection with Frances Sargent Osgood. He was apparently being followed. He might have been given a letter in cipher which was his task to break or decipher. According to a published story on Poe, he left NY abruptly and made his way south …. Somewhere between NY and phila he got abducted. He later reapparead in PHILA to an old friend and attorney … claiming that “they were after him”. But he didn’t say who. Whatever happened next, he said that the old friend tried to calm him down, but that Poe fled the house. Poe was supposedly in disguise at the time. Later that day, the Mayor of Philadelphia, who knew Poe on sight, found him in the city jail, where he was making an inspection. He
Q. If Poe was in disguise, and in jail, and the Mayor recognized him, doesn’t that seem a little queer ? And if he got him out of jail, and handed him over to his old friend, why was it necessary to get him away from the city ?
A. He was ill, he had probably been poisoned, and had to have time to recover his health. This was done in Virginia. The theory is that Poe was poisoned with a Jamaican drug called Datura – which might have been used as an interrogation tool – and was commonly used by the British espionage services of that time. And of this time.
Q. Is it fair to say, then, that Poe was both an expert on codes and ciphers, and well aware of the possibilities of what is now called Remote Viewing. Then called Mesmeric Revelation.
A. Definitely. This is definitely the case.
Q. So – does that make Edgar Allan Poe the grandfather of 20th Century research into Remote Viewing and other forms of psychical abilities, for the purposes of espionage and intelligence ?
A. Yes, he is one of many of his time.
Q. Do you think his fictions carry coded images about this kind of thing ?
A. Yes.
Q. What is Remote Influencing ?
A. Remote Influencing is a term brought up by a present-day military officer named Dr. John Alexander. It refers to a type of hybrid Remote Viewing technique, that seems more like Voo Doo than reality. In my opinion it is disinformation, but it may mis-information that applies to something else OTHER than Remote Viewing.
Q. It seems clear that there has been a long twilight struggle over "Mesmeric Revelation" or Remote Viewing. It’s not a new thing, and it is not a new controversy. Is that correct ?
A. That’s absolutely correct … but … it may be the present day uses of it that are classified and unknown to the general public.
Q. Let’s go back to Dr. Moran and his description of the elderly priest at the dedication in 1875. Is it possible that this elderly priest was Poe ?
A. Yes it is.
Q. Could he have transmitted his knowledge to a group of people who were interested in these subjects at that time ? A long-standing group with many influential friends ...?
A. Yes. For example, there is a priest by the name of Francis Patrick Duffy, who was born in Canada in 1871. Duffy would become well known as a U.S. Army Chaplain at the time of the Spanish American war. During The Great War he would become chaplain of the Fighting 69th or The Fighting Irish regiment of New York … The commander of that group was William “Wild Bill” Donovan. This is the very same Donovan who was eventually instrumental in forming the OSS during World War II. This is important because the OSS grew out of the Coordinator Of Intelligence of the State Department ( COI ).
After WWI … Duffy was given a parish in south Fordham, south of Fordham University. What few people know, was that Duffy was not only a Catholic priest, but he was also an expert and professor of metaphysics. Both Duffy and Donovan remained friends for life. Donovan was later closely associated with one William Casey … who was called “little Bill” so that he wouldn’t be confused with Wild Bill Donovan. Casey as a student in college, attended Fordham and lived in the neighborhood. Casey was always active in the affairs of Fordham University, even when he was appointed DCI at the CIA.
Now, Father Duffy often went to a barber in the south Fordham neighborhood, one Alphonse Moch –- my grandfather. It was through Duffy that my uncle –- Alexander Moch –- became a part of the group called COI -- and later he would join both the Office of Strategic Services and the CIA.
By the way, Wild Bill Donovan was the campaign manager to Herbert Hoover in 1928 … and Hoover ran against Al Smith – a Catholic – who as governor of New York State was a good friend of Father Duffy. It is a very tight circle of friends at the top. But differences among these friends can result in long-standing feuds. And have done so ....
THE NEVER-ENDING TURF WAR BETWEEN THE FBI AND CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE
The formation of the COI was controversial. It required the flexing of some political muscle to get anything done, in the creation of this group. And in its operating budgets> But it was done. Donovan was the "Man".
The result of that was predictable … a certain bureaucrat became extremely furious and vengeful towards Donovan … and his name was J. Edgar Hoover, titular head of the FBI and domestic counter-intelligence. And that is the beginning of the long-standing turf war and feud between the FBI and every variation of centralized intelligence collection not under their direct control.
And that brings us up to the days before September 11th … when everybody knew something but nobody talked to anybody else about it ….
This turf war was never successfully resolved, even after the deaths of J. Edgar Hoover, and William Casey, and even after successive presidential efforts and attempts to lay it to rest.
Thus we see a long train of circumstances, stretching back to the days of Edgar Allan Poe and forward to the final showdown over the Soviet Union and international communism, when Little Bill Casey was Ronald Reagan’s Big Kahuna at the CIA.
The tragedies of September 11th 2001, were the results of a systemic intelligence failure involving various agencies and the lack of sharing of information – or the refusal to share information – which has been a long-standing aspect of this turf war.
In spite of the efforts being made now, by DCI Porter Goss, and President George Walker Bush, this turf war continues in some portions of the federal government. Those experts who are charged with governing the research into Remote Viewing, are all part of this turf war.
They’re still not cooperating.
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