In this episode of the Shawn Ryan Show, Skip Atwater shares his personal experiences with unexplained abilities and paranormal phenomena from a young age. He delves into his involvement with the U.S. government's Stargate remote viewing program, where individuals were trained to mentally describe remote locations.
Atwater recounts investigations by remote viewers that uncovered alleged underground UFO bases with advanced technology worldwide. He also details his own bizarre encounters with entities displaying otherworldly abilities, hinting at encounters with aliens and their metaphysical technology. Atwater's account suggests an interconnected, transcendent reality and unified consciousness.
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From a young age, Skip Atwater demonstrated unexplained abilities like out-of-body experiences and heightened perception. His mother could communicate with deceased pets, according to Atwater, who says his family recognized his differences but did not elaborate. These experiences sparked Atwater's interest in consciousness and the paranormal realm.
As a counterintelligence officer, Atwater viewed remote viewing as a potential threat, motivating him to investigate it further. He helped identify and evaluate individuals to be trained in the practice for the U.S. Army's Stargate program. Atwater organized experiments where participants described remote locations, with their accuracy validated through scoring by judges. For a decade, he oversaw the training of remote viewers for the Department of Defense.
Remote viewer Pat Price claimed to uncover four underground UFO bases across the globe in the 1970s. A decade later, Atwater challenged other remote viewers to explore Price's coordinates in Project 8200. According to Atwater, their descriptions of hollow mountains with advanced technology corroborated Price's accounts. The remote viewers detailed confounding phenomena like telepathy and UFO sightings, suggesting extraterrestrial presence.
Atwater recounts an out-of-body experience where he encountered aliens on a grassy knoll, who used a device to levitate him. He also struggled to comprehend the metaphysical technology demonstrated by aliens during another encounter. Atwater hints at undisclosed shared experiences with colleague Joe McMoneagle involving aliens and advanced tech.
Atwater believes these incidents, coupled with his understanding of quantum nonlocality, suggest an interconnected, non-local reality transcending space and time. He feels his experiences reinforce the notion of unified consciousness and a higher guiding force.
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Skip Atwater's journey into the world of the paranormal began in early childhood within a family where unexplained abilities seemed to be a norm.
Atwater recounts being able to stand up and look out the window as a child, only to realize he was still lying in bed, suggesting early out-of-body experiences. He began to practice at night and found he could seemingly leave his body. When Atwater was around age 10, he experienced being in places like "night school" while his sleeping self remained in bed. As he grew older, he noticed that his friends were also out of their bodies during these experiences, although they did not seem aware of it.
His mother could communicate with their deceased pets, reassuring the children that the pets were alright. She had a strong sense that somebody would always take care of Atwater, indicating a belief in a guiding influence, which may have been of a paranormal nature. Atwater noted that his family understood there was something different about him but did not elaborate on the specifics.
The family's paranormal experiences, including those of his mother, contributed to Atwater's keen interest in the paranormal and consciousness. He desc ...
Atwater's background and early experiences with the paranormal
Frederick Holmes “Skip” Atwater played a pivotal role in the U.S. Army’s Stargate program investigating remote viewing capabilities.
Drafted into the Army to avoid the draft, Skip Atwater joined military intelligence, which ultimately led to his involvement in remote viewing research. As a counterintelligence specialist, he recognized remote viewing as a potential threat and took the initiative to investigate further, motivated by a desire to protect Army units from this unmonitored method of espionage. Atwater delved into the subject after reading a book by scientists at the Stanford Research Institute on remote viewing, intensifying his conviction about the threat it posed to counterintelligence.
Once he embarked on this path, Atwater began recruiting individuals within INSCOM with appropriate security clearances who could be considered for psychic work in the Army. Atwater's efforts, together with a senior officer and his team, led to the selection of six individuals from around 200 survey respondents from the greater Washington D.C. area to partake in remote viewing experiments. Recruits were chosen not solely based on their career aspirations but also for their potential psychic abilities. Atwater personal anecdotes, such as his report of a scuff in a safe and other counterintelligence activities, suggest his deep involvement in safeguarding intelligence operations.
Atwater worked closely with remote viewers, like Joe McMoneagle, to conduct sessions and evaluate their aptitude. His role extended to creating protocols for remote viewing research. Notably, for ten years, Atwater was the operations and training officer, overseeing the training of an elite cadre of intelligence officers in remote viewing for the Department of Defense and national intelligence community members.
At SRI, experiments included participants describing remote locations to which counterpart traveling subjects were sent. Validation of these sessions was performed through scoring by judges, one of the methodologies employed to evaluate the success of viewers like McMoneagle. Additionally, Atwater organized "little outbounder things," where ...
Atwater's involvement in the Stargate remote viewing program
Remote viewing experiments have sparked significant interest, especially when they involve the possibility of underground UFO bases. Skip Atwater's "Project 8200, UFO UAP Bases and Activities, the original remote viewing transcripts," reveals the potential discovery of such bases through the psychic practice.
Renowned remote viewer Pat Price claimed he uncovered four locations across the globe harboring extraterrestrial facilities within mountains: Mount Hayes in Alaska, Mount Inyangani in Africa, Mount Perdido on the border of Spain and France, and a potential location in Australia named Zeal.
Price described distinct groups with different roles within these spaces, and remote viewers later tasked with validating his claims provided strikingly similar accounts.
Skip Atwater, intrigued by Price's findings from 1973, set forth Project 8200 a decade later. He challenged remote viewers, trained by Ingo Swan, to explore Price's designated coordinates and record their findings. These remote viewers depicted hollow mountains with expansive rooms and advanced technology, including silver metallic ships.
A viewer named Joe detailed his encounter with Mount Hayes, Alaska, noting the difficulty in relating his visions of the unknown technology, underscoring the authenticity of these accounts as Joe was unaware he was verifying Price's claims.
Technology that confounded the contemporary understanding was frequently mentioned, ranging from unrecognized screws ...
Specific remote viewing experiments and findings, including the four alleged UFO bases
Skip Atwater shares a collection of unexplained events that have shaped his belief in the reality of paranormal phenomena and the interconnectedness of consciousness.
Atwater recounts an out-of-body experience during which he interacted with alien beings. He described encountering aliens on a grassy knoll, where they approached him with a small round device with a needle filled with a brown liquid. This device was used on him, causing him to float into the air. The following morning, he questioned his colleague Joe McMoneagle, who suggested a shared encounter with the presence of aliens.
Atwater also details being on a spacecraft and struggling to understand the technology he saw. An alien showed him a metaphor involving a Rubik's Cube, suggesting a form of travel beyond conventional space and time. This experience further deepened Atwater’s consideration of the extraordinary capabilities of these beings and their technologies.
Atwater hints at shared experiences with McMoneagle involving out-of-body experiences and encounters with tall aliens and advanced technologies. Although not explicitly detailed, the existence of these shared experiences implies a level of credibility and a strong conviction in the reality of their paranormal encounters.
Atwater refers to livi ...
Atwater's own personal paranormal encounters
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