The Stargate Chronicles

A couple of years ago, I had the pleasure to meet Dr. Edwin May, who was involved in the remote viewing program at SRI. I had read Jim Schnabel's book on remote viewing, and asked Dr. May about it. He told me to read the "Stargate Chronicles" if I really wanted to know the history of what happened in those years. While Schnabel's book chronicles the SRI side of remote viewing, McMoneagle's book covers the Fort Meade side. This is a very personal account of the Army's remote viewing program told from the viewpoint of the top remote viewer himself. While it is unlikely to convince the hardcore skeptic, it is an interesting and well-written account of a mental technology that deserves respect and further consideration. Anyone interested in the topic of remote viewing should enjoy this book. Highly recommended.

This is the personal story (warts and all)of a man that can literally find lost people (in many cases for years) by "remote viewing" them (a government-funded, double blind studied --protocalled-- aproach). And much more. Mr. McMoneagle has several other books--and you should read them as well--but this one gives an inside...view...into the man, much of the process itself--and the life that brought him to this point. It takes courage to write a book like this. What if your life really were "an open book"? If you want to understand remote viewing--read this for the inside personal feel of what it felt like to be absolutely elemental in the original Govt. supported "Stargate" program. If you want to understand...more...complex human behavior--you might need to read this book. Ever turned...and made immediate eye contact with someone? READ THIS... Well, you get the idea! Heather Raymond AND; Henry Raymond Author, "The Third Kind of Midnight"

As a writer, McMoneagle is evolving and we get the benefit. All his books are worthwhile, I like the personal parts of MIND TREK especially, but this Memoirs is warm, rich and fluent, the kind of writing that makes you want to take time off life to soak in it. It's by far the most readable of his works.The content is both fascinating and astonishing--one of the most honest books I've read. That covers the mean streets of Miami poverty, the bloody terror of two combat tours in Vietnam, the grueling (and oft mismanaged) psi used in government intelligence under nearly impossible conditions, the labor to document it for science despite politics personal and scientific, and the life, health and relationship fallout woven through the chaos of it all.This is a story on many levels: Joe is one of those people who've been and done more in their life than most folks do in ten. It's not just his personal evolution but spiritual opening; not just psychic development but interpersonal maturing; it coalesces into a profound integrity and honor found in few humans.Most recommended.

Having personally known Joe McMoneagle for some five years now, I was amazed at all the things I didn't know about him, but learned from reading his moving and carefully crafted autobiography. The general public will be both entertained and enlightened concerning the world heavyweight champion of RV and the history of remote viewing, and us former intel types will find some of our own memories being awakened by Joe's tales of places and personalities past. This guy has all "the right stuff" and his Stargate Chronicles should be on the shelves of everyone interested in the paranormal and intelligence matters.

This book is very different from anything Joe has published to-date. It's an amazingly intimate look at the life of remote viewings' greatest living legend, Joe McMoneagle, in his own words. In "The Stargate Chronicles", Joe describes his life in detail, from his humble and rough beginnings in South Florida right up to the present. It's a fast, interesting, and easy read. I finished the book in just over two days. Many people have wondered over the years what it could be that makes this man so unique, so different, and what gives him this amazing psychic ability? Is it just an inborn, innate talent? Is it a result of his years under fire while serving our country in Vietnam and other places all over the globe? Could it be a by-product of several near-death experiences? The reader begins to realize it is all and none of these things. Joe lets the reader in on many unsavory details of his life and experiences and lays it all out on the table, warts and all. From a childhood overshadowed by alcoholism and poverty to the many mistakes and weaknesses which led to the breakup of several marriages, he holds back very little. Frankly, I was often taken aback and surprised at the level of honesty in this book. Couragously, Joe describes events in his life exactly as he understands them, even when they cast him in a bad light. His observations on the events of his life reveal a man that is both deeply humble and fiercely proud. One of the most important elements of the book is the way the reader can see the wisdom Joe has gained from his life by the way he views the weaknesses and mistakes of others, and more importantly, those of his own. This book also lends a lot of understanding to the details of how the government psychic spying program originated and developed. Joe makes it clear that it was a monumental effort on the parts of many talented people that brought it into being and made it possible for it to continue for almost two decades in the face of prejudice, ignorance, ego-wars, and ridicule. The reader gains some idea of the stresses the remote viewers were under as they were tasked to gather information on many events in our national history repeatedly, day after day; only to see their information ignored or not acted upon in a proper fashion. Joe makes it clear that this was a very difficult period in his life and that all the viewers were deeply effected by these frustrations.With many fascinating details about dozens of remote viewing and other psi-related experiments, Joe explains how he slowly switched from a paranormal agnostic to what may be the best scientifically documented remote viewer to date. He describes both his successes and his failures and suggests what may have been important contributory elements in both cases. He takes pains to explain that it's important to with hold belief in any paranormal abilities until they've been fully demonstrated and replicated by science. In doing so, Joe sets a new standard