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created: 2025-07-23
updated: 2025-07-23
title: Remote Action
tags:
  - concept
  - psi
  - psychokinesis
description: Remote action is a term used in parapsychology to describe the influence of a person's mind on a physical system without direct interaction.
category: "Psi Phenomenon"
summary: "Remote Action (RA) is a parapsychology term for psychokinetic mental influence on physical systems without contact, used by U.S. government researchers as a formal operational category alongside remote viewing in STARGATE-era programs."
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[[Remote Action]] (RA) is a term used in [[Parapsychology]] to describe the influence of a person's mind on a physical system without direct interaction. It is a broader term for [[Psychokinesis]] (PK) and was used in the context of the U.S. government's psychic research programs to describe the potential for individuals to affect physical objects or systems from a distance.[^1]

The term was often used in conjunction with [[Remote Perturbation]] (RP), which refers to the specific act of disturbing or altering a physical system through mental influence.[^1]

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[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.