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created: 2025-07-23
updated: 2025-07-23
title: Remote Perturbation
tags:
  - concept
  - psi
  - psychokinesis
description: Remote perturbation is a term used in parapsychology to describe the act of disturbing or altering a physical system through mental influence.
category: "Psi Phenomenon"
summary: "Remote Perturbation (RP) is a parapsychology term for mentally disturbing or altering a physical system, a form of psychokinesis that was studied under U.S. government-funded programs including STARGATE."
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[[Remote Perturbation]] (RP) is a term used in [[Parapsychology]] to describe the specific act of disturbing or altering a physical system through mental influence. It is a form of [[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 Action]] (RA), which is a broader term for the influence of a person's mind on a physical system without direct interaction.[^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.