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Parapsychologist at Maimonides Medical Center and director of the Psychophysical Research Laboratories, whose ganzfeld meta-analyses were subcontracted by SRI's government-funded remote-viewing program. 2026-09-22 2026-09-22

Charles Honorton worked at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, where in an experiment reported to the American Physical Society in February 1976 he and Edwin May had Ingo Swann attempt to influence a noise-driven random generator.1 He later directed the Psychophysical Research Laboratories (PRL).2

SRI Subcontract

The report "Phenomenological Research and Analysis" of the Stanford Research Institute program under May recorded: "we subcontracted with Mr. Charles Honorton, the director of PRL, to improve an earlier meta-analysis of the literature pertaining to characteristics of persons who might perform well in AC tasks"; "we asked Mr. Honorton to conduct a meta-analysis of the Ganzfeld literature to determine if there were meaningful differences between Ganzfeld studies with and without a sender"; and, "Because the results of the meta-analysis proved to be inconclusive, PRL was tasked to design a protocol for a definitive Ganzfeld study to understand the role of the sender in such experiments." Honorton's reports formed appendices B and C.2

The Ganzfeld Controversy

Honorton and the psychologist Ray Hyman published "A joint communique: the psi ganzfeld controversy" in the Journal of Parapsychology in 1986. With John Palmer and Jessica Utts, Honorton wrote the Parapsychological Association's reply to the National Research Council's 1988 report.3

Footnotes

  1. May, Edwin C., and Charles Honorton. "A Dynamic PK Experiment with Ingo Swann," Maimonides Medical Center, abstract for the American Physical Society meeting of February 1976, CIA-RDP96-00787R000200130005-3. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎

  2. SRI International, "Phenomenological Research and Analysis," CIA-RDP96-00787R000300230001-5. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎

  3. Palmer, John A., Charles Honorton and Jessica Utts. Reply to the National Research Council Study on Parapsychology, special report for the Board of Directors of the Parapsychological Association, CIA-RDP96-00789R002200420001-1, citing Hyman, R., and C. Honorton, "A joint communique: the psi ganzfeld controversy," Journal of Parapsychology 50 (1986), pp. 351-364. Read in the archive.org mirror of the CIA FOIA Reading Room STARGATE collection. ↩︎