McMoneagle, Joseph 1946–

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McMoneagle, Joseph 1946–

(Joseph W. McMoneagle)

PERSONAL: Born January 10, 1946, in Miami, FL; son of Joseph (a stockman) and Lorine (a homemaker; maiden name, Muns) McMoneagle; married Margaret M. Murphy (divorced); married Nancy Lea Honeycutt (a company vice president), November 22, 1985; children: Scott. Education: City Colleges of Chicago, associate degree. Politics: "Independent." Hobbies and other interests: Motorcycle riding, fishing, hiking, reading.

ADDRESSES: Home—VA. Office—Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc., P.O. Box 100, Nellysford, VA 22958. E-mail—jmceagle@cstone.net.

CAREER: U.S. Army, 1964–84, attained rank of chief warrant officer; U.S. Army Security Agency, operations specialist, 1964–75; counterintelligence and physical security officer, Augsburg, Germany, 1975–77; Office for Emitter Location and Identification, U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, Arlington, VA, officer in charge, 1977–78; special intelligence projects officer, Fort Meade, MD, 1978–84. Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc., Nellysford, VA, owner and executive director, 1984–. J.B. Rhine Center, Durham, NC, research associate; Laboratories for Fundamental Research, Palo Alto, CA, research associate, 1995–. Appeared on television programs, including in Put to the Test, American Broadcasting Companies; Mysteries of the Mind (Reader's Digest special), and Paranormal World of Paul McKenna, BBC Channel Four. Anomalous Phenomena Research Center, New York, NY, member of board of directors. Military service: U.S. Army, 1964–84.

MEMBER: Disabled Veterans, Parapsychological Association, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

AWARDS, HONORS: Named knight commander, Order of Saint Stanislas, 2002, for charitable contributions to surviving children of Chernobyl. Military: Army Service Ribbon; Overseas Service Ribbon (three awards); Noncommissioned Officers Professional Development Ribbon; Meritorious Service Medal (two awards); Army Commendation Medal (three awards); Meritorious Unit Commendation (three awards); Vietnam Campaign Medal; Vietnam Service Medal; National Defense Service Medal; Good Conduct Medal (five awards); Vietnam Gallantry Cross (with palm); named to Legion of Merit; two Overseas Bars; Expert Rifleman Badge; Marksman Pistol Badge; Expert Bayonet Badge.

WRITINGS:

Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space through Remote Viewing, Hampton Roads (Norfolk, VA), 1993, revised edition, 1997.

The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millennium, Hampton Roads (Charlottesville, VA), 1998.

Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook, Hampton Roads (Charlottesville, VA), 2000.

The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, Hampton Roads (Charlottesville, VA), 2002.

Contributor to Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul: Living with Guidance, Hampton Roads (Charlottesville, VA), 2001; contributor to periodicals, including Journal of Parapsychology; author of unpublished novels, screenplays, and plays.

SIDELIGHTS: Joseph McMoneagle is a U.S. Army veteran who worked at several security agencies of the U.S. government as a psychic, or remote viewer. Mc-Moneagle saw duty in many countries, and he suffered severe injuries as the result of a helicopter accident in Vietnam, before being assigned to psychic viewing units. In 1970, while stationed in Germany, he had a near-death experience in which he saw his body from another perspective. That event was his initiation into the world of remote viewing. After leaving the military, McMoneagle worked at several labs as a researcher in remote viewing. He has appeared live and on camera in broadcasts from the United States and England, demonstrating his expertise in understanding the paranormal.

McMoneagle describes his first remote viewing experiences in Mind Trek: Exploring Consciousness, Time, and Space through Remote Viewing. He writes of his work with parapsychologists Russell Targ, Harold Puthoff, and Edward May, beginning in 1972, at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) in Palo Alto, California. SRI was commissioned by the Defense Intelligence Agency and the U.S. Army in the early 1980s to teach soldiers the process of remote viewing and the Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) protocol, which is based on the mental ability to achieve stages of access. Beginning in 1978 McMoneagle worked at Fort Meade, Maryland, as a member of the Stargate program. There he participated in experiments that increased his understanding of the nature of his gift, using CRV and extended remote viewing. He notes that psychic perceptions are very different from those experienced through the five senses and that the things and places perceived in the remote-viewing world are called "targets." While he was with Stargate, Mcmoneagle was awarded the Legion of Merit for his participation in various "psychic spy" programs.

In The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer's Perception of Time and Predictions for the New Millennium McMoneagle offers 150 predictions for the future. His next book, Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook, offers advice for those who would like to learn about remote viewing, noting that success depends in nearly equal amounts on desire and focus, training, and natural talent. He notes that training cannot make a psychic, but that remote viewing can be taught. He uses martial-arts metaphors in discussing his approaches and the stages of ability. The volume also includes a bibliography for students who would like to learn the history of remote viewing.

In an interview with Washington Post contributor Linton Weeks, McMoneagle related that he was often given a photograph of a person and asked for the subject's location. He said that this was the way in which he helped locate hostages held in Iran. He also said that he predicted the site where Skylab would fall, nearly a year before it returned to Earth in 1979. All told, he was involved in approximately 450 missions involving remote viewing.

Drawing on such experiences, McMoneagle's The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy "is part autobiography, part history, part soul-searching, with a bit of railing against the system," wrote Richard S. Broughton in the Journal of Parapsychology. In the first half, McMoneagle writes of his childhood and decision to join the army, saying that because of his test results, he was assigned to intelligence work. He writes of his career in remote viewing from its beginnings to its decline, which resulted from a heavy workload and lack of replacements. Broughton wrote that McMoneagle's "accounts, along with the more evidential professional publications, leave one with the impression that remote viewing as psychic spying can work, and for a brief period of time it did serve the U.S. intelligence operations quite well as an adjunct to conventional intelligence gathering. Given the current state of the world, one cannot help but wonder why governments are not rushing to develop this technology." Broughton further commented, "Most analysts agree that the real key to fighting terrorism is excellent intelligence. Certainly remote viewing is not a panacea, but if it were used as it was in the past—simply as one component of many in the task of developing actionable intelligence—should it not be in use today? McMoneagle raises that question as well, but has no real answer for why it is not." Through his company, Intuitive Intelligence Applications, Inc., McMoneagle now uses his skills for clients who include drillers who want to know where to find oil.

McMoneagle told CA: "I love to write. Hemmingway is my favorite author. My writing process is hard work every day. My experiences have driven what I write. I'm subject to change in the next three to five minutes."

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

BOOKS

McMoneagle, Joseph, The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, Hampton Roads (Charlottesville, VA), 2002.

PERIODICALS

Journal of Parapsychology, June, 2001, Angela Thompson Smith, review of Remote Viewing Secrets: A Handbook, p. 179; fall, 2003, Richard S. Broughton, review of The Stargate Chronicles, p. 389.

Library Journal, February 1, 2000, Kimberly A. Bateman, review of Remote Viewing Secrets, p. 103.

Publishers Weekly, October 14, 2002, review of The Stargate Chronicles, p. 79.

Washington Post, December 4, 1995, Linton Weeks, "Up Close and Personal with a Remote Viewer," interview with Joseph McMoneagle, p. B1.