Psychic Powers

The film, "The Men Who Stare at Goats" tells the story of the U.S. Army's efforts to harness psychic powers for military purposes.  The movie follows the adventures of a reactivated "psychic spy," played by George Clooney, traveling through Iraq with a journalist. As a member of the First Earth Battalion, Clooney, as the movie's title suggests, has mental powers that enable him to kill a goat just by staring at it.


The  Pentagon  did have a "psychic spy" research program. Called Remote Viewing, a First Earth Battalion became influential in some military circles. An operational "battalion" depicted in the movie and satirized in the book never  existed.


Have you ever wanted to write a story about experiencing an unusual departure from reality with fact and fiction intertwining?  Go for it but spare the goats.


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