The Truth About David Morehouse

Author Jim Schnabel wrote an expose on   David Morehouse in November of 1996. Schnabel details Morehouse's sordid history in the remote viewing program. He tells us that "Morehouse's application was reviewed by remote viewer Paul Smith, an Army captain of similar age, who was also a Mormon. To Smith, Morehouse seemed like a high flier, a good choice for the program."

In 1992, Ed Dames who was recently retired started to write a book on remote viewing. The book was to be the "Dames and Morehouse" story, and both would have "editorial control over its content."

But things soon went down hill for Dave Morehouse. Schnabel goes on to detail Morehouse's affair with an enlisted man's driver, who was now on a different posting. Morehouse claimed to this woman that he could spy on her at will, using psychic techniques learned at DT-S.

As his bizarre behavior expanded, Morehouse found himself charged by the military with adultery, sodomy, communicationg a threat, conduct unbecoming an officer, and larceny. (To see more on this, read the quotes by Col. John Alexander below.)

Morehouse then checked himself in to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., claiming that he was talking to angels.

As the trial unfolded, Morehouse's lawyers decided to use the remote viewing program to embarrass the Army, which caved in, and resulted in Morehouse being less than honorably discharged.

Schnabel states that Morehouse and his cohorts now suddenly illegally rewrote the Dames/Morehouse story to be soley about Morehouse. The book had now been heavily fictionalized and resembled a screenplay. Dames hit the roof and successfully sued to have the project stopped.

Morehouse then went on to write his own book "Psychic Warrior."

Schnabel wrote:

"I have skimmed the book, as well as a similar draft typescript which Ed Dames obtained (through his own Hollywood connections, presumably) and circulated last summer. The book begins with Morehouse, guided by another remote viewer (Ed Dames has been airbrushed out of the story), psychically visiting a friend who died in a helicopter crash. The anecdote, along with its description of remote viewing as a kind of vivid virtual reality game, is fictional, but it contains a grain of truth: A similar helicopter crash was targeted by Fort Meade remote viewers in the late 1970s. Morehouse presumably heard about the story and decided to make it his own."

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David Morehouse Facts & Quotes

In 1999, remote viewer Paul H. Smith criticized Morehouse's "PhD" from LaSalle:

"To get a Ph.D. diploma from LaSalle, all you needed was to send them transcripts of your previous education, write a thirty-page paper on any topic you wanted (believe it or not, this requirement was waiveable), pay them anywhere up to around 2000 bucks, and they would send you your diploma through the mail in a minimum elapsed time of about two weeks. Apparently a number of federal and state employees who needed advanced degrees to qualify for promotion were availing themselves of this short cut to "higher education." But as I said, the "president" of the "university" is now in jail for mail fraud, and a number of those civil servants who patronized the establishment for the bogus degrees it offered are themselves under investigation."

In a 1996, Morehouse's book Psychic Warrior was reviewed by Col. John Alexander U.S. Army (Retired). Alexander originally sat on Psi Tech's board of directors and was formerly a senior aid to Major General Albert Stubblebine, commander of the Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM). Alexander wrote:

 
"The accounts in his book are, at best, a highly fictionalized version of events that transpired. After attending Command and General Staff College, he reported to the 82d Airborne Division. The following year he was brought up on a number of very serious charges leading to recommendation for a General Court Marshal. Eventually, now Major Morehouse was allowed to resign, with a less than honorable discharge, for the good of the Army in lieu of the court marshal. While he does report this in the book, he totally glosses over the nature and seriousness of the allegations that include, assault, communicating a threat, sodomy, adultery (with his enlisted driver's wife among several others), larceny, and multiple conduct unbecoming charges. Additional charges were pending at the time of his discharge."

"The fact is this book is the epitome of hypocrisy. Morehouse, encouraged by St. Martins Press, has hit a series of topical "hot buttons" including, angels, Government assassination conspiracies, and Gulf War syndrome, family values, and wrapped them in the American flag. There is abject disregard for truth. Do not buy this book. If you must read it, borrow it from library."

"Complete detail about the Morehouse investigation are available via the Freedom of Information Act. You may contact Ms. Virginia Grenier at Ft Bragg, NC and get a complete transcript. She may be reached at (910) 396-5158, & 4840 (fax). You should know there are between 700 and 900 pages."

In a 1997 interview, Morehouse retaliated against Alexander. His allegations of Alexander having "no friends" in the remote viewing community are false, and more accurately describe Morehouse's own position in the remote viewing field:

 
"I met him (Alexander) through Ed Dames who was his friend. John Alexander used to meet with Ed Dames in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Ed Dames was convinced that there were aliens underground in New Mexico. And so began an abuse of tax dollars-buying plane tickets to Albuquerque whenever he wanted."

"Ed Dames was part of Torn Image and he would fly out there. He would meet with John Alexander who would hand him a photograph and try to do some remote viewing."

"With the exception of Jim Schnabel and Ed Dames, John Alexander has no friends in the remote-viewing community. Most think he's a shyster except for guys like Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff, who are still drawing government paychecks. They were both laser physicists, the original takers of Central Intelligence Agency money to work for remote-viewing projects."

In 2000, Paul H. Smith commented on David Morehouse and his book Psychic Warrior:

 
"Please don't take too much of what Dave Morehouse says in his book and his interviews too seriously. There are very good reasons why he is odd-man-out in the RV community--many of them similar reasons to why Ed Dames is, too."

 

In 1996, Jim Schnabel, author of "Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies" wrote:

 
"To tag every piece of fiction in the Morehouse book would mean commenting on virtually every page. Indeed, both Mel Riley and Lyn Buchanan remember Morehouse telling them that they were not to worry, the whole thing was going to be a novel anyway. Or perhaps, as Ed Dames says, a screenplay, for there is lengthy screenplayish dialogue throughout, and the entire thing seems calculated to push all the New Age and X-Files conspiracy buttons in the Hollywood version of reality, from the repeated appearance of an angel to the cynical falsehood that the DIA was using remote viewers to monitor US troops' chemical weapons exposure in the Gulf War."

Morehouse currently lives in Sweden and trains individuals both ERV and CRV via workshops for his company Remote Viewing Technologies.

 

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