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5 min readIn December 1988, a remote viewer inside a windowless office at Fort Meade, Maryland, sank into a recliner and tried to beam their consciousness to a set of encrypted coordinates. The viewer, identified only as number 032, was part of Project Sunstreak, a secret Defense Intelligence Agency unit tasked with gathering intelligence through psychic means. The target that day was not a military installation or a foreign leader's compound. It was the Ark of the Covenant. According to declassified files released twelve years later, viewer 032 described a gray, smooth container buried underground in a place with many rooms, guarded by Arabic-speaking people. When instructed to open it, the viewer refused, saying it could only be opened by the chosen at the right time—anyone else would be destroyed. The session ended with the words "forbidden, protected, lasting."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (00:06) **Setup: The Hunt Begins** - A top-secret DIA team in 1988 believes it has located the Ark of the Covenant, using psychic remote viewing from a room at Fort Meade.
- 2 (02:04) **The Bigger Story** - The Ark search is just one part of a larger, bizarre history of U.S. government psychic spy programs.
- 3 (05:13) **The 1988 Session in Detail** - Viewer 32 describes the Ark as a guarded, underground object in the Middle East, but refuses to open it.
- 4 (13:14) **The Core Question** - Why was the U.S. government using psychic spies to look for the Ark of the Covenant?
- 5 (16:06) **Origin Story: Nazi Diaries and the Cold War** - The psychic spy program was born from a Cold War panic, fueled by captured Nazi occult research.
- 6 (19:57) **Project Sunstreak's Predecessors** - The program went through several code names (Gondola Wish, Grill Flame) before becoming Project Sunstreak in 1986.
- 7 (21:44) **Internal Drama: The Monroe Institute and the "Astral Casanova"** - A retreat to a New Age institute caused a major scandal that nearly killed the program.
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Show Notes
In 1988, a covert team operating within the Defense Intelligence Agency sought out the legendary Ark of the Covenant. Only, their search didn’t take them out in the field, Indiana Jones-style. Project Sun Streak sought out the lost relic using Remote Viewing – the reported ability to transmit one’s consciousness elsewhere. According to declassified documents… it seems like they may have located it. But how reliable are these reports? And why was the US government funding the search, anyway?
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