A closer look
Central Intelligence Agency operatives spent millions of dollars during the Cold War funding the Stargate Project, a highly classified initiative aiming to weaponize mysticism through remote viewing and astral projection. They genuinely believed they could train psychic operatives to spiritually leave their bodies, travel thousands of miles behind the Iron Curtain, and snoop on Soviet military installations using only their minds. The project was eventually shut down in 1995 when independent reviewers concluded that the psychics were largely just guessing and their vague visions produced absolutely zero actionable intelligence. Your tax dollars were literally spent paying eccentric mystics to take naps in dark rooms and hallucinate about Russian submarines because the military-industrial complex was that desperate
