In an earlier post I discussed Courtney Brown's work on remote viewing (RV) of the year 2012. Today I would like to take a look at his 1996 book, Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth.
I confess to some reservations about the use of the term scientific. But I guess maybe he has every right to use it, being as how he is a bona fide behavioral scientist (Ph.D. in political science with an emphasis on math modeling; currently an Associate Professor at Emory University). 
Personally I feel he is overreaching....or maybe it is just me putting too narrow a construction on the term. Granted, he clearly tries to be rigorously objective in his approach, as is true of RV in general, and I have no doubts about his integrity (or the validity of the approach, see my own minor forays in the field) but still.............scientific?
Oh, well, enough quibbling. Brown certainly gets high marks from me for having the guts to publish anything about a subject as far out as alien contact, especially based on a technique that has little or no credibility in academe (he himself, however, has no doubt that "widespread acceptance ...will come in time"). More importantly, as he says,
...the human species is at a crossroads in its evolutionary history. We are about to enter the realm of galactic life as full participating members....The short-term career considerations of any scientist do not weigh significantly against this broader agenda.
In this regard he is of like mind with John Mack (who lauded him for "courageously applying" the RV methodology to the subject). And he is one of a very, very small band of academics (e.g., Ken Ring, David Jacobs, Leo Sprinkle, Gary Schwartz, and Brian O'Leary) who have been willing to risk their professional standing and reputation in order to pursue topics considered considerably outside the pale by their more traditional colleagues.
According to Brown remote viewing is,
...an exacting and demanding discipline that involves a precisely structured set of protocols...only an individual who has been fully trained...can utilize it accurately for data-gathering purposes.
Brown's own training included extensive experience in the Transcendental Meditation Sidhi Program, the Monroe Institute hemisync technique, and an intense period of instruction by a "former member of the military's remote-viewing unit." Brown now carries on RV research and education projects through his own Farsight I nstitute, in addition to his duties at Emory where he is currently teaching Essential Mathematics for Social Scientists and Modeling Complex Social Systems.
All of this is by way of saying that despite the extremely far-out nature of what is about to follow, you should think twice before dismissing it out-of-hand as the work of some deluded individual. Coming from someone of his undoubted competency and credibility, I believe it requires serious consideration.
Brown focused his study on two particular extraterrestrial civilizations -- Martians and Greys -- because, based on earlier RV efforts by him and others, he had reason to believe that they are "...playing a particularly important role in the...evolution of our own civilization." Moreover, it was clear that all three of our home worlds "...either ...experienced, or will soon experience, planet-wide ecological disasters of spectacular proportions."
This perspective, along with much of the information below, is similar, to or congruent with, information from a number of other sources using a wide variety of techniques, so I believe it should be taken seriously....as outlandish as it might sound to the the uninitiated.
In most of his RV sessions the targets were selected at random by his trainer/monitor from a list of 55 possible targets. Although the list consisted of targets previously selected by him and/or his trainer, he didn't know what the target was for the given session. In a very few cases the session was "front loaded," i.e., he knew in advance what the target was. He is very careful to specify just what protocol was used in each session that he presents. (See Farsight Institute for an overview of Brown's approach, which he calls Scientific Remote Viewing.)
In targeting various aspects of the Martian society he received information on their living conditions on Mars, both before and after a major catastrophe there; the assistance given to them by the Greys; and the role of the Martian priesthood.
He also describes two contingents of Martians currently living on Earth, one in a facility located under Santa Fe Baldy mountain in New Mexico and the other in an isolated agrarian village somewhere in Latin America. He does not see them in any way being a threat to us; in fact, it appears that they are rather fearful of us. He, therefore, spends a bit of time outlining the conditions he believes are necessary for our eventually establishing friendly contact with them.
A particularly interesting session focused on the event that led to the decline of the Martian civilization. According to Brown, a meteor-like object passed through their atmosphere and, although it didn't strike the surface, it "...caused a circular ripple to form...." which, due to Mars' low gravity, developed a resonance or oscillation which eventually disrupted their weather patterns and eventually "...threw the atmosphere off into space."
Another session focused on our loss of communication with NASA's Mars Observer in 1993. According to Brown it was destroyed by a projectile fired from a cannon-type device located on a Grey-manned ship that had been launched from a cavern located on the surface of Mars. (Note: NASA came up with five possible scenarios for the loss of the probe -- strangely enough, none of them involved being shot down by a UFO).
To be continued......
