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This was the New Earth Army. Or at least, the rotting skeleton of it.

In 2004, a quirky and offbeat book titled "The Men Who Stare at Goats" was published, penned by Jon Ronson, a British journalist and author. The book's title, which has since become a catchphrase and cultural reference point, was inspired by a bizarre incident involving the US military's exploration of the paranormal and the occult. But what exactly does this phrase mean, and how did it come to be?

In 1978, the CIA partnered with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), a think tank and research organization, to further develop remote viewing. SRI researcher Russell Targ, along with his colleague Harold Puthoff, began to experiment with a program called the Gateway Experience. This initiative aimed to train individuals to access higher states of consciousness, allowing them to tap into their psychic abilities. The Men Who Stare At Goats

Loudspeakers would blast indigenous music and words of peace to neutralize enemy combatants without spilling blood.

The film systematically dismantles the figure of the “warrior monk”—the hyper-competent, spiritually enlightened operator popularized in special forces lore. Lyn Cassady is not a hero; he is a broken man who has spent 20 years trying to stop a goat’s heart. His “superpowers” manifest only in civilian contexts: he can guess the number of jelly beans in a jar and make a remote control slide across a table. In combat, he is useless. The paper contends that this is a direct commentary on the Special Forces mystique: the belief in a magical, unaccountable cadre of super-soldiers is a dangerous distraction from strategy, logistics, and diplomacy. This was the New Earth Army

A deeper dive into the specific remote viewing experiments conducted by the US Army?

The central figure in the goat-staring lore is , a lieutenant colonel and Vietnam War veteran. Traumatized by the horrors of conventional warfare, Channon spent time investigating the California New Age movement, visiting places like the Esalen Institute. The book's title, which has since become a

Commercially, the film performed respectably, grossing $69.1 million against a $24 million budget.