How Remote Viewing & The Gateway Process Shattered a Memory Champion’s Worldview | Nelson Dellis

Summary

Multi-time U.S. Memory Champion Nelson Dellis describes how a vague online job ad led to him being secretly trained in associative remote viewing to predict stock market moves for a trading firm whose CEO later went to prison. He recounts a striking hit where he sketched a breaching whale without knowing the target, and a Gateway retreat at the Monroe Institute where he claims to have perceived a hidden four-digit number in another room. He and host discuss the history of the Stargate program, out-of-body experiences, and the esoteric roots of memory techniques, including the Ars Notoria and Giordano Bruno.

Key takeaways

• 1Dellis was recruited via a Facebook post to do associative remote viewing (ARV) for a trading firm, reportedly working with a $1.1 million fund, and claims a roughly 58% hit rate on binary market predictions.
• 2His trainer reportedly came from the lineage of Major Ed Dames, a controversial Stargate remote viewer known for tasking esoteric targets like UFOs and the Ark of the Covenant, who recently passed away.
• 3At the Monroe Institute Gateway retreat, Dellis says he perceived '1-7-3-?' on a notecard placed in another participant's room; the actual number matched the first three digits.
• 4The host claims documentarian Greg Malozzi found evidence, including an SRI payment receipt, linking Andrija Puharich to Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ, despite their public distance from Uri Geller.
• 5The host describes a full out-of-body 'liftoff' with intense vibrations during the 'Superflow' Hemi-Sync session at Monroe; Dellis credits Focus 21 techniques for helping him win the 2024 U.S. Memory Championship.
• 6The Ars Notoria, a Solomonic grimoire, and Frances Yates' book 'Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition' are cited as esoteric roots of memory techniques like the memory palace.

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Kayak searches and compares hundreds of travel sites. But unless I repeat the word kayak, kayak thinks you won't remember that. So, kayak asked me to say kayak as many times as possible. Kayak! Kayak! Kayak! Kayak! Kayak, kayak, kayak. Kayak! Search and compare travel deals with kayak. Kayak! Got that right. What is going on here? This is wild. You know, I was just minding my own business, being a memory guy, winning championships, breaking records, teaching people had become my career. I got on the call with a guy, right out the bat, just said, you know, have you ever heard of remote viewing? And I was like, no. I must have sounded so dumb. I didn't know. So, he then further questioned me, have you heard of Stargate program? Then I was like, yeah, I think I'd heard about this. I downed some rabbit hole one night on YouTube or something, but it never really stuck with me. He then started to go into what it means and what remote viewing is. I was really like, my first instinct was like, okay, this is a scam. He's going to start asking me for money or something. Yeah. But he didn't. There are more chapters to this journey. You guys eventually go to Monroe Institute. You do the Gateway Retreat. You have some, let's just call them, very interesting experiences. Yeah, when I got there, one of the first days, I said to a person that I had made friends with, and I said, hey, before we go to our little check unit, she was in an upstairs room. I was in the corner here. Write down a four-digit number. Put it on your desk. ...

Excerpt from Third Eye Drops, Sep 25, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.