Edwin C. May
American physicist and former director of the U.S. government's Star Gate remote viewing research program
Edwin C. May (American physicist and former director of the U.S. government's Star Gate remote viewing research program) has appeared as a guest on 1 episode in TMT. Topics they speak about most include Remote viewing, Stargate Project, Near-death experience.
In their words
Positions and remarks grouped by topic, each with the exact quote and where it was said.
Remote viewing6 of 8
May says that everyone uses some degree of remote viewing in daily life, which is consistent with Lisa Kudrow's reported experience.
“We all use remote viewing, whether you've even heard of it. There's a natural ability for some people have something”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 55:00
May says that he prefers skeptics to believers because he learns more from them.
“I much prefer skeptics than I do believers. Believers buy ink nonsense. And I've learned more from skeptics than from believers”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 57:48
May argues that repeating Angela Ford's study with the same team was not a valid replication, and says the repeat failed.
“Us doing the same thing is not an independent replication”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 51:48
May explains that ESP's low bit rate would make winning the lottery require roughly 50 straight hours of psychic effort.
“It would take 50 straight hours of being psychic to win the lottery to get enough information with this terrible bit rate”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 47:55
May says that Joe McMoneagle scored 44% accuracy over 1,500 trials, where chance alone would give 20%.
“there's a 20% chance he'd get it by luck alone. But he was scoring 44% accuracy of his data”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 41:49
May estimates that up to 10% of the population may be able to remote view under double-blind laboratory conditions.
“if that's wrong by a factor of 10, that's still 10% of the population have the ability to muster under laboratory double bond conditions”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 27:50
Stargate Project
May says that a government remote viewing program is needed because better intelligence reduces the risk of war.
“We need it because it's a good way of gathering intelligence. And the more intelligence country A can have, the less likely”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 1:03:35
May says that the government spent millions trying to train people to remote view and failed.
“we spent literally millions of your tax dollar money to try to find a way to train military officers or anybody else to do spying missions”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 34:54
May says that after the Cold War, a drug-interdiction agency in Alameda requested 171 remote viewing missions to target boats smuggling drugs.
“their remit was to interdict boats coming into California territorial waters carrying drugs. They came back to us 171 different missions”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 58:35
May says that 17 of the 19 federal agencies that tasked the program returned with new missions, including 41 from the CIA.
“Of those 19 agencies, 17 of them returned with additional new missions. Even the skeptical CIA came back 41 separate new missions”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 23:44
Other remarks
May argues that Western religion has lost its mystical element, which he links to resistance to psi research.
“What's happened is the West has taken mysticism out of the practice of religion”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 11:06
Near-death experience
May says that he does not believe consciousness survives bodily death.
“I'm comfortable with the idea that when I take my last breath, it's going to be my last breath”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 1:01:45
Materialism
May argues that precognition is compatible with materialism because it can be studied quantitatively with rigorous science.
“I can meet all the necessary aspects of hard-ass science to do those kinds of studies, and it works. That's materialism”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 1:00:17
Synesthesia
May says that synesthesia is common among strong remote viewers but is not necessary for the ability.
“So synesthesia is not a necessary condition for good functioning. But it's just a clue. 4% of the population are synesthetes”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 14:33
Meditation
May says that studies found long-term meditators perform no better at psi tasks than people who have never meditated.
“There have been studies of the monks who spent 30 years meditating, and they're no better good than somebody who's never even tried meditation”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 48:17
Entropy
May says that his research found the gradient of entropy of the target system to be the variable that improves psi performance.
“And that is the gradient of entropy of the target system. And it works. It works beautifully well”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 7:53
Precognition
May argues that precognition is the only way ESP gathers information.
“there's only one form of using ESP to gather information, and that's called precognition”
Mayim Bialik's Breakdown: CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. May (Oct 2, 2026) · Listen from 14:50
Appearances
CIA Used Psychics To See The Future: The Secret Remote Viewing Program That Sent Psychic Spies on 500 Classified Missions, Plus Signs That You Might Have These Abilities | Dr. Edwin C. MayMayim Bialik's Breakdown · Oct 2, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Physicist Edwin C. May tells Mayim Bialik and Jonathan Cohen about the U.S. government's Star Gate remote viewing program, precognition research, and his materialist worldview.
Often appears with
- Mayim Bialik · 1 shared episode
- Jonathan Cohen · 1 shared episode