McMoneagle asserts that psychic functioning is a natural, ancient survival mechanism inherent to all human beings.

“Psychic functioning is normal with human beings. It's the norm. The difficulty is I think comes out of the fact that it's an ancient capability.”

Human interaction with unexplained phenomena naturally leads to the development of psychic abilities like remote viewing.

“One thing we know for sure, 100% fact. They know this and they've told me 100 times that everybody that experiences this stuff and you start interacting with it becomes very psychic. That's part of what happens to you.”

There is no essential difference between unconscious processing of local information and non-local information accessed through psychic phenomena.

“I'm saying for me there's no distinction between unconscious processing of information that comes in and unconscious processing of information that comes in from non-local sources.”

Attempting to exercise psychic powers is a dangerous distraction that leads to life depletion and should be avoided.

“So in that context, we said don't try to catch anything on the way. It doesn't matter how attractive it looks because you'll pay a price for it. In some way, life will deplete.”

Psychic phenomena deserve serious investigation because they challenge the mainstream scientific view of reality.

“However, as a scientist, when we encounter psychic phenomena, which basically everybody does spontaneously and some are talented and can produce them, it is so different than the mainstream view of the scientific view of the nature of reality that we can't help but become curious”

Jeff Tarrant claims that psychic phenomena are real phenomena supported by research.

“The research is very clear. You wouldn't know it from mainstream media, but when you really get in there and look at it, there's no doubt that this stuff is real.”

He suggests that government investment in psychic research, such as remote viewing, is driven by the low cost relative to the high potential strategic impact if successful.

“they are classic low probability high impact projects in other words even if you're skeptical the consequences if you get a hit if any of this works are such that it is worth your while doing it”