A Magician Investigated the CIA’s Psychic Spies | Chris Ramsay

Chris Ramsay has spent 20 years fooling people for a living, and he knows every trick in the book. So when a magician says remote viewing is the one thing he can’t explain away, it’s worth asking why. Georges St-Pierre sits down with the creator of Area52 for card tricks and the hidden history of magicians working with the CIA. Then Chris explains how a year of training in remote viewing turned a hardened skeptic curious. 🪄🃏 00:00 Intro 02:07 Visiting Chris Ramsay 02:58 Georges’ UFO sighting on a flight 05:02 Can a crowd be hypnotized to see UFOs? 07:43 Why an explanation isn’t proof 09:00 The Ace of Hearts card trick 10:07 The Queen of Diamonds 12:02 The time travel trick 13:12 Why slow motion doesn’t scare him 15:37 The magician as an “honest liar” 15:49 Faith healers and Peter Popoff 16:46 Placebo, prayer and consciousness 18:29 Visualization and the nocebo effect 20:35 Chris Ramsay’s background 22:04 How he got into magic 24:42 Practice, nerves and failure 26:40 Street magic vs stage vs TV 27:53 What is mentalism? 29:49 Reading Georges’ passcode 32:02 The magician’s ethical line 32:46 Magicians and the CIA 36:19 The secret magicians’ retreat in Spain 40:42 What magicians really think about ESP 44:18 A 1907 mentalist’s hidden radio 46:25 Princeton’s random number experiments 48:14 9/11 and the Entangled app 50:16 Did Dr. Penfield think memory lives outside the brain? 51:23 Remote viewing for a hedge fund 54:07 Chris’s year of remote viewing 56:27 Is psychic ability a survival instinct? 1:01:02 How the psychic spy program began 1:02:59 Ingo Swann 1:04:07 600 people tested, 6 stood out 1:05:26 Joseph McMoneagle’s results 1:07:02 Why every top viewer had synesthesia 1:07:44 How Stargate was actually used 1:09:54 Why agencies kept coming back 1:12:07 Is remote viewing still being used? 1:14:07 Jimmy Carter and the missing plane 1:15:30 “Billionaires believe in astrology” 1:16:00 Haim Eshed and the Galactic Federation 1:19:29 James Forrestal and MJ-12 1:20:34 Why UFOs and consciousness are linked 1:23:14 The Area52 live tour 🔔✔️ Like, Comment and Subscribe to support the podcast! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ JOIN THE COMMUNITY Website – https://www.gspofficial.com Instagram –   / gsppodcastofficial   Facebook –   / gsppodcastofficial   TikTok –   / gsppodcastofficial   Threads – https://www.threads.com/@gsppodcastof... X – https://x.com/GSPPodOfficial ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ "Fall down seven times, get up eight." 🥋 #gsppodcast #georgesstpierre