Willis Harman

[Note: for some reason, Harman's name has been spelled Harmon in many places]

President of the Institute of Noetic Sciences. Co-founder of the World Business Academy. Former consultant to the White House's National Goals Research Staff. On Board of Directors of the Albert Hoffman Foundation. Director of the Center for the Study of Social Policy at SRI International. Former Director of the Educational Policy Research Center at SRI.

There is evidence that, while at SRI, Harman was at least interested in and knowledgeable of the remote-viewing program, even if he was not directly involved. He wrote the introduction to Mind Race, written by Russell Targ and Keith Harary, which dealt with the program. He referred to their research in some of his writings, and he's president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, which provided some of the projects early funding.
While an engineering professor at Stanford University, Harman led a 1962 conference on human potentiality at the Esalen Institute called "The Expanding Vision".
(Anderson, Walter Truett, The Upstart Spring, Addison-Wesley Publishing, 1983, pg 68)
It was also during this time that Harman was engaging in legal LSD research, and was involved with the government, probably through the International Foundation for Advanced Study, of which he was vice president. (Anderson, pg 108,142)
While at SRI, Harman hired Alfred Hubbard, officially as a security guard. His real duties were to administer LSD to political and business figures as part of Harman's Alternative Futures Project.
(Fahey, Todd Brendan, The Original Captain Trips", High Times, November 1991)
In February, 1979, Harman attended an LSD reuinion party, hosted by Dr. Oscar Janiger, along with Laura Huxley, Sidney Cohn, John Lilly, Alfred Hubbard, and Timothy Leary, among others. (Lee, Martin and Schlain, Bruce, Acid Dreams, Grove Press, 1985, 213)
Willis Harman died in April, 1997, of a brain tumor.
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