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The Ark of the Covenant was “found” in a 1988 psychic experiment conducted by the Central Intelligence Agency, newly resurfaced declassified documents detailed.
According to the documents, which were declassified in the year 2000, a person identified as “remote viewer #32” was instructed to view and describe an object and its surroundings.
Unbeknownst to remote viewer #32, the target object was the Ark of the Covenant.
Per the summary of the “remote viewing” experiment, the Ark of the Covenant is “located somewhere in the Middle East” and is guarded by “entities” with supernatural powers to protect the ark.
“The target is hidden -- underground, dark and wet were all aspects of the location of the target. The purpose of the target is to bring a people together,” said the declassified document.
The target, said remote viewer #32, “has something to do with ceremony, memory, homage, the resurrection. There is an aspect of spirituality, information, lessons and historical knowledge far beyond what we now know.”
Project SUN STREAK
The remote viewing experiments were conducted as part of “Project SUN Streak.”
Through the 1970s and 80s, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), CIA, and other intelligence organizations conducted experiments using subjects who reportedly had paranormal abilities, says declassified documents from the DIA.
These documents were shared on the National Security Archive’s website. The National Security Archive is an archive of declassified documents and is located at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
Remote Viewing
The term “remote viewing” was coined at the Stanford Research Institute in the 1970s. It is defined as “the acquisition and description by mental means of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance, shielding, or time,” says Defense Intelligence Agency documents about Project SUN STREAK.
Remote viewing, said the documents, was “preferred over other methods such as mental telepathy, (and) psychokensis.”
Is this possible?
Throughout Church history, many saints have reportedly had gifts and abilities that would be classified today as "paranormal."
St. Joseph of Cupertino, the patron saint of aviators, was witnessed flying by many people while deep in prayer.
St. Padre Pio could reportedly bilocate – appear in two places at once – as well as read minds and levitate; he was known to accurately predict the future.
St. Clare of Assisi was declared the patron saint of television because, while sick and bedbound, she had a vision on Christmas Eve of her sisters singing at Mass. This experience, where St. Claire also reportedly time traveled in her vision to the birth of Christ, is one which could be described as “remote viewing” in a modern context.
Demons?
However, the cases of "remote viewing" described in the CIA documents could certainly be something else, a Dominican friar told Aleteia.
"The theology of St. Thomas Aquinas suggests that there are only three sources of knowledge: God, angels, and the natural world. God provides divine revelation; angels teach human beings things that they know; and we learn from the natural world, and then teach other humans," Fr. Ezra Sullivan, O.P, said in an email. Sullivan is a Dominican friar of the Province of St. Joseph in the United States.
In the situation of the Ark, Fr. Sullivan explained, "there is no reason to think that the knowledge comes from God, for it was not the result of prayer. Nor was it simply the result of ordinary human power, or what was obtainable by natural means, as far as it seems: It was not from technology, for instance."
This leaves angels as its source, said Sullivan, but, "good angels usually do not provide this sort of information to people outside of a life of grace and deep prayer, as when St. Padre Pio’s guardian angel helped him write in languages the friar did not know."
"Therefore, if the 'remote viewing' did in fact achieve hidden knowledge, it is most likely that it came from demons, who sometimes tell true things in order to draw people in and induce them to practice even worse occult practices," he said.
Ark of the Covenant
The construction of the Ark of the Covenant is detailed in the Book of Exodus. It is described as being made of acacia wood, and measuring “two and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide, and one and a half cubits high” (Exodus 25:10-11).
The ark itself was contained in an “atoning cover of pure gold” and adorned with images of cherubim. Inside the ark were the two tablets containing the Ten Commandments.
Later in the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant was said to contain a pot of manna and Aaron’s Rod in addition to the two tablets.
Vanished – or did it?
Sometime in the 6th century B.C., the Ark of the Covenant was either lost, captured, destroyed, or hidden.
Jewish tradition holds that the Ark of the Covenant was stored at the Temple in Jerusalem, which was destroyed by the Babylonians.
Since that time, the Ark of the Covenant has never been officially documented, although the Biblical treasure has remained in the public consciousness.
In the Ethiopian town of Aksum, the Church of St. Mary of Zion claims to have the Ark of the Covenant in its possession. The Coptic Christian monks living at the church claim that the Ark of the Covenant was spirited away from Jerusalem ahead of the Babylonian invasion, and it has stayed at the monastery ever since.
The monks do not permit the Ark of the Covenant to be studied, and only one monk, the guardian of the ark, is even allowed to see the Tabot, or tablets.
Other theories claim the Ark of the Covenant was sealed in a chamber underneath the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
