Goat Lab
From a Guardian report on the strange and terrible career of Lt. Col. Jim Channon–Vietnam veteran, devout New Age Californian, and the man credited with the concept of torturing prisoners with loud music:
I tracked down a former Special Forces psychic spy to Hawaii. Glenn Wheaton, retired sergeant first class, was a big man with a tight crop of red hair and a Vietnam-vet-style handlebar moustache. He told me how in the mid-1980s Special Forces undertook a secret initiative, codenamed Project Jedi, to create super soldiers - soldiers with super powers. One such power was the ability to walk into a room and instantly be aware of every detail; that was level one.
Level two, he said, was intuition - making correct decisions. “Somebody runs up to you and says, ‘There’s a fork in the road. Do we turn left or do we turn right?’ And you go” - Glenn snapped his fingers - “We go right!”
“What was the level above that?” I asked.
“Invisibility,” said Glenn. “After a while we adapted it to just finding a way of not being seen.”
“What was the level above invisibility?” I asked.
“Uh,” said Glenn. He paused for a moment. “We had a master sergeant who could stop the heart of a goat … just by wanting the goat’s heart to stop. He did it at least once.”
“Where did this happen?” I asked.
“Down in Fort Bragg,” he said, “at a place called Goat Lab.”