During the Cold War, American military as well as the Soviets developed PSI methods for espionage purposes.

American research took place from 1972 to 1995 at the Stanford Research Institution (SRI International) at Stanford University in Menlo Park, California, with this research as focal point.

In 1972, the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency) supported a 50,000 US dollar research project called SCANATE, under the direction of Dr. Hal Puthoff at the SRI.

The goal was to conduct basic research under the topic of "Remote Viewing" and transfer core data from the collective unconscious into the real, conscious, and physical world.

Remote Viewing describes the physical skill of sensory perception in which the viewer is able to detect a location, person, or action and more or less exactly describe what he views although not being present and not using the other known five senses.

Dr. Hal Puthoff, and others, developed the first Remote Viewing protocol in 1976. This was later known as "Coordinate Remote Viewing" (CRV) and was the foundation for the following stages of development.

CRV was a developed psycho-energetic form of Remote Viewing based on geographical coordinates.

In 1977, the US Army, CIA, DIA, and NSA started to show interest in the Remote Viewing method and took the research work at SRI (1983) in order to use CRV as mental warfare.

Major Edward A. Dames, as one of the first trained Remote Viewers, was intensively involved in the development and utilization of the Remote Viewing Technology.

In 1986, Major Dames was the most important training officer of the Top Secret Remote Viewing Operational Unit, also known as the Psychic Intelligence Unit.

On the basis of obtained and analyzed data from the Remote Viewing Operational Unit, the CRV was used on several occasions to uncover information and support covert projects such as military missions, espionage (such as explaining the USSR biological toxic weapon programs), clarifying terrorist acts (for example, the Lockerbie airline terrorist attack), and supporting the resolution up of hostage situations.

Major Dames founded the PSI TECH Inc. in 1989 and utilized the US Army‘s original "top secret" technology in the civilian sector. In addition to offering Remote Viewing training courses and implementing contracts from the scientific, medical and technical fields, PSI TECH Inc. also conducted its own research projects in the areas of environment, nature and even in the further development of human potential. The information research methods of CRV were unnamed due to technological bias in "Technical Remote Viewing." (TRV)

Because of the initiation of the Freedom of Information Act in 1995 from President Clinton, it was discovered that over 20 million US tax payers' dollars were invested in this revolutionary conscious technology from 1983 until 1989. The CIA and the DIA financed the project "Stargate" with this money with the goal of further developing Remote Viewing for military purposes, and to use it as an espionage instrument. Subsequently, world-wide agitation over this matter led to the disbanding of the Remote Viewing Operational Unit.

A succeeding project to Stargate known as the "Symbolic System Program" is presently under research at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA, as well as in Germany at the ISFR, a cooperation partner of eurac.

Since 1998, eurac (European Academy for Meta-communication) has concentrated on the investigation and advancement of human perception, the understanding of future dynamics, and the development of contemporary solutions for our global future. Moreover, different methods of the objective information results were partially combined – contained in the core of the original Coordinate Remote Viewing Protocol from SRI.

In 1999, due to his earlier association with similar projects during his training at NASA, Dr. Wolfgang Schmitz began to study the current state of research at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA and at SRI. In order to gain a broad knowledge on this subject and to develop a universal method of the largest scope possible, Dr. Schmitz studied at both Stanford and Princeton Universities.

From 1999 to 2001, over 80 different documented tests attempting to develop steps for perceptual supportive research, were undertaken at eurac to try and determine the process of a complex knowledge transfer. The beginning stages of this process were developed in cooperation with Major Dames and several diverse research establishments.

As a result of these documented tests, a superior, unbiased concept was established – M.I.T.

In 2001, eurac GmbH began the M.I.T. research project under the title of the Meta Information Technique. The goal of this research project was to develop an application protocol that would enable any researcher to obtain a high degree of distinguishable and guaranteed information. In studying the templates that have been developed for this protocol, the "viewer" learns how to unlock a specific perception corridor.

The Meta Information Technique is an entirely new development from Dr. Wolfgang Schmitz and is based on the SRI original protocol.

By using this new structured and methodologically styled approach, anyone can learn this Technique.

Since 2005, M.I.T. has been available to the public and ready for use.

Basically with M.I.T., all the information in the world/universe can be accessed and researched by anyone. Actual objects and locations become a universal connection of thoughts in relation to the past and the future.

This information research encompasses a timeless space; or in other words, space and time are not relevant to the accessibility of this information. There is a collective unconsciousness (according to Jung) in which all the information in the world is stored, for example; information regarding events from the past can also be researched.