Marshall Fine: Interview: Grant Heslov talks about George Clooney and Goats

No, Grant Heslov admits, he's never had a psychic episode himself - no premonitions of the future or flash-forwards. Nor can he engage in what those in that world refer to as "remote viewing": focusing mind-power and projecting his consciousness to watch something happening elsewhere in the world. "I haven't personally had an experience," Heslov, 46, says, sitting in a hotel room in Toronto during the Toronto Film Festival in September. "I've been around people who have had premonitions, visions, certain things where I wouldn't know what else to chalk them up to. "I've always been fascinated with the world of remote-viewers. It was something I knew about and followed for the last 15 years. When it came to me in this form, it was very attractive." Heslov was referring to The Men Who Stare at Goats , a nonfiction book by Jon Ronson about a secret U.S. Army unit devoted to paranormal abilities: remote-viewing, mind control, telekinesis, telepathy - you name it and, according to ... (link)