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category: Psychics & Remote Viewers
summary: Puharich brought Vinod to the Round Table Foundation, where Vinod allegedly
  went into a trance and channeled a group of entities called 'the Nine Principles
  and Forces.' This event had a profound impact on Puharich, solidifying his belief
  in an external, possibly extraterrestrial, source for psychic
tags:
- Person
- RemoteViewer
---

Dr. D. G. Vinod was a Hindu scholar and mystic who [Andrija Puharich](/people/andrija-puharich/) met in New York City in 1952. Puharich was deeply impressed by Vinod's apparent ability to divine his past and future with remarkable accuracy.[^1]

Puharich brought Vinod to the [Round Table Foundation](/organizations/round-table-foundation/), where Vinod allegedly went into a trance and channeled a group of entities called "[the Nine Principles and Forces](/concepts/the-nine-principles-and-forces/)." This event had a profound impact on Puharich, solidifying his belief in an external, possibly extraterrestrial, source for psychic phenomena. The séance was attended by several of the foundation's wealthy benefactors, including [Alice Astor Bouverie](/people/alice-astor-bouverie/) and [Marcella Miller du Pont](/people/marcella-miller-du-pont/).[^1]

[^1]: Jacobsen, Annie. *Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government's Investigations into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokinesis*. Little, Brown and Company, 2017.