'Suspect Zero' Star Now a Believer

In a recent interview with Sci-fi Wire Aaron Eckhart, the star of 'Suspect Zero', says he came away from the movie believing in the psychic phenomenon of 'remote viewing'.  Here is what Eckhart had to say:

I didn't have training sessions, because I didn't need to know how to do it in the movie, but I went out and spent time with [a supposed remote viewer], and he remote-viewed in front of me.  He took me through a couple of cases and got me believing in it, but I actually never tried it myself.

In 'Suspect Zero', Eckhart plays an FBI agent who teams up with his former partner (Carrie-Anne Moss), to track down a rogue agent (Ben Kingsley), who is hunting serial killers by using remote viewing, a combination of mind-reading and clairvoyance. Eckhart said that his remote viewer experienced some of the same pressures as those Kingsley's feels.

I think the burden that was on his shoulder was the burden of knowing things that he couldn't convince other people of, because it was [acquired] in a way that was unconventional.  I talked to the FBI after I was with him, and they said, 'We do not condone that. We don't use these guys. I don't know what he is talking about. The guy is a lunatic.'  It's interesting to see how law enforcement is much more meat-and-potatoes, and these guys are over here working in truffles.

It's understandable how the FBI has a hard time believing such claims of 'remote viewing, and Eckhart agrees:

It's that whole question about intuition and not being able to trust something you can't see. If you're having delusions or having any sort of confusion, the first thing to do is to distrust that, and that's what I think is happening here. I think the FBI or law enforcement in particular is very apprehensive about condoning anything like that, because of the way [the] public takes remote viewing. They're not going to accept that. If you say to the wife or the mother of a kidnapped victim, ... 'We're going to go remote-view,' they're like, 'What the f--k are you talking about? Get some officers out there!' In this movie, the wonderful thing is that our two worlds do coincide to get the man.

It's an interesting concept to be sure, but it's good to hear that Eckhart walked away believing that there may just be some things that aren't cut-and-dry in this world of ours.  I myself believe in a great deal of 'unexplained' things and don't find it too hard to believe that a phenomenon such as 'remote viewing' is, indeed, possible.