Goat Lab

The First Earth Battalion tried to stop hearts by staring. The Army kept the receipts.

The First Earth Battalion (Jim Channon's 1979 concept paper — real, visionary, intentionally utopian) and Fort Bragg's subsequent informal experiments were documented in Jon Ronson's 'The Men Who Stare at Goats' (2004), including the goat lab and claims of a stopped heart. The Army confirmed the goat lab's existence (a medical training facility); the staring experiments rest on participant testimony. The node marks where documented military credulity met the new age — the awakening thread's Pentagon chapter.