Remote Viewing (RV) is a highly structured and "scientific" approach to obtaining information through non-ordinary channels. A number of books have been written on its history at the Stanford Research Institute and in the military, and a variety of different private programs have sprung up to train people in its application. I am not going to try to recap all of this readily available information here because my interest is primarily in seeing what light RV might shed on 2012.
But in this first post I just want to recount my own initial forays into the field. I must hasten to add that I have never received any formal training and what I refer to as my "forays" were just poorly controlled public demonstrations. Nevertheless, I think you might find my experiences rather intriguing ..........I know I certainly did!
My first exposure was during a presentation by Simeon Hein and Ron Russell at the 14th Annual International UFO Congress in Laughlin, Nevada in 2005. They began by describing their approach to RV, which they termed Resonant Viewing, and then provided us with some general guidance (e.g., how to capture basic impressions, sensory perceptions and dimensional information) after being exposed to an undisclosed "target."
Near the conclusion of the talk they treated the audience to an experiential demonstration using a fairly standard procedure. They held up a plain sealed manila envelope containing a picture, the "target." Neither of the presenters knew just which picture was in that particular envelope and it wasn't opened until after the audience had had an opportunity to jot down their reactions.
Here is my response to the first envelope (but don't bother to spend much time on it):
The target turned out to be a picture of a Japanese mountain climber outside a tent on the slope of a snow covered mountain.
Drats! A very clear miss.
Here is my response to the second envelope (also not worth your effort to decipher):
The target was a Central American temple structure. Another miss; I clearly wasn't faring too well at this point.
Here is my response to the third envelope:
In case you can't decipher my scrawl it says "very heavy, solid, squat, pillbox, bunker, wet, slimy, clammy, salty, old, sits heavy on ground, hills/cliff," and is accompanied by two sketches.
After Simeon called time for the end of the session (but before he opened the envelope) I jotted down the phrase: "immovable object -- natural or man made?"
And the target was...............drum roll please:
Hey, let's hear it for the home team because I would consider that a clear hit! Not perfect, but considering that the target could have been literally anything located anywhere in the world, pretty damn close.
............So, O.K., fast forward several years to June of 2007. I was doing the week-long introductory program put on by The Monroe Institute (TMI) called Gateway Voyage which was being conducted at the Institute of Noetic Sciences outside Petaluma, California. It is a fascinating and highly effective program that I will be covering in a future post but right now I just want to focus on what was to become my second brief exposure to RV.
TMI has had a very good and rigorous training program in RV involving two noted authorities in the field, Skip Atwater and Joseph McMoneagle, and it will soon be offering a Remote Viewing Practicum. But on this particular evening there wasn't any pretense of scientific rigor; the trainers merely wanted to give us a little taste of what RV was about. In this case the trainers actually knew what the targets were (opening the possibility of our reading their minds rather than the target) and, worse yet, at least one of the targets was announced to have come from a book by McMoneagle (opening up the possibility of just guessing what the target was -- which one savvy participant proceded to do).
However, I wasn't familiar with the book at that point and I am not adept at reading people's minds, so, personally speaking, the demonstration was a pretty good test of my RV potential.
One of the trainers presented the first target and I responded with:
As I recall, the target was the City of London, so, once again, I started off with a very clear miss.
I felt that I had been all over the map on the first target so when the second target was presented I decided on a minimalist approach, opting for just one simple sketch and a few impressions that had come in especially strongly. The result was:
O.K. Time for another drum roll because the target was:
Devil's Tower!
The picture above is how it appears on page 124 of McMoneagle's book, Mind Trek.
And this is a picture that I recently found online:
Tall? Vertical? Jagged? Sure looks like it to me!
Wow. How a human mind can do something like that is beyond me........without any training and under far less than ideal conditions (did I mention the couple chatting away behind me throughout the Simeon Hein demonstration?).
Well, you can call me a believer now. Needless to say, I am very, very curious as to what professionally trained remote viewers might have to say about 2012...... which, coincidentally, is the subject of my next post.
