Has anyone tried remote viewing, what are your beliefs behind it?

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Has anyone tried remote viewing, what are your beliefs behind it?

Answer 1

Oh yes,  I have tried it.  I think it is very real.

Answer 2

Yes, Bella Iguana, remote viewing is very real. It is no longer a question of 'if', but 'how'.

Yes, I have done this myself and successfully introduced others to it in simple impromptu sessions. I find if I take my time with a session, I do very well with them. I appear to be better at describing qualities and characteristics than doing descriptions or drawings of physical forms. Being tasked with an Egyptian pyramid, I'd be more apt to describe the personality of who might have been entombed there, maybe name the person, than to draw a triangle and write 'stone structure'.

I don't do remote viewing professionally but have been approached by an officer from the police department of a major US city for help with one particular  cold case. I also provided remote viewing assistance on request from the equivalent of the coast guard from a friendly foreign country regarding something unusual seen on several occasions in the waters off their coast.

For some background info, the book, The Mind Race by Russell Targ and Keith Harary is a good read. It includes some drawings from the early remote viewing experiments at SRI and a story about Hella Hamud, who was someone inexperienced in psi phenomenon, didn't think she had a psychic bone in her body, the effect the feedback from her first session had on her... it can have a way of upsetting one's notion of 'reality'.

Another good read on the subject would be Reading the Enemy's m

Mind, by Paul Smith. Both Mr. Targ and Dr. Smith were involved in the US government's remote viewing project. Mr. Targ was one of the early investigators, part of the team at SRI that developed the technique. Dr. Smith was one of the military viewers from Fort Mead. Smith's web site is below. There are some samples of student RV sessions there for you to look at.

Another book by Mr. Targ, Miracles of Mind, offers a simplified protocol for remote viewing. The military remote viewing manual is available at TKR's firedocs website. See the link below.

As with all performance skills, there are some who stand out in crowds. Joe McMoneagle, another of the military viewers, has a reputation for being world class. See the link below. He may have some samples of his work there. I've not looked lately. He did sessions live on Japanese television, located several missing persons.

I'd like to know where Martin G got his information, what 'statistics and studies' exactly he's talking about. I'd be interested in taking a look at the material.

There are some, um, interesting personalities associated with remote viewing out there. But you won't go wrong with the people I listed above.

What are my beliefs behind it? Well, that what happens in remote viewing is mediated by the subconscious for one, that access to the information is achieved through the subconscious. That the effect represents a serious challenge to physics. 4D space (as in relativity) doesn't accommodate the event of info from past, distant elsewhere present and future being available here/now as happens in remote viewing. It's not a function of 'entanglement' from quantum physics - there is no data transmission involved in entanglement as there clearly is in some way in remote viewing. If you have a science mind, you might look into Targ's 'Investigation of a Complex Space-Time Metric', but it's not a light read. The question 'how' is still hanging out there.

I hope this has helped.

:-)

matt.

Answer 3

The statistics and studies have shown conclusively that the "hits" generated in remote viewing are well within the accepted laws of probability and statistics.

so I believe that remote viewing doesn't exist.

For more info read up on Project Stargate. (Not the movie or the show)  Project Stargate was the CIA program to use remote viewers for intelligence...it never worked.