What is remote viewing?

Remote Viewing is is the trained ability to obtain accurate psychically derived data on persons, places, things and events anywhere in time and space, using only a pen, paper and one's mind. It is an innate ability that all humans possess, but like language, it must be learned. When utilizing this methodology, you are not in an altered state. You are fully conscious, alert and in a state of "high attention."

The DIA's remote viewing unit became known in defense circles in 1989, when an operations and training officer from the unit, a prominent general, and several others took the technology into the private sector and established PSI TECH, Inc. Technical Remote Viewing.

They employed some of the best remote viewers from the DIA's operational unit. Initially, PSI TECH kept a low profile, accepting government and corporate contracts from the defense establishment, and training prominent people from government agencies and scientists.

In 1995, the CIA's AIR report, and a Nightline program further increased public knowledge of the remote viewing program. The report was a damage control attempt by the CIA. It covered only the final two years of the program, which was called "StarGate" when 'crystal ball gazers' and tarot card readers were brought into the unit.

Since then, a virtual "psi soup" has been created, where the term "remote viewing" has been applied to almost every form of psychic phenomenon. Many psychics now refer to themselves as "remote viewers," to legitimize their services and companies, because the term sounds more scientific and acceptable to the mainstream. Worse yet, some charlatans have emerged on to the scene, claiming to have been part of the military unit, or from clandestine units that no one (those who should be privy to such knowledge) has heard of or been able to confirm.

Details about the publicity surrounding the release of the AIR report, and the differences between the research side of remote viewing, as it differs from the operational unit, are available in this press release.

There is much confusion over what 'remote viewing' is and isn't. The fact that many of the more prominent "RV researchers" still are not aware of the important of CRV and that virtually anyone can be trained to retrieve data more accurately than the world's best natural psychics, is truly unfortunate.

What is being lost on much of the public, in all of the confusion, is the breakthrough discovery that was created by Ingo Swann at Stanford Research Institute. This was the real *breakthrough* from the years of research, and the work done in the military unit.

Ingo Swann, a brilliant natural psychic, focused his attention inward and looked at his own process, developing a model of how his own mind accessed information from the collective unconscious, and created a method by which anyone could learn to accurately obtain information on any person, place, thing and event in the past, present or future.

Some of the prominent "remote viewers" such as Joe McMoneagle, are in fact natural psychics.

At this web site, when we refer to "remote viewing," the term will be used to describe the teachable methods developed by Ingo Swann and those who teach the techniques, Coordinate Remote Viewing (now called Controlled Remote Viewing) and Technical Remote ViewingŪ .

The ability to remote view is not limited to a few natural psychics. It is an innate ability that all humans possess. However, like language, it is something that must be learned, to be effective.

As human beings, data and information is constantly flowing through our perceptual apparatus. We are all constantly accessing information, but unlike natural psychics, most of us can not control the flow of data or lock on to it consistently. Our "psi muscles" are underdeveloped.

When properly trained, CRV and TRV structure allows any of us to lock on to the signal line, slowing down the process so that we can retrieve accurate data, more accurately and more consistently than the best natural psychics. The structure is also self correcting, and brilliantly separates the viewer's analysis and imagination from the actual data.

The CRV manual was never intended to be a "training manual" per se, nor a replacement for proper training by a qualified instructor.

It's purpose, in the military and at PSI TECH, was simply to serve as a guide and a reference for CRV/TRV terminology and it served to show inquisitive lawmakers what the millions of dollars were being spent on.

Proper training in CRV and TRV is very rigorous. Exact attention to structure (in the correct order) is absolutely necessary. Every percept that enters your mind must be dealt with. All AOLs must be properly declared, and attention to structure must be maintained. Anyone seeking to 'try' it by just reading this manual is going to be disappointed. This is a learned skill that requires proper training and practice.

In the fourteen years since the writing of this manual, there have been many advances and discoveries learned through years of training. One major discovery, was the realization that geographical coordinates are not necessary for targeting purposes.

Random numbers can be assigned to a target cue or search term.

This breakthrough allowed this technology to be more effectively used as a problem solving tool. This important discovery, along with many others, is not covered in the manual. A person can now create a target where they essentially search the Matrix as they would a library or internet database, using carefully constructed cues and search terms.

• The manual does not instruct one on the proper methods for cuing.
   

• It does not instruct one on the proper creation of a targeting package, and the pitfalls and problems that can result if the use of target reference material (photographs) is not properly employed.
   

• It does not instruct you on the duration a session should last, how many one can do each day and leaves out many details regarding the actual application of the skill. Additionally, many techniques were refined and developed during many years of application in the private sector, in the 17 years since the manual was written.

How can I properly learn these techniques?

In the military unit, training lasted approximately three months. When PSI TECH took these techniques public in 1989, they successfully developed a course that effectively taught prominent people in the defense establishment, scientists, and doctors these techniques in a shorter period of time.

Their original professional development course, taught on-site, was $4500, lasted nine days, and was very intensive.

Some thought that viewers learning in such a brief period of intense training would not be able to adequately learn the skill. But the course was very successful, and when PSI TECH demonstrated that there was a market in the corporate and private sector for remote viewing services, several of remote viewers from the Ft. Meade unit, followed PSI TECH's example, and opened their own training schools.

Ingo Swann no longer teaches. There are several qualified instructors who can effectively train you in Ingo Swann's methodology. Jonina Dourif offers courses at PSI TECH. Paul Smith's company, RVIS, teaches CRV, and Lyn Buchanan teaches at P>S>I.

Training is expensive, and in most cases requires one to travel, but if you can afford it, it is well worth it.

If you can't afford to take a course in person, one can learn the techniques at home, for significantly less than on-site instruction. PSI TECH offers their new 2000 TRV video training course, a 10 video set, for $449.95.

Their courses are very effective and I can personally recommend them, as this is how I learned.

In 2002 PSI TECH unveiled the new Technical Remote Viewing University online training campus. This new training system offers 24 hour a day technical support and live personalized tutoring options, access to supplemental training targets, weekly "Target Of The Week" training. The training courses are designed to be completed in as little as six weeks.

When learning via these distance learning methods, the student can go back and review lectures, and learn at his/her own pace, over a period of months, guaranteeing proper learning and long term memory retention, something which is less likely to occur when taking a brief in-person course on site.

Be aware that learning remote viewing and applying the techniques is hard work. To become proficient, CRV or TRV training requires a commitment by one to practice the techniques, as it is a learned skill.

Following the exposure of these methods after the release of PSI TECH's original home training course, and the publication of the CRV manual on the internet, many have sought to profit from the technology and have attempted to copy and alter the structure, taking bits and pieces and making the rest up as they go along, without the background, experience, knowledge or qualifications to do so.

They do not have an appreciation for Ingo Swann's method, understand the theory, nor are they aware of the time and expense (millions of tax dollars) that went into its creation. They play upon the ignorance of the public and seek acceptance from the "RV community."

I know that there will be those who will try to learn CRV on their own, by simply reading this manual. If you do not have success, it won't necessarily be for lack of trying, but because you do not have enough information and lack proper training. You will also likely ingrain improper habits that will be tough to un-learn.

If you are serious about learning, take a course from a professional, whether in person or via PSI TECH's video or online training courses.


INTRODUCTION

A. General

The following definitions and descriptions are provided to acquaint the reader with the remote viewing phenomenon and a typical remote viewing session.

1. Definitions:

a. Remote Viewing (RV): The name of a method of psychoenergetic perception. A term coined by SRI-International and defined as "the acquisition and description, by mental means, of information blocked from ordinary perception by distance, shielding or time."

b. Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV): The process of remote viewing using geographic coordinates for cueing or prompting.

c. Remote Viewer: Often referred to in the text simply as "viewer", the remote viewer is a person who employs his mental faculties to perceive and obtain information to which he has no other access and of which he has no previous knowledge concerning persons, places, events, or objects separated from him by time, distance, or other intervening obstacles.

d. Monitor: The individual who assists the viewer in a remote viewing session. The monitor provides the coordinate, observes the viewer to help insure he stays in proper structure (discussed below), records relevant session information, provides appropriate feedback when required, and provides objective analytic support to the viewer as necessary. The monitor plays an especially important role in training beginning viewers.

2. Descriptions:

a. Remote Viewing Session: In a remote viewing session an individual or "viewer" attempts to acquire and describe by mental means alone information about a designated site. The viewer is not told what the site is that must be described but is provided a cue or prompt which designates the site.

b. Session Dynamics: In conducting a coordinate remote viewing session, a remote viewer and a monitor begin by seating themselves at the opposite ends of a table in a special remote viewing room equipped with paper and pens, a tape recorder, and a TV camera which allows either recording for documentation, or monitoring by individuals outside the room.

 

The room is homogeneously-colored, acoustic-tiled, and featureless, with light controlled by a dimmer, so that environmental distractions can be minimized. The session begins when the monitor provides cueing or prompting information (geographic coordinates in this case) to the remote viewer. The remote viewer is given no additional identifying information, and at this point has no conscious knowledge of the actual site.

 

For training purposes, the monitor is allowed to know enough about the site to enable him to determine when accurate versus inaccurate information is being provided. The session then proceeds with the monitor repeating the prompting information at appropriate intervals and providing necessary feedback. The remote viewer generates verbal responses and sketches, until a coherent response to the overall task requirement emerges.

c. Post Session Dynamics: After the session is over, the remote viewer and monitor obtain specific information about the site in picture/descriptive form. The remote viewer and monitor then discuss the session results.

B. Background

In early 1980, an SRI - International (SRI-I) subcontractor developed a training procedure known as Coordinate Remote Viewing to satisfy R&D demands on SRI-I to enhance the reliability (scientific replicability) of remote viewing (RV). The subcontractor's approach to improving the reliability of RV was to focus on the control of those factor that in his view tend to introduce "noise" into the RV product (imaginative, environmental, and interviewer overlays). The basic components of this training procedure consist of:

(1) Repeated site-address (geographic coordinate) presentation, with quick-reaction response by the remote viewing; coupled with a restrictive format for reporting perceived information (to minimize imaginative overlays).

(2) The use of a specially-designed, acoustic-tiled, relatively featureless, homogeneously-colored "viewing chamber" (to minimize environmental overlays).

(3) The adoption of a strictly-prescribed, limited interviewer patter (to minimize interviewer overlays).

The training procedure requires that the trainee learn a progressive, multi-stage acquisition process postulated to correspond to increased contact with the site. At present there are six "stages" of training. In general, these stages progress as follows:

(1) "Stage I" sites (islands, mountains, deserts, etc.).

(2) "Stage II" sites (sites of quality sensory value--sites which are uniquely describable through touch, taste, sound, color, or odor--such as glaciers, volcanoes, industrial plants, etc.).

(3) "Stage III" sites (sites possessing significant dimensional characteristics such as buildings, bridges, airfields, etc.).

(4) "Stage IV" sites for which the trainee begins to form qualitative mental percepts (technical area, military feeling, research, etc.).

(5) "Stage V" sites for which the trainee learns to "interrogate" qualitative mental percepts in an attempt to product analytical target descriptions (aircraft tracking radar, biomedical research facility, tank production plant, etc.).

(6) "Stage VI" sites which involve the trainee in direct, three-dimensional assessment and modeling of the site and/or the relationship of site elements to one another (airplanes inside one of three camouflaged hangars or a military compound with a command building, barracks, motor pool, and underground weapons storage area).

The following document has been prepared to serve as a comprehensive explanation of the theory and mechanics of CRV as developed by SRI-I. It is intended for individuals who have no in-depth understanding of the technology and as a guide for future training programs. Particular attention should be paid to the glossary at the end of the document and to the terms as defined in the text, as they are the only acceptable definitions to be used when addressing the methodology presented.