What Technical Remote Viewing Isn't
by Kimberly Snow
A good way to understand what Technical Remote Viewing is, is to begin by explaining what it is NOT.
Technical Remote Viewing is not like an Out-of-Body Experience. Out-of-body experiences (OBEs), as defined in parapsychology literature, are brief experiences in which a person's consciousness seems to detach from his or her body, and leaves, enabling that person to view other places without the physical body by means other than the physical senses. In other words, they go to and view other places OUTSIDE their physical bodies. For some who experience an OBE, they are aware that they are in some other "body" outside of their own but also their own, and can actually feel themselves traveling to another place, and often they see people in those places who are also aware of being seen by the OBE subject. Some of the physical sensations of an OBE may include feeling vibrations of energy, hearing loud and strong noises, and seeing everything with exceptional clarity, with intensely vivid visuals. OBE's are unlike dreams in that they resemble more of a waking experience.
The difference between OBEs and TRV is that while Technical Remote Viewing you are literally downloading information. While you are doing a session and staying in TRV structure your personal experience of the target is kept to a minimum. The structure itself is set up to separate out that personal experience so that it will not taint or influence the data collection. Due to the nature of the TRV structure, you remain in a state of high attention, where bilocation occurs. Bilocation during TRV means that while in structure half of your conscious attention remains in your body focused on the structure itself, while the other half of your conscious attention goes to the target site in the matrix, and gathers information. You do not go out of your body and physically go somewhere, and if you "see" anything at all, it is usually only brief fleeting images that come and go so quickly that you often can not recognize them. If the images linger and have clarity, it is your imagination, and not the data itself. You do not "hear" anything when TRV'ing, you are downloading information, downloading data that is perceived.
Technical Remote Viewing is not like Astral Projection. Astral Projection in occult literature is defined as the experience of being outside of the human body while conscious and alive. It is similar to an out-of-body-experience, in that a person projects his or her consciousness off of the earth plane and into the astral plane, a dimension that is vaster than the earth plane. The theory is that parts of the astral plane overlap parts of the earth plane, where the physical world resides, and an astral traveler can gain access to other planes from the astral plane, such as the mental and spirit planes. Some of the physical sensations of Astral Projection include a heightened sense of spiritual wellness and peace, and a visible glowing silver thread which attaches your out-of-body self with your physical self, and like wise to all living things.
The difference between Astral Projection and TRV is that TRV is a skill, not an altered state. When Technical Remote Viewing, one must be in a high state of attention, and to an observer it might appear as though the TRV'er is working a difficult math problem. It is the strict protocols that one must follow during a TRV session that keep the viewer focused on the target. During the session the viewer begins to bilocate, their attention being split between where the viewer is, and the target site itself. In this state of bilocation, the viewer continuously is going from left brain to right brain, and thus the data is objectified in one side, then the other, but not in both at the same time. The major difference from Astral Projection and TRV is that the data one gets when TRV'ing is perceived as ideas, not as an experience. And although many often verify their faith through working targets of a scriptural or spiritual nature, the process of TRV itself does not involve any spiritual sensations, and there is no experience of floating around with silver strings attached to ones solar plexus or elsewhere.
Technical Remote Viewing is not Telepathy. According to the Oxford Dictionary, Telepathy is defined as "Action of one mind on another at a distance through emotional influence, without communication through senses." In other words, telepathy is communication between minds. Although there is some confusion about the definition of telepathy, one of the most common definitions is the ability for two people to exchange words directly from mind to mind, without using the voice or ears. A good analogy is the radio: one person being a sender, broadcasting "thoughtwaves", and the other person being a receiver, picking up these thoughtwaves. A variation on that definition is that The sender does not send actual words, but rather images or emotions.
The difference between TRV and Telepathy is that no mind to individual mind communication is taking place. In TRV, the "Collective Unconscious" or "Universal Mind" are terms originally coined by renowned psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung to describe the idea that a collective consciousness exists outside of space or time. That collective unconscious or "Matrix" as we call it is like a gigantic library of information which contains every idea, every thought, and every event that's ever happened, is currently happening or is destined to happen. As in a library, all of this information is stored much like reference books or blueprints. Technical Remote Viewing allows your individual mind to connect with the "Universal Mind" and access this information, teaching you how to recognize when the data is merely your imagination, and then training your mind to separate out your imagination derived data from the actual target-matrix derived data. One does not connect with another person's mind on an individual level, as one does with telepathy. During a TRV session, you are not chit chatting mentally with another person.
Technical Remote Viewing is not Meditation. Meditation is defined as close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. John Davis, Ph.D. at the department of psychology at the Metropolitan State College describes it as: a set of attentional practices leading to an altered state or trait of consciousness characterized by expanded awareness, greater presence, and a more integrated sense of self." It centers on focusing attention (either on one object or on all contents of awareness). The "more integrated sense of self" eventually leads to a transcendence of the sense of separateness to an integration into a larger, transpersonal sense of identity.
The difference between Meditation and TRV is that TRV is not a meditative process. Again, the TRV'er remains in a state of high attention and the process is highly structured and disciplined. You have to be awake and alert. You do not have to meditate to TRV because the protocols provide the necessary structure for your mind to be able to download the information. If you were to compare it to a computer, the TRV protocols are the software and the body is the hardware and you are downloading information from the Internet, or Matrix. You are not in an altered state when you TRV, although many do experience an "integration into a larger, transpersonal sense of identity" when they TRV, feeling a greater sense of unity by the knowledge and utilization of a universal consciousness, or collective. This feeling comes after TRV'ing, however, as during a TRV session one is moving so quickly, and adhering to such strict structure that one has no time to "think" or ponder.
Technical Remote Viewing is not Channeling. Channeling, in occult literature, is the process whereby a person, referred to as a medium, or channel, is used by one or more discarnate, spirit personalities for the purpose of presenting information, or for causing paranormal activities to occur, or to channel certain types of energies to or through the medium. It allegedly involves a cooperating effort between a person on the Earth plane (the medium or channel) and a person in Spirit (the communicator). Channeling is receiving a message from one being or force and transmitting it to another.
The difference between Channeling and TRV is that no "spirit being" is involved in the transference of data. Technical Remote Viewing is an attention management skill. It is direct knowledge. Once learned, this skill enables you to tap into the universal source of information. It is a systematic, highly controlled method of accessing information that is not normally available by any other source. The TRV'er does not become possessed of any entities when doing a session and the information is not from a spirit being, but from a collective unconscious. We can also eliminate witchcraft, tarot, palm reading, autonomic writing, demonic possession and general voodoo in this category as well.
Technical Remote Viewing is a systematic, controlled method of accessing information. First developed at the Stanford Research Institute by Ingo Swann and Hal Puthoff under the term Coordinate Remote Viewing, it was later utilized by the US intelligence community and further developed and modified by PSITECH when it was brought out into the public sector. It is an exciting problem solving and data collection tool that trains the mind, awakening and strengthening our innate psychic ability. Anyone can learn this skill, and as more people continue to use it, the very face of human consciousness will be changed.
