The TOTW Archives Uncovered

Target #157: What makes a hero?
by Kimberly Snow

   What defines a hero? What distinguishes them from an ordinary person? Bravery? Loyalty? Valor? When you think of the great heroes in history, both real and imagined, do you picture George Washington? Winston Churchill? Helen Keller? Perhaps you see religious figures such as Moses or Joan of Arc. There are sports heroes, Muhammad Ali and Bruce Lee come to mind. Or such epic literary heroes as Tolkein's Frodo of the Shire, or Gilgamesh.

   Whether our heroes are male or female, whether they spring from the pages of ancient history books or are found in the newspapers of today, whether they once trod across foreign soil or lived right in our backyard, there are certain qualities that they have in common. They possess great strength, whether it be internal—strength of spirit—or external. They stand up against impossible odds to overcome adversity, despite their fears. They are admired for their courage and nobility, and seek to better themselves and the world they live in.

   But of all the heroes come and gone, only a handful stand out as being persons of such remarkable vision that their extraordinary lives have altered the consciousness of our species. Leo Tolstoy. Mahatma Gandhi. Martin Luther King. Mother Teresa. These were the ultimate heroes, because they not only triumphed over evil, but they triumphed in such a way that it changed the very way we think about ourselves and our reality. So how did they do it? What's the secret to being the ultimate hero? How can ordinary men and women like us follow in the footsteps of these giants? How can we be expected to fill their impossible shoes? Surely they must have found something that allowed them to vanquish the darkness of mankind. What did they arm themselves with? What armor did they don that protected their souls from the pitfalls of fear and entrapment that our species seems so vulnerable to? If there was a way that we could find the tools that they used to arm themselves against all odds, perhaps we too could become heroes.

   Uncovering the Truth

   On June 14th of 2005, a handful of Technical Remote Viewing students were about to peer into the armory of these ultimate heroes. Unbeknownst to the students, PSI TECH President Joni Dourif posted a target that would soon reveal one of the greatest secrets to aid us in our search for spiritual evolution. The cue: The Necessary Weapon the Combat Evil. "I thought about this cue for some time," Joni wrote later, "and decided that it was a legitimate question...and perhaps it would illuminate a bigger [and] more pervasive and influential combat, if one existed on a larger scale for humanity."

   In this target of the week exercise, Joni left the cue unqualified, specifically the question of "who is" or "what is" the weapon the students were remote viewing. Joni also said of this cue that, "the assumption was that there is a 'combat of evil' present now or in the future." She made that assumption with absolute confidence, as over the years PSI TECH has gleaned substantial data from the Matrix that there is indeed a "combat" of sorts between good and evil that is taking place. The students were given the target in the blind, meaning they only received a set of randomly chosen target reference numbers and did not know what the target was.

   There was not only remarkable corroboration in the student sessions, but also various individual elements that came together like pieces in a puzzle to form a complete picture. In one session, a student got people in a man made structure, like a hall or chamber, that was tall inside and domed. There were emotions of joy, and tolerance. There were intangibles of "admirable", "dedication", and ideas of worship and silent prayer. In his analysis he wrote, "The target is a very big and large circular, domed structure with lifeforms present. The target's main aspect is a big rock type of thing resembling a menhir. (Author's note here, menhirs are ancient, solitary monoliths. Very little is known about why prehistoric menhirs were erected by primitive peoples.) This may be a place of prayer, meditation, and worship." In his analysis, before seeing the cue, two of his guesses were an ancient temple or mosque, and Stonehenge.

   The idea of a rock was also summed up in another student's analysis in which he likened the target to "spiritual guidance" and "to be like Peter the rock." (Author's note: in the Christian Bible, Jesus gave his disciple, Peter, keys to the proverbial kingdom of heaven by making him the "rock" in which the church would be built on, raising up Peter to be the symbol of faith, to lead and guide others in that faith.)

   Another student had intangibles of "not giving up in seemingly impossible odds" and "like put here by someone else, like a test." His data suggested that there was no way out of this evil, but evil could be outwitted. "It seems like patience is the answer," he wrote in the session. He also added that there was some sort of Dome or cover at the target site, and was reminded of the movie The Truman Show, in which a person's life is nothing but a giant manipulated reality show in which the main character must eventually overcome his greatest fear in order to escape.

   The idea of outwitting evil also cropped up in one student's session in which she used the analogy of a bullfight. This idea of a fight in an arena was echoed in another student's session in which he saw the combat as a test, and mentioned the idea of a coliseum. His data seemed to indicate this battle was a conflict of ideas in which there was a "rising counter to the test of time", where "lots of people [were] gathered to debate and discuss." In his analysis he included two fascinating guesses: a major peace plan hammered out for the Middle East, and a political group—global in scale—making major policy changes or decisions. He also got the intangible of "a place of peace."

   This sense of peace or stillness corroborated with another student's session where emotions were picked up at the target site of "wonder, heaven on earth, paradise, peacefulness, tranquility, and the intangible of perfection."

   In one final corroborating session, the student got data of "dignity, creating, and engineering", with the idea of strong, powerful forces that were ushering in a new awareness, a "new paradigm thinking and its practical applications."

   As I combed through these sessions, I thought long and hard on what the data meant. Being a Lord of the Rings fan, I was expecting to find data on ye old knight-in-shining-armor weapon against evil kind of stuff. Fire and brimstone raining down from the heavens maybe, or good old fashioned Justice prevailing through strength backed by the sort of valiant and terrible courage shown by sword-wielding archangels. This data was mild in comparison. Even wimpy.

   So I took a look at one of history's most effective subjugators of evil, hoping to find some correlation between the session data and real-life combatants. I took a look at the plight of Jesus. What I found was that Jesus was a pacifist in many ways, preaching that one must turn the other cheek. Like he taught his disciple Paul, you must use good to overcome evil. Jesus refused to battle evil with the same weapons evil used. But while he never used the same tactics as his adversaries, he still opposed evil at every turn, with all of his strength and spirit. He used what it is that evil fears most. He used faith. And for his armor, he used all of the virtues of goodness: Dignity. Joy. Tolerance. Dedication. Patience. Peace. Evil was outwitted at every turn by the very qualities deemed as weak by the forces of darkness. By meeting hate with love, wrong-doing with righteousness, despair with hope, curses with blessings, he thwarted evil and never yielded to sin. This was his weapon; a weapon, much to my surprise, that was supported by the TRV data.

   The High Road

   It is difficult to accept this stance. Tolerance and patience are weapons we humans don't readily wield. In fact, his ways were so unusual, so unsettling, that they ultimately led to his death. And they are still difficult to follow today. It takes a new way of thinking for nations across the globe to lay down their arms and pick up the sword of understanding. Understand them? But they are our enemies, they're evil! How many times in history have our enemies in one decade become our allies in the next. So who and what is evil?

	"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

   What is evil is war. What is evil is the suffering of innocent lives, whether that suffering is inflicted by "heroes" or tyrants. What is evil is the unnecessary death of a child. And the only way to combat an evil such as that is to find new paradigms on which to build our foundations; to find the rock on which to build a new world. The data these students uncovered suggests that through prayer, patience, and new ways of finding solutions to our global differences, we can combat evil and achieve peace and tranquility.

   This is a test for our species. And although it may seem like an impossible battle, we can learn tolerance without contradicting our own ideals. It will take creativity, dedication, and a gathering of individuals on a global scale to usher in a new awareness of our potential, a new way of seeing ourselves. Like a bullfighter facing a raging bull, armed with nothing more then a crimson cloth, we can outwit evil. Not by using evil's arsenal. It is time to lay down the weapons used by evil and take up new arms that fit in with our ideologies. But in order to do so, we must rid ourselves of the belief that it can't be done.

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