I’ve had it up to here!
by Author X
FOR A LONG TIME I HAD FOLLOWED THE NOBLE IDEA OF HARMONY AND PEACE in the remote viewing community. I knew that there were other ideas out there, many different ways of tapping into the same ‘collective unconscious’ that most regular readers of “The Matrix” should be well familiar with by now. Like with languages, I had always assumed that someone who is proficient in one language could communicate equally well as someone who speaks a different language. The skill of the communicator was dependent on how well they expressed themselves, not by what language they had learned to express themselves in.
For a long time perhaps, because my initial exposure to Remote Viewing had come through Technical Remote Viewing (and, to some degree later, Coordinate Remote Viewing), I had expected that other Remote Viewing techniques in general were both effective and assuming that since people continued to practice with them, successful.
Recently however, the Remote Viewing field as a whole has been growing at an ever increasing rate, with the numbers of both claimed practitioners and self-claimed instructors ballooning skyward in dizzying fashion. Despite this, the amount of professional level viewers and the degree of sophistication I see in the newly formed RV communities remains extremely low. Although this was puzzling, I never really took much note of it. After all, if your breakfast cereal tastes bland, why would you keep eating it? In the same vein, if people were not having gross success with their Remote Viewing techniques, why would they continue to practice with them?
The answer to the question I never really asked came to me rather stealthily one day, after I had once again picked up pen and applied it to paper. At request from a friend I had performed a Technical Remote Viewing session on a blind target and, following the instructions diligently, extracted a rather complete picture of the target and constructed my report and presented it to the tasker. I started with no idea of what the target was, whether it was in the past, present, or future, if it was animal, vegetable, or mineral, or even if it was something that existed or not. Nonetheless, a little over an hour later I had pieced together a picture of a scenario complete enough, including a rough estimate of the times at which this scenario occurred, that I was not terribly interested in receiving any feedback for the target. I already had a good idea of what it was about. Needless to say, the data supported the original tasker’s investigation into a particular set of activities (of a personal nature) and confirmed many suspicions that were heretofore only circumstantially alluded to. Maybe that ability is some kind of mystical exercise to some, but I simply call it the result of a lot of hard, tedious work.
For me, being accurate is not a joy, it’s a requirement. Knowing that I had not substantially screwed up, and that all gears in my brain were still functional and operative was nice, but I do wholly expect that if I start to lose the target, I am doing something wrong. There is no guesswork, it simply works or it doesn’t, and the determinator for the accuracy of any session in question is simply tied to the person performing the session. I’ve never noticed a situation where I was doing things right but failed anyway due to the phase of the moon, the position of the galactic center, or the color of the flowers growing outside my window. I know if I follow the proven structure I will always be on target. Having this kind of security in your work is comforting. If I ever need to really get down to business and I am put in a position where my work is required in a life or death situation, I know that I can simply do the same things I have always done before and have an expectation that the data will be accurate and applicable to the situation. And this is the same expectation I have come to have of all Remote Viewing data. After all, if you can’t trust it, what good is it?
It was not until a few weeks after I had performed this session, and a few others on other targets (my interest in doing TRV session work had once again been piqued for a little while) that I realized that for a lot of the people who are practicing Remote Viewing techniques, this is really not the case at all.
After having explained the process of Technical Remote Viewing to someone online who professed to being a neophyte, and being soundly rebuffed afterwards that I did not know what Remote Viewing was truly about, I became extremely puzzled. Certainly I know what remote viewing is about, because I have been practicing it for several years. I’ve looked at and investigated dozens of various techniques in use around the world, from eating mushrooms to highly technological trance-inducing machines, to simple pen-and-paper methods. I’ve seen the earliest examples of military psychic espionage work, and the latest “me-too” systems from new-agers and psychic groupies.
I’ve written before about the wars often waged between these various factions and camps within the ideological battleground of psychic ability, and I know that a lot of the hostility and need for being unique and independent comes from a simple system of fear. Fear that one person knows more than another. Fear that someone might be able to psychically influence you or somehow erect metaphysical barriers that protect them from being seen with your mind. Some of this is wishful thinking, some of it is simple mental instability, and some of it might be the beginnings of an infant psychic warfare industry. But overall, very little of use has ever come out of these new trends and most of what I hear about as ‘progress’ in the arena of remote viewing or psychic intelligence collection ends up fading out about as fast as it came into vogue. Now though, someone is challenging me on what I have several years of experience not just researching and learning, but in actual practical application. Something isn’t right here, I thought.
And so I took off again on a little journey of intelligence gathering the (new) old fashioned way, and fired up the web browser for some mental exercises of the more traditional kind. As I read up on the latest and greatest in the RV community, I started to get the hints that something unexpected and surprising had happened. I couldn’t believe it at first, but there it was, staring me in the face like an ugly zit on prom night.
I had become a Remote Viewing purist.
Now you know, I don’t like zealots. Everything has a range of features, from overly passive to overly aggressive, and it’s not often that I find the extreme in either direction to be useful. However as I looked on and watched the ebbs and flows of conversation go into everything from the occult to witchcraft to spoon bending and near death experiences, I began to feel the first inklings of a base indignation starting to form. Where were the people finding cures for illnesses? What happened to those who were doing good work on unraveling the mysteries of UFO phenomena, and even more mundane topics like finding buried treasure? More to the point, what had actually happened to the research and pursuit of authentic remote viewing technology?
These people seemed to be more interested in talking about the technology, or more appropriately about human spiritualism and ESP in general, than those who were interested in talking about how to actually do it. It’s kind of like getting into a room full of 15 year olds who are self-proclaimed experts on automotive technology and know everything about various models and production years, but when you ask them what they actually like to drive you get a room full of blank stares. That’s just wrong, if you ask me.
So I ended up being a zealot. My way is the only way! You’re doing it all wrong! I started to notice that I sounded a lot like what many of my Technical Remote Viewing friends were saying, not too long ago. Most of them are already labeled purists and are accused of being hostile and exclusionary. Although I had never thought that things in the RV community would get so oddly out of hand, I suppose now I understand completely why TRV’ers and those who pursue the real, original approach of strict information gathering and leaving the self-inflationary ideological stuff at home, are now starting to become the odd men out in this arena. Everyone wants to be special.
Fortunately, there are still a lot of actual remote viewing practitioners out there (those who are into the intelligence collection aspect of things, not the extraterrestrial-out-of-body-near-death-experience-vacationers), and I started looking to see what could have gone wrong.
Amazingly, more than 10 years after this technology was initially released to the public via the incorporation of PSI TECH, Inc. and the work of its staff of retired military intelligence officers and remote viewing professionals, there is a decided lack of real, visible RV work being done in the public sector. Trying to find people who are exchanging Remote Viewing data, and displaying sessions and forming networks and communities of protocol-driven RV practitioners is a little like trying to find a needle somewhere on the planet Mars.
Most of what I’ve seen out there ranges from the absolute strict sense of TRV (those who follow the original, exacting methods seem to keep quiet about it, perhaps to no surprise), to ‘modified’ versions of TRV as promoted by old PSI TECH students, to real bastardizations of the old military protocols, to things that bear hardly any resemblance to the Remote Viewing that was used for intelligence gathering at all (think “submersion tank” and lots of electrical wires here).
Not that I am one to get all huffy about that of course, whatever works for you, right? Only that’s the problem. These techniques that I keep seeing don’t appear to work. They are, as others have put it, the equivalent of speaking baby talk compared to the conversation of a fluent linguist. I see full sessions that approach something the average TRV student surpasses on the second day of training. I see only basic, elementary data. And those parts of data usually only make sense in retrospect. “I had the sense of apples!” Well, apples are related to grapes, and you know, there are grapes in California, and the target was the Governor of California, so you got a hit on the target! Wow!
But that wasn’t the point. The point was to get information on the person. Not just figure out that the target is a person. I mean, that’s certainly fantastic enough, that we can reach out with our minds and discern what a blind target is, out of the millions of possibilities we can narrow it down, but what use is that? If you can’t tell it’s a male, a person in power, located in California, government official, personality traits, general physique, and more, what use is the technology to you? I guess you can be happy with your ESP-derived apples, despite the fact that nothing of value was gained from the effort. I would have done better to crack open a ‘People’ magazine than to rely on the data from those “me-too” remote viewing sessions.
But that is the point I guess. Remote Viewing has been downgraded from high level, classified intelligence tool to parlor game for the bored masses. Is this a good thing though? Perhaps as elitists, we can be happy that most people just “don’t get it.” It makes us more powerful, more capable, and lets us keep the magic trick to ourselves. However in the meantime, Remote Viewing continues to be belittled, waved around like some kind of cheap toy store plastic wand, while the magicians waving it perform crude feats of un-amazing prestidigitation.
It seems strange that so many people would settle for lumps of shiny coal when there are so many gold nuggets to be had just around the corner. Is this because they simply don’t know about the gold? Has PSI TECH been remiss in promoting TRV to the public? I think the case lies more with the fast-food model of living that is starting to be applied to Remote Viewing training. After all, why would you visit McDonald’s if you could sit down at a real restaurant? Convenience of course, and also price—but probably mostly apathy. Food is food, isn’t it? Well most of us know, that oftentimes it is not. I don’t honestly think most people realize that there is something aside from Remote Viewing mcNuggets. If you had never eaten an exquisitely prepared filet mignon, opting instead for the discount plastic-wrapped sandwich every time, then everything probably actually does taste like old supermarket cold cuts. For those who are economically pressed into having the equivalent of psychic ramen noodles every night, my condolences.
Not that anyone wants to hear that they’re only eating junk food, of course. It’s insulting. Most likely that is what happened between me and the remote viewing neophyte. How can you nicely tell someone who is used to splurging on extra mayo for their burger that they Just Don’t Get It? Only time will show the effects of such consumption, and perhaps by then those of us who are used to carefully prepared steak will be more inclined to make room at the table.
I’ve managed to snare the only slightly off-centered mind of Wildfire this issue for the Comics Corner, working along the same lines as this article. I’ve always had the sense of a lot of these latter-day “remote viewers” coming onto a professional sporting field with absolutely no idea what is going on, but only with some kind of righteous indignation that by golly, they ought to be able to play too. Not that they even know what game it is that we’re playing, but all games are the same. What’s the difference between Football, Baseball, or even Golf? It all involves people running around on grass and a ball, so how hard can it be? Too many people now figure that experience in watching the game automatically equates to skill in playing it.
No problem… just don’t be surprised when you get left in the dust. But then, that’s coming from a Remote Viewing purist. Move along, there’s nothing to see here.
