The Scientific Basis of Remote Viewing
Remote viewing is the mental ability to receive messages from people, places, or things that are remote in time and space. Remote viewing entails the visual interpretation of such information, which could be from any source that is not within the normal visual range. This means that the person who is ‘remote viewing’ is using intuition, or mental powers to tap into sources that are geographically distant and are physically hidden from the normal field of vision of any person. Remote viewing, or RV, is considered to be another form of extra sensory perception, where the mind is able to connect to a ‘sixth sense’ and utilize what is called in parapsychology as ‘psi’, and see beyond the ordinary boundaries of space and time. Scientific remote viewing takes into account the brain’s ability to receive fine tuned signals from across space, utilizing the brain’s own electromagnetic impulses, or brainwaves. There are various other theories that explain RV, and some of them are interesting enough to have launched government probes, and use them for intelligence research during the world
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wars. Remote viewing in general has captured the interest of the mass public, and understandably so. Remote viewing has aroused a great deal of scientific interest, and many researchers within an academic tradition, have brought out books and journals, investigating into the validity of about remote viewing claims. Many well known books on the subject, such as Courtney Brown’s ‘Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception’ expound on the ability of remote viewing, and proffer scientific explanations for such mental facilities. Courtney Brown, professor at Emory University, outlines in his book the academic study of subjectivism or subjective physics, which proves to be critical in the understanding of remote viewing. The scientific understanding of remote viewing utilizes theories of quantum physics, and establishes a link between quantum physics and the consciousness of the mind. Brown deals with the concept of ‘subspace’, along with varying levels of the consciousness that affect remote viewing, propounding the idea of ‘subspace thinking’ in his book. There are many other ideas about the nature of remote viewing that are expounded in this book. Remote viewing is considered to be a psycho-energetic process, meaning that the brain generates extra amounts of energy during remote viewing, which does not come within the usual purview of the consciousness. The process of RV utilizes the hidden mental faculties that allow the viewer to access information that is ordinarily hidden from view. The subject of remote viewing should be treated as science, and not séance, because of the fact that its application can be used for scientific purposes, and for the benefit of all.
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There are many aspects of the human brain that have not been studied scientifically; because of they have been till date couched in the terminology of ‘pseudoscience’. This particular branding of scientific remote viewing was made during the proper analysis of the mental abilities of RV, and not just fictional accounts of remote viewing. Remote viewing is considered to be one of the most relevant areas of scientific inquiry, because if it is possible, our world could be revolutionized in terms of communication. There are also the other implications of breach of security and information theft, along with loss of privacy. This had led to a CIA funded experiment on remote viewing, along with the development of Mind Technology by the intelligence agencies around the world, during the 1950s. The concept of psychic spies, who used remote viewing to obtain enemy information, was well utilized during the war years. There was extensive use of psychic spies during the Second World War, and then again during the cold war. In fact, Courtney Brown’s discovery of scientific remote viewing was made during his personal contact with Pentagon’s previous psychic spies, who were utilized against the Russians in the Cold War. However, these instances of the use of remote viewing for spying purposes were critically examined and reviewed in the 1990s, when the CIA hired the American Institutes for Research (AIR) to evaluate the claims. The ‘Stargate’ program was funded by the CIA and the US Army, used psychics for spying, and locating information about Gaddafi, a Libyan General, and missing airplanes in Africa. The reviewers of such results included Jessica Utts, and Ray Hyman who were psi researchers. Although there was extensive deployment of psychic spies by many governments around the world, the results of the AIR remained inconclusive,
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because of insufficient evidence to propound the truth of the same. Ingo Swann is widely recognized as one of the creators of the discipline of remote viewing. His books on the subject of scientific remote viewing include, “Kiss the Earth Goodbye: Adventures and Discoveries in the Nonmaterial”, and the several self help books, “Everybody’s Guide to Natural ESP: Unlocking the Extrasensory Power of your Mind”, and “Your Nostradamus Factor”, to name a few. Swann looks to bring the subject of remote viewing out of the pseudoscience jargon, and in his books he establishes his role as a consciousness researcher. There are many levels of the consciousness, and these form the main crux of the concepts he dwells in his works. Swann is considered to be a scientific researcher who uses well designed experiments to evaluate the truth behind remote viewing, and he had helped develop the process of remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute. He is also believed to have propounded the theory of coordinate remote viewing, a process via which one can view a location, given just the geographical coordinates of the same. Such form of RV is able to conquer the boundaries of ordinary space, in which a subject views any location, just by knowing the coordinates of the place. Remote viewing is said to operate outside the physical parameters of space, as well as time. This implies that if the brain’s innate ability to transcend time and space is tapped, you can effectively see into the future, just as easily you can see into the past. Scientific remote viewing looks at the space time conundrum as problems of special relativity, among other issues. False assumptions regarding the nature of space lead to physical paradoxes, which is the apparent contradiction between physical descriptions of the universe. This means that the usual assumptions about space and time are fallible, and the mind is normally programmed to believe in the same.
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For remote viewing to be possible, your mind has to be programmed against these assumptions, so that you are actually breaking paradoxes such as the Twins paradox, which shows that there is no absolute time. Most paradoxes relate to false assumptions, and when these are verified, the paradoxes resolve themselves. During the process of remote viewing, minds that are attuned to the correct views of space and time easily jump over the so called fences of time, as well as space. Remote viewing is made possible if one proceeds from a scientific standpoint of understanding how the mind works. There are many who believe that one can easily ‘see’ the future, via scientific remote viewing. Phyllis M.H. Atwater’s book, “Future Memory: How Those Who ‘See the Future’ Shed New Light on the Workings of the Human Mind” deals with the process of remote viewing into time. In her book, she investigates the truth behind the ability to live life in advance, and to be able to live apart from the present day physical manifestations. Atwater’s firm belief in the flexibility of reality has led to the explanations behind the occurrences of ‘coincidences’ which are actually the ‘shifts’ in the fluid structure of reality. She also believes that prophesying, precognition, clairvoyance, and clairaudience are proof of the human brain’s futuristic awareness, via the understanding of true nature of reality. Atwater says that we all have future memories, and this explains why we sometimes experience dèja vu situations. Our mental ability to see into the future is just the extension of our innate ability to trace the correct pathways of interpreting time and space. Remote viewing experts suggest certain techniques, practicing which we can free our mind from the limitations of ordinary perspective. Atwater claims to have learnt how to remote view through the practice of thinking and conceptualizing about the future, time and again, till it became a habit of the mind.
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This actually facilitates the process of shifting our perceived notion of the present reality into the actual fluid structure of time, so as to be able to view the next sequence. Remote viewing into space is possible with the same concept, only you are moving the perceived boundaries of space, as opposed to the boundaries of time. Atwater says that the entire belief structure in our minds about time and space has to be changed completely, so as to discover the true nature of reality. Our beliefs shape our future, and if we control our beliefs, we can control our future. Our vision of the future is made possible by programming the brain to encounter the truth, and not the apparent web of sensory illusion of the present physical space. With remote viewing, you are leaping over the boundaries of your ordinary sensory limitations, and in a sense, you are utilizing the powers of your highest mental faculty. Subjects, who are remote viewing, are experiencing images from another timeline, and from a place far away in space, with the help of their own mind, and nothing else. Normal use of logic cannot explain such phenomena, because ordinary logic relies on the use of our ordinary senses. Once you are conscious of future events, you will actually incorporate those images within your normal memory, and in a sense, you can easily reflect on these as you can do with events that happened yesterday. It is of paramount importance that you do not see what you want to see, during remote viewing, as these are the results of false assumptions of the mind. Once you attune your mind to receive the truth and not assume what you physically see to be true, you are expanding your mental faculty, in a sense, opening up your mind to receive true impressions. There are many supporters of remote viewing, who perceive the same as scientifically proven mind technologies, which break the space time barrier, with the help of the highest 6
faculty of the mind. These mind technologies are derived from the researches by the international intelligence community and advanced mystics and mind masters. These communities advocate the existence of a Universal Mind, which is the same as Jung’s collective unconscious, and the mystics’ Cosmic mind, is the source of all truth, and as humans, all of us can tune into this universal mind, via our own minds. Such a theory seeks to provide solutions to many problems put forward by psychoanalysts, psychics, quantum physicists, in their respective domains. The existence of such a universal mind, or repository of infinite intelligence, explains not only the possibility of remote viewing, but also encourages the same. Such a theory not only validates the claims of mystics and spiritual believers in a unified Truth, but also supports the theory that information about the past, present and future is possible via a mental tuning into such a ‘mind’. There are stages in our sleep cycle, when our brain’s electrical activity drops to below 4 cycles per second, and this is when, advocates of such a Universal Mind theory believe that we loose individual consciousness, and enter into the Universal Mind. We experience unconscious sleep almost every time we go to sleep, and if such a theory were to be true, all of us are innately connected to this universal mind, via the sleep cycle. Psychoanalysts hold this responsible for the formation of certain archetypes in our subconscious mind, as during the unconscious sleep we connect to the collective unconscious. During unconscious sleep, our mind does not perceive time to be linear. Remote viewing is possible for those who learn how to achieve this state during the normal periods of the brain’s activity. The major hurdle in the process of remote viewing that an ordinary person faces is the supposed ‘linearity’ of time, and the physical boundaries of space. Once you are attuned to 7
think beyond the linearity of time, you can easily access information that comes from the ‘future’. This is because, such events are normally perceived to follow in a sequence, like numbers on a number line. This means that when we perceive time normally, we are actually dwelling on incidents that follow sequentially. We consider our future to follow our present, in a sequence, and this is where we stumble. Our view of time should be corrected, and with proper practice, remote viewing about future events is done once the mind learns how to interpret time in the correct manner. This would mean that instead of subscribing to the linear view of time, one is able to access a timeframe that is fluid in nature, and therefore opening the doors of future to us. When it comes to accessing remote points in space, our views of the physical boundaries have to give way to the true understanding of the same. Scientific and psychological understanding of another phenomenon, remote influencing, investigates into a mind’s ability to influence another mind that is remote in space and time. Remote influencing is similar to remote viewing, in the manner that they are able to see beyond the physical parameters of space and time. The point of difference between the two would be in the manner of approaching the information that is received remotely. Remote viewing is passive in dealing with such information, whereas remote influencing is active. Remote influencing has an active influence on other minds, and in terms of psychoenergetic sciences, one brain sends out stronger energy signals to another brain. In the era of psychic warfare, the Western and Eastern Blocks used brilliant scientific minds in a quest to conquer the ultimate frontier of the mind-matter boundary.
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They wanted to use this to affect mind to event viewing, and influence future events. Mind technological warfare use remote viewing, remote sensing, and remote influence, as the tools of controlling present or future events. A desire to use such life manifestation techniques, and mind control led to the advancement in remote sensing and remote viewing theorizing, which is the time when most of the researches into such abilities were done. One of the most intriguing aspects of remote viewing researches is that remote viewers register unusual mental activity during the ‘seeing’ or sensing remote objects, people or places. The brain encephalographic recording machines show a pattern of theta waves, which are usually 4 to 7 cycles per second normally occurring during the unconscious sleep cycle to a relaxed state of mind. Theta waves are not ordinarily present in one’s consciousness; in the waking state the brain emits only beta and alpha waves. William Ross wrote about the relationship between the theta state and remote viewing/influencing, in his pioneering book about brainwave research. In his book, he outlines how emotional states and behavior are influenced by placing a subject in an electromagnetic field. Ross induced a 4.5 CPS theta rhythm on his subjects, via a carrier frequency to stimulate the brain and by controlling the EEG rhythm using amplitude modulation. The theta state of the mind is capable of remote viewing, sensing, and remote influencing. Such a powerful state of the mind was unaccounted for, and many scientists could not explain why this could be achieved on any subject. Psychoanalysts and the advocates of the universal mind explain this by the fact that theta waves are transmitted by our deep unconscious, which taps into the collective unconscious, and hence is able to send or receive signals from any other mind anywhere in the world.
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The secret of remote viewing then, would lie at the very heart of this control of one’s theta state of the brain. Remote viewers have the ability of relaxing their minds to such an extent, so as to generate the deepest theta waves of 4.5 CPS. Anyone who wants to train in remote viewing would then have to master the art of configuring the brain to attain the deep theta state. During such brain waves, the person stays awake with full consciousness, while the body is actually in a state of sleep. This is in fact not a contradictory situation, as we might imagine, for this happens during our sleep cycles, the only point of difference being that we are not aware of the same during sleep, while during remote sensing, we are training our awareness. Remote sensing works on the same brain states, but remote influencing requires an even lower Delta state, with brainwaves bellow 4Hz. The training techniques include a variety of mind exercises, combined with practice of trance meditation to induce deep brain waves. Remote viewing is not a pseudoscientific claim, as the scientific explanations of the same reveal. Although such an area is open to many frauds, remote viewing is not the domain of psychic magicians or the like, and should not be couched in esoteric jargon, rather it can be practiced by anyone, with the proper training and dedicated practice, and by knowing how to precisely tune one’s mind. The applications of remote viewing however, is a different matter altogether, because when such a powerful tool comes under human control, greed and desire to harm others come naturally. If you want to practice remote viewing, you should strongly oppose such desires, for the ultimate good of others is what you should desire. When you are practicing remote viewing, your aim should not be how to benefit from it, rather your goal should be to uncover truths that are ordinarily hidden from view, because of our warped view of time and space. When we expand our 10
perspectives and identify the true nature of time and space, we are automatically tuning into the universal truth, and this gives us access to the mysteries of time and space.
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