Remote Viewing – Part 2 (Don’t Assume You Know)

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By Lorrie Kazan

Recently, I attended the International Remote Viewing Association’s 40th Anniversary/Conference where I was surrounded by many of the  heavy hitters of the Remote Viewing community.  They came together to share ideas, disagree, reminisce, and talk about the future of the work.

If you recall from Part I of this article, remote viewers mentally travel the globe, sketching images of their targets.  Once funded by the CIA, they revealed such data as intricacies of machinery no one without the highest clearance had seen.  They even detailed the “enemy’s” then-denied military sites, a fact which could only later be verified.

(To read Part I: https://www.lorriekazan.com/psychicthought34.html)

In some circles remote viewing was called “psychic spying” or “mental espionage.”  For others, the word psychic is anathema.

“It’s science, not psychic,” I was informed while sipping a delicious fruit-infused water at an evening party. Can it be both scientific and psychic? Depends who you ask.

Ingo Swann, who coined the term remote viewing in 1971, often uses the dreaded psychic appellation.  However, age, health, and retirement meant he was not present for this year’s celebration.

Scientific discussion abounded; many scientists were in the audience, perhaps including one first-time attendee self-labeled “the resident skeptic.” (He ended up winning the coveted two-night all-expense-paid stay at this luxurious hotel-spa.  Happy, if a bit bewildered, he vowed to return next year armed with even more probing questions.)

You should attend next year, too.  Why?  You’ll be astonished at the brilliance of the lectures, you’ll interact with people who’ve made history, including many former military men who were (or still are) involved at the highest levels of government.

Maybe you’ll even bend a spoon or two once they teach you at the Friday night soiree.  This is the only psi-oriented conference where I’ve seen a plethora of men. Perhaps because it’s science, not psychic? Sorry, single ladies, they’re probably mostly married, though you never know.   

Meet Jim Channonpart shaman, part showman, visonary and consultant to AT&T, Du Pont, Whirlpool and the semi-ridiculous Men Who Stare at Goats, to name a few.       

Surrounded by his art, Channon captivated us from the stage.  I had 2 heart attacks 20 days ago, he told us.  How was he able to rise up from his hospital bed and fly to Las Vegas? “I pushed the heart attack further back in space,” he said. (Here’s where my notes get a bit sketchy. See his website: www.jimchannon.com or buy his talk via the link below.)

Channon calls himself a “rampant futurist.  “The planet doesn’t know where it’s going,” he said.  “Extra terrestrials are all us.  What are you doing about 2012? Ask and ye shall receive.  If you want to break through, just start doing it.  Don’t be polite. Be real.  Be greedy; hug people like you mean it,” he said.  

Artist, Jim Channon (photography Linda N. Barling) 

Artist, Jim Channon (photography Linda N. Barling)

And then he taught us to draw.  His techniques were so simple even I could do it!  Faces started out as teacups and took on dimension from there.

Why draw?  Remote Viewers draw what they see.  You can sketch something intricately without knowing what it is.  Remember, don’t think in nouns, think adjectives, lines, shadows.  Don’t assume you know. 

Your analytical mind will want to impose images it already knows, but we want what the subconscious perceives, and not the left brain autocorrect version. True perceptions may not make sense, but who says it has to?  In fact, one often feels like Alice fallen through the looking glass as she re-orients to a new world. 

Lyn Buchanan (retired military and highly respected viewer) tackled the question of remote influencing.  Russians called it hypnosis because you’re persuading someone at the unconscious level. 

There’s an endless potential for remote healing, Buchanan said, but it requires dozens, or even hundreds of sessions to reinforce each  tiny effect.  Healing also requires diagnostic sessions.

“You have to know how to speak subconscious-ese,” he told us.  “The subconscious doesn’t do nouns.  It thinks in pictures, concepts, gestalts, emotions and feelings.  It thinks in general terms, not specific.  You have to give it what it wants.  You can’t bribe a dog with a dollar.”

For example, if you were trying to influence someone to scratch, you would concentrate on making the ear itch rather than convincing the target to scratch.   

However, Buchanan warned us, these are not parlor games.  You don’t want to mess with anyone’s core belief’s, life purposes, or goals, even in the name of helping them.

Lyn Buchanan (photo by Linda N. Barling)  

Lyn Buchanan (photo by Linda N. Barling)

Buchanan believes that (like quantum physics) you can’t view a target without in some small way affecting it and being affected by it.  “You can’t purge the memory of a horrible target even if you’ve taken steps to clear it from your mind.”

Generally, the more dramatic the target, the easier it is to perceive, but no responsible teacher should give you Hiroshima or Dachau (for instance) as a way of training.

Remote influencing can be seen but it can’t be proven, Buchanan told us.  Studies, which were measurable and repeatable, indicated remote influencing lowered blood pressure.  But tests ended because RI didn’t keep subjects at a low enough blood pressure level to be called a permanent cure.

Buchanan suggested we read about 12 experiments in Wm Braud’s

Distant Mental Influence: Its Contributions to Science, Healing, and Human Interactions (Studies in Consciousness)

Read more about Lyn Buchanan and Remote Viewing:

The Seventh Sense

Psychic Detective, Pam Coronado, reminded us to use all our senses and not just our eyes.  She can smell decomposition if given the belongings of someone deceased. In one crime scene she heard the gun go off, though she couldn’t see it.  That clue helped police pinpoint the weapon.

Pam Coronado (photo by Linda N. Barling) 

Pam Coronado (photo by Linda N. Barling)

Our only limits, she believes, are our own creativity and willingness to try.  Anyone who’s ever daydreamed can visualize.  “Shift your focus to receive something you don’t already know,”she said, before pulling out a series of paper bags and asking us to describe the hidden contents.

“Ask for song lyrics,” she encouraged.  “Notice strange expressions, titles.  Your inner self is communicating in pictures, scents, sounds, and impressions. 

These skills can help pinpoint locations.  You might hear a train barreling through the background, or be piqued by the scent of brownies and bread from a nearby bakery.  The detective may be searching the general area; these tips can help focus in on the street.

Can remote viewers see viruses at the microscopic level? If so, can they obtain useful data to advance science?

Lance Beem and Debra Katz (photo by Linda N. Barling) 

Lance Beem and Debra Katz (photo by Linda N. Barling)

This year-long study was carried out by winners of the 2011 Warcollier Prize: Lance Beem and Debra Katz.  It involved hundreds of trials, and detailed statistical analysis.

They targeted the Phage virus, currently used in place of antibiotics in Russia. What they saw?

Part III – Oh, yes.  There’s more.

Go to www.irva.org.  You can buy any of the talks for a small fee or join the organization and get access to past conference videos and more.