The International Remote Viewing Conference 2011
Reported by Lorrie Kazan
Remote
Viewing is the ability to transcend time and space and see into the future,
target an event and literally project one's mind there.
From the late 60's to the early 90's, Remote Viewing was used by our
government special forces, including the C.I.A. and D.I.A., in order to
psychically monitor world issues and find hidden targets.
For example, remote viewer Joe
McMoneagle accurately described the Soviets building a larger submarine than
anyone had believed possible.
McMoneagle's vision was considered folly until the Soviets proudly revealed the
largest submarine ever conceived.
The
Conference featured many of RV's heavy hitters, such as Lyn Buchanan and Glenn
Wheaten. Physicist Russell Targ was in the front row, and chiming in
appropriately as needed.
How does RV
differ from clairvoyance? It's
given precise protocols, utilized by military men uncomfortable with the word
"psychic," and generally involves a team of 5-25 participants.
It's labor intensive, and must produce
solid and measurable results.
Teams are
comprised of top level scientists and physicists, whose work has been documented
and accepted by the most prestigious journals and organizations.
While it's considered that anyone can be trained to produce results,
those with more psychic inclination tend to exhibit higher level of ability.
(See
www.lorriekazan.com/books_01.html)
The work of
artist, initiator and original viewer, Ingo Swann, was featured in presenter
Stephan Schwartz's film. In the film, we witness Swann, and an equally powerful
female remote viewer, precisely locate lost ships sunken beneath the ocean's
floor. Even the most sophisticated
sonar equipment failed to track these vessels until directed by the RV team.
Description
of one craft's contents included tiny bottles, which when found turned out to be
medical bottles. Could the viewers
have read about the ship beforehand?
Until it was found, no record existed of this particular lost ship.
Remote
Viewers intentionally describe in adjectives and adverbs, rendering line
drawings of the shapes they see; they avoid nouns.
Nouns indicate analytical overlay, which is where one's mind takes the
lines and shapes and decides what it is and/or what it means.
"A noun is a
box you hide things in," stated Lyn Buchanan.
It's the monitor's job to lead the viewer back to visual descriptions and
away from concrete assumptions.
The audience
participated in two experiments during the conference.
First, presenter Marty Rosenblatt divided the room in half so he could
lead us in 1ARV. 1ARV is a
protocol that evolved from the work of the 10-member Aurora RV Group and was
further refined during a 3-day workshop that involved Russell Targ, Marty
Rosenblatt, and Jon Knowles.
While a bit
confusing to follow and a little too complex to detail here, I'll give a quick
sense of it here. Briefly, each
side of the room had a separate blind target to describe.
Blind means that the picture was sealed within an envelope and it was our
job to describe was we psychically
saw.
Our ultimate
task was to determine the over/under for a Yankees game to be played in a few
hours. To achieve this, one side of
the room was assigned to represent the over, and the other side, where I was
sitting, represented the under.
Each side had a concealed target, i.e., a picture hidden in an envelope.
We used
remote viewing to sketch the designs we perceived were hidden.
Afterward, each side of the auditorium scored the other sides' accuracy
by rating hits and misses.
It was clear
that the "under" side had the highest hits on the unseen target.
The "over" side had lower scores than expected, which only bolstered the
idea that betting on the under was the way to go.
(This was about an hour and a half before the game even started.)
Later, after
those who bet were joyously counting their money, Russell Targ shared that he'd
crunched the statistics and when he realized that our group had predicted an 85%
probability for the under, he wagered another $200.
Many years
before, Targ's own team at Stanford had predicted the daily activities of the
silver market. I believe they
stopped at $100,000 profit, or around there.
Stephan Schwartz said that as well as remote viewing works on financial
predictions, is also "eats the lab alive."
People lose perspective and become totally focused on the money.
The gift of
all psychic work, including remote viewing, is not hitting the target, though in
war time, or in solving a crime, you can't underestimate its value.
The real gift is to show us the power of this universe and our own
oneness with it. That's the value
of spoon bending or any of these high magical arts -- to see how powerful we
really are and how our consciousness shapes events.
We can
remote view because we are connected to all that is.
We can transcend time and space because we are connected to the infinite.
Nothing is really secret once we begin to expand our consciousness and
our sense of possibility.
Our second
audience-included experiment was an "outbounder" viewing.
Two people were given four sealed envelopes to shuffle.
After shuffling, they picked one envelope.
While Stephan Schwartz, creator of the Mobius Project, told us some
fascinating stories about being in special forces in the past and why he left
during Watergate, the two outbounders left the room with instructions to open
the sealed envelope, and then go to the site that was written within it.
Once they reached the site, they called Stephan to say they were there
but without telling him or anyone where they were.
Now our task
was to describe their environment in as much detail as possible.
We relaxed, cleared our minds and focused in on the target:
where were Paul and Cynthia?
We did
really well, many of us perceived their surroundings filled with water, which in
When the two
outbounders, Paul and Cynthia, returned, we were shown the video they made of
their excursion. The sound of water
was loud. (Perhaps this is why I felt
a waterfall.) Some people had also
written down hot dogs.
Either this was wrong or a symbolic message for the two very overheated
dogs who were barking behind the gates of the Little Baja site.
While
everyone wants to score "hits," such as seeing water, describing the shapes,
sounds, smells, etc., all information, hits and misses are used as feedback to
strengthen one's abilities. Not
one's ego but one's abilities.
Apparently
our subconscious knows everything.
And while we value the contribution of the conscious mind, the subconscious is
the dominant force. Only about 15%
of our awareness is conscious; the rest resides in that subconscious realm where
our motivations revolve.
Your
subconscious is talking to you all the time.
If you were off in your description of the target, perhaps your
subconscious had another message that's more important for you to hear.
Consciousness is the name of the human game and our evolutionary
processes expand when we interact with our inner lives.
If you think
you're the only one without an inner life, just notice the voice that's talking
in your ear. How many voices, heard
and unheard, are speaking to each of us all the time?
The more we expand consciousness, the less likely we will be driven by
voices that simply seemed like the truth but were really old ideas from
teachers, parents, or media.
We saw some
remarkable demonstrations. For
instance, Dick Allgire, from the Hawaiian Remote Viewing group, showed us a film
of Glenn Wheaten reading a target.
We watched as he described a wagon, smelled photography chemicals, and described
details that only later research corroborated.
Wheaten's target was civil war photographer, Mathew Brady.
Our audience
questioned the possibility of "leakage" from a Ken Burns' documentary or the
integrity of Wheaten, all of which would have to be strictly accounted for in
future studies.
How does it work?
Matter is
vibrating energy. You can call a
table solid, yet scientists will tell you it is vibrating particles of energy
that only look solid. If everything
is energy, then we can shift our vibration to match the energy we're seeking.
Research suggests that acts of intentioned observation make things easier
to see. Rupert Sheldrake called
this Morphic Resonance. In RV,
multiple viewers come up with information, which is then synthesized like an
investigative report.
For the
above experiment, Wheaten's goal was not only to identify his target, but to
move from being a passive viewer to an active one.
He wanted to leave a message in the past and see if we could find it in
the present. This was a pilot
study; if evidence suggested retro causation was possible, strict scientific
protocols would be designed.
Wheaten
picked three divergent letters, and when it came time to transmit the message
into the past, those were the letters he sent.
We were then shown enlarged photographs of Mathew Brady, and told to
decide for ourselves whether we saw those letters revealed in a kind of smudge
that came to appear on these Library of Congress shots.
(By the way,
George Clooney played Glenn Wheaten in the movie "Men Who Stare at Goats."
Apparently, the movie is not an accurate and respectful representation
and Glenn Wheaten expressed some concerns about his participation in that movie
project. He hoped that getting the
word out about Remote Viewing would outweigh any damage to the art.
Getting the word out means helping people see that their true potential
and connection with a higher order.)
Stephan
Schwartz warned us against seeing Remote Viewing as a "magic bullet."
Instead, he called it a kind of mental yoga, which requires a team of
5-25 people.
For Best Results:
Researchers
found that the single most important thing you can do to develop your RV skill
is to meditate daily. You need to
be able to focus and gain access to your subconscious mind.
Lyn Buchanan
said it is more martial art than psychic science.
He compared it to karate, where you can't think about your response, you
have to flow with it. He stressed
the importance of practice.
"Take a
break," he said. "Let the target
go." We become blind to something
we've stared at for too long. In
fact, he said we don't perceive reality, we perceive changes to reality, such as
noticing when a child you haven't seen for a while has grown.
People around that child may not be conscious of it.
Marty
Rosenblatt, who with Russell Targ had devised our protocol to predict the
under/over for the yet-to-be-played Yankees game, claimed "Precognition occurs
all the time at the subconscious level; RV offers some structure for it."
Dr. Stephen
Braude wondered why we expect psychics to exhibit every level of psychic
functioning all the time? We don't
expect a musician to play every instrument; for example, we don't denigrate a
drummer who can't play the flute.
There are savants who can compute complex math and yet not count to 30.
To be good at one task does not automatically imply that one must be good
at related tasks.
He suggested
that some abilities defy measurement.
How do you study and measure the ability to make people feel comfortable
or laugh? It's somewhat
context-dependent. Not all psychics
are psychic in the same way and one's gifts can be quite situation-sensitive and
need-determined.
Debra Katz,
one of the two women presenters, reminded the group that "psychic is not a dirty
word, and we shall not run from it."
She compared Remote Viewing with Lewis Bostwick's psychic method (as
taught via Berkeley Psychic Institute).
Sharing also emphasized that sharing psychic information is intended to
expand the seeker's awareness.
Lori
Williams showed how RV can be used in day-to-day life.
For example, she and her husband were able to "spy" on their seven
children and keep them out of trouble.
Jeffrey
Smith showed how he works with PTSD, using a number of different devices and
techniques such as EMDR to create a high level of coherence within a client. The
greater our level of coherence, the higher the accuracy rate in remote viewing.
"The heart,"
he said, perhaps quoting the Heartmath Institute, "is a 7-layer liquid crystal
oscillator, emitting 1.77 volts of electromagnetic energy 5-8 feet away."
Information, even memory, may actually be in the human body field, pulsed
through the nervous system, and not in the mind.
Therefore, we're all reading each other all the time, whether we're
conscious of it or not.
Dr. Melvin
Morse reinforced the similarities between RV and Near Death Experiences, both of
which improve the quality of life.
The science of consciousness tells us that we are all inter-connected with the
universe and God, he said.
What we think of as real is about 5%.
"There are
many ways to climb the mountain," Stephan Schwartz said, "and the mountain is an
illusion."
While I've
covered only a fraction of the conference here, I hope I've left the impression
that the talks were rich with depth, information-packed, and even mind-altering.
I had the sense of being with the best and brightest, whose range of
knowledge was impressive.
The
conference reconvenes June 2012, and I recommend that anyone interested attend.
I suspect you'll be glad you did.
*Lorrie Kazan is an award-winning
psychic and writer, and one of our own field-tested Edgar Cayce Institute
psychics. You can see photos of the
conference, learn more about Lorrie, and access articles and even sign up for
her free newsletters at
www.ilovemypsychic.com.