SRV Lesson 1 Transcript

Welcome to Farsight Voyager, a complete experience in scientific remote viewing. We begin with an overview of what remote viewing is. We then move on, in the lessons that follow, to exercises that you can do to help you develop your full potential as a practitioner of scientific remote viewing. The purpose of this experience is not about developing superhuman capabilities, rather it is within the potential of all of us to know more about ourselves as normal humans. Ironically, by learning methods that help us perceive realities that are beyond our immediate physical senses, we are actually learning about ourselves. Thus, what we do here is actually an exploration of the deepest realities of what it means to be a physical being in this most wondrous universe. The method of remote viewing that is the focus here began to evolve in earnest in 1996 due to research that was and continues to be conducted at the Farsight Institute. This is a non-profit research and educational institute that is dedicated to the continued development of the science of consciousness, using remote viewing as the primary research tool. Underpinning all of the research is the hypothesis that all humans are composite beings. This means that we have two fundamental aspects of ourselves, a soul and a body. In the current jargon of remote viewing, the soul we call the subspace aspect of a person. The physical realm of solid matter is both separate from and connected to subspace. Once our physical bodies expire, we are no longer composite beings and we continue to exist as subspace entities. But while we are composite beings, physical stimuli tend to dominate our awareness. This means that our five senses, hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell, overshadow the more intuitive awareness originating from the subspace side. In practical terms, this means that most people are not aware that they even have a subspace aspect. In short, soul voices are deafened by the din of our five physical senses. In order to break through all this noise, specialized techniques are required for our particular physiology. In general, these techniques focus on shifting a person's awareness away from the five senses. It is not necessary to force a shift in one's awareness towards the subspace aspect. It happens automatically once a person's awareness is no longer riveted on the physical side of life. To help increase that more complete awareness, many remote viewers combine the practice of meditation. Remote viewing is a natural process of a deeply settled mind. Remote perception works best when it is not forced in any way. I have often said that the ancient seers were our first human astronauts. While in a deeply relaxed state, they let their minds roam across the fabric of the universe and some perceived what there was there with surprising accuracy. The subspace mind, the intelligence of the soul, perceives and processes information differently from the physical mind. All evidence suggests that the subspace mind is omnipresent across time and space. It is everywhere at once. Using the capabilities of the subspace mind, remote viewing involves no more than shifting one's awareness from one place and time to another. You do not go anywhere when you remote view. You do not leave your physical body. You do not induce an altered state of consciousness. You merely follow a set of procedures that allows you to shift your awareness from one area of your intelligence to another. As physical beings, though, we must translate the information perceived by our subspace aspects into physical words, pictures and symbols, so that this information can be conveyed to others within the physical realm. Scientific remote viewing simply facilitates this translation. Remote viewing would be impossible in the absence of the human soul, since it is physically impossible for an individual's conscious mind to perceive things without direct physical contact of some sort. Thus, in an interesting way, developing remote viewing procedures has actually allowed us to demonstrate scientifically that the human soul, in fact, exists. Soul-level communication is not as easy as you might initially think. On one level, communication with the soul is as natural as breathing. While the theoretical principles underlying how this is done are quite simple, knowing with some degree of certainty that the communication is accurate is actually more difficult. Subspace information has a mental flavor that is distinctly different from that obtained from the five physical senses. It is much more subtle and delicate. For this reason, sensory input from the five physical senses needs to be kept to a minimum, both immediately prior to and during the remote viewing session. That's why one begins with meditation or other procedures to calm the mind, and then to shift one's awareness away from the physical senses. The five physical senses are not the only hurdles confronting you, the remote viewer. The thinking, judgmental, and evaluative processes of the conscious mind can also inhibit success. The conscious mind can contaminate accurately perceived information. Thus, we need to find ways to limit the abilities of the conscious mind to interfere with the mind-gathering processes that use the subspace mind. One way is to limit the amount of information that the conscious mind has regarding the target during the remote viewing session. Information coming from the subspace mind typically is called intuition. This is a feeling about which someone would otherwise have no direct knowledge of on the physical level of existence. For example, many mothers and fathers say that they know when their children are in trouble. They feel it in their bones, so to speak, even when they have not been told anything specific regarding any of their children's situation. Scientific remote viewing systematizes the reading of that intuition, those deep levels of feeling. Using scientific remote viewing, the information from the subspace mind is recorded before the conscious mind has a chance to interfere with it using the normal intellectual processes, such as rationalization or imagination. With nearly all physical phenomena, a time delay exists between sequential and causally connected events. For example, when you turn on your computer or your television or even your radio, it takes some period of time for the machine to either boot up or warm up. When the Institute teaches remote viewing to novices, we exploit that fact that there is an approximate three-second delay between the instant the subspace mind obtains information and the moment when the conscious mind can react to this information. The subspace mind, on the other hand, apparently has instantaneous awareness of any desired piece of information. In general, the novice viewer using scientific remote viewing protocols moves steadily through a list of, say, a hundred things, at basically a three-second clip for each one. The tasks carried out inside the protocols of scientific remote viewing are carefully designed to produce an accurate picture of much of the target by the end of the session. It's crucial to emphasize that there must be no deviation from the grammar of the farsight protocols of scientific remote viewing. This is especially true for beginners. There must not be a deviation because if there is a deviation, you only have to be reminded that it's the conscious mind that designed the deviation. When the deviation happens, when someone changes the rules, changes the things that are done from point to point in the protocols, the subspace mind loses control of the session, and the data from that point on in the session are usually worthless. Thus, we want to stick to the protocols throughout the session, knowing that the habit of the protocols actually helps the subspace mind get the correct information through the conscious mind and onto the piece of paper. Scientific remote viewing always focuses on a target. Now, a target can be almost anything about which someone needs information. Typically, targets are places or events or people, but advanced viewers also work with very challenging targets as well. A scientific remote viewing, or an SRV, session begins by executing a number of procedures using what we call target coordinates. Now, these target coordinates are basically two randomly generated four-digit numbers that are assigned to a target. You must understand that the target coordinates really are just random numbers that come either from a computer program or a table of random numbers. The remote viewer does not know what target the numbers represent. Extensive experience has demonstrated that the subspace mind of the viewer instantly knows the target, even if it is only given the coordinate numbers. The remote viewer, the conscious mind of the remote viewer, is not told the target's identity until after the session is completed. When I remote view, the only thing I am given prior to the beginning of a session is a fax or an email from my tasker telling me the target's coordinates, those random numbers again. The tasker is someone who tasks or assigns a target. For example, if the target was, say, the building of the Taj Mahal, I would not be told the target's coordinates until after the session. This would activate all types of information that I know about the Taj Mahal in my conscious mind, and I would have a very difficult time differentiating the remote viewing data from the memories or my imagination. Instead, the tasker would tell me that the numbers were, say, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. My conscious mind would not know what target is associated with these numbers. But my subspace mind would know the target immediately. A productive session would then include some good sketches of the structure, or at least some aspects of the structure, together with written descriptive data of the building, its surroundings, including the people who may be at or near the building. Scientific remote viewing has four primary, distinct phases, and each phase follows one after the other during a scientific remote viewing session. In each phase, the viewer is brought into a closer or altered association with the target. Scientific remote viewing is performed by writing on pieces of plain white paper with a pen, sketches and symbols that represent aspects of the target. The viewer then probes these marks with the pen to sense any intuitive ideas. Now since the subspace mind perceives all aspects at once, probing a mark with the pen is a way of focusing the attention on the desired aspect. Okay, now let me go through a brief overview of the four primary phases of scientific remote viewing. Phase 1. This establishes the initial contact with the target. It's the first thing you do. It also sets up a pattern of data acquisition and exploration that's continued in later phases of the procedures. This is the only phase that directly uses the target coordinates, those random numbers. Once the initial contact is established, the coordinates are no longer needed. Phase 1 essentially involves the drawing and decoding of the target. of what is called an ideogram in order to determine the primitive descriptive characteristics of the target. Phase 2 increases the viewer contact with the site. Information obtained in this phase employs all of the five senses hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell. This phase also obtains initial magnitudes that are related to the target's dimensions. Again, I will go over all of these phases in detail later on. Phase 3 is an initial sketch of the target. And phase 4, target contact is more detailed. The subspace mind is allowed significant control in solving the remote-viewing problem. Basically, you're permitting the subspace mind to direct the flow of information to the conscious mind in phase 4. Now, phase 5 is where advanced procedures in basic SRV are done. In phase 5, the conscious mind participates more actively by working with some guided explorations of the target that would normally be potentially far too leading to be allowed in phase 4. Phase 5 includes specialized procedures that can automatically add to the productivity of a session. For example, one phase 5 procedure is a locational sketch in which the viewer locates a target in relation to some geographically defined area, such as the United States. This would be too leading for phase 4 because you would automatically be telling the viewer that the target is in the United States. When we collect data using scientific remote-viewing, we have to be aware of the types of information that we're going to get. The initial categorization of the type of the remote-viewing data that we're collecting is based on the conditions under which we collect those data. Remote-viewing viewing data can be obtained under a variety of conditions, and the nature of these conditions produces different types of data. There are basically six different types of remote-viewing data, and there are three distinguishing characteristics of these various types of data. The first distinguishing characteristic is the amount of information the viewer has about the target prior to beginning the remote-viewing session. The second is whether or not the viewer is working with a person called a monitor, and I explain what a monitor is in a little while. The third is determined by how the target is chosen. Let's begin with type 1 data. When a remote-viewer conducts a session alone, the conditions of data collection are referred to as solo. Now, when the session is solo, that means the viewer is alone when conducting the session, and when the remote-viewer picks the target, and thus has prior knowledge of the target, those data are called type 1 data. Now, knowing the target in advance is called front-loading.Front-loading is rarely necessary, and it should be avoided in general, in fact, at all costs. But it is important to note that sometimes, rarely, a viewer simply needs to know something about a known target and has no alternative, and thus the viewer may try to do a session under type 1 conditions, but such sessions are very difficult to conduct from a practical point of view. The viewer's conscious mind can more easily contaminate these data, since the viewer may have preconceived notions of the target. Rarely do even advanced viewers attempt such sessions, and when they do, any findings are considered very suspect. Attempts are necessarily made to corroborate the data with other data that are obtained under what we call blind conditions. This brings us to type 2 data. When the target is selected at random from a predetermined list of targets, and when the viewer is solo, the data are called type 2 data. To do this, a computer or some human intermediary normally supplies the viewer with only the coordinates for the target. Even if the viewer knows the lists of targets, since sometimes the viewer may have been involved in designing the list, only the computer knows which coordinate numbers are associated with each target. It is said that the viewer is conducting the session blind, which means without prior knowledge of the target. It's best under these conditions for the target pool to be rather large. Type 3 data are another type of data conducted under solo and blind conditions. In this case, the target is determined by someone else, not the viewer. This person is called the tasker. This tasker is responsible for writing the target and for assigning the target to the viewer. Typically, the viewer only receives the target coordinates from the tasker. Then the viewer, under solo conditions, uses the Farsight protocols of scientific remote viewing to conduct the session. Solo sessions can yield very valuable information about a target, but many trainees often find that more in-depth information can be obtained when someone else is doing the navigation. This other person is called a monitor, and monitored sessions can be very interesting for new remote viewers. Let's go on to Type 4 data. There are three types of monitored scientific remote viewing sessions. When the monitor knows the target, only the target's coordinates to the viewer. This generates Type 4 data. These types of monitored sessions are often used in training, and indeed, we use Type 4 data through most of this training program. Type 4 data can also be very useful from a research perspective since the monitor has the maximum amount of information with which to direct the viewer. In these sessions, the monitor tells the viewer what to do, where to look, where to go, things like that. It allows the viewer to almost totally disengage his or her analytic mental resources while the monitor does all of the analysis. One of the troubles with Type 4 data for advanced practitioners is that the telepathic capabilities of advanced remote viewers become so sensitive that they can be led during the session by the thoughts of the monitors. Even slight grunts, changes in breathing, or any other signal, however slight, can be interpreted as a subtle form of leading by the monitor, which in turn can contaminate the data as well. To eliminate these problems, advanced monitored sessions are normally conducted under double-blind conditions. Now, these are Type 5 data. For Type 5 data, both the viewer and the monitor are blind, and the target either comes from an outside source or group, or it is pulled by a computer program from a list of targets. Sessions conducted under these conditions by proficient viewers tend to be highly reliable. The disadvantages are that such sessions do not allow the monitor to sort out the most useful information during the session. To address this limitation, sometimes scripts are used to guide the monitor in advance of the session with regard to what types of movement exercises or directions should be given to the viewer. These scripts contain no target-identifying information, but they do give clear instructions as to, again, these procedures and movement exercises, and I will explain more about those later on. Type 6 data come from sessions in which both the monitor and the viewer are front-loaded with the target information. Now, this type of session was occasionally used when there were very few professionally trained viewers and monitors. Type 6 data are rarely, if ever, collected these days. We are now going to talk about the remote viewing experience itself. In order to understand when a remote viewer is at peace inwardly, generally stress-free, most remote viewers perceive a target with the clarity of, say, a light on a misty night. While there may be difficulty discerning the precise meaning and distance of a light under such conditions, there is nonetheless no doubt that a light is perceived. With experience and skill, a remote viewer can perceive all sorts of details relating to a target, such as an experienced yachtsman upon seeing the light would be able to discern the outline of the coast nearby and the identity of the lighthouse that the light is shining from. But again, it's not a high-resolution image. It's not a bright visual image. It's a dim, misty, cloudy, obscure type of feeling. One feels the target as much as one perceives it visually. In fact, the term remote viewing is actually not entirely appropriate. The experience is not limited to visual pictures, although one does perceive visual pictures. All of the senses, hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell, all of them are active during the remote viewing process. More accurate is the term remote perception. But the term remote viewing has already been widely adopted in both the scientific as well as the popular literatures, so it makes sense to simply continue using the term. When one looks at an object, the light reflected off that object enters the eye, and an electrochemical signal is generated that is transmitted along the optic nerve to the brain. Scientific studies have demonstrated that this signal is displayed on a layer of cells in the brain, not that unlike the way an image is projected from a movie projector onto a movie screen. The brain then interprets this image to determine what is being seen. When someone remembers an object, the remembered image of the object is also projected onto that same layer of cells on the brain. Now, if you remember an object and visualize it while the eyes are open, looking at something else, then the same layer of cells in the brain contains two separate projected images. The image originating from the open eyes is the brightest, whereas the remembered image is relatively dim and somewhat translucent, since you can see through the translucent image to perceive the ocular originating image. For example, while you are listening to my voice, of course have your eyes open and look at whatever you're looking at, be it a picture on the wall or whatever. Now, imagine in your own mind the remembered image of a pen. Just remember what a pen looks like and look at it. Now, you're remembering the image of the pen. Now, as you're seeing the image of the pen in front of you with your eyes open, again, you are remembering this image. Notice that you can see through that image of the pen and you can see, of course, the wall behind that image. Thus, the remembered image is more translucent than the ocular image, the image coming from the eyes. Well, the remote viewing image is different from both the remembered image and the ocular image. The remote viewing image is dimmer, it's foggier and fuzzier. And, as I mentioned before, one has to feel the image as much as one visualizes it. Now, the human subspace mind does not transmit bright, high-resolution images to the brain. And, it's actually a useful thing to know when you're training in scientific remote viewing. Because if the student states that he or she perceives a very clear image of a target, the image almost certainly originates from the viewer's imagination, or perhaps the memory, rather than from subspace. Now, this does not mean that the relatively low-resolution remote viewing experience is inferior to a visual experience based on eyesight. Remember, all of the senses, plus the sense of the subspace realm, operate during the remote viewing process. Thus, it is actually possible to obtain a much higher quality collection of diverse and often penetrating data. A remote viewing experience is simply different from the physical experience of observation. It's not inferior, it's not superior, it's just different. A remote viewer's contact with the target can be so intimate that sometimes a new term is used to describe the experience. That term is called bilocation. Often, approximately halfway through a session, the viewer begins to feel that he or she is in two places at once. When this occurs, the rate at which the data are perceived is very fast, typically, and the viewer has to record as much as possible in a relatively short period of time. At this point, you can move on to the next lesson.