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Remote viewing is a claimed psychic ability to perceive information about a distant or unseen target, often used for intelligence gathering. |
Remote Viewing is a claimed Parapsychology ability to perceive information about a distant or unseen target, often used for intelligence gathering. The term was coined by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ at Stanford Research Institute to describe a new, more scientific and sober approach to clairvoyance, distinguishing it from older, more sensationalized terms like ESP or psychic perception. It was the central focus of the STARGATE PROJECT, a U.S. government-sponsored program investigating psychic phenomena for military and intelligence applications.1
Methodologies and Techniques
Remote viewing encompasses various methodologies and techniques:
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Coordinate Remote Viewing: Developed by Ingo Swann, this method involves using geographical coordinates to precisely and economically direct a psychic's perception to a target without revealing its identity. This was a breakthrough in making remote viewing operationally viable.1
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Outbound Remote Viewing: In this method, an "outbound" experimenter visits a target site while the psychic, back at the laboratory, attempts to visualize the experimenter's surroundings. This allows for richer feedback, as the psychic can later visit the site themselves.1
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Extended Remote Viewing: This refers to deeper altered-state methods of psychic spying, often favored by the unit at Fort Meade.1
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Associative Remote Viewing: A technique used for Precognition, where objects or geographic locations are used as surrogates for numbers or other abstract data that are difficult to remote-view directly. For example, a teddy bear might represent a specific number in a lottery, and the remote viewer would describe the teddy bear to predict the number.1
Characteristics and Limitations
Remote viewing, like any human faculty, has limitations. Numbers and letters are generally difficult to remote-view accurately. Visually dramatic targets with fixed and long-established locations are usually easier to perceive. The longer a target has existed at a given site, the easier it is to remote-view. Conversely, the more a target moves, the more it blurs in the remote viewer's perception. Remote viewers often find it difficult to describe a target's surroundings in enough detail to pinpoint its exact location, and reading signs or specific alphanumeric data is challenging.1
Aftereffects and Challenges
Intense remote viewing sessions can have aftereffects similar to those of hallucinogenic drugs, including heightened sensory perception and a feeling of a "natural high." However, prolonged and monotonous tasking can lead to mental fatigue, emotional fragility, and burnout. The controversial nature of remote viewing also led to the "Giggle Factor" within intelligence communities, where skepticism and fear of ridicule often hindered its acceptance and utilization.1
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Schnabel, Jim. Remote Viewers. Dell, 1997. ↩︎