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			Scientific 
			Remote ViewingAn Overview
 
 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 nonprofit research 
			and educational institute based in Atlanta, Georgia, that is 
			dedicated to the continued development of the science of 
			consciousness using remote viewing as the primary research tool. I 
			am the director of the institute. Much of the research that is 
			conducted is available for free on the Internet at the Institute’s 
			web site, 
			www.farsight.org.
 
			Underpinning all of the research is the hypothesis that all humans 
			are composite beings. This means that we have two fundamental 
			aspects: a soul and a body. In the current jargon of remote viewing, 
			the soul is called 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 our existence as subspace 
			entities.
 
			While we are composite beings, physical stimuli tend to dominate our 
			awareness. This means that our five senses (taste, touch, sight, 
			hearing, 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 this noise, specialized techniques are 
			required. In general, these techniques focus on shifting a person’s 
			awareness away from the five physical senses. It is not necessary to 
			force a shift in one’s awareness toward the subspace aspect. This 
			happens automatically once a person’s awareness is no longer riveted 
			on the physical side of life.
 For this reason, I advise combining the practice of remote viewing 
			with the practice of meditation.
 
			  
			The form of meditation that I enjoy is 
			Transcendental Meditation ™, or the more advanced TM-Sidhi Program. 
			My preference is based on the fact that TM is a mechanical 
			procedure, and it has no belief or religious requirement associated 
			with it. The mechanics of TM are also quite stress free and 
			relaxing. Again, these are only my preferences. Many people who 
			participate in other programs for the development of consciousness 
			have also learned remote viewing.  
			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 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 space 
			and time. 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 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.
 
 
			  
			COMMUNICATION WITH THE SOUL
 Soul-level communication is not as easy as you might initially 
			think. On one level, communication using 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 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 a 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 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. The amount of 
			information the conscious mind has regarding the target during the 
			remote-viewing session has to be minimized.
 
			Information coming from the subspace mind is typically called 
			“intuition.” This is a feeling about something which one otherwise 
			would have no direct knowledge of on the physical level of 
			existence. For example, many mothers say they know when one of their 
			children is in trouble. They feel it in their bones, so to speak, 
			even when they have not been told anything specific regarding their 
			child’s situation. SRV systematizes the reading of intuition.
 
			Using SRV, the information from the subspace mind is recorded before 
			the conscious mind has a chance to interfere with it using 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 one turns on a 
			computer, it takes awhile for the machine to boot up. When the 
			institute teaches remote viewing to novices, we exploit the fact 
			that there is approximately a 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 SRV protocols moves 
			steadily through a list of, say, a few hundred things at basically a 
			three-second clip for each one. The tasks carried out in the 
			protocols are carefully designed to produce an accurate picture of 
			much of the target by the end of the session.  
			It is crucial to emphasize at this point that there must be no 
			deviation from the grammar of the protocols. This is particularly 
			true for novices. If there is a deviation, one only has to be 
			reminded that it is the conscious mind that designs this deviation. 
			When this happens, the subspace mind loses control of the session, 
			and the data from that point on in the session are often worthless.
 
			  
			TARGET COORDINATES
 
 Scientific Remote Viewing always focuses on a target. A target can 
			be almost anything about which one desires information. Typically, 
			targets are places, events, or people. But advanced viewers also 
			work with more challenging targets.
 
			 An SRV session begins by executing a set of procedures using target 
			coordinates. These are essentially two randomly generated four-digit 
			numbers that are assigned to the target.
 
			  
			The remote viewer does not know what 
			target the numbers represent, yet extensive experience has 
			demonstrated that the subspace mind instantly knows the target even 
			if it is only given its coordinate numbers. 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 my session is a fax or an e-mail from my “tasker” telling me the 
			target’s coordinates. The tasker is someone who tasks or assigns a 
			target. For example, if the target was the Taj Mahal, I would not be 
			told to remote-view the Taj Mahal, since this would activate all of 
			the information held by my conscious mind regarding this structure, 
			meaning that I would have a difficult time differentiating the 
			remote-viewing data from memories or imagination. Instead, the 
			tasker would tell me that the numbers were, say, 1234/5678.
 
			  
			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 
			good sketches of the structure, or at least aspects of the 
			structure, together with written descriptive data of the building 
			and its surroundings, including people who may be in or near the 
			building. 
 
			THE SRV PROTOCOLS
 
 Scientific Remote Viewing has five distinct phases, which follow one 
			after the other during an SRV session. In each phase the viewer is 
			brought into either a closer or an altered association with the 
			target. SRV 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. Since the subspace mind 
			perceives all aspects at once, probing a mark is a way of focusing 
			attention on the desired aspect.  
			The five phases of the SRV process are as follows:
 
				
				
				Phase 1. This establishes initial 
				contact with the target. It also sets up a pattern of data 
				acquisition and exploration that is continued in later phases. 
				This is the only phase that directly uses the target 
				coordinates. Once initial contact is established, the 
				coordinates are no longer needed. Phase 1 essentially involves 
				the drawing and decoding of what is called an “ideogram” in 
				order to determine primitive descriptive characteristics of the 
				target. 
				
				Phase 2. This phase increases 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. 
				
				Phase 3. This phase is a sketch of 
				the target. 
				
				Phase 4. Target contact in this 
				phase is more detailed. The subspace mind is allowed significant 
				control in solving the remote-viewing problem by permitting it 
				to direct the flow of information to the conscious mind. 
				
				Phase 5. In this phase the remote 
				viewer can conduct some guided explorations of the target that 
				would be potentially too leading to be allowed in Phase 4. Phase 
				5 includes specialized procedures that can dramatically 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.  
			Categories of Remote-Viewing Data
 
			Remote-viewing data can be obtained under a variety of conditions, 
			and the nature of these conditions produces different types of data. 
			There are six different types of remote-viewing data, and there are 
			three distinguishing characteristics of the various types of data.
 
			  
			The first distinguishing characteristic 
			is the amount of information the viewer has about the target prior 
			to the beginning of the remote-viewing session. The second is 
			whether or not the viewer is working with a person called a 
			“monitor,” explained below. The third is determined by how the 
			target is chosen.  
				
				
				Type 1 Data When a remote viewer conducts a session alone, the 
				conditions of data collection are referred to as “solo.” When 
				the session is solo and the remote viewer picks the target (and 
				thus has prior knowledge of the target), the data are called 
				Type 1 data.
 
				Knowing the target in advance is called “front loading.” Front 
				loading is rarely necessary and should be avoided in general, 
				but sometimes a viewer simply needs to know something about a 
				known target and has no alternative. 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. Any findings are considered 
				suspect, and attempts are made to corroborate the data with 
				other data obtained under blind conditions (see Type 2 data).
				
				
				Type 2 Data When the target is selected at random from a predetermined 
				list of targets, the data are called “Type 2” data. For this, a 
				computer (or a human intermediary) normally supplies the viewer 
				with only the coordinates for the target.
   
				Even if the viewer knows the list of 
				targets, since sometimes the viewer has 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. 
				
				Type 3 Data Another type of solo, blind session is used to collect Type 
				3 data. In this case the target is determined by someone (a 
				tasker). During training, viewers may (rarely) receive some 
				limited information regarding the target—perhaps whether the 
				target is a place or an event. Advanced viewers are normally not 
				told anything other than the target coordinates.
 
				Solo sessions can yield valuable information about a target, but 
				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 
				spectacularly interesting events for the new remote viewer.
 
				
				Type 4 Data There are three types of monitored SRV sessions. When the 
				monitor knows the target but communicates only the target’s 
				coordinates to the viewer, this generates Type 4 data. These 
				types of monitored sessions are often used in training.
   
				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, and where to go. This 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 their telepathic capabilities become so sensitive that 
				they can be led during the sessions 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 could contaminate the 
				data. To eliminate these problems, advanced monitored sessions 
				are normally conducted under double-blind conditions, yielding 
				Type 5 data.
 
				
				Type 5 Data For this level both the viewer and the monitor are blind, 
				and the target either comes from an outside agency 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, 
				scripts are often given to the monitor in advance of the 
				session. These scripts contain no target identifying 
				information, but they do give clear instructions as to which 
				procedures and movement exercises need to be executed (and in 
				what order). 
				
				Type 6 Data These data come from sessions in which both the monitor and 
				the viewer are front loaded with target information. This type 
				of session was occasionally used when there were very few 
				professionally trained viewers and monitors, information needed 
				to be obtained quickly, and there was no one else available to 
				task with the session. Type 6 data are rarely if ever collected 
				these days.
 
			  
			THE REMOTE VIEWING EXPERIENCE
 When at peace inwardly, and generally stress free, beginners 
			perceive a target with a clarity characteristic 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, just as an experienced yachtsman, upon seeing the light, 
			can soon discern the outline of the nearby coast, and the identity 
			of the lighthouse from which the shrouded beacon shines.
 
			Learning how to remote view from a book is not optimal. The primary 
			reason for presenting these methods here is not to teach Scientific 
			Remote Viewing, but to explain it to people who want to understand 
			and interpret remote-viewing data. Students of remote viewing must 
			understand that the effectiveness of any procedures depends not only 
			on the procedures themselves, but also on how well they are 
			executed.
 
			  
			This, in turn, depends on the quality of 
			instruction and feedback. In a classroom, regular instructions are 
			directed at a student’s work while the initial learning process is 
			under way (and before counterproductive habits are formed). These 
			instructions help obtain the highest level of performance. 
			Nonetheless, many students can achieve a minimal level of 
			effectiveness by systematically studying the procedures presented 
			here without the assistance of classroom instruction.  
			The term “remote viewing” is actually not entirely appropriate. The 
			experience is not limited to visual pictures. All of the 
			senses—hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell—are active during the 
			remote-viewing process. More accurate is the term “remote 
			perception.” Nonetheless, since “remote viewing” has been widely 
			adopted in the scientific as well as the popular literature, it 
			makes sense simply to continue using the current 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, 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 in the brain.1
 
			  
			1.- 
			If one remembers an object and visualizes it while the eyes are open 
			and 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 one can see through 
			the translucent image to perceive the ocular originating image.
			 
			  
			For those readers who would like to 
			read an accessible but more in-depth treatment of the physiology of 
			visual and remembered images, I strongly recommend an article in The 
			New York Times by Sandra Blakeslee titled, “Seeing and Imagining: 
			Clues to the Workings of the Mind’s Eye” (The New York Times, 31 
			August 1993, pp. B5N & B6N).  
			  
			When remote viewing, one also perceives 
			an image, but it is different from the remembered image or the 
			ocular image. The remote-viewing image is dimmer, foggier, and 
			fuzzier.  
			  
			Indeed, one tends to “feel” the image as 
			much as one visualizes it. The human subspace mind does not transmit 
			bright, high-resolution images to the brain, and this fact is useful 
			in the training process for SRV. If a student states that he or she 
			perceives a clear image of a target, this image almost certainly 
			originates from the viewer’s imagination rather than from subspace.
			
 
			This does not mean that the relatively 
			low-resolution remote-viewing experience is inferior to a visual 
			experience based on eyesight. Remember that all of the five 
			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 penetrating data. The 
			remote-viewing experience is simply different from, not superior or 
			inferior to, physical experience of observation.  
			A remote viewer’s contact with a target can be so intimate that a 
			new term, “bilocation,” is used to describe the experience. 
			Approximately halfway through a session, the viewer often begins to 
			feel he or she is in two places at once. The rate at which data come 
			through at this point is typically very fast, and the viewer has to 
			record as much as possible in a relatively short period of time.
 
			Experience has shown that each viewer is attracted to certain 
			aspects of any particular target, and not all are attracted to the 
			same aspects. One viewer may perceive the psychological condition of 
			people at the target location, whereas another viewer may focus in 
			on their physical health. Yet another viewer may concentrate on the 
			physical attributes of the local environment of the target. For 
			example, I once assigned a target of a bombing to a group of 
			students. One of the students was a doctor and another a 
			photographer.
 
			  
			After the session was completed, I 
			reviewed each student’s work. The entire class perceived the bombing 
			incident. But the doctor described the physical characteristics of 
			the bombing victims closely, including all of their medical problems 
			resulting from the bombing. On the other hand, the photographer’s 
			session read more like a detailed analysis of the physical 
			characteristics of the event, including an accurate description of 
			the geographical terrain where the bombing took place.  
			Thus, remote viewers go into a session with what they already 
			have—their own personalities. Advanced remote viewers balance these 
			attractions because their training is designed to extract a 
			comprehensive collection of data. But even under the best of 
			circumstances, some level of individual focusing is inevitable for 
			each viewer. For this reason, we use a number of advanced remote 
			viewers for any given project. Each viewer will contribute something 
			unique to the overall results, and a good analyst can put the pieces 
			of the puzzle together to obtain the fullest analysis of the target.
 
			So, you may ask, who should remote view?
 
			In this field there is a distinction between natural and trained 
			remote viewers. Natural remote viewers are generally referred to as 
			“psychics,” or when the context is clear, simply “naturals.”
 
			Naturals typically use no formal means of data acquisition. They 
			simply “feel” the target, and their accuracy depends on how well 
			they can do this. Because naturals may not understand the mechanism 
			by which their talents are achieved, their dependency on the “feel” 
			of the data can cause problems of accuracy. A person’s conscious 
			mind can disguise information to make it feel right, when in fact it 
			is not correct at all. Furthermore, since it is difficult to 
			accurately evaluate the “flavor” of psychic data while it is being 
			collected, most naturals have very uneven success histories.
 
			By the end of 1997, The Farsight Institute had trained a large 
			number of people in the basics of Scientific Remote Viewing. With 
			this teaching experience as background, we have identified a clear 
			pattern. Any person of average or better intelligence apparently can 
			be trained to remote view with considerable accuracy.
 
			  
			Certain life experiences and educational 
			backgrounds sometimes assist in the process. In week-long 
			introductory classes taught at The Farsight Institute, all or nearly 
			all students have successful remote-viewing experiences, and the 
			instructors generally expect that most sessions conducted after the 
			third day contain some obviously target-related material.  
			Part of the training process is helping participants identify and 
			interpret subspace-accessed data with increasing precision. All 
			aspects of all targets have a particular “feel.” The novice viewers 
			are just beginning to learn what these aspects feel like on an 
			intuitive level.
 
			In addition, Farsight Institute trainees who practice meditation 
			already have a good intuitive sense of subspace. Their initial 
			training moves quickly from learning the mechanics of SRV to the 
			advanced discrimination between complex target characteristics. 
			Meditators often discern new things and have more penetrating and 
			profound remote-viewing experiences more quickly than those who do 
			not meditate. Of course, there are exceptions: many remote-viewing 
			trainees are very good from the start even if they have never 
			meditated.
 
			With this general discussion of Scientific Remote Viewing complete, 
			we are now ready to explain the mechanics of the process and how it 
			works. We begin this in the next chapter by explaining how we 
			identify a target using what is called a “target cue.”
 
 
			
			
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			TARGET CUES
 
 Writing an effective target cue is one of the most important 
			criteria in remote viewing. The target cue identifies the target. It 
			is the actual event, person, object, or whatever, that is the focus 
			for a remote viewing session. Normally, the remote viewer is not 
			told the target cue until after the session is completed. With Type 
			5 data (double-blind), the monitor also is not told the target cue 
			until after the session is completed.
 
			The target initial cue is given through the target coordinates. 
			Typically, the person who tasks the session has a piece of paper on 
			which the target coordinates and the target cue are both written. In 
			Type 5 data situations, the tasker gives the monitor the target 
			coordinates (normally over phone or fax), and nothing more. 
			Experience has clearly demonstrated that the viewer’s subspace mind 
			has instantaneous awareness of the meaning of the target 
			coordinates, and a typical session begins immediately by obtaining 
			information directly related to the target cue.
 
			Humans perceive and process remote-viewing data differently. For 
			example, if someone was told to go into a room and to see what was 
			there, they would need little additional instruction. The request to 
			go into the room and observe is vague, yet most people would not 
			feel uncomfortable with the request, knowing that they would 
			probably be able to sort things out once they got into the room.
 
			When they start looking around, they could make an inventory of the 
			room’s contents. Their conscious minds would be fully engaged as 
			they entered the room, and most people would perform satisfactorily 
			in this regard even if they had no prior expectations regarding the 
			contents of the room.
 
			With remote viewing, the viewer has minimal help from the conscious 
			mind. The viewer cannot scan everything, evaluate the importance of 
			all that is perceived, make logical choices as to which are the 
			important things to observe, and rank them in order. The 
			remote-viewing experience is more passive; the viewer perceives what 
			is there, but the viewer has only limited evaluative capabilities.
 
			  
			Thus, for remote viewing to be most successful, it is necessary to 
			compensate for the relative lack of input from the conscious mind. 
			To do this, one makes the target cue very specific with regard to 
			what is desired from the subspace mind of the viewer.  
			At The Farsight Institute, we avoid excessively vague cues. For 
			example, if one tasks a target cue of a person (say, just the 
			person’s name), then a viewer would be completely accurate if the 
			observed data were anything that related to this person at any time 
			in his or her life. Even a fantasy that the person had during a 
			lunch break would qualify as accurate data. In such a situation, the 
			choice of what to perceive is being determined by the personal 
			preferences of the viewer’s subspace mind. To avoid this problem of 
			subjectivity, the instructions in the cue have to eliminate as much 
			ambiguity as possible.
 
			Here I will present one of the more modern forms of cuing that is 
			used at The Farsight Institute. Other cuing forms are also used, 
			depending on the needs for the session. Neither are better or worse; 
			they just do different things.
 
			To task a target, one needs a “target definition.” A complete target 
			definition has a variety of parts, but they are basically broken 
			down into,
 
				
					
						
						(1) viewing parameters 
						(2) the essential cue 
						(3) a list of qualifiers 
			  
			VIEWING PARAMETERS
 Viewing parameters may contain a variety of components. They 
			typically begin with a declaration of the target coordinates. 
			Following this is the essential cue, as it is described below. The 
			target coordinates and the essential cue are placed at the top of 
			the cue so that analysts who sort through large stacks of targets 
			can identify a target by glancing at the top of the page.
 
			Following the essential cue are two primary viewing parameters. The 
			first is the target range. This gives general instructions as to the 
			type of information that is permissible in the session. For example, 
			the range typically limits the target data to only tangibles and 
			intangibles that exist in the target.
 
			  
			At first this may seem obvious. However, 
			all targets bleed into other areas, and it is easy for the subspace 
			mind to follow these smears in the data boundaries. For example, the 
			target may be a specific person on a beach on the equator at a given 
			point in time. But that person may be thinking about an Eskimo 
			hunting a polar bear in the Arctic. If a viewer pursues this 
			perception, the viewer may describe polar bears on the beach.  
			Then comes the second viewing parameter. This specifies the time 
			frame of the target. Many experiments have verified that there is a 
			complete continuum of existence with an infinite number of time 
			lines, both past, present, and future. The subspace mind is equally 
			capable of perceiving all of these.
 
			  
			Thus, it is necessary to request the 
			subspace mind to locate targets as they may exist in time frames and 
			realities that are closely connected to our present. Following the 
			second viewing parameter is the target cue, which includes the 
			essential cue and the qualifiers.  
			  
			THE ESSENTIAL CUE
 
 The essential cue is normally a simple statement or sentence that 
			describes the basic core of the target. The essential cue is both 
			simple and direct. Sometimes a segmented structure is used in 
			writing the essential cue. The cue has multiple parts, with each 
			being separated by a slash (/). The first part of the essential cue 
			is called the “primary cue.” The primary cue is the major identifier 
			of the target.
 
			  
			Everything that follows is a refinement 
			of this primary identifier. Thus, if the target is a known place or 
			person, the first part must be the name of the place or person. The 
			primary cue is then followed by a slash and one or more secondary 
			cues (each separated by a slash) if greater refinement of the target 
			is required. The cue “event” is sometimes used as the final 
			secondary cue to focus a remote viewer on activity at the target.
			 
			  
			Specific temporal identifiers follow the 
			primary and secondary cues and are placed in parentheses. As a 
			general rule, each target must have one primary cue, and nearly all 
			targets have at least one secondary cue (as needed) as well as a 
			temporal identifier.  
			  
			The format of the essential target cue 
			is as follows:  
				
				Primary Cue / First Secondary Cue / 
				Second Secondary Cue (Temporal Identifier)  
			The following are some examples of 
			essential target cues that follow the segmented format. 
				
					
					Example 1Napoleon Bonaparte / Battle of Waterloo / event (1815)
 
 Example 2
 John F. Kennedy assassination / event (22 November 1963)
 
 Example 3
 Nagasaki / nuclear destruction / event (9 August 1945)
 
			Effective essential cues must begin with 
			a known, not a conclusion. Errors in cue construction usually result 
			from placing an analytical conclusion in the cue itself. The purpose 
			of a remote viewing session is to gather data for known events so 
			that conclusions can be made during the subsequent analysis of the 
			data. For example, a poorly written essential cue that contains a 
			conclusion would be: “John F. Kennedy assassination / conspiracy.”
			 
			  
			In this cue, one is assuming that there 
			is a conspiracy in the assassination. With remote viewing, one must 
			construct a case for a conclusion based on observable data. If there 
			was a conspiracy in the J.F.K. assassination, this must be 
			established from the data of events and people, not by cuing on the 
			idea of conspiracy.  
			Since remote viewing always obtains descriptive information about 
			people, things, and events, the conscious mind must later make 
			conclusions based on information supplied by remote-viewing data. 
			For example, a remote viewer could be tasked the J.F.K. 
			assassination (that is, the event itself).
 
			  
			The viewer could then be given various 
			movement exercises and cues to obtain as complete a collection of 
			data as possible. In the analysis that follows the remote-viewing 
			session, the analyst can then examine the data for any evidence of a 
			conspiracy. For instance, the data may show more than one source of 
			bullets in the event. But one cannot go into a session assuming that 
			there will be more than one source of bullets. That would bias the 
			data-collection process.  
			Restating this important principle, data are collected using neutral 
			target cues, and all analytical conclusions must be made after the 
			data collection process is completed.
 
			Another example of a poorly written essential cue is: “How to live 
			happily with friendly extraterrestrial neighbors.” Many people think 
			that remote viewing can be used to resolve such targets directly. 
			Yet it must begin with a known person, place, thing, or event. A cue 
			about extraterrestrial neighbors would assume the existence of 
			extraterrestrials. At best, one would have to begin with a known, 
			such as an actual sighting of an unidentified flying object, perhaps 
			one documented with a photograph.
 
			  
			The remote viewer would then be able to 
			target the object, move inside the object, and observe 
			extraterrestrials flying the craft. The viewer would also be able to 
			move into the minds of the extraterrestrials to find out if they are 
			friendly toward humans. With this information, an analyst would have 
			at least something to work with regarding the possibility of 
			friendly coexistence for humans and extraterrestrials.  
			In general, remote viewing is descriptive. It does not label things, 
			analyze situations, make conclusions, nor does it employ logic or 
			reasoning during the session. For example, if the target is a 
			checkers game, the remote viewer would describe the board, perhaps 
			even drawing the checkerboard pattern in a sketch.
 
			  
			The viewer may even correctly place some 
			pieces on the board, and identify the colors of the pieces. But the 
			viewer may not realize during the session that the target is a 
			checkers game. After the session is completed, the analyst can 
			examine the data and conclude that the data seem to correspond with 
			a checkers game. The target cue has to focus on these descriptive 
			capabilities of remote viewing.  
			  
			THE QUALIFIERS
 
 Following the essential cue is a list of qualifiers, usually marked 
			with bullets. The qualifiers are written in phrase or sentence 
			format, and they are clear descriptions of specific things that the 
			viewer is supposed to observe and describe. The qualifiers must 
			address the primary goals of the cue, including instructions to 
			observe activity that may be taking place at the target location.
 
			  
			Target qualifiers are not as effective 
			as numbered target aspects in helping the remote viewer focus on 
			particular components of a target (see SRV vocabulary).  
			For example, if the cue is a military battle, the qualifiers should 
			explicitly state that the viewer is to observe the battle itself. 
			Otherwise a viewer may perceive what amounts to an inventory list of 
			things and people that are at the scene of the battle, but miss the 
			actual fighting, the sounds of the passing cannonballs, the thunder 
			of the bombs, the shouts of the soldiers, etc.
 
			  
			Readers are encouraged to closely 
			examine the qualifiers for the example target cues listed below to 
			obtain a solid sense of what’s required. Versions of some of these 
			targets have been used in the actual training of many advanced 
			viewers at The Farsight Institute. 
 
			One Complete Example
 
				
				TARGET DEFINITION FOR  
				TARGET 3292/9537 ESSENTIAL CUE (AND VIEWING PROTOCOLS):
 
				Mike Tyson - Evander Holyfield 
				Championship Boxing Match (28 June 1997). (ESRV)  
				VIEWING PARAMETER 1: TARGET RANGE
 The viewer perceives only the intended target as it is specified 
				by this complete target definition.
 The viewer describes only tangibles and intangibles that exist 
				in this target.
 
				VIEWING PARAMETER 2: TARGET LINKS
 If the target resides outside of a past, present, or future 
				connection to the temporal and/or spatial reality of the current 
				tasking time frame, then the viewer remote views the target as 
				it exists in its own reality.
 
				If the target time is the moment of tasking, then the viewer 
				remote views the target as it exists in the same temporal and 
				spatial reality of the tasker at the moment of tasking.
 
				If the target time is prior to the moment of tasking, then the 
				viewer remote views the target as it exists in the temporal and 
				spatial reality of the time stream that directly evolves into 
				the temporal and spatial reality of the tasker at the moment of 
				tasking.
 
				If the target time is in the future of the moment of tasking, 
				then the viewer remote views the target as it exists in the most 
				highly probable temporal and spatial reality as it may evolve 
				from the temporal and spatial reality of the tasker at the 
				moment of tasking, given both the existing conditions of the 
				tasker’s reality at the moment of tasking, as well as directions 
				for extrapolation into the future if such are specified in the 
				target cue.
 
				TARGET 3292/9537
 Protocols used for this target: Enhanced SRV
 
				The Mike Tyson - Evander Holyfield Championship Boxing Match (28 
				June 1997). In addition to the relevant aspects of the general 
				target as defined by the essential cue, the viewer perceives and 
				describes the following target aspects:
 
					
						
						
						Mike Tyson and Evander 
						Holyfield 
						
						the target activity in the 
						boxing ring 
						
						the activity surrounding the 
						boxing ring 
						
						the building within which 
						the target is located 
						
						the thoughts of the people 
						watching the fight inside the building where the match 
						occurs  
			Examples of Essential Cues with 
			Qualifiers
 
			Target 9148/5716
 Madeleine Murray O’Hare / current location. In addition to the 
			relevant aspects of the general target as defined by the essential 
			cue, the viewer perceives and describes the following target 
			aspects:
 
				
					
					
					the current physical 
					characteristics of Madeleine Murray O’Hare 
					
					the current physical condition 
					of Madeleine Murray O’Hare 
					
					the surrounding environment and 
					current location of Madeleine Murray O’Hare’s physical body
					 
			Target 3985/3159  
			The Apollo 11 landing on the Moon / 
			event (20 July 1969). In addition to the relevant aspects of the 
			general target as defined by the essential cue, the viewer perceives 
			and describes the following target aspects:  
				
					
					
					the actual landing event in 
					which the lander contacts the lunar surface 
					
					the activity of Neil Armstrong 
					as he emerges from the lunar lander and walks on the lunar 
					surface for the first time 
					
					Neil Armstrong planting the U.S. 
					flag on the lunar surface  
			Target 6459/3395 Ted Bundy’s execution / event. In addition to the relevant aspects 
			of the general target as defined by the essential cue, the viewer 
			perceives and describes the following target aspects:
 
				
					
					
					Ted Bundy during the execution 
					event 
					
					Ted Bundy’s surroundings during 
					the moment of execution 
					
					the people near him during the 
					execution 
					
					the emotions of Ted Bundy as 
					well as the emotions of the people near him who are watching
					
					
					the execution 
					
					the method by which the 
					execution is performed  
			Here is an esoteric target. Before 
			giving an esoteric target with an extensive list of qualifiers, the 
			tasker must have some information strongly suggesting that such a 
			target in fact exists. Such information can come from more 
			open-ended cues. 
 
			Target 3292/9537  
			The living physical subjects and their 
			facilities that are currently located on Mars (at the time of 
			tasking). In addition to the relevant aspects of the general target 
			as defined by the essential cue, the viewer perceives and describes 
			the following target aspects:  
				
					
					
					the physical environment of the 
					subjects’ living conditions 
					
					the age and gender variations 
					among the subjects 
					
					the emotional state of the 
					subjects 
					
					the dominant groups among the 
					subjects, including any governmental organizations 
					
					
					the primary thoughts of the 
					collective consciousness of the subjects 
					
					the level of technology 
					available to the subjects  
			
			
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 PHASE 1
 
 THE PRELIMINARIES
 
				
				1. Consciousness-Settling 
				Procedure The single most important step needed to obtain a profound 
				remote-viewing experience is a deeply settled mind. For this 
				reason I recommend that remote viewers meditate regularly. While 
				I personally practice Transcendental Meditation ™, other forms 
				of meditation may be useful as well.
   
				Additionally, since a settled mind 
				is so essential to deep target penetration, the practice of SRV 
				begins with a procedure that helps to settle the mind in an 
				appropriate fashion. This practice is called the SRV 
				“Consciousness-Settling Procedure” (or CSP), and it is composed 
				of a few simple techniques commonly practiced in a number of 
				meditation traditions.  
				CSP must be done immediately prior to each SRV session by both 
				the viewer and the monitor. CSP takes approximately 15 minutes 
				total. In Type 4 and Type 5 settings, monitors and viewers need 
				to communicate 15 minutes before each session to coordinate the 
				precise timing of the beginning of the SRV session. Here are the 
				steps for CSP:
 
					
					1. Sit comfortably in silence 
					with the eyes closed for 30 seconds.  
					2. Perform a brief body massage. (Some meditation traditions 
					recommend that the massage be executed slightly differently 
					for men and women, and I describe these recommendations 
					here. I am not clear as to why these gender-related 
					differences exist, or if the need for the differences is 
					real.)
   
					The massage begins by gently 
					pressing the hands against the face, then upward on the top 
					of the head, back down the neck, and toward the heart. (All 
					massage elements move toward and finish at the heart.) Then 
					men continue by gently using the left hand to press and 
					massage first the right hand, and then up the arm, and back 
					down toward the heart.    
					Again, this is all done with the 
					left hand. Women do the same, but they begin by massaging 
					the left hand and arm (back toward the heart) with the right 
					hand. Then both men and women switch arms and massage the 
					other hand and arm, again, back toward the heart. 
					   
					Then men continue by massaging 
					the right foot and leg, upward toward the heart. This is 
					done with both hands pressing gently. Then massage the left 
					foot and leg, again, upward toward the heart. Women do the 
					same, but they begin with the left foot and leg, upward 
					toward the heart, before repeating the process for the right 
					foot and leg. This is best done with the eyes closed. Total 
					time for the massage is about a minute.  
					3. While sitting comfortably with the back straight, perform 
					a breathing technique that is called “pranayama.” Begin with 
					10 seconds of fast pranayama. This is done using very short, 
					gentle breaths, closing one nostril at a time after each 
					outward and inward breath. Close the nostrils (one at a 
					time) with the thumb and the middle fingers (alternately) of 
					one hand.
   
					Men use their right hand to do 
					this while women use their left. The mechanics of the 
					procedure are similar to slow pranayama (see below), except 
					that the breaths are very short and rapid (although still 
					gentle). This is best done with the eyes closed.    
					The procedure should be 
					effortless and easy, and if someone is experiencing any 
					problems like dizziness or hyperventilation, it is being 
					performed incorrectly and its practice should be 
					discontinued until getting personal instruction in this 
					technique.  
					4. While sitting comfortably with the back straight, perform 
					9 to 10 minutes of slow pranayama. This is done similarly as 
					with the fast pranayama, but using normal breaths (not short 
					or long ones), closing one nostril at a time after each 
					outward and inward breath. Be sure to complete both the 
					outward and inward breath before switching nostrils. On the 
					exhaling breath, let the breath flow out naturally, not 
					forcing it.
   
					The inhaling breath should take 
					about half the time as the exhaling breath. Hold the breath 
					after inhaling for a brief moment (a second or two) while 
					alternatively closing the other nostril with the other 
					finger, and prepare to exhale. The entire procedure should 
					be effortless and gentle. If you feel you need more air, 
					simply take deeper breaths, but do not hyperventilate. You 
					should be breathing normally, just alternating nostrils 
					after exhaling and inhaling. This is best done with the eyes 
					closed.  
					5. Sit quietly and comfortably for 5 minutes with the eyes 
					closed.
 
					6. Open your eyes, and immediately begin the SRV session.
 
				2. Physical Considerations to 
				Beginning the SRV Session A remote-viewing session begins with a viewer sitting at a 
				clean desk. Ideally, the only items that should be on the desk 
				are a pen and a thin stack of white paper.
   
				We use a ballpoint pen with liquid 
				black ink. The pen’s point should ideally range from between .2 
				mm to .4 mm. A good quality pen that does not produce much 
				friction when writing is best. Traditional ball point pens that 
				use gummy ink require too much downward pressure when writing to 
				be optimal.  
				The ideal training room is neutral in color. Light gray, powder 
				blue, or light brown are suitable colors. It is probably not a 
				good idea to use, say, a child’s playroom that has lots of 
				primary colors on the walls. The idea is to minimize the strong 
				stimuli that come in through the senses, such as bright visual 
				colors.
 
 Before remote viewing, a person should be well rested. This 
				cannot be emphasized enough. Tiredness dulls the conscious mind, 
				and a tired conscious mind has difficulty perceiving information 
				originating from the subspace mind. A good night’s sleep is 
				ideal for a morning remote viewing session, and a midday 15 to 
				30-minute rest often refreshes one sufficiently for an afternoon 
				session.
 
				One should be comfortably fed before remote viewing. This means 
				that one should not be hungry, and one should also not be 
				overfed. Hunger and feeling stuffed produce physical stimuli 
				that are difficult for the conscious mind to ignore. Remember 
				that the subspace mind yields a relatively weak informational 
				signal to the conscious mind. Try to minimize any physiological 
				stimuli that could swamp the subspace signal.
 
				Remote view in a quiet environment. If possible, close the 
				windows and doors of the remote-viewing room. Also turn off the 
				ringer of the phone for the time that it takes to complete the 
				session. Turn off any radios or televisions that may be audible 
				nearby.
 
				Avoid wearing any perfume, cologne, aftershave, or other strong 
				scents. This is particularly important when training in a group 
				environment. If a viewer is a smoker, it would be best if this 
				viewer wore freshly washed clothes during the session that do 
				not smell of smoke.
 
				People who use recreational drugs, or any other drugs with 
				psychoactive qualities, should not remote view at all. These 
				drugs tend to release any controls that the conscious mind has 
				over the imagination, which is exactly opposite that which is 
				required for successful remote viewing. With respect to drugs of 
				any type, one should try to be as drug free as possible.
   
				Individuals who use 
				doctor-prescribed antidepressants should probably not spend much 
				effort trying to remote view. Such antidepressants suppress the 
				nervous system to such a degree that accuracy in remote viewing 
				is highly compromised. Yet individuals using any drugs 
				prescribed by their doctors should not discontinue their use 
				unless directed to do so by their doctor. Learning how to remote 
				view is not as important as maintaining one’s health and mental 
				balance.  
				Before beginning the session, you should sit comfortably on a 
				chair at your desk with both feet on the floor. The legs should 
				not be crossed. You should sit up straight, not off to one side, 
				or sitting on one foot in a lotus position. The hands should be 
				relaxed, with the pen held over a single clean sheet of paper. 
				The paper is positioned in portrait mode (vertically). The stack 
				of paper should be on the viewer’s right side of the desk.
   
			THE SRV AFFIRMATION
 The SRV Affirmation is normally read aloud with a soft voice, even 
			in solo sessions. The affirmation produces a subtle shift in the 
			sensitivities of the mind that helps to connect the awareness of the 
			conscious mind to the perceptive capabilities of the subspace mind.
   
			The SRV Affirmation is designed to 
			closely approximate the way sequential, connected thoughts are felt 
			telepathically, piece by piece, one “thought-ball” at a time. 
			Viewers should read the affirmation slowly, pausing briefly after 
			each comma or period.    
			Here is the SRV affirmation:  
				
				SRV Affirmation I am a spiritual being. Because I am a spiritual being, I am 
				able to perceive beyond all boundaries of time and space. My 
				consciousness is ever present with all that is, with all that 
				ever was, and with all that ever will be. It is in my nature, as 
				a human, to be able to perceive, and thus to know, all that 
				there is to know.
   
				Everywhere, at all times, I seek to 
				learn, and thus to evolve. To further my own personal growth, 
				and to assist others in their growth, I direct my attention to a 
				chosen point of existence. I observe what is there. I study it 
				carefully. I record what I find.  
			THE HEADER
 
 Next, write the SRV identifying header on the top of the first piece 
			of paper. The viewers declare the condition of their physical state 
			(PS), their emotional state (ES), or any advanced perceptuals (AP) 
			centered at the top of the first page. Declaring PS and ES let the 
			conscious mind account for your physical and emotional states, 
			thereby releasing any psychological pressure that could be present. 
			These declarations can be positive, neutral, or negative.
   
			Positive declarations include, “I really 
			have a happy glow this morning,” or anything else that is upbeat. 
			Negative declarations include having a sore foot, or being upset 
			with the quality of lunch. Unusually strong PS or ES declarations, 
			such as just having had a fight with a spouse, may suggest that the 
			session might be postponed until later. Similarly, if one is in 
			significant pain due to, say, severe arthritis, it might be better 
			to delay the session until the pain abates.  
			In some ways it is useful to compare the conscious mind to the 
			mentality of a small child. When the conscious mind is experiencing 
			something, it likes to be heard. Declaring the PS and the ES 
			satisfies this need. This helps the conscious mind relax, 
			circumventing its natural desire to force the issue of having its 
			needs recognized later in the session, potentially corrupting the 
			integrity of the data.
 
			Often a viewer begins a session thinking that he or she has an idea 
			as to what the target is. Such ideas are advanced perceptuals, and 
			any thoughts along these lines need to be declared at the outset, or 
			they will build in pressure in the conscious mind during the 
			session, and are likely to emerge in some form during the actual 
			data flow. Declaring these APs in advance again relaxes the 
			conscious mind by satisfying its desire to be heard, thereby 
			minimizing the risk of contaminating the data.
 
 
			To the right of the PS, ES, and AP is 
			the identifier of the remote viewer. At The Farsight Institute we 
			use a code called a viewer identification number (VIN), but a name 
			would do just as well. Below the name or viewer identifier is the 
			date written in the U.S. military or European format 
			(day/month/year). Below this is the beginning time of the 
			remote-viewing session. 
 
			To the left of the page is the data 
			type, and below that is written the monitor’s name or identification 
			number (MIN—if the session has a monitor). To summarize, the format 
			of the initial header is as follows:  
			 
			Readers are encouraged not to perceive 
			this initial header as a frivolous formality. Everything is 
			carefully structured in SRV. Following these details from the outset 
			of the session focuses the attention of the conscious mind on the 
			structure of the page.    
			Further, trainee viewers should follow 
			all of the seemingly petty structural details of these protocols, 
			including formatting issues involving indentations, dashes, and 
			colons. Once a remote-viewing session is proceeding at a fast speed, 
			the conscious mind can do little else but keep track of these 
			structural details.    
			This frees the informational conduit of 
			the subspace mind from the controlling influence of the conscious 
			mind. Figuratively, this ties the hands of the conscious mind with 
			activity, allowing the subspace mind to slip the data past the 
			conscious mind with minimal interference.    
			THE IDEOGRAM
 
 After saying the SRV affirmation, the viewer receives the target 
			coordinates from the monitor. The monitor must speak deliberately 
			and clearly so that all the numbers can be heard. The target 
			coordinates are two four-digit random numbers, and the monitor 
			places a slight pause between the two groups of numbers. On the left 
			side of the page, the viewer writes the first four-digit number, 
			then the second four digit number directly under the first.
 
			After writing the target coordinates, the viewer immediately places 
			the point of the pen on the paper to the right of the coordinates. 
			At this point an ideogram is drawn. An ideogram is a spontaneous 
			drawing that takes only a moment to complete.
   
			The pen does not leave the surface of 
			the paper until the ideogram is completed. Ideograms normally are 
			simple, but complex ideograms can occur. In general, each ideogram 
			should represent one (and only one) aspect or “gestalt” related to 
			the target. For example, if the target is near a body of water, an 
			ideogram could represent water. If there is an artificial structure 
			at the target site, another ideogram could represent this structure, 
			and so on.  
			Only one ideogram is written for each recitation of the target 
			coordinates. In Phase 1, the monitor usually recites the target 
			coordinate numbers three to five times, enabling the viewer to draw 
			and decode a few ideograms, thereby obtaining information relating 
			to different target gestalts. Each time the viewer writes down the 
			target coordinates, it is said that he or she is “taking” or 
			“receiving” these coordinates.
 
			After drawing the first ideogram, the viewer then writes the capital 
			letter “A” followed by a colon to the right of the ideogram. The 
			viewer then describes the movement of the pen while writing the 
			ideogram, writing this all down after the “A:.” The description must 
			describe the process of the pen’s movement without the use of 
			labels.
   
			The following words are generally 
			acceptable in this regard: vertical upward, vertical downward, 
			diagonal upward, diagonal downward, sloping (upward or downward), 
			curving (upward or downward), moving (upward, downward, or across), 
			slanting (upward or downward), curving over, curving under, 
			horizontal flat across, horizontal flat along, angle.    
			Words ending in “ing” or “ward” are 
			generally preferred. Labels such as “a circle,” “a loop,” or “a 
			square” are to be avoided. Labeling adds conceptual meaning to data 
			in remote viewing, and that is conscious-mind analysis. All of 
			remote viewing is built upon perceptions that begin at the lowest 
			level of conceptual abstraction and gradually move to higher levels 
			of abstraction. In the beginning of Phase 1, the lowest level of 
			conceptual analysis is required.    
			PROBING THE IDEOGRAM
 
 This is a delicate matter. The viewer places the point of the pen on 
			the ideogram itself and gently (but firmly) pushes the pen downward 
			(into the table). The novice viewer can probe one or more times but 
			should avoid more than four attempts. Each probe lasts between one 
			and two seconds (no longer than three seconds).
   
			While the pen is in contact with the 
			line, the viewer normally perceives some feeling about the target. 
			Too brief a contact does not allow the nervous system to register 
			the impression sufficiently to allow for accurate decoding. Too long 
			a contact allows the conscious mind to intervene in the process and 
			distort or fabricate the data.    
			After the probe, the pen is removed from 
			the ideogram, and the viewer searches for a word to describe the 
			sensation that was perceived during the probe.  
			The first time that the viewer probes the ideogram, the attempt is 
			made to discern what is called a “primitive descriptor,” of which 
			there are six possible choices, with one exception. These are: hard, 
			soft, semi-hard, semi-soft, wet, or mushy. While probing the 
			ideogram, the viewer will actually sense the pen moving into the 
			paper and table if the target is soft, wet, or mushy.
   
			Although this seems logically impossible 
			due to the firmness of the writing surface, it nonetheless is 
			consistently perceived by viewers. When gently pushing the pen into 
			the paper, it will also feel wet if the target has water. The viewer 
			must choose only one of the six possible descriptive options given 
			above. No substitutions should be made, since this would invite the 
			conscious mind to enter the process more fully. The choice of 
			primitive descriptors is then written under the written description 
			of the movement of the pen.  
			The one exception to picking one of the six primitive descriptors is 
			if the viewer perceives movement or energetics in the ideogram. If 
			this occurs, the viewer may or may not also perceive one of the six 
			primitive descriptors. If the viewer does, then the chosen 
			descriptor is declared and the viewer proceeds with the next step.
   
			However, if you perceive only movement 
			or energetics, abandon the attempt to perceive a primitive 
			descriptor and move directly to declaring an advanced descriptor.
			After obtaining a primitive descriptor, the viewer probes the 
			ideogram again to obtain what is called an “advanced descriptor.”
   
			There are five choices, and the viewer 
			must use only one of these choices. These are: natural, man-made, 
			artificial, movement, energetics. After probing the ideogram, the 
			viewer writes the advanced descriptor under the primitive 
			descriptor. Readers should note that there is a difference between “man-made” 
			and “artificial.” While everything that is man-made is artificial, 
			not everything artificial is man-made.
   
			For example, a beaver dam is artificial, 
			but it is not man-made. Note also that energetics refers to a 
			feeling that the target is associated with some significant quantity 
			of energy. This energy can be in any form: kinetic, radiant, 
			explosive, etc. While movement can also indicate an expenditure of 
			energy, the movement of a snail or a slowly driven car might not be 
			perceived as energetics.  
			Underneath part A, the viewer writes “B” followed by a colon. The 
			viewer then declares what he or she perceives the ideogram to 
			represent. The most common declaration is “No-B.” While you must 
			have one primitive descriptor and one advanced descriptor per 
			ideogram, you do not have to declare a substantive B. However, the 
			viewer must at least write “No-B.”
 
			For B, there is no fixed list of possible declarations. To assist 
			students, however, we offer a list during the first few days. The 
			list is: No-B, structure, water, dry land, wet land, motion, 
			subject, mountain, city, sand, ice, swamp.
 
			Note that these declarations are at a higher level of abstraction 
			than when describing the movement of the pen when drawing the 
			ideogram. The entire process in Phase 1 moves from lower to higher 
			levels of abstraction as follows: describing the movement of the 
			pen, primitive descriptors, advanced descriptors, and an 
			interpretive declaration of the meaning of the gestalt. Yet the 
			viewer must remember that the declaration that is made in part B is 
			still very low-level.
   
			For example, a viewer could not declare 
			that the gestalt represents an automobile, a computer, a skyscraper, 
			or a spaceship, since these declarations would be far too 
			high-level, involving conscious-mind interpretations that greatly 
			exceed the quality and quantity of data that are available at this 
			point in the session. For example, if the target really is a 
			skyscraper, then the best that could be determined at this point is 
			that the target is associated with a structure.  
			Following the declaration of B, the viewer writes “C:” followed by 
			the viewer’s intuitive perceptions about what the ideogram feels 
			like. This is usually just a word or two that describes very 
			low-level perceptions relating to the ideogram. Examples of such 
			perceptions are colors or textures (such as rough, smooth, polished, 
			etc.).
 
			  
			The viewer may also feel the perception of size, such as big 
			or small, short or tall, wide or narrow. A viewer may also write 
			“No-C” if the previously declared data capture all of the ideogram’s 
			nuances.  
			To summarize, the Phase 1 procedures are
 
				
					
					(1) take or receive the target 
					coordinates 
					(2) draw an ideogram 
					(3) describe the movement of the 
					pen during the drawing of the ideogram using process terms 
					rather than labels 
					(4) probe the ideogram for 
					primitive descriptors 
					(5) probe the ideogram for 
					advanced descriptors 
					(6) make an initial declaration 
					of a low-level description of the target aspect that is 
					captured by the ideogram, or simply state that there is no 
					declaration (i.e., No-B) 
					(7) list other intuitive 
					feelings regarding the ideogram, if there are any 
			This entire sequence is typically done 
			three to five times in Phase 1 (going through all seven steps each 
			time). The idea is not to use Phase 1 to identify all of the aspects 
			of the target, but rather to establish initial contact by describing 
			a few of the primary target aspects only. The viewer then proceeds 
			immediately to Phase 2.  
			One final note about the ideograms: if an ideogram is not decoded 
			correctly, it is nearly always immediately repeated with the next 
			taking of the coordinates. Thus, a self-correction factor is built 
			into the Phase 1 procedures. If an ideogram returns subsequent to a 
			different ideogram emerging from a different taking of the 
			coordinates, this indicates that the initial ideogram was decoded 
			correctly previously, and that most or all of the primary gestalts 
			have been properly expressed. After decoding a repeating ideogram, 
			the viewer moves on to Phase 2.
 
			For example, let us say that the first ideogram is decoded as a 
			structure. The second ideogram looks different, and from this we 
			assume that the first ideogram was decoded correctly. We decode the 
			second ideogram saying that it is hard and natural, with a B: of 
			“land.” On the third taking of the target coordinates, the second 
			ideogram returns. This tells us that we most likely made a mistake 
			in decoding something in the previous (second) ideogram.
   
			We probe again, this time finding that 
			the ideogram really feels more like it is hard and man-made. We 
			declare “No-B.” We take the coordinates again and the structure 
			ideogram returns. Now we know that we have exhausted all of the 
			major gestalts. We then decode the final ideogram and move on to 
			Phase 2. After the end of the session, we find out that the target 
			was a shopping mall containing a structure and a large parking lot 
			(that is, man-made land). 
 
			IDEOGRAM DRILLS
 
 Students need to develop skill in drawing ideograms. Practice and 
			some drills are required. Our students typically drill with a few 
			standard ideograms that have established meanings. They are 
			“established” because many viewers use these same ideograms to 
			represent the same things.
 
			Usually seven or eight pages of drills are all that is required to 
			set in place the initial ideogram vocabulary. In the drill, an 
			instructor repeats words like “structure,” and the student quickly 
			draws a structure ideogram. Common ideograms that are useful for 
			drill purposes are presented in Figure 1.
 
			Other ideograms are developed individually for each student. Such 
			ideograms do not have a set pattern, and may vary widely from person 
			to person. Ideograms for such things are drilled not by telling the 
			student what the ideogram looks like, but by just repeating the 
			gestalt (such as the word “movement”), allowing the student to draw 
			whatever comes naturally.
   
			The ideograms typically settle down into 
			a set pattern for each gestalt after only a few repetitions. 
			“Person” or “subject” ideograms are often very individualistic in 
			this regard. As a result of these drills, most students develop a 
			minimum of five or six distinct patterns in their ideogram 
			vocabulary.    
			Should a student ever develop an 
			“ideogram rut,” in which all ideograms always look alike, then 10 
			minutes of drill using a variety of ideograms usually fixes this 
			problem.    
			DEDUCTIONS
 
 What do you do if the conscious mind makes a high-level guess as to 
			the identity of the target or target fragment? This is called a 
			“deduction.” A deduction has two components. First, it is a 
			conclusion (as in “to deduce”) that the conscious mind makes 
			regarding the target. The conscious mind is basically watching the 
			data flow between the subspace mind and the physical body (the hand 
			holding the pen).
   
			The conscious mind needs very little 
			information before it leaps into the process with a guess as to the 
			meaning of the data. This conclusion may indeed be correct, but the 
			viewer cannot know until the target identity is revealed at the end 
			of the session. Thus it is important to remove the conclusion from 
			the data recording process, which leads to the other half of the 
			meaning for “deduction.” A deduction is also a subtraction from the 
			data flow. If this high-level conclusion is removed from the data 
			collection, it will not contaminate the remainder of the data flow.
			 
			Nearly all deductions describe some true aspect of the target, but a 
			remote viewer doesn’t know during a session what that aspect is. For 
			example, if a target is the destruction of the Hindenberg blimp, it 
			follows that kite, balloon, fireworks, and TWA Flight 800 could all 
			be deductions. The idea of a kite captures the notion that the 
			Hindenberg flew, the balloon reflects the structure of the blimp, 
			fireworks reflect the explosion that resulted in the destruction of 
			the Hindenberg, and TWA Flight 800 identifies the idea that an 
			airborne vehicle carrying passengers exploded causing loss of life.
 
			Do not worry about the inaccuracies inherent in deductions. 
			Remember, deductions are not remote-viewing data. They are guesses 
			made by the conscious mind, nothing more. However, deductions can be 
			very useful when analyzing the data afterward. Deductions can convey 
			meaning about a target that is difficult to express.
   
			For example, someone could be remote 
			viewing a slave labor camp during the time of the Pharaohs, and give 
			Auschwitz as a deduction. Such a deduction has many parallels with 
			the actual target. Jews were the subjects of slavery, repression, 
			misery, and death in both settings. But more important, the analyst 
			may be alerted to the magnitude of the misery that was experienced 
			in Egyptian slave labor camps through the deduction of Auschwitz.
			 
			This could be useful in interpreting the remainder of the session 
			should the viewer describe extreme levels of suffering among the 
			actual target subjects.
 
			Regardless of the potential accuracy of deductions, they must be 
			eliminated from the flow of the data. To accomplish this, the viewer 
			writes a capital letter “D” followed by a dash and the description 
			of the deduction on the right-hand side of the paper. Thus, the 
			deduction mentioned above would be written as “D-Auschwitz.”
   
			Following this, the viewer must put the 
			pen down on the table for one or more seconds. This action of 
			putting the pen down breaks the flow of the data from the subspace 
			mind, thereby allowing the impression that was made on the conscious 
			mind to dissipate. After a few moments the viewer picks up the pen 
			and continues with the session. 
 
			
			
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