It’s debatable whether remote viewing can be called a form of divination. It seems to work best and be the most accurate when it’s focused on current-time subjects, so it’s effectively a form of spying. But it has been used to either look into the future or to help guide the questioner toward the best of two or more options when making a decision. It also comes under clairvoyance (psychic seeing) which was just covered in a previous lesson, this is simply a variation of it.
HISTORY
Remote viewing came into its own in the mid-to-late twentieth century, during the time of the Cold War between the U.S. and communist countries. It may have been used unofficially long before then by psychics, but the latter 1900s are when it was officially codified. Intelligence reports indicated the Soviet Union was using psychics for spying on the U.S. and other western countries, which forced the U.S. Department of Defense to respond in kind. A company called SRI International was hired to develop a means of psychic spying which could be taught to select military personnel. They succeeded and the remote viewing manual SRI International developed for this purpose is cited in the bibliography at the end of this lesson. Some former remote viewers for the government who were trained in this protocol have gone on to write books about their experience and continue to use remote viewing to make forecasts regarding what they see for the future (Again, see the bibliography at the end of this lesson).
PROS AND CONS OF REMOTE VIEWING
Remote viewing is very good at: 1.) Describing things which have a real existence, such as people, past or current events, things, places, and concepts 2.) Producing new leads, thus shortening the length of time an investigation needs to be completed 3.) Reconstructing events, pulling together all the pieces and stringing them together in a coherent narrative, sometimes even flushing-out missing pieces of the story in the process. 4.) Making decisions; the Associative Remote Viewing technique is very good at this 5.) Making projections. When using the strict Controlled Remote Viewing protocol, RV can produce some amazing detail about things which haven’t happened yet, as long as the details are descriptive.
Remote viewing is NOT good at: 1.) Timing; saying specifically when something is going to happen 2.) Targeting a specific series of numbers, words or statements. 3.) Providing information on mythical creatures, hypothetical events, non-physical targets, or phenomenological type targets (such as mysterious lights in the woods) or 4.) Identifying a specific location, unless some very unique identifying marks appear in the input.
Some further comments are needed about the Cons of remote viewing. About timing — The best you can expect is a feeling of soon/not soon/next year/etc., not specific dates. About not getting a specific series of numbers, words or statements — It’s possible, but only when the remote viewer’s collection of data bits permits it, such as the name of a city with something unique about it, or an important individual about whom much is known. About non-existent targets — It’s generally true that a target which doesn’t or hasn’t had an actual physical existence can’t be remote-viewed, but it has happened that targets which seemed too absurd to be investigating actually produced a result! Keep that in mind about remote viewing — if it isn’t real, it isn’t remote-viewable. About identifying a specific location — This is considered one of the least reliable bits of information you can receive in remote viewing. You may pick up on a general impression of the area, such as in a desert, on a sandy riverbank, or in a dark closet, but unless there is something very unique and identifying about the location where the target is, you’re better off not relying on any perceptions about location.