Success Can Actually Breed Failure

The "first time effect" is well known in remote viewing. Often complete novices will sit down, and on the first try absolutely astound themselves by producing remarkable data with little or no training.

Probably they don’t know enough to screw things up and just go on instinct,

which is what remote viewing is really all about. From that point on the mind games begin, and it is necessary for a remote viewer to continually adjust to their constantly changing skill level and ability to manifest target data as opposed to imagination.

That first "hit" is often dismissed as blind luck or coincidence. The viewer tells himself that it just cannot be. He didn’t really know what the target was, but just happened to put down that congruent data by some serendipitous accident.

Then comes the next level. After a bit of hard work the viewer is finally able to overcome disbelief and convince himself that some type of non local awareness is actually manifesting in his work. But it is sporadic. And it seems that what he consciously thinks is good data usually turns out to be imagination and pure junk, while the actual target data sneaks in the back door and is dismissed (at the time) as something irrelevant.

Sometimes viewers don’t even recall putting down good data in a session, but due to training and adherence to structure they manage to produce a least a few tidbits that actually describe the target. The good data is often hidden within a storyline or major AOL.

Then out of the blue a viewer will nail a target. And often with this stellar session comes the pitfall of overconfidence. They say pride goes before the fall, and that is never truer than in remote viewing.

How many times have you done a really good session and thought to yourself, "I have finally figured this out. By God, I’m a RE-mote VIEWer!" Give me the next one, I’m going to CALL TARGET from now on."  Then you work the next one and find your "data" is nothing but AOL driven imagination. You think you can run with the big boys and fall flat on your face.

Back to square one. You have about as much confidence as a flat tire. You don’t trust anything any more and struggle to get even the basic gestalts of a target.. Then all of a sudden you work a session and the target manifests clearly- not just in your subconscious awareness but in your primary awareness too. But you don’t trust it, remembering back to times when what seemed like good data was bad, and the good data came in the back door without you realizing it.

So you discount this strong data and seek out something more subtle. Then you get feedback and kick yourself for not even putting down data that was staring you in the face throughout the session, the actual good data that was bubbling up into your conscious awareness.

Now you are at the really difficult stage. You’ve been at this for a long time; you’re supposed to have some realization of the target. But that strong target data is ever so similar to a nasty old AOL and you find yourself freezing up.

Another adjustment is needed.

The processing of the data changes as your skills improve. You learn to trust yourself, but not become overconfident. You develop an insight into how you process information from the sub.

Baseball analysts often reflect that baseball is a game of adjustments. A hitter can’t catch up to the fastball, so a pitcher can confidently smoke one right across the plate. But before long the hitter is looking for that fastball and manages to catch up to it. So the pitcher throws a change-up or curveball and before long the batter is second guessing himself. He looks for a change of pace and finds himself frozen by the fastball.

You cannot second guess yourself in remote viewing. The highly structured protocols are designed to keep you from doing that, but no amount of structure can keep your conscious mind totally out of the game. You have to learn how to sort out the good data from the imagination, and that realization of each changes constantly as your remote viewing skills increase.

It’s a matter of making adjustments, and it is not easy. That is why Joe McMoneagle says practice, practice, practice and then practice some more. Anyone can memorize and understand the protocols of any remote viewing methodology, from CRV to SRV to TRV or TDS and HRVG. You can sit down and execute the protocols by rote, but producing true remote viewing data requires you to learn more than just the protocols.  You have to learn how to communicate with yourself.