NEWS: Analysis & Commentary Discussions on Remote Viewing Part 4 by Jimmy Williams For me, the most interesting aspect of remote viewing is what it says about how the world works. I don’t practice this skill because I want to be a psychic voyeur. RV demonstrates just how inadequate the conventional view of the world is. It challenges one’s imagination to come up with a personal consciousness that can encompass the facts. RV forces a break with the conventional understanding of reality. It demonstrates that space and time aren’t barriers to the human consciousness’ access to information. Very sophisticated explanations exist from ancient times that provide a plausible framework for us to understand these phenomena. Modern mathematicians and theoretical physicists have also done much to help grasp our world. Humanity is slow to embrace revolutionary new ideas, especially when the existing paradigm is adequate for daily existence. Remote viewing challenges our worldview. Linear cause and effect relationships break down. Remote viewing lends a new twist to the term “out of sight, out of mind”. Space and time are no longer universally applicable as benchmarks for reality. How then, do we need to change our concepts of space and time to accommodate the fact that remote viewing occurs? We obviously need an organizing principle that fits the facts. For starters let’s try to re-spatialize our viewpoint of time and space. Think of a basketball with thumbtacks stuck all over its surface. Think of yourself as one of those thumbtacks. Being a lowly inhabitant of basketball world, you can only relate to adjacent thumbtacks that are within your field of view and only along an arc on the surface. All the processing of information in your basketball/thumbtack world is conditioned by the geometry of the surface. As you move from thumbtack to thumbtack you evolve a slightly more sophisticated worldview based on the curved plane of the surface. You evolve an understanding of your world as a series of linear sequential relationships. Now take a God’s eye view of it all. Leave the surface of the ball. Notice that the individual thumbtacks are really part of a higher geometry, a sphere. Events, bound in a linear-sequential relationship at the surface, are now simultaneous. Concepts of time and space, which make sense at the surface, are rendered irrelevant. We have moved from a geometry of arcs to a geometry of spheres. The earlier worldview isn’t wrong, just inappropriate in the higher dimensional realm. If consciousness is a field that is not affected by mass and gravity (except for when I drop a heavy object on my toe), then it can operate across space and time. The portion of consciousness that lives in dense matter at the bottom of a gravity well, i.e. a planetary surface, is constrained by the physics of dense matter where linear processing of information makes sense. Modern physics is absolutely brimming over with theories that postulate higher dimensions. That portion of consciousness that exists in higher geometries doesn’t have the constraints of space and time, but it doesn’t have the analytical framework that normal thought does either. This creates quite a dilemma when one tries to bridge the two environments. Intuition is a good example of how thought might change in an unconstrained realm. This kind of information appears as a flash of knowing. Data is instantly known. There is no “thinking through” the ideas that appear intuitively. They arrive in complete packets, just as one would perceive the basketball and all the thumbtacks as a unit. "Humanity is slow to embrace revolutionary new ideas, especially when the existing paradigm is adequate for daily existence.” Normally, information comes from a source (space) and is assembled in some kind of order (time). Intuitive leaps appear from who knows where and are completely formed. These are two very different modes of knowing. When we remote view, we are exchanging information from one order of knowing to another. The remote viewing protocols are an intermediate device that allows us to exchange data from one to the other. Here’s another example. Think of consciousness as existing across a gradient of energy. As things cool, a phase change that takes place, just as when water suddenly turns to ice at 0 Degrees Centigrade. The ice in the lake is still part of the lake, yet you can’t swim in the ice anymore than you can skate on the water. You can’t think non-local, a-causal thoughts with your analytical mind. It was created in and is constrained by the neighborhood it lives in. Electromagnetic wave theories are frequently used in a metaphorical sense to explain remote viewing phenomena. This is fairly useful as a teaching tool, but breaks down when pushed too far. I don’t believe that information itself is constrained by electromagnetic energy. However, in as much as our bodies are affected by electromagnetic forces, it plays a substantial role in our ability to perceive. The brain is affected by electromagnetic fields because of its highly complex electro-chemical nature. Experiments have been done that entirely isolate remote viewers from the surrounding electromagnetic environment. They are still able to remote view. Indeed, it has been shown that viewers are more successful when the sun is blocked by the mass of the Earth, thereby reducing the noise in the electromagnetic spectrum. To me, this indicates that electromagnetism is a hindrance rather than an essential medium. So, if information isn’t electromagnetic, where is it and how is it obtained? Where is meaning? If one looks at a form: a house, a car, a plant, where is the information that tells you what this is? All form, when reduced to essential elements is a cloud of quantum particles! The clearest answers come from two seemingly separate sources: the mystical and shamanistic traditions, and modern physics. They both speak of a level of reality that is more fundamental than the observed world and out of which everything flows. The only difference is the mix of metaphor and math that each uses. The Judaic texts and the Hindu Vedas are heavily coded with mathematical terms. Our most revered physicists wax poetic and mystical in many of their writings. The Hindu Vedas call the ground out of which everything springs “Brahman”. It is the formless birthplace of all that exists. They believe that consciousness is more fundamental than matter and that all is an illusion created by projecting consciousness and veiling off parts of reality to create the illusion of the world, which they call “Maya”. The physicists speak of higher dimensional planes in which fundamental forces of nature are unified and they speak of the tenuous and uncertain nature of quantum particles, their own version of “Maya”. Judaic concepts are familiar to almost everyone in the form of the book of Genesis in which the world is created from the void. Hawaiian spirituality speaks of the world being formed in a higher realm by an aspect of our self, called the “aumakua”. Thoughts and desires that are clearly communicated to this level of reality achieve form in the mundane world. The Australian aborigines have a similar view of the world in their belief in the “dreamtime”. The similarities go on and on. So, this is a quest for better understanding of the world. If we listen very carefully to our greatest teachers, we may have a few intuitive leaps of our own that will improve our remote viewing techniques. As I said in the beginning, I’m not practicing remote viewing to become a better psychic voyeur. 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