NEWS: Analysis & Commentary When The Training Stops, The Learning Begins by Prudence Calabrese "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool -- shun him. He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is willing to learn -- teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep -- wake him. He who knows, and knows that he knows, is a wise man -- follow him." -- An old sage It's a long way from point 'A' to point 'B'. The art and discipline of remote viewing requires time and time and moretime, just like any other study only more so. Whether you learn how to ride a bike, tile floors, speak French, or remote view, you always follow the same four steps of understanding, set out by Abraham Maslow in his 'Four Stages of Learning' theory. I see these steps in all of my students. The first step is Unconscious Incompetence - when you don't know you don't know you're bad. This is doubly hard to deal with in RV because learning remote viewing is so much fun! But with your new understanding and belief that remote viewing is possible usually comes along your new belief that you know everything about your own data and based on that you are the best interpretor of your data - bar none. The truth is RV students have only a surface understanding of what their's or anyone else's data represents, and further still, most new viewers can be broken down into two simple subcategories - those that believe everything, and those who believe nothing - but are there anyway. Those who believe everything see a UFO in every ellipse and a government conspiracy in every concept - at least in my class! Those who don't believe anything refuse to accept that their wavy lines are the river in the photo disclosure, why - they could be anything other than a river. I'm not sure which group I like more - but both are present in every class I teach. The second step is Conscious Incompetence - when you are aware that you're getting it wrong but perhaps don't have the education yet or don't yet know how to get it right. This is the step when the novelty of RV wears off, and remote viewing becomes work with no tangible reward in sight. It is often a make or break point for viewers. At this time in my own development, I was doing sessions like most students: You get the tag (coordinates) and you view. You write page after page, and at the end you try to match up your data with the objective. I was at Farsight, a student of the SRV-type approach, and I found myself getting very frustrated with the realization that, too often, my data was not "on." It was being rejected flat out. Yet, it made sense to me. I could tell how I reached my conclusions, but it didn't count in SRV-mode unless the data was directly relevant to the outside observer. The more I viewed, the more I became better at 'my type of data' but that type of data wasn't necessarily the type an independent judge would like to see. I kept working and working with the hope that practice would make perfect. This is the step in which most viewers give up and move on to more mundane pursuits. It is a hard and long step. Eventually, the viewer moves on to Conscious Competence - when you are mostly getting it, but only by very carefully and very consciously doing all the right things. This is the viewer who practices regularly, keeps up with outside paraconscious activities like image streaming and basic drills. This viewer begins to understand their own internal language and knows why they gets specific types of data. "when you get it right without thinking about it, it becomes automatic like driving a car along a familiar route.” This step was the turning point for both my work and for understanding myself - finally. I quickly realized that every session I ever did was a "hit." It helped to have this distance from the actual viewing. By then I had forgotten how I felt in the moment while viewing, but I could see that my mind was trying to tell me what the objective was, using the only tool I really had: all of my life's experiences, education and feelings. I've since incorporated this view into analysis and methodology. I started dissecting every session. Each word - why did I write this word down? Why did I choose this experience to convey the concept of the objective? Why did I say I liked this subject/person? Why did I say I hated this smell. I started seeing how my deep views of reality were really not myviews at all. The realization was both painful and liberating. By gosh, I had just taken over the views of my parents, teachers, advisors, and even friends. I just reflected my macro-culture and combined the aspects of it into this big fake persona with tiny bits of Prudence mixed in with the mess. I realized it was all a big mixture and I had to somehow break it down and re-build it. I had to construct from scratch what I actually thought about everything. It was really hard. It still is hard. But that's when my sessions changed, too, and my methods of analysis changed. I have a better sense of clarity and a stronger sense of self and intuition. It shows in my work. And finally in the last stage of Maslow's learning theory there is Unconscious Competence - when you get it right without thinking about it, it becomes automatic like driving a car along a familiar route. This is where approaches, attitudes, openness to change, interest and knowledge, energy and enthusiasm all add up to the capacity to take on new demands and challenges where the rules, formulas and answers have not been worked out before. This is the step of great acceptance - of maximum comfort. This last stage - of Unconscious Competence is where we are all pointed. Not all of us make it to this rarefied state. Many fall by the wayside or just drift into rv oblivion, stuck in one of the stages before U.C. Once we achieve this state of unconscious competence, we can finally understand that everything that has gone on before is just foundation for the real learning ahead.    PRINT THIS ARTICLE Privacy Statement Copyright © 2001, H.R.V.G. All rights reserved.

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