JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2002 Discussions on Remote Viewing Part 7 by Jimmy Williams In this article I will attempt to summarize the main points from previous articles and give a brief illustration of each. Remote viewing data accretes by association. Thoughts form "Thoughtforms" (n.). Picture ideas as bubbles, thought bubbles if you will. They float about in a sea of other bubbles that bump in to each other. They stick to each other, merge, repel and congregate. Basic needs dictate some of the associations. Fight or flight, hunger, sex and basic proximity are among the key organizing forces. This is the primitive mind. The conscious mind throws its neural net onto this sea of thought bubbles and organizes them in ways that make us more successful. These are the two basic levels of organization: pure association, and cognitive organization. The associative level is primal and is the level we tap in to when we operate as remote viewers. Analysis of primary perceptual data is counterproductive during acquisition. The important thing to note is that the associative mind is indiscriminant. Time and space are organizational categories that belong to the cognitive awareness, not the subconscious. One begins a remote viewing session by sensing what has been associated with the target identifier. To the extent that one engages cognitive organization around this data acquisition process, one looses the ability to accurately extract the non-spatial, non-temporal information that the subconscious allows us to access. Perceptual detail and perspective depend on personal tendencies, conscious or not, and vary from person to person. Who you are, in all your complexity, profoundly effects how you process the world around you. If your attention is wrapped up in attitudes, feelings, past experiences and the trauma of life, you will find it difficult to clearly perceive subtle information made available through the exercise of remote viewing protocols. How well do you pay attention to details in waking life? Are you perceptually alive, or do you walk through life in a haze? Imagery can be gestaltic, metaphorical or direct. Perception happens in many ways. Usually, at the beginning of a remote viewing session, target contact is tenuous at best. Information arrives as if filtered through a thick, hazy darkness. This is the gestaltic level of apprehension. As contact improves, imagery begins to assemble metaphorically. We are shown likenesses that aren't necessarily the target itself, but are associatively similar. There is no framework of meaning on which to hang perceived data. The thick hazy darkness begins to assemble into people, places and things that are hard to make sense of, like a mumbled sentence, whispered by a passing stranger. Example: The target is a pool of blood. Your subconscious mind associates the color red with a billiard ball of the same color. You are more adept at perceiving shapes than colors. You draw a circle, or on a higher level, you see a couple people playing billiards. On a higher level yet, the people playing are both people you know that have passed away, indicating that the source of the blood at the actual target was associated with a death. Finally, if we are very disciplined and perceptive we begin to receive data that is highly accurate and recognizable. Sometimes it may even seem hyper-real. This is the level of direct contact with the target. A substantial part of your consciousness has phased in with the essential elements of the target. So much so that the target reality becomes very real indeed. If one is able to mange ones consciousness to a high degree, one can even move around in the target reality as if actually there. There are both common and unique gestaltic symbols. There are basic data so simple that they are virtually universal: a sloping line, for a hill, a wavy line for water, or a vortex for energy. A person can be creative even with simple gestalts. One viewer I recall always had a simple cross in the work if there was a dead person at the target, a metaphoric gestalt. Another always had an inverted U if there was a doorway. The metaphorical language can be highly specific to the individual or archetypal. The above example of the blood and the billiard ball is demonstrative of metaphorical language that is specific to the individual. Metaphorical language can also be represented in common themes much like dream imagery. In archetypal imagery the thematic quality that can be recognized by most people. Past, present and future are accessible. The sub conscious mind does not know "before-after" or "cause-effect". These concepts are part of the cognitive overlay of the conscious mind. The subconscious mind can be induced to retrieve non-spatial and non-temporal data by engaging its power of association. A remote viewer takes a target ID that has been associatively linked with a target and slowly follows the trail of associations while holding the cognitive aspects of the mind at bay. We are so highly biased in our thoughts by the tremendous success of the conscious mind's ability to think in logical terms, that perceiving outside of the space-time box seems like utter fantasy to many people, particularly the scientifically trained and the skeptical. Future realities are available to the extent that the potentialities of all the factors that form them are certain. Thoughts held in mind create after their kind. Many thoughts of the same kind create a larger potential. A summation or integration of the potential happens. This potential wave results in the forms of life: buildings, cars, machines, societies and the events of life. The more consciousness contributing to the wave, the more likely an image will appear in physical form. The potential for alternate realities collapse in the face of the one that was, is and shall be selected. The idea that the future isn't real is an error in perspective. The present is a dynamic point. If you stand on the mouth of a geyser, the imminent arrival of the next eruption and the consequences of that act will consume your attention. You can't help but contemplate the potential below you and what will form in the air above you. The cognitive ability to appreciate the past, present and unfolding future is profoundly biased by the nature of the environment. The conscious mind is the tool we use to manage this dynamic world around us. The subconscious mind, not having the same appreciation for space-time dynamics can access the reality that, in cognitive terms, "will be" created. The farther one moves away from the probability wave of the future that is forming in front of us, the less likely we will acquire accurate remote viewing data. Chaos overwhelms the alternate probabilities. Chaos ultimately degrades our ability perceive events in the far future. Artificial descriptors of time (Hours, minutes, seconds) are less effective than the perception of natural temporal indicators. Sometimes it is important to know what time it was at the target. Was the theft a night job or a day job? Was the child abducted before school or after school? The subconscious is dyslexic. It can't read a watch or a newspaper except in very special circumstances and by rare talent. It can tell if it is light or dark. It can smell the smells of Spring or Winter. It can hear the song of the bird that only sings while mating in June or the school bell for recess. Advanced remote viewing protocols exist that try to take advantage of these natural tendencies. Clear intent is important. There is only so much attention. If you are preoccupied by the fight with the spouse, your bills, the dog barking or that feeling of hunger, you will have less attention to devote to the task at hand. All the thoughts and emotions that you are experiencing in present time are competing for headspace with the arriving target imagery. Anything other than imagery from the target will merge with and obfuscate the data you are interested in. On the flip side, when a targeteer is preparing a target to be viewed, it is very important that his environment be as pristine as possible. Anything in the targeteer's environment or headspace can find its way into the target cuing process. To the subconscious mind, everything is equal to everything. It is indiscriminate. The targeteer may not even be aware of interfering data. A target that is clearly prepared and viewed with a clear mind will succeed almost every time. Strong feelings or affinity for the subject can influence target acquisition. Highly attractive or repellent emotions in close proximity to the target subject, can act as a beacon. There have been many reports of people woken in the night by a feeling of premonition or dread on the occasion of a loved one's distress or death. If a remote viewer is given a target for which they have a high degree of passion, chances are they will be more successful. This can also be a problem. If the subject is closely associated with a high strength event or emotion, it may be very difficult for the remote viewer to discriminate what constitutes the intended data. Example: If the viewer is supposed to find out what is in the suspicious box hidden under the stage at the concert, it may be impossible for them to ignore the rock band playing on the stage. Information is encoded in the phase nature of matter (how fast and in what direction particles spin). Imagery and information is holographic in nature. I believe that information is encoded in the phase relationships of quantum particles. This has been called "Phase Conjugate Adaptive Resonance"¹or "Quantum Holographic Phase Conjugate Adaptive Resonance"² in articles and lectures on the subject. Experiments have proven that there is a non-local quality to the phase relationship of quantum particles. The ability of the subconscious mind to follow a trail of associated information clearly has something to do with our natural ability to interact with the target subject. Is there a connection? Our brain is a network of electrically charged neuro-chemicals. The mind/brain combination uses associative modeling to bias itself in such a way as to phase-emulate the subject in question. It is possible to "phase in" to the target of interest and exchange non-local phase based information. As our mentor Glenn Wheaton says in his beginning lecture, "everything is communication". Information pre-exists. The creative patterning must exist before form. I picture the mind as a quantum holographic image that acts as a computer. It is a construct of phase relationships. Our physiology is a material image of the quantum hologram, which serves as the pattern for its creation. Or, looking at it from the opposite perspective, the mind is bootstrapped from the quantum phase nature of our neural network and the electrochemical nature of our body. Depending on which direction you think the arrow of creation points, determines which model you choose. Intelligence interacts with the quantum hologram, which in turn interacts with the bio-chemical and neural features of our chemistry on a quantum level. Assuming this is true, it would explain how we are able to access non-local, non-temporal data. The implications of this model are exciting, not only to remote viewing, but to healing to learning, and many other areas. Electromagnetic fields interfere with perception. Absence of electromagnetic fields improves perception. That brings me to the subject of electromagnetic fields, which are everywhere. They penetrate our body and introduce information (or chaotic noise) into anything that is sensitive. If you are trying to perceive subtle quantum holographic information, you can only be hindered in the face of electromagnetic noise. Electromagnetic shielding has been shown to enhance remote viewing success. The reason for this is the improved signal to noise ration in the shielded environment. We at HRVG are attempting to build or acquire a Faraday cage; an electromagnetically shielded room in which we can do advanced experiments in this area. We could use some help with this project and other endeavors we are contemplating. As a non-profit, we are always grateful for contributions. If you would like to contribute to the furtherance of knowledge in this field, please contact us. ¹ Edgar Mitchell, Phd, Lecture, 2001 Remote Viewing Conference. ² P. J. Marcer, BSc, DPhil, FBCS, A Quantum Mechanical Model of Evolution and Consciousness   * (Discussions on Remote Viewing, Introduction, Part One, February R.V. News) * (Discussions on Remote Viewing, Part Two, March R.V. News) * (Discussions on Remote Viewing, Part Three, April R.V. News) * (Discussions on Remote Viewing, Part Four, May R.V. News) * (Discussions on Remote Viewing, Part Five, June-July R.V. News) * (Discussions on Remote Viewing, Part Six, August-September R.V. News) Return to Home Page Privacy Statement Copyright © 2002, H.R.V.G. All rights reserved.