Remote Viewer Lyn Buchanan has a book "The seventh sense" which I found fascinating.
A list of chapters gives you an idea of the contents, about some of which I may post in the future, especially if some requests it.
I am posting the Exercises to develop Remote Viewing, as it gives good ideas which would be useful for remote viewing AND in our lives (eg. Ambience)
1 April Fools Day
2 The first thing I learned
3 The military unit
4 A military intelligence tool
5 The civilian world
6 Reactions
7 What do we do with it now?
8 The seventh sense
9 New emotions
10 Protection (Protection while remote viewing)
11 The human mind
12 Mind meld (picking up information from the targets mind, if you have that ability)
13 The perfect session
14 Sliding around in time
15 The afterlife (using remote viewing to explore the afterlife)
16 The assigned witness program
17 Proving it
18 One final story
Epilogue
Appendix 1 Terminilogy
Appendix 2 Worksheets
Appendix 3 Frontloading
Appendix 4 Exercises to develop and enhance your remote viewing capabilities (reproduced below)
Appendix 5 Methods for scoring remote viewing sessions
Appendix 6 A sample remote viewing session
Appendix 7 Other remote viewing methods
Bibliography
Appendix 4
Exercises to develop and enhance your remote viewing abilities
The following exercises are given to every beginning controlled remote viewing student who goes through the training provided by problems solutions innovations
There were many attempt attempts in the military unit to devise exercises to make us more psychic but for all the general purposes they failed. The only exercise that was ever kept within the unit was to purchase a copy of a book called “Drawing on the right side of the brain” and go through the workbook fully and carefully. I would advise anyone who is serious about the field of remote viewing to do the same
For the most part though, exercises to enhance your psychic ability are useless. This is especially true of computer programs that use the computer's random number generator to create and have you control supposedly random events. In truth the random number generator in a desktop or laptop computer does not produce random numbers at all, but produces a string of randomly appearing numbers. That is, the numbers are hardwired into the computers program and will produce the same series of randomly appearing numbers time after time. The program starts when you turn your computer on, and only appears random because you access the chip at different times in that stream, but when you do access it what you get from that point on is a canned mathematically rigid series of numbers which only appear random. Computer programs that are designed to enhance your psychic ability using this method do not work, and are not worth bothering with, much less buying.
Like all other “Learn to be psychic” exercises, the exercises that followed do not enhance your psychic abilities. They are designed instead to get rid of those inhibitions that normally prevent you from using the psychic talents you are not presently using.
The first exercise, the ideogram exercise, teaches you how to allow your body to become a translator between the conscious and the subconscious mind.
Exercises two through five have been designed with the consideration that if you cannot adequately sense the world immediately surrounding you, there is no way you will be able to sense the world at some far distant target site, no matter how much psychic talent you may have. They train you to be sensitive to your surroundings, and in the process teach you to be sensitive to the surroundings at any targeted remote viewing site.
Exercise six is designed to teach you some very important realities about the problems you face when you as the only one who knows something about the target, set out to impart that knowledge to others. Repeated practice of this exercise has been of tremendous benefit to remote viewers, businessmen, sales personnel, artists, and writers. It should be taken very seriously and practiced often.
The ideogram exercise
The ideogram is the most fundamental feature of controlled remote viewing. This physical act initiates the line of communications between the conscious and the subconscious. In every session it is the equivalent of the most basic of moves, and any martial art. My company ‘Problems Solutions Innovations’ has a computer program that helps greatly with this exercise as it calls the words out to you over the computer speakers.
Exercise 1: Ideogram's
You know how people always say “Psychic ability is inherent to everyone. Anyone can do it!” Then you noticed that everyone is not doing it, and In fact most people doubt that they can. Ingo Swann and others once decided to accept the idea that everyone can do it and began to look at the problem in that way. Through a series of questions and answers a new starting place was developed to allow people to develop the ability.
Question
If everyone has access to the information where does it come into their minds?
Answer
Everyone generally agrees that in the framework of human sciences the answer appears to be through the subconscious mind.
Question
If everyone has psychic information available to their subconscious minds, why can't they access it consciously?
Answer
Because the conscious and subconscious minds don't talk to each other, they don't even speak the same language.
Question
If they don't speak the same language, and even after 80 to 100 years of living in the same body, can't seem to learn then what can be done to get the two talking to each other?
Answer
Get an interpreter.
Question
Who or what can understand and speak to both the conscious and subconscious minds.
Answer
The body. You can consciously control the body, and your subconscious and autonomic minds can control it, too. Through the physical senses you can pass information to the conscious, subconscious, and autonomic minds. It evidently speaks and understands them all.
In effect there is no need to develop one's psychic ability. Whatever ability you have is already there and working. All you have to do is develop a way to get the information it has access to. That is not a psychic psychic problem but a language problem. So the correct training is not to be found in the mysterious, the occult, the psychic, at all, but in other words, other fields, particularly linguistics.
What if we could form a language the body could use as a “Rosetta stone” which the conscious, the subconscious, and the autonomic minds could understand? Swann and others have looked into the already well researched fields of psychology, psychotherapy, and psychophysiology, as well as linguistics, to find the answers, and they were there.
First of all, since the language is for the physical body only, it has to be completely physical: no pronunciations, no processing, very basic grammar, etc. Since there is no such ready-made language, it is up to you to develop it. Then as with any other language you have to practice using it until it becomes a habit or second nature.
Let's start out simply: let’s take the Gestalt (basic concept) of “land". We don't care what kind of land: farmland, desert, plain, swamps, just the Gestalt of “land”. Now take a pen in your hand and draw the simplest most basic sketch you can possibly make for that Gestalt. Most people draw a straight, horizontal line. Fine. Let's make that the first word in your language. If you do something else, then you will use that from now on, after all, it's your own language.
Now sketch something. For water most people draw wavy line. Fine. Now you have a language of two words, or more correctly to “idea graphics" or as they are formally called, “ideograms”.
You now need to develop ideograms for “natural”, "man-made", “motion”, “space”, and “life” (or organic/living/cellular/whatever me anything that either has life or once had life).
Once you've developed a basic set of ideograms you begin the actual exercise itself. It is called “ideogram drills” and is guaranteed to be almost the most boring thing you have ever done. One person calls out the words in random order at random speeds and the student reacts to the word being called out by making the proper ideogram for it. This goes on for long periods of time, until the student has phased out and stopped paying attention. At that time we know that he or she is doing it subconsciously, in other words the subconscious mind is now learning and practising the new language too.
The ultimate goal of this is straightforward. When we ask a viewer to describe the target site, the viewer subconscious mind already having information about the site, will for example cause a hand to draw a straight line connected to a wavy line. The viewer looks at the ideogram and sees that the site is a place of land connected to water (a Beach, River, Island, Lake, etc.). First contact with the site has been made, and the session has begun.
CRV training is not just “relax and tell me what you see in your daydreams” that kind of thing has been tried for years with only minor success. That is also what most people taking training in “remote viewing” are doing. It's the same old stuff with a newer name.
Once a CRVer has gotten the basic Gestalt of the target site, more detailed information is gained through the secondary language which also includes the physical senses. In other words the language of CRV starts every session off with the basic descriptors, then more involved sensory contact, in preparation for the conceptual information about the site, finer and finer details, etc.
The ambience exercise
I tell everyone of my students that this is the most important part of the entire series of CRV courses. This exercise will enhance your perceptions to the point where everyone will suddenly think you have become a gifted psychic. Yet it does not deal with psychic functioning at all.
The ambience exercise develops your true sixth sense (the psychic senses actually are seventh sense (hence the name of this book). It will make you so uncommonly aware of your surroundings that you will probably feel as if you've been asleep all your life.
The ambience exercise consists of 20 separate steps or levels of work. If each step is performed correctly the total 20 steps to take many many years to master.
The spin-offs of this exercise include all the benefits of becoming more aware of the world around you. It will enable you to tell when there is a police radar around the bend by the ambience of the oncoming traffic, or whether a person is lying or not. You'll be able to know that a person is going to do before he or she does it and often before he or she even thinks of doing it. I'm convinced that if we could teach this exercise to every policeman in the nation we could drastically reduce the number policeman killed in the line of duty/
Here is the first ambience exercise. I cannot stress enough the importance of practising this exercise as often as possible.
Exercise 2: Ambience
My years of doing CRV have led me to conclude that our sixth sense is ambience. By ambience I mean the sort of feeling you get in a large cathedral. For instance, there is no body part to attribute it to as the other five senses have, but it is there just the same, not only that, but everyone entering the Cathedral will feel it too. So in our CRV training the sixth sense will be a very normal one: ambience. The psychic sense will then have to be the seventh sense.
One of the biggest problems psychics have in describing the distant site is a need to rely on their imagination to fill in things they can perceive about the distance site, but the real problem is that they can't even fully describe the location where they are. We're all that way, in fact, when we feel a certain ambience in a room it is usually very hard for us to describe. There are good reasons for that. English is very sparse in ambience words because ambience awareness is not a major part of our language. It is not a major part of our thought process.
That doesn't mean that it isn't an important part of our awareness, however think about it when you first enter a room with there is, say, danger, you are immediately aware of the ambience even before you are mentally conscious of anything in the room. Before any attention is given to the things in the room, the “feeling” is there. Why, you may wonder, isn't the feeling just a strong whenever you enter any room.
The answer to that is found in an old science experiment with frogs. If you place a frog in hot water it will immediately jump out, but if you place the same frog in cold water then slowly heat the water to boiling the frog will sit there and be boiled alive. Humans are much the same way. Once you get used to very hot dishwater, you can stick your hand into water that will scald your skin without instinctively pulling it back, the skin will be damaged, but you won't feel the pain or the damage until you remove your hand and it cools off. Humans like frogs, are much more sensitive to change than they are to constant conditions, therefore, if you leave a room that is safe and enter another room that is also safe you won't notice the ambience in the second room, as you are accustomed to it. But if you leave a safe room and enter a dangerous place you will notice a sudden change in ambience immediately. We are naturally sensitive to sudden large changes in ambience, but rarely ever to small ones.
When you remote view, you move your mind from one environment to another. If there is a very large change in ambience, you will notice it. Not surprisingly, dangerous sites of the easiest kind of target for most psychics to view. It is one reason psychics often see only visions of doom and gloom while sitting in their very safe and comfortable studies. You won't always be tasked with dramatic, exciting, dangerous, romantic, ecstasy-inducing targets. You will often be asked to describe an ordinary person's ordinary location and/or ordinary activities. That person may be sitting at a desk writing something on paper. You'll be sitting at a desk to view him or her, also writing on your paper. If you have not developed an accurate sensitivity to ambience you will notice nothing about the target person. You will think that you are not getting the target. In fact, you may be receiving impressions just fine, but they are so much like what you have in your own surroundings, that you can't noticed them.
So this exercise is designed to sensitize you to ever smaller changes in the ambience surrounding you. It will strengthen and heighten your ambience awareness. It will wake up a sense that you have used very rarely in your lifetime. It opens up your sixth sense. As you practice this exercise, you'll become aware of things that have always been around you, but do have never noticed before.
Here is the exercise. Beginning immediately, notice every doorway you go through. Before you do, stop and see if you can get a feel for the ambience in the room you're leaving. Then step through the door and see if you can feel the change in ambience. Although would be nice if you could describe the change exactly at this point you’re only concerned was sensitizing yourself to finer and finer amounts of change in ambience.
The exercise should be done with every doorway you go through from now until you die. That means doors between rooms, entrance and exit doors in buildings, the bathroom door, the bedroom door, the car door, etc. Every doorway. At some point it will become second nature to you, and you will have added an entirely new dimension to your awareness, and therefore to your life. You will be as the sighted are in the land of the blind.
I estimate the probably 90% of the events and actions that pass for “psychic” are nothing more than ambience. You know you are doing this exercise correctly when people around you start asking “what are you psychic or something?"
The vocabulary exercise
It is a proven fact that you will tend not to make any permanent mental record of anything for which you do not have a word to describe it. It is therefore very important to expand your vocabulary, since reporting your findings is a major part of all para-psychological work, you need the vocabulary with which to recognize and report what is at the site. If you cannot do that with someone right in front of you, then you will not be able to send your mind halfway around the world and perceive and report what is going on there.
Do this exercise about once a week. If you have children whom you could involve in the “game” of it, please do so. The spin-off the of this exercise is that it will make anyone practising it better writers, reporters, public speakers, and conversationalists.
Exercise 3: Vocabulary
Scientific studies of the mind and how people think show that the way you think determine the words you use, and the words you use determine how you think. This second finding is a subject of this exercise, for not only do your words determine how you think but they even determine what you can (and cannot) think. If you don't have a word for something, you tend not to objectify it - that is, even if you can sense it on the subconscious level, it never reaches a conscious level of thought, so you don't become aware of it. In effect if you don't have a word for a thing, feeling, situation, or even desire if you can't think about it. You may feel “something vague and nameless", but you can't mentally or logically work your way through it. If it is a problem, you can't solve it, and if it is what you want to do with your life and you don't have a word for it, you'll spend your life not getting it done. Once you have a word for something, you tend to also become aware of (and can think about) those things that are similar, even if you don't have a word for them. You form what are called “Cognotron's" around the first word.
In CRV work this means that if you get a subconscious perception, and do not have a word for objectifying it, then it will generally never make it to your conscious mind, and you won't know you perceived it. But let's say that you have a grasp at straws and come up with the wrong word for the perception. The word you come up with will have its own set of Cognotrons, and the rest of your descriptors will tend to match that first (incorrect) word and so will the rest of your perceptions. Herein lies one of the greatest pollution problems the CRVer will face. The problem however is not the result of insufficient ability to view, but simply an in of insufficient vocabulary.
The average American has a vocabulary of almost 200,000 words - that is, an inactive or passive vocabulary. They know that many words, but they don't ever use them. The average businessman has an active vocabulary of only about 2,000 words, that is, words he or she uses on a daily basis. When we refer to “active” vocabulary we are not only talking about the number of words a person uses every day, but also the range of thought that person is capable of thinking, and the range of perceptions that person has, as well. if something happens outside their normal range, it is generally not noticed, noticed but then, ignored or quickly forgotten.
If you can't notice, describe, or even perceive the things in the real world around you because of the size of your active vocabulary, how can you expect to perceive and describe the things at a far distant site? The answer is that you can't.
This is different from any “vocabulary exercise" you've ever done before. This is not a “learn a new word every day” type of exercise. It takes for granted that you've already have the vocabulary but that it is passive. If someone says a word, you'll recognize it at least well enough to get a meeting out of that person sentence. The object of this exercise is to transfer those words into your active vocabulary. You will be pleasantly surprised to find that you open up new thought patterns in the process. Because it is designed for CRV work, the exercise first enhances sensories and dimensionals, the exercise goes like this.
1. Get a group of two or more people together to do the exercise. Sit around a table with a pen and paper in front of each person. It is important for each person to write each word down as someone says it, simply to get that person's body involved in the process of activating the vocabulary. The body's interaction with the mind is paramount in all phases of CRV.
2. Select one of the sensory groups at random (sounds, colours, smells, taste, textures, temperatures, luminescence's, etc. ) or one of the dimensional groups (sizes, shapes, directions, orientations, etc.) Write the group selected at the top of the paper.
3. In either columns down or lines across, each person writes a vocabulary word, as someone calls it out. If you can add a word, call it out, too.
That's it. It's a very simple exercise on the surface, but in practice it becomes very hard. Here is an example:
colours
red, yellow, blue, brown, green, grey, (pretty soon you come up with words like) Hazel, auburn, mauve, magenta, (and then get desperate and move to colours that use nouns as descriptors) brick red, fire engine red, ruby red, blood red, sky blue, baby blue, etc.
When someone in the group says a word that you don't know, ask them to describe it in this way. You not only bring words from passive vocabulary to the active, but also expand your vocabulary in the process. The end result of this exercise is that it gets people to think about things they haven't thought about in years, to increase her ability to describe things in more minute detail, and therefore and thereby to expand their ability to perceive things.
This exercise should be practised at least once a week. If you have the chance to include school-aged children in the practice, the benefits for their education are enormous.
The sensory enhancement exercise
This exercise is designed to develop your five physical senses. Practising this exercise will hone your sensory awareness to heights presently unimaginable. You will find, if you practice the “go hug a couple of trees” exercise properly that almost every physical sensation now take for granted will become more experiential in nature.
The theory behind this exercise is that, if you can/cannot perceive the things in the physical world around you then you can/cannot experience them in the mental world of the target halfway around the world. The side benefit is that you can enhance your life and your awareness to degrees you never thought possible before.
Exercise 4 “go hug a couple of trees”
We are more sensitive to changes in the environment than we are to factors that make up the environment itself. Constant weather or temperature is not noticed after the first few moments, a sudden change however and we become aware of it immediately. We can study in a quiet library as long as there is no sudden noises. We can also study in the noisiest cafeteria or train station, because the noise is constant, but a change in the noise knows you will notice immediately.
Not only is change what we notice most, but we notice it as a relative change, not an absolute. Junior high school science teachers have the students do experiments in which you place one hand and hot water and another in cold water into you get each hand used to the temperature. Then you take both hands and place them in room temperature water. The hand that was in the hot water feels room temperature water as cold, while a hand that was in the cold water feels room temperature water as hot. This is a useful demonstration for CRVers. The impressions that come to us early on in the session come as sensory input. The body is doing its job translating the most primitive impressions in order to get us into closer contact with the target. We can help it do that by simply realizing that it is most sensitive to change, the more sudden the better. If we dwell on each sensory input the processes slowed down. The “body translator” has less of a chance to sense sudden changes in colour, texture, temperatures, sounds, etc. It becomes important then to work quickly. This not only allows your translator to notice more, but also keeps it from getting used to one impression and then interpreting another as a relative. For example, if you remain focused on a hot part of the site for too long a time you might tend to describe the rest of the site is cold, in spite of its being room temperature or maybe even just very warm.
By the same token it is important to have a sufficiently active vocabulary to name the impressions quickly so the translator can bounce towards more impressions. Hence the importance of the vocabulary exercise.
But there are some impressions for which there just aren't words. There are also times when two impressions will be so alike that a translator won’t be able to feel a change. As you “wink about the site” getting impressions, you may, for example, get “smooth” followed immediately by “smooth”. A quick thought goes through the mind about why the impression repeated, usually dismissed by the novice CRV. Here the trained CRVer knows that if you get an impression twice you read it twice. The very similar impressions come so quickly that the viewer doesn't realize the two parts of the site of been visited and found to be smooth.
This exercise is designed to help sensitize you to those impression differences for which there just aren't any words and those that are so close together that you would normally tend not to notice them. The exercises is simple.
1. When at a store, swap meet, yard sale, even just around your own home or yard, touch something and try to give it a one-word descriptor. For example, let's say that as you sit there reading this you touch the paper and say “smooth”.
2. But then you must immediately look around to find something else that would also be described as smooth. Let's say it is a desk or table on which the paper is sitting. Touch it again and again say “smooth”.
3. You know that there is a difference, but would probably be very hard put to adequately describe the difference between the two “smooths’ That doesn't matter. You've shown your body sensory mechanisms that there are small differences, and that it should be aware of them, even though you don't have a word for the difference. In effect your teaching your body to become more sensitive.
This exercise should be done with each of the five physical senses. For example, look at some specific point on the wall and note its colour. Now, look at the wall from a point 3 feet away from the first point and see if you can see the difference in colour. There is almost always a difference. While you can't usually name the difference, you've just helped your eyes become sensitive to it. That's the important point to this exercise. Try the same with the sounds around you. Try the same with the textures, temperatures, taste, smells, etc.
This exercise practised correctly and regularly will heighten your awareness of the physical world.
The detail recognition exercise
You will find this exercise surprising. Most people do not see what is directly in front of them. Police know that an eyewitness sees everything through filters of biases, fears, desires, upbringing, social mores, and so forth. An eyewitness to a crime is probably the least reliable source for information about it.
The slight embarrassment caused by this exercise is enough to make you become aware of more more details whenever you look at anything, either in the world around you, or at some remote viewing site.
There are two major spin-offs to this exercise. First, you will begin to see implications and ramifications and things with which you work each day. In business meetings you will become the person who is capable of seeing the “big picture” and its benefits and potential problems before others can.
A second and stranger benefit benefit comes from this exercise. In confusing situations, you can zero in on the heart of the problem.
Exercise 5: "Phase II it”
When we compare our list of descriptors from a remote viewing session to the feedback, we see what an incomplete list we have made. What if we'd a perfect knowledge of the target so that we could get all the descriptors? Wouldn’t that be great! Then the list we created would only be limited by our attention to details and our ability to notice what's right in front of us. The purpose of this exercise is to do just that, to increase our attention.
Part 1
1. Get out a target picture and a blank sheet of paper.
2. At the top of the blank sheet right “phase 2".
3. Turn the target picture so you can see it.
4. Make your list of descriptors, all the while having the picture there to look at. Remember to get descriptors for supposed temperatures, textures, smells, taste, etc.
Part 2
1. When your list of descriptors is as complete as you can make it, find someone to look at the list in the picture to check out what you've written.
2. Ask them to point out to you anything you missed.
This exercise reveals things that you're looking straight at and missed. Because of this, it causes you to be more attentive next time. Don't worry - the next time you will miss something else and, then, having had it pointed out, you will become even more aware. As many times as you practice this exercise, you will probably never get so attentive that you will see everything. But you will become more attentive. The good thing is that this exercise isn’t only for CRV, but improves your attention span for the other aspects of your life as well.
The efficient reporting exercise
This exercise will not improve your viewing the target, but it will help you become more proficient in reporting what was found at the target site.
I would urge every manager in every company to try this exercise with their salesmen, their managers, and everyone in the company who has to interact with another person in any way. It will teach each participant that their communication skills are not nearly as honed as they believe; that they are not as clear to others as they are to themselves, that the spoken and written word can (and usually does) have many ways of being interpreted, and that given even the slightest chance, the receiver of the spoken or written word will usually perceive it incorrectly.
This exercise when practised on a regular basis can teach people how to become clear and concise in their speaking, writing, and communicating. It can also teach them how to think from a listener's point of view, rather from than from their own viewpoint.
Exercise 6: “Do you see what I see"
Let's say that you have been given all the knowledge in the universe, but that there is a time limit on how long you will be able to retain it. During that time, you will naturally want to write as much of it down as possible, so you can relearn it later. In your haste to write down as much as possible to try to make each statement as succinct as possible. When you're time limit is up, you forget all that knowledge. No problem. You have it all written down. You then take up your notes and read “The crows flight is as butter” What? You think back and try to remember what you meant by that. You know that just moments ago, it had a deep and significant meaning, that it had something to do with the basic tenants of subatomic theories as yet undiscovered. Something about the very nature of matter. Maybe the next sentence will clear it up: “two corners are needed for e to equal MC-squared when travelling sideways through time" and “without gravity there is no fire".
The point here is that when you get into session, you begin to access knowledge about a far distant site. It is knowledge that other people do not possess - and won't if you can’t communicate to them “no problem" you say “I can explain what I get in session”.
Can you though? This exercise not only tests your ability to explain what you're seeing, but it trains you for the job of simply reporting what you can see and others can't.
The exercise:
Select a target picture at random. do not show it to anyone else. Then, have other people draw the picture as you describe it to them. Remember that this is a CRV exercise, so you'll be required to describe, not identify. That is you must keep the use of nouns to the absolute, barest minimum.
The exercise is performed in two stages. In the first stage, which of last from 3 to 5 minutes, people cannot ask questions. In the second stage, they can.
Another form of this exercise is to give your description in written form and hand it to someone who is then to redraw the original picture from your verbal description. Scoring and feedback come when you compare the original picture to the one that was drawn using your descriptions as a guide. While it may seem that this exercise is somewhat useless to remote viewing, the fact that a remote viewer, no matter how talented and well-trained, is useless if he or she can’t report accurately what was perceived.
