And moving through a mirror clear
That hangs before her all the year,
Shadows of the world appear.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson 'The Lady of Shallot'
In support of my contention that reality leaks, I want to present one of my Remote Viewing (RV) session that I did at the Monroe Institutes's Remote Viewing Practicum last year.
The training is a 7-day residential program, 12 hours of class and exercises per day. It's taught by Skip Atwater, a long-timer veteran of the RV scene and the former director of the US miltary STARGATE program in the 70's and 80's. He is assisted by other veteran RV luminaries, including the greatest of all, Joe McMoneagle.
The training is based on Ingo Swann's Controlled Remote Viewing protocol. This is fairly complex and rigorous (other training programs out there use a more free form approach). We did many training sessions every day from Day 1 forward. For most training sessions we were given a target id (more on that below) and did our viewing, and were then given a picture of the target to compare with our "Viewed" result. However, some sessions were special in that they were evaluated by a 6-member panel of our classmates. This is the real STARGATE evaluation protocol. It is this type of session, one of my own, that I'll present here.
About the judging: As I said, six people. At the time of judging, they have not seen the target picture. The Viewer who did the session, in this case me Tabby, is not in the room while judging takes place. The judges are given all the Viewer's notes (my pictures and writings from my session, as displayed below) and are also given a set of four pictures. Those four are the target pool, like a police lineup, three are distractors (randomly chosen from 10,000 pics by computer) and one is the actual target that I, the Viewer, had been attempting to render.
They examine the session notes and try to decide which of the 4 pics was the target. Only when they have made their selection are they told which pic of the 4 was in fact the actual target.
In the fully judged session I'll present here, I was given a target specification of a number: #941. That's it. Yes that's all. That's one of the most confusing things to newbies. What?! You are given ONLY a simple number?! Yes that's right. Nothing but that number to go on. It's just a random id, with no meaning-relation to the target whatsoever. Then I as the view sit down and do the session, going into an altered state of consciousness and using the CRV protocol in ordered stages access various attributes of the target. I'll explain a few technical details as we go along.
Bear in mind, this is not easy. It's non-trivial, because guessing gets you nowhere, as the target could be anything - a close up of a pine cone, a herd of buffalo, a sea horse's tail, a bucket full of seashells, the Great Pyramid, Lake Huron, a Russian babushka's face, the Kilauea caldera, a computer IC circuit, a machine gun ammo belt, two birds on a wire, an exterior shot of a small town car wash business, a World War I biplane, the planet Jupiter, I mean any thing.
The process is difficult because your mind is receiving radically different kinds of information about the target, all jumbled up. You get visual attributes, you may get audio or other sensory attributes, but you'll also get "semantic" attributes such as use of an object or scene at a target, and then finally you'll get purely symbolic information. But these types of info do NOT come labeled "I'm a symbolic image" "I'm a visual reference" etc. That's what makes it so hard.
Another thing that makes it hard is our human tendency to jump and apply our own label. Left Brain stuff. You see might "see" a man in a red hat and long red coat and conclude aha Santa! But it was actually a fireman, that kind of thing. When your Left Brain starts peeing in the punchbowl like that, it's called an Analystical Overlay (AOL). They are almost always wrong. The goal is to report what you actually get, not what you decide on your own. But we cannot entirely suppress them, so as you'll see below, we are taught to simple note them but add the marker AOL so that a session judge later looking at the notes has that reference. It's good self-awareness training.
The session I'll present here was neither my best nor worst. In this case the judges, all six, instantly identified the true target picture from my session notes, with no discussion or dissension. So it is a successful session in that sense. However, selecting a target is one thing, identifying it from the notes alone would of course be far more difficult, though in some sessions the information was so good that it could have been done. In this session, the target was really tricky - it was not something like the Taj Mahal or the Eiffel Tower that you can work toward like 20 questions. It was more unfamiliar and amorphous, it doesn't map or snap to a single obvious phrase identity, like "the White House" or "Mt. Rushmore" or "the Saint Louis arch".
Below each session page, I will note any special features and transcribe the written words because my handwriting sucks and the scans are bad. Also I wrote these in an altered state of consciousness with a light pencil. I warn you, it will appear messy, incoherent, useless, pointless. But apart from the fact that I was a beginner and truly I was working much rougher and cruder than a real pro like McMoneagle would, additionally you have understand that this really is how RV works, it more like a bunch of puzzle pieces dumped on a table than a single finished picture or perfect description/id phrase. Yet it has compelling power and mystery.
The final image is the target picture, with my commentary.
I hope this transcript can teach you something about both the strengths and the limitations of RV. But most importantly, looking at this, you should realize once and for - reality leaks. The world is more than we know.
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Page 1 shows the normal starting protocol. Name, date, and target id # I was given. The real session begins below the horizontal line. This is the CRV protocol format. The trailing line from the '1' of 941 is where you allow your subconscious to take over, too detailed a process to cover here, refer to the Ingo Swann protocol documents. You see a curved line with the word BRIGHTER, then below that the word DARKER, then some striped lines to the side and cut wedge or cutting types of lines, and between those the words VERTICAL UPLIFT.
Page 2 shows a jagged curving line, with a dark central spot, and a curved line beneath, annotated EYE-LIKE AOL (see above for discussion of analytical overlay). Then a sideways wedge or triangular shape, with words FURROW and FUNNEL-LIKE. Now I'm trying to be totally open here so I'll tell you everything that happened in the session. Remember it's an altered state of conscious, but you have just enough awareness to control or exercise veto power. At this point in the session, I was getting a strong visual of (het) sexual intercouse, very specific, detailed and zoomed-in to the (mental image of) a ... well-prepared... male organ entering a female's part. I tried to shake that off, assuming I'm just horny or something from being in this monastic training program too many days or something! But it would not shake, and I realized it meant something in relation to the target. But I didn't want to express it in words or pictures directly. I was editing myself even in the altered state. I "thought": what if I'm wrong? How could it be? How embarassing I'm just displaying my own subconscious... So I choked it down to a most abstract representation, the cut and wedge type of shape that you see here. You'll understand later the informational aspect of this that was being symbolized by a visual of the forceful sexual act.
Page 3 shows additional visual impressions. You see rows of correlated wavy lines rough diagonal, notated DARKER on the upper side, BRIGHTER on the other side, and EDGE, BORDER on the lines themselves. There is a semi-circular concentrated dark area labeled SMALL BROWN OBJECT.
Page 4 again shows the curvy diagonal line cutting the whole scene and on the line a small circular area labeled WHITEISH LONGISH OBJECT NEAR BORDER. There's a circular shape with a small center and radial line labelled CIRCULAR RADIATING.
Page 5 again emphasizes the diagonal division line, labelled BORDER. Above that is BRIGHTNESS. The words CIRCLES, WHEELS appear above the diagonal line, with an arrow linking them to further description of their location: FOUND AT OR BEHIND BORDER. At the bottom is 2NDARY LINE.
Page 6 shows visual of an aligned wavy pattern, labelled as STACK ARRAY MULTIPLES. Those words are a bit of jargon in CRV meaning a continuously repeated pattern of lines or shapes.
Page 8 (there was no Page 7, I mis-numbered during the session, remember I'm in an altered state of consciousness) is special. In this phase you just let your hand go, let your subconscious draw anything it wants, like automatic writing. The words appear FREE FORM GESTALT SKETCH. The main features we've already noted appear: a strong diagonal running from lower left to upper right, multiple wavy lines, and a nucleus or eye-like area near the middle of the scene.
Page 9 shows final visual notes on the scene, in discrete feature chunks. The top one is a "detail" show of the wheel or eye like object, again showing a center with radii and the words HOOPISH WHEEL-LIKE. The feature diagonal line appear below to the left, with the circle superimposed on it. and the words BORDER SUNRISE/AOL ("sunrise" is interpretive so an analytical overlay). Then finally mutliple lines in order with the words FEATHERY, ENERGY RISING.
Page 11 (mis numbering again) is special in that we are expected to end with a verbal summary of impressions of the target. This read as below:
TARGET HAS AN IMPORTANT BRIGHTNESS CONTRAST, ALONG DIAGONAL. PROMINENT WHEEL-LIKE OBJECT AT OR BELOW (DARKER SIDE) OF BORDER. SOME ENERGY, MOTION (POWERFUL, EXPLOSIVE FEELING) ASSOCIATED, AGAIN MORE ON THE LOWER SIDE, TOWARDS BOTTOM. FEELING OUTDOORS, UNIVERSAL VASTNESS.
Note that this verbal summary does not have any special priority over the other more visual/spatial pages. (In fact the judges tend to work more from the visuals, but the relative priority is somewhat scene-dependent.)
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Ok! That's it! I'll post the target next week... hee hee... !
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Naw. Just kidding. BElow is the actual target picture, below, which I did not see until all judging had been completed. This photo with its text was among the set of 4 such target text/photo sheets given to the 6 judge panel, along with all my session notes as displayed above, for their evaluation. They instantly and unanimously selected the correct target based on my notes.
Here is the text of the picture (not part of the viewing session but helps to understand what this crazy scene is):
RVP Folder B: Target #941
FARMING NEAR PULLMAN, Washington, United States
46"42' N 117"12' W
Known as the Evergreen State, Washington has been raising wheat for decades, striving to adapt the grain in order to protect a soil made fragile by the erosive agricultural practices of earlier times. The development of agribusiness, "an alliance of agriculture, industry, science, and financial investments, encourages technological innovations aimed at improving productivity and helps keep the United States the leading exporter of cereals (about 35 percent of the total) as well as corn (40 percent) and soy (nearly half of world production). The use of bio technologies, especially in the production of corn and soy, has led to the creation of varieties that are resistant to parasites, an herbicides that are believe to increase yield. Although these genetically modified organisms (SMO) are still the subject of prohibitions and sharp controversy all over the world, notably because of hte limited knowledge of their effects on health and the environment, their cultivation is widespread in Argentina, Canada, and especially the United States, where half of all soy is genetically modified.
In evaluating this, be careful because there is a fold line in the paper itself (which I scanned) about 1/3 of the way down from the top, running horizontally. That was not present in the original target picture and is not a feature of the target in any way. Clearly in the photo itself, there is a main diagonal division running from slightly lower left to upper right. Above that tline more darkish areas appear, as opposed to the lighter or more light/dark evenly balanced areas below. Right in the center of the paper fold line, you'll note a circular area that looks like a cat's eye, on the diagonal division or border line. There's another dark oval area on the diagonal "border" line, down to the left from the Cat's Eye feature. Overall, you will note the multiple stacked or aligned furrows. You will note that this is an outdoor area of "universal vastness" if anything on Earth could ever fit that phrase.
The area is associated with huge amounts of energy, both in what it took to create this and the food energy that is derived from it.
The sexual symbolism was the Universe or my subconscous trying in its innocent (?) way to clue me that this is an area or scene associated with fertility, with penetration to sow seed for growth and creation... kind of thing. For the visual, note that that top dark squarish area at the top of the photo is cut by two service roads that converge in a shape reminiscent of a female pubic area.
If you refer up to session Page 1, you'll see that the initial "scrawl" from the #941 digits also replicates almost exactly the shape of the corner of this dark squarish area at the very top of the photo.
Well you can judge for yourself. There's actually a whole protocol for rating how well a session matched a given scene, based on how many true and significant features were noted and how many extraneous things appear in the session that have no correlate in the target. Of course, in this police lineup judging, it would have been most interesting to post the other suspects (the additional 3 pics in the judges pool) but I have not got those.
Anyway, this session was an instant and complete success using the STARGATE judging protocol.
As I said, neither my best nor my worst of the week.