Remote Viewing: an easy way to experience magic

After the last article, I've gotten some feedback. The easiest way to summarize it would be to paraphrase it as something like this:

It's all well and good to talk about a fancy book with a controlled experiment showing 'correlation', but how can this 'magic' apply in the real world?

Let me tell you a story about the first time I tried out these techniques on my own.

Last year, I took trip to Penang, Malaysia to meet up with a Kung Fu brother of mine. The main objective of the trip for me was to learn a few weapon-based sets our school was studying. My Shaolin brother had been practicing the Flowing Water Staff and Plum Flower Sabre for some time and was comfortable running me through the essence of each set. So in the relatively cool evenings, we worked on these sets on the grounds of the Xin Jun Temple.

Learning basic patterns from the Flowing Water Staff set.

To avoid the intense heat of the sultry days we stuck to cooler, shaded places. We visited local tea shops to taste Chinese white teas (白茶 - bái chá) and black/red teas (红茶 - hong cha) for possible Western wholesale. We conferred with local healers to discuss their various Eastern practices of spiritual, karmic and chi-based therapies. We hunted down ingredients for a traditional Kung Fu healing elixir from local apothecaries.

My favorite place we visited was the koon our Sifu first began to study Kung Fu as a child. This ancient gym held so many mysteries, housing a century old alter to Guan Yu, a hall of ancestors filled with alters, a massive collection of training weapons and tools. Yet I think it's best feature was a wooden plank practice floor that had been smoothed by decades of sparing. Every step filled the hall with rickety BANGS, as we practiced on our teachers sanctified ground.

Just some of the traditional practice weapons at the koon.

It should go without saying that with all we were doing, I was pretty happy to chill at our hotel. My Shaolin brother met with a local Chi Kung healer and found a cool recliner in the hotel's lounge. First thing I did was check in with my wife via text. Then while awaiting her reply, I pulled out my copy of Russel Targ's Limiteless MIND and picked up reading where I'd left off. Coincidentally, I was on Chapter 5, which covered the use of Remove Viewing for medical diagnosis. With my friend going through an energy-based healing session, I ravenously ate the chapter up. The proceeding Chapter 6 discussed Remote Healing, where prayer, visualization and intention were scientifically demonstrated to improve health outcomes. This stuff seemed amazing and I was anxious to hear from my buddy after his one-on-one private session.

Russel Targ's Limiteless MIND

After some time, my wife did reply. I told her what we were up to and how cool this stuff seemed. At home, we had tried practicing a bit of Remote Viewing. We had adapted Targ and Radin's Remote Viewing protocols into a game. We had practiced with small objects around the house and locations we visited around town. She was a natural!

Still, we had never really tried it from a large distance. I was now in a completely different country, surrounded by entirely new items. So with the break, I gave her a bit of a psychic challenge. I would take some random object from within my hotel room, and place it in my hotel's shower. I told her that I could guarantee that she had never seen the object. Honestly, I didn't t even know what the item was when I placed it on the floor of the shower. Very quickly, she told me she had it.

Screenshot of our remote viewing conversations.

The description was almost useless, as they tend to be. So, I asked her to draw it and send me a photograph of what she drew. She next sent me the following image:

Hand drawn image from Remote Viewing experience.

She followed up by saying the item reminded her of a bacteria. Of course, I had not placed such a 'bacteria' in the shower. This poor description was an artifact of the Remote Viewing process. Both Targ and Radin explained that many might sense and accuratly describe or draw an object at a distance. Yet these same people would miss wildly when they provided specific titles or names for the objects. This case was no exception, as indeed I had placed a broad, flattish, light-colored, near-monochrome object in the shower.

The object placed in the Penang shower - a ceramic, stool.

Yet the accuracy of the description is far exceeded by the image provided. As usual with Remote Viewing, notice how the intuitively drawn shape illustrates the basic essence of the object: the cylindrical shape, the various circles (holes) throughout, and the appearance of lines crossing about its monochrome surface. As is the case with remote viewing, the image is not precise. The "lines" are actually branches, and they do not come out of the cylinder. However, the image I received was so characteristic and telling that we were both instantly stunned.

We later continued experimenting with Remote Viewing. We found we could both do it to varying degrees, although she seemed a bit better at it. We could see items across distances or even days. Meanwhile, she seemed better at feeling and describing the textures or drawing them instantly, while I was better at assembling composite images that together described the items.

We even attempted to make practical use of these skills. We tried to use Remote Viewing to win at horse races or chose the winning lottery ticket. These attempts were of varying success, and those stories are for another day. This was my first attempt to have someone other than myself both explore and confirm magical findings.

Have you had personal experiences with the miraculous? Are you curious to learn and practice remote viewing?