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Discussions on Remote Viewing
Part 2

by Jimmy Williams

Jimmy Williams Why is it that the subconscious mind is able to transfer basic gestaltic information by means that are seemingly beyond the capability of our physical senses, when the conscious mind cannot? Does the conscious mind also accesses a-causal, spatially distant, and time-displaced information?

Before we can seriously approach this question we have to understand the working principles of the conscious mind. Some of this was touched on in the previous chapter. The waking mind is active. It is constantly comparing data from the world of the senses and data from memory against an organizing scheme of some kind. This central construct is the person’s best guess of how the world works.

This central organizing principle usually is a multifaceted, loose confederation of mental constructs, with each part having a unique characteristic and each taking turns being dominant in order to adapt to changing survival pressures. Different world views or Me’s take turns to fulfill the appropriate survival needs of the moment.

One Me takes charge in serious business environments, while another takes over during intimate loving relationships. Sometimes a monolithic Me takes over, refuses to leave center stage and acts the same way no matter the situation. This can seem neurotic in inappropriate circumstances.

Whether multifaceted, monolithic or somewhere in between, the point is that data converges on a central framework and can only be evaluated in terms of it. This is a highly successful way of processing the world and is probably responsible for the primacy of Homo sapiens.

We are incredibly adaptable creatures. As Robert Ornstein says in The Evolution of Consciousness, The Origins of the Way We Think, “Because of the great malleability of the brain, human beings are as successful a species as we are because we can occupy a wide range of niches. Other animals have died out because of their lack of adaptability.” We are like the tiger that can change his stripes. We change our central brain operating system in response to survival needs. Through a combination of nature and nurture, we build mental frameworks that are appropriate to our environment.

What happens to data that doesn’t fit the framework? Usually it is totally ignored, but sometimes it floats to the surface as intuition. Sometimes the importance of the information is so important to the survival of the person that they are compelled to act without reason, as if they had lost their mind. Take for instance the person that has a bad premonition and decides not to board an airplane that latter crashes. Some major organizing paradigms of that person’s world had to be shoved aside to act on those gut feelings.

“People that are not flexible and adaptable in their mental framing strategies can find remote viewing downright destabilizing.”

The remote viewer is trained to short-circuit this central organizing matrix by moving fast and not evaluating the data as it is received. The completely unknown nature of the target prevents the selection of an organizing scheme for the data. The scheme is transferred to the remote viewing protocols.

The very activity of suspending their comfortable filter of the world can be very disturbing. People that are not flexible and adaptable in their mental framing strategies can find remote viewing downright destabilizing. Personal filters that were previously taken for granted or invisible are now switched off through the application of the remote viewing protocols. What was previously thought of as an immovable feature of their psychic landscape is now shown to be controllable by an act of will. One no longer has plausible deniability when it comes to taking responsibility for the strange features of one’s mind. It is a constant battle to refrain from judging the data you receive from the world through your filters. This is where analytical overlay comes from. It can take hundreds of remote viewing sessions before a person actually gets comfortable and can process information in this way. Some are never able to handle the stress to their mental framework, and have to quit.

Lets get back to the original question I posed at the beginning of this chapter.

I think the reason why we generally don’t perceive a-causal, spatially distant, and time-displaced information is because of the wildly successful nature of our conventional mental processes. It isn’t that we can’t perceive signals of this type. Ninety-nine percent of the time, these subtle messages just don’t matter. We are conditioned by success to not pay them much attention.

You are much more interested and successful in finding food, a mate, and avoiding pain using the conventional mind operating system. It’s like Microsoft® Windows®. MSDOS is still there, but most people don’t need it and don’t care.

From time to time something comes through such as intuition, precognition or the hair rising on the back of your neck that bypasses the normal system. Our tendency is to immediately interpret this strange information in terms of what we can sense or remember. We run it through the ringer of our analytical mind. Is it any wonder we have problems with analytical overlay in remote viewing?

So, does your conscious mind receive a-causal, spatially distant, and time-displaced information? You betcha; but there is an 800 pound gorilla called the analytical mind that is sitting in your lap. Guess who gets all the attention?

Monkey MindI tell my remote viewing students that this is the monkey mind. There is a chattering monkey sitting on your shoulder always interrupting the subtle reception of remote data with constant analyzing and framing of the data. You have to turn off the monkey mind to be successful.

Now that we have some basic idea of how the mental machinery operates, let’s take a look at how we perceive and process remote viewing data. Chapter three of Rene’ Warcollier’s book Experiments in Telepathy, is titled “What is Transmitted”. I previously touched on some of this when I brought up the subject of color (the red fish and the billiard ball).

In speaking of the strange way that data associates, Warcollier states: “This anomaly of transmission is of value to us because it shows in the most indisputable way that, in telepathic reception at least, the cerebral neurons play a part like that of the keyboard of a piano during the performance of a piece of music. The keys seem to be moved, as it were, from outside, whereas in our habitual perception they are moved from within, like the keys of a mechanical player-piano.”

We have a program that organizes data, which equates to the scroll of the player piano. Remove the program and what you get is strange juxtapositions of data. Normal associative thought processes would cause memory images to accrete to the imagery of the target. The imagery associations do not necessarily combine in a reasonable relationship to one another. Color, form or idea can recombine in metaphoric or mixed up ways. As if an infant were drawing the picture (or playing the piano).

We have seen how color and form can cross associate. Ideas alone can show up as form as well. Here are a few cases sited in Warcollier’s book:

1) May, 1926. The agent, in one room, repeated in a low voice, “To be or not to be.” The percipient. R.W., in another room, thought of a cross in a graveyard.
2) Same day, same conditions. The agent thought of the river Seine as seen from the top of the Eiffel Tower. The percipient thought of isothermic lines on a map of the world and a city map.
3) Same conditions. The agent, Captain B., wrote and pronounced in a low voice, “Honor and country.” The percipient, R.W., thought of a French flag blowing in the wind, with a golden star above it, but did not catch the meaning of the image.

In the first example, the idea comes across symbolically as a cross in a graveyard. In the second, the agent (targeteer for you remote viewers) was working from memory. The result was visual impressions rendered in the form of maps. The last was highly metaphoric. All of the above results were essentially visual in nature. Our primary sense is visual. Is it any wonder that complex ideas are rendered in visual format?

In a later chapter Warcollier says: “In fact, telepathy almost never manifests itself to the percipient (viewer) by a sense-image or a meaning-image of the agent (targeteer). It seems that the memory or sense images disintegrate into their component elements; and it is from these elements, reviewed by the percipient that the creative imagination reconstructs, as well as it can, the perception or the memory image of the agent”.

In the telepathy experiments the percipient had to grab all the data and render it in one try. In remote viewing, we can minimize the effects of memory by slowly collecting data in a well-organized manner. Meaning develops in the later stages and any realization about meaning is postponed for as long as possible so as not to interfere with the data collection process.

In a remote viewing session bits of data appear but are not assigned meaning by the viewer. This is like an impressionist painting composed of dots. It is futile to assign meaning to individual dots or to try to draw the picture from a small percentage of those collected.

It is only after completing the tapestry of data that one can stand back and try to reassemble the meaning from the collected work. Patience is a virtue.  



(Discussions on Remote Viewing, Introduction, Part One,
February R.V. News)


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