NEWS: Analysis & Commentary What Frontloading Is And What It Is Not by Lyn Buchanan Definition: Frontloading, when done correctly, is a method of telling the viewer where to put his/her efforts without providing any information about the target. It is a tool the viewer can use to focus his/her energies for the best effectiveness. When done incorrectly, it is an unnecessary and often destructive pollutant, to be avoided at all costs. A recent article in this newsletter talked about whether frontloading is good or bad, or whether you can say that you are even doing remote viewing at all, if you are "frontloaded". Throughout the article, the one thing which became most clear was that different people have different ideas of what constitutes frontloading. I would like to hopefully suggest a few rules for proper frontloading; a sort of ten commandments, if you will, in the hopes of bring some cohesiveness to this subject. RULE 1: Frontloading must NOT impart target information. What is frontloading NOT? If "frontloading" lets the viewer know something about the target, then it isn't frontloading. It is, at the very least, leading, and at the very worst, cheating. It is also very destructive to the viewer's session, and to the viewer's self-confidence. Let's take a couple of examples of frontloading which imparts information: Example 1.1: "The target is the location of a criminal who abducted a young girl." This is a total disaster. There is not a viewer anywhere who will not immediately find him/herself battling with personal stereotypes of a criminal, of a child abductor (and probably child molester), and of a location where we would expect such a person to hide in order to do their malevolent deeds. In addition, the viewer is immediately set upon by strong emotions. What if in reality, the child was taken by her very loving mother, who becomes a criminal in the process? While the monitor may think that this kind of information helps the session and the viewer, it doesn't. It only hurts. Example 1.2: "N.E.A.R. SPACECRAFT LANDING EVENT ON THE ASTEROID EROS, FEBRUARY 12, 2001. While there is no emotional triggering or even stereotype pollution, the above would actually serve to confuse the viewer's subconscious. First of all, you have tasked the viewer's subconscious with the answer it is supposed to find. What is the question here? What is the unknown to search out information about? Unless the viewer has absolutely no clue about the N.E.A.R. project, the total burden of describing is placed directly on the conscious mind. The little bit of information which is gained through viewing will get lost in the known facts. The viewer may know something about the project, but not know what the craft looks like. In that case, the dimensionals will need to be viewed, but even then, the viewer will have personal doubts about how much is actually coming from memory and previously forgotten knowledge (eidetic memory). Example 1.3: "The target is the location of my car keys, lost on or about Jan. 20th" OK. We're getting better, right? Wrong. A viewer, faced with such information will immediately begin to mentally sort out possible locations where the tasker would have been, and all the possible places where car keys would normally have been misplaced or forgotten. As a last example, let's take one of the most subtle types of unintentional pollution: Example 1.4: "The target is a manufactured object. Describe it." You tell the viewer not only the manufactured quality of the object, but you also tell him/her that there is only one. True, you have narrowed the tasking down to about forty quintillion possible targets in space and time, but you have still inadvertently polluted the session, and it will show up as problems for the viewer. Bottom line: If you impart any information at all about the target site, then you are not frontloading - you are polluting. RULE 2: Frontloading must NOT "task the answer". Simply stated, "tasking the answer is a condition where you task the viewer to find what you want him/her to find. You have generally already decided what the target is, and now you want a viewer to agree with you. You aren't allowed to do that during a session, so you use something like the following for "frontloading": Example 2.1: "The target is a specific man. Describe him." In this example, let's say that you are a police detective and you are looking for the perpetrator of a crime. You have already decided that the target is male, and you are asking the viewer to find what you already suspect. What if you are wrong? RULE 3: Frontloading must ONLY tell the viewer where to put his/her best efforts. Let's say that the targeted location is, say, a hotel with a beach, sailboats, volleyball game, refreshments kiosk, kiddy pool, beach umbrellas, parking lot, amusement rides, and people all over the place. Let's further say that I only want you to describe the winner of the volleyball game. If frontloading is designed properly, it will only tell you where to put your viewing efforts. Example 3.1: "Describe the activity part of the site." The end result of this frontloading is that the viewer will still, in the early stages of the session, pick up on the buildings, the sailboats, the people, the smell of candy, suntan oil, etc. But as the viewer stops the "winking about the site" which is inherent to the early stages, he/she will begin to get "site contact" and will focus on that part of the site which is of interest to the viewer. The session goes much faster and the viewer is not worn out by the end of it. Let's face it. Every site has a lot of things to describe. Not everything at a site needs to be described. If you are doing a practice target then, sure, go ahead and describe everything you can. But realize the pitfalls of this. Many people ignore the major part of the site and fully describe the background or something attractive to them in it. But hey, it is a practice session. No problem. Many people spend all their energies on inconsequential parts of the site. If they ever do get around to the main part of the target, they are tired and ready to quit, so they don't do their best work on the most important aspects of the site. But when you have a real-life session, where a tasker wants to know something specific about the site, you can't have a viewer dallying about for hours at the target site. You need the viewer to focus in on the important part of the site and get the necessary information. You don't need the viewer to spend hours describing everything at the site, hoping he/she will get around to the specific targeted part. You need the viewer to go directly to the information and get it as quickly as possible. You will need a tool which will allow the viewer to access that part of the site only. Frontloading MAY be that tool. Many people will respond that frontloading is still not necessary, since the monitor can "guide" the viewer to the desired part of the target, once the viewer is into session. But they should realize that if that happens, then your major pollution is not the frontloading, but the monitor's "middleloading". Monitors should not lead. This is another problem entirely. What Frontloading Is Page 2 Privacy Statement Copyright © 2001, H.R.V.G. All rights reserved.

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