1.
Try to clear your mind of any preconceived ideas and
beliefs. Start by asking yourself, “Is it okay with me if psychic
functioning is really a natural part of the world?” Next ask
yourself, “Is it okay with me if I have psychic ability?”
2. Take a positive tone. Say to yourself, “I can remote view
a location.” If you sense any resistance to the idea that you
can remote view, then take some time to work this out and
become comfortable with the idea that you can function
psychically, even if it is only temporary.
3. Sit comfortably in a quiet, undisturbed location. Try to
find a place that is neutral in color and atmosphere. Avoid
places with many distractions. Dim the lights, but darkness is
not necessary.
4. Sit upright and remain alert. Have some clean sheets of
paper and pen or pencils at hand.
5. Begin to quiet your mind. Relax and take deep breaths.
With each exhalation, relax both your body’s muscles and your
mind. Let your mind go blank but do not try and stop thoughts
that come. Simply let them go without focusing on them. No
special meditation is required, although one useful technique is
to imagine yourself in an empty theater staring at a blank
screen.
Relax until images appear on the screen.
6. When images come, describe what you see, not what
you think. View the images as if you were an unaffected
observer.
Observe them carefully, because the images often flash
through the mind rapidly. The more basic the impressions, the
more likelihood of an accurate viewing.
7. Try to draw what you see, even if you don’t know what
the drawing represents. Don’t attempt to connect images.
Simply draw or describe them. Try for an initial ideogram,
which is a simple line drawing representing the whole idea of
the target. Concentrate on the idea of the target and let your
pencil hand move automatically.
8. Next, concentrate on shapes, forms, colors, and
textures. Don’t be concerned if something doesn’t seem to
make sense -
just record it.
9. Try to get a feel for your target, then interrogate your-
self about it. Is it a person, place, or thing? Is it natural or
man-made? What is it used for? Who goes there?
10. Limit your remote viewing session to 15 or 20 minutes.
Whenever possible, a novice remote viewer should visit
the target site as soon as possible after the RV session. Look
about carefully and compare what you see with the images
you received. If feedback is done while the images are still
fresh in your mind, the comparisons made will benefit you
during subsequent RV sessions.
I isolated seven general stages of the different kinds of
information, which came psychically in exact order. Swann
described the seven remote viewing stages as follows:
Stage 1 = The formation of an ideogram, a spontaneous
mark with a pen or pencil representing the target site.
Stage 2 = Sensory impressions the viewer might
experience if he were at the target site, such as smells,
sounds, feelings, colors, and so on.
Stage 3 = Dimensional references, the height and length
of the site, most often represented in sketches.
Stage 4 = Refinement of the dimensional references,
gaining tangible details of the target site, such as surroundings
(trees, buildings, tables, chairs, and such). Also, the
recognition of intangibles such as the use of the site
(governmental, medical, religious, museum, and so on).
Stage 5 = Integrating the preceding four stages into
the understanding of the remote viewer. It is here that the
viewer interrogates his own memory, drawing out further
details of the target site.
Stage 6 = Making accurate renderings or drawing of
the target site. This may also include modeling. It was learned
that often viewers could use modeling clay to make three
dimensional models of the site that were superior to line
sketches.
Stage 7 = This seldom-used stage involves the use of
verbal sounds to approximate the precise names of individuals,
streets, towns, and so on. For example, if a certain street
name in Arabic is desired, the viewer would continue to
approximate the sound until a linguist could interpret the
name.
Swann explained:
I spent a great deal of time trying to understand how it
worked. I wanted to understand how the data debriefed itself.
You see, when these guys make an ideogram, there’s a chain
of unraveling that takes place. The signal line is being
incorporated into the viewer’s mind or something like that. And
they are trained to discriminate between noise and signal. But
the signal line does its own thing in these stages and in
the way that it does that, you come up with practically a
noiseless session. That’s if they adhere to the format, the
structure. But it’s very hard to get people to do that because
people like to contribute themselves, you know.
This is not a contributive process. The viewer has to be
passive, not active, and just receive what’s coming in.
“Many psychic methodologies try to send the conscious
mind on vacation. That is, they try to put the conscious mind
into a trance or ‘altered state,’ explained Buchanan. He
continued:
These are the people who insist that psychic work can only
be done “once you have achieved theta,” etc. In actual fact,
the conscious mind sits in that altered state and keeps
checking back every few seconds to see how the process is
going. The person isn’t usually aware of it, but a part of them
is constantly monitoring the session and either giving its
approval or stopping the subconscious from doing its job by
giving disapproval.