Remote viewing (RV) is the practice of seeking impressions about a distant or unseen subject, purportedly sensing with the mind. A remote viewer is expected to give information about an object, event, person, or location hidden from physical view and separated by some distance. Physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, parapsychology researchers at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), are generally credited with coining the term “remote viewing” to distinguish it from the closely related concept of clairvoyance. According to Targ, the term was first suggested by Ingo Swann in December 1971 during an experiment at the American Society for Psychical Research in New York City.
Remote Viewing as a psychic or paranormal exercise, came into the public mind in the 1990’s at the release of classified documents about the Stargate project, funded through the American CIA and housed at Stanford University, California. Most scientists today, defer to multiple studies and tests that assert that remote viewing in not accurately measurable nor more correct than chance. But for many decades, and still today, the study of psychic phenomena is serious business. Remote viewing overlaps with out-of -body experiences, astral travel, neuroscience, psychic detectives and spies, and mediumship.
Despite its challenges in the scientific communities, many practical psychics and mediums use remote viewing in many instances, for a variety of reasons. Elie will lead us through several practical exercises.
