Paul H. Smith served for seven years in the government’s remote view­ing pro­gram at Ft. Meade, MD (from Sep­tem­ber 1983 to August 1990).  Dur­ing 1984, he became one of only a hand­ful of gov­ern­ment per­son­nel to be per­son­ally trained as coor­di­nate remote view­ers by Ingo Swann at SRI-International.

Paul was the pri­mary author of the gov­ern­ment RV program’s CRV train­ing man­ual, and served as the­ory instruc­tor for new CRV trainee per­son­nel, as well as recruit­ing offi­cer and unit secu­rity offi­cer.  He is cred­ited with over a thou­sand train­ing and oper­a­tional remote view­ing ses­sions dur­ing his time with the unit at Ft. Meade.

In this excel­lent arti­cle, Paul explains why the aver­age per­son should learn remote viewing.

Why Learn Remote View­ing by Paul H. Smith

Many times since start­ing to teach con­trolled remote view­ing com­mer­cially, I’ve been asked vari­a­tions of the ques­tion “Why do peo­ple want to learn remote view­ing?“or “What good is remote view­ing?“

I’ve thought about it for a long time, and have come to the fol­low­ing con­clu­sion. Maybe peo­ple want to learn remote view­ing for rea­sons sim­i­lar to why oth­ers learn to sky­dive. This may seem a lit­tle sur­pris­ing at first, but let’s start off by ask­ing, “what good is sky­div­ing?” There are of course a num­ber of answers: It is use­ful in mil­i­tary and com­mando oper­a­tions; it is handy for get­ting peo­ple to remote places to fight for­est fires; it can be used to insert res­cue per­son­nel into cer­tain emer­gency situations.

How­ever, the vast major­ity of peo­ple learn to sky­dive, and con­tinue doing it, not for any so-called prac­ti­cal rea­son. They do it because it presents a challenge–the thrill of over­com­ing nature (grav­ity) and the nat­ural human fears that come with it. Or it puts them in a class of peo­ple who do some­thing beyond the ordinary–something that takes skill and self-mastery. Or they sim­ply glory in the expe­ri­ence of hang­ing all alone, how­ever briefly, thou­sands of feet above the earth.

This seems also to be the case with remote viewing–though not lit­er­ally, of course. Like sky­div­ing, RV has its prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions. Within its inher­ent lim­i­ta­tions remote view­ing has been used in intel­li­gence col­lec­tion, crime-solving, find­ing miss­ing per­sons, mar­ket pre­dic­tions, and–more controversially–space exploration.

Yet most peo­ple who learn it do so not because of prac­ti­cal appli­ca­tions so much as the chal­lenge it represents–learning to do some­thing that few other peo­ple as yet know how to do; or acquir­ing a skill deemed impos­si­ble under the cur­rently rul­ing sci­en­tific par­a­digm; or because it pro­vides con­vinc­ing and sat­is­fy­ing proof that we are, indeed, much more than our phys­i­cal bodies.

While sky­divers learn that it is pos­si­ble to tran­scend the phys­i­cal fears and bod­ily lim­i­ta­tions that we nor­mally think we are sub­ject to, remote view­ers learn some­thing anal­o­gous: that it is pos­si­ble to tran­scend not only those lim­i­ta­tions, but the bound­aries of space and time as well.

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