About.com has put up a very nicely writ­ten sum­mary of var­i­ous ways to learn remote view­ing. Here is the arti­cle and the list of sites they rec­om­mend. I’ll be per­son­ally review­ing and blog­ging about some of the sites listed in this arti­cle soon.

Vir­tu­ally any­one can learn remote view­ing. You don’t need to be “psy­chic” to suc­cess­fully remote view, but it does require train­ing and dili­gent prac­tice. Some research has shown that left-handed peo­ple are more likely to become suc­cess­ful at it. But learn­ing remote view­ing has been likened to learn­ing to play a musi­cal instru­ment. You’re not going to be able to read a book (or web­site) about it and then be able to do it. You must learn the tech­niques and then prac­tice. As with a musi­cal instru­ment, the more you train and prac­tice with it, the bet­ter you’ll be able to per­form. It takes time, moti­va­tion and dedication.

Accord­ing to Paul H. Smith in his arti­cle “Can Remote View­ing Be Trained,” remote view­ing “train­ing has been nearly always suc­cess­ful to a greater or lesser degree depend­ing on the level of moti­va­tion, prepa­ra­tion and innate abil­ity of a given stu­dent viewer.” Remote viewer Joe McMonea­gle has com­pared it to train­ing for the mar­tial arts.

How You Can Learn Remote View­ing

If you’re curi­ous about the poten­tial of remote view­ing, there are many resources for learn­ing its meth­ods and tech­niques. For exam­ple, the offi­cial Army man­ual on Coor­di­nate Remote View­ing, writ­ten in 1986, is avail­able free online. It pro­vides back­ground, train­ing pro­ce­dures, how a remote view­ing ses­sion works and more.

There are com­mer­cial courses as well, which can range in cost from free to hun­dreds of dol­lars and even thou­sands of dol­lars. Be cau­tious and research a com­pany thor­oughly before invest­ing any money in train­ing. Be wary of exag­ger­ated claims and find out exactly what you get for your money. Here are a few sources:

• Remote View­ing Sys­tems
• Acad­emy of Remote View­ing
• Con­trolled Remote View­ing Courses Offered By P>S>I
• The Far­sight Insti­tute
• Hawaii Remote View­ers’ Guild
• Larger Uni­verse (free remote view­ing lessons)
• West­ern Insti­tute of Remote View­ing
• PSI Tech
• Straight­line Remote Sens­ing (free online exercises)

Why would you want to learn remote view­ing? Paul H. Smith answers:

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.

Source: About.com