I’ve com­piled a list of the­o­ries, untruths, mis­con­cep­tions and other things that have been said about remote viewing…

Remote View­ing is not…

Remote view­ing is not…

…an out-of-body expe­ri­ence. A remote viewer does not astrally project to the tar­get, although some remote view­ers occa­sion­ally report a feel­ing of bilo­cat­ing to the site of the tar­get. Remote View­ing is not a med­i­ta­tive, dream or trance state. Dur­ing a remote view­ing ses­sion, the sub­ject is always fully awake and alert. As Christophe Brun­ski writes in “Remote View­ing: Con­di­tions and Poten­tials,” “Whereas one might con­sider a trance state to be ‘going down’ into the deeper lev­els of mind, RV might be said to allow infor­ma­tion from these deeper lev­els to ‘come up.’” ~ What You Need to Know About Remote View­ing - About.com

Remote view­ing is not…

…pre­cisely one thing, but rather an inte­grated “cock­tail” of var­i­ous phe­nom­ena, unlike most other psi dis­ci­plines. Despite the “view­ing” part of the term, remote view­ing is only partly about expe­ri­ences asso­ci­ated with what might be vis­i­ble about a tar­get. It also involves men­tal impres­sions per­tain­ing to the other senses, such as sounds, tastes, smells, and tex­tures, as well as lim­ited telepathy-like effects, and in some cases just plain intu­itive “know­ing.” RV owes some of these qual­i­ties to the fact that lessons learned from research in clair­voy­ance, telepa­thy, and even out-of-body expe­ri­ences — tra­di­tion­ally con­sid­ered sep­a­rate dis­ci­plines — played a role in its devel­op­ment. ~ WHAT IS REMOTE VIEWING? — Paul H. Smith

Remote view­ing is not…

…“being psy­chic” in the way com­monly under­stood by the media and many prac­ti­tion­ers of “para­nor­mal” arts—though thanks to recent incom­plete or inac­cu­rate reports many have been led to believe oth­er­wise. Remote view­ers are not the typ­i­cal “clair­voy­ants,” “for­tune tellers,” or “psy­chics” we often hear about on TV or read about in the papers. Many of these more tra­di­tional psy­chics often do have amaz­ing tal­ents and abil­i­ties, but there is a qual­i­ta­tive dif­fer­ence between the aver­age “nat­ural” psy­chic, and a properly-trained remote viewer. ~ Paul H. smith. — Source: http://www.rviewer.com/

Remote view­ing is not…

…used to give “psy­chic read­ings,” “tell for­tunes,” “read auras,” or other sorts of pop­u­lar activ­i­ties of this nature, but is rather a means of doing seri­ous sci­ence research and for per­form­ing operational-type tasks in crim­i­nal inves­ti­ga­tions, gov­ern­ment intel­li­gence work, com­mer­cial appli­ca­tions, etc. Many who want to explore their indi­vid­ual human poten­tials also become inter­ested in it. ~ WHAT IS REMOTE VIEWING? — Paul H. Smith

RV is not really …

…a “psy­chic phe­nom­e­non” as such, but actu­ally an imposed dis­ci­pline or skill that helps the viewer to facil­i­tate or “har­ness” his or her own innate, under­ly­ing psi abil­i­ties. Some RV the­o­rists think that for­mal RV meth­ods are really just strate­gies that help the viewer to more suc­cess­fully and reli­ably access the sub­con­scious, where it is most likely that infor­ma­tion obtained from RV first emerges into human con­scious­ness. ~ WHAT IS REMOTE VIEWING? — Paul H. Smith

Remote view­ing is not…

…a form of dream­ing. Sim­i­larly, it is impor­tant not to con­fuse RV with med­i­ta­tion or trance states. When work­ing, the remote viewer is fully awake and alert. Whereas one might con­sider a trance state to be “going down” into the deeper lev­els of mind, RV might be said to allow infor­ma­tion from these deeper lev­els to “come up.”

Christophe Brun­ski, writer of The Sea-Glass Chron­i­cles.- The Anomalist.

Remote view­ing is not…

…a new phe­nom­e­non; the abil­ity has been ours since the begin­ning of time. The for­mu­la­tion and sys­tem­iza­tion of the­o­log­i­cal doc­trine as set forth in ancient records present us with count­less exam­ples of humanity’s learned and inher­ent abil­i­ties to tran­scend the phys­i­cal; to see in the mind’s eye, peo­ple, places and events sep­a­rate from their phys­i­cal real­ity. From the ancient hiero­glyph­ics carved into the walls of for­got­ten Egypt­ian tombs, to the “Emer­ald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean, the Uran­tia Book, A Course in Mir­a­cles, the Old Tes­ta­ment, the Koran, the Kab­balah, the Tal­mud, and the New Testament−to name but a few−all give accounts of jour­neys out of the phys­i­cal body, to night flights of soul, to pro­jec­tions of con­scious­ness, et cetera. How­ever, the most recent his­tory began circa 1972 when the Cen­tral Intel­li­gence Agency learned through var­i­ous human intel­li­gence sources that the Czechs, Chi­nese, Sovi­ets, Ger­mans, the Israelis and even the British, were all heav­ily involved in the study of var­i­ous aspects of what would be called the “para­nor­mal.” ~ David A. More­house, Ph.D.