It is easy to find infor­ma­tion about remote view­ing, although some­times it is easy to be mis­led if you are still a novice.

I try to gather as much infor­ma­tion as pos­si­ble about it — it may seem some­times like rep­e­ti­tion, but there are always sub­tle nuances.

The good thing is that once you know ‘what is’ remote view­ing, you can learn ‘how to’ remote view.

Below is an excerpt from About.com’s report on para­nor­mal Phe­nom­ena, which you can read by click­ing here.

What You Need to Know About…

Remote View­ing

It’s a sci­en­tific method of tap­ping into the “uni­ver­sal mind,” tran­scend­ing time and space, and bring­ing the uncon­scious into the con­scious — and YOU can learn to do it

Are you curi­ous about remote view­ing? You have most likely heard about this mys­te­ri­ous prac­tice and under­stand that is has some­thing to do with ESP. What you may not know is that a per­son does not have to be a psy­chic to learn and use remote view­ing. In fact, you can learn to become a remote viewer and access incred­i­ble men­tal pow­ers you didn’t even know you have.

What Is Remote Viewing?

Remote view­ing is the con­trolled use of ESP (extrasen­sory per­cep­tion) through a spe­cific method. Using a set of pro­to­cols (tech­ni­cal rules), the remote viewer can per­ceive a tar­get — a per­son, object or event — that is located dis­tantly in time and space. A remote viewer, it is said, can per­ceive a tar­get in the past or future that is located in the next room, across the coun­try, around the world or, the­o­ret­i­cally, across the uni­verse. In remote view­ing, time and space are mean­ing­less. What makes remote view­ing dif­fer­ent than ESP is that, because it uses spe­cific tech­niques, it can be learned by vir­tu­ally anyone.

The term “remote view­ing” came about in 1971 through exper­i­men­ta­tion con­ducted by Ingo Swann (who cor­rectly remote viewed in 1973 that the planet Jupiter has rings, a fact later con­firmed by space probes), Janet Mitchell, Karlis Osis and Gertrude Schmeidler.

In the method that they and oth­ers devel­oped, there are five com­po­nents nec­es­sary for remote view­ing to take place:

• a sub­ject (the remote viewer)
• active ESP abilities
• a dis­tant target
• the subject’s recorded perceptions
• a con­fir­ma­tory pos­i­tive feedback

A remote view­ing ses­sions lasts about one hour.

Dur­ing the Cold War through the 1970s and 1980s, remote view­ing was fur­ther devel­oped by the US mil­i­tary and the CIA through such pro­grams code­named Sun Streak, Grill Flame and Star Gate. The government-sponsored remote view­ing pro­grams were suc­cess­ful, accord­ing to many who par­tic­i­pated. Some of the now-declassified exam­ples include the highly accu­rate and detailed descrip­tions of build­ings and facil­i­ties hun­dred of miles from the remote viewer — includ­ing a crane assem­bly in the Soviet Union.

Although these orga­ni­za­tions claim that after 20 years of exper­i­men­ta­tion their remote view­ing pro­grams have been aban­doned, some insid­ers believe that they are being con­tin­ued secretly. Some well-known remote view­ers say they were con­tacted by the US gov­ern­ment after the Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001 ter­ror­ist attacks to help locate other pos­si­ble ter­ror­ist activity.

Read the full arti­cle on About.com by click­ing here »