Do you think remote view­ing can be used to recon­struct the past?

Well, some awe­some remote view­ers man­aged to relo­cate a Byzan­tine struc­ture in the currently-buried city of Marea, Egypt.

Check out what my friend and remote view­ing expert, Stephan Schwartz, has to share about it. It’s detailed and slightly lengthy, but cap­ti­vat­ing nonethe­less. I hon­estly feel it was a great read and an amaz­ing use of my time.

The Loca­tion and Recon­struc­tion of a Byzan­tine Struc­ture in Marea, Egypt Includ­ing a Com­par­i­son of Elec­tronic Remote Sens­ing and Remote Viewing

By Stephan A Schwartz

This paper reports the loca­tion and recon­struc­tion of a Byzan­tine struc­ture in the now buried city of Marea along the shores of Lake Maryut, some 44 km south­west of Alexan­dria, Egypt. A Pha­ronic trade cen­ter that was occu­pied until the 16th Cen­tury, the city has been long aban­doned and lies buried around what for­merly was the lakeshore. This paper reports on an applied Remote View­ing exper­i­ment in which two Remote View­ers were asked to first locate Marea, then a buried build­ing within the city and, finally, to describe what would be found within the build­ing site selected, with a par­tic­u­lar empha­sis on tile and other dec­o­ra­tive mate­r­ial. It also includes a com­par­i­son of Remote View­ing data with elec­tronic remote sens­ing, and geo­graph­i­cal data for the same area done inde­pen­dently three years ear­lier. The com­par­i­son is strik­ing because while the Remote View­ers were suc­cess­fully able to locate a build­ing, includ­ing stak­ing out its door and cor­ners, as well as pro­vid­ing a wealth of recon­struc­tive and descrip­tive mate­r­ial about what would be found at the site, the elec­tronic remote sens­ing and geo­graph­i­cal analy­sis pro­duced no sug­ges­tion what­ever that there was a site at this location.

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