Describe the individual who is the ‘official’ top political leader of the USA as of May 11, 2013.

The sessions are far out, man. I’m wondering if adding a specific date to this tasking dragged in some ‘event’ data it might not have otherwise?

You can see the sessions here (login required. No ads, spam, etc. the site is clean):

http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr/rv/gallery/missions.cfm?M=1&MT=249566

A brief forum thread (no login required to read) that includes data from another session is here:

http://www.dojopsi.info/forum/index.php?topic=4220

We don’t do very many future taskings as part of weekly Missions but I always find them interesting when they come up.

My goal in tasking this was in part to get the truth, whatever that may be, no matter how unexpected the future may be. It was also to demonstrate that remote viewing targets after 2012 is no different than any other target. There is such made-up woo-woo hype about not being able to view past 2012 but that it is just BS good for late night radio in my view; I have not seen any issues with viewing past the date. It’s simply that we’ll have to wait past it in order to get feedback. :-)

PJ

• Initially, this will let you build a space inside TKR at the Dojo Psi.
• Once a few more modules are in place, you can create a custom internal address.
• Once the modules are all in place, you’ll have a public option / address as well.

As always, development is flexible based on feedback.

With the new home page section, plans are that you can:

• Send potential clients to a writeup and certain of your sessions for demo.
• Make pages to feature certain task types and yours & others’ sessions on those.
• Post your own training/advice/theory articles.
• Task your friends from your own tasking section.
• Make a network with your favorite viewer friends.
• Have ongoing local conversation on your own personal forum thread.
• Share your writing, art or photos, links and sessions.
• And really, anything else you can think of.

First module open is the “profile” option — right now this is the whole ‘home page’ by default.

As more modules develop you’ll be able to arrange them on your home page, or expand them to whole pages of their own, or a little of both.

The editor is WYSIWYG to make it easy (javascript:ON). Post any pictures via a free image hosting service first if needed. It is deliberately free-form” so you can design it as you see fit. More background-image options besides color will be available soon. Log into the dojo and visit:

http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr/rv/viewers/viewerhome.cfm

• Go to ‘basics’ and tell it to make your home page and profile visible to others.
• Build a profile (or whatever you want to show others).
• View your home page … and there it is.
• See the list of who’s built what at http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr/rv/viewers/

More features/modules coming soon. Viewers can provide comments, wish-list suggestions, priority-suggestions for the modules, etc. here as needed. You drive the dev, as the saying goes.

Best,
PJ

This video features remote viewing data from two of these Missions. The target was “The Philadelphia Experiment,” also known as “Project Rainbow” where allegedly, in the fall of 1943 a U.S. Navy destroyer ship was made invisible and teleported from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Norfolk, Virginia, in an experiment gone horribly wrong. The U.S. Navy continues to deny the allegations. All remote viewers were completely blind to the nature of the target at the time of the viewing (they had no idea what the target could be.)

There is no feedback on this target of course so you’ll have to judge for yourself what these viewers sensed in their sessions!

You can find the full sessions on these Missions here and here.

Direct youtube link.

Sessions data by Remote Viewers at the Dojo Psi

Motion Graphics by L. Digges

Music by Alkalyne

He is author of several books including “Miracles of Mind: Exploring Nonlocal Consciousness and Spritual Healing“, “Limitless Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and Transformation of Consciousness“, and “Do You See What I See? Memoirs of a Blind Biker”.

TKR is honored to host a public interview chat with Russell Targ on Thursday, 23 July 2009, at 9:00pm Eastern. Interview questions are suggested by live attendees, so if you’d like to hang out and ask questions you can reach the chat at http://www.dojopsi.com/chat/index-conference.cfm

There will be a transcript posted at Russell’s RV Expo feature page within a week: http://www.dojopsi.com/rvexpo/Russell/

If you’d like to talk about the chat interview/conference or related topics, feel welcome to do so at TKR’s Remote Viewing forum, at http://www.dojopsi.info/forum/

This is a “remote viewing” related event. If you’d like to try remote viewing, feel welcome to do so at TKR’s Viewer Studios and Remote Viewing Galleries, at http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr/

Best,
PJ

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Dr. Dean Radin will be live in the Dojo Psi chat room tomorrow at 10:00AM Hawaiian time, 1:00pm Pacific Time, 2:00pm Mountain time, 3:00pm Central time, 4:00pm Eastern Time, and 9:00pm GMT/Zulu.

Dean Radin began in classical music as a concert violinist, continued into a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering, and then a Ph.D. in Psychology. For a decade he worked on advanced telecommunications R&D; for over two decades he has been engaged in consciousness research. He is author or coauthor of over 200 technical and popular articles, a dozen book chapters, and several books including the bestselling The Conscious Universe (HarperOne, 1997) and Entangled Minds (Simon & Schuster, 2006). He is currently Senior Scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS).

A feature page on Dr. Radin that has his books and will have his transcript when it’s ready, is:
http://www.dojopsi.com/DrRadin/

The live chat is at this address: http://www.dojopsi.com/chat/index-conference.cfm

July 18 (Saturday) at 4pm Eastern. See you there!

Direct youtube link: Remote Viewing for Remote Viewers

REMOTE VIEWING FOR REMOTE VIEWERS
THE TKR PROJECT
EVERYTHING REMOTE VIEWING …
…IS RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES
http://www.dojopsi.com/rvexpo/TKRProject/

I’m embedding the youtube (lower-res and smaller) version of this but it’s a better version over at the link above (and there is also a high-res version linked from that page, plus screenshots for bloggers, etc.).

Please stop by the forum thread about it and tell the maker what you think!! Or leave a comment here (anybody can comment, you don’t have to log in). Or leave one at the youtube link. Just so he gets some feedback. I think this one is really cool — and the “groovy beat” really adds a lot!

We are honored to announce that Joseph McMoneagle, STAR GATE Viewer #001, will be live in chat conference with TKR at the Dojo Psi on Saturday, July 11.

5:00pm Eastern July 11
10:00pm GMT/Zulu  July 11
2:00pm Pacific/West Coast July 11
11:00am Hawaii July 11
and
7:00am Tokyo July 12
8:00am Australia July 12

Joseph McMoneagle has authored four books about remote viewing (Mind Trek, The Ultimate Time Machine, Remote Viewing Secrets, The Star Gate Chronicles). He was a founding member (#001) of the US government military viewers intelligence unit in the 1970s, until he retired from the military in 1984, when he shifted to full time science lab viewing instead and remained there until the program closed in 1995. Joe is one of the only people in the former US government program to have been part of it from inception to closure, and the only viewer to have worked both in the intell unit and in the science lab.

Joe is currently a Research Associate in the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, and co-owner of Intuitive Intelligence Applications, a commercial business in which he provides remote viewing and dowsing services. At this point in time, McMoneagle is the most scientifically studied viewer in the world. He also has over 130 live “challenge” viewings done in national-level media around the world and/or under (often hostile skeptic) science-oversight. With his efforts, hosted by Nippon TV, the Japanese FBI have found around a dozen missing persons from cold case files, including some people missing for decades.

Joe is the man who walks the talk for 30+ years now and we’re delighted he was willing to join us. If you have something you’d like to ask Joe be sure to join us.

http://www.dojopsi.com/chat/ is our ordinary chat room; we meet here every Monday night 9:30-11:30pm Eastern for TKR casual chat.

http://www.dojopsi.com/chat/index-conference.cfm is the chat room with a box on the side for asking questions. The system should automatically move you to this page if you arrive near the time of the conference, but you can also go there directly.

A transcript of the conference will be posted within a week of its date, at Joe’s feature page: http://www.dojopsi.com/rvexpo/Joe/

Dr. Edwin C. May
July 9, 2009
6:00pm Pacific | 9:00pm Eastern

We have another awesome chat coming up at TKR! Dr. Edwin C. May is a former Director of Research in the STAR GATE program, responsible for the majority of published research from that effort. He is also author and co-author of many of the most groundbreaking papers in psi research history. We’re  honored to host Dr. Edwin C. May for some Q&A with online remote viewers!

Dr. May will be publishing a book called ESP WARS in early 2010, a joint venture with former Soviet leaders of their own ‘psychotronics’ (applied intentional psi) program. We will also be talking a little bit about advanced computer-aided analysis and Associative Remote Viewing. Come ask questions if you have them, and say hello to Dr. May!

A transcript will be posted within a week of the conference. You can find more information at: http://www.dojopsi.com/rvexpo/DrMay/

It’s always free and everyone is welcome at TKR, come join us. It will no doubt make for a fascinating chat. The more the merrier!

For anyone who missed the live chat interview with former Stargate remote viewer Gary Langford, the transcrip of the interview is now online. You can check it out here.

It was certainly an interesting interview. He’s not a very public figure in RV so it was a rare chance to ask some questions and hear some of his ideas. Gary talked among other things, about how his average session only lasts about two minutes in duration, and provides enough data to generate a 500 page report from the findings.  Interesting stuff!

The first video features the Remote Viewing Galleries at the Dojo Psi, where viewers and share their remote viewing work, see sessions from other viewers and share comments about both, all for free. Check it out below.

Motion Graphics by L. Digges
Music by Kevin McLeod
Thanks to Lloyd Alvarez and Simon Bronson.
Thanks to all the remote viewers who share their work and support others in the Remote Viewing Galleries at the DojoPsi.

We’ll also be adding videos to the new TKR youtube channel. So feel free to subscribe to the channel over there and check back in the library for more cool RV videos soon!

Remote Viewing Expo!

July 2009 is TKR’s sixth anniversary! To celebrate, they are bringing together online some of the coolest events, people and ’stuff’ in Remote Viewing. All free of course, for all viewers of course, check it out!

TKR WELCOMES GARY LANGFORD * JOSEPH W. MCMONEAGLE * DR. RICHARD BROUGHTON * DR. EDWIN C. MAY * DR. DEAN RADIN * DR. CHARLES T. TART * DR. JESSICA UTTS * NANCY MCMONEAGLE * STEPHAN SCHWARTZ * RUSSELL TARG * WE HAVE NEW INTERVIEWS! * WE HAVE RV TASKING! GO VIEW! PRIZES TOO! *
WE HAVE LIVE CHAT CONFERENCES! * NEW RV VIDEOS! * JULY 2009

Throughout the month we will have lots of activities and many surprises still to be announced. I hope you’ll all join us for some very fun and interactive remote viewing action.

VISIT THE EXPO HOME: http://dojopsi.com/rvexpo/

First Up: LIVE CHAT INTERVIEW with GARY LANGFORD > Very seldom seen in public in this field (in fact, this may be his first-ever ‘appearance’ besides some previous talk on TKR’s forum!), we are honored to host Gary Langford for some Q&A. Gary provided remote viewing for science research from the 1970s until the 1990s, and was a key participant in projects now collectively known as STAR GATE. Gary is in LIVE CHAT CONFERENCE July 2nd at 10:00pm Eastern at the Dojo Psi Remote Viewing Chat.

Come tell Gary hello, ask questions if you’ve got them! You can find Gary’s RV EXPO page here.
(Over the next week his page will acquire more info like an email interview, some archived notes from him, plus a transcript, so check back.)

TKR is a field-wide free community project “by viewers, for viewers” and welcomes folks of all backgrounds, psi methods and philosophies.

TEN THOUSAND ROADS REMOTE VIEWING AND DOWSING PROJECT

TKR HANDS-ON REMOTE VIEWING

TKR REMOTE VIEWING DISCUSSION FORUM

Looking forward to seeing you there!

-LD

Cannabis and Rv

Dowsing Challenges

Anyone have experience with “Hybrid-ARV”?

FutureGrab ARV Blog

the real reson why there are only a small number of great/public viewers

CRV – Controversial Who is The Best Trainer Debate

“Screen” and “space” in receiving the data

Future predictions and how to do it

New here.

some advise please, AOL problems

Near Future Major Natural Disasters

The Big Let Down–True Story

Greetings anomalies

Effects on Targets of RV

CRV or ASC?

POLAR OPPOSITE in RV data

Damaged Wind Turbine Project – Aurora Sessions

Why is the subconscious so stuck-up?

The Einstein Factor

Son of a Gun–It works!

arv with more than 2 answers.

160 Remote viewing examples

My prediction comes true:earthquake hits Calf.Dec.6 5.1 scale

RV and the Nature/Nurture debate

Respect for RV and Cultism

No method RV

Remote viewing sessions by ingo swann

Joe Mcmoneagle missing person videos?

How about the science of ARV?

Does this have a name?

G15-apalooza, what is all this amazing RVing?

Psychoactives that boost RV abilities ?

A real client project, partipation wanted…

Greg K and LST — for feedback, not viewing

Celebrity Big Brother UK 2009 – Viewing the Winner

Taskerbot and TKR Separate

I don’t get it, how does one “learn” psi? What about people born with such?

Precognitive Charts For Trading and consistent profits

Project worked on in 2007

Today’s sample from the galleries.

Please ignore, as it is now working thanks

TKR at the Dojo Psi: Hands-on Remote Viewing! http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr/

TKR Remote Viewing discussion forum: http://www.dojopsi.info/forum/

The Dojo Psi: http://www.dojopsi.com

Marv

Along those lines, I noticed Karsten had an interesting post on his blog about GOLD, of all things.

Maybe this is one event in one person’s life, but I’d say it counts as a win for RV!

Stage Two yielded an array of interesting sense impressions. For a nano-second I was fizzing, before feeling something smooth and polished under the ghostly probe of my imagined fingertips. A hot, zinc-like taste flashed across my taste buds. Somewhere ozone crinked the air. Pausing to guage the dimensions of my target I receievd a general sense of something curved, flattened at one end…and moving fast. The first AOL flashed into my mind: rocket. Declare, abandon, move on.

A flood of aesthetic impressions had me scribbling; fast moving, off world, secretive, silent. Stifling my excitement I took several deep breatsh and ploughed on into Stage 3, my pen nib a blur, my mind barely registering the furious strokes as I rendered what appeared to be several ‘folded pancake’ shaped objects across my page. A sudden burst of energy made me recoil, as if my pen had in somehow connected with something live and electric on the page before me.

Stay calm. Stay in structure. Stage Four.

Tumbling quickly down the page, a cascading waterfall of data as my target slowly began to reveal itself to my mute, quietened mind. My columns filled with information suggestive of a craft in flight, of strange propulsion at work (’plasma‘ and ‘molecules‘), tremendous feats of oddly ‘quantum dynamics.’   

Too much. I was losing myself to AOLs of off-worldly craft, declaring AOL: UFO in the corner of my page, tensing with the joy at my contact with something undreamt of in the general philosophy, existing beyond the boundaries of the epistemological norm. I needed to slow down or change my focus.

I decided to choose the latter. The session was flowing too well for me to break contact altogether and so instead I marked out a change of cue, declaring my intention to move instead to the life form present at the target site. Having returned to my co-ords and scribbled another ideogram I sat back and allowed the target to come to me in the form of half-glimpsed visions and a variegated miasma of sense impressions.

I gathered the impression of being watched by a being of immense mental power, an entity rooted in a reality in which I was merely a mote, a fleck in the eye of some collective and unseen host. As though stroked by pale, ghoul-like skin I remember recoiling somewhat, only to be soothed by a pale green light that flickered across my field of mental vision. The words ‘peace’ and ‘communicate’ sounded somewhere at the back of my brain…for a second I was high above the clouds…now zipping past snowy mountain tops, through deep, verdant valleys….as by my side a tall figure with large eyes radiated benevolence, though only sensed, never seen.

Dutifully (and with no small degree of regret) I pulled myself free from the matrix and recorded my impressions in the columns before me, pausing when I had done so to probe the IT column in the hope that more could be gleaned on the underlying nature of the being whose space I had so gratefully shared. ‘My child,’ I wrote. ‘You are of the star people. You are as us. We are you as will be.’

With that a wave of emotion smashed against my intent and dropped my pen, collapsing back into my chair with an audible sigh. For several minutes I remained just so, as the room darkened around me, the faces in the photographs on the walls slowly lost to the shadows, the trees in the garden outside swaying silent against at greying sky, solemn, austere, as though awaiting some dark, hidden verdict.

‘You are of the star people.’ So had said the strange being with the grey skin as we flashed through the sky together. Through the act of remote viewing I had joined him on his craft to recieve his message to me, to us, to all mankind. I rarely admit to tears. Here, I cried.

My target. What was my target? Plucking the sealed brown envelope from the table before me I turned on the light and pulled at the paper. Not that my inner journey needed confirmation; I had been on target, I knew it…how could I have not been? My tears were evidence enough, as was the reassuring hush of the being’s presence that I could feel even now as I tore open the envelope and held my target to the light…please describe the focus of this photograph:

Bollocks.

“Get away from us you BIN PICKER!” These words returned to my mind only last week as, reaching down into a pile of discarded junk at our local refuse dump, I scooped a tattered paperback from the pile. As if in response to these taunting ghosts my mind instinctively fired off a swift and conclusive reply:

It’s a classic. It’s in relatively good condition. And there’s nobody looking. So shut it.

The book was The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge by Carlos Castaneda, a work with which I had some familiarity and yet whose words I had yet to absorb. The book had come up in conversation with some friends of mine a good few years back, during my time in London. This tale of a young anthropologist’s drug-induced hallucinatory experiences whilst under the tutelage of a Yaqui Indian (laughably presented as justification for the vast amounts of Ketamin they were at that time consuming) sounded rather far-fetched to me, too arcane to be worthy of my interest. I had yet to discover remote viewing back then, had never even heard of an OBE, let alone experienced one; this kind of stuff was nonsense at best, as was Don Johnson and his castanet playing tyro. Whatever.

Now, however, my eyes flicked across the faded rainbow images of the cover with interest. The story of a man led ‘into a world of beauty and terror, ruled by concepts far beyond those of Western civilization’ held a certain personal appeal. Pocketing the book (and a few more besides, including one on past lives and the Bardo Thodol…I had clearly been preceded by a rather esoteric dumper!) I jettisoned the (distinctly non-Narnian) wardrobe that had brought me to the dump in the first place and, rather pleased with the swap, climbed back into my car.

****

Two weeks later and I’ve made a start on Don Juan’s Teachings. Already Castaneda has had his first experience with peyote, wrestling with the Mescalito-entity in the form of a dog and, under the evasive Don Juan’s Yoda-like tutelage, tripping hard in the desert; now he’s moving on experimentation with the Datura plant or (’devil’s weed’) which, according to Don Juan, is used for ’seeing’. With it (he says) ‘a man can soar through the air to see what is going on at any place he chooses.’

Now this is when the remote viewer in me gets interested, especially so when Don Juan informs Casteneda that under the influence of this drug he will be able to ‘find out about persons [he] did not see ordinarily, or about objects that were lost, or about places [he] had not seen.’

Don Juan presses Castaneda to set his intent quickly, to think ‘fast and clearly because there would be no way of reversing [his] thoughts’. Rather comically a pressured Castaneda can think of nothing he wishes to know (TKR weren’t running weekly Missions back then) but eventually comes up with the notion of discovering the culprit responsible for the theft of some books from his college reading room some time earlier. This becomes the object of his ‘divination’ (as he labels it); his ‘target’ as would we.

The culmination of Casteneda’s experience whilst under the influence of the devil’s weed (administered via a paste smeared over his skin) is a vision of a young woman with wild eyes taking flight down a set of stairs followed by a young man removing some books from a hall and packaging them up inside a crate. Casteneda is roused from his vision from Don Juan; he has been out of it for three hours, though the vision itself feels to have lasted only ten minutes.

Now what are we of viewers to make of this vision? Is it a success? Has he hit target? The presence of the books in his vision would certainly suggest that he was to some degree ‘on’, though with no clear feedback we cannot be sure whether Castaneda has accurately witnessed the culprit at work or merely succumbed to an AOL occasioned by the very fact of his knowing the nature of the target beforehand. As a scientific experiment in early remote viewing it’s a flop, in other words. Move along please; nothing to see here.

And yet. Listen to Don Juan’s admonitions as he explains about the wide eyed girl in Castaneda’s vision, the fact that the lizards are never wrong, that he can’t have asked the right question in the first place, ponder on the…er…um….

Sorry? What’s that you ask? Yes, lizards. Did I not mention the lizards?

Oh. Well….

Aside from the application of narcotic pastes, Don Juan’s divinatory methodology differs from that of your average mil-style viewer in that it employs two lizards, un-named in the book, though most probably not answering to the monikers of ‘Chuckles’ or ‘Lucky.’

Don’t worry; no lizards were actually harmed in the process of this ceremony. And that’s a lie; because for some reason it is deemed necessary to sew Chuckles’ eyelids together, with Lucky receiving a similar treatment to his lips. Quite.

A question being asked to the recently muted Lucky and the Datura paste being applied to its skin, off it scurries to go seek the answer, returning only to pass on the news to a shoulder-mounted Chuckles, who in turn passes on his impressions to a spaced-out Castenda, who gratefully receives them in the form of his reported vision.

Despite his glimpse of the man with the books, Castenda is less than happy with the results. Chiefly he cannot understand or explain the vision of the fleeing woman with the wide eyes. Don Juan points out that he ‘must have had that girl in mind when [he] asked the question about the books’. He goes on:

‘The lizards are never wrong; they take every thought as a question. The lizard came back and told you things about [the girl] no one will ever be able to understand, because not even you know what your thoughts were.’

‘How about the other vision I had?’ (Of the man with the books.)

‘Your thoughts must have been steady when you asked that question. And that is the way this sorcery should be conducted, with clarity.’

‘Do you mean the vision of the girl is not to be taken seriously?’

‘How can it be taken seriously if you don’t know what questions the little lizards were answering?’

It would seem that even LRV (Lizard Remote Viewing) is not immune from the perils of an unspecific tasking. Casteneda’s intention was unclear from the offset and thus the data provided him by the lizards was skewed. This ’sorcery’ is to be attempted with pure intent and focussed mind if clear answers are to be received, much as a CRV cue must be watertight if we are to trust the data that returns.

What are we to make of Don Juan’s methodology? Certainly it raises questions about the entire ’signal band’ theory of remote viewing, suggesting instead that the information is simply ‘there’ for the grasping once we have initiated Stage One or set our lizards scurrying.

How would LRV hold up in the current on-line climate? Not too well, I suspect. Casteneda would no doubt be flamed from even the most liberal of boards were he to make such a proposition.

Imagine:

Hi all. New to these boards but thought I’d say hello and ask for your opinion on a problem I am having with my viewing. Keep getting unwanted and irrelevant data in my sessions. I’m wondering whether its due to the coarseness of the thread with which I sew together the lips and eyes of my reptiles before beginning my sesh. What do you guys use? Thanks in advance, CC.

I suspect that he would be forced to evolve LRV in an attempt to break free of the influence of Don Juan and create a separate, more marketable product. Lizards are fairly hard to come by in modern western life but insects are everywhere; IRV would thus be born, the sewing of eyes and lips replaced with a few sprays of deodorant can to induce a hallucinogenic state in the flies or beetles before sending them off to gather one’s data from the matrix. I can picture the demonstrations on Youtube already….

Still, whatever the method, I’m sure Casteneda would be insistent that the words of Don Juan be heeded throughout, regrdless of how one chooses to view. Unless one sets out with utter clarity to answer the exact question being asked, one is doomed to provide shoddy or at worst completely irrelevant information.

The matrix never lies…and neither do the lizards.

- Marv

Real psi is ridiculously inconsistent, “iffy” and not always robust, at least so far. And while it can be accurate, it’s so unpredictable that even a very long-term, accomplished viewer with a well documented profile can only be predicted on “probable %” accuracy.

Well a new movie coming soon will explore a group of people with ‘psychic abilities’, but with a rather interesting twist: the abilities are apparently not perfect or amazingly robust. This is no ‘Heroes’ where life-size world-changing MIGHTY AND COSMIC POWERS come into play, predictably. Which is a nice change frankly. Whether the film will show the iffy angle is not yet clear, but anything that doesn’t amplify the psi idea into cartoon level will be novel.

The film “Push” stars Chris Evans, Dakota Fanning, Camilla Bell and Djimon Hounsou. All of their characters have different psychic abilities, but “they’re not so great.” Director Paul McGuigan said about it:

“They’re kind of crap powers and that’s important because the film is a character piece as well as an action piece. “As they get emotionally involved their powers suddenly come to the front, but they’re still not that great. It’s not like they’re flying through the air or picking up cars and throwing them… I tried to keep it very much as gritty as I possibly could.”

Can they change the future? Here’s the movie website with trailer.

Nick (Evans) is called a “mover” because he has the power to move things, but he’s not so good at perfecting his talents.

Cassie (Fanning) is a “watcher.” She can see into the future, but only snapshots and she draws what she sees.

“Bleeders” can make a high pitched noise which makes people bleed and it disables them and “sniffers” can pick up an object and see who has been in contact with the object. They can essentially track you down with their heightened sense of smell.

“Pushers” can affect your memory of an event that has happened or even an event that never took place. Alyssa (Bell) and Agent Carver (Hounsou) both have this ability; however they use it for very different reasons.

Carver runs The Division and injections of a drug are given to the ones with powers with the hope of enhancing their abilities so the government can then use their powers for whatever they want. However, no one has survived the experiment except for one girl named Alyssa English (Bell), but she escaped from confinement and took something with her that could potentially bring down the organization.

I tend to like any movie or show that focuses on psi, even when it’s completely stupid and unrealistic, just because I’m so interested in the idea itself. But I think a show that focuses on a few people with “crappy powers” is kind of hilarious in a way, and sounds more intriguingly realistic to me than most movies on the subject.

One of the themes in the movies is that the government is forcing them to take a drug they think will amplify the powers of those who survive it, but so far nobody but one has ever survived it. Not surprisingly, then, the others are ‘running for their lives’.  This parallels the reality of the USSR during the Cold War, which is now known to have done this sort of thing in their own attempts to explore psi including ‘remote viewing’.

The film is set to be released in February 2009.

PJ

“The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali” is a very old Sanskrit text which is a highly condensed operating manual for learning supernormal powers. In fact, in one edition of it that I have, the subtitle of Book III is “Supernormal powers”. As I said it is very condensed, perhaps like a course syllabus for advanced yoga teachers. It wasn’t quite a do-it-yourself manual either. Also, the sutras use words like dhyana, dharana, samadhi and samyama that lose a lot in translation, thus the desire for a take on the subject that was more native to the Western/modern world.

I forgot about remote viewing for a while. Later I came back to it when I found the Ten Thousand Roads practice gallery and the forum. I was encouraged to try the “Just do it” method. My previous experience in meditation proved to be helpful in shifting into the right mind-state, and I found that “Just do it” was the only instruction I needed.

After a while I came across something that I could think of as a yoga sutra for the west. In a topic on the TKR forum about RV Tips, “Banded_Krait” recommended reading chapter 21 of “Mental Radio” by Upton Sinclair. That chapter was written by Sinclair’s wife, Mary Craig. It provides a very insightful description of the skills and inner processes involved. This husband and wife team were interested in investigating telepathy and structured their experiments accordingly. Remote viewers will recognized the similarity between these sessions and an RV session. Mary Craig notes that her insights apply to both telepathy and clairvoyance. Remote viewing would involve the same inner skills within a double-blind protocol.

The Sinclair-Craig experiments reflect the telepathy experiments of the early 20th century. They used sketches as targets, with the goal of having the percipient (the viewer) recreate the sketch. In RV, a target may also be represented in words, photos, or geo coordinates. A viewer will express their impressions in any medium they are fluent in, words being very common.

Mary Craig’s chapter has many personal observations of the interactions of subconscious-mind, conscious-mind and deep-mind that the remote viewer will often find to be relevant to their own experience. She describes what might be called an ERV method (extended remote viewing)  which has less external structure than CRV.

From Patanjali, we know that the core skill of remote viewing is the result of samyama applied to the light of higher perception. What does this mean? Mary Craig’s insights are a clear commentary on that particular sutra.

–Dan

Back in 2006, TKR hosted a remote viewing “Mission” on the “Next U.S. President.” The tasker was Gene. We had ten sessions submitted. And now today, on the day of the election, we find those pretty interesting!

Check ‘em out here: http://www.dojopsi.com/tkr/index.cfm?M=1&MT=45039