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#425 
	From: "dennanm" 
Date: Wed Aug 7, 2002 8:18 pm
Subject: Potential New Member: Rachel 	dennanm

  	  	

> Note from PJ:
> This is an introductory post from Rocheleh
>  Here is the procedure we should take for this,
> now that our list is private:

> 1.  I will post an intro message from someone
> who would like to join.

> 2.  If you have anything to say about the person,
> send email to me at pj...s.com. I was going
> to do a poll/vote, but that's sort of extreme and
> a bigger deal than I want to make this.

> 3.  If nobody tells me the person is a known psycho
> stalker or communications fright (we have enough in
> RV already don't we?!) within 2 days or so, I will
> subscribe them to the list.
> - PJ

Hello,

This is my introductory e-mail for the pjrv list. I'm an 18-year-old
(18.5 to be more  precise) Jewish girl. (Don't worry: even though I'm
fairly observant, I haven't  come here to preach or anything - but
since this is one of the key notions  around which I describe myself,
I thought I'd mention it.) You can call me  Rachel, Rocheleh, Who-
Blew-My-Light-Bulb?, or whatever you wish.

Having just finished high school, I'll study psychology at university
from this  September on. My interest in the paranormal in general
dates back three years  (if I count correctly - it was a turbulent
period), when I started having  experiences that could be categorized
under this header - mostly of the RSPK  sort, not enough to send
furniture flying like in the movies, but sufficient to  drive my
family and friends to desperation. Add the more than occasional ESP
here and there; it was no wonder I thought either I or the world was
going  crazy.

I responded to the situation with reading everything even remotely
related to  psi I could put my hands on. Having been a student of
science subjects, I  predictably ended up with scientific
parapsychology as my paradigm of choice,  but that didn't give me too
much on the practical side.

It was also in these times, around three years ago, when I saw Joe
McMoneagle on  local television. I was fascinated by what he said,
and followed with looking  around on the net - I even found PJ's
website. I read the CRV manual, but it  looked too complicated, plus
the theory seemed like the most eclectic thing I'd  seen in my entire
lifetime, excluding a few buildings in my area. From radar to  Freud
and back - no, not my thing, I thought.

For a long time, the above-described (and rather desperate) search
for a usable  method continued. Coupled with a family crisis, and
after that, the struggle for  university admittance - I only got back
to serious study of psi this summer,  when these issues were
resolved. (To the better, thank G-d.) I re-read what I  stored in the
previous years, with more attention and less hopelessness. After
some time, I inevitably bumped into CRV, and it caught my eye. The
people  involved seemed to have a different approach from the weirdos
one could find  around some other methods: RV didn't promise to be
the ultimate, 100% something,  it didn't say that it was easy "Learn
in an hour", etc. Its promises seemed  realistic and believable. And
(and this is a really big plus for me) it was  structured. It had a
set of guidelines I could follow - I wouldn't be lost if I  tried
doing it. The final push toward starting was reading about what
personalities suited RV. When I saw how emphasized the need for
structure was in  that text, I thought this was for me. And to hell
with the theory; if it works,  it works. Based on what I've read plus
my small attempts this far, it does.

I realized the best thing would be travelling to the US and attending
the  courses at Lyn Buchanan's. But given my financial circumstances
(in other words:  I'm dead broke) and the great distance, I won't be
able to do so in the near  future. So, while everyone was saying that
this was a skill not suited for  "learning from the book", I
thought "Hey! Even if I learn it in 2-3 times the  time than with an
instructor, it's still better than sitting and wasting my time
away." If I had proper feedback (ie. not sitting blindfolded) and
enough time, I  could learn to drive a car "from the book", without
an instructor. It's still a  bold attempt, but by no means impossible.

I've just started practicing Stage 1-2, with targets I found all over
the Web. I  quickly realized that, as PJ put it, "At best, many such
targets may offer  little data for one in an introductory phase. At
worst, they may be confusing or  deeply upsetting.". Having found no
specifically max. Stage 2 targets, I thought  for a while and came up
with a solution today; most of the images on
http://www.confluence.org/ seem usable, now I just have to generate
randomised  coordinates and assign them to the images with some
little software that leaves  me blind about the real one. Here I
stand today.

I know I'm a beginner, therefore if I get approved, I'll probably
shut up for  quite some time, busily read the messages, and practice
till I get convinced  that I can ask/say something without getting
RTFM back. (This post is probably  longer than the sum of what I'll
post the next month.)  I'd like to take part  because this is just
what I need right now (at least I think so...): technical,  no-
nonsense discussion of RV. PJ's posted targets are also a great
incentive -  based on the Firedocs website, they must be of great
value. They urge me to  practice, so that some time ahead, I could
try my skills at them.

I hope I haven't ended up with a too long introduction. if so, please
excuse  me. Also, English is a foreign language to me, so please
excuse the mistakes and  my being unclear at times.

Rachel