Palyne, Here are comments for Morgan (and all others):
Morgan
The social support structure that is needed depends in large part on your confidence in doing RV and in your willingness to discuss what you do. For the longest time (8 years) I did not discuss my RV, remaining very private about my work. I kept to myself and did not talk with anyone other than other people doing RV. Then I spoke to a few people and discovered that I could determine who would be interested and who would shun me BEFORE I spoke to them. That “game†spanned about 5 years. Then I published a book that predicted events. No one seemed to notice. I went on the radio to talk about RV. Again no one seemed to notice (or care). I decided at that point there was no need to keep my work private and began to speak to anyone who I thought might be interested and a few that I knew would not appreciate the discussion. Unlike other people doing RV, I kept very private about my work. Still do, except for a few very public discussions.
The support structure is absolutely unnecessary if you are strong-willed and want to share what you do. However, if you are intimidated by ridicule or concerned at all about what other people think of you, then it is best to keep closed about it. Viewing performance (I did read your question) and social structure is important IF you cannot eliminate the outside influence WHEN you do the RV. Throughout my phases (private, experimental, and very open) my performance was about the same, with the caveat that overall my work continued and continues to improve. I have been supported by many people WHEN I did the RV work. Some of these people were NOT initially supportive of my work, my interest, or my discussions afterwards. But even the most skeptical turned around after one session.
If you include your work environment in your social support structure, then there is an extra caution. Supervisors, board members, and subordinates DO NOT appreciate one of their own doing RV, (let alone publishing a book). And now you will begin to understand the reason for my privacy. When you decide that you do not care about keeping your job, feel free to go public with your interests. I have generally found that my supervisors would have no difficulty in firing me, even if they believed in RV.
Best way around the supervisor issue is to start your own company, fund it yourself, and never have public stock. Then you can hire your own support group.
The optimal situation is to be able to ignore the nay-sayers and do your work to the best of your ability.
Practice is extremely important to improvement. Practice keeps you honed on the skills necessary to work the RV process to its fullest extent. There is no hit or miss here. It is the process that helps to keep accuracy and precision in your work. If you miss a step, skip a thought, are lazy about protocol, or are just plain non responsive to those fleeting moments, you will not do well. By well I mean a level of accuracy and precision that is outstanding by any measure. There was a time when the statement seemed to be true, that is practice did not improve overall skill. That was because the overall skill was a smashing hit every 10 times; six descriptions that were reasonably well done; and three that you did not want to talk about (poor to absolutely no correspondence). That is to say, if your goal was to have one great RV in every 10 times at bat, you met your expectations. But if your goal was 10 out of 10, with an occasional 9 out of 10 great RVs, then practice makes all the difference in the world.
Without delving into what the RV process is (I’m writing on Tuesday night and still thinking about how to respond to your questions), the notion of learning a new language is only part of the RV process. Yes, there are fundamental things you must know to interpret and classify and categorize correctly. But RV is much more than just a new language. It is an amalgamation of processes, techniques, sequences, overlaid on a new language. It is a totally new experience that transform your interpretation into a viewing machine. Reliable, repeatable, and highly respectable with regards to accuracy and precision. When I worked on my first RV technique handbook and later the revised edition, the work was an idea with only a few years of maturity. That was 20 some years ago. Nothing from the original handbook remains in my work. But the antecedents of today’s work can be found there. Practice is not for the weary. Practice is for those who truly want to do better, who will change their goal to improve, and who will stick to what works only so long as the accuracy and precision satisfies their quest for target truths.
Ideograms and sketching are actually unnecessary, but useful for early stage RV work. The RV world seems to fixate on them because a few of us thought they worked. They do if your goal is 2 or 3 smashing hits out 10. By a smashing hit, I mean the target has given up all its truths and those truths are known to you in such a fashion that you can communicate them explicitly (i.e., no ambiguities). ANY person looking at a smashing hit would be “exceptionally impressed†and find your response to indistinguishable from the target at all levels of truths.
Yes, I continue my research and application of new theory. Finding the time to post the basis for my work will be difficult at this time. But here are a few highlights to serve as guideposts.
1. RV is the sum of many processes that stimulate the brain to provide information about a target. The first notion is to determine what is a target. Are the features of the target really the target, or is the relationship between an object and its surroundings the target. And therein lays the basis for my recent work. The essential feature of a target is its interface with other things. “Things†is used in the most general sense of the word.
2. The second notion is that processes do not have to be serially enacted. The brain is not a serial organ, thereby processing many things in parallel. However some of our functions are serial, such as some motor skills (e.g., writing). The “new†RV relies heavily on non-serial processes. A process may be sequential or may have discrete steps that, when looked at from outside the process, may appear to be independent. A process may be dependent or independent. An example of a process: envisioning a “trap†to snare data of a certain type or with a certain characteristic. I tune my senses to perceive (build a filter to detect: a spider if it strides onto a yellow piece of paper and then go to sleep. I set up a camera with a motion sensitive detector that will capture anything that moves onto the yellow piece of paper. Other color papers are distributed nearby the yellow paper and in the same plane as the yellow paper. I envision another mechanism (a switch) that will wake me up when the spider is on the yellow paper. RESULT: the camera records anything that moves onto the yellow paper. (Confirmed by a major research laboratory with 25 tests of various insects, and with 11 control conditions (air movement, etc.). One night everything falls into place – spider walks onto yellow paper, camera is triggered, I wake up and watch the spider crawl off yellow paper. Doing this while you are awake is significantly easier, by the way.
3. The third notion is that you can remember things completely and thoroughly by simply applying a “keyâ€Â. All that is needed to recall the entire sequence is to recall that key. There are a great variety of keys, but all keys seem to be classified into 11 categories. An example category is the target’s interfaces.
4. The fourth notion is that you can hold about 7 independent thoughts for a short period of time without much practice. With practice you can hold about 20 independent thoughts for a much longer period of time. With a few years of practice you can hold about 50 independent thoughts for 6 months, then with a quick refresher for another 6 months. The point is you can train to remember the results of your RV in its complete detail without writing anything down. (No specific recommendation regarding software for tablets. I have a table and have never connected it. My plan 15 years ago was to use it for the same purpose you described.)
5. The fifth notion is that feedback is essential during training sessions, but extremely harmful during RV sessions. To RV multiple targets with multiple RVs it is essential to not rely on feedback.
6. The sixth notion is that the RV session should be of sufficient length to capture the target truths and no longer. Typical session lengths are 40 seconds in duration. Typical time between sessions is about 4 minutes. Six targets can be fully described in one hour.
7. The seventh notion is that all the previous six notions can be overwhelming if it were not for the fact: time was invented by humankind, it is not a natural component of, nor needed to describe target truths.
8. I know that the seventh notion requires much discussion, so let me sum up the eight notions by saying sequential, but non serial human functions are the natural venue for psi. To impose the constraint of using temporal architectures and constructs severely limits one’s ability to determine target truths.
Gary
