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About TKR's Founder

Palyne 'PJ' Gaenir

Prior to her introduction to Remote Viewing, Palyne had many years each into very intensive personal studies in theology, then hypnosis, then metaphysics. The 'logical' nature of the RV protocol and session evaluation, combined with the 'intuitive' nature of the viewing process itself, interested her instantly, and RV became her primary focus from that time.

1995: Palyne began Remote Viewing studies in late 1995. She became a dedicated student of a psi/RV methods-trainer initially (CRV), also pursuing self-edu about the science and history of Remote Viewing, and taking methods training with several other instructors and graduate students in a variety of RV/psychic methods. She created her first-ever website called RV Science, and collected science papers from scientists in a variety of fields which related to psi and other aspects of consciousness. Alas, as this was the period when the 'stargate' program's publicity via the CIA was very strong, and the two main scientists for RV in the USA, Puthoff and May, could not be reached. She closed the site but used the many papers she'd formatted for Dr. Charles Tart to build him the Paradigm website instead.

PJ believes that the only way to integrate Remote Viewing into our culture---which might be a matter of it surviving, and our people not having to reinvent that wheel in another 50-100 years---is to see it applied to practical applications. In order to do that, there must be good viewers available for the cause, so she has made constructive work toward promoting the skill development of viewers her primary focus.

1996: In late 95/early 96 she opened a website called The Firedocs Remote Viewing Collection that contained notes, articles, related science abstracts and other RV info; it had a message board and chat room at various points and the content evolved over time. Eventually it came to include media transcripts of people in the remote viewing field (by merit or claim), FAQs, articles, targets, editorials and more. The website is still online. Later in mid-1996 she opened a project called The View From Here, which was designed to be a fully unmoderated forum community, in the hopes that letting the "methods-wars" happen there would (a) keep them better out of decent places, and (b) would, at the least, get viewers of separate 'cliques' communicating. VFH also had ongoing target practice. Alas, deliberate "en-masse" abuse of the board by leaders of a commercial method-selling company forced the project to be closed. (PJ has pointedly refused to build and pay for any project that is not moderated or at least controlled for membership since that time.)

1997: In January 1997 she opened the Viewer Forum, a CRV-based hands-on private club with a forum, chat, library, big target collection sorted by Stage, etc. As the "public outreach arm" of this, she she began a tightly moderated public listserver discussion group called Viewer [VWR] that included seven former StarGate personnel (6 viewers and 1 scientist), geared to hands-on Remote Viewing Q&A for practicing viewers. It welcomed viewers/public of all methods and backgrounds, and was the first 'non-denominational' Remote Viewing group (aside from VFH) on the internet. That list (VWR) plus another called [PSI] are archived on the Firedocs site. The VF's membership was limited to CRV and the primary source of students chose not to have people participate, so VF was closed for lack of participation.

1998: On independence day 1998 she posted the official former-DIA Coordinate Remote Viewing manual, used in the training of several different instructors and methods, for the public review. This was for several reasons she lists at the front of that website section, one of which was the hope that some of the 'cultism' in the field could be fought with a little more info and less 'mystery'. She closed her operating discussion lists, though she continued financially sponsoring the RV info she'd put online, and she continued development and support of websites for people she considered experts in the RV field. She left the online field formally at that time.

For four years she was out of the RV field, raising a small child as a single mom and doing her 'real job'.

2002: On independence day 2002, when her little girl was a bit older and finally in school, she 'officially' returned to the online RV field. It had not progressed in quite the way she had hoped. In particular, it had not seen the independent and all-methods development she'd expected; the 'methods-wars' on the internet were still ever-present. So in mid '02 she began another discussion list called RV Oasis/pjrv, for intermediate viewers of all/any methods, to focus on "experiential" viewing discussion (now archived). In late '02 she began work on a private club called Dojo Psi for intermediate to advanced viewers, to be geared toward real-world applications, an idea she'd had for some time. In one sense this was a technically updated concept of the old Viewer Forum, except geared to more developed viewers, open to any methodology, and focused strongly toward a goal of operational viewing. But there was no public opportunity to do doubleblind hands-on practice, network with other viewers, demonstrate RV skill in a controlled situation, and making a private club that excluded most people and all beginners seemed inappropriate given that situation. It seemed there should be some entry-level opportunity, free of charge, for viewers to practice, or in some cases simply demonstrate their existing skill.

2003: So in early 2003 she shelved that project and instead began a different project first: Ten Thousand Roads, aka TKR. In March 2003 the first module of TKR, the big RVwebForum, opened. TKR was designed to provide the things that were not available elsewhere in the field: a viewer place that was not geared to a guru or methodology; a friendly community that allowed all viewers of all methods and all psi interests; a place run 'by the viewers, for the viewers' that would have staff from a variety of backgrounds to represent a more diverse portion of the field. As most viewers have interest or experience in other areas of psi, the forum encompassed whatever its members seemed to be interested in talking about, with an RV/Dowsing board at focus, and several other boards for exploring other topics. On independence day 2003, the founding intent and charter were documented officially.

2004: In 2004 TKR opened their Viewer Studios and RV Galleries, an online dynamic software that offers hands-on education by way of performing remote viewing within a proper protocol, so beginners could teach themselves, persons trained in methods could continue their practice after training even if separated from other viewers, and persons skilled at viewing could demonstrate this under a legitimate protocol. The Studios offered automated practice tasking on demand, plus personalized tasking for group projects viewed weekly, and the Galleries gave members a look into the work of others, and a chance to communicate with them. This began the Dojo Psi software PJ had been planning, using the TKR project as its first "project application" for sponsoring and developing. As part of the TKR project, emphasis was placed to correct for existing problem issues in the RV online field. For example, the forum disallowed deletion of posts; the staff were diverse to prevent abuse by any 'local guru' of members; the viewing software prevented any file-drawer effect; and the display galleries emphasized interaction between viewers for informal peer-training and positive mutual encouragement.

2005 - 2006: In 2005 and 2006 TKR upgraded the Viewer Studios and RV Galleries, opened privacy options for viewers (after 12,000+ sessions with no 'file-drawer effect' for the public, this now became allowed), and then opened its Taskerbot site, to add features geared toward "non-TKR" viewing. This was in part because nothing else on the internet had developed similar to TKR, and PJ worried it could become "the establishment"; it was also to better support viewers that wish to use tasking from their own pool or their own taskers or groups separate from TKR; or to run tasking for others themselves. It is part of the TKR charter that it is to be of service to viewers field-wide, including those working outside the project, to "encourage a more decentralized community". At the end of the year, the TKR project home page was finally updated, upgraded, and basic info about the project itself featured.

2007: In early 2007 she moved the TKR server and forum to a new home and new software, archiving the old board. Then as part of the Dojo Psi, she sponsored her second Dojo software-based project (not yet open so not yet named publicly :-)). ETA for opening that is probably April or May 2007. PJ has been writing a book about Remote Viewing for literally years in the small amounts of spare time, and hopes to use the second half of 2007 to dedicate to finishing that. Since so many in the 'RV field' had a named method, she coined "Zen do Ryu Remote Viewing" © to describe her approach to Remote Viewing within the Dojo Psi. (See "What is Zen do Ryu Remote Viewing?" on the Dojo Psi info site.) She admits to being strongly influenced by viewer Joseph McMoneagle and his RV works, and much of TKR and the Dojo Psi's software and approach is colored by emphasis on legitimate science-based RV protocol (see science sources such as LFR/CSL for more info), and the 'discipline and honor' framework inspired by traditional Japanese martial arts. There is no ETA for the opening of the original hands-on applications-oriented private club Dojo Psi except 'someday'.

Palyne has project websites at firedocs.com, tenthousandroads.com, dojopsi.com and dojopsi.info. She has an RV field blog at blog.firedocs.com, a TKR blog at http://www.tenthousandroads.com/blog/, and a Dojo Psi blog at blog.dojopsi.com. She assists a few others in the "consciousness" field with their webmedia as well, with websites for Russell Targ, Rhea White, Joseph McMoneagle and Dr. Charles Tart. She has personal websites at palyne.com and a personal blog at redcairo.blogspot.com. She often posts under nicknames of "Red Cairo," "Fire" or "Cinnamon" on internet forums.

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Business background: PJ worked in line to officer-level business management from 1985 to 1995. When she had a child, she began to teach herself internet technologies so she could work from home, and became an independent contractor for IT work: first as an html-based webmaster; then as a graphic designer via Lockheed Martin; then as a ColdFusion/SQL dynamic developer; then as Technical Director of a small entrepreneurial university-level educational firm featuring an online statistics product (1991-1995). In 1995 when her employer's corp. was bought by a giant publishing corp., she returned to general project and business management in the new owner corp. She is currently a Manager for university-level internet-based educational products for the hard sciences.

Born: September 1965 in Ojai, California. (For the astrologically curious: has four planets including Sun and Mercury in Virgo; three planets including Venus and Mars in Scorpio; Aries rising and Taurus moon.) Primary interests are remote viewing and dowsing, music (guitar, singing and songwriting), computers (everything internet), reading (science fiction and fantasy for fiction; politics, history, science, autobiographies and metaphysics for non-fiction). Few of which there is time to pursue, since she spends most her time either viewing or doing online RV-related webwork!

Her primary "philosophical" influence is author Jane Roberts as Seth. Her primary focus in meditation is shamanic archetype work, heavily influenced by Edwin Steinbrecher. She is a member of two churches; a small masculine occult magickal order, Ordo Templi Orientis, and a small feminine new-age Marian-based healer's order, the Madonna Ministry. They are polar opposites in some ways, and this works well for her, but is inexplicable to anybody else apparently. Both are very strongly influenced by Catholicism in their own ways. She's a "card-carryin' member" of the National Rifle Association (NRA). She considers herself "sort of a Libertarian" politically, and considers the two main political parties in the USA both a little extreme; she leans toward the right in areas of finance, criminal justice, states' rights (anti-federalism), voting (vs. court-ordering) and privacy rights, and toward the left in environmental and several social issues.

She lives with her daughter (born August 1996) and way too many cats on the flat edge of the Ozarks in the USA. If you need to reach her, visit any of her blogs linked above and make a comment, or visit her contact form, here.

Most challenged by: Brevity. Writes whole novels for everything, as this page makes obvious.

Last updated: 23 February 2007