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TKR Forum: Inclusions, Exclusions, and Focus

TKR has a Remote Viewing web forum, and we are sometimes asked by participants about the reasoning for what "forum boards" we have created, or not created, or host for others. This page is an explanation of the project management's logic for inclusions, exclusions, and focus on our forum.

All Viewers + All Approaches = "Integration"

TKR offers "social integration" of the larger RV field, equality and opportunity for anybody who wants to view, task, discuss, educate or get educated, or otherwise engage themselves or others about RV.

We pass no judgement on what philosophy, discipline, methodology, leadership, spirituality, etc. "deserves" to be singled out, focused on, recognized, emphasized, or excluded, within the subject of remote viewing or within our project as 'representative' of remote viewing.

The science-based, minimum points of a standard Remote Viewing protocol are the only thing we have a specific 'formal' definition for at TKR.

We try not to "single out" any given group of viewers or approach to viewing as more or less official, popular, legitimate, etc. Our staff has personal opinions, of course, as they are individuals, but TKR as a project does not.

At our RV forum, we separate topics from each other to keep the boards reasonably sized. There's no formal criteria for that; the categories, groupings and subjects on the TKR forum have changed over the years, as an admin moves or recategorizes something for convenience. As a "general policy", all our boards welcome all viewers, of all approaches, who may have interest in the subject matter focus.

Integration + Sponsored Focus + Tools for External Projects = "Full Field Support"

TKR's area at the Dojo Psi has several tools developed to support remote viewers who want the benefit of TKR's tools, such as handy tasking and session display forms, but do not wish to work 'within' the project's boundaries. Part of our charter is to "support a diversified community".

Within its RV web forum, TKR has a policy which both supports viewers in various niche-interests, yet also maintains its own "integration" focus. It works like this:

1. We offer a free forum board for any RV group that requests it (clubs, trainers, associations, businesses, etc.).
2. The board in this case is actually "their board, hosted by TKR" -- not officially our own board. They define its charter and they manage it as they wish. As long as the board's content or management does not create serious legal risk for the project, and is not detrimental or subversive to the project or its staff, we provide independence; we don't interfere.

Integration vs. Separation

Some viewers don't wish to operate in "integrated" online areas. They don't "feel comfortable" having conversation with other viewers who don't share their methodology, as a common example, or other differences. They also may not feel comfortable remote viewing in the same place as others. They may prefer an area where viewers are separated by some factor (usually training source or methodology). To them, that means there are no distractions, interruptions, or disagreements. We agree that can have its benefits.

The online remote viewing field, from 1996 until the present, seems to have this separation (usually by methodology) approach as a standard. TKR's integration focus is by far the exception to this practice, not the norm. So if some viewers don't choose to talk much at TKR, or view much at TKR, we trust they are doing those things in segrated places where they feel more comfortable. As our name "Ten Thousand Roads" implies, we know every viewer has their own approach.

We like it when people share with us, and participate openly and as equals with others. If they don't choose to do this, for whatever reason, that is certainly their choice. Viewers looking for more focused, separated communities can visit yahoo.com or google.com and search their "groups" feature for "remote viewing". You'll find many options!

Preference for Integration, but Support for Separation

In the past, some people have asked us, Why do you care what boards exist in your forum? Why doesn't TKR itself, not as "a sponsor" for someone's viewer group board, but on its own part, create a board for Silva Remote Viewing and its descendent methods? Or Controlled Remote Viewing and its descendent methods? Or anything else somebody might ask for?

The answer is: Because the project in our eyes is not just a website, it is a chartered cause. We want to bring viewers together in shared community, not create a big collection of niche-separations.

The Remote Viewing online field is rife with "division, separation and exclusion" of viewers. Usually this is contingent upon commercially sold or publicly offered, formalized psychic methodologies. "Method-separated environments" are widely available to viewers online. TKR's integrative approach is relatively distinct, was unique when our project was created, and is key to our project charter.

We may separate forum boards by topical matter or general psi format, but we avoid separations by psychic methodology. The "divisions" for that subject have created such problematic social and functional issues in the larger remote viewing layman's field, that TKR as a project was in part conceived of and implemented as a "balancing" response to exactly that issue.

Hosted Forum Boards at TKR

TKR offers free forum boards for RV-related groups which request one. Those groups may be dedicated to a method(s), an individual trainer, a target genre, a specific project, or some other focus. We first encourage viewers to participate openly, equally with others, in our integrative forum boards. But if this does not offer what a viewer wants, we recommend they create a small club for their interest and request a free board from TKR. This is the way we maintain our own integrative charter, while supporting other approaches as well.

Should you wish to request a TKR forum board for your RV group, contact any TKR staff member. We will need the following pieces of information:
1. Name of your board
2. Brief description (for the front/top of the board) of what discussion topics/etc. are within, and without, its charter
3. One or more usernames who are to be set as moderators for the board
4. Specify whether this is to be public (default) or private (we'll need a list of usernames to create a 'forum-group' for you if it is private. Nobody but your users will be able to see your board content.) and
5. Affirmation that you have at least 12 "active members" in your group who have expressed interest in participating.
New forum boards usually take about 12 hours to set up, depending on when they are requested.

Happy viewing and conversation! We hope you have fun at TKR!