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Remote Viewing Protocol

The combined set of rules, regulations, processes, procedures, and instructions in a laboratory experiment is often called the "protocol."

In Remote Viewing, the protocol encompasses every aspect of the experiment. The details can vary, but there are three points of RV Protocol that are always expected to be followed:

• Planned and Aimed. The psychic session must be planned and done on purpose. If you get a "spontaneous insight" or have a dream, that is not Remote Viewing. RV is when you intend to collect information about a specific target.
• Double-Blind. In most experiments, if the person giving the answers does not know the question, it would be called "blind" or "single-blind". Remote Viewing is required to be "double-blind". That means there are two (double) layers of "blinding". It means the psychic cannot know the target, AND, nobody else who is present with the psychic during the session (even by remote means such as webcam or phone) can know the target either. This is because even pheremones, voice-frequencies, and many other "invisible" physiological senses can transfer information below the conscious level. (See Ingo Swann's article 'Your 17 Senses.')
        If a psychic (viewer) is working alone and does not know the target, we call this "solo blind". This is not the same as "single-blind," which implies someone with the viewer did know the target (that would be out of protocol). Solo blind just means the 'double' is "not applicable," because the viewer was alone in the room from start to finish.
• Feedback. Although you can be psychic about anything (the future, for example), in order to "validate" the data IS psychic and not just a wild guess, it has to be at least partly correct. In order to know what is correct, we need the real info to 'compare to' the session data. We call that info "feedback." For example, a target could be a building, and a photograph could be taken of the building. The instructions to the viewer might say, "Describe the focus of the photo at the time the photo was taken." The "feedback" would be the photograph. This photo would help the viewer (and any judge or scientist) evaluate how much of the viewer's information is accurate. If you are viewing offline, a target could also be a future event, or your experience of visiting a nearby location. In online viewing, most things are photos and/or text or brief video clips.

What is Remote Viewing?

The term "Remote Viewing" has one definition with two separate parts to it. The first part of the definition says it is:

The process of an individual acquiring information about a person, place, thing or event which is distant in time or space, when that information could not be accessible to the individual through any means currently known to science.

Sounds like psychic work, yes? The second part of the definition is the groundwork for the first part. Remote viewing is technically:

A certain type of psychic or "ESP" process, defined as Remote Viewing instead of ESP by the fact that it is done within an approved Remote Viewing protocol.

There are rules in RV to ensure the information one is obtaining could not be accessible to the psychic through any means but psi. These rules, taken as a set, are called "the Remote Viewing Protocol." (An RV protocol can vary from good to bad, but there are a few 'basics' they are all expected to have. See 'RV Protocol' on this page.)

‘Approved’ in that last definition, refers to validation by the leading scientists in the field that it is ‘tight’ enough to prevent anything from fraud to accidental information transfer to creep in ‘disguised as’ ‘real psi’. If you are doing psi work within an approved RV protocol, it is certain you are using Psi (or at the least, you are the luckiest guesser on earth). The protocol followed properly ensures that if the data is accurate, it is NOT fraud, NOT subconscious physiological data transfer, NOT errors of accidental data provision.

So you might say the first part of the definition defines psychic work; the second part of the definition about the protocol, validates the psychic work as truly-psychic. The protocol exists not to 'make' something psychic, but to be sure that whatever is going on, it is not something "else".

The protocol does not affect one being psychic; it doesn't have much to do with the psychic process itself (usually). Rather, it affects the situation one is being psychic "within." (See 'RV Methods' on this page.)

Most psychics who work in an RV protocol (for slang we call these "viewers") do all kinds of psi work, including targets that may currently not have any feedback. For example, the target might be the winner of a sporting event. At the time of the session, there is no feedback. Since this is "out of protocol," it is considered "psychic work" at that time. Once feedback has been procured that can be compared to the session to measure accuracy, only then would we formally call it "remote viewing". In general though, most "viewers" refer to their psychic process as "viewing."

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TKR as a project understands that psychic work is a larger spectrum of human activity and experience than just RV.

TKR is primarily geared to Remote Viewing and Dowsing. We strongly support and recommend all viewing work be done within an appropriate RV protocol whenever possible.

However, TKR also supports psychics and various psychic interests as well. Most viewers have interest or experience in both worlds.

Remote Viewing Methods

When a person is "being psychic on purpose" -- collecting information about an unknown target -- we call this process of being psychic and communicating it / recording it somehow, a "session." The "how-to" of their session (how they go about getting that information), is what we call a "psychic method."

In Remote Viewing, as slang, many viewers simply refer to their psychic method as their 'viewing'. For example, "ORV" stands for "Open Remote Viewing" (a method taught by Vance West at trinityscience.com -- no relation or affiliation with TKR, this is just an example), but it is understood that ORV itself is a 'method' which is designed to be used within a remote viewing protocol (when possible) -- that is why it has 'RV' as part of its name.

Whether everybody with a __RV method name actually abides by the RV protocol is another story. In terms of naming, they should, or there was no point to calling it RV at all (except maybe to glom onto the marketing fever). A method however is only one factor out of a protocol that usually has ten or more factors. See the image at the bottom of this page for a simplified overview of 'RV protocol' and where the 'methodology' fits into that.

When geographical coordinates were used as tasking (target numbers given the viewer), that approach to RV was called 'Coordinate Remote Viewing'. When associated-targets were used as tasking (a means of 'mapping' one thing onto another via 'tasker intent'), that approach to RV was called 'Associative Remote Viewing'. So originally, aside from the term 'remote viewing' which referred to a scientifically approved 'RV Protocol', there were also names for highly specific types of protocols. The psychic method used in these was not defined (could be anything).

When the coordinates changed to 'encrypted' numeric sequences, and then later to simple 'random' numeric or alpha-numeric sequences, and then still-later to anything that was convenient (file or database record ID numbers for example), the 'coordinate' part of the term became moot.

When a protocol was highly specific, even if it included more than just a tasking format (and might even include the psychic method itself), it usually was given a name of its own as well. There was 'Ganzfeld Remote Viewing' for example.' That had several distinct points of protocol, including some degree of the method.

Attempting to specify the difference between a spontaneous and/or "unstructured" personal process, in the early 1980s, a compilation of existing psychic techniques, scientific discoveries and personal preferences, was put together by Ingo Swann (who at that time was the most scientifically studied and demonstrated psychic in the world). Swann's method eventually came to be called "Controlled" Remote Viewing. This was to indicate that (a) it was expected to be used within a remote viewing protocol, and (b) it was a formalized, structured process of being psychic that the individual was attempting to "bring under their conscious control".

(Since that time, viewer Joseph McMoneagle has surpassed both the science study and public demonstration in protocol numbers and is currently the best-validated psychic in the world. Swann and McMoneagle have both published several books, and both have websites. [Swann] [McMoneagle])

In 1995 when major publicity about RV suddenly occurred, clones and derivatives of Swann's "CRV" method (sometimes identical, sometimes with slight or major differences) sprang up with new names. This was in part so that they could be marketed as their own product which nobody else could sell; and on occasion to specify a different approach to the Art in some fashion. This split the public RV field into many 'factions', as viewers felt competitive about which expert was 'more' expert, which method was 'better', which method had 'more official lineage', etc. This created a lot of marketing competition and online "social politics." One reason TKR came to exist, was as an attempt to bring a central social strength to the RV field that would bring everybody together, rather than having them feuding apart.

See below for a visual example of how a method "fits into" the larger Remote Viewing protocol."