Remote Viewing

[williamstade]

Remote viewing, an area of study similar to others in the area of divination, adds another discipline to the realm of mystical information gathering. There are teaching stories over the years that both describe these kinds of possibilities and warn against their use at times quite strongly.

(Description gained from Stehpan Schwartz's Gold Standard Course on Remote Viewing DVD's and CD's)

In this post writer's estimation, remote viewing revolves around a fairly simple meditative technique combined with doing so to gain information from a combination of internal human abilities and external by and large invisable intelligences. Due to this potent combination of influences a care and careful questioning of motivation should be involved in my opinion along with a respect for self and suitable amount of study. One guy's opinion. Still trying to figure if this is just an odd fascination or if there is something truly worthwhile in it.

A sense of playfullness can be useful along with a clear idea of what you are trying to do.
(Schwartz, 2004, Remote Viewing CD)

William Stade

[Captain Beyond]

I never really dedicated too much time to try ad practice remote viewing, but it is on my "to do" list. Guess I'll just wing it as I won't pay for an expensive course or seminar!

[williamstade]

I never really dedicated too much time to try ad practice remote viewing, but it is on my "to do" list. Guess I'll just wing it as I won't pay for an expensive course or seminar!

Hi CB. The S. Schwartz one is pretty good in comparison to the ones that get quite expensive. I just like studying it perhaps more for creativity and intuitiveness. Russel Targ has a nice lecture on there where he points out that the psychic skills are far from the whole ball game... He seems to have placed the importance on self-inquiry as talked about in Dzogchen Buddhism. Just my pet topics. LOL

William

[crossfire]

Does he mean that remote viewing is like an extension to mindfulness meditation?

[williamstade]

Does he mean that remote viewing is like an extension to mindfulness meditation?

Hi Crossfire,

My understanding of it would be to say yes. However in my eyes it can get a bit tricky because the person has to become mindful of whether he or she even wants to gain psychic information in the first place given that there are warnings against such things. And if deciding to continue... For what and why? So a mindfulness practice on that order I would say.

There is that darn question of is the person consulting an oracle, to use that word, or is the person gaining the information from self? I sometimes feel like I am playing with fire with this stuff so keep it to not even trying unless completely feeling safe and moved to do so. That I have done once to a degree that worked though was slightly frightening. In my mind I am keeping it to a sense of intuitiveness and imaginative creativity in writing, business, and music.

Thank you for joining the discussion!

William

[crossfire]

Well, it would seem that the actual remote viewing information is obtained from what is known as "no mind" in the Zen tradition, while the "mindfulness" part would be where the mind determines which information is from a person's mind, and which is from "no mind." It's interesting how Dzogchen Buddhism seems to cultivate a balance between mind and no mind. (The true middle path?)

[williamstade]

Well, it would seem that the actual remote viewing information is obtained from what is known as "no mind" in the Zen tradition, while the "mindfulness" part would be where the mind determines which information is from a person's mind, and which is from "no mind." It's interesting how Dzogchen Buddhism seems to cultivate a balance between mind and no mind. (The true middle path?)

Hi Crossfire,

Sounds right to me. I remember there being the beginning principles of the Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path though as I sit here writing this want to kick myself very hard for spending so much time only looking at the meditative technique and unwittingly ignoring looking at the ideas contained in The Eightfold Path. I know of them mostly through the work of Lama Surya Das. Nice guy from what I have heard and studied of him. I believe he is from the Dzogchen Lineage.

William

[crossfire]

I remember there being the beginning principles of the Four Noble Truths and The Eightfold Path though as I sit here writing this want to kick myself very hard for spending so much time only looking at the meditative technique and unwittingly ignoring looking at the ideas contained in The Eightfold Path.

Indeed.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
--T. S. Eliot

[williamstade]

Indeed.

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
--T. S. Eliot

I would guess over in that direction someplace??

William

[crossfire]

I would guess over in that direction someplace??

William

Use your remote viewing skills to locate it?

[williamstade]

Use your remote viewing skills to locate it?

Laugh. Maybe? Still trying to figure some kind of ethical code for remote viewing! Hope you are feeling well!

William

[crossfire]

Laugh. Maybe? Still trying to figure some kind of ethical code for remote viewing! Hope you are feeling well!

William

There are always the ethical and philosophical issues surrounding privacy to consider, and the implications of the loss of privacy.

[williamstade]

There are always the ethical and philosophical issues surrounding privacy to consider, and the implications of the loss of privacy.

Yeah. I have been noticing that. I still have no idea what to think of this stuff. Interested, yes. But no idea what to do with these kinds of abilities.

William