Sunday morning at 8 a.m., Stephan pre-empted Peter van Daam’s usual exercise period to show the presentation he had intended to show on Friday night: Remote Viewing, the History of an Idea and Why It Matters. I was particularly interested to see him trace his work with psychic George McMullen, whose abilities he had documented in two classic books, The Secret Vaults of Time and The Alexandria Project. (Years ago, having read and been fascinated by the latter book, I had been glad to snap up George as a Hampton Roads author telling his own stories.) Stephan showed the intrinsic differences between lab research (concentration on variance from chance; concentration on a statistical outcome; statistical analysis as an end product, and involving only a single discipline) and applied research (statistics only a part of the analysis; use of psychics; no baseline for chance, and invariably multidisciplinary). He showed how in his projects he set out to create a “meta-mind” in which the psychics functioned as the intuitive side and the scientists as the analytical side. And he gave us insight into his four-team approach (teams of parapsychologists, archaeologists, specialists, and record keepers) in the pre-fieldwork, fieldwork and post fieldwork phases, and showed, in short, how he has gotten such interesting and important results. I was glad, after all, that we did get to see the presentation.
After another RV session (in which I did not participate, and which I therefore cannot describe) we came to Ingo Swan, who said he was tired of force-feeding audiences, and therefore had not prepared a talk but would answer whatever was asked, as this would tell him what people wanted him to talk about. Some ingots from the fire:
– In the 1980s he had thought RV doomed to disappear without a trace
– RVers and institutions like A.R.E. “fly in the face of the social commitment to keeping humans uninformed.”
– In order to have a controlled society, it would be important to get rid of telepathy.
– At 71, he said this appearance was perhaps his “swan song.” He is tired of being here, wants a new body and is already planning his next life.
– If society were 60% telepathic, there would be no need to make decisions.
– We are trapped in our past, and trapped in our language. (The very word ESP for instance, sounds like it makes sense, but doesn’t.)
– We are born with ESP but the self gets collapsed down until we fit in. And we must fit in, because the others are aware when we don’t – even though they don’t know how they are aware.
– We are not taught Awareness 101. We should be taught, for example, Sensing Danger 101 (direct instinctual perception).
– Most of our switches (our abilities) are turned off. How do we turn them on? Simply find the switch and imagine it’s turned on. To turn it on, “Ask. Maybe you’ll get a dream.”
– “Don’t concentrate on blocks. Look for the good and wonderful in you.”
– “Compassion is the philosopher’s stone, the answer to everything. From compassion comes all the things that strengthen compassion.”
And for me, that was it. A three-day seminar followed, but I didn’t attend it. I’m sure that if it was as interesting as the conference that preceded it, the attendees went away happy.
[Footnote, 2024: Depending upon the depth of your interest in learning to practice remote viewing, you may be interested in Stephan Schwartz’ course. I have no vested interest in this; I get no kickbacks from it, but it’s hard to think of a better resource for those interested.: https://www.nemoseen.com/remote-viewing-course/ ]
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