And following that, information would flow about the general purpose of the site, particularly if humans were using it for a specific purpose.

The initial scribble was named the “ideogram.” The progressions of data flow were called “stages.” And these stages always progressed in the same sequence, making it possible under most circumstances to know if the viewer had in fact made “contact” with the target site. This entire process is what came to be known as Coordinate Remote Viewing, or alternatively, Controlled Remote Viewing, CRV.

Are We All Psychic?

CRV was thus distinguished from traditional psychic modes. It was written down, it was systematic, and it contained internal ways to check for accuracy. But of greatest importance to the CIA – it produced useful data about places that had proven spy-proof. The funding continued.

But was this skill the province only of a handful of exceptionally endowed psychics? The SRI researchers had already settled that by experimenting with a variety of persons, from secretaries to visiting CIA dignitaries. It turns out that the basic ability is part of our shared genetic heritage.

Eventually, Swann taught an initial cadre of military-intelligence officers. The team was located at a super-secret facility at Ft. Meade, Maryland, where they began to do psychic spying, nine-to-five. And those remote viewers trained others.

In 1995 the program came out of the shadows, and the public began taking lessons from retired military viewers, who were released from most of their security restrictions. And they formed a membership organization, the International Remote Viewing Association. http://www.irva.org/

Ingo Swann taught only two students after the initial military group. I was honored to be one.

I Learn RV

My training in the process of CRV was organized as follows. Swann would sit at one end of a long table. He had a folder containing a photograph of the site, and the latitude and longitude of the site. I hasten to add that if the reader thinks anyone can produce a description of a site from some kind of memory exercise, knowing what is at this or that coordinate, he should give it a try. Very quickly s/he will discover that this is impossible.

Also, later research showed that a purely random number coordinate assigned to a site works nearly as well as the latitude and longitude.       Continued on page 4