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The Theory of Remote Viewing
The explanation for how remote viewing works can properly be dignified as a theory, because it rests on an accumulation of well established knowledge in such disparate fields as quantum physics, neurology, and psychology.
The late David Bohm was a preeminent figure in the development of a mathematical description of the physical universe known as "quantum physics" or "quantum mechanics." Einstein's relativity works on the very large scale, where the traditional Newtonian physics fails, but does not work at all on the micro-scale of the atom, where Newton also falls down, and thus quantum physics was born. It is the currently received standard physics.
Many of the results of the equations of quantum mechanics are "counter- intuitive." That is, they don't make "common sense." The apparently insuperable dictatorship of time, for example, becomes meaningless in QM. A result called "quantum interconnectedness" (or non-locality) is the main reason Bohm has become associated with remote viewing. This effect -- and it is an experimentally observed effect, not just a postulate -- means that everything in the universe is connected with everything else. There is a sort of permanent linkage, each minute particle to each other, regardless of distance, and perhaps regardless of time. There is no need for an intervening medium to effect this connection. The connection exists because the particles or things exist.
So quantum interconnectedness provides the physical basis, at least in theory, for the ability to "know" everything about everything, without respect to the physical senses. Other terms for this are the "cosmic sea," or, in the technical jargon of remote viewers, "the matrix."
Of great interest is that Bohm also developed the concept of the unfolding, or systematic elucidation of information when it is accessed in the quantum mechanical sense. It begins with an infinitely tiny atom, as it were, of information, and then grows, all the while radiating information, more and more of it as the expansion continues. The initial "atom" contains all the information, but it is in extremely compressed form.
This is quite a precise description of the remote viewing process. When triggered, the initial signal is the "gestalt" of the target, in practice a very short squiggle on the paper, produced by the viewer's pen. These rude lines, or ideograms, can often be quickly identified as summations of the target site.
Then, as surely as summer follows spring, the next "stage" unfolds, this one spinning off the "tactiles," which are colors, smells, temperature, texture, and many other similar physical characteristics. Continued on page 9
