Instructor: Rainsong
Date: December 14, 2019 (Saturday)
Seminar: Topic: “There are targets for remote viewing. Targets? Links? How does it work? How to stick the image to the target?” (suggested by Nagan) — Saturday, 14 December, 2019 at 6:30pm/1830hr New York Time — text format in the PSC #lecture room (Discord) — Instructor: Rainsong — Search LECTURE108
Rainsong: Good evening, everyone. 🙂
Rainsong: Welcome to another psionics seminar here at the social club
Rainsong: As usual, we’ll be discussing real-world psionics.
Rainsong: Our topic for the evening is targeting in remote viewing
Rainsong: Or, as Nagan phrased it, “There are targets for remote viewing. Targets? Links? How does it work? How to stick the image to the target?”
Rainsong: Thanks to Nagan for suggesting tonight’s topic 🙂
Unicornzilla: ^^
Rainsong: Any questions or comments before we dive into tonight’s topic?
Unicornzilla: I have none; only question I have currently is the one I asked earlier
Mulberry: :thumbsup:
Rainsong: Ideally, in remote viewing, the person who assigns the target, the person who relays the target to the viewer and assists in the viewing session, and the viewer are all separate people. The analyst may or may not be a fourth person
Rainsong: For practice targets, you’ll often use photographs or moviews or the like.
Rainsong: These are known as “hard targets”, by the way, because you can get feedback about what impressions are correct and which weren’t within a reasonable amount of time.
Rainsong: A “soft target”, by contrast, is one for which feedback will not be available in the reasonable future – or possibly at all
Rainsong: A picture of Mount St Helens is a hard target.
Rainsong: “What is the favourite music genre among the arachnids on Betelguese 6?” is a soft target, because it is unlikely whether we will know whether there is any life on BEtelgeuse 6 within our lifetime, much less what kind and what types of music they favour. We might not even know whether there is a sixth planet orbiting that star
Rainsong: So far so froody?
Rainsong: Alright…
Rainsong: We’ll mostly be discussing practice targets this evening.
Rainsong: All (or at least “almost all”) your practice targets ought to be hard targets. Then you’ll be able to determine where your strengths and weaknesses are, and in which areas you’re improving and when. (As you know, there is a very predictable drop in accuracy for a while after your first few sessions, before you start getting better at remote viewing. This is widely thought to be a result of the various parts of your mind figuring out how to talk to each other. Kind of like, when parents tell arguing kids to stay in the same room until they work out their differences at least enough to pretend to get along in front of the parents)
Rainsong: Because it is easy, I tend to favour stock photos as practice targets… mostly because I’ve purchased licesnes for huge sets of stock photos, and therefore have enough hard targets of various levels of quality to last a few hundred years…
Rainsong: Other kinds of hard targets include past events (the 100-metre dash at the 2004 Summer Games), near future events (the results of the 2020 presidential election in the United States), people (the person who stole the packages off Karla’s porch yesterday), locations (the sacistry in St Ninian’s Cathedral), various objects (my cat’s favourite toy mouse), and so on.
Rainsong: So, the first thing to do is choose a target.
Rainsong: The traditional way to record the target is on paper, which will then be placed in a paper envelope.
Rainsong: Computerrs give us some other options. We’ll get back to those later.
Rainsong: Example 1:
Rainsong: This is a picture of some trash pandas (aka “raccoons”)
Rainsong: If the picture itslef is the target (“Describe this picture”), then all we have to do is assign it some coordinates…
Rainsong: …and that is largely what Nagan was asking about, I expect.
Rainsong: I strongly sugest using numeric coordinates, rather than alpha-numeric, for RV targets. Sometimes the letters can prompt the imagination, and we’d rather they didn’t
Rainsong: I personally favour an eight-digit coordinate, separated into two sets of four:
Rainsong: 1912-1401 or 1912/1401 The punctuation doesn’t matter much. Some folks like dashes. Some like slashes. If you’re setting up targets for someone else, ask their preference
Rainsong: The target coordinate does not need to be eight digits, however. Some people prefer six digits, some like 12
Rainsong: It’s all good.
Rainsong: Anything over 7 digits ought to be divided by a space or some kind of punctuation, to avoid transcription errors
Rainsong: Some people choose the numbers by rolling a ten-sided die (singular of “dice”) for each digit.
Rainsong: Others use the date the target was assigned or chosen for the first several digits, plus one or more digits for the number of targets assigned that day
Rainsong: Our example here is like this: (20)19 (December)12 – 14(th day) 01 (first target assigned today)
Rainsong: Nice and easy, yes?
Rainsong: If the picture were printed out on paper, the coordinates would be written or typed at the top of the page.
Rainsong: Any further specifications would be written or typed at the bottom of the page
Rainsong: Questions or comments so far?
Mulberry: I’m good :thumbsup:
Rainsong: Cool.
Rainsong: They are called coordinates because, originally, they were geographical coordinates. That had some obvious problems, including but not limited to 1) someone might have eidetic recall and be describing what they figure exists at a given location because of what they already know about the area, and 2) some targets don’t have a useful physical location to pin them to
Rainsong: So, now we just use numbers chosen at the time of tasking
Rainsong: It’s entirely possible to just give it a number, put the number on the top of the page, plop it in the envelope, and put the target coordinate on the envelope, and call it a day
Rainsong: It would be considerably better, however, to be thinking about the question or instructions of the task, and focusing on that, while adding the numbers to it
Rainsong: It’s a bit like naming a zip file… and, in fact, some people think of the coordinates as exactly that, with the ideogram of Stage 1 being the zip file itself
Rainsong: I haven’t forgotten your question of “How does this work?”
Rainsong: Sadly, the answer is “I have no idea”
Rainsong: I can rhyme off the various ideas different people have had over the decades, about how remote viewing works, but I don’t know which, if any, of them might be close to accurate
Rainsong: It’s not very different from naming a construct or making a so-called ‘psi-link’ in a chatroom, though
Rainsong: Example of a ‘psi-link’ is here
Rainsong: I’m sure you’ve seen them around
Chirotractor: here’s a silly question
Rainsong: Go for it
Chirotractor: why does so much psi stuff seem to work ‘because it’s convenient that way’
Rainsong: My guess is that, with enough focus and oomph, you can get any of a number of methods to work, and it’s the ceremonialists who like to make stuff complicated. Psionicists tend to favour simpler procedures, and can get ’em to work, so they/we just tend not to keep the less-convenient methods in the repertoire
Rainsong: We could dowse for the appropriate coordinates under a cloudless full moon, and etch the resulting numbers into polished granite, and it would still work… but why bother?
TehOldeSourcerer: Hey checking the lecture notes, was out having dinner
Rainsong: Dinner is good
TehOldeSourcerer: Pizza is awesome
Rainsong: Questions and/or comments before we proceed?
Unicornzilla: I am reminded of a thing where a doll is named after someone in folk magic
Rainsong: Yes, the magician there is assigning a name to that poppet for use in their magic. Much the same concept
TehOldeSourcerer: I actually have a question regarding assigning tags to things. Say you make a construct you wish for someone to scan is that the same process by which you assign numbers to a target for remote viewing? Is there a specific way to tag things energetically that you find works across the board?
Rainsong: Puff oomph into it while focusing on your intention to connect the item to the tag
Rainsong: Whether the ‘oomph’ is psi or chi or mana or magic jelly beans is irrelevant for the end result. However, using some kinds of chi can allegedly be bad for your health
TreeishPerson: The link to a poppet can be cut. Have there been any experiments(either official ones or people playing around you’re aware of) in cutting the link between a set of coordinates and the target?
Rainsong: I’m not aware of any, no. Strangely, using the same numbers for somebody else’s target doesn’t seem to interfere, but if two people work the exact same target (instead of different aspects with different coordinates), and the first viewer picks up some incorrect data (nobody is 100% accurate, after all), the second person will often get the same incorrect data in their results
Rainsong: Further questions, comments at this point?
Unicornzilla: I have mild urge to shower after poking a target now
Rainsong: Showering’s not a bad thing…
Rainsong: Are we ready for Example 2?
Rainsong: I’ll take that as a ‘yes’
Rainsong: Instead of a photograph, our second example is a description/question kind of thing.
Rainsong: So, instead of printing out a picture and adding the coordinates to the top, and any specifications to the bottom, we’re going to write or type the main target question
Rainsong: The coordinates still go at the top
Rainsong: You can write the “question” as a regular question or set of instructions: “Describe the location of the electrical fault on N2345SD’s left wing” or “What kind of stone is used on the interior of the gymnasium inside the middle school in Peterborough Square?”
Rainsong: Both of those are hypothetical
Rainsong: Or, you can make it look more official-like, and put increasingly detailed aspects separated by slashes: “Earth / Montana / Whitefish / Pub / December 2016 / Most commonly served alcoholic beverage”
Rainsong: Again, the coordinates go at the top of the page, and the page (or pages, if it’s complicated) go inside an envelope
Rainsong: the envelope is labeled with the coordinates
Rainsong: They can go on the top left or on the middle… Doesn’t matter much, but top left is easier to thumb-through when you have a metric fluff-tonne of them
Rainsong: If you’re going with electronic storage, I’d suggest that the simplest approach is to type the coordinates at the top of whatever “page” in whatever program you’re using. If the page is a JPG or the like, use a textbox in Paint or something similar to add the coordinates
Rainsong: Can add any specifications at the bottom the same way
Rainsong: For other types of targets, type the same way as for on paper
Rainsong: Or use a stylus and write or print, if you prefer
Rainsong: The coordinates can easily be the filename, or part of the file name if you want to also include “RV” or “targets” or something
Rainsong: Hint: in case someone has reason to search your computer, and with the assumption that some of your pictures are going to be buildings and similar structures, I suggest not labeling the thing as “target”. “RVtarget” is probably okay.
Rainsong: Questions? Commentary?
Rainsong: Apparently not.
Rainsong: As you know, there are some practice targets posted in the #rules-announcements room, along with the hyperlink to the feedback
Rainsong: Obviously, you want someone other than the viewer to make the targeting, because otherwise you’ll lose most of the advantage of using the protocols, and would probably be better served with another method of clairvoyuant activity
TehOldeSourcerer: As for targets, writing something simply as “target” could be too broad and have the person wander, whereas something more specific like RVTarget would help in getting an accurate RV?
Rainsong: No, the “RVtarget” part is just to make it less likely to be interpreted as something you plan to attack, rather than just look at.
TehOldeSourcerer: Ah ok thank you
Rainsong: In case someone ever searches your computer files
Rainsong: You’re welcome 🙂
Rainsong: Thanks for participating, everyone.
Rainsong: Have a lovely evening
TehOldeSourcerer: 🙂
Unicornzilla: Thank you Rainsong
Rainsong: 🙂
Rainsong: Thanks for suggesting a topic