Remote Viewing As Human Superpower - Part 1
Thomas Burgin
One Of The Superpowers Of The Human Bio-Mind
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REMOTE VIEWING AND ITS CONCEPTUAL
NOMENCLATURE PROBLEMS
Ingo Swann (09Jan96)
Part One
Three general problems regarding remote viewing
were pointed up in the introductory materials of these essays:
(1) remote viewing as a human superpower of mind;
(2) lack of adequate concepts and nomenclature by
which this
superpower can be discussed and comprehended; and
(3) lack of appropriate mental information grids
needed by the recombinant analog mind to cognitively process the
necessary experiential information.
* * *
As a term, "remote viewing" emerged in 1971 and
was at first quite obscure. It achieved luminosity when the
intelligence community took a long-term interest in what it referred
to. Since then remote viewing has been thought of in
different ways, depending on whose thinking was involved.
It is to be understood that different people think
of things in different ways. There is no real way to prevent
this --- and in fact it should --not-- be prevented. For the
ability to arrive at different conclusions is very
important to the progress and achievements of the human species.
However, what kind of information, and what amount
of it,
different people utilize to arrive at conclusions --is-
- or should be a matter of concern and interest not
only to others but to themselves. It is well known that the use of erroneous
or inadequate information results in conclusions of the
same kind.
* * *
A proper working definition of remote viewing will
be presented ahead --after-- certain information points
have been established. The proper working definition more or
less prevailed in the intelligence community up until about
1988.
Outside of the intelligence community, though,
between 1974 and 1988, no consistent definition of remote viewing
has prevailed or been subscribed to. At about 1980, the
term began being popularly utilized as a descriptor for random
affairs which might not be remote viewing. Many have most
incorrectly used it as a replacement term for "psychic."
As contrasted to the various popular ideas which
might be applied to it, a precise technical definition (or
descriptor) for remote viewing does exist. But it is a complicated one
in that remote viewing is --not-- a singular thing in itself,
but a compounded series of awareness-dynamic processes.
* * *
Experience has shown that English-speaking people
have difficulty in combining two different words with a
hyphen in order to approximate a concept for which English has no
singular word. German and other languages, however, have this
capability, and their speakers are used to stringing words together
without hyphens in order to get at some special concept.
Remote viewing must be discussed in --its own
contexts,-- not within those hampered by terminological
and conceptual inadequacies. To get around those inadequacies it is
useful to combine two common English words to produce a combined
and new meaning.
* * *
"Dynamic" essentially means "active." "Aware"
means "having or showing perception, realization, or
knowledge." Realization, perception and knowledge are usually considered
somewhat passive states. So the term "dynamic" needs to be associated
with "awareness" in order to get at the needed --active--
potentials.
Generally speaking, remote viewing is a form of
active perception and realization as contrasted to their usual
states as passive reception or passive experiencing. If you have
trouble conceptualizing dynamic-awareness experiencing, just
remind yourself of sexual arousal, music participating, or
encountering a beautiful thing.
In order to figuratively get at this combined but
unfamiliar meaning even better, we will utilize an unusual
analogy.
Since about 1990 or earlier, the computer
subculture began giving special neo meanings to the term --WIRED--.
Loosely defined, the neo term refers to how the mind-
awareness of a person is "wired" regarding active
states of cognition and subsequent activity based on them.
"Wired" then approximates dynamic awareness as
contrasted to being passively aware. It also refers to "nets" or
"grids" which consist of interactive "wiring" and "terminals." It
also refers to being active ("hot") rather than passive
("unwired"), more or less in the same way as a system becomes active by
being electrified or fed energy ("turned on").
In a certain sense, then, --dynamic-awareness--
means "being hot wired." An earlier term from the
1950s --- being "with it" --- meant approximately the
same thing.
* * *
In this sense, then, remote viewing is a form of
being wired in the neo sense of that word. The younger, computer
savvy "hot" generations who utilize it in that context probably
will most easily comprehend what remote viewing actually is:
-- a special active form of awareness wirework
netting;
-- or a "being wired" format;
-- or being wired into or hooked up into "multiple
terminals" or multiple "wired grids;"
-- or being wired into different levels or strata
of bio-mind information processes.
As we will see below, mental information grids are
forms of wiring that can be "hot," crosswired, or obsolete. One
can also be "dead" wired, or wired in closed-circuited ways.
* * *
The younger computer-wired generations clearly
think of the human mind as a computer which itself can be up-linked
into other computers --- and the whole of which becomes a systemic
net or grid of information-carrying processes.
The same system can exchange, up-load and down-
load information --- providing one can work or "hack" the
system by having access to pertinent addresses behind which
various kinds of information are stored and available.
This is actually a technological form of "remote
viewing," and is almost an exact metaphor for bio-mind remote
viewing.
* * *
The definitions of these neo terms are not the
principle issue here. But the concepts behind them are.
Remote viewing is a form of "hacking" the
information-bearing terminals of our species bio-mind -
-- which itself is a very impressive and sophisticated "net."
Each born individual is not only a "terminal" in that net, but
carries within itself a replica of it.
In this sense, then, each born human is a
reproduction down-loaded from the species bio-mind net. In this
context, each born human in essence is an issued-forth --
extension-terminal-- of the larger bio-mind net.
This analogy is clearly compatible with the known
fact that each born human is a reproduced, down-loaded extension
of the species larger genetic pool.
* * *
These analogies and metaphors might be somewhat
creaky to begin with since we don't usually think of the mind as
a bio-mind, and otherwise tend to think of it as
entirely separate, self-contained and an extension of nothing except its
individual self. On the other hand, we do think of our individual
genetic bodies as extensions of the genetic pool as carried
down and distributed through genetic lineages.
We can get around the creakiness by accepting that
when a genetic babe is born physically, the elements of bio-
mind are --also-- born with it. Not only is the physical bio-
body born but a mind is also born. The bio-body and
its mind are inseparable. And so we just as well think in terms of bio-mind.
Geneticists now can show that about 98.5 per cent
of our species genetic elements are identical and universal in
everyone --- and that only about 2.5 per cent account for --all-
- differences no matter what they are.
It should therefore follow that about the same
statistical distribution refers to the bio-mind born at the same
time the body is. In other words, about 98.5 per cent of our
bio-mind endowment is identical and universal in everyone.
In other words, all of us are more the same than
we are different. That we give overwhelming attention to our
perceived differences gives rise to much of the human drama. But
beneath and behind that drama other perpetual factors are at
work.
* * *
If we accept that about 98.5 percent of our bio-
mind endowment is universal in everyone, it shouldn't take
much imagination to envision that this greater endowment
constitutes the bio-mind "hard drive" --- much in the same way that
the 98.5 percent of our genetic makeup provides the
physical "hard drive" for all our bodily functions.
And indeed, if we utilize the computer-model as
something akin to the computerlike functioning of the bio-mind we
are almost required to introduce the term "hard drive."
All "terminals" must have access to a hard drive in order
to function at all.
* * *
The reason for the above discourse is that it can
be demonstrated that the basis of remote viewing is found
in the bio-mind's hard drive. All reproduced genetic bio-mind
downloads (i.e. you, me, everyone) possess the hard
drive rudiments for remote viewing (and other superpowers of mind as
well.)
All bio-mind hard drives are relatively similar.
Therefore the basis for remote viewing is universal within each
of us --- and which is THE reason elements of remote viewing
manifest down through the generations.
The only thing that gets in the way of our
becoming "wired" into these hard drive rudiments, are installed mental
software programs which abort cognitive access to them. This
will become more clear ahead.
* * *
If credence can be given to any of the above, then
it becomes clear why the entire nomenclature of
parapsychology and psychical research is inadequate --- and why the
cultural West in general has never evolved terms that are adequate or
appropriate.
The worst term of all is "psychic." No stable
definition has ever been established for it, and there are great
hazards in attempting to utilize a term which has not much in the
way of an agreed-upon definition. Supporters do assume that it
refers to extraordinary, non-normal (paranormal) activities of
mind. But skeptics assume it refers to illusion, derangement and
a variety of non-normal or abnormal clinical psychopathologies.
* * *
As will be discussed ahead, that the concept of
"normalcy" should have been used as the central focus for modern
mind research, is one of the greatest flaws of the Twentieth
Century.
But here it can be stated that what is perceived
as "normal" anywhere or at any given time is completely and only
relative to social circumstances. And our history shows that
social relativity has very little to do with the true extent
of our species bio-mind hard drive capabilities. Social
relativity is always a situation regarding software information
programs installed into the hard drive. Such software programs
come and go at a great rate. The bio-mind's hard drive stays
mostly the same.
That true extent of the bio-mind's capabilities
will never anywhere be identified from within local normalcy
venues. All of these must be transcended in order to get fairly at
the species bio-mind faculties and capabilities.
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