In the world of everyday existence, the five senses
reign, but their powers are sharply limited. We perceive the universe
in glimpses through narrow portals, acquiring our knowledge by sight,
sound, taste, touch, and smell. But what if there were more than
this?, what if we were more than this? what if there were other
ways of seeing?
All over the world, from time immemorial, some people
have been called gifted, known as the second sight, the third eye,
the sixth sense - powers that seem to bypass the usual sensory channels
and transcend reality.
Shamans have commuted with their god's. saints have
seen visions, and oracles have foretold the death of king's. And
from time to time ordinary people have felt a momentary slippage
into the strange world of the unknown.
In ancient times, people spoke of prophecies and
miracles. In our more rational age, such things tend to be called
extra sensory perception, defined as the apparent reception of information
through means other than the sensory channels.
There are three types of extrasensory perception
(ESP) that are commonly studied and experienced.
Telepathy - which is the transference of thoughts
from one person to another. And is thought to occur most often in
people such as, identical twins, and others with a high emotional
bond.
Clairvoyance - or the awareness
of distant people, objects and events. Sometimes comes in the form
of a vision, but more commonly as a quick flash of a mental image.
Precognition - is the seeing or
knowing of something before it actually happens. Occurs as a vision,
mental flash or in a dream.
Many scientist and skeptics scoff at ESP research,
but gallop polls have commonly shown a high level of belief in this
phenomena. Some subjects like Remoet Viewing have yeras of data spanning many thousands of trials and to some scientist the reality of an effect has been proven beyond all doubt, to others, well lets just say they remain sceptical.
These 'special' or 'gifted' people have existed through
every age, and at times have had a great effect on history.
Joan of Arc, the peasant girl of
Orleans, claimed to hear voices that told her she was divinely appointed
to rout the English from French soil.
The predictions she revealed in the course of her
short life were accurate. The English did withdraw, and she even
foretold her own imprisonment and death saying that she would last
'but one year or a little more'.
Almost five hundred years after burning her at the
stake, the church declared joan a saint.
There are many instances of stories andexperiences whereby a natural form of remote viewing seemed to have been in effect from the earliest of time and human experiences right up to the 1970's when the CIA started to take notice. This then started the modern Remote Viewing era as funding was poured into secret reseach at SRI.
SRI (Stanford
Research Institute) - The beginning...
Military
Use & Development of Rv
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