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Remote viewing protocols are the strict set of rules that separate true remote viewing from general psychic or intuitive practices. Without these protocols, remote viewing cannot be considered valid or scientifically testable.
Developed during research at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) in the 1970s, these protocols were designed to make psychic functioning measurable, repeatable, and verifiable.
Remote viewing protocols are the controlled conditions under which a remote viewing session is conducted. These rules ensure that the data collected is not influenced by guessing, prior knowledge, or external cues.
In simple terms:
Remote viewing is not defined by psychic ability — it is defined by how the session is conducted.
To qualify as true remote viewing, the following protocols must be in place:
A remote viewing session must be intentional.
This is the most critical protocol.
This prevents conscious or unconscious cueing and ensures clean data collection.
All sessions must be documented.
This can include:
Recording allows later analysis and validation.
Feedback is essential for learning and validation.
Without feedback, accuracy cannot be measured.
Remote viewing protocols were created to bring scientific structure to psychic functioning.
Research programs demonstrated that without strict controls:
With protocols, remote viewing becomes:
As modern structured approaches show, removing protocol turns the process into guesswork rather than disciplined perception.
A key distinction:
| Remote Viewing | General Psychic Practice |
|---|---|
| Structured protocols | No fixed rules |
| Double-blind | Often informed |
| Recorded data | Often informal |
| Feedback required | Not always present |
This is why not all psychic impressions qualify as remote viewing.
Remote viewing protocols were developed during U.S. military and intelligence research programs between the 1970s and 1990s.
Key goals:
These protocols became the foundation for methods like Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV).
Remote viewing is not defined by belief, ability, or experience — it is defined by protocol.
If the protocols are not followed, then by definition, it is not remote viewing.
Understanding and applying these protocols is essential for:
Joe McMonegale says:
“Remote viewing is the ability to produce information that is correct about a place, event, person, object or concept which is located somewhere else in time and space, and which is completely blind to the remote viewer and others taking part in the process of collecting the information.
Two other requirements are:
All persons present during a remote viewing should essentially be blind to the target.
There should be some form or means of validating the material after the remote viewing has been accomplished.In other words there should e feedback of some kind.
These requirements certainly set remote viewing apart from other forms or paranormal information collection, and there is a reason for this. Currently about 60 people, and the years of work, sweat, thought and a considerable amount of money, establishing the veracity of remote viewing through very extensive study. During this time, these peoples were very clear in defining the ground rules and protocols that were necessary in order to call it remote viewing. They did not do this just to separate remote viewing form other forms of the paranormal. They did it so that remote viewing would NOT be viewed like any other form of paranormal. They did it so that their new research techniques could bring some validity and credibility to the study of paranormal functioning…
Those who throw something together and call it remote viewing do a disservice to these people, these labs and dilute the very value and significance that these studies have brought to the paranormal field.So regardless how you might be trained, when you agree applying remote viewing, the target should be blind to whomever in the room”.
Joe McMoneagle – Remote Viewing Secrets – pages, 22-23, 268.
Ingo Swann the Creator of Remote viewing and CRV (Controlled Remote Viewing) the method used by the military for over 20 years, has this to say on the definition of Remote Viewing:
“Remote Viewing is composed of a five part protocol, and when any one of the five parts are omitted (such as confirmatory feedback), then what has taken place is something other than remote viewing…..
If these important definitional boundaries are not understood and maintained, the ultimate result will be ambiguous definitional quagmire of benefit to no one, and the demolition of what the remote viewing protocol achieved in terms of respect and repute”
Ingo Swann – Fate article – On remote viewing UFOS and extraterrestrials September 1993.
So, if you encounter anyone claiming to be a remote viewer and/or remote viewing and yet you find that these protocols have been disregarded, then firstly they have not been remote viewing and secondly, be very careful what you decide based on this material as there is no way to assess its accuracy or validity. To be honest most long time practitioners in the field of remote viewing should know and abide by these defining rules, but alas some don’t. So be careful.