Moving On

God, or soul, or whatever you want to call it, recently freed me from my gut-sense of "dharmic obligation" to the topic of Remote Viewing. A whole cycle of my life has ended, I've been told, and another is beginning. I'm ready.

My personal psi life has been mostly private over the years anyway, but I'm getting more sleep now than I have in decades, and doing more meditation and energy work (my roots pre-RV). That means I'm feeling more like a human being than I have in a long time, and finally have more non-sleep-deprived time to put toward whatever I like, from intuitive work to my child and garden and just having a life. It's wonderful.

Now that I no longer feel internally-compelled, like it's some interesting yet tiresome "job" assigned me, I won't be involved any further with Remote Viewing related things online. I had some fun, I've got tons of stuff no longer online that was nice while it lasted, and some still online that a few folks seem to like, and I'm sorry to say that I'm leaving with a few projects I was building in tandem with others, now ever undone. Well, it is what it is. To everything there is a season, as it is written.

I'm going to miss a lot of people, though.

• I've removed myself from the RV-related email groups I was part of. I have closed my RV blogs, abandoning them as a static archive.
• I dropped upkeep on my Firedocs site and its Remote Viewing Collection (and a little bit, its blog) a long time ago already. I'll continue to pay to keep it online, solely because many people find it useful. Much is from my earliest still-learning days of RV starting in 1995. For the first few years, I had as much disinformation and misinformation poured into me as legitimately helpful info, and so some of the content, even in my own words, is more harm than help to legitimate education and practice of targeted psi. That bothers me, but I don't feel like making the time to parse it, so I had to choose between just taking it offline entirely vs. leaving it as-is. I'm going to leave it there. For now.
• I have handed the Ten Thousand Roads (TKR) Project, its RVwebForum, the associated Dojo Psi RV software (which contains the Viewer Studios, the RV Galleries, Taskerbot, RVwebChat, and a few other things), and the Google email and Yahoo email groups, over to the talented and competent TKR Staff. I will continue paying for this project so it can continue onward as a free resource for the Remote Viewing field. Although staff can contact me for dire emergency, I am no longer a webmaster of the project site, no longer programmer for the dojo site, and no longer moderating on the forum. I suspect once the staff and locals get used to the idea of me being fully gone, they may take the project in other directions or into other activities that my interests or personality or available time didn't pursue previously. They have their own RV approaches and opinions, some of which differ from mine of course, but I fully support their autonomy and their future.
• I will finish the book I've been working on (for eons) about Remote Viewing. Probably not soon though. It is simply not a priority for me, compared to my own psi work or my life. And frankly, it's pretty complex (even for me), in terms of density of content. It will never be a 'commercial' book, I imagine, but something only serious viewers might have an interest in.
• Anybody who wants to help ensure this stuff stays online is welcome to donate to the dojo for server expenses. I'm a single mom, and RV online has been my charity. Not counting all the years prior (October 1995 to July 1998 had about twice this time investment), from October 2002 until October 2007, I averaged around 40 hours a week on top of my job and kid etc. related to "other people's RV" -- mostly via email correspondence/advice, forum conversation, and website coding for the TKR project (which has been revised many times, and at this point is a small fortune in free work), plus a couple thousand a year out of pocket for the last five years to hold a lot of RV domains (to keep them out of the hands of those who'd do its reputation yet more harm) and to pay for a variety of servers monthly, which I've now tried to reduce to just a few (dojopsi.com, dojopsi.info, tenthousandroads.com and palyne.com). Here's hoping my next charity costs me less money and less time.

I genuinely love remote viewing, first as an experience, and second as a protocol. As my life has had a great deal of natural psi and spontaneous anomalous experiences, finding something which applied a logical and critical-thinking approach to psi was a dream come true for me. I've had many other studies over the years, most of which I dropped when I found RV. Meditation, archetype work, self hypnosis, NLP, energy work, dedicated prayer, some occult magicks and other things have contributed to my larger experience-set and interests. I suspect that my future will combine elements of viewing with many other things for some new approach, different focus and result.

Some of the people I've met online as a result of my remote viewing-related activities have come to mean a lot to me. Some are close friends; some I lurk and watch their progress; some are casual acquaintances about whom I probably have more affection than they realize. A few people I don't know well but I think have grown on me through sheer number of years of exposure. People are welcome to email me now and then. (Preferably about topics which are not remote viewing, unless it's in passing as part of your life.) Be patient as I'm not online so much anymore, so my correspondence is very irregular.

Remote viewing rocks. I wish the best for all of you.

Palyne "PJ" Gaenir
www.palyne.com

On Remote Viewing Practice

1. When in doubt about what remote viewing can do, View. Do it in protocol: double-blind, with hard feedback, and preferably precognitively (prior to assignment of target). If you really want to force your belief systems to shift, and you really want to see what you can do, and demonstrate what you can do, with no other subconscious elements muddying what is truly psi vs. a million versions of 'something else', that's the way to do it.
   
   A good viewer can work under protocol conditions and perform. A truly good viewer will want to do so. The clarity of protocol is the best tool and support a viewer has, and serious viewers make it first in importance for good reason.
   
   Any excuse for considering it not very important, or some part of it able to be dismissed for one reason or another "without it mattering," is always first-sourced from people who cannot view very successfully within it very often, so of course they want reasons to do it differently. The more people they can convince this is ok, the better they can get away with claiming expertise regardless of actual skill.
   
   Proper RV Protocol is only optional in viewing if feeling good about it is more important to you than being good at it.
   
   There may be other reasons to pursue alterations in the protocol which remove it from being "proper" RV, but none of those reasons are anything like "because it doesn't matter." (Run, don't walk, from anybody who would even say that.) None of those reasons should ever be used as a crutch for poor RV, or as a means to blur what is really going on.
2. Remote Viewing had to be surgically extracted from the muck of centuries of religious, occult, social assumptions and superstitions and sloppy, muddy thinking. If you're going to explore something new for RV, move it forward, not backward. Don't confuse (1) and (2), and don't confuse others with it. Keep the protocol as clean as humanly possible, and experiment with only one variable at a time, very carefully, avoiding viewers using "social chatter" as a form of psychosocial feedback, and only with experienced viewers who are fully adapted to viewing in a proper protocol regularly.
   
   If there is one mistake made often enough in the field that it's time for someone to learn from it, it's this: Since psi is real (or why are we doing this), then it stands to both reason and proof-in-practice that if you are a leader, and you expect result X, and you test for result X, and you obtain the result X, it does not mean you have done something scientific or that it is "proven true". It simply means that psi works, and that DAT is a valid theory, and that humans in tandem CAN do all kinds of amazing things. Whether they MUST, whether they always WILL, whether someone with a different belief leading the charge would find the same result -- in short, whether it is "true" for any instance outside yours, and whether it is "how RV works" -- is another story entirely.
   
   You can make the dynamics of intent work for you, or against you, but I hope anybody who cares about RV won't use that factor to reduce understanding in their team or in onlookers, of the importance of a clean RV protocol.
3. We know so little about psi truly, that I'm willing to bet nearly all our assumptions about RV, things we think we know, range from right for the wrong reasons, to so wrong there's not even a word for it. Every separate element of remote viewing is a gigantic subject unto itself, which could use--truly needs--a great deal of experimentation. Subjects like target contact, target definition, target assignment, target feedback, session evaluation, psychological concomitants, target pool issues, group dynamics, and a lot of other things, we are barely even into "infancy" in understanding all these things. Nobody has all the answers. We know what we see; we hear opinions; but every viewer has to do their own exploring. It is very likely that on an energetic level, "reality" is nothing at all like our biological filters and beliefs show us, and so most of our "logic" may be based on artificial--or at least 'surface'--constructs to begin with.
   
   You can set up a clean protocol and use it, but it's always an experiment of sorts. You may later have different ideas about how you want to do things, whether it is your methodology or the source or type of targets or your approach to feedback. There may even be other hybrid forms of psi that hold potential, such as minimally-taskIntent-informed session-evaluation, where the psi work is not RV and not analysis but somewhere in between, and maybe some people mediocre at RV itself would be better at that; keeping things clean enough that creation or evaluation of that product isn't polluted will probably be harder than making the middle work. There may be psychological or energetic practices that emphasize the benefit of group workings or tandem viewing. And I'm certain there is a whole field for psychological integration techniques to better deal with the belief system issues that good protocol viewing challenges.
   
   Remote Viewing's debut into the mass public and the nature of that has mostly ruined the field, the term's credibility, and a whole lot of people who never should have been exposed to it in my opinion, but if there is one thing worth taking from all this, it's simply this: some kind of effect we're calling psi is real, and we have a few decades of trying this-or-that, but beyond that it's real, we still have a whole lot to learn. Whether this is an as-yet not understood effect upon probability/synchronicity, or whether it's really the literal A=B we assume, or whether there is a completely different framework we haven't even thought of yet--none of this is truly known. Every viewer has to do their best, for a long time, and watch their own understanding--and their own internal self--change. So talk to other viewers about your ideas, and philosophize until the cows come home, but we don't need to buy--or sell--opinions. If the nature of reality is even fractionally as creative and subjective as viewing has led me to suspect it might be, then what is 'real'--let alone what works--for two different people may be genuinely different.
   
   The only part of RV that is personal is between you and your experience of the target. So you don't need to be vested in any given idea or practice being wrong or right. Everything beyond your interaction with the target, is part of the framework and trappings of philosophy and assumption and ritual. RV is sometimes treated nearly like a religion in some respects, but remember that you have direct contact with the source, regardless of the detail. When in doubt or wonder, turn off the volume around you and look inside.

On Truth

1. When in doubt about what's right or true, Pray. If you don't believe in God, or have no idea how to frame that, then pray to your Higher Self. It doesn't matter what you call it or label it... that awareness doesn't have an identity crisis. Every person has a core connection to truth; you don't have to create it, it already exists. You only need to become more aware of it, and practice sitting quietly with it regularly. Be fully IN your body, IN the moment, calmly, as often as you can. For ten minutes before sleep, for 10 seconds at a stoplight in your car. Do this, and a lot of the noise and chaos and technojargon and actual lying and commercialism and historical revision and more will eventually become clear, simply by how it feels. The truth isn't "out there" -- it's "in here." I feel most viewers benefit hugely from adding some form of meditative exploration or directed prayer to their practice, and doing so will provide more useful direction to someone's viewing than all the advice I could ever give.
2. Remote Viewing is a tool for testing and utilizing one tiny facet of human ability. Remember, this is supposed to be fun, expansive, fascinating. Sure, sometimes it's also work, and frustrating, but it is at base a good thing. If it becomes less contributive to the good of your overall life than the time you're putting into it, walk away. If frustration over results starts entraining you more to disappointment than success, take a break. If 'field social politics' starts burning you out, ditch the world and view privately. There is a whole universe of opportunity for you to explore yourself. RV isn't the only path. Remote Viewing may have 10,000 roads of its own -- but those are just a tiny few, and there are other roads. Don't lose track of the important part: your connection through the middle of Self to what is True. If pursued with sincere intent and regular time in meditation or prayer, all roads will eventually lead home.

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