The Little Purple Notebook On How To Escape From This Universe
Copyleft � 1999 by Maximilian J. Sandor
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Straightline Remote Sensing #4
Reaching Out
Abilities depend on a combination of numerous individual skills.
For example, it is not enough to know the traffic rules in order to
be able to drive a car. Neither is a knowledge of the technology of
automobiles sufficient to safely operate a vehicle. The motor skills
to engage the brakes, the gas pedal, and turning the wheel of the
car� all those must be developed, and the driver should have
additional abilities such as a minimal eyesight, etc. as well.
Again, it is the combination of the various skills that makes
driving a car feasible.
Likewise, in "Remote Sensing" there are different skills that must
be developed. All of them are nurturing a higher awareness of Life,
the Universe, and Everything� making them valuable far beyond the
goal of roaming the landscape at will, without moving a body from
place to place.
The first three parts of this series introduced exercises like
branching into multiple, distant viewpoints using the mirror
paradigm as a tool, using different body parts as sensory
receptacles, and zooming into the microcosmos.
Each is a vital skills in its own right. Together they open the
door to Straightline Remote Sensing.
In Remote Sensing, the experience of the exploration is paramount
to any gathering of information (like "Intelligence" in the military
sense). The experience, itself, is the reward, and any abstract
information is nothing more than a byproduct of the process.
There is a significant difference between the immediate experience
(sometimes called "extensional" knowledge) and the abstraction of
extensional knowledge that results in a classification of an object.
To give an example, in Viewzone's '"Remote Viewing Challenge" the
results of the October trial (see archives) were described as:
"We had several hundred submissions but only two people
managed to get "gold and tall, but lying on side..." and
"gold or bronze with a round part and a part that sticks
up..." Several described the object as "metal, hard and
cold to the touch" and "smooth on the outside but
unfinished inside..."
From an extensional viewpoint, the results described were "true to
the facts" except that it remains unknown if the participants sensed
the object at Viewzone's office or another, similar object at a
different site.
The usual expectation in a "Remote Viewing Challenge" may be to
"guess" the abstracted significance of an object, in this case a
brass bell. But the evaluation of the available information through
remote viewing to yield a concrete, abstracted object is another,
further step beyond the actual "viewing."
Later on, Viewzone's commentator noted that:
"... A vast majority of people guessed that it was, in
order of frequency, an odd shaped rock, a coffee cup, an
apple, and a small figurine with flowers."
The list of guesses above are abstractions. From an "Intelligence"
viewpoint, such results, if they were correct, would be valuable.
From a "Remote Sensing" viewpoint they are less meaningful than the
extensional descriptions of the object as mentioned in the prior
paragraph.
The object in question was in a box. This means that there was no
light available. Within a "genuine" Remote Viewing setup, objects
must be "lighted" in some way to give a visual expression if a
"true" extensional image is to be obtained.
To make the difference between "truly experienced remote
perception" and abstracted and evaluated "intelligence" information
even more clear, here is another example:
A "Straightline Remote Sensing" session may yield a set of set of
subjectively experienced perceptions, such as a big, cylinder-shaped
object. A Far Sight session, using mediated information packages,
may come up with an item such as "a bomb." It should be clear that
"a bomb" is an abstraction based on an evaluation. An engineer who
analyzes the report of a Straightline session may come to the same
conclusion (that the object would be "a bomb," for example), but
this would happen AFTER the session.
Any kind of abstraction processes belong to the class of "creative"
processes. They will trigger the creation of thoughts (mockups)
which, in turn, will significantly disturb an extensional
observation.
Strictly seen, if a sensory image of any kind is not yielded, the
name "Remote Viewing" is not correct. If only the abstraction of the
object is obtained, it may therefore be better to talk about "Remote
Information Gathering" instead.
The most difficult step in Straightline Remote Sensing is the
connection with an initial distinct remote target. This,
interestingly, appears to be the easiest part in the Far Sight
protocol. It would be favorable if both techniques could be
combined.
In any case, the greatest obstacle for both are "mockups"� thoughts
created by the viewer during the process or the protocol.
The "average" human is mocking up pictures compulsively to such a
degree that these pictures continue into the sleep phase of the
person, at which time they are being labeled "dreams."
Turning off the compulsive creation of pictures is, therefore, a
considerable feat which, when successful, translates directly into
"spiritual freedom."
Once engaging in remote sensing, a person may be shocked how
difficult it seems to distinguish properly between "reality" and
internal thought constructs.
What now is the difference between internal thought constructs and
reality, if there is any? One model that provides a functional
description of the "reality" problem is the model of the "co-created
Universe."
Beings maintain their own world in their thoughts, and, to the
degree that the worlds of different Beings are overlapping, an
objective "reality" comes into existence. To decide whether a
"reality" is truly an accepted, hence "objective" reality, the
viewer, using this model as a guideline, would have to ask a certain
number of other observers whether they perceive something similar or
not.
In praxis, this is not easy to do. But, fortunately, there is
another clue to the "reality" problem:
* Since "reality" is formed through the congruence of concurrent
observers, the emerging events cannot show discontinuities.
A more thorough explanation of this result of the "co-creation"
model exceeds the scope of this chapter. In a nutshell, just as it
unlikely that a bee hive is jumping from one place to another, the
co-created Universe cannot change properties without showing
inertia. This means, there are no jumps or gaps in neither the time,
nor the space in which "reality" happens.
For practical purposes, once a connection with a remote sensing
target has been established, any sudden shift of perception is
likely to be caused by the viewer's thought processes. Or, from a
different angle, every perception that persists in time or changes
only slowly, is likely to be a perception of an "objective reality."
Let's put this to work by exploring a remote object such as a
simple brick.
Sit in front of garden-variety brick or a similar object. Imagine a
mirror that reflects your own body and the brick. Now, blur your
vision (or turn it off if you can) and shrink your awareness to the
size of a fly or another creature of similar size. From your body,
move SLOWLY in a continuos, direct line towards the brick, and land
on its surface. With blurred or no vision, explore the surface of
the brick carefully, mentally keeping track of the routes taken and
coming back to the landing point every once a while. In the end,
move from the landing point, straight to your body, and expand again
to your "natural" size of awareness.
It is helpful to turn off auditory and visual perceptions in the
beginning since they are the most likely source of dubbed-in signals
from one's own mind, and are thus distorting the observation of
what's out there.
Ultimately, it doesn't matter how far the investigated object
really is. It is easier to start with something nearby and compare
the remote sensing results with "normal" perceptions.
The mirror in the exercise serves as a stable reference point
through time and space. Besides helping in the orientation, it also
diverts the attention from internal mental processes.
Of utmost importance is the ability to move without jumps, and to
locate fix points in a remote environment.
Any sudden movements, or the loss of orientation, will cause the
analytical mind to add its unsolicited opinion, and will thus de
facto abort the entire remote sensing session.
The first explorations, as exciting as they may be, are yielding
just vague impressions of the properties of the investigated object
or environment.
To arrive at more concise and meaningful results, the ability to
assess basic dimensional relationships of space and time has to be
restored first.
This is the topic of the next Exercise in Straightline Remote
Sensing, and, as with the other exercises, this exercise, too, is
leading to some surprising revelations.
'Til then. Sense you in a week!
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Copyleft � 1999 by Maximilian J. Sandor
