| What would Edgar Cayce think about the recent | | | | self-improvement or gaining power; they are about |
| fascination with remote viewing? He'd have to admit | | | | self-realization: discovering who we really are .... This |
| he'd done it himself sometimes, like when he | | | | can be revealed in many ways, one of them being |
| announced from his self-induced clairvoyant | | | | the practice of remote viewing ... we discover |
| consciousness that his next client had not yet arrived | | | | through this process that we are the flow of loving |
| at home where he was to be for his reading, or | | | | awareness that is available to us whenever we are |
| when Cayce noted that the prescribed remedy, "oil | | | | quiet and peaceful." |
| of smoke," was hidden in the back-room shelf of the | | | | The question I have in considering Targ's thoughtful |
| pharmacist. Cayce used remote viewing, and | | | | and valuable book is whether his support of remote |
| especially "remote knowing," to help others, and thus | | | | viewing as a tool of self-realization comes from the |
| he would be satisfied with its serviceability. On the | | | | meditative part of the practice (in which case |
| other hand, so many of his readings were filled with | | | | meditation itself may be a more direct route), or |
| wisdom, providing much more guidance than what a | | | | from what is remotely viewed (as in my suggested |
| remote video camera could provide, that his work | | | | tasking focus), or from the theoretical implications of |
| involved more skills than simply remote viewing. | | | | the results of remote viewing, namely, that ESP is |
| I believe that Mr. Cayce would say remote viewing | | | | real and that there is more to us than the space-time |
| was, in itself, not sufficient. I suspect that, | | | | materiality. Many have experienced ESP effects, yet |
| independent of the purposes toward which remote | | | | go on living in material consciousness, so I suspect |
| viewing might be applied, its procedures make | | | | that this third alternative is not much of a candidate |
| self-actualization doubtful. Simply relaxing the mind | | | | for the source of remote viewing's support of |
| may be sufficient to experience and report imagery | | | | selfrealization.arg does provide four proven |
| that others might evaluate for its validity, but it | | | | applications of remote viewing: evaluating given |
| doesn't seem sufficient to provide self-actualization | | | | choices, locating objects or persons, medical |
| guidance to the person practicing this skill. Something | | | | diagnosis, and forecasting. At the end of his book, he |
| else has to be added. What is required beyond | | | | confesses that he has spent his life trying to change |
| merely freeing consciousness is "raising one's | | | | a rocket scientist into a human being. His ESP |
| consciousness to an ideal." Such grooming of | | | | research motivated him further, but it was contact |
| consciousness might prove useful to become a | | | | with a spiritual teacher, Mangaji, that did the trick, |
| channel of wisdom. The purpose to which | | | | opening his heart. In the final analysis, Targ admits |
| value-added remote viewing might be applied would | | | | that remote viewing itself is not a spiritual path. He |
| also affect its serviceability for self-actualization. | | | | claims that it is the meditative skill developed by it |
| Remote viewing sessions typically begin with a | | | | that can, when furthered by spiritual mentoring, lead |
| "tasking assignment." As a tasking focus, I suggest | | | | to the self-realization that "we are the love we |
| something akin to an Edgar Cayce affirmation, with a | | | | seek." The meditative skill he refers to is that of |
| bit of precognition thrown in: "I foresee an | | | | becoming aware of awareness itself, because that is |
| opportunity coming to me today where I may be of | | | | where the boundless self awaits discovery. |
| service to someone else by discovering more of my | | | | I find myself uplifted by Targ's book and feel a |
| soul's abilities." | | | | kinship with his desire to explain the value of ESP |
| I turned to a recent book by one of the pioneers of | | | | research in the context of the spiritual search. I now |
| remote viewing. Russell Targ, Ph.D., writes in Limitless | | | | realize that my own suggestion about how to use |
| Mind: A Guide to Remote Viewing and | | | | remote viewing for self-actualization, although of |
| Transformation of Consciousness (New World | | | | value, actually misses the mark. There really is no |
| Library), "Why bother with ESP? ... Dzogchen | | | | need to go "remote," as what I'm seeking is within |
| [Buddhist ideal of "great perfection"] teaches us to | | | | my own open heart. I agree with the author that the |
| look directly at our awareness and experience the | | | | best way to keep it open is through gratitude. With |
| geometry of consciousness - the relationship of our | | | | such an attitude, I'm sure I'll have many opportunities |
| awareness to the spacetime in which we live .... these | | | | to grow by helping others, without having to remote |
| teachings of expanded awareness and the | | | | view the opportunity in advance. |
| experience of spaciousness are not about | | | | |