Shamanism and Remote Viewing

Ancient Civilizations knew more than we expected them to know. Old cultures knew of
the existence of stars that are not visible to the naked eye, and of objects in space that
even our best telescopes have only recently detected. Closer to home there are stories
from the Amazon of chains of remote villages where news literally travels from camp to
camp faster than people can, without benefit of radio or telephones. Stories persist of
tribal warriors who make impossible shots with deadly accuracy, bringing down game
or even enemy sentries at night and beyond their range of vision. If you look for
evidence of sight beyond sight, unaided by technology, you find evidence in the legends
and ancient histories of mankind.

Proof of that is tougher to acquire. The best proof, and the safest type of proof for
everyone concerned, is for people who are skeptical to learn the ability themselves.
What we as modern people know as remote viewing is only the outer surface of an old
system of acquiring knowledge and influencing events that modern cultures treat as
superstition and aberrant behaviour. Much more can happen than any sensible
researcher would expect. People who acquire too much expertise, and talk about it, can
find themselves locked away or persecuted. Ridicule is the modern alternative to exile,
and it's society's most common solution for handling people who step too far into the
unknown. If you have a professional or social life you care about, this may be a game
you'd prefer to play in private.

The game does yield real results. The results are unpredictable, and even experts go off
the mark easily, misinterpreting what they do see or following visual clues that really
are hallucination or imagination. The realm of consciousness in which remote viewing
functions has an interesting mix, some things being real, others meaningless illusion,
and other elements that would appear to fit obviously into one or another of those
categories but do not. It's a changing, evolving visual realm of fantasy, symbolism and
literal imagery.

On occasion, it can save your life. Since it has been one of the most entertaining and
practically rewarding things I've ever done, I'd like to pass along some techniques I've
learned. Probably there's hardly anything I can say that's new. I didn't invent any of
this--it's been a part of human life since human life began. I've studied ancient
techniques and modern ones, and I keep what works. I don't agree with all that the
"experts" say, because my own experience does not back all of that up. What I've
experienced on my own upholds things that people believed a long time ago. As a
culture, we are about to learn it all again.