The TRV Contest Winning Session

by Jeff Lucas

Due to the popularity of our first contest held in December of 2001, last November we announced our long awaited 2nd TRV Contest. Each contestant was required to work a single blind target (receiving only eight random Target Reference Numbers which were assigned to the target) and then follow the TRV protocols and submit the sessions to us.

We would like to thank everyone who took the time to participate. The response was overwhelming and we are happy to note that twice the number of students entered this year. We received many excellent sessions this time, making the competition very close. In the end, we were able to narrow it down to one, and the following session was selected by our team of judges as the best.

Kyle, a 25 year old physics major from Europe, and winner of the first contest, defended his title valiantly. When I notified Kyle that he had won a second time, as the online students were waiting anxiously, I jokingly told him that he should run for his life. Seriously though, I’m certain that I can speak for the rest of the contestants by stating that they are also happy that he won and everyone at PSI TECH congratulates him on his victory. Kyle has been a hard working student who is always willing to help those who have just started their training.

To those students who came closer this time, please keep practicing and try again next time. Remember, the contests are not about talent but about skill. And the best TRVers are those who practice every day. Kyle overcame differences in language and early difficulty to achieve his success. He practices often and those many hours of hard work have paid off. We would like to give honorable mention to Gene and Joel, who tied for second place. Their sessions can be seen in the TRV Training Forum in the 2003 Contest conference.

The contest target cue can be seen below, along with the actual photograph which was placed inside of the target folder.

Target Cue: The Queen Mother’s Funeral Service at Westminster Abbey / April 9, 2002

Target Reference Material:

Interview With The Winner
by Jeff Lucas

Congratulations Kyle on winning the 2nd TRV contest! Were you surprised that you won a second time?

Thank you very much! Yes, very suprised. I did the session on the last day and in a hurry. And the only reason I did it was because I kept listening to that annoying inner voice, “You may regret it if you don’t do it.” So I did it trying to do a good job but at the same time without really caring if I would hit the target or not.

Why do you think that you were successful twice? I know that you struggled when you first began your training four years ago. Is there anything about your technique or attitude that has changed in the past several years?

Well I’m still struggling everyday! The reason I think I won besides the obvious reason of having been practicing for quite some time now, is mainly in the attitude. These targets were unique in the sense there’s a competition and a prize involved, which make them much more important, not just at a conscious level but also at an unconscious one. So I think in this situation my ego instead of trying to take charge, accepts that this is too important to self sabotage and stays quiet, because it is in its own interest to win! Also a “carefree” attitude is usually the one it works the best, which happened this time.

Could you give advice to your fellow students on how to improve their skills so that they have a better chance next time (that is, unless you don’t want to.)

Just keep practicing and when in the contest dont necessarely do a bunch of sessions trying to get the best one, because you can’t really tell until you have feedback. Instead, if you are the daring type do just one single session (in the last day even) and tell yourself that you better do it right because you wont have another chance.You may be suprised with the results.

The target this time was the Queen Mother’s funeral event. Do you have any thoughts on the target, and are you happy with your session?

Well it’s a very good training target in my opinion even if it can be considered kind of macabre. It has a big variety of strong elements that for their uniqueness or importance can be catch the trver’s attention. As we can see not just from my session but also from Gene’s and Joel’s session. The three sessions make a very nice “pack” in my opinion. In regard to my session, I’m always my worst critic. So even though I was very pleased I think there’s also a lot of room for improvement. One thing that striked me as odd at first was not getting the coffin itself, but considering the cue and that TRV is extremely cue specific maybe it’s not that suprising.

Last year you won the Advanced Training System. How have the new techniques assisted you in investigating and getting closer contact and more detailed information about your targets?

This past year has been a complicated one and I haven’t practiced nearly as much as I wanted. Right now I’m still a rookie in most of the advanced techniques but they are all excellent tools for much more target contact and problem solving. I’m eager to master them.

We recently asked you to write an article explaining how you overcame the language barrier while learning TRV. It was a great article and we received a lot of positive feedback from those who are now going through the same obstacles you did. For this contest, you worked the target in English, rather than your native language. It obviously did not adversely affect your chances of winning, but did you feel that it was it more difficult for you to perceive data this way?

Well I guess the timing of that article was very good. As you can see it’s perfectly possible to have decent results even trving in a foreign language! To be honest the reason I did it in English was because of laziness and lack of time as I never expected to win this time, or I would have done it like last year’s. The increased difficulty that I have perceiving data in English, expresses itself in less data and sometimes difficulty to put an idea into words.

Do you have any advice for people who are just now learning about Technical Remote Viewing, but haven’t decided on committing to training?

Learn the most you can about it and keep an open mind, because this actually works.

The Winning Technical Remote Viewing Session

To see Kyle’s winning session from last year’s contest, click here.

February 21, 2003 | Filed Under Technical Remote Viewing

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Those Pesky Paradigms

Why PSI TECH & Remote Viewing Is So Controversial
By Dane Spotts

Why is PSI TECH and remote viewing so controversial and misunderstood? Well, in essence we are selling the idea of round-the-world cruises to people who still think the world is flat. When you describe Technical Remote Viewing® to someone who has no experience or knowledge base regarding it, you usually see them roll their eyes into the back of their head. “Remote what? Is that like some psychic thing?” Remote Viewing can’t possibly be real. Collecting data about people and events remote in time and space with just a pen, paper, and alert mind sounds like an invention of a modern day PT Barnum. Yet almost all Americans believe they possess ESP or a sixth sense. So why is it so hard to believe in the possibility of technology that taps into and focuses that innate ability? A technology the Pentagon spent $20 million developing and kept secret for 17 years.

For those of us who have learned the skill of TRV® by installing the protocols into our autonomic nervous system and perform TRV on a daily basis, we are constantly amazed by the fact that the human mind really can do this. And because we have become so immersed in our own TRV culture, we tend to forget what it was like before we learned this skill. If it’s still incredible for those of us who practice TRV that we possess this ability, it must be totally incredulous to someone who has no idea what it even is.

Humans have a long history of not accepting new ideas until forced to, usually because their very survival is at stake. In the words of Ghandi, “First they laugh at you, then they fear you, then they fight you, then you win.” The process for a new paradigm or belief system to become established in a society, can take generations.

But why? Why do new ideas that benefit mankind to such a degree as remote viewing, cause such defensive angst?

Galileo Found Guilty Of Heresy

Travel back in time with me. The year is 1633. The headline on this spring day throughout Europe reads, “Galileo Found Guilty of Heresy: Condemned to Life Imprisonment For Publishing That The Earth Moves.” Galileo invented the telescope. His observations strengthened his belief in Copernicus’ theory that Earth and all other planets revolve around the Sun. Most people in Galileo’s time believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe and that the Sun and planets revolved around it. The Catholic Church was the ruling authority of the day and when Galileo published his paper on his theory, it infuriated the Pope. So the Pope ordered Galileo imprisoned for life to prevent him from further disseminating his discoveries.

Ever wonder why whenever you discuss politics or religion to people whose ideas oppose yours they immediately become entrenched and ultra-defensive about their beliefs? Even the most intelligent and logically minded are reduced to emotionally charged argument and fights. It’s because they are protecting their paradigms. A paradigm is a belief system. It’s a set of shared assumptions, and values that constitute a way of viewing reality. These fundamental beliefs do not change easily in individuals or cultures. Usually not until a person repeatedly encounters evidence that Reality is simply not as one had thought it was.

The first response to evidence that challenges an existing paradigm is to deny it. We accuse such people of fraud or even witchcraft and convince ourselves that the evidence that seems so contrary to our reality as we know it simply does not exist. When a belief system is threatened because it is in conflict with cultural institutions or an individual’s paradigms it evokes a survival response. Wars are started over such ideological conflicts.

Shifting Paradigms: Stretching Things To Fit

But as the evidence accumulates and is so strong that we can no longer dismiss it we must accept that something is going on that doesn’t seem possible according to our existing paradigm. This is the point that an individual experiences what is called a paradigm shift. When this happens we bend our previous paradigm to fit the new problematic evidence.

An example of such stretching occurred during the days of the Wright Brothers and their battle for manned flight. What most don’t realize is that it took years after the flight in 1903 at Kitty Hawk, before the idea caught on that heavier than air machines were invented that allowed man to fly. Most people laughed at first and assumed it was a fraud. The U.S. government was offered Wright Brothers flying machines, but they were not taken seriously until almost a decade later. The evidence began to pile up and the paradigm shifted, that such a thing was scientifically possible. Once this new paradigm was accepted, it revolutionized travel as we know it and changed society forever.

Usually paradigm shifts move “bottom-up” in a grass-roots way, so it is not uncommon for the power structures of a culture to feel highly threatened by paradigm shifts that seem to contradict the current view of reality. Such power structures may respond by passively resisting change or even by actively combating it. They don’t usually do this with conscious intent or malice, but merely in response to what appears to be “crazy” or “unreasonable” pressures from a paradigm outside their own — which by definition seems “out of touch with Reality.”

It Takes A New Mind - To See A New World

Technical Remote Viewing and the work of PSI TECH is “crazy” according to most existing paradigms of our society. No matter how many demonstrations one witnesses, until you do it yourself it’s just too unreal to accept that the mind…your mind can really do this. And because it is a skill, it can not be executed with perfection by every individual, giving the status quo more ammo to shoot it down. The Wright Brothers first manned flight was only 12 seconds long and went 120 feet. Certainly not a big deal when we look at how the technology has evolved. But that 12 second flight was paradigm shattering, and ushered in a whole new era of possibilities for mankind.

The future holds great promise if we are brave enough to embrace new possibilities and set aside our need to protect existing paradigms. I firmly believe one of the greatest technology breakthroughs of the new millennium will be the development of our innate PSI functioning. But it is so profound and paradigm shattering that it will be fought tooth and nail by those individuals and institutions clinging to the existing belief structure.

It is part of our mission of PSI TECH to take on this quest. And to offer tools to all who wish them to develop their full potential as human beings.

Note: Carl Jung was shunted in his day for declaring that something called the unconscious mind existed. He stated before he died in 1961 that the inevitable development of the human “Intuition/Instinct” (PSI functioning) would be the next big change for mankind. We at PSI TECH believe that Technical Remote Viewing is the language that will actively precipitate that change.

February 21, 2003 | Filed Under Dane Spotts, Technical Remote Viewing

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