Introduction by DeepSeek, (Deep Think Mode)
Query: Give me an introduction to Remote Viewing and different kinds or modalities.
Remote viewing is a mental practice in which a person (the “viewer”) attempts to perceive or describe a distant or unseen target—such as a location, object, person, or event—without using the ordinary senses. It is distinguished from general clairvoyance by its strict reliance on a structured, double-blind protocol: neither the viewer nor anyone present during the session knows the identity of the target at the time of viewing. This protocol was developed to help separate genuine anomalous perception from imagination, memory, or sensory leakage.
The modern discipline of remote viewing took shape in the early 1970s at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) under the sponsorship of the U.S. government. Physicists Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff collaborated with artist and natural psychic Ingo Swann to develop repeatable methods. This work eventually evolved into a classified intelligence-gathering program—later known by names such as Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and Stargate—that ran until the mid-1990s. Today, remote viewing continues to be practiced, taught, and researched privately around the world.
Because practitioners discovered that different mental approaches yield different kinds of information, several distinct modalities or systems of remote viewing have emerged. Below is an overview of the most widely recognized methods.
### 1. Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV)
CRV is the original highly structured, step-by-step methodology developed by Ingo Swann and refined at SRI. It proceeds through a series of defined “stages” that progressively move from raw, low-level impressions toward more detailed analytical data.
**Key stages of CRV:**
– **Stage 1:** Quick, instinctive sketch of a basic gestalt—an “ideogram” (a spontaneous scribble) that captures the target’s fundamental pattern (e.g., land, water, manmade structure, mountain, energetic motion). The viewer labels the ideogram and notes immediate sensory impressions.
– **Stage 2:** Cataloguing of low-level sensory data (colors, textures, tastes, sounds, temperatures, luminosity, contrasts, etc.) without interpreting what they mean.
– **Stage 3:** Dimensional sketching—rough renderings of shapes, sizes, spatial relationships, and movement. The viewer begins to produce simple sketches while still avoiding naming or identifying the target.
– **Stage 4:** Transition into more detailed analytical and conceptual exploration, including outlines, architectural features, and functional relationships between components.
– **Stage 5:** Concrete data acquisition—obtaining specific details like writing, symbols, numbers, or words that may be associated with the target.
– **Stage 6:** Three-dimensional modeling and integration. The viewer might build a clay model of the target to elicit further kinesthetic and spatial impressions.
CRV is valued for its discipline, its resistance to imagination, and the way it trains viewers to separate pure signal from mental noise.
### 2. Extended Remote Viewing (ERV)
ERV is a less rigid approach that relies heavily on a deeply relaxed, often trance-like or hypnagogic state. The viewer sits or reclines comfortably, closes their eyes, and verbally reports a continuous stream of impressions while a monitor (guide) records and asks probing but neutral questions.
Because ERV suspends the linear, analytical left-brain process, it often yields rich narrative data, emotional tones, and intangible qualities—conversations, personal stories, atmospheres, and time-fluid sequences. ERV sessions can feel more like a guided daydream. The role of the monitor is crucial to keep the viewer on track without leading them, helping them unpack metaphors and decode symbol-rich perceptions.
### 3. Technical Remote Viewing (TRV)
Developed by former military remote viewer Major Ed Dames, TRV is a highly codified derivative of CRV that enforces an even stricter lexicon and procedural discipline. TRV uses a standardized worksheet structure, specific commands, and a rigid separation of perceptual “signals” from “noise.” It emphasizes the use of target coordinates (random numbers assigned to the target) and a systematic decoding process. TRV practitioners believe that strict adherence to these procedures produces more consistent, analytically usable intelligence data.
### 4. Scientific Remote Viewing (SRV)
Not to be confused with the generic term “scientific remote viewing,” SRV is a specific methodology developed by Dr. Courtney Brown of The Farsight Institute. It builds on CRV but introduces its own stage structure, specialized use of “visual-sensory” and “kinesthetic-sensory” signals, and protocols for exploring complex, multi-part targets. SRV also incorporates detailed analytic overlays and techniques for probing temporal and consciousness-based phenomena, pushing beyond physical location targets into the realm of events spread across time.
### 5. Associative Remote Viewing (ARV)
ARV is a special application rather than a descriptive modality per se, but it functions as a distinct protocol. It is used primarily for forecasting binary outcomes (e.g., which team will win a game, will a stock go up or down). Two physical targets (e.g., photographs) are assigned to the two possible outcomes. A blind third party selects one photo to represent the actual future outcome after the event occurs. The viewer then remote views that photo before the outcome is known, but the feedback photo they are unconsciously describing reveals the winner. ARV bypasses the need for the viewer to directly predict an event and instead uses their perceptual skills to differentiate between two concrete, sensory-rich targets.
### 6. Hybrid and Freestyle Methods
Many experienced viewers develop personal hybrid approaches, blending the structured recording of CRV with the fluid dream-like reporting of ERV, or drawing on elements of TRV worksheets alongside their own intuitive sketching styles. Some practitioners use an almost completely freeform “written remote viewing” (WRV) where they simply draw and write whatever comes to mind under blind conditions, without strict stage progression. While these methods can be effective for experienced viewers, most formal training begins with a codified system like CRV or SRV to establish a clean signal line before loosening the reins.
In a Nutshell
Remote viewing is a family of structured methods for accessing information that appears unavailable through ordinary perception. Its main modalities range from the rigid, stage-by-stage discipline of CRV and TRV, through the relaxed narrative flow of ERV, to specialized forecasting protocols like ARV. All of them share the same core requirement: a double-blind target that no one present consciously knows, so that any verifiable data must originate beyond the traditional senses.
- I was very much interested a while ago about becoming a Remote Viewer but I had the feeling that the results could be very subjective. I am coming back to watch videos after learning that there are a few people that do a kind of astral travel mixed with remote viewing.
Query: Is there something similar to remote viewing mixed with “astral travel.”
Yes, there absolutely are practices and systems that deliberately blend remote viewing with what people call “astral travel” (astral projection, out-of-body experience, or OBE). The two phenomena share a common core—perception at a distance without the physical body—but they differ greatly in philosophy, technique, and experience. The blended approaches sit right in that overlap.
Here’s a breakdown of how they mix, what the hybrid practices look like, and what to call them if you want to explore further.
### First, how they differ (and why the blend is natural)
– **Classical remote viewing (CRV/TRV, etc.)** : You stay in your body, in normal waking consciousness, working through a strict blind protocol. The experience is often cool, analytical, and sensory-fragmentary. You avoid the “sense of travel” and narrative imagination to keep the data clean.
– **Astral travel/projection:** You intentionally shift your awareness into a felt “second body” or point of consciousness and move through environments—often non-physical or subtle realms—experiencing them as a fully immersive journey, complete with vivid visuals, emotions, and interactions.
The blend occurs when a practitioner:
– Uses a remote viewing target under blind conditions, but consciously shifts into the kind of trance, hypnagogic, or out-of-body state typical of astral travel to describe the target, *or*
– Projects a point of consciousness to the target location, perceives it as a complete immersive environment, and then reports the data in a structured RV-like format.
### Practices and names for the hybrid
#### 1. Extended Remote Viewing (ERV) — the original bridge
In ERV, you recline, close your eyes, and go into a deep, dreamy, hypnagogic state—very close to the “vibrational” pre-OBE state that astral travelers cultivate. You then speak aloud a stream of impressions. In this state, viewers frequently report:
– A palpable sense of movement or “arriving” somewhere
– A feeling of being *in* the scene, not just glimpsing it
– Conversations, emotional atmospheres, and full narrative sequences
While not officially called astral travel, many ERVers describe the experience in those terms. It’s essentially a seated, blind-protocol-controlled out-of-body perception session.
#### 2. “Remote Viewing via Astral Projection”
This is a term used by some New Age and occult teachers. In it, you first achieve a conscious astral projection (often using techniques like those from the Monroe Institute, meditation, or lucid dreaming), and then, while out-of-body, you navigate to a blindly-assigned target. The key difference from pure astral travel is the RV-style protocol: the target is still double-blind, and you attempt to report verifiable physical details, not just spiritual insights.
Books and courses on “psychic spying,” “clairvoyant travel,” or “astral viewing” often teach this blend. It’s popular among people who want both the adventure of astral travel and the real-world validation of remote viewing.
#### 3. The Monroe Institute’s “Gateway” and Out-of-Body Intelligence Gathering
Robert Monroe’s work on out-of-body states (hemi-sync audio technology, “Focus” levels) directly crossed paths with the military’s remote viewing program. In fact, the CIA’s declassified analysis of the Gateway Process (1983) explicitly posits that the same consciousness state that enables remote viewing can be extended to full out-of-body perception, and that remote viewing is essentially a weak, localized form of astral projection. At the Monroe Institute, some advanced programs teach “out-of-body remote viewing”—using Monroe’s Focus levels to project a point of consciousness to a blind target and gather intelligence.
#### 4. “Astral Viewing” in Scientific Remote Viewing (SRV)
Courtney Brown’s Farsight Institute uses SRV, which includes “visual-sensory” and “kinesthetic-sensory” modes that feel like moving a point of consciousness into the target. While Brown distinguishes his method from astral travel, in practice many students report the unmistakable phenomenology of leaving the body and moving through space. Farsight has also applied SRV to targets that are non-physical—other dimensions, historical events, extraterrestrial phenomena—which blurs the line even further. This is sometimes informally called “astral viewing” in esoteric circles.
#### 5. Shamanic Journeying with a Blind Target
In many shamanic traditions, the practitioner enters a trance (often drumming-induced) and “journeys” to the Lower, Middle, or Upper Worlds to gather information. When this is combined with a modern RV blind-target protocol—say, a third party assigns a photograph, and the shaman-journeyer describes it without knowing what it is—you have a powerful hybrid. Some contemporary teachers call this “shamanic remote viewing” or “spirit walking” applied to veridical targets.
#### 6. Lucid Dreaming Remote Viewing
Lucid dreamers sometimes set a blind target before sleep, become lucid in the dream, and intentionally seek out the target location or object. Upon waking, they record everything perceived and later compare it to the actual target feedback. This is effectively an astral travel–remote viewing mix, since lucid dreams and astral projection share a heavily overlapping phenomenology.
### What the blend feels like (and its trade-offs)
When you mix remote viewing with astral travel, the data changes:
– **Richer, more immersive:** You get full 3D scenes, people, dialogue, time-fluid sequences, and profound emotional tones.
– **More narrative and symbolic:** The data often comes wrapped in dream-like metaphor, which can be highly accurate in essence but harder to decode into plain physical facts.
– **Easier to contaminate:** Without the strict anti-analytical barriers of CRV, the imagination more easily fills in gaps. A building in a target might become a temple with mythological overtones, and it takes skill to separate the “signal” of the actual building from the “noise” of the astral environment’s symbolic layer.
Many experienced remote viewers use this blend sparingly for concrete intelligence targets but lean into it for targets involving people’s inner states, historical scenes, or consciousness-based explorations where the richness of the astral landscape is an advantage.
### What to search for if you want to learn more
– **“Astral viewing”** or **“clairvoyant travel”**
– **“Out-of-body remote viewing”** (often associated with the Monroe Institute)
– **“Shamanic remote viewing”**
– **“Gateway Process remote viewing”** (CIA document + Monroe techniques)
– **“ERV extended remote viewing”** (the formal method that most naturally bridges the two)
In short: **yes, the blend exists, it’s practiced, and it’s often what people end up doing when they take the blind target discipline of remote viewing and add the immersive, out-of-body consciousness techniques of astral travel.** The result is less clinically sterile than classical CRV, but for many, it feels far more alive, intuitive, and profoundly real.
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