November 12, 2002

A quick review first:

1. Science has measured that the human mind has the ability to predict the outcome of a random future event more often than chance would permit

2. The 'effect size' or the 'amount' that the average human person can predict is VERY small . To take advantage of this 'small' effect, we need to leverage our abilities. Just like how a marathon runner trains to get faster, or how you grow wiser, or wealthier through the years. You progress toward your goal by LEVERAGING YOUR ABILITY and taking small steps, one at a time.

3. Use of the brain to 'think' an intuitive prediction lessens the effect. In order to produce an effect at all, the brain's conventional 'thinking' or analysis must be suppressed. To accomplish this, the answer should be in the form of a free-response, and not a forced choice. True intuition is produced from a thoughtless mind.

4. To stop our brain from 'thinking' the answer to our question, we can predict the answer to an 'associated' question. By converting the 'known' possible answers to 'unknown' associations, we can also take advantage of leverage by repeating the process over and over again and changing the associations each time until we have a strong consensus.

The actual process of using your intuition (or psychic abilities) is called "remote viewing". Remote viewing the answer to a question by using associations to the question rather than the actual question is called "Associative Remote Viewing"

Here is a step by step example of the Associative Remote Viewing protocol:

Follow along diagram is here: FLOW CHART

OBJECTIVE - Fred and Mary want to predict the outcome of the stock market for Thursday. They will ENTER a trade on Thursday morning and EXIT the trade on Thursday evening hopefully making a profit. A long position means that they will be 'buying' the market, and will make a profit if the market closes UP on Thursday, and a short position means that they will be 'selling' the market and they will make a profit if the market goes DOWN on Thursday.

1. MONDAY - Mary approaches Fred, our distinguished 'remote viewer', and requests that he use his intuitive abilities to identify a photograph that she will present to him on FRIDAY. The photo will be random, and has not yet been selected. Neither Fred nor Mary have any knowledge of what that photo might be of.

Fred intuitively imagines the photo he will be presented with on Friday and sketches some ideas on a piece of paper. As you can see in our illustration, Fred perceives a half-round, dome-like shape. At this point, Fred does NOT share his thoughts about the photo with Mary.

2. TUESDAY - Mary randomly picks out two photos from a box of random magazine images. Without looking at the photos that she has selected, she secures each one in a sealed envelope and writes "DOWN" on one of the envelopes and "UP" on the other envelope.

It is Mary's intention to show Fred one of these two photos on Friday. She will show Fred the photo in the envelope marked "UP" if the markets close UP on THURSDAY, and she'll show him the photo secured in the envelope market "DOWN" if the stock market closes DOWN on Thursday.

3. WEDNESDAY - Fred provides to Mary his drawing of the photo he will be shown on Friday. Then Mary opens both envelopes and looks at the random magazine photos for the first time - an image of an observatory, and an image of a starfish. WITHOUT looking at what she wrote on each envelope (UP or DOWN), Mary compares Fred's remote viewing drawing to each photo and tries to predict which one Fred will be shown on Friday.

Mary thinks that it's pretty obvious that Fred will see the photo of the observatory on Friday because it matches Fred's dome shape drawing more so than the star fish. This has to mean that the market will go UP on Thursday in order for Fred to see the photo of the observatory. If the market was to go DOWN on Thursday, then Mary would show Fred the photo of the starfish.

4. THURSDAY - On Thursday morning Mary takes a long position in the market - That is, she is betting that the market will go up that day, thereby forcing the photo of the observatory to be shown to Fred on Friday. On Thursday evening, Mary closes her position.

5. FRIDAY - Mary will now show one of the two photos to Fred. She checks the market's activity for Thursday and finds that the market closed higher at the end of the day - therefore, it went UP, so she shows Fred the photo that was associated with an UP market - the observatory. It is important to stress here that regardless of what position Mary took on Thursday, Fred will ALWAYS see ONLY the photograph associated with what the market ACTUALLY did on Thursday - not necessarily what Mary predicted it should do.

And that is essentially what I define as ONE trial in the ARV process. Fred is the one who predicted the outcome of the stock market for Thursday, but was not even aware of that fact. All he knew, was that he was supposed to predict the contents of some random photo he would be shown on Friday. This ARV "trial" satisfies condition #1 - to form the task as a 'free response' question rather than a forced choice. To ask Fred to intuitively predict the outcome of the stock market, we would be asking him to perform a forced choice task because he would have to choose between the two possible answers - UP or DOWN. By ASSOCIATING the UP and DOWN outcomes to random photographs, we have restructured the task to resemble a free-response question. Since Fred has no idea what could be in the photographs, his thinking brain cannot interfere with the intuitive process.

But in order for true intuition to work, we also need to satisfy condition #2 which is to maximize the very small effect size possible by using leverage. If Fred has a very small amount of ability to correctly perceive the photo that he will be shown on Friday, then Mary would be correct in her stock market prediction using Fred's remote viewing information only slightly better than 50% of the time. And that's just not good enough.

Following is a step by step procedure for nesting many ARV trials together to use consensus to predict the outcome of ONE single event:

STEP 1 - TASKING: Mary, who is the organizer of the ARV prediction project, is planning a vacation to LasVegas and would like to put a sizeable amount of money down on either the "RED" or "BLACK" color on a roulette wheel where she would stand a 50% chance of doubling her money (actually, it's slightly LESS than 50% due to the built-in house odds, but for simplicity sake, we'll assume that this casino is in business for the good of all man kind and does not make a profit).

So, she posts the question: "What color will the roulette wheel result in?" with the two possible answers: "RED" or "BLACK"

STEP 2 - PLANNING FEEDBACK SCHEDULE: Mary is going to use her faithful remote viewer FRED to perform the intuitive prediction for this project. Since FRED is NOT going to predict the outcome of the roulette wheel, but is actually predicting a random photo ASSOCIATED to the outcome of the wheel spin, Mary needs to decide exactly when (date and time) she will show the photo to Fred. And since we are taking advantage of leverage with this project by nesting many ARV trials together, Fred will be observing many different photos at different times. These times are called FEEDBACK times.

Since Mary is planning the Vegas trip for this weekend, she plans for Fred to view the photographs (view FEEDBACK) on Monday when she returns. She is also concerned about leaving Vegas with a profit, and so wants to be certain that Fred provides her with a correct prediction, so Mary will plan on having Fred complete 12 ARV trials. Mary will now specify a feedback time for every single one of the 12 trials. Again, a feedback time is the exact time Fred will observe each one of the 12 photographs that corresponded to the actual outcome of the roulette wheel spin. The feedback schedule would look like this:

Monday, Nov 4, 2002
Trial 1 - 10:00 am
Trial 2 - 10:01 am
Trial 3 - 10:02 am
Trial 4 - 10:03 am
Trial 5 - 10:04 am
Trial 6 - 10:05 am
-----Break----
Trial 7 - 10:10 am
Trial 8 - 10:11 am
Trial 9 - 10:12 am
Trial 10 - 10:13 am
Trial 11 - 10:14 am
Trial 12 - 10:15 am

example: On Monday, Nov 4 at exactly 10:00, Fred will be observing a photograph. Then he will be observing a different photograph at 10:02, and another one at 10:03, etc.

STEP 3 - TARGET ASSEMBLY Each of the twelve ARV trials requires two random photographs which are called targets. Each target in each set will be associated with either a "BLACK" outcome or a "RED" outcome. There are many ways to facilitate this, including using a computer and digital images. For the sake of simplicity, Mary is going to organize this the old fashioned way - using actual magazine photos and envelopes.

Mary has 24 envelopes - 2 for each of the twelve trials. On each envelope she's writes the trial #, feedback time and one of the two possible associations (outcomes RED or BLACK). It would look like this:

Envelope 1 "Trial 1, 10:00 am, RED"
Envelope 2 "Trial 1, 10:00 am, BLACK"

Envelope 3 "Trial 2, 10:01 am, RED"
Envelope 4 "Trial 2, 10:01 am, BLACK"

etc.... for all 12 trials (24 envelopes)

Now Mary digs into a huge box of random magazine photos and places one random photo into each of the twelve envelope. Mary does NOT look at the photos as she places them into the envelopes, nor does she look at what she wrote on the envelope. This keeps the entire process 'clean' and eliminates any possibility of Mary inadvertently 'leaking' information about the targets and associations to Fred.

STEP 4 - TASKING THE REMOTE VIEWER

Mary provides the feedback schedule to Fred and instructs Fred to intuitively predict (remote view) the single target he will be shown at each of the TWELVE feedback times starting at 10:00 am on Monday and finishing at 10:15 am that same morning. She also informs Fred that her plane leaves on Friday afternoon, and she would like all twelve remote viewing session transcripts by Thursday morning so she can figure out what the final prediction will be.

STEP 5 - REMOTE VIEWING

Fred will have approximately 5 days to remote view each of the twelve targets and submit his remote viewing session transcripts to Mary for analysis.

On day 1, Fred relaxes in his favorite chair, closes his eyes and tries to calm his thinking mind and reach a meditative state. After 5 minutes of 'cool down' Fred mentally asks the following question: "I will be shown a photograph at exactly 10:00 am on Monday. What will the photo look like?" He then jots down on a piece of paper any random thoughts about the nature of the image that occurs to him, along with Mondays date and the feedback time (Monday, Nov 4, 2002 10:00). After writing down a few ideas - maybe a rough drawing, some words and some feelings, he is ready to remote view the second feedback time (10:01).

After a minute or two of further cool-down, Fred mentally asks himself this question: "I will be shown a photograph at exactly 10:01 am on Monday. What will the photo look like?". On a new piece of paper, Fred will write the feedback date and time down (Monday, Nov 4, 2002 10:01), and proceed to record his thoughts and perceptions about what he will see at 10:01 am on Monday. We'll call that piece of paper the remote viewing transcript.

This entire process is called a 'remote viewing session' and may last from 15 to 30 minutes - or until Fred gets tired.

On day 2, Fred will repeat this basic process, but he will continue to make his way down the feedback schedule, producing a separate remote viewing transcript for each of the twelve feedback times. If Fred remote viewed 3 feedback times per day, he would be finished remote viewing all twelve feedback times in 4 days.

When Fred is finished remote viewing all twelve feedback times, he submits his 12 remote viewing session transcripts to Mary.

STEP 6 - JUDGING

Mary will now attempt to predict what photo from each set Fred will be presented with by comparing Fred's Remote Viewing transcript notes to each feedback time.

For example, for the feedback time: 10:00, Mary will look at BOTH photos from the envelopes that are marked "10:00" and compare each of the images with Fred's corresponding remote viewing drawing that is also titled "10:00". Mary knows that Fred will be observing ONE of these two photographs - probably the one that most resembles his remote viewing transcript for that time.

It is important to stress that although Mary is looking at both targets for the first time, she CANNOT look at the associations (RED or BLACK) that she wrote on the reverse side of each envelope until AFTER she has completed judging ALL of the trials.

After Mary makes a decision as to which target Fred will probably be shown on Monday, she indicates that choice by marking the corresponding envelope with a check mark.

When Mary has completed judging ALL twelve feedback times - that is, comparing ALL twelve of Fred's remote viewing transcripts to the two photos in their corresponding target sets, she is ready to look at the outcome that each chosen target in each set was associated with. Mary will simply add up the number of targets she picked that were associated with "RED" and all those associated with "BLACK". Which ever association has the most 'votes' will be the color she risks her money on in Vegas.

STEP 7 - VIEWING FEEDBACK

To complete the loop, Fred will now have to observe 12 targets starting at 10:00 on Monday morning - one each minute for 6 minutes, a minute rest, then 6 more minute EXACTLY as per the feedback schedule that was originally created. The photo from each pair that Fred will observe is the one that was associated to the outcome of the roulette wheel spin. If everything went as planned in Vegas, and the majority of Fred's RV sessions pointed to a "red" outcome, and indeed a "red" outcome was bet upon and actualized, then Fred would be observing all of the targets that had the word "RED" printed on the back of the respective envelope. If the ARV outcome was a prediction of "RED" and the actual outcome was "BLACK", then Fred and Mary would been wrong and Fred would still have to look at all of the "BLACK" associated targets.

Here is a graphical representation of this multiple trial process: MULTI TRIAL FLOW CHART

In "How it's done part 5", I'll discuss a couple of factors that improve the outcome of an ARV trial like Solar Wind Speed, and Local Sidereal Time.