Ideal Remote
Viewing Target Characteristics
(For beginning Practice
Targets and the Selection
of Demonstration Targets)
Targets that can be most
easily viewed often have the following qualities:
If you are giving a target
to us for a Demonstration, Please place your initial next to each point
signifying you have understood and have complied with that point!
1)
They inherently are OF INTEREST and inherently ATTRACT ATTENTION. (not boring)
Good: Largest Pyramid at Gisa / Egypt (current
time), OR Eruption / Old Faithful / Yellowstone Park (daytime Jan 20,
2001).
Bad: a pair of scissors in Dr. Carr’s desk,
an
eraser, a pair of socks
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2)
They ALWAYS are NAILED DOWN IN TIME AND SPACE, as much as possible, using TIME
AND SPACE QUALIFIERS such as THE PLACE,
CITY, HEIGHT, DISTANCE, ACTIVITY, COUNTRY, PERSON(S), TIME, THE DATE.
Good: The largest Pyramid at Gisa / Egypt / (Current
time)
Bad: The Egyptian Pyramids
Bad: Princess Grace of Monaco
NOTE: MANY OF THE OTHER EXAMPLES GIVEN BELOW ARE NOT
NAILED DOWN IN TIME AND SPACE AS THEY ORDINARILY SHOULD BE, BECAUSE THEY ARE
GIVEN ONLY TO ADDRESS A SPECIFIC ASPECTS OF A TARGET.
HOWEVER,
PLEASE REMEMBER THAT WHEN WRITING UP AN ACTUAL TARGET THEY MUST,
WITH RARE EXCEPTION, HAVE TIME AND SPACE QUALIFIERS, OTHERWISE YOU CAN GET VERY
CONFUSING RESULTS!
For example, If “Princess Grace” was given as a
target without time and space qualifiers:
You could get her bones in her grave.
You could get her birth.
You could get her on the john.
You could get her in the hospital.
You could get her soul after it left her body.
You could get her as a little girl.
You could get a boat called “The Princess Grace”.
You could get her wedding.
Without time and space qualifiers the results could
be utterly confusing.
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3) If the target is an EVENT, then it should
have “/ event” written after it.
Good: The First Human Heart transplant, done by…… at
…….hospital / EVENT (date)
Bad: The first heart transplant
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4)
They are DISCRETE, not vague or open ended
Good: Arch de Triumph / Paris / France (time of
construction)
Bad: A Roman bridge
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5)
You can POINT AT the actual physical target or event.
Good: The Empire State Building / Manhattan NY /
(current time)
Bad: The Stock Market Crash in 1982
6)
They have there OWN DISCRETE BOUNDARIES in time and space. They have more than
conceptual boundaries such as state lines or country borders.
Good: Alcatraz Island and Prison /
San Francisco Bay CA/ (Jan 12, 2 PM,
1932)
Bad: The State of Nebraska
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7) There is a good
“FIGURE-GROUND” CONTRAST between the target activity or object and the back
ground activity or objects.
Good: Mt. Shasta / California /
(December 2001)
Bad: The Middle of the Pacific Ocean
The upper left quadrant of my living room
A mountain in the High
Sierras
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8) They are specific things
or events NOT A CATEGORY of things or events. (Better if it can begin with the
word “The” than the word “A”.
Good: The crash of TWA Flight 800 /
Coast of Long Island, NY (give date and time)
Pope ….
riding in the Pope Mobile / The
Vatican, Italy (give date and time)
Bad: A Plane Flight, A Toyota Corrola , a bottle of
wine.
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9)
They do not risk evoking a DEFENSIVE RESPONSE by being too painful or morbid.
Good:
Mother Teresa
Bad: Aushwitz prison camp (time of burning of
prisoners)
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10)
They are not TOO VAST in terms of space with too many confusing
sub-aspects, sub-locations to them, OR
TOO LONG and spread out in term of time: a process taking years or centuries.
Good: Stone statutes/ Easter Island / (current time)
Eiffel Tower / Paris
France / (time of
construction)
Bad: Australia, Canada, etc.,
The Melting of the …. Glacier,
A galaxy, A section of outer space.
Stonehenge (time of construction) This target is bad because construction was
at different times over a several thousand year period.
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11) They are UNIQUE, WELL
KNOWN and RECOGNIZABLE to most people and have a well known proper name
(name-able at the very least) (not obscure)
Good: The Washington Monument /
Washington DC / current time
not as good: The ogmucto duct in poslinda
Bad: Traffic in Muskogee, OK
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12) If they have
ENERGETICS, EMOTIONALITY as well as
physical and SENSORY discreteness and uniqueness (colors, smells, sounds) , all
the better.
Good: The Super bowl Game / ….Stadium / …. Vs…… /
event (1988)
Poor: a “two by four”.
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13) The target must NOT contain
any ASSUMPTIONS.
Very Bad: The next major earthquake
in Tucson, Arizona in 1999
The next Martian Invasion.
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14) Avoid confusing relative
terms such as right and left.
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15) There is nothing else
mentioned on the photo that could be construed as a target. E.g. a picture of a
star with the words “Hubble Telescope” printed at the bottom.
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16) There is nothing printed on
the back of the target that could be construed as a target. (E.g. a soap
commercial on the back of a magazine photo)
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17) Do not use doctored photos, or paintings of the target or target
event. Use accurate, clear photos when
using photos
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18) Most beginning practice targets, and ALL demo targets should be readily verifiable for
corrective feedback.
Good beginning or demo target. The presidential inaugural address of past president
Clinton / Washington DC/ event (date)
Bad beginning or demo target: The current location of Amelia Ehrhart's body.
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19) Beginning targets should have minimal distracting "attractors" associated with them.
"Attractors" draw the viewers attention away from the target.
Bad: Gettysburg / current time (The viewer will tend to be drawn back in time to the
original Battle of Gettysburg.)
Bad: Buddhist temple / Hiroshima Japan (current time) (The viewer will tend to be drawn
back in time to the original dropping of the A-bomb.)
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IF TARGETS ARE TAKEN FROM A TARGET POOL, PREPARED BY YOU OR ANOTHER:
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) They are SUBSTANTIALLY DIFFERENT from other targets given in the target pool
Bad: Target #1: The Revolving restaurant /top of
Hyatt Regency / San Francisco
Target
# 2: The Revolving restaurant /top of Hyatt Regency / New York
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21) The CURRENT target is not significantly LESS energetic, LESS important or LESS interesting relative to the other targets in the targets pool.
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22) The target Pool is not too large. Keep it around 20-30 targets. Then make another target pool when adding new targets. The fewer people who know or think about what’s in the target pool the better.