Blind
The Target Is Hidden
See Beyond
the Senses
A secret history, a structured protocol, and an enduring question: can the mind describe what ordinary senses cannot reach?
👁️ A BotBuhdy ExplorationThe Thesis
Remote viewing is the purported practice of recording impressions about a distant, hidden, or unseen target without ordinary sensory access. Unlike a free-form psychic reading, its best-known forms use blinded targets, timed sessions, written records, sketches, and feedback.
The modern protocol emphasizes description before interpretation: texture before “building,” temperature before “desert,” motion before “waterfall.” The intent is to separate raw impressions from the analytical stories the mind rapidly constructs.
That distinction makes remote viewing historically fascinating — but it does not make it scientifically established. Mainstream science finds no reliable, replicable evidence that remote viewing works, and classifies it as pseudoscience. This exploration presents the protocol, claims, history, and criticism without treating belief as proof.
Read This First
Approach remote viewing as an exploratory journaling exercise, not a source of facts. Never use it for medical, financial, legal, safety, or other high-stakes decisions.
By the Numbers
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Classic CRV Stages
1972
CIA SCANATE Begins
1977–95
Stargate Era
~$20M
Estimated Program Cost
0
Accepted Scientific Mechanisms
A Classified Timeline
Early 1970s
SRI Experiments
Physicists Russell Targ and Harold E. Puthoff studied anomalous cognition at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park. Ingo Swann became a central subject and is commonly credited with introducing the term “remote viewing.”
1972
SCANATE
Concern about reported Soviet psychotronic research helped motivate CIA interest. SCANATE — “scan by coordinate” — explored whether descriptions linked to arbitrary coordinates might have intelligence value.
1977–1995
Programs Become Stargate
Gondola Wish, Grill Flame, Center Lane, Sun Streak, and finally Star Gate formed a small military-intelligence effort centered at Fort Meade. The unit investigated remote viewing for operational use.
1995
Review & Termination
A CIA-commissioned evaluation found that reports were too vague, inconsistent, and non-specific to provide useful operational intelligence. The program was declassified and ended.
Key Figures
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Russell Targ
SRI physicist & researcherCo-led early modern remote-viewing experiments and later wrote extensively from a proponent perspective.
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Harold E. Puthoff
SRI physicist & researcherCo-directed the SRI program and helped establish its experimental and government-facing structure.
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Ingo Swann
Viewer & protocol pioneerAn influential early subject associated with coordinate methods and the staged foundations of CRV.
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Pat Price
Early viewerA former police officer remembered for striking claimed descriptions that remain debated and difficult to verify.
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Joseph McMoneagle
“Remote Viewer No. 1”Army warrant officer, long-time Stargate participant, author, and prominent modern training figure.
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Frederick “Skip” Atwater
Military program managerHelped oversee the Fort Meade unit and the practical development of structured viewing sessions.
The CRV Protocol
Coordinate Remote Viewing organizes a session into stages. Open each stage to see the intended progression from low-level sensation to increasingly complex material.
Make a quick, spontaneous mark after receiving the target number. Record only broad qualities: land, water, structure, motion, life.
- Move quickly before analysis begins.
- Describe the mark's motion and tactile feel.
- Do not name the target.
List simple sensory adjectives: bright, metallic, cool, echoing, rough, salty, expansive. Keep each impression short.
- Use fragments rather than narratives.
- Mark analytical guesses as “AOL.”
- Return to direct qualities.
Sketch boundaries, angles, curves, relative size, and the arrangement of major elements without trying to make art.
- Favor geometry over labels.
- Note inside, above, below, near, and far.
- Capture movement with arrows.
Explore functions, activities, and emotional or aesthetic impact while continuing to separate perception from deduction.
- What seems to happen here?
- What is the site's emotional tone?
- Keep confidence estimates modest.
Traditional descriptions place higher-level probing here: categories, relationships, timelines, and abstract concepts.
- This stage is especially vulnerable to imagination.
- Record the route by which each conclusion arose.
- Preserve raw notes for later judging.
Build a dimensional model or revisit the target from imagined perspectives to refine relative position and structure.
- Summarize before feedback.
- Lock the record before seeing the target.
- Score misses as carefully as apparent matches.
Viewer→Blind Target ID→Recorded Session→Feedback→Analysis
GATEWAY FOCUS LADDER
State prep, not a viewing method. The 1983 McDonnell paper in the CIA FOIA reading room analyzes Monroe Gateway as an attention-training stack. It is not a CRV manual, and Focus numbers are not CRV stages.
If Gateway shows up in this history, it is as a way some programs tried to settle the body and hold attention. The working claim is modest: a quieter platform may make a structured session easier to run. That is not evidence that binaural beats deliver information, and it is not a license to treat cosmology language as operational skill.
What Focus 10 is for
Focus 10 is described as mind awake / body asleep — a settled working platform. Use it, if at all, to reduce fidget and leftover narrative before a blinded session.
- Energy-conversion box: park unfinished business out of the workspace.
- Resonant breathing: slow, even cadence until the body is quieter.
- Leave leftover thoughts in the box; do not process them as data.
What the higher rungs are not
Focus 12, 15, and 21 belong to Gateway’s own map (expanded awareness, “no time,” edge of time-space). They are not CRV stages 1–6 and should not be used as a substitute protocol or as proof of contact.
- Do not map 12/15/21 onto ideogram, sensory, sketch, or later CRV steps.
- Patterning / “change reality” stays out of the skill path.
- Cosmology language is historical context, not a grading rubric.
SESSION FLOW
Gateway prepares attention. CRV records the target. Feedback builds (or breaks) the skill claim.
After prep and the Focus 10 platform, run the ordinary CRV stages 1–6: ideogram and gestalt, sensory fragments, dimensional sketch, complex data, analytical probing, then modeling. Describe; do not name. Timestamp and lock the notes before any reveal. Score misses with the same seriousness as apparent hits. A memorable coincidence is not a validated method.
Citation, not endorsement
McDonnell, 1983 — CIA FOIA analysis of Monroe Gateway. Useful as a primary-source window on how state-prep was discussed. Not a reason to treat Gateway cosmology, patterning, or “change reality” as part of a competency path.
The Evidence
Proponent View
Why Interest Persisted
Some SRI-era trials and later meta-analyses were reported as statistically above chance. Participants also described dramatic operational “hits,” and proponents argue that small effects may be real but fragile.
- Occasional striking correspondences
- Reported above-chance laboratory results
- Structured records allow post-session comparison
Mainstream Scientific View
Why the Evidence Is Rejected
Independent replication has not produced reliable effects under rigorous controls. Critics identify sensory leakage, cueing, subjective judging, confirmation bias, selective reporting, and weak blinding.
- No accepted mechanism of information transfer
- Results are vague and difficult to reproduce
- No demonstrated operational intelligence value
The Responsible Conclusion
Remote viewing remains historically interesting and personally compelling to some practitioners, but it is not scientifically validated. Curiosity is compatible with skepticism: pre-register targets, preserve every result, use independent judging, and count misses.
Target Practice
A short blinded exercise. Record impressions before revealing the target. This is designed for curiosity and disciplined self-observation — not proof of paranormal ability.
Your target coordinate---- ----
Unrevealed
Begin with colors, textures, temperatures, sounds, shapes, movement, and scale. Avoid naming the target.
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Target hidden
Write your impressions, then reveal the feedback image.
Post-Session Review
Underline direct correspondences, circle ambiguous matches, and mark clear misses. Ask whether the match would still feel specific if you had seen a different target.
How to Try It Responsibly
Blind the Target
Use a randomized target that you cannot know in advance. If working with a partner, they should avoid giving verbal or nonverbal cues.
Record, Don't Interpret
Write and sketch low-level qualities first. Mark high-level guesses separately so they cannot quietly become “perceptions.”
Lock the Session
Finish and timestamp your notes before feedback. Never revise the original record after seeing the target.
Score Every Result
Track hits, misses, ambiguity, and confidence across many sessions. Memorable successes alone do not establish accuracy.
Use Neutral Feedback
Compare against the complete target rather than searching for a single matching detail. Independent judging is stronger.
Keep Stakes at Zero
Use the exercise for creativity, attention, or curiosity. Do not use it to make consequential claims or decisions.
Modern Remote Viewing
IRVA
The International Remote Viewing Association preserves history, hosts educational events, and promotes practitioner standards and ethics.
Training Programs
Former participants and private schools teach CRV-derived methods. Claims and quality vary, so favor transparent blinding, complete records, and modest promises.
Community Practice
Online target pools and groups make feedback easy. Strong communities publish misses as readily as apparent hits and discourage high-stakes use.
Responsible Exploration
Exploration, Not Dogma
Distinguish firsthand impressions, historical claims, anecdotes, and established facts. Confidence is not evidence.
No High-Stakes Use
Never substitute remote viewing for medical assessment, financial research, legal advice, emergency services, or verified intelligence.
Respect Privacy
Do not frame speculative impressions about real people as truth. Avoid targeting individuals without consent.
Protect Psychological Safety
Pause if practice increases fear, paranoia, obsession, or detachment from reality. Seek grounded, qualified support when needed.
Further Exploration