Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception [Paperback]

Since declassification in 1995 of the government-sponsored remote viewing project, the public has been exposed to increasing amounts of information on the subject. Much of this information has been useful while some of it seems only to serve the limited agendas of those seeking to mislead the public. In this context, work on the subject should be treated with a healthy dose of discernment. Fortunately, there are a growing number of helpful, informative remote viewing books and this is one of them. Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception, by Dr. Courtney Brown, is the most definitive textbook on remote viewing yet written. Dr. Brown, one of the early pioneers in applying chaos theory to social science data, covers all facets of the remote viewing process, including both theory and data analysis. The result is a detailed scientific presentation, the result of years of remote viewing work done at the Farsight Institute, a nonprofit research and teaching organization set up by Brown in 1996.

Brown explores how the remote viewing process works, many of the anomalies associated with remote viewing, and how to do statistical analyses of the results. The book is meticulously written and thoroughly presents the various facets of setting up an RV session, how the viewer and monitor execute the session, and eventually interpret the results. Brown investigates the "fuzzy" aspects of remote viewing, how it defies linear, mechanistic reasoning yet nonetheless shows repeatability in different viewers' sessions, both from beginning and more experienced practitioners. The book also contains many examples of experimental designs formulated around remote viewing experiments carried out at the Farsight Institute.

Brown's book is written as a scientific treatise on the subject and should be recognized as one of the first of that genre. The book deserves to be published by a university press so it could be used as classroom primer. As it stands, remote viewing practitioners and scientists alike will find Brown's work both foundational and forward-looking in the many questions it raises about why remote viewing works and the consequences for modern science. Remote viewing is still a mystery to us but its implications are large. Brown goes a long way in this book in making that mystery more accessible to academics and the reading public.

(Dr. Simeon Hein is the author of Opening Minds and the forthcoming Planetary Intelligence.)

Author of upcoming "Footsteps in Stardust - Soulprints in time"

REMOTE VIEWING - Until quite recently would have been considered another fancy name for clairvoyance. However around 1995, the world became aware that the military in many major countries around the world had been spending huge amounts of money on remote viewing, it was indeed a valuable part of their intelligence gathering agenda.
Since then, Remote Viewing has taken the human consciousness by storm. In 2005, a Google search for `Remote Viewing' yielded 326,000 references, in June 2009 the same search yields an unbelievable 18,300,000 references!
Among the scores of publications - some of dubious integrity - there are many great books written on the subject, but Dr Courtney Brown, in this book, has given us the added depth of his scientific expertise, and lays the foundation for the readers' own experiments, if he/she wishes to take this exciting field to new and even greater heights.
Dr. Courtney Brown was one of the original pioneers in this field. After having set up the Farsight Institute - a non-profit research and teaching organisation in 1996 - and after many years of meticulous study, developed the framework for Scientific Remote Viewing. His first two works; "Cosmic Voyage" and "Cosmic Explorers", were eyeopening, and what got me interested in Dr. Brown and his work. "Remote Viewing - the science and theory of non-physical perception" is so much more detailed, and adds the "Scientific" to Remote Viewing. One may argue against Remote Viewing, but with Dr Brown's expert knowledge on the operation of the human conscious and subconscious mind, and his ability to apply that in his research, Remote Viewing has certainly become "Scientific Remote Viewing", and no thinking person can really scoff at that!
Perhaps one of the more important facets of Dr Brown's work as outlined in this remarkable book is in the non-physical, or "subspace" reality, and the science of `subspace psychology'. We will certainly be hearing more about subspace psychology in the coming years.
The book itself is well presented, filled with illustrations, worksheets and examples; and should fascinate anyone who is ready to take on board the ground breaking ideas of human communications with - even the cosmos.
The price is not exactly low, but you get 313 pages of real value - well worth it.

Courtney Brown has done an excellent job of explaining the theory and practice of remote viewing in this book. It is a fascinating read
but also goes into fairly deep detail into the science of how this may actually work. It has inspired me to attempt to learn this skill and after getting my mind around this, I have a new appreciation of our universe. On a certain level we are everywhere at once. WOW