Remote viewing—the trained ability to perceive information about distant locations, events, or objects without using ordinary sensory channels—emerged from declassified military intelligence programs that investigated whether consciousness could access information beyond spatial and temporal constraints. For leaders, visionaries, and strategic decision-makers, the question isn’t whether remote viewing represents supernatural power but whether developing refined perception, disciplined attention, and access to non-ordinary information states enhances strategic capacity, pattern recognition, and the intuitive knowing essential for navigating complexity. The documented protocols from Stanford Research Institute and CIA programs demonstrate that ordinary individuals can develop measurable accuracy in perceiving remote targets through systematic training, suggesting that expanded perceptual capacity represents developable skill rather than mystical gift. As explored in the teachings at Shams-Tabriz, authentic spiritual development must produce practical enhancement of clarity, discernment, and capacity to fulfill purpose—remote viewing serves this development when approached as perceptual training rather than ego-inflating claim of paranormal power, offering contemporary leaders systematic methodology for developing the expanded awareness and refined perception that transformational work demands.
The Mechanism: What Remote Viewing Actually Is
Remote viewing protocols train practitioners to access what researcher Russell Targ calls “non-local awareness”—perception that transcends ordinary spatial and temporal limitations through entering specific consciousness states where analytical mind quiets and subtle informational signals become accessible. The process involves a viewer receiving coordinate numbers or abstract target identifiers without analytical information, entering relaxed-alert state through specific protocols, and documenting impressions (images, sensations, concepts) that emerge before analytical mind attempts interpretation. Controlled studies document statistical significance well beyond chance, with viewers accurately describing locations, objects, and events they had no ordinary means of knowing. The mechanism appears to involve accessing information through consciousness itself rather than sensory organs—what physicist David Bohm described as the “implicate order” where all information exists in undifferentiated wholeness before manifesting into explicit, separated form. For leaders, this suggests practical application: strategic decisions often require perceiving patterns, future scenarios, or hidden dynamics that transcend available data—developing refined non-ordinary perception enhances this capacity without requiring supernatural belief systems.
The Training Protocol: Systematic Development
Stage 1: Ideogram Recognition (Weeks 1-4) Remote viewing training begins with learning to produce and decode ideograms—spontaneous gestural responses to target coordinates that contain compressed information about target characteristics. Practice involves: receiving coordinate pair, immediately sketching gestural response without thinking, identifying whether ideogram suggests “man-made” vs. “natural” or other basic categories, and documenting first impressions before analytical mind engages. This trains the critical skill of distinguishing signal (actual information) from noise (imagination, analysis, expectation). The discipline required—documenting exactly what emerges without elaboration or interpretation—directly develops discernment essential for leadership: distinguishing intuitive knowing from wishful projection, sensing what’s actually present versus what you expect or fear.
Stage 2: Sensory Development (Weeks 5-8) Advanced training expands from basic ideograms to detailed sensory impressions: textures, temperatures, colors, sounds, smells, and dimensional characteristics of remote targets. Viewers learn to “move through” target locations mentally, documenting impressions systematically while maintaining disciplined separation between perception and analysis. This phase builds capacity for sustained subtle attention—the ability to remain present with barely perceptible signals without forcing, interpreting, or abandoning process when information doesn’t arrive immediately. For strategic leaders, this trains exactly the patient, receptive awareness needed for perceiving emerging patterns, sensing organizational undercurrents, or intuiting future scenarios before they’re analytically obvious.
Development Framework:
|
Training Phase |
Primary Skill |
Leadership Application |
Common Error |
Integration Practice |
| Ideogram | Signal vs. noise discrimination | Intuition vs. projection discernment | Over-analysis of first response | Document impressions before interpreting |
| Sensory | Sustained subtle attention | Pattern recognition, sensing atmospheres | Forcing information | Practice receptive presence in meetings |
| Analytical | Information synthesis | Strategic integration | Premature conclusion | Hold multiple perspectives simultaneously |
The Application: Strategic Perception for Leaders
Remote viewing methodology offers contemporary leaders systematic training for capacities they often claim but rarely develop rigorously: expanded perception, refined intuition, and access to non-ordinary information states. The protocols teach specific practices applicable beyond literal remote viewing: entering relaxed-alert states on demand (essential for accessing intuitive knowing under pressure), distinguishing signal from noise in subtle perception (preventing projection and wishful thinking), documenting impressions before interpretation (building discernment), and maintaining presence with uncertainty (tolerating not-knowing while remaining receptive). These capacities directly serve strategic decision-making, organizational sensing, and the visionary clarity that transformational leadership requires. The critical distinction is approaching this as trainable perceptual skill requiring disciplined practice and verification, not as paranormal gift confirming specialness—the former produces enhanced capacity, the latter produces spiritual inflation.
