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Technological Considerations
There are more than a hundred published reports suggesting that people are able to psychically affect the normally equal distribution of Is and 0s from a random number generator. We believe that it is unclear, from the present data, whether viewers can perturb the electronic equipment by their mental processes, or whether they use their ESP abilities to choose an optimal moment to start an experiment or turn on the random number generator.
Edwin May and James Spottiswoode have written extensively on this subject, and throw into question the existence of any psychokinetic (i.e., mind affecting matter) phenomena that are part of a repetitive experimental series. Abraham Maslow, the famous psychologist, would call this optimal starting, "good choosing." May and Spottiswoode call it "decision augmentation." 8
Theoretical Considerations
It appears clear to us that viewers can focus their attention on distant points in space-time and then describe and experience that distant location. Feedback is essential for learning, but is not necessary for psi functioning. It is as though the viewer is examining his or her own small, low-resolution, local piece of the four-dimensional space-time hologram in which he or she is embedded. We discuss this concept, which is based on the work of physicist David Bohm, in Chapter 12.
Ingo Swann's Stages of Remote Viewing
We have already mentioned that it was Ingo Swann who introduced us all to the great potential of remote viewing. He spent many years of his life developing an ontology of this ability. Swann feels that there are distinct stages that one passes through in a remote-viewing session, as one accesses increasingly detailed and analytical information. The first stage of remote viewing consists primarily of initial fragmentary images which can be sketched, as

 
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