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In our everyday consciousness, this ability to open the psychic door to our universal connectedness is generally unavailable to us because of the noisy distractions of our ongoing thoughts. Nevertheless, some people, through talent and practice, have sharpened their ability to access information that seems unobtainable through ordinary sensory perception. Whenever any one person does this and demonstrates an ability beyond the ordinary, it is an inspiration to the rest of us, as an indication of our immense and still largely unexplored human potential. |
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This chapter centers around this astonishing and, by now, well-documented human capacity known as clairvoyance or remote (distant) viewing. A discussion of remote viewing is an appropriate introduction to the subsequent topic of healing, in that distant healing and distant viewing are but two different manifestations of our nonlocal minds. The connection between remote viewing and psychic healing is further suggested by Djuna Davitashvili, a renowned Russian psychic healer, whose remarkable clairvoyant ability is described below. |
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From the Cold War to Cold Borscht |
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In 1976, Hal Puthoff and I (Russell) wrote a paper for the Proceedings of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) describing the government-sponsored extrasensory perception research we were carrying out at SRI.
1 This paper described the clairvoyant spying process for which we had coined the name "remote viewing." Because of the remarkable data we presented, the paper was immediately translated and published in the Soviet Union. When the Russians found that it was possible to take psychic peeks into distant locations hidden from ordinary perception, it was a discovery of shockingly great significance in a country obsessed with secrecy. As a result, I was eventually invited to demonstrate our work for the Soviet Academy of Sciences. After my presentation, a well known Soviet physicist asked me, "Doesn't your work mean that it's not possible to hide anything anymore?" I had to tell him: "Yes, that's just what it means." |
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Another question surprised me. A distinguished Soviet scientist asked, |
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