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After twenty years of psi research, however, my view has been expanded. I have learned that God does not have to be a matter of belief: God may actually be experienced. I have sat in a darkened interview room with hundreds of remote viewers and shared their mental pictures with them. It is a fact that people can experience a mind-to-mind connection with each other. Fifty years of published data from all over the world attest to this. The mind-to-mind connection we experience in the laboratory feels the same to me as the oceanic feelings of love and connection that I experience when I am in meditation. I believe that these feelings of connections to our community of spirit are the feelings experienced by every mystic who ever sat peacefully on a rock and quieted his mind  from Buddha, to Jesus, to William Blake. Quieting our minds and stopping our chattering thoughts is the key for both psi and other experiences of the mystical domain.
The purpose of remote viewing is not to spy on the Russians or make money in the silver futures market. These are just attention-getting devices, serving to puff up our egos. A more important implication of psychic experiences is to reveal to us our nonlocal mind and connections to our community of spirit. Everything else is just a fancy magic trick.
It is not necessary to hold any particular religious belief in order to do remote viewing. After working on quieting your mind, however, there's no telling what might happen. Even to a physicist.
In the Sutras of Patanjali, the first line says that "Yoga is mind-wave quieting." In this great work, his guidebook to omniscience and the other Yogic gifts, Patanjali says that in order to psychically see the world, or the moon reflected in a pool of water, we must wait until every ripple is stilled. Then the clear image will appear. This is exactly the way it is with remote viewing.
The physicist and the mystic make their life's decisions based on data. For the physicist, this data comes from the laboratory, or observation of the physical world. For the mystic, it is derived from oceanic feelings of love and his or her spiritual community. Neither of them is bound by either belief in, or adherence to, any preferred theology  although these days the physicist is more likely to wonder about the creator of the universe than is the mystic.

 
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