Discover a concise, practice-oriented guide to one of the most influential remote viewing methods ever developed. Rather than being a full CRV training manual, this book is designed as a compact companion for students who are already learning original, Ingo Swann–style CRV and want clear, practical “do’s and don’ts” to tighten their session structure.
Dr. Paul H. Smith, joined by Hal Puthoff and Tom McNear, refutes common myths and criticisms about Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV), explaining its origins, scientific foundation, and strengths as the original remote viewing method developed by Ingo Swann.
What are the core elements that make up what remote viewing is, and how it is different from every other ESP modality? The 12 central principles laid out here, with their additional explanatory details, goes a long way to reducing the confusion about what remote viewing really is.
During this time as the RV unit’s commander, Bill Ray unintentionally became a key figure in one of the small but important steps that were made to create the CRV working process as it is used today—steps that he likes to call “The Bread Pudding School of Advancement.”
Foundations gives you a major start on the context, origins, and development of Controlled Remote Viewing that many have missed by coming into the field in the middle of the story. It offers much about the theories and general outlines of how remote viewing—and especially Controlled Remote Viewing—works, and how to get the most out of it.
It is difficult to provide a satisfactory and simple answer to the question of where exactly the boundaries are between remote viewing and other psychic work. One of the most prominent misunderstandings is that remote viewing refers to the innate ability of psi functioning and remote perception, rather than just a way of using those underlying abilities.
At the beginning of this video, Lyn states in an interview with Lori Williams that his lexicon method is the same as that taught by Ingo Swann. The remainder of the video consists of excerpts of audio and video interviews done with Ingo Swann over a 12 year period providing support for Ingo's original version of ideograms in CRV.
The ideogram is perhaps the greatest insight of Ingo Swann. It seems simple at first, yet may be the most exquisite and least-understood concept of Ingo Swann’s teachings on Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV). In his three years of study with Swann Tom McNear learned a lot from him, which he will share with you here.
