Feedback: Those responses provided during the session to the viewer to indicate if he has detected and properly decoded site-relevant information; or, information provided at some point after completion of the RV session or project to “close the loop” as it were, providing the viewer with closure as to the site accessed and allowing him to assess the quality of his performance more accurately.
In-session feedback, with which we will be here most concerned, is usually only used extensively in earlier stages of the training process, and has several interconnected functions. The very nature of the RV phenomena makes it often only rather tenuously accessible to one’s physically-based perceptions, and therefore difficult to recognize. Feedback is provided after correct responses to enable the viewer to immediately identify those perceptions which produced the correct response and associate them with proper psychic behavior. Secondly, it serves to develop much-needed viewer confidence by immediately rewarding the viewer and letting him know that he is being successful. Finally, it helps keep the viewer on the proper course and connected with the signal line, preventing him from falling into AOL drive and wandering off on a tangent.
- Correct (abbreviated “C”): The data bit presented by the trainee viewer is assessed by the monitor to be a true component of the site.
- Probably Correct (“PC”): Data presented cannot be fully assessed by the monitor as being accurate site information, but it would be reasonable to assume because of its nature that the information is valid for the site.
- Near Site (“N”): Data objectified by the viewer are elements of objects or locations near the site.
- Can’t Feed Back (“CFB”): Monitor has insufficient feedback information to evaluate data produced by the viewer.
- Site (“S”): Tells the former that he has successfully acquired and debriefed the site. In elementary training sessions, this usually signifies the termination of the session. At later stages, when further information remains to be derived from the site, the session may continue on beyond full acquisition of the site.
- Silence: When information objectified by the trainee viewer is patently incorrect, the monitor simply remains silent, which the viewer may freely interpret as an incorrect response. In line with the learning theory upon which this system is based, the intent is to avoid reinforcing any negative behavior or response. Therefore, there is no feedback for an incorrect response; and any other feedback information is strictly limited to those as defined above.
It should be noted here that the above refers to earlier stages of the training process. Later stages do away with in-session feedback to the viewer, and at even later stages the monitor himself is denied access to any site information or feedback until the session is over.
[Smith, Paul H. Coordinate Remote Viewing. May 1986, DIA Manual]
During Class C (training) sessions the interviewer will provide the viewer will immediate feed-back for each element of data the viewer provides. This feed-back, in order to prevent inadvertent cuing, is in the form of very specific statements. These statements and their definitions follow:
- Correct (C): This indicates that the information is correct in context with the site location, but is not sufficient to end the session.
- Probably Correct (PC): This statement means that the interv iewer, due to the limited feed-back materials, while not sure, believes that the information provided is correct.
- Can’t Feed-back (CFB): This statement indicates that, due to limited feed-back mater ials, the interviewer cannot make a judgment as to the correctness of the data. lt means neither correct nor incorrect.
- Near (N): This indicates that the information provided is not an element of the specific site, but is correct for the immediate surrounding area.
- Site (S): This indicates that the site has been correctly named for the specific stage being trained (manmade structure for Stage I, bridge for Stage III). Site indicates that the session is completed.
Negative feed-back is not given. When the viewer incorrectly states an element of information no feed-back is given.
During the session the viewer writes the abbreviation (see above) of the feed-back next to the data. This allows the viewer, during training, to review the correct elements and produce a summary which describes the site. The session continues, during training, until the interviewer responds with the feed-back of Site.
[McNear, Tom. Coordinate Remote Viewing Stages I–VI and Beyond. February 1985, DIA]