Publication date:
2025
originally recorded at the 2022 IRVA Remote Viewing Conference
Title:
CRV is NOT the DEVIL: Myths and misbeliefs about Ingo Swann’s masterwork, Controlled Remote Viewing
Presenter: Paul H. Smith, Ph.D.
Language: English
Controlled Remote Viewing (“CRV”) is NOT the devil.
It is ironic that this even needs to be said: Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) is not the Devil. CRV was the masterwork of Ingo Swann, remote viewing’s originator, along with Dr. Harold “Hal” Puthoff, the physicist who worked closely with him at the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI-International) in developing CRV. By definition, CRV is the original, longest-used, intentionally-constructed method of performing remote viewing that exists.
Almost from when its existence was first revealed to the public in the mid 1990s, the CRV method has been under attack and criticism. Such criticisms are mostly due to jealousy, ignorance—-or to detractors and competitors hoping to undermine this successful, long-established method so they can profit from their own often less-effective versions of remote viewing. Among the criticisms used to attack CRV: Allegedly… CRV was never validated scientifically. Allegedly… CRV is too strict and complicated. Allegedly… Prominent CRVers say CRV “isn’t any good.” Allegedly… CRV stifles psychic ability. Allegedly… CRV is “obsolete.” Allegedly… CRV is a failure. Allegedly… CRV is “too militaristic.” This video tells you why some of these, plus other criticisms are categorically false. The video is from a talk by Dr. Paul H. Smith (Major, US Army, ret.). Paul was originally taught CRV by Swann and Puthoff and went on to master it over the seven years he was assigned to the Star Gate program. Paul compiled the official military CRV manual, and has been teaching CRV since 1984. In this video, he is joined by Hal Puthoff, as well as Tom McNear, Swann’s “best ever” CRV student (according to Swann himself) to refute these criticisms.
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