99.9 percent of the people who claim to be RV trained, "Psychics" are simply full of shit, and just want you to buy their snake oil.
The other .1 percent actually have a gift, and don't really actually discuss it with people.
That's how you can tell your psychics from "Psychics".
What tosh. So a proper 'psychic' [sic] is someone who doesn't tell anyone that they are psychic [sic]. If that is the case then how on earth do you know that these people comprise .1 percent of all those who claim to be RV trained, if they don't admit to anything?
Unless you are 'psychic' [sic] yourself.
Lose the whole 'psychic' label and start seeing the bigger picture. 'Psi' is simply an internal mechanism or functioning possessed by all humans of which mainstream science has an extremely limited understanding. Precognitive dreams, intuitions, sudden 'knowings' and all manner of crazy phenomenon that falls outside the traditional scientific paradigms...that's all psi.
Remote Viewing is a
protocol developed to be used in conjunction with this psi-ability. Essentially the protocol insists that the viewer is totally blind to whatever target he or she is describing, thus reducing the interference caused by the conscious mind's efforts to 'guess at' what the viewer is viewing.
This protocol also insists upon the absolute necessity for FEEDBACK against which the viewer's performance can be judged.
Viewer blind to target. Judgement of performance based on real world feedback. That's RV for you, and is what sets it apart from other more nebulous 'psychic' phenomenon.
In-protocol Remote Viewing is scientific. There is no place for charlatans or quacks...a remote viewer lives or dies by his performance and
results. Sure you get your total goofballs like Ed Dames who make outlandish, unsubstantiated claims simply to shift their DVDs but for Christ's sake don't go smearing 99% of remote viewers with the excrement that fellow leaves on the pavement.
One other thing: we can ALL 'remote view', just as we can all smell, see, hear, etc. It's an innate faculty, hard-wired into the biological entity known as a human being. Some of us will make better viewers than others, but ALL of us can experience the phenomenon simply be doing a little reading, taking the leap and having a go. He who dares and all that.
Best,
Gulliver