Dear Friends,
During the past ten years, many people have asked me what we at The Farsight Institute have been doing. Always the answer has been the same: we have been conducting basic science research of the remote-viewing phenomenon. I would also add that we hoped to publish our results one day soon. Finally, that day has arrived. With the publication of the new book, Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception, we can now put closure on an initial phase of intensive research that has been focused on understanding some of the most basic behavioral characteristics of the remote-viewing phenomenon.
In particular, we have long wanted to know what directs the mind of a remote viewer to perceive one location or event rather than another. Is it because some place in the past, present, or future (that is, a target) is written down on a piece of paper? Is it because a computer program chooses a place and a date and assigns this as the focus of attention for a remote viewer? Or is there an entirely different reason why a remote viewer should perceive one place or event as compared with any other? We now know the answer to this question, and the answer is both new to the remote-viewing field, and entirely nonobvious. Indeed, explaining the answer to this question is a central focus of the research presented in the book mentioned above.
In early research into remote-viewing, replicability was always the bane of most attempts to demonstrate the reality of the remote-viewing phenomenon. But now that we better understand some of the behavioral characteristics of the phenomenon itself, replicability is entirely achievable, so long as the experimental design is carefully constructed and executed. Moreover, now that replicability can be achieved given an intelligently structured experimental design, new and significant questions relating to the fabric of our universe can be asked with transparent relevancy to science. Indeed, we can now use the results of remote-viewing experiments to suggest answers to fundamental cosmological questions about the nature of time, the wave-particle duality of physical matter, and relativity.
Before dismissing these assertions, I ask scholars and academics to read carefully the presentation of the research presented in Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception. Many contributed their time and energy in these research efforts. Moreover, I am donating all royalties from this book to The Farsight Institute, a nonprofit research and educational organization. Indeed, I have never accepted any financial compensation for my work as Director of The Farsight Institute. The publication of this volume of research is not about personal gain, but the collective pursuit of knowledge. Rarely has there been a time in the history of science in which the publication of new research pointed so clearly toward the imminent arrival of a new paradigm of understanding with respect to life, and reality.
The publication of Remote Viewing: The Science and Theory of Nonphysical Perception also announces the establishment of a new press dedicated to the dissemination of science relating to remote viewing and consciousness. The works supported by this press, Farsight Press, might normally be ideal candidates for publication in other academic venues, were it not for the controversial nature of the subject matter. Thus, Farsight Press is established to help offer scholarly access to new scientific research that might otherwise remain largely inaccessible. This is all about dialogue. Academic exchange is the core of intellectual growth. But such growth can occur only if new ideas are presented with satisfactory depth and breadth. Books are useful tools to this end, and the publication of dialogue-provoking books by many authors is a primary goal of Farsight Press.
This is a time of great change in our world. Nowhere is there greater potential for change than in the set of ideas that we hold about the nature of our existence. All of us at The Farsight Institute look forward to the days and years ahead in which people everywhere respond to these new scientific discoveries about remote viewing by engaging in serious debate about the meaning of consciousness.
Courtney Brown, Ph.D.
Director
The Farsight Institute
