Global Climate Change RV Study
Introduction: We at The Farsight Institute are engaged in a fascinating study using remote viewing to study climate change over the next five years. The study involves the following goals:
- To demonstrate that remote viewing can be used to describe a location or event accurately using verifiable targets
- To demonstrate that remote-viewing can be used to predict the choice of a target, meaning that the target is chosen after the remote-viewing sessions are completed
- To explore whether remote-viewing data can be sensitive enough to reveal aspects of climate change
- To see if releasing information about a currently most probable future can act to change that future
Overview:
The remote viewers participating in this study will remote view various geographically determined targets during two time periods: 1 June 2008 and 1 June 2013. This five-year gap will allow us to look for climate change that may occur over that period. We are also aware that popular culture views the year 2012 as potentially significant, and some people may be interested in following our results because of this. (No reason scientific studies can't be fun!)
From our past research we know that the future is probabilistic, and thus it is necessary to specify certain conditions such that a specific future is perceived correctly. For this reason, we will be remote viewing the 2013 targets along two separate timelines, with each timeline offering the potential for significant differences in future events given specific possible actions taken by the mainstream scientific community. Thus, we are hoping to discern what the future looks like if the mainstream scientific community pursues one policy as compared with a future in which the mainstream scientific community pursues a different policy. In the former case, the policy is a continuation of a current policy. In the latter case, the policy is an alternate policy that might produce a significantly different future. We are attempting to learn if the publication of information about a future based on the continuation of current policies can change that future.
The various 2008 targets establish a baseline set of criteria by which the accuracy of the remote-viewing results in general may be evaluated. Thus, if the 1 June 2008 targets are perceived accurately by the remote viewers participating in the study, then it is reasonable to assume that the results for the future dates for those same targets will be comparably accurate. Since each geographically determined target is evaluated three times (once in 2008, and twice in 2013 — once for each future timeline), there are three times as many total targets as there are geographically determined targets in this study.
The remote-viewing sessions are being conducted prior to the targets being assigned. The targets will be assigned by a truly random process (explained below) that will take place during the first week of June 2008. It will not be possible for a remote viewer (or anyone else) to know the identity of the target at the time the target is being remote viewed. Thus, the targets are assigned in the future, and the remote-viewing data essentially predict the future targets.
Public Participation:
The public is encouraged to participate in this study by downloading the remote-viewing sessions when they become available and then waiting until the targets are assigned to those sessions using a dynamic and truly random process as described below. The public can then examine the accuracy of the remote-viewing data in describing the assigned targets. The remote-viewing results will be available for public download as soon as they are collected on an on-going basis until the end of May, 2008. These results will be encrypted (using Winzip) so that no one can see them until a password is applied to decrypt the sessions.
During this time while the remote-viewing sessions are being completed and downloaded by the public, the targets will not yet be assigned to the remote-viewing sessions. The remote-viewing sessions will be assigned targets according to a random process that will be keyed to a publicly known dynamic random event that will occur during the first week of June 2008. The dynamic event will be used to determine which among 999 possible target assignments will be used for this study. A file that contains the identity of this dynamic random event and the complete set of possible target assignments is available now and should be downloaded by the public and saved at least until the end of the August 2008. At the end of the first week of June, a password to decrypt this file that contains the possible target assignments will be posted here on our web site. The public should then decrypt and examine the file. From knowledge of the publicly known dynamic random event that occurs during that week and which is revealed in this file, it will be clear which targets are assigned to which remote-viewing sessions. That is, one of the 999 possible target assignments will be determined by the dynamic random event, and the public will be able to see the actual target assignments as well as the 998 other possible assignments that were not chosen when the decrypted file is examined. Crucially, until the dynamic random event occurs, it will be impossible for anyone anywhere to know which target will be assigned to which remote-viewing session. All of the this is further explained in full detail in the target assignment file.
Remote Viewer Participation:
The remote-viewing sessions that will be posted on this web site for this experiment are being done by viewers who are officially designated participants. Each has been trained to a high degree of proficiency to remote view using structured data-collection procedures. Other viewers who have been similarly trained in structured data-collection procedures (such as SRV, HRVG, and CRV methods) are strongly encouraged to participate informally by doing their own sessions and simply saving their results themselves until the passwords to decrypt the targets are posted. This experiment will be lots of fun, and widespread informal participation will make it even more fun. While only the results of the officially designated participants will be posted on this web site, the results of others can be shared among friends, posted on other web sites, described in blogs, and distributed via a variety of venues. Our hope is that this informal participation helps generate public interest and discussion in the experiment.
Evaluation of the Remote-Viewing Results:
The remote viewers will be able to compare their remote-viewing data with the actual targets during an allotted window of time that will occur sometime after the end of the first week in June 2008. Passwords to decrypt the 2008 sessions will be posted on our web site for general public use during the subsequent months after the remote viewers have been offered the window of time to compare their remote-viewing data with the targets. The accuracy of the remote-viewing data for those targets can then be evaluated by the general public once the passwords are posted. The passwords to decrypt the 2013 sessions will be posted on our web site after the sessions have been fully analyzed by researchers involved with this study. We will present the 2013 remote-viewing data together with an analysis of these data at the same time. This may take a some weeks, so please be patient while we do our work.
The accuracy of the remote-viewing data will be based on statistical and other evaluations of how well the targets are described in each remote-viewing session. Details on how this is done will be posted when the project results are released.
How the Targeting System Works:
The encrypted target assignment files (available for download below) have the following type of information in it (depending on how many targets are used by a particular viewer — 12, 18, or 24):
S(ession)#:T(arget)#
Target Assignment #1 >> S1:T6, S2:T15, S3:T19, S4:T7, S5:T23, S6:T22, S7:T12, S8:T10, S9:T2, S10:T17, S11:T21, S12:T14, S13:T3, S14:T24, S15:T4, S16:T1, S17:T20, S18:T18, S19:T16, S20:T9, S21:T5, S22:T11, S23:T13, S24:T8
Target Assignment #2 >> S1:T10, S2:T3, S3:T22, S4:T8, S5:T1, S6:T2, S7:T15, S8:T18, S9:T9, S10:T20, S11:T11, S12:T12, S13:T16, S14:T7, S15:T17, S16:T21, S17:T14, S18:T19, S19:T4, S20:T23, S21:T24, S22:T5, S23:T6, S24:T13
Target Assignment #3 >> S1:T22, S2:T18, S3:T14, S4:T10, S5:T8, S6:T3, S7:T12, S8:T15, S9:T4, S10:T2, S11:T6, S12:T7, S13:T9, S14:T11, S15:T13, S16:T17, S17:T21, S18:T23, S19:T24, S20:T20, S21:T16, S22:T5, S23:T1, S24:T19
Target Assignment #4 >> S1:T13, S2:T9, S3:T24, S4:T22, S5:T16, S6:T12, S7:T10, S8:T2, S9:T3, S10:T20, S11:T17, S12:T5, S13:T18, S14:T7, S15:T1, S16:T8, S17:T6, S18:T11, S19:T15, S20:T4, S21:T14, S22:T19, S23:T21, S24:T23
In the above example list of four target assignment possibilities, there are 24 targets that have to be assigned to 24 remote viewing sessions, and there are four different ways this can be done. Some remote viewers may complete fewer than 24 sessions, and a different target assignment list is used in these situations. There are three possible target assignment lists for situations in which viewers complete 12, 18, or 24 remote viewing sessions. Also, while there are only four possible target assignments in the above example, in the actual experiment's encrypted target assignment files that are used for this study and which the public can access below, there are 999 randomized possible target assignments. The choice of which target assignment is relevant to the current study will be determined by the dynamic random event that is described in the encrypted files (and which everyone can see in June 2008). As shown in the above example, for each possible target assignment, remote-viewing session numbers are assigned to target numbers. Thus, in the first assignment shown above, session #1 is assigned to target #6, session #2 is assigned to target #15, and so on. The list of targets is found in a separate encrypted file and can be downloaded below.
Encryption Note:
Many of the files used in this study are encrypted. This is done to ensure the validity of the scientific experiment. The passwords to decrypt the encrypted files will be posted on this web site beginning in June 2008. The encryption software used is Winzip, and the files are encrypted using strong 256 bit AES encryption. Because of this strong encryption process, these files cannot be decrypted using most other Zip file or compression utilities that use weaker encryption methods. Participants should use Winzip to decrypt these files. Since Winzip is a Windows based program, Mac OS users with Intel chip machines will need to run Windows (via Bootcamp or Parallels) to decrypt these files.
Files to Download:
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Download these now. This is revised as of 22 March 2008. There are now three files to download. (Encrypted) |
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Download this now. This is the file that contains all of the targets used in this study. (Encrypted) |
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Check this link frequently through May 2008. Sessions will be posted as they are submitted. |
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This link contains resources that may be useful to the remote viewers participating in this study. |
