We had an overwhelming response to a blog post a few weeks ago about an interview with highly respected Remote Viewing expert Stephan Schwartz. We picked some of the most interesting questions off the blog and forwarded them to Stephan to personally answer for Finer Minds readers.

Stephan has kindly taken his time to answer the most interesting questions below. If you are interested in the work of Stephan Schwartz, you can view his latest product where he teaches scientifically researched Remote Viewing methods.

Q1: There are different teachers out there who teach remote viewing. Is there any difference between the remote viewing techniques and if yes, what is it?

Stephan A. Schwartz: There are many people who claim to have all sorts of special techniques; there is certainly no question about that. However, there is one BIG difference between the Gold Standard Course and these technique schools. The Gold Standard Course teaches you to Remote View using the techniques that were originally developed by myself and others in laboratories and universities around the world. This is the way science does remote viewing. The Gold Standard Course is based on hundreds of scientific peer-reviewed papers. The technique schools may or may not teach things that work. But no one knows, because there is not a single properly conducted peer-reviewed study to support the claims they make. I have asked for years for the teachers of these schools to carry out research under proper conditions of rigor to support the claims they make. To date none has done so.

Q2: 18 years ago I had very positive experiences with remote viewing. I had exactly 2 successes out of 2 experiments with relatives who focused their thoughts on inanimate objects in other rooms and I was able to connect with my girlfriend when I was miles away. I dismissed these experiences for many years. I had NO idea what I might have done with this fledgling skill!!

I want to develop this skill much more now. I am in sales and NOT doing well. I need to find ways to succeed. I would like to predict state lottery numbers and even options cotract future values. Is it possible to do using remote viewing?

Stephan A. Schwartz: I invented the protocol that is usually used in financial experiments; it is called ARV — associated or associational remote viewing. This is described in detail in my book Opening to the Infinite, and I also give specific instructions on how to do it, as well as describing actual projects where ARV was used successfully for financial gain. There is also material on this in the Gold Standard Course. However, I would not recommend that you spend your time doing this. ARV is quite good at "one-off" events, but not very good for long term activity, because it has proven very hard for people to maintain the focus to open successfully to the nonlocal, over extended periods of time. Instead, I would suggest you develop the discipline of the meditation technique I have designed, because it offers a proven way to focus your intention to produce the changes you seek in yourself. Changes in yourself will be reflected in changes in your world, as you make different choices, and the world around you sees you in the new light of those choices.

Q3: Some other remote viewers make much more pessimistic predictions about the future. Why the much more cheerful long-term 2050 Project predictions of a prosperous and greener world, compared to Dames's year 2011-2012 near-term horror? Did 2050 participants ever report solar flare chaos?

Stephan A. Schwartz: There is a lot of nonsense out there, and fear is a proven way to sell. Most of the people who talk this way, don't actually understand what Remote Viewing is, nor how it works. Remote viewing is a tool, a kind of mental yoga or a modern mental martial art. It is not a goal, nor does it impose values, it is just a tool. And it should be seen in the context of working with other tools, like meditation, and healing. The purpose of these tools is to allow you to focus your intention so that you can open to that part of yourself that exists outside of space-time, what I will call the energetic-information domain, what many are now calling the nonlocal domain — nonlocal because it is information that is not local to you and your brain. This is what the famous Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung call the Collective Unconscious. This is what Hindu Sages called the Akashic record. Over the course of history it has gone by many names, but they all describe the same thing.

When you practice remote viewing, or healing, or meditation, as laboratory research has shown, you can access literally any information, and you can affect other objects or organisms, even though they may be far distant, or that lie in the future or the past. In the energetic information domain can be found the fields of information that encompass all our experiences, fears, and aspirations. Images, and events around which great awareness is focused, particularly if there is a strong emotional component (whether negative or positive doesn't matter) are easier to perceive, and because there is no space or time in the information domain something that happens in the future is as easy to perceive as something happening right now.

2012 appears to be a nodal point in which something that evokes a lot of attention and emotion occurs. We will not know until 2012 exactly what this is, but I believe that the 2012 predictions of the Maya and other pre-industrial societies arise because people in those cultures, although they didn't understand exactly what it all meant, when their shamans opened to nonlocal consciousness, foresaw some big event. My own sense of this is that it relates to global climate change. 2012 may be the tipping point scientists have been talking about, the moment in history when the effects of climate change lock in and can no longer be stopped. That is why the Mayan calendar ends. Those selling doom and gloom have apparently focused only on the information fields surrounding our fears. They take the field of fear — which in an individual would be something like general anxiety — and impose upon it interpretations that are not justified. Because they hold the intention of finding fearful things, that is what they link with. In contrast, the 2050s (those individuals who have taken part in the 2050 experiment) were given no particular direction to see anything, so they held no particular interpretive intention, as they described this new world.

Q4: What is the purpose of an individual having a Kundalini experience?

Stephan A. Schwartz: A Kundalini experience is essentially and awakening experience. People who have such experiences come away with a new sense of themselves. The experience, however, is only part of the process. The critical next step, which is often passed over, is to integrate what you have experienced into your life, in such a way that you more fully express your potential.

Q5. Remote viewing seems very powerful. However I will be 59 soon and like most my age aren't all that rich. My question simply is - if I were to invest in this remote viewing program, would it bring me closer to the truth? HONESTLY?!!

Stephan A. Schwartz: Remote Viewing is part of a program, which also includes teaching you a meditation technique, and a technique for healing oneself and others. All of this has been developed from laboratory and clinical research, and is completely grounded in what science has learned. It also accords very well with the great spiritual traditions that have guided humanity down through the ages. Will it bring you closer to the truth? Using the three-fold path of meditation, remote viewing, and healing, will certainly bring you closer to the truth about yourself. And these tools will give you a new capacity to more fully express your potential.

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