COORDINATE REMOTE VIEWING
STAGE 4
A. Concept:
With the successful accomplishment of Stage III, the viewer
has become subject to an enormous flood of information available
from the site. Previously, such a flow of data would have
been overwhelming, and those circumstances in Stages I through
III in which the viewer found himself so inundated would have
required the taking of a "Too Much Break." At this
point, however, it becomes both possible and necessary to
1) establish a systemic structure to provide for the orderly,
consistent management of the volumes of information that may
be obtained, and 2) facilitate and guide the viewer's focusing
of perceptions on ever finer and finer detail of the site.
This is accomplished through the use of an information matrix
which is illustrated below. Stage IV is a refinement and expansion
of the previous structure to facilitate more complete and
detailed decoding of the signal line.
B. Definitions:
Most of the terms used in a Stage IV matrix have been defined
previously. Those that have not are explained as follows:
1. Emotional Impact: The perceived emotions or feelings
of the people at the site or of the viewer. Sometimes the
site itself possesses an element of emotional impact, which
is imprinted with long or powerful associations with human
emotional response.
2. Tangibles: Objects or characteristics at the site which
have solid, "touchable" impact on the perceptions
of the viewer, i.e., tables, chairs, tanks, liquids, trees,
buildings, intense smells, noises, colors, temperatures, machinery,
etc.
3. Intangibles: Qualities of the site that are perhaps abstract
or not specifically defined by tangible aspects of the site,
such as purposes, non-physical qualities, categorizations,
etc.; i.e., "governmental," "foreign,"
"medical," "church," "administrative,"
"business," "data-processing," "museum,"
"library," etc.
4. AOL/S: Virtually synonymous with the previously considered
term "AOL Matching," AOL/Signal occurs when an AOL
produced by the viewer's analytic mental machinery almost
exactly matches the site, and the viewer can to some extent
"look" through the AOL image to perceive the actual
site. The advantage of AOL/S in Stage IV is that it allows
the information to be used without calling a break. One can
ask, "What is this trying to tell me about the site?"
As an example, the viewer may perceive the Verazzano Narrows
Bridge when in fact the site is actually the George Washington
Bridge.
5. Dimensionals: "Dimensionals" have an even broader
meaning here than in Stage III. In Stage IV, more detailed
and complex dimensionals can be expected and are now considered
to be in structure and therefore more reliable. "Spired,"
"twisted," "edged," "partitioned,"
etc. are only a few examples.
C. Stage IV Matrix:
To provide the necessary structure for coherent management
of this information, matrix column headings are constructed
across the top of the paper thusly:
S-2 D AI EI T I AOL AOL/S
These headings stand for the following:
1. S-2: Stage II information (sensory data).
2. D: Dimensionals.
3. AI: Aesthetic Impact.
4. EI: Emotional Impact.
5. T: Tangibles.
6. I: Intangibles.
7. AOL: Analytic Overlay.
8. AOL/S: AOL/Signal.
D. Session Format and Mechanics:
As the viewer produces Stage IV responses (generally single
words that describe the concepts received via the signal line)
they are entered in the matrix under their appropriate categories.
The matrix is filled in left to right, going from the more
sense-based Stage IIs and dimensional towards the ever more
refined information to the right, and top to bottom, following
the natural flow of the signal line. Stage IV information,
similar to that of Stage II, comes to the viewer in clusters.
Some particular aspect of the site will manifest itself, and
the sub-elements pertaining to that aspect will occur relatively
rapidly to the viewer in the general right-to-left and top-to-bottom
pattern just described. Some degree of vertical spacing can
be expected between such clusters, an indication that each
of these clusters represents a specific portion of the site.
Entries in a properly filled-in matrix will tend to move
slantwise down the page from the upper left to lower right
with some amount of moving back and forth from column to column.
Stage IIs and dimensionals retain their importance in site
definition, while AOLs and AIs, once they have been recognized
and objectified as such, so not require a major interruption
in the flow of the signal line as was the case in previous
stages. In fact, AOLs now frequently become closely associated
with the site and may lead directly to "AOL matching,"
or AOL/Signal, as it is categorized in the matrix and described
above. EI tends to manifest itself comparatively more slowly
than information in other categories. If people are present,
for example, EI pertaining to them may be effectively retrieved
by placing the pen in the EI column of the matrix. Several
moments of subsequent waiting may then be required for the
signal to build and deliver its available information. Tangibles
will frequently produce immediate sketches or ideograms, which
lead to yet more intimate contact with the signal line.
Some degree of control over the order of information retrieval
from the signal line can be exercised by the viewer, determined
by which column he chooses to set his pen to paper. This acts
as a prompting mechanism to induce the signal line to provide
information pertinent to the column selected. For example,
if more intangibles relating to the site are desired, the
pen may be placed in the "I" column to induce the
extraction of intangible information from the signal line.
The Stage IV process can be very rapid, and care must be
taken to accurately decode and record the data as it comes.
However, if as sometimes happens the signal flow should slow,
it is recommended that resting the pen on paper in the "EI"
column may enhance retrieval of "EI" information,
which in turn may potentially stimulate further signal line
activity and acquisition.
E. Format:
Following is a sample Stage III format:
(FORMAT FOR STAGE IV)
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Name
Date
Time
(Personal Inclemencies/Visuals Declared)
(STAGE I -
Coordinate) (Ideogram) A Rising
Angles Across
Downs Solid
B Structures
(STAGE II -
Sensory Data) S2 rough
smooth
gritty texture
grey
white
red
blue
yellow
orange
clean taste
mixture of smells
warm
bright
noisy
(STAGE II - Dimensionals) tall
rounded
wide
long
open
AI BREAK
Interesting.
I like it here.
(Stage III)
[STAGE IV]
(SKETCH OR TRACKER)
S-2 D AI EI T I AOL AOL/S
structures
rough
smooth
manmade
high
tall
wide
AI BREAK
This is neat!
doors
windows
colorful
parapets
building
[SKETCH]
foreign feeling
people
somber
serious
devoted
enthusiastic
secular
AOL BREAK
A castle in a city
church
Notre Dame Cathedral
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