Should I Take CRV Training?
At its most basic level, CRV training establishes a pathway of communication between a person's conscious and subconscious minds. This is for the expressed application of gathering information from a source not normally tapped by conventional means. The offshoot of it is usually a greatly heightened sense of self-awareness for the individual learning the process. In that respect, the answer is "Yes", with no "however" included.
CRV training, however, is very rigorous and disciplined. While sometimes, just the introduction of mental discipline into a person's life makes their life better, taking CRV training for only that purpose alone is like using a sledgehammer to push in a pin. There are a lot of other disciplines out there which are designed to get you in touch with your own self and develop spiritual and personal awareness, as well as mental discipline. Some are even dependably structured and documented to various extents, and they are all a whole lot easier on you.
CRV, by its very nature tends to be a group-oriented effort. The viewer is the conduit which pipes the information from the "great unknown" to the paper, and the viewer is usually totally oblivious to its meaning. In fact, the rule viewers live by is, "DESCRIBE, DON'T IDENTIFY!". The viewer is ideally assisted by at least a monitor, and if possible, an analyst, a report writer, a CRV management team, etc., all of whom must also be trained to perform their jobs in a structured, dependable and rigorous method. It is not at all unusual for a viewer to gain absolutely invaluable information about a target and never know what it means. You even cue a viewer with numbers, so he/she will be working in total ignorance of the background information. While it is possible for a viewer to work alone, for his/her own purposes, the constraints it makes on him/her often limit the results.
So, to answer your questions more clearly:
If your goal is to learn to access the universe of information which is available and to use that information for some reason which will be of benefit to your life or the lives of others, such as business planning, criminal investigation, finding missing and abducted children, medical diagnosis, protecting yourself and your family, or a myriad of other practical, real-world applications, then you should definitely consider taking CRV training. There's nothing else like it.
However, if your main or only goal is to develop self-awareness and increased human potential strictly for your own satisfaction or for "feel good about myself" reasons, then I would say that CRV training would be both a waste of your own time and money, as well as mine. And especially, if you are wanting to just "get in touch with the Great Whatever" so you can achieve inner divinity or spiritual revelations. There are much easier and much cheaper ways to do that, which will probably meet your needs just as effectively. Don't waste your time with CRV.
By the above, I don't in any way mean to say that self-development, expansion of personal awareness, and spiritual development are in any way "less" than the purposes for which CRV is usually learned. In fact, I think that those goals are more important than CRV's goals. I think that curing the world's ills must, of necessity, begin with each and every person's self. All I'm saying is that CRV training is the most rigorous and highly developed form for doing it. It is like joining the Marines to learn how to fold your laundry. It isn't for everyone.
Let me also add here that there are others who teach various derivitive forms of STRUCTURED RV with much less control and in much shorter periods of time (and at higher costs). In my opinion, the above advice is still valid, and applies in those cases, as well.
QUESTION:
>...... Obviously, my time and money
>are valuable as are yours and other potential candidates.
ANSWER:
That's true. I am at the fortunate position of not needing to do this teaching to survive the monthly onslaught of bill collectors. I also have a personal value system which is best typified by an excerpt from an old "Paladin" show: A farmer who has just come to town witnesses the bank being robbed. His comment to the local storekeeper is, "Well, it makes me feel good t' see somthin' like that... like I'm fortunate or somethin'. 'Cause as broke as I been at times, I ain't never had t' steal."