A Student's Critique of P>S>I's CRV Course
by (Name Withheld)*
PAGEKEEPER'S NOTE #1: P>S>I never provides the names of students to anyone, under any circumstances, due to the fact that they will be participating in the Assigned Witness Program (AWP), as a part of their post-graduation exercises. The AWP is a crime-fighting public service of P>S>I, and it is not felt that making names available would be prudent for the student's continued safety. This policy also protects the student's personal privacy for all other reasons, and includes all trained CRVers used by P>S>I, whether they were trained by P>S>I or elsewhere. If there is any need to contact a student or trained CRVer for comments, questions, interviews, etc., the name and phone number of the person wanting the contact is given to the student or trained CRVer, who is then free to decide for him/herself whether to establish contact or not.
PAGEKEEPER'S NOTE #2: The following critique was provided by a student who has, over the past 6 months, been sending questions and receiving answers about CRV through email, in preparation to attend the CRV Basic course. She arrived for training with a very healthy knowledge of the principles and theories already intact. At the end of the CRV Basic course, she provided the following critique. It should probably be made "must read" material for anyone who wants to attend the course.
1. It isn't easy.
2. English sucks.
3. The structure without talent is just an exercise.
4. The talent without structure is just a game.
5. Emphasis on validating facts sure can dent your ego.
6. Not validating facts will warp your ego (-- and rationality).
7. It is highly individualized, despite consistent structure.
8. It can be pleasant, but it's not exactly fun.
9. There is no god but PRACTICE.
10. It isn't fast -- or easy. Yes, that's the last word too.
1. DESCRIBE the target in detail and prove yourself to be psychic. Try to IDENTIFY it and prove yourself a fool.
2. It's much easier to do it than to fight it. But there is nothing harder than to let go of the fight.
3. The only thing "certain to be" flowers is hippopotamus whiskers. Assume anything at your own risk, no matter how obvious it seems "it must be".
4. Everybody feels like an idiot for awhile. Sometimes for a long while.
5. One thing sure is that your subconscious already knows the answer... and that your conscious will hide it if you let it.
6. Half of good training ends up being therapy.
7. From all appearances, the subconscious speaks Etruscan in 4-D, translates it through geometry, encrypts it in some long-dead fish language, and then feeds you that information in code. Of course, it's always perfectly obvious in retrospect.
8. Most of being right is being willing to be wrong.
9. It's much better to write down something that is wrong than to realize you didn't write down what turned out to be right.
10. Being intelligent is no guarantee. Being psychic is no guarantee. In the end they'll certainly help. But in the beginning, following structure and practicing is the only guarantee you can learn it, let alone be good at it.
Most people who say they're "remote viewing experts" obviously don't know what the hell they're talking about.
Next time someone says they can teach this to anybody (let alone a group) in a week and have them be experts, say, "Tell Elvis hello."
Anyone who became a CRVr in a seminar or thinks it's pretty easy didn't learn CRV. They learned something else.
As for "CRV being kind of like OBE stuff," this is about as far from an "out of body experience" as you can get. The two not only aren't similar, they are close to being opposites.
CRV doesn't teach you to be psychic. It teaches you how to structure, improve, deal with, and document being psychic. The practice of doing it teaches you that you already are.
1. It can't be taught in an email. I had planned to document this like a fanatic and release whatever my teacher allowed. As it turns out, I couldn't even document it for my private notes. The structure is simple but the actual teaching, the doing, the making it make sense, the making it work, the understanding what you're saying to yourself, these things can't be documented, they can't be standardized, they are not even "things" that you can write down in many cases. They happen with individual attention from a good teacher, they would be different for every person, and most of them are insights, not objective facts.
It would be worse than pointless to provide the structure without providing the training. Before I began training I thought, "Well, I'll see what all I can get away with saying to my friends." Now I haven't the slightest desire to say anything about the structure or training itself, even to my best friends, because it would do them zero good and even be completely misleading. Either they can get trained, or I can eventually get good enough to train them, or they can do without it. They're not going to get a See Jane Run manual from me.
In my personal journals that I wrote at night in my hotel during training, I said, "Nobody is going to believe this. They're going to think I'm trying to keep it a secret, either because I'm not allowed to say it, or because it's a 'clique' thing." I assure you nothing could be farther from the truth. I'm a teacher by nature and would love to teach this subject, assuming I get good enough to do it well in the first place, and I would like to see as many people learn as possible, as I feel humanity is only improved by it. But I am not able to do it now -- and will NEVER be able to do it via email. Sorry.
2. I doubt it could even be taught in a book. It would be like teaching rock climbing in a book. " Be in proper shape for this type of work, and then climb up the rock by putting one foot above the other." That's about the equivalent of what could be documented for CRV. You can't teach somebody to be psychic in a paperback. You work on the assumption that they ARE psychic, and then you teach them to follow a structure that will help train them to utilize their talent, develop their abilities, allow the information, keep the information pure, document it in a certain manner, etc. Half of the training is learning to deal with the personal BS so that the rest of the information doesn't get confused or blocked, so that natural abilities can manifest dependably. The structure could be written down. The training could not. Without the training, the words of structure are about as useful as graffiti, and I can't insult the field by using them in that manner.
3. It can't be taught correctly without individual attention. If I meet any two people who are completely alike and require the same observation, training, monitoring, assistance, and who use exactly the same style, language, and symbolism, and have exactly the same things going on subconsciously, consciously, etc. I will faint in surprise. I have never seen it happen in a lifetime of studying people, psychology, performance, metaphysics, management, and a number of other things. I doubt that absolute uniformity happens in CRV training either.
I understand that it would be more convenient if it did. Some folks would like to make more money in a shorter time, don't take the subject as seriously, don't think the structure is important (which proves they do NOT know CRV well), and don't worry about "facts" in relation to a viewer's skill. However, if that's how someone is training, they are not teaching controlled remote viewing. They are teaching something completely different. I make no judgement on this because it's none of my business and I'm not trained in other areas. But I will say that if you want to really learn the subject -- if you want to learn what the experts did, what has been distilled as decades of hard-learned ideas and approaches and facts, learn CRV. But if you're in a hurry or expect it to be easy, RUN AWAY.
4. It can't be taught in a video either, for the same reason it can't be taught in a book: it has to be individual. It would be like telling somebody you could sell them Jungian Therapy for $4.95 in a mass market paperback. Anybody could write a dictionary of terms. Nobody can do therapy on 2 million people at once. All you'd get is 2 million wanna-be's psychoanalyzing themselves and their friends -- incorrectly.
5. It probably shouldn't be taught without time for lots of practice -- and personal growth -- in between phases. The practice is crucial because one really needs to reach a certain level before they can move on. It's simply not possible to do it otherwise. As for the personal growth, I've barely begun, and I'm a pretty rational and balanced individual, and already I've had a heck of a lot of abreactions. Like in other subconscious work -- say, hypnosis -- the entire body abreacts in muscular jerks and other twitches.
In one, my contact lenses suddenly went dry, my stomach hurt so bad I doubled over in pain, and I got a
bloody nose.
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PAGEKEEPER'S NOTE #3: This student is the only one who has ever, to my knowledge, shown this physical "tic" or "abreaction". Again, this points up the individuality of students (and the need for individual training). The normal "abreaction" is to experience an emotion, which then blocks contact with the target site, as described below.
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In another, I was overwhelmed by sadness and suddenly "disconnected" from the information my subconscious was giving me, which stopped the whole session dead. These in the midst of being perfectly healthy on nice days in a pleasant environment. Both physical and emotional abreactions can happen. Different people get them at different points, but it's a given that it "cleans out your subconscious" and there may be some turbulence eventually.
Opening up your subconscious to really talking with you tends to release all the years of things it really wanted to tell you -- all at once -- many of which it was rather unhappy about and had plenty to say. If people never hit any degree of any of this, either they are Ascended Masters to begin with, or they are simply dense to what is going on when it happens, or they are not really making the connection within themselves.
I fear what would happen if this were taught to someone with serious emotional, ego, or mental problems.
6. It can't be taught correctly by anybody who doesn't have excellent monitor skills. Watching videos of some TV shows on CRV, monitor traits were pointed out to me. I didn't understand why those on the video were bad until I'd done some sessions. The smallest feedback from the monitor can take a session completely off course. It can also give the information away if the monitor knows the target, though it usually is just far more harm than help. It very shortly becomes obvious that the monitor must shut up, only speak when necessary, only use completely pre-agreed-upon neutral words, not provide the slightest body language, tone or other expression, and the viewer is in charge. Any distraction or impression from the monitor is deadly to a viewing session.
Looking back on the intense body language, casual and leading conversation of a monitor I saw on video I'm horrified. It's similar to a hypnotist leading the subject except in this work it's easier to do and has more drastic results on the final assumptions.
As a viewer, the moment you realize how the TINIEST little tone of voice, even in a neutral word, ended up influencing your session, you lose all patience with the subject. As an allegory, say you were working on a long, complex and important spreadsheet. And without your noticing, a coworker came in and just changed a couple of formulas. Seems to him he only altered a couple of cells. But at the end when you look at your results, you find the ripple effect: the entire report is completely screwed up, confusing, and wrong. At that point, you even see that person coming NEAR your work and you growl.
Monitors are part of a good team and can be great for improving or expanding information -- and are necessary when training if they're your teacher. I was lucky to have a good one for training. But few people really know how to do it well, and most viewers probably prefer to work without one as a result.
7. It would be difficult to teach well without personal viewer experience. I'm sure already that even in these days I've been training, I've learned a great deal that I wouldn't have learned if my teacher hadn't had a personal history with the learning process and the viewing process. Some things can be taught from textbooks. Some things can't. This can't.
8. The cost of training seems prohibitive on the surface. My teacher does it in three pieces of three days at $1000 per piece, separated by about a month's time of practice. Others do it in 7-9 day seminars for $3-4500. Many other kinds of training cost a great deal more than that, and do far less. In retrospect, although I'm personally a bit poverty-stricken for the moment, I would say training with a good teacher is worth more than what they could reasonably charge -- and training with someone who is not isn't worth a dime.
9. It's not a parlor game. It's not a hobby. It's not "another idea to add to my metaphysical tool collection." It is a very specific structure. It requires an investment of time and effort and discipline comparable, perhaps, to serious martial arts. It's not just a thing you DO -- the change in mode of thinking becomes part of one's lifestyle, and if you cannot invest a great deal of time into it AND a few serious years of hard work up front (and likely permanently), there is no point in learning it. It's one of those things that it's probably better to not do at all than to do badly; being under the impression you're an expert when you're not could cause some serious problems in your life -- and in the life of anybody who depends on your skill.
10. If you want fun, try the Monroe Institute -- that kind of stuff is groovy. If you want self-exploration, there are a million methods for exploring. If you want to be an expert at something, almost any given physical talent would be easier. (Playing tuba while riding a unicycle across a high wire, for instance.) I wouldn't encourage people to CRV any more than I would encourage them to go join the Marines. Some people it's right for; some people thrive on the discipline and structure and become brilliant examples. But most people it's just flat out too much work for, and they'd either be miserable or (more likely) bad at it. Unless this is something you think is an appropriate part of your LIFE, not just a neat idea, hobby or tool, I would seek another subject.