Writing Worth Reading
Writing Worth Reading
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He is one of the inventors of the field called ‘remote viewing’, in which people undergo procedures to visualise things that are a long way off – on the other side of the world, for example. He describes how he has put these experiments to the test and how people have found sunken shipwrecks that have never been seen before, and buried cities in the desert.
Tell me about the Stephan A Schwartz book, Opening to the Infinite.
He is one of the inventors of the field called ‘remote viewing’, in which people undergo procedures to visualise things that are a long way off – on the other side of the world, for example. This might sound quite strange to someone bumping into it for the first time, but in his book he describes how he has put these experiments to the test and how people have found sunken shipwrecks that have never been seen before, and buried cities in the desert which had resisted archaeological detection in the past.
Why is this not better known though? Why wasn’t he in Iraq looking for WMD?
I think many people are aware of it and it is a hot topic in, for example, archaeology. There is a whole history of this kind of work in archaeology, and in other fields. As I’m sure you can imagine though, this goes against the grain in the academic world and a lot of scholars simply don’t take the time to inform themselves of the fact that this evidence simply does exist. It’s like that all the time in science – you have people on the boundaries, pushing the edges, being adventuresome. It takes time for this information to seep into the mainstream.
What I wonder is why it doesn’t work when you want it to though? If I’m trying to imagine where my lost earring is, or am desperately trying to communicate silently with somebody on the other side of the world – as we all do, I think – it doesn’t work.
If you explore Schwartz’s book you will see that there are certain techniques that can be developed that take this out of randomness and put it into a reliable category. Schwartz would disagree with you that this never works when you want it to. He maintains to the contrary that it is ridiculously easy for people to develop this skill. So, who knows, you might become an expert remote viewer if you apply yourself to the discipline.
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A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin, Dr Dossey worked as a pharmacist while earning his MD from Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Before completing his residency, he served as a battalion surgeon in Vietnam, where he was decorated for valour. Dr Dossey helped establish the Dallas Diagnostic Association, the largest group of internal medicine practitioners in that city, and was Chief of Staff of Medical City Dallas Hospital in 1982. An education steeped in traditional Western medicine did not prepare Dr Dossey for patients who were blessed with ‘miracle cures’, remissions that clinical medicine could not explain. He has written a large number of books on ‘non-local’ consciousness and the power of the mind.
