This past Wednesday
night, I got a surprise phone call from my remote viewing instructor, Paul
Smith, who lives near me in Cedar City. It
turns out that he had spent the better part of that day being filmed and
interviewed by a 3 man film crew from Australia. He wanted to know if I would like to
participate in an outbounder exercise the next morning. As luck would have it, my Thursday morning client
rescheduled, and I was free. I had never
been filmed before, so that would be a new experience. Apparently, the crew was filming for a new Australian
TV show about the US that had just gone into production.
So what is an
outbounder remote viewing session? When
RV was being developed at the Stanford Research Institute, they did a lot of these. One of the goals was to prove psychic
ability. The process is this. A selection of locations in the area are put
into individual unmarked envelopes. The
locations should be distinctive as to their features, and easily
distinguishable from other locations. The
people involved in the outbounder are split into 2 teams. Team #1 chooses an envelope at random, opens it in secret, and goes out to
the location that is in the envelope. Team #2 consists of the monitor
and the viewer, who stay behind at the lab, office or classroom. When team #1 gets to their location, they let
team #2 know, and the viewer starts remote viewing the unknown location. This is generally done with people who have
not done any remote viewing before, and surprisingly, the viewer does fairly
well under these circumstances. This is
sometimes called the “first timer effect”!
While at that
location, team #1 looks around and tunes into the ambiance of that place, in addition
to the structures, textures, colors, smells and sounds, etc. The viewer at the same time is describing
what they are psychically picking up from the location through the people that
are actually there. At a pre determined time, team #1 lets team #2 know where they are so that the monitor and
the viewer can go there to see how well the viewer did.
Paul has done
this exercise many times with people who have no knowledge of remote viewing, with
excellent results for the novice viewer.
In 2017, Actor Rob Lowe and his 2 sons came to Cedar City to do an
outbounder with Paul for their TV series “The Lowe Files”.
So getting back
to Thursday morning, I met Paul and the film crew at Paul’s office. Paul and I had to be miked up! I had been asked to pick a local location for
the outbounder, and had to keep it a secret from everyone, as not only does the
viewer have to be blind to the target, but the monitor Paul has to also. I drove with the producer Steve out to a
place called “Park Discovery”, which is the photo above and those below.




It is a great
place for children, and also has enough interesting elements for a remote viewer. Upon arrival, we let Paul know that we were
there, and he asked the viewer, John, to start writing down his descriptions and sketches. At the same time, I walked around and took in
the details of the location. That took
about 15 minutes. The producer then
texted Paul that we were done, and he and the viewer and the camera man,
another Steve, drove to our location. We
all looked at what the viewer had written and drawn to see how his impressions matched
the location. The viewer did a fairly
good job for a beginner, and Paul liked my choice of the target location.
I have
mentioned the Australian producer and the viewer, but not the camera man so
far. Since they only had one camera, he
could only film one person at a time, so a lot of the shots were duplicated several
times focusing on each person in turn.
That was quite an experience.
Between the camera man and the producer, they had to cover
everything. The 3rd member of
the team, the viewer John, was the only one actually on camera with Paul and
me. Of course, the tedious editing would
come afterwards. Paul called me later
that evening to let me know that the crew left $50 for me as a payment for my services. I thought that was nice. Paul also mentioned that there might be more outbounder
opportunities for me in the future. Fun!
I hope that all
of what I have explained here is not too confusing. The outbounder process has also been
explained in several books that talk about the early days of remote
viewing. I do not know when this episode
will air in Australia, and I hope that Paul will get a copy of the show. Actually, I am not sure that I would like to
see how I did! Maybe a lot of my footage
will be edited out. I’ll let you know.