I have been reading about the research by Russel Tarq into remote viewing.  His research among others, clearly found the best results came from learning to step aside from the analytically part of our thoughts.  To me it seems automatic to try to name and categorize everything I experience.  Remote viewing seems to be a way of learning to hover in a drifting state of mind to receive information, without trying to make sense of it.  I find letting go and just opening up to be the hardest skill of all.  So perhaps it is a more animal, instinctive part of our mind that taps into the intangible.

Yet, unlike remote viewers, I consistently get warnings without preparing but rarely get visual input.  If I could get both the heads up warning and the visuals, my extra sense might be a whole lot more useful.  I wanted to see if this was a skill I could develop.  Since I clearly have to deal with the unknown anyway, why not learn to be intentionally part of the process.

I found some online randomized psi training tools that replicate the classic card guessing lab tests.  After trying them out a few times, I was discouraged.  Then I realized what was wrong.  I was trying!  Duh.  So in that one moment of clarity, I just started clicking as fast as I could go on the cards in a 50 card set.  When I had been averaging the expected chance results of about 25%, the results this time were 38% or far above chance.  But as soon as I started feeling cocky, the results on the next few runs were back to chance.  I was trying again.  So I stopped the exercise in discouragement.

Later as I was playing a very simple fishing game on my tablet with my toddler, I was getting frustrated at how hard it was to get the timing right to catch the fish.  You have to anticipate the vector of the fishing line and the future location of the fish so that they meet up exactly to be successful.  To make the game even more difficult, if you miss the time it takes to reset will often cause you to miss a chance at another fish cruising by.  I was only catching about 10% of the fish.  Heeeyyyyy, light bulb! I closed my eyes and stopped trying.  I left myself open to feel a very subtle kind of shift in my mind with no concrete thought or focus.  Shift, tap, fish.  Shift, tap, fish.  For about three minutes, I was almost continuously catching virtual fish while keeping my eyes closed.  Once again, as soon as I felt like I was the bomb, the effect disappeared.

As much as I would like to think I have got this whole thing figured out.  It is clear that there is more than a lifetime of discipline needed to reach the open, serene, receptive state of mind needed to hear everything the universe has to say.