remote viewing
Distant mental perception
Remote viewing is the purported psychic ability to perceive distant locations, objects, or events without using the ordinary senses.
The term emerged from U.S. government-funded parapsychology research in the 1970s and 80s, where subjects attempted to describe targets hundreds of miles away: The remote viewer claimed to see a military installation in the Soviet Union.
The practice has no scientific support but maintains a following in paranormal circles.
Awareness beyond the senses
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
- psi23rd Greek letter
psychokinesis · ESP · sixth sense · second sight · anomalous cognition · astral projection · out-of-body experience · psychometry
Object of pursuit
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- coordinatesLocation-specifying number pairs
- blindLacking the sense of sight
- double-blindNeither tester nor tested knows
monitor · tasker · feedback · sketch · ideogram · beacon · displacement · frontloading
Obtaining secret information systematically
- target acquisitionLocating and identifying an objective
- coordinatesLocation-specifying number pairs
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- CIAU.S. foreign intelligence service
military · classified · operatives · session · monitor · tasking · frontloading · double-blind
Disposition toward doubt
- debunkingProving claims false
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- criticismJudgment of faults
replication · evidence · credibility · scientific method · controlled study · cherry-picking · confirmation bias · statistical significance
extrasensory perception
Awareness beyond the senses
- telepathyDirect mental communication
- clairvoyanceExtrasensory perception ability
- precognitionParanormal future awareness
psi · psychokinesis · ESP · sixth sense · second sight · anomalous cognition · astral projection · out-of-body experience · psychometry · clairaudience
target
Object of pursuit
- sessionScheduled time for activity
- coordinatesLocation-specifying number pairs
- blindLacking the sense of sight
double-blind · monitor · tasker · feedback · sketch · ideogram · beacon · displacement · frontloading · noise
intelligence gathering
Obtaining secret information systematically
- target acquisitionLocating and identifying an objective
- coordinatesLocation-specifying number pairs
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
CIA · military · classified · operatives · session · monitor · tasking · frontloading · double-blind · operational
skepticism
Disposition toward doubt
- debunkingProving claims false
- pseudoscienceBogus methodology posing as factual
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
criticism · replication · evidence · credibility · scientific method · controlled study · cherry-picking · confirmation bias · statistical significance · falsifiability
- divinationdivination, fortune telling, fortune-telling, fortune teller, tarot
- mystic powerspsychic powers, psychic abilities, clairvoyance, third eye, telepathy
- pseudosciencehomeopathy, astrology, phrenology, numerology, palmistry
- psionicstelepathy, telekinesis, mind control, mind reading, ESP
- psychic abilitiesclairvoyance, ESP, precognition, second sight, sixth sense
- psychic phenomenatelepathy, clairvoyance, ESP, precognition, extrasensory
remote viewingdirect observation
Watching something personally occur
physical presence · being there · on-site inspection · sensory perception
remote viewingempirical observation
Facts gathered through senses
scientific measurement · satellite imaging · forensic examination · laboratory analysis · data collection
remote, review, interview, views, viewer, viewing, overview, viewed, viewers