Bill Ray
Bill Ray, is a former Commander of the Ft Meade RV Unit and one of the five military viewers trained by Ingo Swann. Bill spent over three and one half years with the Ft Meade Unit and has spent approximately eleven and one half years involved with Remote Viewing. He taught a CRV course in Europe for several years. Bill has a bachelors degree in History from the State University of New York and a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California. Bill is a retired US Army Major and is now employed for the US Army as a civilian. He has over thirty years in Intelligence, including twenty years in Europe. He currently resides in Arizona.
IRVA 2010 - RV Monitoring: Basics and Blarney
Abstract:
A basic primer focusing on the do's and don'ts of RV monitoring that will prove helpful in any of the remote viewing protocols, particularly as it is used in CRV and ERV. It will feature the differences in monitoring of beginning and advanced viewers, monitoring in an operational mode and how that differs from monitoring for training, and provide hints for getting the most from individual viewers based on their viewing abilities and viewing quirks.
Also discussed are techniques for dealing with viewers who are not able to follow standard RV Protocol. These individuals are normally classified as natural psychics, for lack of a better term.
The focus of the presentation will be how to obtain results as opposed to proving specific RV methodologies or theory.
IRVA 2010 - Panel Moderator: The Remote Viewing Training Controversy:
Does it work? Is it necessary? Is there evidence?
Abstract:
Some members of the remote viewing community are surprised when they learn that IRVA's directors and officers often have widely differing opinions about remote viewing and its practice. Of course, there is no reason why IRVA's leadership should be any more uniform in its beliefs than are the leaders of other organizations of comparable size and interest. Indeed, much can be learned from differences of opinion, and it is often healthy to air these in a setting from which all may benefit. One such controversy is whether formal remote viewing training (as offered, for example, by Lyn Buchanan and Paul H. Smith of IRVA's board) is really of any value or use. On the other side of the issue are two other IRVA board members, Stephan Schwartz and Russell Targ who both have argued that one can learn all one needs to know to do remote viewing in fifteen minutes. They question the value of long term training programs as offered by Smith, Buchanan, and others. Recently, both Targ and Schwartz have added to their argument. In his 2009 Remote Viewing Conference presentation Russell Targ took purveyors of remote viewing training to task for presenting what he sees as an overly complex methodology for which no evidence for success has been offered. Stephan Schwartz has expressed a similar complaint in various online postings. Together they suggest that a traditional double-blind judging approach should be used to either support or reject the claims by remote viewing instructors as to the success of their training approach. For this panel, both sides will come together to express and discuss their views, with audience participation encouraged for the final segment.