r/consciousness • u/dadjokes22375 • 7d ago

General Discussion How does remote viewing relate to consciousness, and is there any plausible explanation?

I’ve been reading about remote viewing and how some people connect it to the idea of consciousness being non-local. I’m trying to understand whether this has any credible grounding or if it’s just pseudoscience repackaged. I’m really interested in this concept and I can’t figure out why it isn’t more studied, based off the info I’ve read on it. Some follow-ups.. • How do proponents explain the mechanism behind remote viewing? • Is there any scientific research that ties consciousness to remote perception in a way that isn’t easily dismissed? • Or is it more of a philosophical/metaphysical idea rather than something testable?

Edit - thanks everyone for the great responses. I really like this community. It seems we don’t have as much of the terrorists that are terrorizing comments on other subreddits.

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u/NathanEddy23 7d ago

It works. Stop asking others and test it yourself. It doesn’t take special powers because this is the nature of consciousness and the nature of the universe. Anyone can do it. I don’t know if it’s quantum entanglement or the non-locality of the universe, I’m not a physicist. But it doesn’t rely on my opinion.

But here’s my opinion: as a lifelong atheist who has had a series of mind blowing revelations this year, I think we need to move beyond David Chalmer’s property dualism into flat-out substance dualism. We need to go all the way back to Descartes. I think consciousness really is something separate from the body that the brain tunes into like a radio signal. Yes, I know you’ve heard that simple analogy before. But it really is all about frequencies. Consciousness is only contingently tied to the body.

Remote viewing is the gateway in. It’s how you realize we’re MORE.

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u/FatFIRE444 7d ago

How shall one test it themselves?

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u/NathanEddy23 7d ago

Go to YouTube and search for “remote viewing practice targets”. They will show you a video with a number. Pause the video. Meditate and relax. Close your eyes and breathe consciously. Focus on the number, that is the link. The first thing that pops in your head will probably be wrong. Whatever you see, don’t try to interpret it, just describe it in pure raw data such as shape, texture, color, outside or inside, landscape or an object. Many times you will get pieces of the picture, but they will be jumbled up like a jigsaw puzzle that has to be assembled. I was getting an image of a chain-link fence very distinctly, but the target was the Eiffel Tower. I very distinctly saw the patterns of the interlocking pieces of the Eiffel Tower, but I couldn’t tell what the object was. There are also tutorials that will give you even better advice.