Edward Riordan is doing some of the most interesting and unique work using what has been called Remote Viewing, when it was explored by the military at Stanford Research Institute. Although Riordan was trained in these earlier methods, he is inspired by the unfinished work of Ingo Swann, who designed the methodologies at Stanford Research Institute. Ingo Swann was an artist. He was interested in understanding more about quantum imaging through experimenting and exploring. Riodan is integrating Swann’s processes but clearly diverging into his own unique approach. He is doing a series of videos that allow viewers to ride along with him as he explores and uncovers an image he has never seen, but is only given it’s identifying number.
In this video he talks about how this “knowing” or “imaging” of the unknown image, seems to come in as fragments, and he questions why this might be? I found this to be a very perceptive question. I have wondered if it is because earlier remote viewing techniques use language as a means of coming closer to the whole of the image, and language is an abstraction–several steps away from direct experience.
In his last years, Ingo Swann became fascinated by Sanskrit. I do not know that much about Sanskrit, but I have some vague memory that it has more ties to sound forms and sense perceptions, making it less abstract than modern languages.
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