Customer Reviews

Remote Viewing: What It Is, Who Uses It and How To Do It

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This is a muddle of a book. Good sections on RV technique, that may or may not be fully grounded in experience and study, intermingle with preposterous accusations against MI5 in the UK and against the business elites that Rifat believes control the world.

Rifat's bibliography is a puzzle. He doesn't refer to excellent sources that one would expect him to have used, or that he ought to wish to recommend to readers, and yet he cites Wittgenstein and Chomsky who are way off the subject.

I don't find Rifats "scientific" explanations for RV, RI etc plausible.

Where I suspect he is at his best is giving a relatively diverse set of protocols for types of mind-reach activities...but the weaknesses of his text detract greatly from those strengths.

He seems more concerned to advertise or brag about his capabilities than to educate.

I found that this book gets to the point really quickly, maybe a bit to quickly! The author seems to cover every aspect of remote viewing but the instructions seemed a bit to rushed for me. The book did not dive into the science of remote viewing, so unless you have read lots about the human bioplasmic body, such as books on chakras and auras, you may not get as much out of the book as you could have. Also some of the stories are repetitious. Not a very well edited book. But it does seem to cover a bit of everything pertaining to remote viewing, and has lots of how to instructions, quick as they are. If the author ever writes an updated version of this book I hope he gets himself a good editor who could make this book more readable and usable, then he will get 5 stars from me.

I found this book very useful as an introduction to Remote Viewing. While Rifat doesn't do the best job of putting together a structured course or timeline for learning Remote Viewing he does introduce many techniques and protocols used in Remote Viewing. If you are curious about Remote Viewing and don't know much about it this is a good book to get you introduced. However if you plan on learning to Remote View I would suggest this book not be your only source of information on the topic. Try some of McMoneagles books, a video tape learning course, or if you have the money an actual Remote Viewing learning course by a trained professional. I will agree with some of the other reviews posted that Rifat doesn't do a good job of sighting his sources, but if you know much about Remote Viewing and it's history, the vast majority of his facts checkout. One other thing, another reviewer complained about Rifat not "proving" Remote Viewing on a scientific basis and that his explainations were simple. My comment towards that would be this: 1)Rifat had to keep this book readable for the average person, and the average person is no expert at reading scientific jargon and 2)Remote Viewing still isn't completely understood, even by the governments that have spent decades and millions of dollars in research on it, and with the narrow minded view most scientist take toward the world the necassary research hasn't been done to explain exactly how it works, which is probably on a quantum level and only recently have scientist begun to delve into this area of research. Overall I'd say again the book is worth the read, and is a good way to introduce yourself to the techniques and protocols, but if you are serious about Remote Viewing, I would stongly suggest and additional source of training and information.

After reading some of the negative reviews, I had to speak up in this author's defense.

This is a damn good book. One reviewer says don't try to learn remote viewing from it. Maybe so, but what he fails to tell you is that the revealed protocols based on theta/delta mind levels are infinitely more powerful than those based on the alpha/ beta levels typical of the western worlds published approaches. This information alone is worth the price of the book. RV, RI and their derivatives are the final frontier........forget about space travel. Doesn't even come close. And, the theta/delta connection is kept under wraps while the public is allowed to wallow in the kindergarten stuff.

Whoops..there it is!! "Conspiracy theory".

A couple of reviews mentioned "conspiracy theory" like its a bad thing. This is classic disinformation as the dissection and understanding of conspiracies and conspirators is the key to true knowledge. You know absolutely nothing about anything if you aren't well versed in the conspiracies of the time. JFK, 911, reverse engineering UFO's, mind control, New World Order, etc.

The world is run by conspiring men and intelligence agencies ARE in the business of deception. The biggest clue is the money the Russians were spending on these programs. And while the "a customer" reviewer thinks it is all a joke. The CIA didn't think so. Newsflash: the most "no-nonsense" and "un-BS-able" people on the planet are those involved in intelligence gathering and national security. And they have spent a lot of time and loot on this stuff.

Rifat does a great job explaining what is very difficult to explain. There is a ton of disinformation surrounding an important and world changing topic as RV and RI. And while some of his scientific theory is flawed in places, he is right on target on the important stuff.

Remote killing, technology assisted conciousness, conciousness assisted technology, remote healing, telepathic counterintelligence?

Sorry, Mr. anti-conspiracy theory dude. The above is all real stuff. And Tim Rifat shed light on it before anyone else in a very commendable way despite his flaws.

Since then, I'm afraid he has become a casualty of perhaps some of the ghosts he mentions in his book. This is based on my assessment of how accurate this book was for the time it was published and the total junk being published under his name on the internet now and subsequent to this book.

For further reading, I recommend:

"Hidden Truth - Forbidden Knowledge --- Dr. Steven M. Greer.
"Exempt from Disclosure: The Black World of UFO's" --Robert M. Collins

And remember, when somebody cries conspiracy theory, it is either out of ignorance or to keep you in the dark (ie. disinformation).

After reading several of the most popular books on remote viewing, I found this one the most practical and easiest to understand and work with. It starts with a history of both the American and the Russian efforts during the Cold War and then gives an excitingly workable set of methods which I feel will work for anyone who gives them a decent try. The other books I started reading with excitement and finished with disappointment. This one has reawakened my dormant interest in a fascinating subject which too many others make dreary.

Rifat makes some amazing claims about super-duper secret soviet psi research facilities that, apparently, the US wanted to get intel on but couldn't. However, Rifat seems to have intimate knowledge of - although he never exactly explains how.

Equally, he's an expert on US endeavors with RV. He did cite the Freedom of Information act as a vehicle for collecting the data on these programs; however, he never mentions what documents he found. There is a problem here. Most of the `good stuff' is still classified so it isn't available under the Freedom of Information act.

I'm not sure how it's related but he somehow meanders onto various gov'ts use of Microwave technology to control the population - supposedly the soviets had satellites beaming us all into submission. And his issues with MI5; seesh!

I would recommend this book for its comical value only.

This book is more for conspiracy theorists than for people learning Remote Viewing. The book does include some Remote Viewing techniques which have derived from other techniques with the author's pseudo-science explanation of why it is suppose to be better than other techniques, which I disagree with. The author spends a great amount of detail with this pseudo-science, which is a detriment to him. Clearly the author has no scientific background whatsoever. In Chapter 3 of this book, the author attributes psi-ability to what he calls psi-genes. He states that "the widespread burning and persecution of witches in medieval Europe would have deselected psi-genes in Western women, making them much rarer" and that "European men score significantly better at remote viewing than women." This demonstrates he doesn't have a good understanding of natural and/or artifical selection and how genes are transfered in offspring. There are no genes that are only passed from women to women. It's true that mitochondrial DNA is only passed from women to offspring, but that would not deselect psi-genes in Western women since both male and female children would still recieve the mitochondrial DNA and the affect of deselecting would affect both sexes and not one. If we are going with genes that are just passed down from males to males, then we would be looking at the Y-chromosome. Since women never recieve the Y-chromosome, then they wouldn't be able to have a psi-gene if it was related to the Y-chromosome.

If you want to learn techniques for Remote Viewing, there are better books out there. If you want to learn the science behind Remote Viewing, please stay away from this book because the author doesn't have a clue about science and is speculating from other material he has read and didn't understand. If you like conspiracy theories and are getting tired of reading about JFK and Area 51, go ahead and pick up this book. It may entertain you.

After reading this book carefully, most carefully I must emphasize, I got more than my money's worth.
I discovered my wife in flagrante with my junior business partner. I had not had an inkling.
I quickly discovered a new girlfriend, by looking through walls.
As well as a multitude of rats' nests.

If you know anything about the subject of remote viewing this book might make you die laughing. One of the least informative. I have most of the books and have read much of what has been written in several years of study in the field and all I can say is don't waste your time or money.

What Did I Get Out of the Read?
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Rifat gives a summary of the state of research within the ex eastern bloc countries into what the American researchers call "Remote Viewing". This summary was more detailed than anywhere else I have read. There is heavy reliance on secondary documents, rather than on primary references (probably due to availability and language barriers).

Why Would You Want to Read This?
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For a view of RV things that were happening outside the US - however do not expect a deep understanding. The book is generally well referenced if you want to follow up the sources.

What Did I Think of the Book?
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As I read deeper into this book, my perception of its credibility plummeted.
I am left with questions regarding the credibility of the author. Several times Rifat refers to himself as a scientist, and the reader feels that they are being asked to accept some things based on the expert scientific opinion of the author. However, nowhere in the book does Rifat give an account of his qualifications, research or experience. Nor can I find any scientific papers by Rifat on Google Scholar.

Some of the sources that Rifat uses are not known as the most reliable source of facts (although, in the shady world of USSR paranormal research, they are probably the only ones available).

I would not choose this book to learn remote viewing. The book tends to give numbered lists of instructions as protocols for developing or performing various aspects of Remote Viewing (and other paranormal abilities). I believe this falls far short of the instruction needed to be able to effectively Remote View (and is certainly not the "How To Do It" promised in the subtitle. I found that a good proportion of the book (maybe 20%) is about paranormal abilities other than Remote Viewing.