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I?o mote Viewers have demonstrated little ability to discriminate
alphanumeric
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Remote perception and description of
geographic
locations,
buildings,
and objects appears to be
different than the remote perception of man generated symbolic
data
(letters
and numbers).
Abstract Referents Discrimination
Binary Alternatives
(ARDBA)
training has two objectives.
The
first
is to identify trainees who possess
an
innate ability to
psychically discriminate between different
a 1 phanumer i cs and
second to determine the feasibility of training this ability.
The training/testing program has been designed so that training
progresses through five training phases from simplistic exercises
to the eventual
use of abstract referents
(i.e.
geographic
coordinates)
to direct the trainees 'attention to the
discrimination between binary alternatives
at remote
locations.
Each one of these phases requires
a different behavior on the
part of
the trainee and
is conducted for different purposes with
an overall
goal
in
mind.
Following, is an overview of these ARDBA
Training Phases:
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During Phase
the trainee
is directed to use whatever
psychic ability available to discriminate between binary
alternatives by active selection within
a closed target
pool.
The trainer then provides positive oral
feedback when
appropriate to reinforce the trainee's own visual
field.
Negative
oral
feedback
is never provided.
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The purpose
of
this phase
of training/testing
is threefold.
The first purpose
is
to determine
if
a particular individual
has any ability.
The second purpose
is to establish
a data
base
on which
to base further training/testing and the third
purpose
is
to build self confidence on the part of the
trainee through immediate positive feedback.
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PHASE
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li" 3 trainee
is able to complete Phase
(successful ly
discriminate between binary alternatives to
a stat i sti ca 1 1
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significant level).
Phase
is
j initiated.
During Phase
the training environment
is similar with the exception that
feedback
is reduced.
The trainee
in no longer provided with
visual
feedback
from' the target pool.
The only feedback
provided
is given orally by the trainer.
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tactics.
A data base of trainee performance
is also expanded during
this period.
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During this phnse of training tho emphasis sheers away
somewhat from discrimination of binary alternatives and
begins
to focus
on
the trainees ability to respond to
abstract referents.
In ARDBA Phase
the trainer selects
a target from within
the closed target pool
and then directs
the
trainee
to state what
the selected target
is
(choose
between binary alternatives).
Positive oral
feedback
is
provided when appropriate by the
trainer.
The overall purpose
of this phase
is
to begin
to transfer
a
trainee's demonstrated ability outside the
immediate
environment and to prepare
the trainee
for the next
phase.
PHASE
This phase establishes abstract referent cuing as
the prime
directive.
The trainee
is presented with a grid matrix
consisting of six positions.
Each position
will
has
a
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The
task for the trainee
is
t^o discriminate
between binary alternatives at
a given coordinate
(abstract
referent
cue)
provided by the
trainer.
The trainer records
the
results but does
not provide feedback
to the
trainee.
This phase serves
to extinguish
the trainee's dependence on
the previous target pool
as
well
as external
feedback.
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Given that
a trainee
can demonstrate reliable performance
through Phase
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5 attempts
to chain together six
matrix "coordinates”
into one six digit binary number.
The
inates”
as cuing and
ween binary
bstract
referents,
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of six
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the trainee with
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the trainee attempts
to discriminate
betJ
alternatives) for each of six different
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Feedback
is given
j>nly after the
complet!
"coordinates.
This phase completes
the training concep
trainee accurately respond to
a series o
to receiving feedback.
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bf this program might be
to detect and describe
cryptographic code
at remote
locations.
This newly trained
source ability will
have
to
be integrated
into conventional
remote viewing techn i ques .
A source
will
have
to locate
ryptographic systems
throjugh remote viewing and then apply
is/her ability to discriminate binary alternatives
in specific
codes
at
the
location.
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The purpose
of Object Remote Viewing
(ORV)
is to give the remote
viewer* perceptual
experience
in an area unaddressod by other
training.
Basic training
in remote viewing
(RV)
usually uses
geographic
locations as targets for the remote viewer.
For the
purposes of basic RV training such targets serve well
to develop
elementary viewer skills and establish some
level
of viewer self
confidence
as well
as
a degree of reliability.
Basic RV training
does
not,
however,
place any emphasis on
the accurate acquisition
and description of fundamental
structural elements or
individual
objects.
Since such information
is
important
in
the practical
exploitation
of
RV,
training exercises
in ORV are conducted.
ORV
exercises differ only
in the context that the designated target
to be described by the remote viewer
is
a concealed object as
opposed to
a geographic site.
The procedures of basic RV
training programs
remain
the same.
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