I just had somebody ask me about this:

http://rvcommunity.net/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=3366&hilit=+trading+adventure+

I need to get back into this as well. But in the course of answering his question it occurred to me that I had already  had access to many of the tools required to make use of RVTFM when I went through "The Adventure".

So I will think about putting up a blog post that describes how to get the charts I posted in the above forum.

So, for starters, here's where the tools are available, free for trial use:

https://www.thinkorswim.com/tos/displayPage.tos?webpage=paperMoney

Analog - June 2014 - Science Fact... Star Gate

[Posted on  http://rvcommunity.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=10449&p=56669#p56669]

Analog - Science Fiction and Fact is a long-running (1930) pulp publication which brings science fiction short stories and novellas as well as reviews of SF books, the art of SF writing, editorials, and articles on hard science monthly into the lives of people like me.

This month their "Science Fact" article is a quick survey of research into psychic functioning since the Age of Reason: the struggle between believers and skeptics; the affects of both the science of and popular beliefs in psychic functioning upon science fiction; the appropriateness of the use of psychic functioning in "hard" science fiction. The 8000-word article opens with the Utts/Hyman review of the science aspect of the "Star Gate" program contracted by the CIA (and which gave the agency the "scientific" reason for cancelling its funding). The article consumes about 2500 words on aspects of remote viewing, particularly from the SRI research (his references include the original SRI papers by Puthoff and Targ (Nature 1974 and PotIEEE 1976) and a fairly recent book from Russell Targ (2012) which I haven't read).

The balance of the article briefs other well-known psi research and how actual real well-known hard science luminaries have been associated with this research.

This is not Stanley Schmidt's Analog. Dr Schmidt was the previous long-time editor of the magazine, a rock-hard "hard" science fiction guy, and IMHO a confirmed socialist and an unrepentant elitist. Hard to imagine this article showing up under his watch, let alone in the column "Science Fact". But the new editor promised changes and, given this is his second year, we'll see how this goes over in the letters to the editor next month.

I'll leave it to you reading this to get this copy of Analog to get the full article, but I have a couple of observations:

• I was surprised and delighted to find that John W Campbell, predecessor to Bova and Schmidt in the editor's chair (and way before I ever cracked a cover), was open to research in to psychic functioning. And apparently this was due to his actually knowing J B Rhine at Duke University when he was doing his seminal work in modern statistical study of psi.
• I was a bit chagrined at a reference to The Men Who Stare At Goats, without context, which is quite contrary to the slant of his article on science and psi.
• The author talks a lot about the arguments of skeptics against evidence of psi. I would have been more happy if the author had read a bit of Dean Radin who has done many meta-analyses of psi research studies. Dr Radin has observed that psychic research studies have shown more evidence for psi and have been replicated more often than most other "psychological" and "sociological" studies.
• In the article he mentions Ingo Swann's very correct viewing of rings around Jupiter in 1973 ahead of the Voyager I mission confirming their existence in 1979. What is a shame is that in the article he never mentions the man's name, and his personal research has been collected with the works of a college of J B Rhine at a university. This article was probably written on or about Mr Swann's death. Did the author know any of that when he wrote it?

Overall not a negative article about RV, and any broader exposure of the phenomenon is probably a good thing...

The Frosty Red Gator in Virginia

I changed my avatar for the occasion of the Evil Cold Winter of 2014.



I thought it added a nice, frosty touch for the occasion, along with the .signature text:

I'm thinkin' that it's too damned cold for Gators in Ah-kah-pyed Vir-Ginny right now...

RVing something that isn't so...

"Shedding Falsehood..."

http://rvcommunity.net/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=8123

How do you RV something that isn't so?

We're going to start thinking about the Remote Viewing process again using Ed Dames' LearnRV method. Rather than clutter the LearnRV community site with this personal material I will be posting it here.