"Medium" and Remote Viewing

I am re-watching one of my favorite TV programs on Netflix: "Medium". I really like the series for its better-than-most-television production values (Glenn Gordon Caron of "Moonlighting"), great acting (especially the kids), and its down-to-earth writing. Given the subject matter, that last point may be confusing... but it's always been said that we all possess psychic abilities to one degree or another, and the almost-completely-normal family depicted in the series with dialog that is recognizable for any of many conversations we have had with co-workers, kids, parents, children, neighbors, strangers is almost unnatural for Hollywood.

Darling Wife and I started our Remote Viewing adventure in 2005. This is the very same year as the publication of Allison Dubois' book Don't Kiss Them Good-bye and the start of the TV series derived from that work, and for which she consulted, "Medium" Medium on NBC 2005-2011.In the summer and fall of 2005 we arranged to attend the LearnRV Level I course with the intent of having our vacation that year be to "inner space".

What I find interesting is the presentation of Allison's psychic perceptions resemble the expected results of an RV session. The data that Allison receives in her dreams, from the dead, and from places and people can be received in archetypical, metaphorical, or concrete terms. Determining hich is which is rich fodder for the dramatic dialog of the series.

LearnRV consists of three parts: cue-ing (asking the question in a formal way that conforms to LearnRV), view-ing (performing the RV in the LearnRV structure) and analytical-doing (after all of the viewing is done, THEN think about it). Allison does not have control over her process; the information comes to her when it wants to. Allison does not decide when to receive (when to view) the information - it happens mostly when she is asleep and unconscious. And her "process" does not really separate the experiencing from the analysis.

Inevitably her first analysis of a "message from beyond" is wrong. The drama is the Allison character acting upon that wrong analysis. That doesn't keep her from revising her estimate as additional information comes in. Her tenacity to follow the information trail to resolution makes her a hero. Fortunately, the information keeps coming in until the situation has been resolved, which makes for good television "happy endings". (Most of the time: one of the brave features of "Medium" as a TV series is that sometimes the bad guys get away... which is just, again, what happens in real life...)

In Ed Dames' LearnRV method of Remote Viewing, bright, clear, picture-like ,un-ambivalent, early information is considered Analytical Over-Lay (AOL); this is the conscious mind attempting to categorize information in recognizable form. The process calls for careful analysis after the session and subsequent RV  sessions to clarify the first article data, establish its context, clarify its boundaries, and wash out errors such as AOL.

Why she must leap to these conclusions so quickly is also part of the drama. All of the psychic events in involve life, health, death, crime and/or murder. The character of Allison is compelled to respond with whatever she has at hand to keep people alive, and to bring people who kill to justice. The rightness of the data is obvious to her, and she is frustrated that others don't share her initial conviction. Her willingness to bend, ignore, and break the rules of causal justice keep the viewers glued to their sets.

She also FEELS the data, because she is experiencing it almost as if experiencing it first-hand, frequently through the eyes of the victim. The LearnRV process includes steps to throw off such emotion (Aethetic Impact - our own emotions stimulated by the data, Emotional Impact - the emotions perceived in the person or persons at the site) as they are not conducive to continuing to receive data. Every single episode Allison wakes from  sleep with a start because of an emotional event in her dream, and gets cut off from additional information that may make her data more complete and valuable.

It is necessary to the series narrative that there be people who are not psychic who believe that Allison is on to things even if they can't act upon it rationally or legally. Her boss, her police detective partner, and her saint of a husband all point out the flaws in her theory... and sometimes not gently. In RV it is necessary to take a hard look at results and measure them against feedback in training to gently (and sometimes not gently) guide the viewer to more correct structure.

To be continued...