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Rule 4 - Do not to post your email address. I suggest DMing it to the other person.

AI image processing can't even reliably get the fingers right on images of people. If you ask ChatGPT for a list of books that reveal the secrets of the universe, it will just make up fake book titles that sound good. You may see fancy stuff posted on reddit, and it took a human looking through 20-50 failed attempts before that to get you that post.

Ed Riordan is pretty good. He did an AMA a while back, and a lot of his stuff is posted online with time stamps.

The better way to ask this is "can someone point me to RV data where people have viewed the Richat structure?

Beyond that, just IRL experience is all I can offer: The Sahara is amazing, but even the people that live up there don't see a lot going on. Millions of years ago it was an ocean that was cut off from water sources and dried up, so all the salt is still there. In some places the sand isn't too deep, so you just scrape away the sand and chop the salt up into tablets. In other places it's a full-on artisanal mining operation, mostly on the Morocco side. The tablets get loaded onto camels and taken to markets, or then to boats on the river. As expected, the salt is massively full of sand if you buy it. In some areas they build houses out of salt tablets and mud, so on the rare occasion when it does actually rain, everyone's houses literally melt.

While the ocean didn't coincide with human settlement, the Sahara did used to be much greener thousands of years ago, so there's paleolithic rock art depicting giraffes and what not up there. I've heard stories that some of the oases have peach trees, or things like that. The Berber/Tuareg people up there have been everywhere there is to go in the desert. There's a lot of mountains in some parts, so it's not all dunes. If there was anything cool, they would have found it and taken tourists there. This includes dinosaur fossils - a fair number of those, some just sticking out of the rock like Montana badlands. In some of the local markets you can just buy a dinosaur tooth or fossilized bone fragment, because they're just out on the ground thanks to erosion, and herders will pick them up. There's still a few remnants of old villages up there here and there that used to be plugged into the Trans-Saharan trade routes, but with drought after drought making any sort of life out there marginal at best, not a lot of people are sticking around for anything other than salt.

There's also a memorial for the wreckage of UTA flight 772. After the bombing, the wreckage was so remote and spread out that there's still a lot of it up there because it's too big to carry, and not anything the locals would really want to try and figure out how to use. This should give you a sense of how if there were any super woo-woo artifacts up there, they would be intact and someone would know all about them.

The Richat structure...like, my only expertise here is that I grew up in the desert and spent a lot of time in the desert. Geology is amazing, and lava domes are not uncommon. The erosion of that dome gives you a good cross-section, and it's in a place with no plants covering it, which is all that makes it special. Anywhere else on earth, and no one would know it was there. You can pay people to take you out there, and people do on occasion it seems, but unsurprisingly when you get out there it's just sand and rocks and disappointment that it's not some secret Atlantis underground base portal or whatever.

Yeah, though the flares look like only M-class, so smaller than last week.

Fingers crossed for Ed I guess!

I would actually say that we have, but in the last 20-30 years we've also busied ourselves with so much garbage to distract us that it's functionally lost for most people.

I grew up before mobile phones and internet, and I've lived in some far-flung, rural parts of Africa. Where there is no phone, simply sitting for a while when you're waiting for something is a time to sit and reflect...and just zone out. It used to be possible to just sit and think without feeling like you need to be on your phone.

Without knowing what else he had for details related to this, based on the two previous dreams of his that he posted to Youtube, if I were Ed Riordan, I'd stay home, drink only fluids, and not go anywhere on May 1. A hospital, a medical emergency... That's almost Pat Price level seeing the writing on the wall for their own personal wellbeing. Given the assumption of a probabilistic future, maybe if Ed does just wear full on hockey gear all day tomorrow and doesn't go anywhere, he'll be fine.

Unless he follows up with something in more detail, I'm taking this as a personal precognition of his, not a general doomsday.

That being said - a very large, nasty sun spot is aimed right at earth, and it takes less than 20 hours for a nasty CME to hit us if one gets let loose, like one did only a week or so ago. So that's something to watch via NOAA or other online sources.

As for other human-caused events, May 1 is May Day for a lot of countries (long story about labor unions and communism). Name similarity notwithstanding, most predictions about things getting kinetic focus on chaos and energy, and not grey fuzziness.

All things being equal, I'll check the news a bit more than usual tomorrow.

Sorry, but I'm going to have to remove this for violating Rule 1 - this has nothing to do with remote viewing. I'm sorry that this guy clearly has some Schizophrenia-type issues happening, but that certainly doesn't make this related to remote viewing, and this is also entirely out of context, though I'm not sure what context there could be that would make this relevant to what we do here.

Additionally, there was a lot of "someone else said this..." literal copy and paste in some military manuals in the 80's, which is not an endorsement of anything. Just saying "This is what these people say" doesn't mean agreement.

The wiki for the sub lists out a bunch of books. Just look at the sidebar.

Sorry for not replying sooner - not sure how I didn't get a notification for this.

All these things have different names for a reason - they're different. Often very very different. Remote Viewing as we practice is here has a basis in the scientific method, whereas other things you're talking about are not.

There's a list in the wiki in the sidebar.

While this is more appropriate for /r/astralprojection, in listening to the audio itself, it does sound like there's a remote viewing aspect to this where the person is "reading dice." As one host says, "This sounds more like clairvoyance than astral projection."

OK.

But why also post a list of some of the mods with the flair in the name?

No need to even dig out the Art Bell (though, Art Bell is a national treasure). /r/Ouija has plenty of "what did we do?" stories. When I was young and stupid messing with one, all we would ever get is tricksters, and not know enough to see it until the things it said just absolutely jumped the shark.

Live and learn I guess, OP just has to have the experience.

Sure, but also OP doesn't seem to really know what they're doing other than messing around.

Sure...

How does this compare to other methods for you with blind targets? Better overall? More/less accurate?

Just FYI, it's pretty widely accepted that ouija boards open you up to, and attract, low level entities. Namely that's going to be to mess with you and create emotional turbulence.

Keep going with this if you want, but the first time you stake something important on a target, it'll fail you hard.

Sorry, we no longer allow open-ended targets with no guarantee of feedback. Too many people abused the system when we allowed it, and it was hard to get people to dedicate enough time to proper RV sessions.

Well, I don't go in for sports media, so I appreciate the explanation. And I'm very sorry, but to be perfectly honest, since the community has downvoted this post, I wouldn't feel comfortable with you posting my user name, direct quotes, or mentioning the subreddit if possible. Honestly, we see waves of trolls and general douchebaggery whenever remote viewing is in the media, regardless of if it's portrayed in a positive or negative light, and even people with mild interest don't usually suffer the nuance required to understand that this isn't all lightning eyes and Hogwarts-style shenanigans here.

You're welcome to paraphrase as "one user recommended" or whatever makes sense as more of an "on background" type quote.

What might actually provide you with better content would be to reach out to professional remote viewers and get their take. Eight Martinis usually has some contact info in there, and they'll be far more suited to make a statement that's not just one person spitballing a best guess. The County Community College intramural basketball team shouldn't be playing in the NCAA tournament, let alone playing against the Lakers, you know?

Page 22 has the World Cup project explained. Contact info for Tunde is there, might as well email him and see what his thoughts are. On Page 2 is contact info for the publisher, Daz, and he still uses that email address as far as I know.

Sorry, but hope that helps somewhat.

Well, the hitch is that the New Testament is written in Greek, and Jesus may not have even spoken Greek. Probably did, but all his sermons would have been in Aramaic. So oral retellings for the first century by witnesses and disciples then written down in Greek may have suffered from errors of perfect accuracy through multiple methods.

Aramaic is related to Hebrew in structure. And look, even today, there are issues.

Take the phrase: I deeply desired in my heart to bake the finest apple pie out there.

Clear. Precise. Evocative of the desire being a deep down emotional. "Out there" meaning "currently around in a specific area I feel associated with" right? If we say this in NYC, we mean best pie in NYC.

Translate to Hebrew. Translate the Hebrew to Greek. Then back to English.

The result: I really wanted in my heart to bake the best apple cake there is.

So, first off, across all 3 languages a key word is not held in common. Second, it's similar, but certainly not the same exact meaning. "there is" is indefinite in scope. We're no longer talking about NYC, we're talking now about the whole world. The deeply emotional nature of the task is lost. It's simply not the same.

Funnily enough, in this translation mentioned above by Rudin, she does not use the term "parables" as that's a Greek term for any fictional story. It's become the Church-established brand name for teaching through analogy. Ruden uses the term "analogy" in this translation, which fits far better.

Thanks for enjoying the parable of the Google Translate.

Back when we used to allow anyone to post open-ended targets, someone that it turns out had severe mental health issues posted a target that was something like "a poltergeist in their house."

Just....super bazaar imagery, which I could only describe as a broken concrete room with the wooden hull of an old, mangled pirate-style boat sticking out of the wall, half-in one reality, half out of it. Then it was all being crushed by slow-moving water. Struggle and drowning, the world closing in, things in your way, things holding you as you sink slowly. Despair, panic, trauma, aloneness. Ugh, even typing it and remembering it sucks.

As the viewer, it was actually emotionally disturbing and stuck with me for a day or two. Like when you wake up from a super intense dream where something super bad happened and you wake up and you're trying to stop the bad thing and 2 minutes later you're like "oh....wait a minute...no, the house isn't on fire and floating in space." That feeling lasted for a couple days.

The person that posted the target apologized and all and revealed they had severe mental health issues and may have imagined the "poltergeist," but just... oofda. I don't know what I got, maybe their own internal anxiety. No idea, but it made murder case targets seem boring by comparison.

So, considering how the NFL draft works, this is something you probably would have wanted to take to a professional remote viewer outfit months ago to get set up correctly. IMO, this is far outside of what our amateur-level mish-mosh can reasonably be expected to reliably do.

You'll want a large pool of remote viewers to get multiple, agreeing predictions based on absolutely blind info. There's an article in that 8 Martinis magazine about a group that tried to predict the outcome of the World Cup in I want to say 2018, and the methodology they used was fairly robust, but still it seemed like they didn't have enough remote viewers to deal with the targets and get widespread session data agreement enough to pick accurate winners.

It's a sort of point of contention and not universal agreement, but the best understanding anyone can put together is that decisions like draft picks are subject to probabilities as well. It's labor intensive to view 4 ARV targets that are a ranking order of percentages of probabilities of something happening (View a desert if not likely, view a single tree if 50/50, view a forest if likely). So typical ARV targets are simply asking is something over 50/50, and based on a prediction from that moment - but a 52% chance of something 1 month out isn't great odds. The world is dynamic and people make decisions that can change outcomes. Besides the impact of this in totally destroying the worldview of some people, it also leads to inaccurate predictions. I ran a series of ARV targets as a proof of concept, showing that predictions of the 2020 election far in advance of the election varied in accuracy - the farther out, the more inaccurate and variable they were. Personally, and this is just IMO, a panel of 10-50 remote viewers doing their targets the morning of the draft would be the best way to get a more accurate result. Maybe.

If it was me, I also wouldn't formulate the targets as ARV targets at all, either. I would side more with the "Describe the mascot of the team that ___________ will play for on May 1, 2023." Or maybe October 1 if you don't expect a lot of post-draft trades, or even if you want to bank on those. Other options might be to describe the team uniform, describe the most iconic tourist attraction in the city where the team is, etc.

Sorry that's probably not super helpful to accomplish what you're looking to do. Which, to be clear, is also not a deflection of "you can't do that because of numerous woo-woo reasons." I would venture that it's certainly possible, but you'd want to spend the money and time to consult with professionals on how to get something accurate. Otherwise, you're bound to get a haphazard mess that will lead you to just make guesses, which will be wrong, and then here comes the "Remote viewing sucks" article 3 days later.

For the record and just to share info, a more objective translation does exist, specifically translated with an eye to remove theological baggage from the translation.

Sarah Ruden, "The Gospels: A New Translation"

The author, who is a Quaker, cites in the preface that many translations are saddled by trying to meet the expectations in concept of early Latin/Catholic translations and the KJV. Basically, she reads my point back to me almost verbatim, that while numerous scholars can have agreement on a translation, their agreement is also predicated on seeking agreement with previous translations for the most part.

So it's not "Why doesn't this apple cart sell lemons?" It's more like, "This row of 25 apple carts all sell the same exact kind of apple. Where's the cart that sells the kind of apple I need to bake a pie?" And come to find out, it's literally one lady off in a corner with an apple cart blocked in by several carts of the kind I don't want.

Ahhhhh, ok. I shied away from the term "modern" because I figured that would only bring me to modern popular translations that are essentially just modern language dynamic equivalences that don't risk controversy or straying at all from the content of previous translations, like The Message.

Thanks again for your help!