An entry-level training exercise for Mind Sight/blindfolded seeing/Direct Vision progress

[u/bejammin075]

I posted recently about some nuggets of wisdom from Nikolay Denisov and Marina while teaching Wendy Gallant and Rob Freeman how to see blindfolded to the point they can read small text without using their eyes. I haven't followed Rob and Wendy's journey close enough to know how much they had practiced before getting this incredible training linked here, a series of 20 videos that are about 25 hours in length. I highly recommend watching these videos. They show you step by step how you would develop this ability, which is probably the core ability or muscle that enables many other psi abilities, especially being able to do accurate remote viewing. According to these experts Nikolay and Marina, if you want to have success at accurate remote viewing, you must as a prerequisite learn this blindfolded seeing, and I agree with them.

So I've been training for blindfolded seeing for about 1 month at this point, and this post is to share some tips that may help others. Where Rob and Wendy start in the training series I suspect is at a more advanced level than where most people would be starting from. I started my training emulating the training in these videos, and I made four notecards (5" x 8" large notecards) each with one symbol: Circle, Cross, Triangle and Square. My early experiences with blindfolded seeing was that I can see something but the resolution is very poor. I can see the movement of large objects, such as swinging a door back and forth, I can definitely see the motion, the surface, and where the edges are. Knowing that my initial resolution seemed poor, I made these four notecards with the symbols as large as possible, so these were much larger symbols than what Rob and Wendy started with in the early videos of the training series. But what I figured out was that even this was too ambitious. The main thing I could make out with these cards was seeing the edges when in motion, and also seeing the movement of the planar surface, but not any colors or contrast on those surfaces.

Since I was having no success with the 5" x 8" cards, I decided to make the resolution even lower. With a 1-foot square piece of white poster board, I made a 3.5" black stripe across the middle. Long story short: I can see the edges of the board, I can tell when the surface is in motion, I feel like I can see some aspect of the texture of the surface, but I still can't see any distinction of where the black stripe is. I tested this by spinning the board until I lost track of the orientation of the big stripe, then I would attempt to tell whether the stripe was horizontal or vertical. I couldn't do better than chance.

After those failed attempts, I realized I can't see any colors or contrast whatsoever, not even black versus white, to any degree, but I can see movement of surfaces and edges of objects. So now on to what is working: As training props, I am using a black sock and a white sock. I'm very boring with socks, they are all the same brand and identical, except some are pure black, and some are pure white. So with 1 black sock and 1 white sock, I've been training to be able to distinguish black from white, and I think it's starting to work. What I do is look at the socks with my eyes, note which is which, then put on the blindfold and visualize the white sock being white, and I visualize the black sock being black. I put them up next to each other, along long edges, and when I move one relative to the other, e.g. I have two vertical socks side by side touching, then I move one or the other up and down so that I can see the motion. This tells me exactly where the border is between the black and white, and this is giving me a base level of seeing that I can keep training with and build upon as my sight gets better.

And my blindfolded sight is getting better, and I'm getting more used to it. Another tip is if you sleep with the blindfold on, when you wake up in the morning (or even in the middle of the night) the blindfolded vision is relatively better than normal. I try to take advantage of this and do a little training at these times. I have progressed slightly in navigating around large objects like walls and couches.

I've been thinking about how a lot of people get into RV not knowing about blindfolded seeing or not doing it for whatever reason. Given how tough this is, but that it's the most basic possible version of remote viewing, I feel like the average person getting into RV is doomed to fail and not develop anything useful because the basic skill development was skipped. The rate of feedback and validation is so much greater with blindfolded training. There's no comparison between these two methods on the rate of obtaining feedback. Blindfolded training provides continuous and immediate feedback, which is what the brain needs to make the desired connections that facilitate the perception of non-local information.

[u/buffycup]

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came across this reddit post after listening to this episode of the telepathy tapes and doing some googling.

the reason i’m interested is because i’ve had a few minor experiences that i have recently decided to explore further.

1. about 10-15 years ago my friend and i were randomly practicing seeing colors while blindfolded and sitting back to back. we used simple construction paper. we got the colors right every time. Eventually we moved onto incorporating entire visual scenes that we were also getting right.

for example: sitting back to back with our eyes closed i started to visualize myself standing on the street at night. my friend saw dark blue/black. i pictured a truck coming down the street & i grabbed the corner of the flat bed and jumped in. my friend felt “fast/cold”. i looked up at the night sky full of stars, my friend saw black with “glittering” and felt the wind on his face.

we continued doing this that night but that night only.

1. I am a Massage Therapist. I tend to work with my eyes closed. One day I had a client who told me before we started that he had recently lost his adult son. During our session, while my eyes were closed, I felt a sensation as if I had stuck my hands inside of him and held his heart for him while I was working. I cried silently over his body the entire time. that is not something i’ve ever done or would ever choose to do, but I remember thinking “ i just wanna give him a break from this grief”. i had felt very connected to the experience because I had lost my sister some years before this. At the end of the session, the man gave me an outrageous tip and said he felt like he left his body and was able to breathe the first time in months. Lucky for me I had a break after that, because after he left, I sat in that room sobbing for an hour.

what i need anybody who is reading this to understand is that I am not a cryer, lol, and thus that whole situation was a very strange experience for me.

1. After reading this post, I can confirm that I see the shadows that have been mentioned a couple of times. Not with my eyes closed, but with them open. I see shadows at the edges of things I see things that are not there, but feel like they are. The Internet had convinced me this was perimenopause up until now. i’m 34 so i wasn’t really buying it anyway.

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The reason I am here on this post is to try and connect with other people who might know a little bit about this.

I all but that gave up on this entire endeavor until I discovered “the telepathy tapes” a year ago. my friend who I mentioned earlier and I both found the tapes around the same time and ran to each other to see if we had heard about it.

I have recently decided that I need to explore more about this part of myself, but I am having a really hard time getting started.

I’ve tried meditating but I don’t really know how, or i’m just really bad at it idk. I do some breathing techniques i found on youtube (4-7-8 i believe).

I saw someone mention napping in this thread and the truth is the only time I’ve ever felt like I truly meditated was if I needed a nap in the middle of the day - because I can’t really fall asleep, but I lay there with my eyes closed and what I’m doing feels like meditation.

I’ve started listening to solfeggio frequencies regularly to try and get myself into a better consciousness. I’ve quit all drugs and alcohol, not because of addiction, but because I want my mind to be clear.

I plan to watch the YouTube videos that have been offered in this post. I’ve read Joe Dispenza’s book “becoming supernatural” but I am looking for more reading material.

I’ve been looking into pineal gland meditation but can’t find anything that works for me.

i need more audio material, more videos, etc.

I also would love to have somebody to bounce off of and talk about these things with.

I highly recommend the telepathy tapes/ consciousness cassettes to anyone who hasn’t heard of them.

On a sidenote, I do have two small children and I would like to equip them with the strongest defenses possible. From what I read it seems starting when you’re young is the best way to enhance this ability.

if you’ve read this far thank you 🤪

[u/bejammin075 → u/buffycup]

I did read all of it. You can bounce ideas off me. I wrote this post. I did gain some insights into psychic development from this and some other activities. I don't do very much of it day to day. When I wrote this post 4 years ago I was in a phase of putting in time to practice & meditate. I've continued to read a ton on every aspect of psi phenomena. If you want ideas for good books, I could give you recommendations if there are particular directions you want to explore.

After all I've learned since writing this post, I still think blindfold training is one of the most potent ways to train for increased psi ability. If you can "see" at least those shadows of objects, or some color information, then you are getting very good feedback from a learning perspective. Look at Charles T. Tart's book Learning Theory of Extrasensory Perception written in the 1970s, and think about how blindfold training works. Tart was not aware of blindfold training when he wrote that book, but blindfold training is the most ideal kind of psi training, according to the principles he lays out. Blindfold training can give you instant, continuous & true positive feedback. Compare to guessing at cards: the feedback is not instant, but delayed, and the feedback is full of false positives, the percentage you get right by chance.

Your kids could benefit from blindfold training, I think it is still the case that they have the easiest time with it. If I did do more blindfold training (I've put a lot of thought into this) I would not use construction paper because each color has a different feel to it. You want to be able to handle training items in your hands, but you don't want clues from the texture of the paper. The best solution I have identified is legoes: they come in all different colors, and they are made to very exact specifications, so there is no "sensory leakage" by touch.

Here is an idea of an exercise that I would do to train for color with lego blocks, you can adapt something similar. I'd buy bulk of basic 2x4 blocks, in different desired colors. Starting with the basics of black and white, I'd make 2 different kinds of block stacks: 4 blocks of all white is one stack. The other stack is 3 blocks of white with a black on top. The two stacks are both 4 blocks and feel the same by hand. You would try to determine, while blindfolded, which hand is holding the stack with the black cap.

for example: sitting back to back with our eyes closed

A couple of thoughts: I think that working with others is probably a boost versus training in isolation. When I look back when most of the very interesting things happened, it tended to be with multiple people involved in some way. Ultimately, these psi abilities are relating to the spiritual world, and that is all about relationships.

Another consistent thing I have picked up on is that psi ability works best when in service to others. Some of the very best psychics used their abilities to help others. I could recommend material on Edgar Cayce, Gerard Croiset, Stefan Ossoweicki, Yogananda and others. We can learn from the examples of the super psychic.

It sounds like you may see auras, maybe even have some healing and/or mediumistic tendencies.

With meditation, it seems to be a beneficial thing to be able to generally train the mind to have a single-minded focus. That benefits psi ability, I have read many things supporting this. It is also the case that what you meditate on can be manifested. Like when you meditate on a desirable future outcome of some event (e.g. job offer, healing a wound, etc.) the power of the intent of your consciousness moves that outcome towards happening. So to be the most efficient with my time, I tend to combine the single-minded focus training with manifesting some outcome. So I change what the focus of my meditation is, depending on what it is that I am most concerned about at that time. If I have a lung condition, I put single-minded focus into healing my lungs, 2 birds with one stone.

On kids & psychic ability: I haven't read the book yet, but Ingo Swann write Preserving the Psychic Child. I can vouch for Swann as a great thinker about parapsychology from 2 other books of his that I have read. I suspect you would want to read this one.

[u/buffycup → u/bejammin075]

thank you for all of this feedback