Tasking - Creating Targets

Tasking is the term used for putting together a target for someone else to remote view. The person who puts together targets is referred to as a tasker. These are old terms used in the standard school of remote viewing. Had I invented a name for it myself I would have called it "targeting" instead of "tasking". Tasking and tasker obviously comes from the word task, to give the remote viewer a task to remote view a target.

What is a target?

A target is something which the remote viewer is going to connect to with extrasensory perception and which the remote viewer will describe in a report in writing and with drawings. A target can be virtually anything, it can be a location, a building, an event, a person or people, an animal, an object, or other. The remote viewer should not know what the target is, when going into the remote viewing session. Because the remote viewer does not know what the target is, the target is a blind target, and the remote viewer is blind to the target. Remote viewing should be done, and can be done, under double blind conditions. Double blind means that in addition to the target being a blind target, there is also no person in the room with the remote viewer who would know the identity of the target.

Blind Target or Open Target

When a remote viewer knows what the target is beforehand then I call that an "open" target. When the remote viewer does not know anything about what the target is beforehand then it is a "blind" target. Blind targets are preferred because the report is more credible, and because the remote viewer cannot simply deliberately make stuff up based on what they already know about a target, and also logic is less stimulated to use what is known about the target beforehand to make guesses. Accuracy can be much higher on blind targets than on known open targets because there is less interference from logic.

Why a tasker?

There are ways in which a remote viewer could prepare targets for themselves to remote view. One way is to put a large number, I think at least 100, of targets into a folder and to have them in a randomized order, so that if the remote viewer randomly selects one target from the folder then if there are 100 targets there then it is a 1 in 100 chance of guessing or knowing which of the known targets the remote viewer picked. I have tried a similar concept a few times and for me it did not work because logic knew what is in this known target pool and logic flooded my impressions with guesses based on information it remembered being in the target pool, and this ruins a remote viewing session. In essence I am against the use of such a known target pool.

Another example of how a remote viewer could prepare its own targets, is to not see the targets and to not do any tasking work on the targets. The specific example I am thinking of is when I am using the website Wikimedia Commons as my target pool. The website contains more than 53 million files which can be randomly chosen by clicking the link "Random file". The variety in this target pool is very diverse, there are all sorts of photographs included, and I have not seen any significant majority number of what is contained in this target pool, so this provides an infinite source of blind targets which requires no tasker and which the remote viewer can prepare for itself.

When another person selects and prepares a target for another person who will remote view it, then there is a tasker involved. One type of tasking is when someone creates a number of targets for other people to remote view. For example websites where a person has already prepared a list of blind targets (constituting a target pool) for other people to remote view. I have used several such target pools. These targets are just sitting there available to be remote viewed by anyone and at anytime. Feedback is obtained by the remote viewer on its own usually by clicking on a feedback link. Such targets are blind targets, but the reports are not certified since the feedback answer is available at any time.

Another type of tasking is when a tasker creates a target under more restricted conditions. One example is when a tasker posts a target and one or several remote viewers can remote view the target but feedback is not posted yet and will be posted at a later time, either after the remote viewer has submitted its report, or that the feedback is posted at a certain time in the future. These can be blind targets, and these can be somewhat certified reports since "cheating" should only be possible if the tasker is helping the remote viewer to cheat. Remote viewing under these conditions makes the tasker into a person who can attest that the remote viewed report is genuine. The question of credibility (meaning that no cheating took place) lies then more on the tasker than on the remote viewer.

A tasker can serve two functions. One is to create targets for a remote viewer, which also enables the creation of interesting and useful targets around a specific theme or topic as opposed to just random targets. The other function of a tasker is that a tasker can become a person who attests that the remote viewing report is valid.

A target does not have to be set up by a human tasker, in order for a remote viewer to be able to remote view it. I have been successful with remote viewing blind randomly generated images from the Wikimedia Commons website, where no human has ever looked at the blind target picture under conditions where it was known that the picture was going to be used as a remote viewing target, and no human has done any preparations on the picture to make it into a target. In the procedure, I generate a new random file on the website by using the link "Random file", I cover my screen and have not seen the image. Remote viewing can still take place. A study could be made, in which the quality and experience of remote viewing could be compared, on target pictures that had no tasking involved, and to then use those same or another set of similar images which were prepared by a tasker, to see if we can study the effect on remote viewing from a tasker. But I can state that remote viewing is functional also on targets that were never handled by a tasker. There is a superstition or suspicion in the remote viewing community that the "intent" (or call it "energy") from thoughts and such does get baked into a target during tasking and that it might enhance the target signal strength. Some studies done by others in remote viewing have also suggested that a tasker could bake in their own expectation thoughts into tasking which then a remote viewer might pick up on.

Target Picture Types

It is best when there is a picture of the target, or picture which represents the target. The remote viewer does not get to see the target picture before or during the session, but should be allowed to see the picture after the session is finished and the report is finished. Reasons why the remote viewer should be allowed to see the target picture after the session, are that this kind of feedback helps the remote viewer understand and sort in their mind the impressions they had during the session and also because a remote viewer is obviously curious to see what the target was and feedback helps a remote viewer understand and learn and further develop their remote viewing skill. Another reason for providing feedback is closure, it helps to close the session, which is also important in order to reduce the risk of displacement contamination (displacement contamination is when remote viewing retrieves information from other targets in the past or future instead of just from the current intended target).

In my experience, a photograph is better than a drawing, illustration, or picture made digitally on the computer. The reason for this could be because a real photograph depicts a real place, which then has all the many types of impressions from it such as three-dimensional depth and arrangement, scent, sound, tastes, textures, movement, temperatures, wind, time, and many other impressions, which can be lacking entirely on a simple two-dimensional drawing. However, with some practice I learned how to pick up impressions from drawings also, obviously a remote viewer has to rely more on visual shapes and colors.

Black and white photographs can cause me problems that I do not see on similar color photographs, same with photographs that are weathered, yellowed, torn and old. I could only speculate as to the reasons, but it does seem to translate into a problem with target signal and with the target landscape rendering, and is more than just the "lack of color" on a black and white photograph, also remember, that a black and white photograph did capture to depict a real, colored target site.

A photograph of a painting used to cause me problems, even though it is a color photograph. With practice I learned how to do well on remote viewing a target picture which is a photograph of a painting, there will be several examples of such sessions among some of my reports which were using the Wikimedia Commons website as the target pool. A fuller analysis of sessions where the target image was a photograph of a painting could lead toward many interesting discoveries or findings regarding remote viewing and regarding this type of target image in particular.

The best picture for a target image is a color photograph which has no digital editing. I like to recommend that when a target image is chosen, that it should not be cut in size. I have no evidence or findings to back up this hunch, but I just have a "feeling" which gives me the idea that perhaps it could be so, that the picture in the way that it has been seen and handled by other people who have known it in the past (before the picture was chosen for tasking as a remote viewing target), and that this might lead to not only a stronger target signal but also to a stronger target identity in the target signal, and that if we begin to cut or edit on the photograph we might be stripping away some of the original information that other people who have known and who have handled the picture may have placed onto it. This sounds like superstition and I have not conducted any study where the remote viewing experience and quality would be compared between original and cut and edited target pictures.

Target Picture Content

Target pictures that are busy with lots of different kinds of things seem to produce a stronger target signal and to be easier to remote view than target pictures that are more monotone or boring.

Target pictures which contain something highly unusual and interesting are easier to connect to and remote view than ordinary things.

Motion, movement, activity, travel, explosions, human emotions, form impressions which can attract the attention of a remote viewer and give a stronger connection to target. However! I say it is important that a remote viewer remembers that one of the best ways to produce a convincing report is to be able to describe and draw "what it looks like", to work on a visual description of the target site. Getting stuck on motion and emotion can provide impressions which are not easily matched to a target. These kind of impressions can be distracting and also captivating, and a remote viewer needs to work harder to find visual descriptors on target sites with lots of movement or emotions.

Tasking

Tasking is to prepare a target for someone to remote view. There are different ways of tasking a target. Usually there is a photograph which depicts the target or target site. Sometimes a target feedback page is made which has a title or name of the target, and can have a short text description of the target or of the objective of the remote viewing session. Targets are usually assigned a new random target number. The remote viewer will usually only be given the target number to work from.

Can anyone create a target? Personally I have seen a trend that targets that were tasked by men produce for me a stronger target signal and targets that were tasked by a woman have a fluffy white target signal which is harder for me to work with. I personally try to avoid targets that were tasked by a woman. I have had targets that were tasked by top remote viewers, by persons who know nothing about remote viewing, and targets tasked by a computer, or tasked by myself, or not tasked by anyone at all, and have seen no significant difference. Targets tasked by remote viewer Daz Smith are by far the strongest target signal and easiest to work with which I have experience, unless I am biased since his practice targets were the first remote viewing practice targets I ever remote viewed.

Target Number

Usually a target is given a brand new target number. Most of the time the target number consists of randomly generated numbers, or numbers and letters, or letters. A target number, or in this case the target coordinates, can also consist of the date at which the target was tasked or created. A remote viewer will be given the target number, and can work from the target signal from the target number to create a remote viewing report.

By far my own favorite format of target number to use consists of four numbers connected by a hyphen to another four numbers, in the generic form 1234-5678. In my experience, the target signal divides the information about the target on each of the numbers individually. One set of four numbers also has one half of the target site and the other set of four numbers has another half, and while remote viewing I can build up the two halves and later on their will bridge together from first set of numbers to the second, and from the second set of numbers to the first, and merge for a greater understanding in the report, this also helps to confirm the information that is being received.

When I remote view targets by Lyn Buchanan and he does not use the target number format 1234-5678 there is no division of target information into two sides that can merge and it does not have that benefit, instead his numerical version of target number I can use as one blob of information without sectioning into two halves.

Frontloading

Frontloading is when a remote viewer is given some clue as to what the target is about or what aspect of the target the remote viewer should focus on. On Lyn Buchanan's practice targets the frontloading is referred to as "tasking", and I refer to it as "tasking clue". Frontloading can be to inform the remote viewer that the target is a "human", "activity", "building", "event", or other.

In my experience, frontloading can stimulate my logic to interfere with guesses and assumptions about the target and can interfere during remote viewing by logic wanting to add, emphasize on, or inhibit, impressions into the report. In my experience a tasked target already contains an "emphasis" on the most significant information and it should be possible for a remote viewer to sense clearly whether a building, an event, a human, or other, is presented with the strongest emphasis in remote viewing. I do not use frontloading and do not want to use any. Perhaps at the end of a remote viewing session, a remote viewer could then be told what aspect of the target site is of most interest, and a remote viewer could then revisit those aspects of the report they have already created, but even then I am personally against the use of frontloading, I also consider frontloading a mild form of breach of the double blind condition or a slippery slope down that path.

Descriptive text

Practice targets by Daz Smith and Lyn Buchanan often include descriptive text about the target on the target feedback page. Perhaps this strengthens the target signal overall, or the signal on those elements of the target that are described in the text.

When I started to construct my own target pages for other people to use, I found that when I write a target description in my own words then the text "feels" more like me than like the target, and that when I copy and paste text from a website which already describes the target, then that text "feels" stronger like the target. And so I found out quickly that it is better to use existing text than to write it on my own. Whether the descriptive text is necessary or not I do not know.

I will be adding more to this page, there really is a lot to say about tasking and targets!