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title: "CRV Tips & Tricks | Controlled Remote Viewing Guide"
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CRV · TIPS & TRICKS

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# Controlled
Remote Viewing

Useful Tips and Tricks

A compact companion for students already learning original, Ingo Swann–style CRV — clear do's and don'ts to tighten your session structure, reduce noise, and trust the data.

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By John P. Stahler

Foreword by Paul H. Smith, PhD — Major, US Army, Ret.

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## Inside the Session

Structure · Stage I–VII

STAGE I

### Ideograms

Acquire the signal line and capture the overall feeling/motion of the gestalt of the site.

STAGE II

### Sensory Data

Sense sounds, tastes, smells, textures, temperatures, and energies at the site.

STAGE III

### Dimensional Data

Perceive more detailed data and dimensional aspects such as length, height, and distances.

STAGE IV

### Data Matrices

Record objects and activities as well as feelings and emotions of people at the site in a data matrix.

STAGE V

### Analytical Aspects

Refine or explore site data through the categories of objects, attributes, subject and topics.

STAGE VI

### 3D Modeling

Construct a 3D model of the site or a montage of the site area including natural and manmade elements.

STAGE VI ADJUNCT

### Dowsing

Solve the remote viewing location problem by using dowsing to locate the target in time or space.

STAGE VII

### Phonetics

Use phonetics and sonics to produce names of persons, places, and things at the site.

Illustrated throughout with real session pages. This book is *not a full CRV training manual*, but rather a field companion for tightening structure and learning the nuances once the fundamentals are in place.

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## The Author

Field Notes

John P. Stahler

CRV Practitioner

- Former President, International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA)
- Vice President & Board Member, Center Lane Project
- 20+ years as instructor, mentor, viewer, project manager
- Multiple patents; inventions flown on NASA's Space Shuttle Program

John P. Stahler has spent more than two decades inside controlled remote viewing — as an assistant instructor, student mentor, operational viewer, project manager, and researcher. He formerly led an electronics design firm focused on digital video processing and holds numerous patents, several of which flew as experimental devices aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Program.

He now serves as Vice President and a board member of the Center Lane Project, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving the original CRV methodology developed by Ingo Swann and Hal Puthoff. All author and publisher net proceeds from this book are donated to the Project.

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Remote viewing trains people to perceive distant or hidden information — places, objects, events, people — beyond the reach of ordinary senses.

— Jana Rogge, author of The 12 Principles of Remote Viewing