Q. How does CRV relate to being psychic?

"How does CRV relate to "being psychic"? I keep >hearing that it is a science rather than a mystical >experience kind of thing. What's the difference?"

A. CRV is a set of psychological and psychophysical protocols designed to allow a structured method for bringing information from the subconscious mind to conscious awareness. The protocols also provide methods for preventing contamination of those perceptions/emotions/feelings/etc. by the conscious-level memories, fears, desires, imagination, and logical thought.
CRV relates to "being psychic" only in that it provides an excellent methodology for getting "psychic" information from the subconscious to the conscious, where it can be objectified, either verbally or in writing.

The fact that the protocols are designed to prevent contamination of thought make CRV training ideal for consultants, psychotherapists, interviewers, and psychiatrists to keep their interviewing pure of personal contamination. There is presently a furor in the psychiatric community about a doctor's ability to - even unintentionally - plant "false memories" into the mind of a susceptable patient. The suspicions, desires, belief systems, or fears of the doctor find their way into the interview process, and the susceptable patient, on an unconscious level, accepts the doctor's "STRAY CATs" as a part of his/her own mental condition. The tendency is very subtle, and there are presently no FIRMLY STANDARDIZED methodologies set up to prevent the doctor/patient relationship from creating false memory syndrome (FMS).

Although the protocols of CRV are useful for many other such human endeavors, it is in the area of psychic performance where it has gained it widest acceptance. In fact, it was for that purpose that CRV was first developed. CRV allows a person to "cue" him/herself, or to be "cued" by someone else, for information which could only be gained through psychic means. For example, a CRV task which is given to a viewer rarely ever contains information about the target. You might task a regular psychic with, "What will my chances be of getting the job?". Not so with a CRVer. You would task that question to a CRVer by writing it on a sheet of paper as a question, giving that question a specific number, say, "95121201", and then asking the CRVer, "What is the answer to question number 95121201?" (without ever showing the question to the viewer). The CRVer is forced to answer on a purely psychic level, without contaminating information. Any information other than that starts the viewer's imagination, emotions, etc., and produces "STRAY CATs" which can totally ruin a CRV session.

So the CRV process is not the same as "being psychic", but is, instead, a tool to allow someone who "is psychic" to do their work. Further, it is a learnable skill, so that people who aren't natural psychics can do the work, too - if they just learn to use the tool. As an analogy, if you were to liken "being psychic" to taking a trip, then CRV would be the likened to the car in which the trip is taken. If you can learn to drive, you can take the trip. The relationship of CRV to "being psychic", then, is that "being psychic" is the use of your natural talents, and CRV is a tool which lets you use them. It is merely a tool which allows a trained person to access that part of his/her which has access to intuitive information, and to do so on a dependable, repeatable basis.

"Being psychic" is a condition of the human species. CRV is merely a methodology which allows for the accurate, dependable and repeatable use of that condition.

Lyn Buchanan