My interest in precognition, synchronicity and non-locality began with my study of nursing intuition. Eventually, after two hours of rudimentary instruction at a “psychic fair” I sketched a remote viewing target for the first time and my world changed, never to be the same. I felt a deep sense of duty toward my fellow man after sketching that target. The concept of remote viewing or our ability to do it was, and still is, essentially unheard of. Not making a personal effort to share something that could so significantly impact the potential of the evolutionary process of the human race and the human condition would mean I was participating in and perpetuating a travesty in every sense of the word.

Not on my watch.

The title of this article, “linear thinking is useless in a non-linear world” is a quote from Rowan Gibson’s Rethinking the Future: Rethinking Business, Principles, Competition, Control & Complexity, Leadership, Markets, and the World. The concept represented in the quote also makes sense when applied to human interaction in the nonlocal environment, currently defined as remote viewing, or anomalous cognition. Remote viewing is an information gathering tool that uses the communication of the conscious and subconscious minds to gather sensory perceptions across time and space. Freeing the mind of the boundaries of linear thinking is the first step in a process of many as we learn that it is possible to function in the nonlinear world of the nonlocal environment.

Like the people whose stories are documented in Seeing the Invisible: Modern Religious and Other Transcendent Experiences, and The Common Experience: Signposts on the Path to Enlightenment, I am an ordinary person who has found herself in extra-ordinary circumstances. Like them, I frequently found myself at a crossroad in life. Should I disregard my precognitive, deja’ vu experiences like a night of bad pizza, or consider them as opportunities for growth and step out into the unknown? I chose the latter and what I hope is the high road. My many yet-unexplained-experiences have become personal defining moments.

In the foreword of Toward a Psychology of Being, Abraham Maslow teaches us “Because they are no longer slaves to the hopes and fears of deficiency motivation, self-actualizing persons are not threatened or frightened by the unknown: on the contrary, they ‘accept it, are comfortable with it, and often are even more attracted by it than by the known’... and “Another respect in which self-actualizing persons live their lives more efficiently is that they tend to be problem-centered rather than ego-centered.

When they encounter something that needs to be solved or fixed, they do not work at it for the sake of scoring points, but simply for the sake of getting it done.

Because they do not need to score the points, they can approach the task with greater clarity and focus.” (Maslow) I do this, the Aesthetic Impact website, the webinars, this article, because for the sake of people and the human condition, it needs to be done.

Why does it need to be done? There are people suffering in silence and someone needs to champion their cause. They call, or stop me to share their stories, hoping that science will provide answers to their questions. For them, the agony of uncertainty created by their unanswered questions is as real as any physical pain.

I receive letters from people who say “thank you for letting me feel normal for just a little while.” These are ordinary people who observe patterns and changes in their environment. They have trusted witnesses, such as their spouse but it does no good because they cannot be plugged into an outlet and their experience scientifically replicated. So they suffer their questions and their burden in silence lest they speak and draw attention to themselves. They go to bed with questions, not answers. Science may not be able to answer all of their questions but it is on the cusp of being able to give them some peace of mind.

The cross-disciplinary webinars offered by Aesthetic Impact Informational Services are proving to be networking opportunities. I watch quietly from the cyber-balcony as audiences connect with speakers. I listen while researchers and scientists excitedly trade ideas. I will never forget watching Melvin Morse, MD, find common ground with Dr. Jay Kappraff, and the discussion that followed regarding the study of both math and humans as “complex systems.” Marty Rosenblatt, with his expertise in Associative Remote Viewing and precognition, kept us on the edge of our seats with his down-to-earth explanations of the same from the perspective of physics. Dr. Angela Smith addressed both Extended Remote Viewing and Out-of-Body Experiences. Lyn Buchanan introduced Theory, Psychology and Analysis of Controlled Remote Viewing and the development of the communication between the conscious and subconscious minds. Paul O’Connor brought information about Energy Psychology techniques that combine cognitive psychology and neurolinguistic programming with the energetic nature of the human biofield.

The audiences are not large but that is not what I consider the win. The win is not a prize or money or one-upping someone. Those things do not interest me. What does interest me is that just one person might be suffering a little less when they go to sleep at night. These, coupled with my hope that a common reporting language amongst the sciences will eventually emerge, are the reason Aesthetic Impact, the webinars and the newsletter exist.

Stephan Schwartz opened the 2007 International Remote Viewers Association Conference with his presentation Opening to the Infinite and explained to us that we are pioneers. “In this often thought-provoking and always inspiring presentation, Stephan Schwartz explains this theme: That moments of genius, special epiphanies, great achievements of creativity, and certain aspects of remote viewing are all aspects of the same thing-nonlocal consciousness. But remote viewing is especially important because, unlike the others, it can be brought about under controlled circumstances. Remote viewing proposes to us that an aspect of human mentality exists independent of time and space. Schwartz illuminates his points by addressing how near-death experiences, reincarnation studies, research into therapeutic intent, precognition, and the power of the placebo-effect are all evidence for the reality of nonlocal consciousness - and are directly linked with the discipline of remote viewing. A special treat is his account of a visit he paid to what he thought of as the ‘primitive’ Bushmen of the Kalahari desert while on assignment for National Geographic, and how they taught him the things about culture and consciousness that the supposedly ‘sophisticated’ society he came from has yet to figure out.” (IRVA 2007).

The nursing profession is represented in the many sciences studying intuition and our human interaction with and in the nonlocal environment. Martha Rogers, PhD, RN, with her theoretical model The Science of Unitary Human Beings appears to be a visionary well ahead of her time. Janet Wessel Krejci, PhD, MS, RN, documented her observations in Synchronous Connections: Nursing’s Little Secret. Victoria Slater, MSN, RN, gives us Modern Physics, Synchronicity and Intuition and Janet Macrae, PhD, RN, Nursing as a Spiritual Practice.

For those interested, current research can be found through several sources. There are conferences, books, websites, videos and DVDs available through The Institute of HeartMath, The Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS), The International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine (ISSSEEM) and The International Remote Viewers Association (IRVA) to name just a few. All are available for questions should you *choose to contact them.

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