The Robo-pede Architects of Stonehenge
Welcome to r/Weird_Remote_Viewing, where it’s okay to be psychic (or not)
Stonehenge. Subject of an excellent rock song. Iconic tourist destination. Mystery surrounds this ancient site, seemingly built with technology ahead of its time, at odds with the historical record, using enormous blocks from over 100 kilometers (whatever those are) away.
Despite much fruitless speculation and dusty archaeological analysis, no one has really had an answer for how this arrangement of standing stones was created. Or at least not one that is so terrifyingly improbable that it just has to be true.
No one, that is, until now.
Enter r/Weird_Remote_Viewing
Only days ago, fellow Remote Viewing Community Magazine bullpen author Monad Mantis threw a gauntlet down in the r/remoteviewing community (11K+ strong and growing — not quite Flintstones vitamins level yet, but we’ll get there).
Lo, a new subreddit would be launched, one free to tackle the esoteric, the strange, the unverifiable. With it came an ambitious reciprocity pledge: get a session, give a session.
The Mantis and I had previously gone back and forth a little bit on this point. Could a remote viewing target trade economy work out fairly? I guess we’ll find out.
r/Weird_Remote_Viewing is here to stay, and it beckons all to participate, to try their hand both at selecting strange targets and at performing remote viewing.
In doing so, the Mantis may have done amateur remote viewers an unintended favor, creating a true psychic safe space. (We’ll get back to that)
Expedition: Stonehenge
To launch the subreddit, the Mantis announced a first weird target, open to any and all to participate. These participants, in usual remote viewing style, were blind to the target. They were to seek psychic impressions about it without knowing in advance what they were investigating.
Sometimes this leads to stunningly accurate results. Some would argue that true “feedback” is required for remote viewing to really work. Others say that remote viewing always works, and it is our understanding of it that is wrong.
For r/Weird_Remote_Viewing, feedback is completely optional and debate is moot. In many cases there will be absolutely no way to tell whether the information gathered is correct by any measuring stick. Perhaps freed from the constraints of having to prove anything at all, accountable to no one, creativity, energy, and psychic abilities can run free.
The, uh, results are in
The target was meant to be open to participation for a full week, but the Mantis stopped it early, like an incredibly successful medical treatment trial. Initial results were just too exciting to hold back, I suppose!
You see, one user had described a giant centipede with flopping appendages, moving through a fluid medium. As I understand, the Mantis thought this could correspond to one theory that long boats with paddles were used to tow heavy blocks underwater from the distant quarry to the hilltop site.
Another user, the honestly talented GlassCloched, turned in pure nightmare fuel. (Text borrowed from here — I’ll return it later, don’t worry)
GlassCloched
I’m sensing something like a bendy robot neck. Something able to move and twist accordion style. I get a feeling of being watched as if whatever it is is curious.
Now I can’t get image out of my head of giant-sized, human-like robot with expandable, accordion neck lurching around a hilltop on its stomach in a catlike yoga pose, stopping to extrude blocks (which may actually be the digested remains of its meals, like owl pellets), on the alert for its next meal via psychic abilities that can bridge across the aeons.
Thanks! Always love your work.
GlassCloched
Yes! It felt very otherworldly, mechanical, but an organism at the same time. I also had the feeling of it being in some almost viscous fluid, or it could have been silt caused by its movement. Weird!
Edit: I feel like I provided information for a cool SciFi story 😂
Joking aside, given what you sensed, the other user’s impressions of a giant centipede are a fairly good match.
GlassCloched
Agreed. Very intriguing. Every time I have tried to picture the construction by humans it seemed like a struggle and not quite right. I don’t know how to explain it, but the thought of humans doing it didn’t feel right.
What went wrong and what went right?
Recently, Courtney Brown’s Farsight group remote viewed the purpose of Stonehenge. His all-woman squad found menacing overtones of suffering and violence. This wasn’t some hippy dippy place of peaceful worship. Clearly a Farsight fan, Monad Mantis may have been inspired by said recent project when selecting the first target for their own cohort.
What Brown had perhaps found most interesting was that the minds of some of the cult leaders at the historic site seemed robotic.
This does share a vague through-line with GlassCloched’s impressions of something both alive and somehow robotic at the same time.
Also, in remote viewing, there is a concept of “analytical overlay.” That is, the conscious mind may jump to conclusions and create a kind of flawed guess as to what impressions are being received. In the case of the large centipede-creature moving through water, there could, possibly, maybe be an actual correspondence with a longboat driven by paddles. I’m not as ready to take that leap as the Mantis was, but beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I didn’t task this session.
None of what was viewed, right or wrong, is as important as what Monad Mantis has created.
The debut of a psychic safe space
When Russell Targ helped to run the remote viewing research programs in the 1970s, he let participants know that “it is okay to be psychic.” There’s a thought that modern humans are conditioned out the use of our natural abilities and full potentials. Targ wanted to let people know they could shed all of that and open up to new possibilities.
You see, I’m a junior moderator of the much more po-faced r/remoteviewing group. Quite often people come to challenge us to “prove” remote viewing to them, as if we have been trying to bilk them or fool them out of their world view.
Although they have arrived in our space, these challengers tend to treat us like missionaries on their doorstep, insisting that we run through tests that they have designed without our input. With those immutable expectations in hand, they are taken aback and gravely wounded that no one leaps to participate in their one single trial to forever prove or disprove the truth of the discipline or phenomena of remote viewing. “I want to believe” they say, before casting stones.
In contrast to our relatively staid group, by creating a community with no expectations, no bar for participation except a commitment to keep participating, and frankly no way to prove anything, Monad Mantis has created a community where it is always okay to be psychic and it is okay to face-plant. There will always be others like you to catch you as you fall, and naysayers have no ground to object.
Get over your Fear of Being Publically Wrong
I originally planned to write this piece with tongue-in-cheek, pretending to take the remote viewing session results at face value, promoting them as 100% correct evidence of how Stonehenge was built. As I wrote, my countenance softened and I felt moved with warmth and empathy towards the community and its creator, the bold Monad Mantis.
For any of you who have followed my obscure public comments over the past year (hello?), I believe a valuable step for any burgeoning viewer is to get over the Fear of Being Publically Wrong (FOBPW).
This is part of letting go of the outcome and focusing on the process of remote viewing. It is a step towards the dissolution of ego and acceptance of possibilities.
Please come and see and laugh and play and wonder and explore with Monad Mantis and the new gang at r/Weird_Remote_Viewing. Get over your FOBPW, have a ball, and feel okay to be psychic!
You’ll find me there, too, and I’m relying on you to provide a soft landing when I fall.
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