ANSWER TO ANOTHER WEB SITE'S CLAIM ABOUT: "Who is Mr. Gerald O'Donnell?"
Mr. Gerald O'Donnell would like
to post the following statements (Dec. 97):
For some months, innuendoes and
misconceptions have been posted on another web site under the following title " Who
is Mr. Gerald O'Donnell?" by a certain Mr. Lyn Buchanan who claims to have been a US
remote viewer.
Mr. O'Donnell resents having to lower
himself to petty arguments. He has always tried to go well beyond narrow-minded
personality differences and ego-boosting devices. Nevertheless, he feels that after many
repeated direct attempts to have the offending material removed and great patience on his
part, the time has come to publicly set the record straight:
Mr. O'Donnell made it adamantly clear from
the start of this site's first page that he was part of a Western European Remote viewing
program and did not partake in any of the presently terminated US Government RV efforts.
Remote Viewing cannot be an active
state of mind, since by definition it requires a passive state in order to be able to
receive data.
In order to remote view, one has to get
data from one's own thoughts, and not from outside stimuli. One therefore enters
automatically an "altered state of consciousness". This correlates with
increased alpha and theta brain wave tracings.
Theta and particularly deep theta are by
far the best levels to remote view. An active beta (so-called awake) state precludes any
remote viewing ability, since by the definition of beta one would then be concentrating on
anything but his/her own internal thought and the data they carry.
CRV, as an acronym, was used by the US
military for Coordinate Remote Viewing and not for Controlled Remote Viewing. All CRV
meant was that real coordinates (longitude and latitude) or fake ones (random number)
would be given in order to draw information from the collective unconscious when one was
performing a remote viewing session.
One can easily train using audio tapes,
since as one closes one's eyes (preferred in order to shut down external input), they
gently bring a subject onto a relaxed, introverted, state of mind. They can be listened to
again and again, as often as needed, and one may train in a private setting without any
fear of failure and/or ridicule.
Mr. O'Donnell strongly believes that any
attempt at widely disseminating a crucial mind-expanding program such as remote viewing
should be consequent and responsible. It cannot and certainly should not unduly overburden
financially many interested parties to the tune of thousands of dollars, restricting
therefore its availability to the most wealthy few and not necessarily to the most
receptive and committed ones.
Since Mr. O'Donnell was part of a non-US RV
program, he readily admits ignorance about many aspects of the US one. He therefore
remains with many questions about it and cannot help but notice that:
1) Major Edward A. Dames - who according to most sources was the Operations and
Training officer of the RV US Army unit which Lyn Buchanan claims to have been attached to
- said on the US nationally syndicated Art Bell Radio show (March 6,
1997) when asked about Lynn Buchanan that "He (Lyn Buchanan) was my database
manager at the unit. He was not a remote viewer. In fact, I attempted to train him, at his
request. He did not complete the training course because he did not have the discipline to
do that. And for him to claim that he was a remote viewer is tantamount to saying that an
aircraft mechanic on a flight line is a pilot. He might be able to taxi the plane up and
down the runway but he cannot take it off and he cannot find his way back . . ."
2) The same Major Ed Dames who is President of PSI TECH writes in his article "Will the real Lyn Buchanan
please sit down" that Lyn Buchanan "does not want to publicly display his
primary job title during his assignment: Data base manager. His secondary job was to
maintain the unit's vehicles." . . . "When I did allow Buchanan to work an
operation, his pieces were small and few, because he was virtually ineffective." . .
. "I felt sorry for Lyn that he failed my training. He lacked the discipline to
attend the rigorous protocols required to successfully prosecute an intelligence
collection mission; he was not capable of leaving his ego behind during a training
session."
Mr. Lyn Buchanan strongly suggested
mistakenly on his web site for over three months that Mr. Gerald O'Donnell might very well
be a certain Prof. Sean O'Donnell that teaches a course at the University College, Galway,
Ireland. Finally, he detracted from this rash assumption only after receiving calls from
Mr. Sean O'Donnell denying that he was the same person and after "carefully"
studying Mr. Sean O'Donnell's material.
The question is: "Why didn't Mr. Lyn
Buchanan remote view Mr. Gerald O'Donnell and at the very least succeed in remote viewing
in which continent he resides! Or was it the names' similarities that threw him off?"
Mr. O'Donnell is not passing judgment on anyone else's training
abilities. He does not claim that his methods of teaching are superior to anyone else's.
He only knows that they are very effective.
"There are many roads that lead to
Rome." This parable means that there are many ways to the ultimate destination
(truth). All roads eventually lead to it.
One should always be weary of individuals
or organizations that would like you to believe that they hold the key to the ultimate and
only way to truth.
This sense of egocentric self-righteousness is always destructive and
carries with it the seeds of its eventual destruction. For Truth cannot bear having only
one way leading to it.
Mr. O'Donnell will never claim that the
method he teaches is the only way to achieve a cognitive trip. He knows too well that this
would be a misstatement of facts. He only recognizes them as an effective attempt at
bridging perceptual dimensions and expanding awareness. There is no method that is 100%
effective, as ultimately there is no unique truth. One eventually learns that one
eventually always reaches the destination, in an easier or harder way, and that the
challenge is in the trip, so that truth is but in the trip and not the destination.
As Mr. Gerald O'Donnell had already
explained before - and this is the central core to his course - the real and ultimate
teacher is one's self. Oneself and not someone else. This is the most important
realization that a successful remote viewer must reach. If that realization is not made
his and not used, no further progress is possible. One remains stuck. What is
really important is the teachings and not the teacher.
This is not an egocentric endeavor. To act
otherwise and expect recognition would be to negate the intent of this course. The Academy
of Remote Viewing's goal is to teach anyone to locate his/her awareness onto a point where
ultimate remote viewing becomes possible. This is the gateway to one's true self.
The level of knowing where all the knowledge is already there, all events are known, and
all locations are within.
From that point on, one should only ask
questions to oneself and watch the answer being given. The illusion of learning from
others, other books, other material disappears, and one need not search further than
Oneself.
Therefore to the question: "Who is Mr.
Gerald O'Donnell?", the answer should be that the question is wrong. The real
question to be asked is: "What does Mr. Gerald O'Donnell try to teach?' And so it
should be regarding anyone else.
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