A Remote Viewing Guide to Precision Target Formulation

People often approach others wanting to have targets viewed for them, many of them new to remote viewing and not aware of the "art" and "science" that goes into it. Clients frequently want work done but are unsure how the process works or what goes into good targets in general.

Remote viewing is a highly subtle perceptual process performed blind. Because the unconscious is deeply sensitive to suggestion, the way a target is structured determines the quality of the data received. Sloppy tasking can create analytical noise, contamination, or displacement; precise tasking helps to establish clear data.

This guide can shed light as well as help better formulate and manage targets for yourself and other Remote Viewers.

1. Syntax as Poetry: Crafting a Perfect Cue

Creating targets is part art and part science. Furthermore, a target cue can be treated much like a line of poetry—exact, concise, and stripped of filler words. Every added word increases the risk of semantic offsetting, fluff, or confusion, which can subconsciously steer a viewer.

• Keep it articulate: State only the essential coordinates, subjects, or actions required.

• Avoid the "kitchen sink" approach: Do not stack multiple, unrelated questions into a single target ID. If you want to know who, where, and why, break them into a multi-phase study rather than overloading a single cue.

  
  

2. Avoid the Two Deadly Extremes

Effective targeting requires finding the sweet spot between over-specification and complete ambiguity.

• The Trap of Complexity (Over-Specification): Avoid heavy verbiage, leading adjectives, or built-in assumptions. (e.g., “Describe the Arcturians favorite alcoholic beverage...” introduces immediate bias and assumption).

• The Trap of Ambiguity (Under-Specification): Overly open-ended targets drift into static noise. Cues like “Remote view Christmas,” “The Bronze Age” or “Remote view the year 2015” lack focus. What aspect of 2015? Which location? Narrow the aperture to a specific anchor.

  
  

3. Anchor with Spacetime Qualifiers

When targeting historical events, anomalies, or changing structures, try anchoring the cue with an "at the time of" qualifier.

• Importance: If you target a famous historical castle without a time constraint, a viewer might accurately describe a modern gift shop or a ruined pile of stones rather than the medieval battle you intended to study.

• Example: Always append parameters like: "...at the time of the primary event on December 14, 1977."

• Keep in mind that even something like the Eiffel Tower at time of completion” could still be days, weeks, or months. Remember the importance of the window of time and whether the constraint fits your target.

  
  

4. Feedback Golden Rule

Feedback is the breakfast of champions in remote viewing. Without it, you cannot calibrate accuracy.

• Operational vs. Experimental: Targets with clear, verifiable, and straightforward feedback are mandatory for practice, skill-building, and operational validation.

• The Blind Horizon: If a target has no available or verifiable feedback (e.g., viewing the deep past, distant space, or unresolvable mysteries), it should be classified as experimental. Manage expectations accordingly; unverified data cannot be used as definitive proof.

• Leave Room for the Unknown: While the tasker sets the boundaries, the cue must remain open enough to allow for unexpected variables—things the tasker may not have considered or predicted.

  
  

5. Ethical Tasking

A tasker holds a position of trust. Do not weaponize your viewers or exploit their blind trust by assigning unethical targets.

• The Privacy Boundary: Never assign targets that violate personal privacy, track unwitting individuals without cause, or peer into spaces where an expectation of privacy exists.

• Do No Harm: Avoid targets that could cause psychological distress to the viewer, harm others, or intersect with illegal, dangerous, or highly questionable activities.

• Self-Serving Targets: Do not use others for personal financial gain, hidden personal agendas, or private disputes unless the viewers have explicitly consented to the direction, style, and format of that specific study.

• On No Feedback: Most people should avoid doing targets where there tasker will not be providing feedback or any original targeting due to the importance of the feedback loop, among other things.

  
  

6. Tasker Due Diligence

Before setting up and sharing your target do your homework. Research background details. Ask yourself if this a legitimate target.

• Verify Existence: Don’t give out fake targets, fictional locations, or non-existent coordinates as a "test" or joke. It damages the viewer's psychological trust in the signal line.

• "Proving" Remote Viewing works is usually best left to the experiencer.

• Assess Feasibility: Ensure the target is actually viewable and that the final feedback and associated info is organized, concrete, and ready to be delivered once the sessions are closed.

7. More On Target selection

• Variety is the Spicety of Life: Try to work on or share a mixture of different kinds of targets so you’re not always viewing the same content which builds up expectation and noise.

• Signal Volume: Basic, verifiable targets are good for practice. Targets with emotion, energy, interest, or novelty tend to have a stronger, or louder, “signal line”.

• The Viewer’s Time: Remember that viewing is a focused process that takes up time and energy. Respect the viewer and keep in mind their personal time, preferences, and expectations in viewing. Would they be interested in the target, or are they clear on the terms?

8. Re-tasking: Focusing on those tasty sessions

• Timing: Give adequate time between taskings of the same target

• Don’t abuse re-tasking: Focusing on specific areas of a session for continuation or as an additional session should be done with care so as not to lead the viewer, create noise, or fuel AOL Drive, essentially building an imagined storyline.

• Open Questioning: Treat the re-tasking as an open and neutral inquiry rather than an “ah, tell me more about this!” moment, which will automatically trigger the viewer into some form of anticipation.

• Monitoring: Some people condemn monitoring while not practicing ideal tasking or protocols. Monitoring, if done right, is not leading and moves with a non-intrusive flow of open questioning.

  
  

9. Front-loading

Sometimes people find it necessary to add front-loading to the mix, helping to narrow the focus of a complex or otherwise large target.

• This approach lets the viewer know the target is a place, event, or possible location without giving away any specific details.

• It may be done in practice or professionally carried out because of time constraints or certain special circumstances

• Avoid front-loading unless necessary or when it really makes sense because of the potential for bias and noise.

• Technically front-loading is not considered blind, or it may be thought of as “partly blind”.

Version 1.0 by John Adams 2026

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