Remote Viewing: What It Is, Who Uses It and How To Do It

Rifat's bibliography is a puzzle. He doesn't refer to excellent sources that one would expect him to have used, or that he ought to wish to recommend to readers, and yet he cites Wittgenstein and Chomsky who are way off the subject.

I don't find Rifats "scientific" explanations for RV, RI etc plausible.

Where I suspect he is at his best is giving a relatively diverse set of protocols for types of mind-reach activities...but the weaknesses of his text detract greatly from those strengths.

He seems more concerned to advertise or brag about his capabilities than to educate.


Everything you could want   March 28, 2003
 13 out of 20 found this review helpful

After reading this book carefully, most carefully I must emphasize, I got more than my money's worth.
I discovered my wife in flagrante with my junior business partner. I had not had an inkling.
I quickly discovered a new girlfriend, by looking through walls.
As well as a multitude of rats' nests.


GREAT FOR THE CURIOUS   February 2, 2003
 14 out of 15 found this review helpful

I found this book very useful as an introduction to Remote Viewing. While Rifat doesn't do the best job of putting together a structured course or timeline for learning Remote Viewing he does introduce many techniques and protocols used in Remote Viewing. If you are curious about Remote Viewing and don't know much about it this is a good book to get you introduced. However if you plan on learning to Remote View I would suggest this book not be your only source of information on the topic. Try some of McMoneagles books, a video tape learning course, or if you have the money an actual Remote Viewing learning course by a trained professional. I will agree with some of the other reviews posted that Rifat doesn't do a good job of sighting his sources, but if you know much about Remote Viewing and it's history, the vast majority of his facts checkout. One other thing, another reviewer complained about Rifat not "proving" Remote Viewing on a scientific basis and that his explainations were simple. My comment towards that would be this: 1)Rifat had to keep this book readable for the average person, and the average person is no expert at reading scientific jargon and 2)Remote Viewing still isn't completely understood, even by the governments that have spent decades and millions of dollars in research on it, and with the narrow minded view most scientist take toward the world the necassary research hasn't been done to explain exactly how it works, which is probably on a quantum level and only recently have scientist begun to delve into this area of research. Overall I'd say again the book is worth the read, and is a good way to introduce yourself to the techniques and protocols, but if you are serious about Remote Viewing, I would stongly suggest and additional source of training and information.


For purely entertainment purposes only!   January 20, 2003
 7 out of 7 found this review helpful

Rifat makes some amazing claims about super-duper secret soviet psi research facilities that, apparently, the US wanted to get intel on but couldn't. However, Rifat seems to have intimate knowledge of - although he never exactly explains how.

Equally, he's an expert on US endeavors with RV. He did cite the Freedom of Information act as a vehicle for collecting the data on these programs; however, he never mentions what documents he found. There is a problem here. Most of the `good stuff' is still classified so it isn't available under the Freedom of Information act.

I'm not sure how it's related but he somehow meanders onto various gov'ts use of Microwave technology to control the population - supposedly the soviets had satellites beaming us all into submission. And his issues with MI5; seesh!

I would recommend this book for its comical value only.