Advances in Remote Viewing with Lyn Buchanan

Summary

How Controlled Remote Viewing Developed

• Lyn Buchanan says he joined the U.S. remote-viewing unit at Fort Meade in 1984 and became its trainer after others had difficulty teaching the method.
• He describes Ingo Swann’s Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) as an evolving method. Swann experimented, kept records, and revised the stages over time. Buchanan says later approaches build on Swann’s foundations rather than simply reproducing his original lessons.
• Buchanan stresses the value of systematic records and accuracy databases. In his view, documented performance helps distinguish protocol-based remote viewing from unsupported claims of psychic ability and makes the work more usable in practical settings.
• He distinguishes CRV from natural psychic or channeling abilities. He says CRV provides a structured way for people to use intuition they already possess; it does not create psychic ability. Some naturally talented people may produce useful information, he says, but not in a standardized format suitable for military or institutional use.

Training Intuition and Learning to Trust the Process

• Buchanan argues that people often have intuitive experiences but are taught to dismiss or conceal them. He describes intuition as a human capacity that may become underused.
• In his training, students may initially produce accurate results but doubt or reject them. Buchanan says repeated success with blind targets—often after roughly ten convincing experiences—can shift a student’s view of their own abilities.
• He emphasizes the difference between demonstrating that remote viewing is possible and becoming consistently proficient. A short course may provide an introduction, but professional-level work takes sustained practice, feedback, and commitment.
• He compares training to learning an instrument or a martial art: even skilled practitioners must keep practicing. He cautions that people should not expect a quick route to wealth or professional competence.

Buchanan’s Approach to Remote Influencing and Healing

Buchanan describes a healing approach as helping people engage their own subconscious processes rather than directly “healing” them. He says the aim is for the person to help themselves, not to promise a cure.

Scenario-based method he describes:

1. Construct an imagined setting and begin interacting with the person at a subconscious level.
2. Offer an event or stimulus, then pause and attend to the person’s apparent response.
3. Adapt the next part of the scenario to that response, continuing the interaction rather than following a fixed script.

Buchanan’s example involved imagining a woman driving down a road. After she reacted angrily, he introduced deer, then a forest and water. He says the evolving scene engaged her and coincided with a drop in her blood pressure.

He also recounts a study arranged through healer-researcher Savely Salva and a physician identified as Dr. Mann of Cornell University. Buchanan says he used a coin toss to decide whether to work on a patient whose blood pressure was being recorded. In the sessions when he worked, he reports occasional drops of as much as 50 points. He says the work was not curative but might help in an emergency. These are Buchanan’s account of the study and its results.

Practical and Professional Applications

• Buchanan says he has trained teams for corporations, agencies, police departments, and research groups. He describes some corporate projects as confidential, with remote-viewing teams working internally on planning and procedures.
• He argues that CRV can be adapted to a client’s question while still relying on a structured foundation. He presents professional use as requiring both a clear task and careful documentation.
• He says remote viewing has been applied to sociological or “demographic” analysis. In his usage, a demographic profile can include a group’s customs, religion, upbringing, traditions, political views, and aspirations. He says viewers can create comparative charts to identify potential areas of compatibility or tension between groups.
• He gives examples involving migration, a museum seeking to borrow an artifact, and possible uses by city planners, police, advertisers, or religious groups. He presents these as proposed applications, not as independently established results.
• Buchanan says confidentiality is sometimes needed to protect clients and viewers from ridicule, exposure, or possible danger, particularly in police work.

Claims About Extraterrestrial Life

• The discussion turns to both human migration and extraterrestrial beings. Mishlove asks Buchanan to clarify which he means.
• Buchanan claims that extraterrestrials are present and says public disclosures represent only a small portion of the information held by authorities. Mishlove questions whether the public has official confirmation, and Buchanan acknowledges that ordinary people may not share the information he believes is available in government circles.
• Buchanan also describes a remote-viewing task concerning a planet around another star, saying viewers reported a society of sentient beings there. He says the results cannot be checked until a much later time.
• The conversation does not establish these claims as verified facts; they are Buchanan’s assertions and speculation.

The Remote View Ranch and Future Training

• Buchanan says he bought 120 acres in a remote, quiet area near White Sands to create the Remote View Ranch. He hopes it will become a training and research center, including for medical applications and work with professionals.
• He says he wants to connect well-performing viewers with doctors and other practitioners, while setting a high accuracy standard—roughly 80–85%—before trusting the work in consequential applications.
• He hopes the ranch will support a new generation of viewers and provide a place for training, collaboration, and applied research.

Money, Standards, and Professional Responsibility

• Buchanan warns against treating remote viewing—especially Associative Remote Viewing (ARV)—as a reliable way to get rich. He says ARV can be difficult to master and may require years of practice to achieve dependable accuracy.
• He acknowledges that remote viewing might help with financial choices, but says it takes skill and should not be sold as a shortcut out of debt.
• In police work, he emphasizes that viewers may encounter disturbing material. Training should prepare them to handle the emotional impact, not merely to collect information.
• He says CRV instruction includes techniques for protecting viewers from distressing target material. He cautions that not everyone is suited to missing-person or criminal investigations, despite good intentions.
• A core instruction Buchanan attributes to Swann is:

Describe, do not identify.

Viewers should record sensory or descriptive impressions and set aside nouns or guesses about what the target is. In a classroom demonstration, Buchanan says students often described an object accurately but then misidentified it when they tried to name it.

Community and Support

• Buchanan says students benefit from working together, sharing results, and encouraging one another. He describes organizing online groups and project teams across countries.
• He presents this social support as particularly important because remote viewing can attract ridicule and discouragement, leaving practitioners without the encouragement that more socially accepted skills often receive.

Speakers and Sources Featured

Speakers

• Jeffrey Mishlove — host and interviewer.
• Lyn Buchanan — remote-viewing trainer and interview guest.

People and Sources Referenced in the Discussion

• Ingo Swann — described by Buchanan as the developer of the CRV foundation and a continuing experimenter.
• Joe McMoneagle — Buchanan says he inherited the unit database after McMoneagle left.
• Russell Targ, Hal Puthoff, and Ed May — researchers whose work and archives are discussed.
• Paul — referenced by first name in connection with remote-viewing archives.
• Debra Katz and Angela Ford — mentioned in connection with a prior interview; Ford is described as a naturally gifted psychic rather than a CRV practitioner.
• Savely Salva and Dr. Mann of Cornell University — associated with the healer-testing work and blood-pressure study Buchanan recounts.
• Jerry Salfin — referenced for a theory that healing may involve telepathic suggestion followed by the recipient’s self-healing.
• Stephen Greer — mentioned in the discussion of public claims about extraterrestrials.
• Lori’s husband and pianist Vladimir Horowitz — mentioned briefly in examples about students’ realization and the dedication required for mastery.