Wow! Plain and simple - this guy is a complete nut! How he stays employed by any university is beyond me. Calling this book 'scientific' might be one of the greatest written travesties of all time.
Belive me there is nothing scientific about this speculative view that we are using remote viewing to stay in direct contact with alien races - complete with a galactic council, interstellar supreme court, plus evidence that two races of extraterrestrials, Martians and Greys, left the red planet centuries ago and have taken up residence in the underground caves of Earth.
I have a pretty open mind but I think this author confused the Jedi Council and Galatic Republic with reality.
Note: I do believe in academic freedom - but, with the caveat that you have a grip on what is unproven speculation and what is truly research and science. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth A very well thought out concept... does not do what it says it does. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth Read this in 1996 Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth One of the most important books of our time. Of course, the reader needs an open mind and being already familiar with one of the most important discoveries of humanity - remote viewing - is an advantage. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth this was just straight-up not good Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth
It is a good book about Remote Viewers and their methods :) I mean, I can trust the info about Courtney Brown and his collegues... as concerning the info about greys, martians and galactic federation, I think the RVs are too gullible. Anyone, Anything, can be producing these images and communications, (including themselves) just giving the info the RVs want to hear... suspect, always suspect :) Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth Really engaging book about the author's personal path and experiences with remote viewing. The author talks about his path to remote viewing, which started with Transendental Meditation, then moved through training with the Monroe Institute, and finally into remove viewing (SRV) protocols. In this book, he provides transcripts from several remote viewing experiences, from the mundane (such as remote viewing Bill Clinton in the white house) to the extraordinary (pretty much every other experience in the book, from the downfall of martian civilization to entering the minds of Jesus, Buddha, and the Greys) Like any other book or psychic exploration of this nature, it is not without its distortions of the author's consciousness; however, most of the material is in alignment with other things I've read on these subjects, and it provides some insightful threads for understanding and discussion on the nature of time-space, space-time, consciousness, god and the infinite creation, and the different types of civilizations of our universe. It also provides a good framework to understand remove viewing and the possibilities it unveils of communicating and witnessing some version of truth that is not limited to the physical reality we perceived on a daily basis. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth Courtney Brown seems like a really honest and nice guy—he really does—but this book is just boring. The subject matter is itself fascinating, the speculation is waaaaay out there, and quite a bit of it just seems plain outrageous and unbelievable even when you believe in remote viewing. With all of that going for it this book should have been quite entertaining and fascinating, yet it isn't.
Certainly there is a matter of taste to be had with this style, but it's just a big problem. The personal and 'live' reporting style is simply off putting. Too many 'hmmm's and 'oh wow's, somehow even in the writing I can't even fake myself into imagining he's seeing anything amazing. It's really a case of it sounds better when you're told >about< it rather than seeing it yourself. That's what I felt while reading the parts of this which I bothered with, it all would have been more interesting had he just told us about it rather than try to give us a perspective that isn't just implausible, but that the very writing seems to make implausible. I can't see any actual emotion, any major event, in the writing—I can imagine most of what is described, but I can't imagine Brown himself nor his reactions to anything, it's just so bland and empty.
While the book itself is boring, I do find what it's about interesting. Brown is so out there that it is easy to ignore him as crazy and move on, however, I have a soft spot for honest weirdos who clearly believe 100% in what they're doing. I've checked out his Farsight stuff, and while I think he seems to have a penchant for really overdone tacky presentation which makes watching his works hard for me, I also think he's onto some fascinating stuff with the Time Cross project. Most of the time the predictions are really general and meh, but every once in a while they get so specific it is indeed spooky. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth I want to believe.
For as far back as my aging memory can traverse, without me needing to take a nap on the sofa afterward, I recall being fascinated with the concept of extra terrestrials. At first it was just a passing interest in whether UFOs really existed and then as the years went by it branched out into whether they were visiting earth, are they really abducting people for sexual experiments and can I be the next abductee please? It will come as no surprise to you then to hear I was fascinated with the premise of the book 'Cosmic Voyage' when I read the proclamation on the front cover, Astonishing new evidence of extraterrestrials visiting earth! My first thought was although Tila Tequila may look like an alien she is, contrary to her looks, not an alien at all. Thankfully this book wasn't about Tila or tequila for that matter. Nope, it is an account of one man's experiences through remote viewing.
If you are unfamiliar with remote viewing and believe it has something to do with changing tv channels while sitting in your armchair then you are greatly mistaken. It is, in fact, the ability to gather information about an unseen target using extra sensory perception...a way of garnering information on any person, place or thing anywhere in time. It's akin to astral projection and has a lot of similarities to what some people who have clinically died experience before their revival ie, their spirit leaving their body and the ability to view not just this realm of existence but that of an afterlife/alternative realm of existence although the latter two involve being out of the body and actually observing.
Remote viewing is taken as fact in this book otherwise the whole premise wouldn't work as it's how Courtney Brown (who is a professor of political science specializing in nonlinear mathematical modeling of social phenomena, environmental politics, and elections so he's obviously a very intelligent guy) receives his evidence. Now, although I do actually believe in remote viewing, I did have a hard time believing the extent to which it is undertaken in this book. Not that I think Mr Brown is making all his experiences up but a lot of it, in my mind at least, might well be akin to people recalling past lives while under hypnotic regression...it's pure fantasy that appears real to the person experiencing it due to the trans meditative state that they occupy when partaking of these experiences.
Here's my problem with remote viewing. If, indeed it is able to be undertaken to the extent that the author claims - he observes Jesus, Adam & Eve, Martians, Bill Clinton and the Grey aliens amongst others - wouldn't the government have hired someone with this ability to locate Osama Bin Laden for instance? And as remote viewing can take one to the past, present or future wouldn't the FBI be hiring remote viewers to assist in unsolved murders and to stop future catastrophes such as the one we experienced on 9/11? Besides that I tend to think that if remote viewing was as attainable as the author claims then the world would end up in legal chaos. Why? Well, the history of mankind shows us that if one thing is for certain it's that we (and I use the term we very generally and am not implying that you, dear reader, fall into the upcoming examples) always find ways of corrupting what is pure. Take the internet for instance; it started as a form of innocent communication and nowadays it is used by terrorists to find out how to make bombs to kill innocent people or by pedophiles to trade and view child pornography. So if one can apply that to remote viewing, going on the assumption it is real, how would it be policed? And if I was capable of remote viewing myself how could I resist the temptation of observing Jennifer Lopez taking a shower?!? It's all too much.
Anyhow, I kind of got sidetracked for a few moments but the book itself is very interesting reading if somewhat unbelievable - there's Martians living in Santa Fe Baldy which is a mountain in New Mexico - and unless you yourself have experience in remote viewing then I would guess you are also unlikely to fully believe what is portrayed as fact in this book. However, that's a personal call so don't let my evaluation dissuade you from making your own judgement.
If you would like a looksie for yourself at 'Cosmic Voyage' - it's one of those books where you could just skim the index, find a chapter title you find interesting and read that particular chapter instead of going cover to cover - and if you are one of those more technologically advanced gurus who read ebooks then this book, and it's follow-up, 'Cosmic Explorers' are available for FREE on the author's own website:
http://www.courtneybrown.com/publicat...
I still want to believe. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth If I had read this book when it first came out (1990s) it would probably have impressed me more. Unfortunately, in my old age I have become much more skeptical and cynical. It Is not so much a book but rather a collection of remote viewing experiences designed to better understand UFO abductions and their related phenomenon. A lot of it is downright corny and this same information has been recycled time and time again. It's an average read. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth
Using scientific remote viewing (SRV), a modern version of a technique developed by the U.S. military to retrieve data from great distances and across time, Brown has found evidence of intelligent alien life. This revolutionary book offers unprecedented proof of extraterrestrial civilizations, their ongoing interaction with Earth, and their vital role in the destiny of humankind. Cosmic Voyage: A Scientific Discovery of Extraterrestrials Visiting Earth