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The Arrest at Joe's Bar and Grill
The Analogy:
L
et's say that you are asked to remote view the location where a
certain criminal will be at, say, 9PM tonight. You do your session
and come up with the result, "He will be at Joe's Bar and Grill,
eating dinner."
The police go to Joe's Bar at 8:30PM and hide in the bushes in order
to surprise the criminal when he comes up. At 8:45PM, he walks up,
the police spring into action, and at 9PM, the criminal is securely
in jail.
The Meaning of the Analogy:
The police are happy because they were able to catch the criminal.
Any of the criminal's victims are happy because the criminal is
in jail. You get a reward, so you are happy on a conscious level.
But on a subconscious level, you are uncomfortably aware that the
police took action to make your remote viewing results be wrong.
What's more, if you had answered that the criminal would be in
jail at 9PM, the police would not have gone to Joe's Bar and Grill
and the criminal would be sitting there, enjoying his dinner. In
other words, the very people for whom you predicted the future
took steps to make your prediction wrong. In such a case, there
was nothing you could do to wind up with an answer which would
be correct.
This situation is called "Paradoxical tasking", and is very common
in remote viewing. It is also very common that some would-be
debunker will take this situation as the perfect opportunity to
"prove" that remote viewing does not work. An example of this is
for a debunker to ask you to describe the item he will pull out
of his pocket and show to everyone. If you describe what is actually
in his left pocket, he will pull an item out of his right pocket
and "prove" that you are wrong. If you describe the item in his
right pocket, he will show everyone the item which was in his
left, and again, "prove" that you were wrong. He will argue that
if you could see the future, then there would be no way to fool
you. But, once the prediction is made, the subsequent change
is also made to alter what will happen.
Again, this is called "Paradoxical tasking", and is a trap which
has snared many a remote viewer unawares.
For more on this point, see the analogy entitled,
A Bug on the Pond of Time.
NOTE: When this is done to you, it offends your subconscious mind
and often, a viewer will not be able to work successfully for that
customer, again. But, if you do it to yourself, it can be a very
useful tool. For example, if you look to see where you are going
to be at, say, 5PM this afternoon, and you find that you will be
in the morgue, having been in a car wreck, you can change your
plans and stay home. The result of "paradoxical tasking"
when it is used as a tool in this way, can be very beneficial.