The instrument seals a place on Earth. Describe it before you see it.
This is the coordinate remote viewing protocol of the SRI experiments, worn as a sitting. The live instrument draws six fresh bits from this device’s physical noise and seals one target from a bank of sixty-four real places, satellite-visible anywhere on Earth. You are told nothing but its designation.
You then sketch and describe whatever impressions arrive: forms, textures, water or stone, built or wild. When you are done, four satellite images appear; one is the target, three are decoys the sky dealt. Choose the one that matches your impressions. Chance is one in four. Only after choosing do you see where the target was, and whether you found it.
The record keeps every session, hit or miss, and the archive publishes only the aggregate. No claims: at chance, one in four of your first choices will hit. What is interesting is a record that drifts from that, in either direction, over many sessions.
No bank, no decoys: the whole Earth is the target pool.
Fresh bits of this device’s physical noise write a point on Earth digit by digit, each digit distilled from parity bits and rejection-sampled so it is exactly uniform. You are shown only a designation derived from the sealed coordinate, never the coordinate itself. Sketch and describe what arrives; only then does the place reveal, from above, with a door to the real satellite view.
When a distance is set, your location is read once, used on this device to center the draw, and never sent anywhere. Sessions of the open field stay entirely on this device. Most of the planet is ocean, and the field does not mind.
The field is choosing…
six bits choose the target, further bits distill its designation, all from this device’s live physical noise
Sketch and describe the place the designation points to.
One of these four is the target. Which did you see?
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