Leonard (Lyn) Buchanan

The Setting of Standards

Abstract:

The field of parapsychology has had an informal "code of ethics" for a long time. This included such things as "don't use it for your own profit", "don't use it to harm others", etc. But the ethics were more bits of hard-learned advice between practitioners than standards which the general public could use to trust and rely on the practitioners. So, practitioners became suspect and mistrusted.

Today, as remote viewing begins to serve the general public (in matters such as police and governmental work, archeological, medical, financial, and business matters, to name just a few), it becomes necessary to expand the intra-field advice. It must become standards of ethics, workmanship, and professionalism which can meet the needs of a struggling world. Practitioners in this field should be guided by these standards in order to provide the trust and reliability which has been absent for so long.

Surprisingly, quite a bit of work has already been done to set these standards. Not surprisingly, there is much more which needs to be done. To become a professional field, the field of remote viewing must set professional standards of ethics, conduct, qualification levels, and must address the modern needs of reporting, databasing, contracting, providing professional responsibility for results, and meeting the same demands made of any modern profession.

Lyn Buchanan's lecture will cover what has been done, what still needs to be done, and how these standards are necessary for bringing remote viewing out of what the world sees as cultist and occultist, and into the professional, workaday world for serving mankind.