The Seventh Sense: The Secrets of Remote Viewing as Told by a "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military

by Lyn Buchanan

For the past thirty years, the United States government has secretly trained a select corps of military personnel in the art of "remote viewing" -- the psychic ability to perceive the thoughts and experiences of others through the power of the human mind....
Now, for the first time, Lyn Buchanan -- a world-renowned expert on remote viewing and its potential -- tells the complete, candid story of his experiences. Assigned for nearly a decade to a clandestine U.S. Army intelligence group, Buchanan trained military personnel who utilized their inherent psychic abilities as a data-collection tool during the Iran hostage crisis, the Chernobyl disaster, and the Gulf War.
In this incredible account, Buchanan tells how he was selected for his unique psychic abilities, and how he was transformed from an ordinary soldier into one of our nation's leading psychic spies. Working on top-secret government and military projects using "mental espionage" created permanent, life-altering changes within Buchanan. Now, after many years of analysis and interpretation, he reveals the techniques and mental exercises used to train remote viewers, and demonstrates that each of us carries a dormant psychic ability that we can explore and use ourselves.
For anyone interested in a hard, scientific look at the reality of psychic covert operations in the world today, or anyone who has ever wondered if he or she could have the inherent skills to become a remote viewer, this fascinating chronicle of life as a psychic spy will reveal the answers.

Genres: Nonfiction, Paranormal, Psychology, Espionage, Spirituality, Metaphysics, Science

320 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2003

Reviews

[Heidi Wiechert · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was more enjoyable than Morehouse's Psychic Warrior and also more informative on the science of controlled remote viewing. I was amazed by Buchanan's work stories. I was chilled by his descriptions of following people through death into the afterlife and what happened to some of them. Mainly, this book makes me want to read a lot more about the topic. It's an extraordinary idea/practice!

Beyond the entertainment value, this book is valuable for the vocabulary it teaches, the exercises in the back to build your own power of "ambience", and for the blank documents that he provides for your record keeping to prove past casework. If you don't read anything else, skip to page 275 and read the documents from one of his remote viewing classes.

[Matt · Rating 5 out of 5]

A super interesting book. I have always scoffed at the idea of remote viewing, but the author gives so many examples of it's success that makes it hard to dismiss. I did not read the appendices- of which there are many, many pages of terms, exercises and methods used by his team to train those interested in remote viewing.

This isn't a how-to book but it gives the author's militasry history and how he came to be a remote viewer. He backs the claims up with stories of real life successes using his psychic skills.

[Erin · Rating 5 out of 5]

The power of the human mind is fascinating! Our minds can go into the future or past and explore settings or even people's minds. Buchanan describes the part of our mind that does this as the subconscious, but he never addresses what the subconscious is accessing. My impression is that the military had enough evidence that remote reviewing worked that they didn't care how it worked. Buchanan and others still teach remote viewing in Abilene, Texas!

[Guy Jr. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was an entertaining read, if you are interested in the historical application of psychic spies in the United States during the 1970s-1990s. The characterizations in this memoir are engaging and enjoyable. The resources provided were engaging, but it left a bit of scepticism in my mind--kind of where I was before I read it.

So if you are interested in psychic spies, remote viewing, or controlled psychic experiments I would recommend this book for you.

[David Nunez · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about Lyn Buchanan's experience in the RV unit when he served in the military. Lyn seems like he was an amazing viewer. I just get so amazed by the capabilities of what a person can do with their mind and all their senses to the full potential! Lyn shares his experiences with his encounters with psychic spies from China and Russia. Lyn talks about how he was recruited into the RV unit and how he now teaches around the world his techniques in RV.

[Sharon · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fairly detailed read, though not as entertaining as Targ. Just a different voice.

[Steph (loves water) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating...and didn't surprise me at all.

[Denis · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Seventh Sense by Lyn Buchanan is a mind opening, extraordinary book, that brings into focus the power of our untapped mind. This book is not a 'how to' methodology on the human mind, but specifically relates to the deployment of our mental capability to identify people, events and things outside our normal cognitive 5-senses and, in particular, past and future timelines. The book basically centres on the premise that the US government has over the past 30 years or more been involved in psychic warfare and intelligence gathering using trained military 'Remote Viewers'. I think the science behind Remote Viewing using the subconscious mind was originally developed in Russia and Israel.

I think this book is audacious in its coverage, since only now do we see snapshots of this field of intrigue, slowly but surely coming into general awareness via other related books and mainstream media. A similar book that was equally mind-blowing is Cosmic Voyage - a discovery of ETs visiting Earth by Prof Courtney Brown. This book has similarities because the author was a Remote Viewer within the US military establishment. The interesting thing for me in reading the Seventh Sense was the development of the science to a point where Remote Viewers may in certain situations interact with the environment; from just being an observer?

I recommend this book to readers who are questioning the inherent powers of the human mind. Buy on Amazon.

Denis J (Author of the '3-3-3' Enigma - An Invitation to Consciously Create Your Reality)

[M · Rating 4 out of 5]

Here is part of that journey I am on. Lyn Buchanan is a friend and colleague of David Morehouse the Psychic Warrior, and helped to mend his shattered soul. Lyn, lives in Alamagordo NM where all the Ufologists hang out. He has designed a formula to measure the success of Controlled Remote Viewers. He has done sufficient research and has been involved in it long enough while being in the Army to construct powerful arguments to all the debunkers. He is a friend of fmr. Gen Bert Stubblebine, well that leads one to Codex Alimentarius..but am getting into something else here.

Buchanan does have some exercises,that entail concentration, training and hard work, long hours and consistency to train anyone in the apparently latent ability if it has not been expressed as a natural psychic in remote viewing. This includes seeing a site and describing what you see in neutral words.

The site can be anywhere in the world, this one or the next. Maybe.It is fascinating and I plan to attend lectures, and continue to study this new paradigm.

[Stephanie K · Rating 5 out of 5]

I mean, you could read this from the viewpoint that it is entirely a work of fiction and it would still be captivating as hell. I burned through (almost) the whole thing in one sitting.
If you're a skeptic about remote viewing, supplement this book with the declassified government documents (which are interestingly missing page 34) and you've got yourself some interesting stuff to think about!
If you are open to the idea of remote viewing, this book provides a wealth of practical information independent of the anecdotes. This is juicy material for anyone interested in the human mind in all its possibilities and limitations.

[JKC · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was a DNF. I guess I'm skeptical. It's just something I can't seem to shake. I only half believe and only half want to believe. I have a conviction that the mind is capable of so much - including what we think comes from outside the mind. When he met Jesus I had to stop. It seemed like so much wishful thinking. I have no doubt that people such as this are of great help in investigations and I do believe they should be used to help find hostages and whatnot.

[Tom Schulte · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love relishing in the fantastic possibilities when watching a UFO documentary, but afterwood my normal, skeptical cynicism returns. The same was my experience with this book, but I appreciated Lyn's non-defensive attitude and his sagely approach to documenting, analyzing and validating pyschic ability.

[Betsy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lyn Buchanan's writing style seems like that of a military officer. Kind of choppy. The stories he tells often seem fantastic. I'd like to believe what he relates about the remote viewing unit, but I keep wondering: why didn't controlled remote viewing catch Bin Laden sooner?

[Puffin Gallow · Rating 5 out of 5]

Pertaining to the paranormal/supernatural, there's a plethora of sources out there that are conceited and deceptive, aimed at exploiting people's guilibility into trusting the unknown. My first impression of Remote Viewing was that it belonged to that sort of supernatural woo-y stuff that wants to trick people. However, Lyn Buchanan, a seasoned veteran in this practice who has continued teaching the art of Remote Viewing up until today, has provided an objective, well-structured analysis and first-hand experience into this subject that has made me really reconsider how our reality is built, that is, the hidden, inconspicuous building blocks of the world we live in. In the book, Buchanan relayed that our mind is divided into 2 parts: the "conscious" and the "subconscious." What strikes me about this division is that he clarified why he doesn't refer to the "subconscious" as the "unconscious.". He believes that there is actually nothing about our mind that it is not aware of. He further purports that when we remote view, we don't actually transport to that place to see what's it like, but rather we access our subconscious mind and discuss with it for it to relay information of that place for our conscious mind to know. This notion suggests that our minds are all connected, or rather, our minds are connected to the totality of the universe, and we can access information anywhere at any time we want, and vice versa toward those who want to access ours. Despite the US government knowledge of this in the 80s, they had no incentive to get to the crux to gauge why our mind is constructed this way. They just needed the practical results it brings about. And recently, modern science made a breakthrough that relates to remote viewing and further cements its existence through a physics research paper proving that the universe is not locally real.

All in all, greatly fascinating. I believe I will be coming back to this book a few more times in the future when I dive more into the science of remote viewing and possibly pursue it in a serious manner.

[Alex · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Seventh Sense is interesting, entertaining, and accessible, but the one thing that impressed me from the get-go is that Buchanan isn't interested in sugar-coating his story or making it more believable. He starts the book by saying "During my childhood, I could move things with my mind" [paraphrased]. There's no attempt to ease you into it, or to paper over the less plausible stuff. Either you're in or you're out. I find that admirable.

That said, do I necessarily believe everything in the book? Hell no. Buchanan as much as admits that one of the members of his unit seems to have gone way off the rails, and that many people suspect he's a CIA agent trying to discredit remote viewing. Even the introduction to the book, written by a journalist who tried to write about the subject, suggests that the government is actively trying to control the narrative. You can safely assume that some of the Seventh Sense is inaccurate, but what parts?

[Liz Mandeville · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lyn Buchanan has written a very dry, no nonsense textbook on remote viewing.

He outlines how he was recruited, what he learned and how it’s used. He talks about ways to test the viewer’s information and ways to get around common problems such as viewing numbers.

Over the course of the book he talks about other Remote Viewers who have written books and offer courses on the subject. In every case he says that they are charlatans and that one cannot learn remote viewing except from the military. He insists that remote viewing is not ESP and that psychics are not credible, yet his remote viewers have been able to help solve missing persons cases and other covert investigations that are otherwise inexplicable.

His final appendix give numerous examples of how to fine tune one’s findings and test their accuracy, but over and over he insists that these techniques can not and should not be used.

Humbug.

[Crystal · Rating 4 out of 5]

Not sure what drew me to this nonfiction book years ago, but I ended up not finishing it. Since I am finishing things this year, this was at the top of my list to finish. We are all connected somehow. And some people have put that to good use. The strategies in this book show people that it's possible. But after a lot of training. A connection to your own subconscious, I believe, would be revolutionary. I wish every lost child had someone with this connection to find them. But alas, my own subconscious is not to be tamed. "The amount of personal growth that takes place when a person learns to open his whole mind, at all levels, to the world about him is phenomenal. When lines of communication are set up between those levels so nothing is hidden from the person, a person becomes truly alive and awake." Sounds fantastical, but useful.

[Scott · Rating 4 out of 5]

“In like manor, people may trust themselves to do say well in business, but not in love, they may trust themselves to do well in love, but not in public speaking. It is this phase when people learn to trust themselves in all things.”
- the Sixth Sense , Lyn Buchanan discuses the process of training in remote viewing as he learned in both the military and the Agency.

(It remarkable how at times people who lack confidence in their own decision making because of prior traumas they experienced yet they did not cause, to turn to others with even more jaded and myopic viewpoints to validate the areas they lack confidence in their own decision making - a paradox for flawed decision making. Will that be in business - in love - in public speaking ? Or all of the above ?

[James Lowery · Rating 4 out of 5]

What a fascinating read this was. This book was upfront at the beginning as not being an instructionl manual for Controlled Remote Viewing, at least not in the way it was carried out by the author and the Intelligence Network. The book is replete with anecdotal accounts of the author's time within and outside of the Intelligence Network and provides the reader, as such, with what is and what is not considered proper Controlled Remote Viewing. This is laid out even more so in the appendices which comprise the latter half of the book. If one is wishing to develop parapsychological abilities one should check out Ingo Swann who is credited as being the godfather of Controlled Remote Viewing.

[Dan Zarfati · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read about 5 books on RV, all interesting, but this one is about the best one could expect. It gives way more than you could you ever expect, in terms of the history, the cases, the ambient and the training. Go for it.

[Mahogany Kowitch · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really interesting. Not a guide to remote viewing, but very informative.

[Rosbel · Rating 3 out of 5]

A mind-opening book with interesting stories. As part of the appendix, he provides some practical exercises to help us be more attentive and perceptive to our environment.

[Mike S · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really liked this book, which I believe was written with a great deal of thoughtfulness and integrity. I tried to read it once several years ago and had a hard time accepting that many of the claims in the book could be possible. But after reading several other books by remote viewers, and watching RV videos by the Farsight Institute, and of Ingo Swann speaking, I now think that this is a scrupulously honest recounting of the author's experiences.

I liked reading about the history of RV and how it developed into what it is today from Lyn's perspective a great deal. And some of the personal experiences he had, both during RV sessions and in his normal life, are fascinating. I now believe that he is being completely honest throughout. If you are interested in the psychic world in general, or in RV in particular, I think you will find this book a really great read. I looked forward to reading it a few pages at a time every day so I could stretch it out and really enjoy it. I hope you find it as interesting as I did.

[Barbara Martin · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book gives a technical view from the author who worked in the military while providing an explanation that this is not meant to be used as a game. I found it a good read.

[Justin]

Not for me. I was hoping for many different cases of people being psychic. I am sure there is some of that but most of it was surrounded by story I wasn't really interested in reading (although it was very nicely written... just not for me)