In Stage 2 of the Remote Viewing series, Brett Stewart explains how to deepen your connection to the target site. If Stage 1 was about “shaking hands” with the site, Stage 2 is about gathering raw, spontaneous sensory data—colors, textures, smells, and sounds—without trying to figure out what the target actually is [00:34].
Harvesting Raw Perception
The core philosophy of Stage 2 is to move your attention inward and record the “spontaneous percepts” that bubble up from the unconscious mind [01:46]. This stage is purely descriptive; you are not looking for nouns like “mountain” or “car,” but rather adjectives like “blue,” “rough,” or “frigid.”
A critical skill introduced here is the AOL (Analytic Overlay) Break. Your brain is an expert pattern-matcher, and it will try to “help” you by guessing the target (e.g., seeing a “race car” because you perceived the sound “mechanical”) [06:43]. Brett teaches that you must recognize these mental guesses, write them down to “objectify” them, and then physically drop your pen to tell your mind to let the thought go before returning to the sensory signal [08:26].
Learning Steps: The Stage 2 Sensory Protocol
To correctly execute Stage 2, follow this sequence of categories. Whenever you hit a “pause” in data, move to the next category:
- Colors: Place your pen on the page and listen for spontaneous colors (e.g., blue, red, patterned, translucent). Don’t question them; just write and move on [02:12].
- Textures: Imagine dragging your hand across the surface of the site. Record what you feel (e.g., hard, soft, fluffy, oily, wet) [03:18].
- Smells & Tastes: Prompt yourself: “If I were there, what would I smell or taste?” (e.g., sweet, bland, salty) [04:12].
- Temperatures: Ask yourself what the air or surface temperature feels like (e.g., frigid, cold, body-temperature) [05:13].
- Sounds: Record any spontaneous auditory perceptions, whether it’s “loud,” “mechanical,” or “quiet” [05:53].
- Dimensions, Densities, and Motions: This is an all-inclusive category for physical properties. Look for words like “large,” “peaked,” “round,” or “stationary” [09:30].
- Handle AOLs Immediately: If a high-level noun (like “pyramids”) pops into your head, write AOL – [Word], drop your pen for a second, and then pick it back up to resume your sensory search [10:20].
- The Aesthetic Impact (AI): End the stage by asking, “How would I feel if I were physically there?” Record your emotional reaction (e.g., “happy” or “solemn”). This “vents” your own emotions so they don’t color the visual data in the next stage [11:58].
Watch Stage 2 here: https://youtu.be/2YcbclN3tyc