The target cue identifies the target. It is the actual event, person, object, or whatever, that is the subject of study for a remote viewing session. How the target cue is written is critically important to the success of the session. A vague or poorly written cue will produce rubbish from even the best of remote viewers. On the other hand, a well written cue is the key to obtaining clearly accurate data for the target. Normally, the remote viewer is not told the target cue until after the remote viewing session is complete. With Type 5 data (double-blind), the monitor is also not told the target cue until after the session is completed.

The initial cue for the target is given to the remote viewer through the target coordinates. Typically, the person who tasks the session, has a piece of paper on which the target coordinates and the target cue are both written. In Type 5 data situations, the tasker gives the monitor the target coordinates (normally over phone or fax), and nothing more. The session is then initiated with the viewer using the target coordinates alone. Experience has clearly demonstrated that the viewer's subspace mind has instantaneous awareness of the meaning of the target coordinates, and a typical session immediately begins by obtaining information directly related to the target cue.

At The Farsight Institute, we have recently changed the way we write the cues that we assign our professionals. We instituted this change in order to obtain greater consistency with our overall results, especially when conducting solo, Type 2 sessions. The method of writing cues that follows is the older method, but it is still used in Farsight Voyager and Farsight Seer courses for reasons that are explained below.

The target cue can have multiple parts, with each part normally being separated by a slash (/). The first part is called the "primary cue." The primary cue is the major identifier of the target. Everything that follows is a refinement of this primary identifier. Thus, if the target is a known place or person, the first part must be the name of the place or person. The primary cue is then followed by a slash and one or more secondary cues (each separated by a slash) if greater refinement of the target is required. The cue "event" is sometimes used as the final secondary cue to focus a remote viewer on activity related to the target. Specific temporal identifiers follow the primary and secondary cues and are placed in parentheses. As a general rule, each target must have one primary cue, and should only rarely have more than two secondary cues and one temporal identifier. Only the primary cue is required. All other target qualifiers are optional. The format of the target cue is as follows:

Primary Cue / First Secondary Cue / Second Secondary Cue (Temporal Identifier)

The following are some examples of well-written target cues.

Example 1

Napoleon Bonaparte / Battle of Waterloo / event

Example 2

John F. Kennedy assassination / event

Example 3

St. Louis Arch (current time)

Example 4

President Clinton / Oval Office

Example 5

Martians / present survivors / Mars

Example 6

Jesus / crucifixion / event

Example 7

Nicole Simpson / murder / event

Example 8

Nagasaki / nuclear destruction / event (9 August 1945)

Effective cues must begin with a known, not a conclusion. Errors in cue construction usually result from placing a sought after conclusion in the cue itself. One must always remember that the purpose of a remote viewing session is to gather data of known events so that conclusions can be made in the analysis of the data. For example, a poorly written target cue that contains a conclusion would be, "John F. Kennedy assassination / conspiracy." In this cue, one is assuming that there is a conspiracy in the assassination. With remote viewing, one must construct a case for a conclusion based on observable data. If there was a conspiracy in the J.F.K. assassination, this must be established from the data of events and people, not on the idea of conspiracy.

Remote viewing always obtains descriptive information about people, things, and events. The conscious mind must later make conclusions based on data that are supplied by remote viewing data. For example, a remote viewer could be tasked the J.F.K. assassination (that is, the event itself). The viewer could then be given various movement exercises and cues (all of which are discussed later) that are designed to assist the viewer in obtaining as complete collection of data as is possible. In the analysis of the data that follows the remote viewing session, the analyst can then work with the data to see if there is any evidence of a conspiracy. For example, the analyst may note that the data show more than one source of bullets in the event. But one cannot go into a session assuming the outcome of the data collection process. All analyses must be accomplished after the data collection process is completed.

Another example of a poorly written target cue is, "How to live happily with friendly extraterrestrial neighbors." This cue may seem ludicrous to some, but it is interesting to see how many people will think that remote viewing can be used to resolve such targets directly. Remote viewing must begin with a known person, place, thing, or event. The cue about extraterrestrial neighbors assumes the existence of extraterrestrials. At best, one would have to begin with a known, such as an actual sighting of an unidentified flying object, perhaps one documented with a photograph. The remote viewer would then be able to target the object, move inside the object, and observe extraterrestrials flying the craft. The viewer would also be able to move into the minds of the extraterrestrials to find out if they are friendly toward humans. With this information, an analyst would have at least something to work with regarding speculative possibilities of nearby coexistence for humans and extraterrestrials.

In general, remote viewing is descriptive. It does not label things, conclude ideas, analyze situations, nor does it employ logic or reasoning during the session. For example, if the target is a checkers game, the remote viewer will describe the board, perhaps even drawing the checkerboard pattern in a sketch. The viewer may even correctly place the pieces on the board, and identify the colors of the pieces. But the viewer may not realize during the session that the target is a checkers game. After the session is completed, the viewer can examine the data and conclude that the data seem to correspond with a checkers game. The target cue has to focus on these descriptive capabilities of remote viewing.

Briefly, the changes we made in writing cues for our professionals resulted from our experiences assigning targets under solo, Type 2 conditions. Without a script or a monitor that could focus the session on the desired information using non-leading instructions, we discovered that viewers did not always view the aspect of the target that we wanted them to view. For example, if we sent a group of viewers to a basketball game, some would perceive the game while others might, say, end up viewing a bag of popcorn that a fan was eating in the arena. To resolve this problem, we have abandoned the above format in cases in which there could be any ambiguity about what to view, and we have adopted a paragraph style cuing system in which there are very explicit instructions as to what the viewer should perceive, from what perspective, etc. We have retained the previous cuing system for the Farsight Voyager and Farsight Seer courses since these sessions are monitored and employ non-leading scripts.