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I had never planned to write this book. In the past there were compelling reasons not to do so. In any event, I thought someone else would eventually take a deep, serious interest and do THE book on remote viewing. Because the story of remote viewing is a substantial one from a number of viewpoints, I had anticipated that such a book would be a scholarly one, and would clarify all of the issues involved and render them understandable for historical purposes. Most of the issues involved are straightforward ones when seen in their own contexts and times -and which times began in 1971, after which the issues remained more or less straight-forward until about 1988. This was the seventeen-year period during which the elements of controlled remote viewing (CRV) were gradually separated out from a somewhat ambiguous morass of parapsychological phenomena, then refined until it was an entity of and within itself, complete with a novel nomenclature appropriate to it. In its refined and developed state, its chief characteristics were twofold: - its gradual increase in scope, precision and accuracy; and - its closeness more to general human potential rather than to special things seen as psychic or parapsychological. When remote viewing was understood, even in its natural state in individuals, it was no longer ambiguous, but seen as a precise set of existing faculties against which the ambiguous term "psychic" was no longer useful. After 1988, though, the year I retired from active research, what might be called the decomposition of remote viewing began to set in.