About the Dojo
last updated 09 August 2008 by Palyne.
I’d had a private hands-on viewing and edu site in 1997 with The Viewer Forum, but apparently it was before its time, and the combination of politics and lack of time to promote it caused me to close it.
I had some new ideas while I was ‘away’ from Remote Viewing in 1998-2002. Around late ‘02 when I was back in the online field, the bright idea for a dedicated hands-on viewer development environment re-enthused me for some reason, and I couldn’t quit thinking about it. As it fleshed out inside, it was intended to be a personal and private club for education, hands-on work and real world applications related to Remote Viewing. Basically, a way to properly educate viewers as they didn’t seem to be getting that elsewhere, a way to focus viewers on intense personal development, to give them the chance to work in project and group situations, and to build one or more ‘teams’ of viewers who could take on remote viewing for applications in the real world — in any possible field or opportunity.
But implementation was another story. Because it was private and there was nothing available in the RV field online which was both free and open to everybody, it didn’t seem very fair, or very practical, to build a “clique” project that would exclude far more people than it included. So the dojo concept was shelved while a different project was developed instead, that of the Ten Thousand Roads Remote Viewing and Dowsing Project. TKR is managed by a consortium of viewers around the online RV field who wish to contribute to the good cause of non-partisan community and other elements that support hands-on viewing. Or in plain english, I founded and own it but mostly other people run it.
One thing the internet RV field most lacked back when this began was tools for actual viewer development. Some way for viewers to learn about and work in a proper RV protocol in particular, as well as together, seemed critically important. The dojo would be far too intense and demanding for entry-level viewers, the vast majority of whom are unlikely to stay with RV anyway. And in practical terms, in order for the dojo to have a base of people to begin with, who were not just the typical 10-minutes of interest sorts found on the internet, but were serious about RV and hopefully had some background and experience with it, a far more preliminary, entry-level approach really needed to be made public, to help generate a larger field of potentials.
TKR opened its first module, a multi-board community forum, in March 2003. As part of the dojo’s support of TKR, software development on dojo tools that could be custom made for TKR’s needs began in 2004. In May of that year, “TKR at the Dojo Psi” opened an individual and group practice internet website, which included areas where people could share independent sessions, and where the sessions done (in doubleblind) could be shared with others, and viewers could comment on the work and communicate. To see a list of TKR’s features visit the TKR project home page.
When it was decided the dojo would offer to build similar tools for others (free), as part of the goal of supporting serious hands-on RV, the tools for TKR were moved to the dojo’s own webserver in March of 2006. This way the dojo’s own eventual site and any other projects, could be together and potentially interact.
The dojo has two websites: dojopsi.com and dojopsi.info. TKR’s forum is on the info server, along with various static archives. The dojo dynamic software is on the com server. For tech info see the Colophon page.
My “having a life” (on occasion) has put some things off longer than planned, including the dojo’s own development. It isn’t just about software; the viewer recruiting and immense planning and management efforts and the development of real-world applications for the dojo viewers to focus on, any one of those could be a full time job. I already have a full time job, a family, and other interests (and other pursuits on behalf of my own RV), plus more work to do on projects the dojo chooses to sponsor, so thus far the dojo’s own websites have not been the priority. It’s a long term plan. Apparently.
The dojo psi is solely owned by Palyne PJ Gaenir (me). You can contact me by using my contact form, which is found at http://www.dojopsi.com/contactform.cfm. My home page is at palyne.com.