About the Dojo
last updated 25 August 2007 by Palyne.
I first thought of the dojo in 2001 or 2002. 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. 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. 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. They are chosen to provide better representation for the larger online field.
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. 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 click here.
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. The comserver is an NT/SQL-Server/ColdFusion server that runs the dynamic software tools. The infoserver is a Linux/MySQL/PhP server that holds a variety of archives. The dojo also has two blogs, blog.dojopsi.com which is this one, the main official blog of the dojo, and another at blog.dojopsi.info that is currently unused.
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.
In mid 2007 the first private project inside the dojo opened, and in late 2007 the second and third public projects (TKR being the first) are expected to open. At that point a pretty good spectrum of free but serious tools will be available, and the dojo will finally be able to pursue its own development. Or, at least, I will be more free to pursue my own, and the dojo will happen whenever it does. The primary focus of the dojo psi is intended to be group and project work and pursuit of real-world applications. When I will actually have time to finally get to that, is unclear. One of the public projects that the dojo will open by early 2008 at the latest will allow group work, but that is simply a tool for those who want to work in that format. I won’t be managing anything in it myself, and both the coming public projects are run by someone else.
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.