Psi Revolution via Blockchain

[Note: This article was originally written for and published in “8 Martinis” Issue 19 (Nov 2022) remote viewing magazine.]

What if I told you… that by 2025, no remote viewing claims will be considered legitimate, unless backed up by immutable proof on blockchain?

2025 or not, this future is coming and when it does, the combination of psi and blockchain should help usher in a whole new phase of reality.

In this article I’d like to paint a picture of that inevitable future.

With blockchain, we are going to say goodbye to ambiguity, anecdotes, and deception; and say hello to irrefutable proof and an ocean of possibilities.

Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin

First things first: Blockchain is not cryptocurrency, nor is it NFTs. These are applications running on top of blockchain. (Although public blockchains do require crypto to function.)

Blockchain is a digitally distributed, decentralized, and immutable database maintained by thousands of nodes around the globe with no central authority. It was originally invented as the “money layer” of the internet by one “Satoshi Nakamoto” specifically for Bitcoin back in 2008.

That’s ancient history. These days blockchain is rapidly morphing into “Web3”, largely driven by a much more recent blockchain network called Ethereum. Bitcoin is to email, as Ethereum/Web3 is to the internet.

What Ethereum did back in 2015 was to make blockchain programmable with “smart contracts”. A simple example would be automated escrow. Crypto tokens use smart contracts. NFTs use smart contracts. DeFi uses smart contracts. All “Dapps” or decentralized applications use smart contracts. These are all part of the burgeoning “Web3” ecosystem – the next phase of cyberspace. (Web1 is “read”, Web2 is “read & write”, Web3 is “read, write & own”.)

In Web3, digital things are much more like physical things. They can be owned, and they can be transferred or exchanged via trustless transactions (meaning you don’t put your trust in anyone to trust the integrity of your transactions). And that’s all thanks to digital immutability.

Immutable Continuum

Immutability means you can never go back to change things. What happened and when it happened, once recorded on blockchain, it’s forever.

Blockchain immutability is resounding, not flimsy like time-stamped public contents on the internet. Digital assets worth billions of dollars depend on the immutability of blockchain every day. It cannot fail and does not fail. The very purpose of blockchain is to be immutable and not fail. (One exception: There is something called a “51% attack”, extremely unlikely yet theoretically possible.)

To be sure, things built on top of blockchains can and do fail. Just not the blockchains themselves.

Unverifiable Claims

On September 8th, 2022, Queen Elizabeth II passed away at 96. A few weeks earlier on August 21st, remote viewer Edward Riordan from Cryptoviewing – an international startup specializing in psychic/RV forecasts – drew what was clearly the Queen’s head accompanied by the words “The clockith runith outith” (“the clock runs out”).

Cryptoviewing touted the success on public forums. One big problem: The prediction was not publicly verifiable.

“It would have been a good confirmation of a future viewing if this video was posted (when it was made) on YouTube on the 21 Aug, 2022 and not on the 8th of Sep 2022,” said one commenter.

“They just posted this when it was announced she was already dying… Is there a 21 August post?” asked another.

To be sure, Cryptoviewing subscribers had seen the prediction before the event… behind a paywall. It was inaccessible to the rest of the world.

A missed opportunity?

The dilemma of privacy vs. verifiability is a difficult one, but one easily solvable by blockchain technology.

On-chain Predictions

In terms of establishing certainty, nothing can surpass the experience of personally witnessing the fulfillment of a prediction. A close second would be having a massive group of witnesses.

Blockchain is both.

“Witnessing a successful prediction” implies a set of two memories in a specific order, i.e. A –> B, not B –> A, where “A” is a possibility (seeing the prediction), and “B” is a manifestation (seeing the event predicted). Blockchain specializes in documenting sequences of events or “memories”. Blockchain is uniquely equipped to prove whether a sequence was A –> B or B –> A.
Every piece of information is separately “seen” and “memorized” by each of the massive constellation of blockchain nodes around the globe – i.e. what makes blockchain decentralized – analogous to having a massive number of “witnesses” around the globe.

Blockchain makes successful predictions unquestionable.

As for privacy, blockchain uses “hashing” or cryptographic obfuscation. It allows users to prove things without having to reveal what it is first.

The whole sequence would proceed as follows:

Make a remote viewing prediction.
Store it on blockchain with or without hashing. At this point the prediction is timestamped and immutable.
Wait for the event to unfold or until the end of a specified time window.
Upon the arrival of the event or the deadline, announce the result with a blockchain address for the on-chain proof. If the prediction is hashed, verify/reveal it with a valid plaintext (original text) at this time.

And just like that, you had your cake and ate it too. The prediction was recorded, (optionally) kept private, and then verified after the event. (We won’t go into the issue of “cherry-picking” here.)

Hash Function

Cryptographic hashing is the “crypto” part in cryptocurrency. It’s everywhere under the hood in the Web3 world, used to obfuscate, verify and/or “fingerprint” information. It is a deterministic one-way street mapping function that reduces any piece of information to a fixed-size value called a hash.

You cannot decode a hash, just as you cannot recreate a person form a fingerprint. You can only compare fingerprints to verify the identity.

So if you have hashed a prediction on blockchain (looking something like “0xca843569e3923144cea…“), to verify it you’d have to hash the original information (plaintext) and then compare it to the first hash. They match if they represent the same information.

This process is key to everything blockchain does and to the future of psychic functioning.

On-chain Trials

One slight imperfection in the on-chain prediction registry is the lack of a reliable method to trustlessly (automatically) determine the accuracy of a prediction. There is no easy solution to this problem/inconvenience at this time.

But if your goal is to build an irrefutable track record, there is a far more efficient approach in the form of “on-chain trials” – a series of tightly controlled trials backed up by on-chain proof.

It’s not too different from more traditional versions done off-chain. You would be tasked to remote view a target and then pick it out from a group of candidates like in a “police lineup” or “identity parade”. The difference is that your pick, the actual target, and the outcome would be successively recorded on the blockchain thereby precluding any chance of cheating or false positives.

Here is a quick walkthrough:

Step 1: Click to connect to blockchain via MetaMask (it’s a browser plugin, or an app if on a mobile device).

Step 2: An off-chain program (website or app) randomly selects target candidates under the hood, then displays a TRN (target reference number) representing the target that will be selected.

Step 3: Do a remote viewing session.

Step 4: When done, click to see the candidates and rank them based on how closely they match your psi impressions.

Step 5: Submit your ranks to the smart contract via MetaMask. (There is a small transaction fee involved; reading from blockchain is free, writing to it is not.) At this point your blockchain wallet address is permanently linked to your trial data.

Step 6: Start another transaction to trigger the smart contract to pick a target. (It randomly picks a number between 1-3 if there are 3 candidates, or between 1-2 if there are 2 candidates, and so on.)

Step 7: The smart contract retrieves your trial data from the previous transaction and compares it to the target. The smart contract immediately stores the result on the blockchain.

Step 8: You get your feedback.

And that’s it. You have completed your first on-chain trial.

After doing 30 or more of these trials (ideally more than 100), you got yourself an irrefutable track record. Now all you have to do is reach into your pocket, whip out your smart phone, pull up your track record, and go: “Here is what I can do, now would you like to hire me for your project or not?”

Web3 RV Professionals

With on-chain proof publicly accessible, it shouldn’t take long before clients start knocking on your digital door. Any transactions between the remote viewer and the client would be on-chain, trustlessly managed by a smart contract; no intermediaries necessary, personal interaction optional.

Here is how such an interaction would unfold:

A potential client seeks a psychic forecast on an upcoming football game. Using an app on his phone, he scrolls through a list of remote viewers and their on-chain stats. A minute into his search, the system flags you as a candidate closely matching his parameters. He checks your track record and likes what he sees. He makes up his mind and drafts a project proposal using an online template. This is a fairly routine project, there shouldn’t be any issues. He quickly reviews the contract and submits it to the system.

Seconds later, a notification on your phone alerts you to a potential RV gig.

You check out the contract: It’s for an event prediction; you would get a basic fee of 0.xxxx ETH (ether crypto) and a success reward of 0.xxxx ETH; the target is to remain hidden permanently; your session data is to be disclosed before the deadline; the minimum session count is 3; and the due date is xx/xx/2023.

You make a few changes: The target should be disclosed (feedback) upon submission of your sessions; your sessions remain hashed until the target is approved by you; you reserve the right to walk away without disclosing your prediction if you deemed the target unethical.

The client agrees to the changes, and upon final confirmation the system activates a smart contract on the blockchain.

The client sends 0.xxxx ETH to the smart contract (programmed to function as escrow) covering the basic fee and success reward. At this point the smart contract has the project’s tasking information (hashed), the client’s blockchain wallet address, your blockchain wallet address, enough tokens for future payments, and conditions for all future transactions.

You complete 3 remote viewing sessions for the project (using a blind ARV setup managed by the system and/or smart contract) and submit the information to the smart contract. At this time the information is hashed and immutable.

The client resends the original target information to the smart contract. Upon verification (comparing it to the hashed version), the target is disclosed to you.

After making sure there is nothing unethical about the project, you re-submit your RV data to the smart contract. Upon verification, the prediction is disclosed to the client.

The smart contract releases the basic fee to you at this time for the work you’ve done.

The client uses your prediction to wager on the football game. If the prediction proves accurate, the smart contract releases what’s left in the escrow to you (success reward). If the prediction ends up inaccurate, the smart contract returns what’s left in the escrow to the client.

The project is complete.

No room for misconduct. No need for human trust, direct interaction, or intermediaries.

The whole system is incredibly meritocratic, which moves the center of gravity more toward what you can do rather than who you are or who you know or how well you can communicate. More substance, less appearance. More aligned with the spirit of truth.

RV Contract Types

Web3 remote viewers may never run out of options. On-chain contracts can come in many different forms, such as:

Job posting: Client posts “job” with qualifications, reward, and optionally job description

Crowdfunding (A): Remote viewer(s) posts project proposal asking for funding

Crowdfunding (B): Crowdfunded project offers contract to remote viewer(s) directly or via job posting

Competition: Host invites remote viewers to compete against each other for prize money stored in smart-contract escrow (prize money could come from participants’ entry fees)

Challenge: Skeptic invites remote viewers to prove psi; both sides post money to smart contract; ensuing trials are managed trustlessly by smart contract; money is released to winner based on specific criteria agreed upon by both sides

Duel: Challenger invites remote viewer (via open invitation or a specific opponent) to put money where mouth is; rest is identical to “Challenge” contract above

Investment fund: Group of investors adds funds to smart contract; remote viewer(s) are hired to do psi-based investing or wagering on their behalf; remote viewer gets share of profit; most transactions trustlessly managed by smart-contract escrow [Note: Consult with lawyer first]

Psinance: (“Psi finance”): Similar to above but more focused on crypto and only optionally involving a client; basically DeFi (decentralized finance) assisted by psi intelligence

The list goes on. With smart contracts and Web3 technologies, possibilities are limitless.

Let’s dive into another example…

Dealing With Law Enforcement

Remote viewers are generally hesitant to approach law enforcement with information for their own safety. If the information is too accurate, you may become the suspect. Exactly what happened to Daz Smith, the publisher of 8 Martinis.

It’s a collision between consensus reality and a hidden reality. It’s not just awkward; it can be dangerous. Fortunately, blockchain technology is perfectly equipped to deal with this type of situation.

It’s a matter of assembling immutable components and hashed components into a proper sequence, or in other words codifying how and when to hide/reveal certain facts while making the whole sequence irrefutable.

The basic protocol would be:

No one, including the tasker and the remote viewer, should be aware of the target until the session is recorded on blockchain
There should be a target pool containing at least 20 targets on blockchain tightly managed by a smart contract
All targets in the pool must be hashed (obfuscated)
The remote viewer’s session must be recorded on blockchain before the smart contract selects a target
The target must be selected randomly & documented on blockchain

From the perspectives of the tasker and the remote viewer, the sequence would be as follows:

The tasker adds multiple targets to the target pool
The remote viewer checks the existence of an active pool, then informs the system of your intention to provide psychic information
The remote viewer does a RV session completely blind (no target selected yet)
The remote viewer submits the session to the smart contract (and optionally to IPFS or Interplanetary File System, a distributed peer-to-peer network designed to immutably store files)
The smart contract retroactively selects a target
The tasker/manager gets the session data & the TRN (target reference number)
Off-chain, the tasker/manager uses the TRN to retrieve the original tasking information from their own notes
The tasker/manager summarizes the RV information (optionally combining it with sessions done by others on the same target), then sends it off to law enforcement
The tasker/manager re-submits the original target information to the smart contract
Upon verification (by comparing it to the hashed version), the smart contract reveals the target to the remote viewer (feedback)

The result:

The police receive potentially useful psychic information about a crime
The police know for certain the psychic information is clean (i.e. not from the perpetrator or anyone related) as the protocol precludes the possibility
The remote viewer knows for certain the target/feedback is legitimate

Problem solved.

Let’s extend the scenario a bit further:

The police assume the role of the tasker themselves, adding their “Most Wanted” targets to the pool with bounties (rewards).
The system receives too many psychic tips; the police start prioritizing informants with good on-chain track records.
The police incentivize top performers with immediate payments. The higher the “psi rating”, the higher the compensation.
The elite psychics can just log into the system, submit RV session data, have the system recognize them and/or check their psi rating, and get paid right away (as their de-facto psicognitive consultants).

And so on.

Efficient and flexible, blockchain and ESP can solve many issues in real life now. It’s part of a “system upgrade” for all levels of society and we should start seeing its effects within a few years.

It Starts Now

It’s been roughly 4 years since I started on this path. Writing this article near the end of 2022, I can tell it’s go time next year for the real beginning. The technology is basically ready to go. An on-chain trial system is online now. An on-chain precognition registry is arriving soon. And more tools to follow in 2023… at psiscope.com.

I am simply practicing what I preach, coding Web3 tools with my own hands, making a vision a reality. Hopefully we can get the ball rolling, spread the idea, and involve more people for the paradigm shift.

While Web3 is still difficult to use for the average people, it’s important for the RV community to jump on this, to adopt blockchain technology without delay. Psi is a big beneficiary of blockchain. It’s as if it was created specifically for ESP. Frankly it would be pure laziness on our part, if we failed to embrace this generational breakthrough. We need to get on this without hesitation.

For me it’s definitely a long-term commitment, all about truth and pushing the boundaries of reality.

Postscript

In case you’re wondering, I’m a remote viewer who codes, not a coder who wandered into the world of psi (which would be more common). This can make a big difference in my view for the level of commitment, insight, and foresight, all of which are important.

I’ve been at this for quite a long time now. My RV training was more than 20 years ago, from Farsight based in Atlanta. (Back then they taught largely straightforward CRV, though they called it SRV.) After that I spent my days toiling away, like an alchemist experimenting in a dark cave, searching for that Holy Grail – which for me was consistency. Everything else was secondary.

After endless and torturous trial and error, I succeeded in my crazed quest. I found the Grail sometime around 2017. Not a special gift or psychic talent, but strictly a learned skill. I felt this was important for the future of psi – a lot of potential left untapped, ready to be unleashed via technology. And that would of course be blockchain.

I should explain “consistency”:

279 successive trials from the past few years (off-chain).
3 target candidates in each trial, ranked from 1st to 3rd based on psi data
The probability of each outcome is 33.33%
My direct-hit rate was 44.5% (z-score = 4)
My “off by 1” soft-miss rate was 37.5%
My “off by 2” hard-miss rate was 18% (i.e. I rarely “hard missed” the target)

It’s in the order of those lines, especially in their steadiness. Visually quite self-explanatory.

That’s what I meant by consistency. No doubting the Holy Grail. (Using blockchain technology, I could have easily proved this. Without it, you’re left wondering and skeptical, which proves the need for this technology!)

Having completed my “mission impossible”, I crawled out of my dark “cave” and I took a deep breath or two. I was ready for my next quest, the next phase of ESP. Soon I would find it in blockchain and the whole Web3 ecosystem. Seeing a vision of what it could be, I went back into my magic cave and toiled away for my digital Grail. Coding and more coding…

And here we are.

In short: Psi is real and consistency is achievable. Blockchain is set to unleash it all with relative ease and it is definitely inevitable. It’s a whole new era we are entering now, and it’s up to us to decide what happens next. How soon do we want it, and how far do want to take it. Me? I want it now and as far as possible.

Ultimately, I would like to see psychic functioning change the world.

With blockchain technology, it just might.

– Goro