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Rifat, Tim “Remote Viewing and Sensing for Managers: How to Use Military Psiops for a Competitive Edge”. Vision Paperbacks, London. 2003. Pbk. 250pp. glossary, bibliography. £10.99 / $15.95. ISBN 1-904132-31-6

 Tim Rifat is the self-proclaimed top civilian expert in Europe on remote viewing and associated “techniques”. This book is designed to tell managers how to utilise remote viewing and sensing to manipulate their workforce, conduct spying on competitors and get a view of the future so they can steal technologies and take advantage of changes in the stock and other markets. 

Whatever your view of whether Remote Viewing actually works (and personally I don’t see how it can) I can’t see many managers taking the time to learn the techniques outlined here for the stated purposes. For one reason (and despite Tim thinking that workers and management share a common purpose – their business’s profitability – which seems to fly in the face of a couple of thousand years of class struggle) if these techniques do work then any self-respecting trade union will be demanding that management do not use them on their workforce. Workers are under enough surveillance as it is. Does Tim really think they will put up with psy-ops style mental manipulation and spying as well? 

Then there is the amount of time it takes to learn these techniques. I suspect that few managers will have the time to do this, and in view of the unlikelihood of the techniques working often enough, why should they bother? I’d also like to know what the legal implications are of stealing information through psychic means and the patent situation about using future technologies would be a legal minefield. 

There are some gobbets of management theory in here, which can be gleaned from many other publications, and the remote viewing stuff seems too unlikely to appeal to hardheaded business people. 

One to give to the opposition in the hope they waste their time and not yours! 

Definitely one to avoid! 

2/10 

Richard Alexander