Farsight Institute – Phase 4.
Phase 4 - The Matrix
In Phase 4 you get a clean sheet of paper, write “P4” at the top, and draw nine columns and write down the words from Phase 2 in them. This is called the “matrix”.
Column 1, called “S” for “senses”, gets all the words having to do with the five senses.
Column 2, called “M” for “magnitudes”, gets the dimensional magnitudes words.
Column 3, called "VF’, gets the Viewer Feeling words.
Column 4, called “E” for “emotionals”, is different from VF in that it’s supposed to be words relating to any emotions (“vibes”) you’re detecting coming from the target itself. VF means “how you feel about the target”.
Column 5, called “P” for “physical”, is for physical objects that you perceive at the target, like houses, cars, planets, etc. However, if you detect nonphysical beings (subspace entitities), you should put them in a column next to P, Column 6, called “Sub” for "subspace.
And if the subspace beings that you are detecting are also experiencing emotions, you should put these emotions in “E”, with “S” for subspace next to it.
Column 7, called “C” for “concepts”, is for ideas that apply to the target, like “dangerous”, “adventuristic”, “insignificant”, etc.
Column 8 called “GD” for “guided deductions”, which is explained below.
Column 9, called “D” for “deductions”, which is also explained below.
After you have this all written out, you push on the writing with your pen here and there (“probing”) for a few seconds, detecting more information. When you’re probing, you have to stay at the same horizontal level, working from left to right across the paper. So if you perceive two or three different things about the target at the same time, while you’re probing a particular spot on a column, you should write these things at the same horizontal level in the appropriate columns. That way the analyst will know that “brown” and “structure” go together, because they’re on the same level.
You write down these words in the appropriate column. However, you do not probe the VF and D columns. While you’re probing other columns, you may start to have feelings about the target, so you write them down in VF. But this is only if you actually happen to feel something–you don’t go looking for feelings. Similarly, you’re not supposed to be looking for deductions, so if any pop into your head, you’re supposed to just write them down in D, and the act of writing them down eliminates them from your subspace mind.
But you do probe the GD column. A guided deduction happens because your subspace mind knows that your conscious mind finds it frustrating not to be allowed to make a deduction about the target, so you probe the GD column. This allows your subspace mind to send some hints up to your conscious mind, and you write down what you perceive in GD. This is just to make your conscious mind more comfortable.
In Phase 4, it’s important to distinguish between high-level and low-level data. High-level data means descriptive words that are very specific. Low-level data means words that are more general. The example given is if the target is a beach, high-level data would be words like “beach”. Low-level data would be words like “sand”. High-level data should go in the D column, because it’s really a kind of deduction about the target. Low-level data goes in all the other columns.
In Phase 4 there is a thing called P4 ½. This is where what you perceive is too lengthy to fit in a little box in a column. So you write P4 ½ over on the left side of the paper, and then the words that won’t fit in a column.
There is also a P4 ½S, which is a sketch. You do the sketch on a clean sheet of paper, labeled P4 ½S.
When you’re a newbie, you’re supposed to not stop doing Phase 4 until you’ve got at least two pages of data.
All of this, probing the matrix and writing down words and making P4 ½S sketches, is called “working the target”. You keep at it, back and forth, up and down, tying things together, and getting more information. When you’re getting tired and it seems like you can’t get any more information, you go back to the E column (even though you’ve been probing it all along with the other columns) and make a special probe. Your subspace mind looks specifically for emotions and concepts emanating from the target. This usually causes the data flow to pick back up. Every time you get tired, you can probe the E column and usually get the data going again.
When probing the E column finally fails to get the data flowing, then it’s time to probe your Phase 3 sketch. You write down any data obtained from the sketch in the nine columns. You can go back and look at your Phase 1 word lists to help you perceive things in the sketch, correlating it all with what you’ve got in your Phase 4 matrix. You can look for geographical “interfaces” in your Phase 3 sketch, like “land/air”, “land/water”, “air/vacuum”, etc. If you’ve got “air/vacuum” and “structure”, that means the target probably involves a spaceship. This is of course a deduction and should be written down in D.
In Phase 4, to get more data, you can do “cuing”. It’s a way of focusing on a specific word, looking for more data about that word. You write the word down in the appropriate column in parentheses (if the suggested cuing word comes from a monitor, you write it in square brackets), and then you probe the word with your pen. This should give you more data flow. You enter this data in the appropriate columns.
You can also do “Movement exercises” in Phase 4, which come in three levels. Level 1 is drawing another Phase 1 ideogram and then giving it the Phase 2 (word list) and Phase 3 (bigger sketch) treatments before returning to Phase 4. One reason to do this would be if the monitor thinks you may have gotten off-target. It is not clear how the monitor would know this, unless he knew what the target was. Another reason would be if you had the feeling that the target was too big to be encompassed in one remote viewing, so you’d use Level 1 to go look at another part of the target, and see if that helps clarify matters. You do a separate Phase 4 matrix for this. There are cues for this procedure, telling you where to look and what to look for during a Level 1 exercise. (these may be found on the linked page).
A Level 2 exercise is basically the same idea, meant to be a shift in focus, except that there is only one cue: “Move to the [new target location or item] and describe.” There is one variation: “Move to the time (or period) of [temporal identifier here] and describe.” There is no ideogram or sketch in this, only words. This cue comes from your own words that you have written, but the monitor may assist you in drawing your attention to some of your words that may be better bets than others for getting the data flowing.
The cue has to be clearly tied to the target. The example given is that if you have the words “pyramid” and “structure”, the monitor can suggest, “Move to the period of construction for the structure and describe.”
A Level 3 exercise is the briefest–you just pick a word that you have already written and look at it more closely by writing it in parentheses in the appropriate column (or in square brackets if it’s the monitor’s word), probing it with the pen, and then writing down the data in the appropriate columns. This is different from Level 1 in that there’s no Phase 1, 2, or 3 involved, just the quick look at the single word.
There is a kind of Level 3 exercise called a “deep mind probe”, in which you actually enter the mind of a person who appears in your data, and perceive his thoughts and feelings. However, the ethics of performing this on a living person are questionable at best, according to the Farsight Institute. The ethics of performing this on someone who’s already dead, or on extraterrestrials or animals, are not addressed in this document.
You write [the name of the target person] in Physicals and [deep mind probe] in Concepts. Then you touch each of the words once with your pen and write down any data obtained in the columns.
You can also do a Level 3 “temporal exercise” by cuing on action-related words, which should always be put in square brackets in the Concepts column. You can use something like “activity”, and then touch the pen to it, and write down any data.