Class of 2026

Online-Course with a 1:1 monitored intensive section

Course directors: Jana Rogge | Paul H. Smith, PhD

Course Content:

This course teaches the original Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) protocol as developed by Swann/Puthoff through an extensive and comprehensive intensive training in this method. The goal of the training is to impart a thorough understanding of the CRV methodology, its theory and background, and to develop fully operational remote viewing skills.

Course format:

The course structure is based on the original RVIS course program. Jana Rogge is a licensed training partner of RVIS, Inc. (the training company of Paul H. Smith) and is authorized to teach the RVIS curriculum. Paul H. Smith supports the courses with his expertise, appearing both in the theory modules and as a live monitor during the practical sessions.

RVIS, Inc., led by Paul H. Smith, Ph.D. is currently the only training organization in the world that teaches the unaltered, original version of CRV, and at the same time offers what is probably the most intensive training program of its kind. We are aware that there are “CRV” courses that claim to teach you the method in a single weekend. Studying with us means it will take at least a year. And we believe there is nothing we could or would want to leave out. For many reasons for this, please see the detailed explanations in the course description.

The entire program from Stage 1 to 6 will take a little more than one year (this is an estimated value based on previous course experiences).

Modules:

The training is divided into three modules (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced), which together cover the CRV protocol stages 1–6. The theory lectures, held at the beginning of each individual stage, will take place online for the group as a whole. The respective homework and exercises will be conducted in 1:1 online sessions. At the end of each module, there is an opportunity to meet in person for an intensive training weekend in my office (voluntary, depending on schedule and distance). For those for whom travel is too far, the 1:1 training portion can also be conducted online.

Those who have already completed the RVIS Basic or Intermediate course can join at a corresponding later point during the year, but are welcome to attend earlier lessons as observers for free to refresh their knowledge.

As in the regular RVIS courses, the successful and complete completion of homework between modules is a prerequisite for the certificate and for entering the next module.

Module Content Duration (est.)
Basic CRV Historiy, Theory, Stages 1–3, incl. Intensive 1:1 Training (weekend or online) 4 months
Homework Cycle 2 months
Intermediate Stage 4, Conceptual Data and Heuristic Tools, incl. Intensive 1:1 Training (weekend or online) 4 months
Homework Cycle 2 months
Advanced Stages 5 and 6, Advanced Applications, incl. Intensive 1:1 Training (weekend or online) 4 months
Homework Cycle 2–3 months

Schedule:

The Basic module of the course starts end of January 2026.
(The registration deadline is January 6th.)

We will schedule a fixed weekly evening slot for the online lessons, which we will set together to enable live participation for everyone.

The online meetings will not take place every week (on average 2–3 weeks per month) to allow time for personal practice in between. If someone misses a week, they can catch up on the material; however, it is important to note that active participation is an absolute requirement in this training – watching recordings and doing homework alone will not suffice.

The dates for the start of the Intermediate and Advanced modules will be determined during the year, once the group’s concrete progress can be assessed.

Jana Rogge and Paul H. Smith taught their first class together in 2022.

Why the Original?

WHO DO YOU TRAIN WITH AND WHY?

Jana Rogge:

Jana Rogge is a German researcher, graphic designer, and author. She is a trained and experienced remote viewer with international recognition in the field of RV.

Jana is a member of the Parapsychological Association (PA), the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA), the Society of Scientific Exploration (SSE), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Anomalistik (GfA), and the Rhine Research Institute.

Jana leads several projects and companies, including a research institute, a communications and design agency, two publishing houses, and operational remote viewing working groups.

Jana is currently working as a Senior Advisor at MK Advisors. In this role, she leads research and development efforts for multi-phase, long-term studies on remote viewing and ESP applications as well as technology development, contributing to advancing the organization’s projects. MK Advisors is a US-based company operating in the Pacific region, sub-Saharan Africa, and the US with the Department of Defense (DoD) and communities to accelerate the adoption of advanced technologies for productive energy use and economic development. Additionally, MK Advisors serves as a consultant to government organizations on future technologies in materials and energy research.

She began her career as an artist, then studied Visual Communication at the Bauhaus University Weimar, graduating in 2001 with a diploma in graphic design. Her thesis examined hypertext-based research methods applied to philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s written legacy.

For seven years, she held a teaching position at Bauhaus University Weimar, where she taught the fundamentals of visual design and perception theory.

  • Senior Advisor at MK Advisors, Michigan, USA (Head of RV/ESP R&D)
  • President of the Center Lane Project (Remote Viewing Information Transfer)
  • Director of the PSI.vision Institute, Germany (Remote Viewing Research and Contract Work)
  • Director of PSI Unit, Germany (Remote Viewing Information Transfer)
  • Training Development Associate and Associate Trainer (CRV) at Remote Viewing Instructional Services (RVIS, Inc.)
  • Owner of Eckhaus Verlag Weimar, Germany (Publisher)
  • Owner of Center Lane Publishing, Germany (Publisher specializing in Parapsychology)
  • Editor of the PSI.VISION Series on Remote Viewing
  • Managing Editor of the New Thinking Allowed Magazine (quarterly publication of the New Thinking Allowed Foundation)
  • Editor-in-chief of Gestalt Magazine (Independent Remote Viewing Magazine)

After more than a decade of personal experience with non-local perception, Jana learned about Remote Viewing in 2019 and subsequently received training in TRV, ERV, and CRV from renowned figures in the field, including Gunther Rattay, David Morehouse, Manfred Jelinski, Pam Coronado, Angela Thompson Smith, Bill Ray, Tom McNear, and especially Paul H. Smith, PhD, whom she considers her mentor and with whom she continues to collaborate on various projects.

Since spring 2022, she has supported Paul and RVIS, Inc. with CRV courses in Germany and the USA and also works as a mentor for students and as a training development associate for RVIS.

Jana has deepened her knowledge of Remote Viewing and specifically CRV through numerous personal conversations with key figures such as Hal Puthoff and Skip Atwater. As President of the Center Lane Project, a US non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the original CRV, Jana is actively involved in collecting and publishing materials on Remote Viewing history and is connected with nearly all of the original military Remote Viewers.

Jana has authored and published books on a wide variety of different topics. With the PSI.vision Institute, she is currently developing a series of scientific and historical publications on the topic of Remote Viewing.

Jana is the editor-in-chief of the independent Remote Viewing magazine Gestalt and former editor-in-chief of the Remote Viewing magazine Aperture, published by the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA). Since 2023, she has been the managing editor of the new parapsychology magazine New Thinking Allowed Magazine (all magazines in English).

As publisher and co-editor, she published the bilingual compendium From Star Gate to Today – CRV After 3 Decades, (Eckhaus Verlag, 2021) as well as the German translation of Paul H. Smith’s book, Essential Guide: Fundamentals of Remote Viewing (Eckhaus Verlag, 2022). For the former Operations an Training officer of the RV unit, Skip Atwater, she published his RV biography Captain of My Ship, Master of My Soul (Center Lane Publishing, 2024) and the collection of the complete UFO/UAP sessions from Pat Price and the Ft. Meade unit in the book Project 8200: UFO/UAP Bases and Activities: The original Remote Viewing Transcripts (Center Lane Publishing, 2024).

Together with Paul H. Smith and Tom McNear, she published the English-language compendium The Foundations of Controlled Remote Viewing (Center Lane Publishing, 2023), which collects fundamentals  works on the original CRV.

In 2022, Jana won the IRVA/iRiS research award for a research project evaluating data accuracy in CRV sessions. This work produced the first statistically verifiable evidence for the accuracy of individual data points regarding various perception channels in RV, as well as a method to identify and create viewer-specific perception protocols.

In collaboration with MK Advisors (USA), Jana Rogge is currently conducting a multi-year series of studies in the field of RV aimed at examining various aspects of extrasensory perception function, particularly remote viewing of future events and the influence of intention on the outcome. The latest experiment in the series spanned a year with a larger group of viewers and generated approximately 1,200 sessions of data material, which is currently being evaluated.

In addition to research work, Jana supports a number of companies and organizations (including NASA) with Remote Viewing data through her team, as well as private clients and non-profit research projects.

Paul H. Smith:

Paul H. Smith is one of the five Star Gate remote viewers personally trained by the founders of CRV, Ingo Swann and Dr. Harold E. Puthoff. His own career as an instructor began in 1984. He served for seven years in the US government’s STAR GATE Remote Viewing Program in Ft. Meade, MD (September 1983 to August 1990).

Paul H. Smith has been teaching CRV in the civilian sector since 1997 and developed the training program that RVIS still uses today, based on the training he underwent with Ingo Swann. It is probably the most intensive training program worldwide to this day.

Paul H. Smith grew up in Boulder City, Nevada. He joined the Army in 1976 and was deployed as an officer in military intelligence. In addition to his assignment in Ft. Meade, he served among other roles as an Arabic linguist, electronic warfare operator, strategic intelligence officer for a special unit stationed in Germany, Middle East desk officer, tactical intelligence officer with the 101st Airborne Division during Desert Storm/Shield, strategic intelligence officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), and head of the intelligence and security department of the Washington Military District, where he retired in 1996.

Degrees: BA from Brigham Young University in Middle East Studies, Art, and English; MS from the National Intelligence University (focus on Middle East); PhD in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin with emphases on Consciousness, Philosophy of Science, and Philosophy of Mind.

In addition to his role as president of Remote Viewing Instructional Services (RVIS, Inc.), a company offering remote viewing courses for individuals and small groups, he also works as a remote viewer and RV consultant. He is a founding director and former president of the nonprofit International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA), a lifetime member of the American Society of Dowsers, and a professional member of the Parapsychological Association (PA) and the Society for Scientific Exploration. Currently, he is a board member of the PA and the Rhine Research Center and co-editor of the Journal of Scientific Exploration.

Paul H. Smith is one of the five Star-Gate remote viewers personally trained by the founders of CRV, Ingo Swann and Dr. Harold E. Puthoff. His own career as an instructor began in 1984. He served for seven years in the US government’s STAR GATE Remote Viewing Program in Ft. Meade, MD (from September 1983 to August 1990).

Paul was the main author of the CRV training manual for the RV program and served as the theory instructor for new CRV training personnel, as well as recruitment officer, security officer, and unit historian. He taught CRV to many well-known remote viewing personalities, including Lyn Buchanan, Mel Riley, and David Morehouse. Paul is credited with conducting over a thousand remote viewing sessions during his time at STAR GATE.

Paul H. Smith has been teaching CRV in the civilian sector since 1997 and developed the training program that RVIS still uses today, based on the training he underwent with Ingo Swann. It is probably the most intensive training program worldwide to this day.

Paul’s book Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Inside Star Gate – America’s Psychic Espionage Program (Tor/Forge 2005/2006) was selected as a Book Bonus Feature and Editor’s Choice for the March 2006 issue of Reader’s Digest. He is also the author of The Essential Guide to Remote Viewing: The Secret Military Remote Perception Skill Anyone Can Learn and co-producer of the LearnDowsing DVD training set and the self-study “Remote Perception: Basic Operational Training.”

Together with Jana Rogge and Tom McNear, he published the English-language compendium The Foundations of Controlled Remote Viewing (Center Lane Publishing, 2023), which includes fundamentals of the original CRV.

Paul and his work as a remote viewer have been featured in TV shows such as “CBS Sunday Morning,” “The Lowe Files,” and “The Unexplained” on the Arts & Entertainment Network, several History Channel programs, SyFy’s “Joe Rogan Questions Everything,” “Strange Universe,” “Inside Edition,” and two documentaries on remote viewing produced for German television. He has been a guest on “Coast to Coast AM” with George Noory and Art Bell on numerous occasions, and has been interviewed by Whitley Strieber, Bill Birnes, Bob & Zohe Heironimous, Jeff Rense, Alex Tsarkis, Kevin Smith, Rob McConnell, and many others. Paul also appears in the bonus material of the DVD release of the film “Suspect Zero.”

Value for us:

Over the years, I have sometimes heard the following question: „Why is such a time-consuming and expensive training necessary if one can learn RV just as well in a weekend?“ The answer to that is simple: One can learn RV in a day or weekend – but not the full spectrum of CRV. Many teachers (including Paul or myself) actually offer „taster courses“ in which one can experience initial successes of one’s own in just a few hours. At conferences, outbounder targets or „What’s in the box“ viewings are popular to give newcomers a first taste of RV within a single hour.

But if we now claim that everyone has the ability for ESP by nature; and if one can produce tangible successes within the shortest time and without lengthy training – then what do we do for months in an intensive training?

When I began my journey in Remote Viewing, it took a while for me to realize that there wasn’t just one, but many different RV methods and protocols. Naturally, I asked myself why there are differences… and then decided: I wanted to learn all the variants and thereby develop a meta-perspective that could answer the question about the underlying principles (as you can see, I have always been a researcher as well).

After several trainings, I buried that idea and stuck with CRV. The reason: The closer I got „back“ to the origins, and the more I understood about it, the better it worked! Despite all the attempts by many to „improve“ or „perfect“ Remote Viewing, the original is still simply the best version. (Of course, I can only speak for myself). I have my theories as to why that is – and we are happy to discuss that in detail during the training as well. Part of the answer, however, is that with all the different protocols/methods, there are not only differences in the method – the practical execution – but also in the theory, which contributes to the understanding of how extrasensory perception works.

Meanwhile, I also work as a project manager with larger groups of RVers from the most diverse schools and have a fairly broad overview of all possible methods „at work,“ including many protocol variants that I have not studied myself as a viewer but must understand sufficiently to interpret the viewers’ sessions. My opinion from the perspective of an analyst is shared by all other analysts I have ever worked with: the work results of CRV viewers are superior for structured evaluation to many others, especially free-form protocols.

This does not mean that one cannot achieve excellent results with other methods – it just seems to be the case that on average, RVIS-CRV viewers (whether through their understanding of how perception unfolds in our consciousness or through the detailed training) deliver more consistent data quality, and the sessions are clear for analysis.

Not every RV application is the same. For example, it makes a difference whether one wants to work in the domain of known or unknown data.

Projects with „known data“ can be found, for example, in ARV. Here, it matters to distinguish as clearly as possible between two different predefined targets, all properties of which are already absolutely known in advance. Essentially, one single session up to Stage 3 (rarely up to Stage 4) is sufficient to indicate which target is the correct one. Many methods are suitable for this, and one can actually internalize the necessary basics in just a few days.

Projects with „unknown data,“ on the other hand, present a greater challenge to both the viewer and the analyst. The viewer is expected to provide sufficiently concrete and feedbackable data that unmistakably indicates contact with the target has been established. But since such projects specifically seek data that is not known beforehand (otherwise RV wouldn’t be needed for the solution), the viewer must invest a lot of training to learn how to handle Analytical Overlays (AOL) and other pitfalls. The higher stages of the protocol (S4–6) come into play and help go far beyond sensory and dimensional data. Here, CRV can unfold its full potential.

The strengths of CRV lie in describing, not naming, targets. But as always: Just because one has a hammer doesn’t mean every problem is a nail. There are categories of questions for which other disciplines and techniques are better suited, even though some RV practitioners have already found interfaces for this, such as in healing work or the exploration of conceptual tasks.

The RVIS CRV training program is the only one worldwide that comprehensively teaches the original version of CRV – the Swann/Puthoff method, which was developed in the early 1980s for the military unit in Ft. Meade (the Star Gate Program).

In the practical part of this training, the student receives individual training with 1:1 in-session feedback from an experienced monitor. Students are not sent into a session alone, but learn step by step (and in small steps) to develop confidence with the RV process. The immediate correction of wrong behaviors and identification of sources of errors is possible in a direct and targeted manner.

In some other courses, after a theoretical explanation, the teacher lets the students work on an exercise session each on their own and then everyone comes back together to compare results. However, if one only sees the result on paper, it is often not possible to precisely trace what was going on in the viewer’s mind or behavior at a specific point in time. And as a viewer in the learning stages, one is not capable of comprehensive and objective self-reflection – even though some tend to overestimate themselves. With this way of learning, it is therefore very difficult to detect and correct individual sources of errors and causes of problems. Even more, it often happens that students, due to this working method, inevitably develop their own interpretation of what has been learned, in an attempt to reconcile their experiences with the theory taught. It is frequently observed that graduates of such courses quickly develop and bring to market their own „improved form of RV“ shortly afterwards.

Other teachers try to do a little better by having students monitor each other. The approach is well-intentioned, as from the monitor’s perspective, one perceives things that don’t occur to the viewer himself because he is too immersed in the perception. However, the problem is that an inexperienced monitor can often do more harm than good to the viewer’s learning process.

The only effective solution remains to accompany each student individually and 1:1 during every session, to enable qualified and experienced learning and correction in real time. This is one of the reasons why exercise sessions in RVIS courses have always taken place 1:1, and the in-person courses are limited to a student-teacher ratio of 1:2.

Class of 2026

PRICING AND REGISTRATION

The course fee for the online training is 2,500 USD per module
(total 7,500 USD for the full program Stages 1–6).
Standard RVIS courses can still be booked here.

The total amount is payable in 12 monthly installments ($625/month, 4 installments per module*), each in advance for the following month during the teaching period (homework time is free between modules). You will receive an invoice for each payment. You only pay as long as you are participating – anyone who decides to drop out earlier is free to do so at the end of the month. Note: Certificates for the respective modules are only issued if the modules have been fully completed (i.e., including homework).

To apply for the course, please use the button below or send an email to jana@psi-unit.com. In the email, please provide a brief overview of your previous experiences and any training in RV, as well as your goals that you wish to achieve with the training.I

We reserve the right to reject students if, for example, the course capacity limit is exceeded. For the intensive weekends (if applicable), the training location, drinks, and snacks are included, but not the individual costs for travel, accommodation, and meals of the students.

*If you need a different form of installments/payment, we will try to find a solution.