There is no study or controlled experiment that has shown anything like remote viewing (except using a TV :-). I guess it's not entirely impossible that there is some natural phenomenon that would allow remote viewing, but if there is, nobody has tapped into it yet, and it's very, very unlikely that it exists at all. (Update:) Somebody asked "So the CIA shelled billions of dollars into research for what?" The answer is: For nothing. The US Army did indeed research paranormal ideas, and found exactly nothing. For those interested in this story, there's a book called "The Men Who Stare at Goats" which tells what exactly they had in mind and what they found.

I would like to add to this. Even if there is a natural phenomenon that would allow remote viewing, it probably is not part of the human body. It isn't a matter of tapping into it or not. There's a natural phenomenon that allows hydrogen to turn into helium. It's called fusion. But it doesn't matter what sort of training you put yourself through, you won't be able to invoke it mentally. A phenomenon can very well exist without there being any issue of humans tapping into it because it is simply impossible for humans. Aside from that, it depends entirely upon what you would be willing to call remote viewing. Must it take place through some thusfar undiscovered force of nature? If you were to try to explain temperature to a cynic who could not feel hot or cold, he would perhaps call you a loony... talking about some sort of mystical energy that permeates everything around him, that you can 'feel' and he cannot. Certainly gravitational waves are very permeating, for instance. If you had a very refined sense of motion and a body temperature of a billionth of a kelvin, perhaps you would have a very keen picture of everything around you from the way it moved and produced gravity waves, for example. Humans are much better at image processing than any software ANYONE has yet developed, but perhaps the light we see contains a LOT more useful information than what we are able to glean from it. As a very simplified example, maybe you could know what is going on 200 feet away and around a corner because you can see it in the reflection off someone's eyes, which reflects off someone else's eyes. Perhaps it need not be off someone's eyes. Perhaps it can be off a tree. If you had such fantastically good image processing equipment to pull off such a feat, perhaps you could rather thoroughly ascertain the structure of the tree and exactly how it reflects and diffuses light by observing it for a few seconds, and then it can act as a mirror for you to observe the next object and get its required information to continue the relay chain. Way, way beyond human abilities, but it's either not possible or very hard to somehow prove it impossible, even with information theory, I can tell you that much. If you could count on the tree never moving a single atom, it seems to me that it WOULD be possible, but of course, you can't count on that, if nothing else because there are quantum mechanical limitations to how fixed in position its atoms can even be! Of course building a practical device with such vision is another matter.

I have heard so many RV'ers, including Dr. Doom and Ingo Swann among others make numerous predictions, without anything like success. The perps of this practice are just selling seminars and DVd's to the gullible. As soon as they solve a crime, locate Natalee Holloway, the lost 3 mountaineers, find OBL, or find the Lost Ark, I'll revise this statement.

I have done it in my own scientific test and was successful.How I did it was I picked a random address in a part of the city in which I lived but have never been to.I went into a meditative mode then imagined myself flying to the neighborhood then over the house.I viewed in my mind the details of the house and yard. I came out of my meditative stateand wrote down what I saw.I drove to the address and was amazed at how close my mind's eye description was.I think remote viewing is a form of intentional astral traveling.

There are a variety of related experiments that a professor and doctor Rupert Sheldrake has carried out. He has about 7 or 8 books out testing things like remote viewing and other phenomena. One of his books is called "The Sense of Being Stared At", another is "Seven Experiments That Could Change the World". Check him out.