a layman's definition, at least to my understanding, is that our subconscious is connected to all there is (all of the universe) and remote viewing is the skill used to connect the conscious and subconscious in order to tap into that data - neither time nor distance matter if you've ever knew the phone was going to ring before it rang, that's sort of what RV'ing is i think, except with skill you can invoke that state of mind at will thought is the enemy of RV'ing - thought contaminates the raw data - the trick, as i understand it, is to express the information you see/feel immediately without processing or thinking about it - RV'ers are trained to compensate for this and so you'll hear them say something like 'D' or 'discard' for information which is gathered from thought or perception