However, the power syndrome became a very important factor not only regarding the history of remote viewing (as might have been anticipated), but regarding the remote viewing FACULTIES themselves. As will be described in chapters distantly ahead, it WAS discovered that unless the omnipresent power syndrome is acknowledged and intimately dealt with regarding the faculties, then it can degrade, abort or distort them, or wipe them out altogether. What this means at this point may be unintelligible. But before long you will have an increase of comprehension about it. Thus the power syndrome is important from two perspectives. I’ve therefore decided not to evade or soften the issues, but, perhaps somewhat stridently, to tackle them head-on. This chapter is therefore a preface to aspects of the power syndrome which will be encountered ahead. Nowhere is anyone free of those on-going power circumstances, albeit there is an enormous variety of them. Power circumstances can be gross and very visible -- such as the power structures of the military. But many are very subtle, even as to be identifiable -- such as in optimistic, sweetness-andlight sub-cultures or groups.