The Globalization of Remote Viewing & IRVA: A Presidential Dialog with Luciano Arruda

Summary

Luciano Arruda, the new President of the International Remote Viewing Association (IRVA), discusses his journey into remote viewing and the organization's global expansion efforts. He shares insights on the intersection of clairvoyance and remote viewing while addressing the challenges of maintaining historical integrity in a rapidly evolving field. This episode highlights the future initiatives IRVA is championing under his leadership.

Key takeaways

• 1Luciano Arruda became involved in remote viewing in 2022 and is now leading IRVA's international initiatives.
• 2The episode discusses the differences between clairvoyant readings and remote viewing.
• 3There is conversation around the possibility of offering free memberships, conferences, and classes for IRVA.
• 4Challenges faced include recruiting international leadership and balancing pro-military and anti-military viewpoints.
• 5Debra Lynne Katz has authored several books on clairvoyance and remote viewing, contributing to training students worldwide.

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New Thinking Allowed is presented by the California Institute for Human Science, Mind-Body-Spirit University, a leader in fully accredited in-person and online U.S. college degree programs in the topics we cover here. Visit their website at cihs.edu. Book 4 in the new Thinking Allowed Dialogue series is Charles T. Tartt, 70 Years of Exploring Consciousness and Parapsychology. Now available on Amazon. Thinking Allowed. Conversations on the leading edge of knowledge and discovery with psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove. Hi, I'm Dr. Debra Lynn Katz, and you are watching New Thinking Allowed, produced by Dr. Jeffrey Mishlove. Now, many of you are aware that in addition to being a guest host on this show, I have also been serving as the president of the International Remote Viewing Association, otherwise known as IRVA. I've been in that role for four years, and I came on to the IRVA board around 2019, just a little bit before COVID. What many of you don't know is that I am retiring from that position and the board as of this month, and I thought it would be really helpful both to introduce and to interview my replacement. He was just elected by the entire IRVA board to fulfill that position, and his name is Luciano Arruda. Luciano has been serving in the Silicon Valley, multiple positions, multiple companies, focusing on the same thing he's been focusing on within the International Remote Viewing Association, which is global development. So, we're going to be talking to him about that. We're going to talk about IRVA's future, and we're going to be talking about the future of remote viewing, because remote viewing and the International Remote Viewing Association are so closely linked. ...

Excerpt from New Thinking Allowed, Jan 15, 2026. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.