Remote Viewing / Remote Control in Fiction — Master Index

TL;DR: Remote Viewing / Remote Control in Fiction — Master Index: Between 1871 and 1937, at least six major authors independently described the same technology: This is either: - (a) Independent artistic convergence on a compelling fictional idea, or - (b) Multiple authors drawing on the same source tradition (occult, Hermetic, Masonic), or - (c) Predictive programming — encoding real capability as fiction Research index for the paradigm-threat-timeline project. Focus: fiction that describes remote viewing, remote control, scrying devices, mind transfer, and dimensional contact — the same mechanism, appearing across multiple authors from 1871–1937. Compare to: Wells’ Crystal Egg, Tolkien’s Palantíri, John Dee’s obsidian mirror.

The Pattern

Between 1871 and 1937, at least six major authors independently described the same technology:

A device or mechanism enables perception of / communication with another world, dimension, or time period
The connection is often two-way — the other side can see/influence us
The device is frequently described as crystal, stone, mirror, or resonance machine
Contact typically results in madness, possession, or identity displacement
The technology is presented as ancient, pre-human, or alien — not invented by the protagonist
Guard-realm → evil-use: Tolkien’s Palantíri “long guarded and united the realm of Gondor” before Sauron perverted them; Wells’s Crystal Egg shows only the hostile phase (Martian surveillance for invasion). Same trajectory.

This is either:

(a) Independent artistic convergence on a compelling fictional idea, or
(b) Multiple authors drawing on the same source tradition (occult, Hermetic, Masonic), or
(c) Predictive programming — encoding real capability as fiction

Comparative Table of Devices

Author	Work	Year	Device	Function	Two-Way?	Result
Bulwer-Lytton	The Coming Race	1871	Vril (trained will)	Dematerialization, mind control, weather control	Yes	Underground race superior to surface humanity
Machen	The Great God Pan	1894	Brain surgery	Opens perception to spirit-world behind matter	Yes	Permanent insanity — “she has seen the Great God Pan”
Chambers	The King in Yellow	1895	A play/book	Text that seizes minds and controls thoughts	One-way	Madness, suicide, personality transformation
Wells	“The Crystal Egg”	1899	Crystal egg	Views Mars; Martians view Earth through paired crystal	Yes	Crystal placed on Earth by Martians for surveillance
Wells	“The Plattner Story”	1896	Chemical explosion	Blows man into Fourth Dimension	One-way return	Can see our world as ghosts; passes through people
Blackwood	The Willows	1907	Thin dimensional barrier	Entities from outer space press through where veil is thin	Yes — “they feel our thoughts”	Death if detected; survival through mental silence
Lovecraft	“Beyond the Wall of Sleep”	1919	Telepathic radio	Communicates with cosmic entity in sleeping body	Yes	Entity reveals consciousness mobile across bodies
Lovecraft	“From Beyond”	1920	Resonance machine (pineal gland)	Activates dormant sense-organs; perceives overlapping dimensions	Yes — “we are seen as well as see”	Beings attack from beyond; operator killed
Lovecraft	“The Call of Cthulhu”	1926	None (telepathy)	Sleeping entity transmits dreams globally	One-way broadcast	Worldwide madness in sensitives
Lovecraft	“The Mound”	1930	Trained will (K’n-yan)	Dematerialization, rematerialization, thought-projection	Yes	Underground Vril-civilization under Oklahoma
Lovecraft	“The Whisperer in Darkness”	1931	Brain cylinders + electronics	Brain extracted, placed in cylinder with sight/hearing/speech	N/A — brain is removed	Disembodied travel to 37 worlds
Lovecraft	“The Trap”	1931	Antique mirror	Dimensional portal — draws body through glass	One-way trap	Trapped in reversed fourth-dimensional space
Lovecraft	“The Dreams in the Witch House”	1932	Room geometry (non-Euclidean angles)	Architecture enables interdimensional travel in sleep	Yes	Physical transport between dimensions
Lovecraft	“The Thing on the Doorstep”	1933	Occult body-exchange	Hypnotic domination of will; serial body-theft	N/A — exchange	Immortality through serial possession
Lovecraft	“The Challenge from Beyond”	1935	Crystal cube with hypnotic disc	Ether-bridge capturing minds across galaxies	Yes — bidirectional swap	Mind trapped in alien worm-body
Lovecraft	“The Haunter of the Dark”	1935	Shining Trapezohedron	Polyhedral scrying stone — “window on all time and space”	Yes — summons entity	Psychic link with Haunter
Tolkien	The Lord of the Rings	1954–55	Palantíri (Seeing-stones)	Seven crystals; “see far off, converse in thought”; “long guarded and united the realm of Gondor”	Yes	Sauron perverts for subversion; Saruman ensnared; Denethor broken
Lovecraft	“The Shadow out of Time”	1936	Mechanical mind-projection	Great Race projects minds across time, seizes bodies	Yes — full swap	Personality changes in historical figures
Lovecraft	“The Evil Clergyman”	1937	Matchbox device + violet ray	Personality overwrite via small device	One-way overwrite	Permanent identity replacement
Dunsany	The Gods of Pegana	1905	None — cosmogony	Gods dream the world; Skarl drums to keep MANA-YOOD-SUSHAI asleep	Cosmological	Reality is a dream of a sleeping god

Downloaded Texts — File Locations

H.P. Lovecraft (104 stories + 2 essays)

Source: hplovecraft.com
HTML originals: /home/ari/dev/wget/lovecraft/fiction/ and essays/
Clean text: /home/ari/dev/wget/lovecraft/txt/ and txt-essays/
Index: /home/ari/dev/wget/lovecraft/index-lovecraft.md

H.G. Wells

Source: Project Gutenberg
Tales of Space and Time (1899) — contains “The Crystal Egg”: /home/ari/dev/wget/wells/tales-of-space-and-time.txt
The Country of the Blind and Other Stories (1911) — contains “The Plattner Story”, “The Crystal Egg” reprint, others: /home/ari/dev/wget/wells/country-of-the-blind-and-other-stories.txt

Arthur Machen

Source: Project Gutenberg
The Great God Pan (1894): /home/ari/dev/wget/machen/the-great-god-pan.txt
The House of Souls (1906): /home/ari/dev/wget/machen/the-house-of-souls.txt
The Three Impostors (1895): /home/ari/dev/wget/machen/the-three-impostors.txt
The Terror (1917): /home/ari/dev/wget/machen/the-terror.txt
The Hill of Dreams (1907): /home/ari/dev/wget/machen/the-hill-of-dreams.txt
The Angels of Mons (1915): /home/ari/dev/wget/machen/the-angels-of-mons.txt

Algernon Blackwood

Source: Project Gutenberg
The Willows (1907): /home/ari/dev/wget/blackwood/the-willows.txt
John Silence, Physician Extraordinary (1908): /home/ari/dev/wget/blackwood/john-silence.txt
Three John Silence Stories: /home/ari/dev/wget/blackwood/three-john-silence-stories.txt

Robert W. Chambers

Source: Project Gutenberg
The King in Yellow (1895): /home/ari/dev/wget/other-refs/the-king-in-yellow-chambers.txt

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Source: Project Gutenberg
The Coming Race (1871): /home/ari/dev/wget/other-refs/the-coming-race-bulwer-lytton.txt

Lord Dunsany

Source: Project Gutenberg
The Gods of Pegana (1905): /home/ari/dev/wget/other-refs/gods-of-pegana-dunsany.txt

Key Quotes by Theme

1. Crystal / Stone as Viewing Device

Wells, “The Crystal Egg” (1899):

“I believe the crystal on the mast in Mars and the crystal egg of Mr. Cave’s to be in some physical, but at present quite inexplicable, way en rapport, and we both believe further that the terrestrial crystal must have been—possibly at some remote date—sent hither from that planet, in order to give the Martians a near view of our affairs.”

Lovecraft, “The Haunter of the Dark” (1935):

“Of the Shining Trapezohedron he speaks often, calling it a window on all time and space, and tracing its history from the days it was fashioned on dark Yuggoth, before ever the Old Ones brought it to earth.”

Lovecraft, “The Challenge from Beyond” (1935):

“The mind that noticed the cube would be drawn into it by the power of the disc, and would be sent on a thread of obscure energy to the place whence the disc had come.”

2. Machine / Technology for Dimensional Perception

Lovecraft, “From Beyond” (1920):

“We shall overleap time, space, and dimensions, and without bodily motion peer to the bottom of creation.” “That gland [pineal] is the great sense-organ of organs—I have found out.” “In these rays we are able to be seen as well as to see.”

Lovecraft, “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919):

“I had in my college days prepared a set of transmitting and receiving instruments somewhat similar to the cumbrous devices employed in wireless telegraphy…”

Lovecraft, “The Whisperer in Darkness” (1931):

“My brain is in that cylinder and I see, hear, and speak through these electronic vibrators.”

3. Mind Transfer / Consciousness Displacement

Lovecraft, “The Shadow out of Time” (1936):

“With suitable mechanical aid a mind would project itself forward in time… seize on the best discoverable representative of the highest of that period’s life-forms; entering the organism’s brain and setting up therein its own vibrations.” “From cases of the permanent projection of elder minds arose many of those lasting changes of personality noticed in later history—including mankind’s.”

Lovecraft, “The Thing on the Doorstep” (1933):

“On, on, on, on—body to body to body—he means never to die.”

Machen, “The Great God Pan” (1894):

“A trifling rearrangement of certain cells, a microscopical alteration… I can set free the current, with a touch I can complete the communication between this world of sense and—”

4. Art / Text as Mind-Control Vector

Chambers, “The King in Yellow” (1895):

“The ambition of Caesar and of Napoleon pales before that which could not rest until it had seized the minds of men and controlled even their unborn thoughts.” “It is well known how the book spread like an infectious disease, from city to city, from continent to continent.”

5. Entities Perceiving Us Through the Veil

Blackwood, “The Willows” (1907):

“It was a spot held by the dwellers in some outer space, a sort of peep-hole whence they could spy upon the earth, themselves unseen, a point where the veil between had worn a little thin.” “We must keep our minds quiet—it’s our minds they feel. We must control our thoughts, or it’s all up with us.”

6. Underground Civilization with Vril-like Power

Bulwer-Lytton, “The Coming Race” (1871):

“By one operation of vril… they can influence the variations of temperature… they can exercise influence over minds, and bodies animal and vegetable, to an extent not surpassed in the romances of our mystics.” “In the bowels of the inner earth… might be discovered the remains of human habitation—not in huts and caverns, but in vast cities whose ruins attest the civilization of races which flourished before the age of Noah.”

Lovecraft, “The Mound” (1930):

“By the sheer force of the technically trained will… a learned man of K’n-yan could dematerialise and rematerialise himself.”

Cross-References

Timeline article: Predictive Programming: Fiction as Control
War of the Worlds analysis: wget/text/wotw.md and related files
Saturnian Cosmology sources: wget/saturniancosmology.org/
Thunderbolts sources: wget/thunderbolts.info/

Not Yet Downloaded (Future Work)

Tolkien — Palantíri (Silmarillion, Lord of the Rings) — still under copyright
John Dee — obsidian scrying mirror (1580s) — historical, not fiction
Bulwer-Lytton — Zanoni (1842) — Rosicrucian initiation novel, Gutenberg has it
Algernon Blackwood — The Centaur (1911) — cosmic consciousness
William Hope Hodgson — The House on the Borderland (1908) — dimensional leakage
Clark Ashton Smith — Lovecraft’s contemporary, extensive cosmic fiction
Abraham Merritt — The Moon Pool (1919), The Metal Monster (1920)
M.R. James — ghost stories with antiquarian scrying themes
Arthur Conan Doyle — The Land of Mist (1926), spiritualist fiction
Edward Bellamy — Looking Backward (1888) — future-viewing
Camille Flammarion — Lumen (1887) — cosmic consciousness, time perception

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