I’m not a very prolific reader for pleasure - I’ve had to invest too much time reading for academic and professional reasons. But one thing which peaked my interest in the late 90s, and caused me to do some extra reading for research, was Project Star Gate. That is one of the documented and leaked US projects which is reported to have studied and practiced remote viewing. I also attended a book signing for one of the partisans too where he spoke a bit about the project; of course, only enough to tease you to buy his book.
The one thing that surprised me about all of the texts I’d read was the lack of mention about any “feelings” which accompanied the psychic connections. This absence was strikingly missing because most (I’d estimate more than 70%) of the psychic messages I’ve received have included - or elicited in me - an emotional context.
Of course, the fact that the texts I’ve read about remote viewing lacked any overt mention of emotional context could also be purposeful. It’s not impossible that any recognized emotional aspects could have been excluded - or even redacted - in order to present a more clinical and sterile face to the studies.
However, so much of or many of my psychic experiences have been with connections to other humans rather than objects/places. And, I’m also an overly sensitive, emotional person anyway. My psychic perceptions containing emotions might just be artificially prejudiced by my own personal character.
So I get the perception that though remote viewing might work on a principle similar to other “receptive” psychic methods, I think they are more likely to be slightly different mechanisms. For example, and I’m not experienced in it, maybe remote viewing is a method of astral projection where info is not “received” but instead found via a very real act of retrieval.
One more point in hope of creating clarity and distinction. I perceive that I am essentially a “receptive psychic” - that my mind does not go looking for info but instead picks up on (or detects existence of) information passively. I could be very wrong of course; it could be that my lonely psyche does go wondering the halls of the Akashic Records or the grey matter of other peoples’ minds and I just haven’t recognized it yet.