Beacon homing

Beacon homing A person I used to travel with always attempted to associate important sites with a nearby landmark, typically a tall building... 

It was very late on the eve of Christmas day and the street was deserted save for the solitary figure hastening towards that beacon light of home. Darkness and silence reigned in most of the houses she passed, and she sighed as she said to herself ... 

Shortly after finishing the first series of laboratory experiments with Monroe, described in my introduction to Journeys Out of the Body [56], I moved to California. Several months later, I decided to try an experiment in which my wife and I would concentrate intensely for about half an hour to create a sort of psychic beacon to try to help Monroe have an OOBE and travel to our home. If he could accurately describe our home, this would be good evidence for a psi component in his OOBE because he had no idea what our new home was like. 

In the natural world, animals may sometimes be able to use beacons to navigate toward a goal. The location of food, water, or an animal s home might be at the base of a tree or near a large rock. On many other occasions, however, important sites may be located in an open, homogeneous field that offers no beacons. Nevertheless, animals are able to use cues only distantly related to the goal site to precisely track its position. The use of multiple cues to define a specific location in space is called piloting. We turn to some mechanisms by which animals may learn to use landmarks to pilot to a precise position. 

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