Distracted by peas, and performing paranormal feats with your head in a container of liquid

I’ve been reading Remote Viewing Secrets by Joseph McMoneagle -- the OG, "Remote Viewer No. 1" in Project Stargate -- and yesterday I read this passage, where McMoneagle uses a bizarre image to illustrate his flexibility about methods so long as strict protocols are observed:

Many people have heard me say that if someone would like to stand on their head in a bucket of pea soup while whistling Dixie through their left nostril and can produce information within the remote viewing protocol, then I'm willing to call it remote viewing. It is true that the greater the methodological requirements you bring into play between yourself and the target, the tougher it is to produce the psychic information. I will be the very first to readily admit there is a huge possibility for distraction in standing on one's head in a bucket of soup.

A few hours after reading that, I saw that one of the YouTube channels I follow had posted a new video, about the H. C. Andersen fairy tale “The Princess and the Pea.”

There seemed to be a rather tenuous sync here, in that we have two ways in which peas might prove distracting:

1. if you put one of them under a stack of mattresses and try to sleep
2. if you make soup from them, stand on your head in a bowl of it, and try to remote view while whistling Dixie through your left nostril

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That evening, I started reading Laeth's first novel, Phantasia. The prologue begins thus:

The idea came from an anonymous post. The title was, How to use Phantasia to Manifest, and then it gave instructions. One, Immerse your head in a bowl of water. Two, Imagine a setting for manifesting. Three, imagine what you want to manifest.

This links to the McMoneagle passage in a different way --- not peas and distraction, but rather the idea of doing something paranormal (remote viewing, "manifesting") with your head in a container of liquid.