Ingo Swann

Template:Remote ViewingIngo Swann is an artist who helped develop the supposed process of remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute sponsoired by the Central Intelligence Agency, and has become well known as a remote viewer himself.

In 1972, Ingo Swann read a paper by Dr. Hal Puthoff while visiting Backster's laboratory, and wrote back suggesting that he should instead study parapsychological effects. He described a number of such studies that he had been involved with at the City College of New York. Puthoff was interested and invited Swann to SRI for a week in 1972. Prior to the meeting Puthoff had set up test equipment below the room in which Swann demonstrated his talents, all of which recorded anomalies. As a result of this meeting, Puthoff became convinced the matter was worth additional study, and published a short report on the meetings.

Swann, Puthoff, and other members of their team were all high-level Operating Thetan members of the Church of Scientology and the connection between Scientology and the CIA has raised concerns from many critics of all involved.

Swann is commonly accredited with proposing the idea of Coordinate Remote Viewing, a process in which viewers would view a location given nothing but its geographical coordinates, which was developed and tested by Hal Puthoff and Russell Targ with CIA funding.

However, Swann himself has always stated CRV to be a derivation of protocols originally developed by René Warcollier, a French chemical engineer in the early 20th century, documented in the book Mind to Mind. Warcollier describes transmitted drawings and noted sense impressions, and recent editions of the book are prefaced by Swann himself.

Swann's achievement was to break free from the conventional mould of casual experimentation and candidate burn out, and develop a viable set of protocols that put clairvoyance within a framework named “Coordinate Remote Viewing” (CRV).

In one noted experiment in 1973, Swann conducted a remote viewing session with the target of Jupiter and its moons, prior to the Voyager probe's visit there in 1979. [1]

Further reading

• Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, ISBN 0440223067 The best history of the project; nonskeptical.
• Buchanan, Lyn, The Seventh Sense: The Secrets Of Remote Viewing As Told By A "Psychic Spy" For The U.S. Military, ISBN 0743462688
• Smith, Paul H, Reading the Enemy's Mind : Inside Star Gate--America's Psychic Espionage Program, Forge Books 2005, ISBN 0312875150
• McMoneagle, Joseph, The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, Hampton Roads 2002, ISBN 1571742255

External links

• Remote Viewing Timeline
• Swann's research work
• http://www.biomindsuperpowers.com/ his extensive site about his psychic beliefs