Ingo Swann

Ingo Swann is an artist who helped develop the procedure of remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute, 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 proposed 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.

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]

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