Ingo Swann
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Ingo Swann is an artist who helped develop the process of remote viewing at the Stanford Research Institute sponsored by the Central Intelligence Agency, and has become well known as a remote viewer himself.
In the summer 1972 American Society for Psychical Research Newsletter Dr. Karlis Osis, director of research for the ASPR, described his personal controlled out-of-body experiment with Swann. The targets that Swann was to attempt to describe and illustrate were on a shelf two feet from the ceiling and several feet above Swann's head. The room was illuminated by two kitchen-style overhead fixtures. Swann sat alone in the chamber with wires from electrodes fastened to his head running through the wall behind him. He was given a clipboard to use for sketching. Dr. Osis stressed the odds about Swann being correct were forty thousand to one. Although his out-stretched hand might not have extended far enough to reach the suspended shelf, the clipboard that he used for sketching could have been employed as an extension. Perhaps with a mirror held by the clip at the high end, the lower end grasped by the fingers of his extended hand. In Swann's book To Kiss the Earth Goodbye there is a photograph of the objects on the shelf. Swann wrote that he was aware of most of the objects on shelf above his head, but he did not know it held four numbers on a side. A side that would not have been visible if a reflecting surface had been angled near the end. Writing about this experiment master magician Milbourne Christopher asks the questions why were the target objects in the same room as the subject? Why were they so close to the subject? And finally, why wasn't an observer also in the room at the time of the experiment? [1] [2]
PRG (Stanford) would seal a target in an envelope. This envelope would be given to a group of people who would enter a car. Once they were in the car the envelope would be opened and the target they were to drive to would be revealed. They would then drive to the target and try to visually send an image back to Ingo. He would then try to pick up on the target and reveal what it was. His success rate was incredible. It got to the point where he would tell the controller where the people were heading sometimes before they opened the envelope. "I remember once when given co-ordinates on a world map he drew a perfect picture of the island which was the target." (David Garner, PRG, 1967-1976)
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 at one point but Puthoff and Swann both left Scientology during the 1980s. The connection between Scientology and the CIA has raised concerns from some critics.
Swann is commonly credited 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.
Swann's achievement was to break free from the conventional mold of casual experimentation and candidate burn-out, and develop a viable set of protocols that put clairvoyance within a framework named “Remote Viewing.”
In one noted experiment in 1973, Swann conducted a remote viewing session of Jupiter and its moons, prior to the Voyager probe's visit there in 1979. According to Swann, in that session he reported that Jupiter had rings as does Saturn, which was considerably controversial at the time. Once the Voyager probe later confirmed the existence of the rings. [1]. On the other hand, he also maintained that the probe had "bullet-like" shape.
[edit] References
- ^ Search for the Soul by Milbourne Christopher, Thomas Y. Crowell, 1979
- ^ Kiss the Earth Good-bye: Adventures and Discoveries in the Nonmaterial, Recounted by the Man who has Astounded Physicists and Parapsychologists Throughout the World by Ingo Swann, Hawthorne Books, 1975
[edit] Further reading
- Schnabel, Jim, Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies, Dell, 1997, ISBN 0-440-22306-7 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 0-7434-6268-8
- Smith, Paul H, Reading the Enemy's Mind : Inside Star Gate--America's Psychic Espionage Program, Forge Books 2005, ISBN 0-312-87515-0
- McMoneagle, Joseph, The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy, Hampton Roads 2002, ISBN 1-57174-225-5
[edit] External links
- Superpowers of the Human Biomind - Ingo Swann's comprehensive site
- Swann's research work
