Early life
Swann was born in Telluride, Colorado on September 14th, 1933. Swann claimed to have out-of-body experiences beginning at three years of age, during a tonsil removal operation, after which he began to see colorful 'auras' around certain objects. These experiences continued throughout childhood, and eventually prompted Swann to volunteer as a participant in parapsychology research at the age of 37.Remote viewing
Swann was a prominent celebrity Scientologist during the 1970s having attained the level of Operating Thetan through Scientology auditing. It is purported that the attainment of the level may extend ones psychic abilities including controlledUri Geller
Due to the popularity of Uri Geller in the seventies, skeptics and historians basically overlooked a critical examination of Swann's paranormal claims. Uri Geller commented very favorably on Swann, saying, "If you were blind and a man appeared who could teach you to see with mind power, you would revere him as a guru. So why is Ingo Swann ignored by publishers and forced to publish his astounding life story on the Internet?" Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff, two experimenters, tested Geller and Swann and concluded that they had unique skills. Others have strongly disputed the scientific validity of Targ and Puthoff's experiments. In a 1983 interview, magician Milbourne Christopher remarked that Swann was "one of the cleverest in the field".Out-of-body experiment
In 1972, in the newsletter of the American Society for Psychical Research (ASPR), their director of research Karlis Osis described his personal controlled out-of-body (OOB) 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. Osis did describe the height of the ceiling. Swann suggested that the ceiling was 14 feet tall. Two kitchen-style overhead fixtures illuminated the room. Swann sat alone in the chamber, wires from electrodes fastened to his head running through the wall behind him. Swann sat just beneath the target tray. He was given a clipboard to use for sketching. Any movement while drawing did not result in "artifacts" in the brain readout. In Swann's book ''To Kiss Earth Goodbye'' there is a photograph of the objects on the shelf. Swann wrote that he knew most of the objects on a shelf above his head, but he did not know it held four numbers on a side that would ''not'' have been visible if a reflecting surface had been angled near the end. Psychological scales were developed to rate the quality and clarity (as subjectively described) of Swann's OOB vision, which varied from time to time. The results were evaluated by blind judging. A psychologist, Bonnie Preskari or Carole K. Silfen, was asked to match up Swann's responses without knowing which target they were meant. She matched all eight sessions. Osis stressed the odds of Swann being correct were forty thousand to one. There is no record of any experiments being performed in the dark. Silfen and Swann prepared an unofficial report of later out-of-body experiments and circulated it to 500 members of the ASPR before the ASPR board was aware of it. According to Swann, Silfen had disappeared and could not be located. While searching for her, he also sought help from the general public. Swann claimed that in April 1972, the ASPR in New York attempted to discredit him and expel him due to his affiliation with Scientology.Magnetometer psychokinesis tests
When Swann arrived at SRI, Harold Puthoff decided he would first be tested for PK. On June 6, 1972, the two men visited Dr. Arthur Heberd and his quark detector, aEarly ''Coordinate Remote Viewing'' experiments
Targ and Puthoff write about their pilot experiments, "We couldn't overlook the possibility that perhaps Ingo knew the geographical features of the Earth and their approximate latitude and longitude. (It is Swann who suggests these Coordinate Remote Viewing tests, not the experimenters. He is in control.) "Or it was possible that we were inadvertently cueing the subject (Swann), since we as experimenters knew what the answers were." Soon, Targ and Puthoff performed more experiments with Swann, and the controls were tightened to eliminate the possibility of error. This time Swann was given the latitude and longitude of ten targets, in the end there would be ten runs, for a total of 100. ''Only'' the evaluations of the ten targets from the tenth run, the last, were disclosed. The results of the targets from the previous ninety (runs 1–9) are ignored. Swann had seven hits for the tenth run, two neutral and one miss. The experiments came to a close. Targ and Puthoff were positive: "Something was happening, but they are not clear what it is." (This method of selecting a small number of "guesses" from a larger, sometimes never disclosed larger number, is known as the ''free response method'' in remote viewing but could be called cherry picking.) According to Swann and Stanford Research International, his RV was correct probably 95% of the time. His personally trained students' RV were 85% correct, 85% of the time. See: Stargate ProjectSwann's descriptions of Jupiter
Swann proposed a study to Targ and Puthoff. At first, they resisted, for the resulting descriptions would be impossible to verify. Yet, on the evening of 27 April 1973, Targ and Puthoff recorded Swann's remote viewing session of the:06:20Very high in the atmosphere there areSwann's transcript contained in "Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability" by Russell Targ & Harold Puthoff is slightly different from Swann's later version. There is no mention of sand and he also states, "I feel there is liquid some-where ... liquid like water." Swann's total observations lasted for about 20 minutes. He did not mention any of the 95 moons of Jupiter. The raw data comprised only four pages, but according to Swann, the confirmatory data appeared throughout the published scientific and technical articles and papers. It was decided that all of these should be included to ensure that no scientific passage was inadvertently used out of context. The feedback data, therefore, amounted to about 300 pages.crystal A crystal or crystalline solid is a solid material whose constituents (such as atoms, molecules, or ions) are arranged in a highly ordered microscopic structure, forming a crystal lattice that extends in all directions. In addition, macros ...s ... they glitter. ''Maybe'' the stripes are like bands of crystals, ''maybe'' like rings of Saturn, though not far out like that. Very close within the atmosphere. nintelligible sentence.I bet you they'll reflect radio probes. Is that possible if you had a cloud of crystals that were assaulted by differentradio wave Radio waves (formerly called Hertzian waves) are a type of electromagnetic radiation with the lowest frequencies and the longest wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum, typically with frequencies below 300 gigahertz (GHz) and wavelengths g ...s? :08:00Now I'll go down through. It feels really good there aughs I said that before, didn't I? Inside those cloud layers, those crystal layers, they look beautiful from the outside. From the inside they look like rolling gas clouds – eerie yellow light, rainbows. :10:20I get the impression, though I don't see, that it's liquid. :10:55Then I came through the cloud cover. The surface – it looks like sand dunes. They're made of very large grade crystals, so they slide. Tremendous winds, sort of like maybe the prevailing winds of Earth, but very close to the surface of Jupiter. From that view, the horizon looks orangish or rose-colored, but overhead it's kind of greenish-yellow. :12:35If I look to the right there is an enormous mountain range. :14:45I feel that there's liquid somewhere. Those mountains are very huge but they still don't poke up through the crystal cloud cover. You know I had a dream once something like this, where the cloud cover was a great arc ... sweeps over the entire heaven. Those grains which make that sand orange are quite large. They have a polished surface and they look something like amber or like obsidian but they're yellowish and not as heavy. The wind blows them. They slide along. :16:37If I turn, the whole thing seems enormously flat. I mean, if I get the feeling that if a man stood on those sands, I think he would sink into them aughs Maybe that's where that liquid feeling comes from.
Brain activity during remote viewing
In November 2001, there was an article by Michael Persinger published in ''The Journal of Neuropsychiatry & Clinical Neurosciences.'' The results with Swann suggested that there were associated measurable changes in brain activity during his remote viewing. There was bipolar electroencephalographic activity over the occipital, temporal, and frontal lobes. Persinger concluded that there was "significant congruence" between the stimuli and Swann's electroencephalographic activity.Psychic detectives
Swann reported that out of the twenty-five criminal cases he worked on between 1972 and 1979, twenty-two were flops, and three were successes. According to Swann, Gerard Croiset and Peter Hurkos were super sensitive sleuths. Authors Arthur Lyons and Marcello Truzzi Ph.D., also a founder of the International Remote Viewing Association, wrote the Croiset and Hurkos cases were "pure bunk" in their 1991 book ''The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime.''Ufology
Swann was a supporter ofPublications
*''The Great Apparitions of Mary - An Examination of Twenty-two Supranormal Appearances'' - Copyright 1996 by Ingo Swann - Printed by The Crossroad Publishing Company, 370 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY 10017 * ''To Kiss Earth Good-bye: Adventures and Discoveries in the Nonmaterial'', "Recounted by the Man who has Astounded Physicists and Parapsychologists Throughout the World". * Self-help books: **''Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP: Unlocking the Extrasensory Power of Your Mind'' **''Your Nostradamus Factor — Accessing Your Innate Ability to See Into the Future'' **''Psychic sexuality: The bio-psychic "anatomy" of sexual energies'' * 1979 Fiction. ''Star Fire''. 0 7221 8303 8 * 1980 book on future world events: ''What Will Happen to You When the Soviets Take Over?'' * Autobiography: ''Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy'' (1998).See also
* '' The Men Who Stare at Goats''References
Further reading
* Buchanan, Lyn, ''The Seventh Sense: The Secrets Of Remote Viewing As Told By A "Psychic Spy" for the U.S. Military'', *Fabreguettes, Benoit, and Masotti, Laurent, ''Awaken Your Intuition: The ABCs of Remote Viewing'', BookBaby, 2022, ISBN 978-1-66786-810-3 * McMoneagle, Joseph, ''The Stargate Chronicles: Memoirs of a Psychic Spy'', Hampton Roads 2002, * Ronson, Jon, '' The Men Who Stare at Goats'' Simon & Schuster, 2004, . The military budget cuts after Vietnam and how it all began. * Schnabel, Jim, ''Remote Viewers: The Secret History of America's Psychic Spies'', Dell, 1997, * Smith, Paul H, ''Reading the Enemy's Mind : Inside Star Gate—America's Psychic Espionage Program'', Forge Books 2005, * Swann, Ingo, ''Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy'', Ingo Swann Books, 199External links
*