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Ingo Swann

Disciplines:
parapsychology
art
consciousness/consciousness research
remote viewing

Summary

Ingo Swann was an American psychic, artist, and consciousness researcher who played a foundational role in the development of remote viewing — a technique for perceiving distant or shielded locations through extrasensory means — at the Stanford Research Institute in collaboration with Russell Targ and Hal Puthoff during the 1970s. His protocols became the foundation for the US government's classified STARGATE program.

Core Contribution

Co-developed the Coordinate Remote Viewing (CRV) protocol at SRI, providing the structured methodology that the CIA and DIA used in classified psychic espionage programs; demonstrated statistical anomalies that challenged materialist models of consciousness.

Key Spikes & Highlights

  • remote viewing
  • government psi research
  • consciousness anomalies
  • STARGATE program

Notable Works & Achievements

To Kiss Earth Good-Bye

Natural ESP

Everybody's Guide to Natural ESP

Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy

Psychic Sexuality

Historical Influences

J.B. Rhine Russell Targ Hal Puthoff Theosophical tradition

Intellectual Lineage

parapsychology traditionconsciousness studies CIA Cold War intelligence programs

Contemporaries & Peers

Russell Targ Hal Puthoff Uri Geller

Minds Influenced

STARGATE program remote viewing community consciousness studies Dean Radin

Intellectual Posterity

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