Psychic | Artist | Writer | Visionary

INGO SWANN (September 14, 1933 January 31, 2013) was internationally known as an advocate and researcher of the exceptional powers of the human mind, and as a leading figure in governmental and scientific projects to investigate and identify the scope of subtle human perceptions.

Since 1970, his name and work have been incorporated into most contemporary books about PSI and the "paranormal." He was featured in four volumes of Time-Life's bestselling series entitled Mysteries of the Unknown. 

Ingo's early work in parapsychology, as a noted and highly successful "guinea pig," made him a psychic superstar in that field. His subsequent research on behalf of American intelligence interests, including that of the CIA, won him top PSI-spy status. 

His involvement in government research projects required the discovery of innovative approaches toward the actual realizing of subtle human energies. As a subset of this, in the 1970s and into the 1980s, Ingo worked to define a technique known as remote viewing -- an action described by Ingo as acquiring impressions about a target that is shielded by both distance and time using our innate faculties. For this purpose, he developed a set of protocols saying: "This was the seventeen-year period during which the elements of Controlled Remote Viewing (CRV) were gradually separated out from a somewhat ambiguous morass of parapsychological phenomena, then refined until it was an entity of and within itself, complete with a novel nomenclature appropriate to it...and when understood, even in its natural state in individuals, it was no longer ambiguous, but seen as a precise set of existing faculties against which the ambiguous term "psychic" was no longer useful." More on this can be found in the Remote Viewing section of this website.

Even still, Ingo viewed PSI powers as only parts of the larger spectrum of human sensing systems.

His contributive work has achieved broad media notice and been featured in every major American/British television documentary on the subject of PSI phenomena and Remote Viewing and has been interviewed and/or profiled in dozens of magazines, including Time, Reader's Digest, Smithsonian and Newsweek.

Ingo was the author of over a dozen books. His publisher, Swann-Ryder Productions, has reissued most of his titles as ebooks, audio books, and paperback books. To learn more, check out the Author page.

Ingo Swann was also a visionary artist and his exquisite works can be found at The American Visionary Art Museum, The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Edgar Cayce's Association for Research and Enlightenment (A.R.E.), The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, and ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the USC Libraries.

A link to a PDF of his extensive database of writings on what he considered the Superpowers of the Human Biomind is available on this website in the Superpowers section, while his collection of research, books and correspondences is housed within Special Collections, Ingram Library at the University of West Georgia.