
A visionary thinker whose work expanded our understanding of how humans perceive, interpret, and interact with subtle information. This site explores his life, research, methods, and creative legacy.
If you’re here, you’ve probably heard pieces of Ingo’s story: the artist who helped pioneer remote viewing, the man whose work drew the attention of scientists and intelligence agencies, the researcher who spent his life exploring the deeper capacities of human perception.
But behind the headlines and the speculation was a full human being: thoughtful, disciplined, creative, and often misunderstood.
Ingo devoted his life to investigating one of the most overlooked aspects of human experience: our perceptual awareness systems, the internal mechanisms through which we sense, interpret, and respond to information beyond our ordinary focus.
Much of his legacy has been framed through the modern language of “psychics” and “the unknown,” but these terms are recent inventions, and often misleading. Before the word psychic entered popular use in the late 19th century, individuals with heightened perceptual abilities were more commonly known as sensitives. Across cultures and eras, societies understood such capacities as part of the natural range of human perception, not as curiosities or parlor phenomena.
The Romans spoke of the sensorium, the inner seat of perception where impressions, intuition, and subtle forms of awareness were processed. In India, Hindu yogis developed sophisticated systems for cultivating heightened perception through meditation, breathwork, and disciplined attention. Many Indigenous cultures across the world recognized individuals with acute sensitivity to symbolic, environmental, or energetic patterns, integrating them into communal roles. Medieval contemplatives, ancient Greek oracles, Tibetan adepts, Sufi mystics, and early Chinese scholars all explored these perceptual capacities as part of the human experience.
Seen through this broader historical lens, Ingo’s work belongs to a long cross-cultural lineage of perceptual inquiry, rather than the sensationalism often attached to modern “psychic” narratives. He was sharply critical of sloppy science, exaggerated claims, and pseudoscientific thinking. His approach was grounded, structured, and intellectually rigorous, aimed not at mystifying human perception, but at understanding how it actually works.
Here, we present a clearer picture:
This space exists to give him the fairness, context, and depth that public articles rarely provide. Here, you can learn not only about the experiments and the government programs, but also about Ingo’s art, his ideas, his writings, and the careful, methodical approach he brought to a field that was often sensationalized.
If you’ve only encountered the dramatic stories, you’re welcome here.
If you’re curious, skeptical, or simply interested in understanding what really happened, you’re welcome here too.
The goal of this site is simple: to present Ingo as he truly was. Not as a caricature, not as a myth, but as a pioneering thinker whose work deserves clarity and context.
Thank you for being part of this discovery.
We often assume our senses define the limits of our awareness. Ingo’s work reminds us that human perception is larger, deeper, and more structured than our everyday experience reveals.

Ingo’s work showed that perception is not limited to the five senses.
He believed humans possess broader awareness systems that can be trained, structured, and understood. This was a view supported by years of experimental work.
He explored these systems through:
Whether you come to Ingo’s work as a researcher, a creative, a seeker, or a skeptic, you will find something here that invites reflection.
For those who want to engage with Ingo’s work firsthand, including his original papers, rare manuscripts, research notes, correspondence, and unpublished materials, his full archive is preserved at the UWG’s Ingo Swann Collection.
Among the many questions that have been asked is the question of how it was, in the first place, that "psychic" abilities came to reside in me. ... In trying to structure an answer to the question of how it is that I in particular seem to possess paranormal abilities, it is probably best to say that somewhere in my vision of life I have found the daring to disagree with a good deal of what [humans] hold to be true about [themselves]. Many of [our] favoured concepts of [ourselves] are not true. [We] ARE much more than all existent concepts put together.
Ingo once wrote:
“Anacalypsis is a Greek word that means an uncovering, a revelation, or an unveiling.
In its most ancient and dramatic sense, it meant a tearing away of the veil.”
Anacalypsis is exactly that, an unveiling. This unfinished, unedited manuscript is Ingo’s “psychic autobiography,” left in the form he was shaping when he passed away in 2013. It is not polished or curated; rather, it offers something more precious: a chance to learn about Ingo from his own words, in his own voice, as he was actively making sense of his life, his perceptions, and his work.
Alongside it, we also offer another memoir drawn from Remote Viewing: The Real Story, where Ingo recounts his pre-SRI experiences and his early days working with SRI.
Together, these writings provide the clearest window into how he understood his abilities, how he approached research, and how the foundations of Remote Viewing began to take shape.
These downloads are shared here so you can encounter Ingo directly, not through interpretation or commentary, but through the unfolding thought and memory of the man himself.
The only authentic film about Ingo is a short film titled A Life Gone Wild (see below). If others are released, they will be announced here.
From: Panel from the Philip K. Dick Film Festival
From: SEE - Psychic Trainer
From: the Supernatural Explorer Podcast
From: New Thinking Allowed
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