Page Directory
CRV
Planetary Explorations
Planetary Explorations
The CRV page introduces the structured Remote Viewing method Ingo created to help people access and organize perceptions beyond the five senses. It outlines how CRV grew from his early perceptual experiments in the 1970s into a refined, six-stage protocol developed during his years of research at Stanford Research Institute (SRI). Through systematic testing and collaboration with scientists, Ingo transformed remote viewing from a spontaneous experience into a trainable skill.
The page invites visitors to explore his original writings, manuals, and examples to understand how CRV works and why Ingo saw it as a natural human capability.
Planetary Explorations
Planetary Explorations
Planetary Explorations
The Planetary Explorations page highlights Ingo’s psychic probing sessions of Jupiter, the Moon, Mars, and other worlds, sessions in which he described atmospheres, structures, energies, storms, magnetic fields, and terrain long before space missions confirmed many of these details. Beginning in 1973, he used planetary targets to push the boundaries of perception, exploring not only distant environments but the reach of the human biomind itself. This page reveals a lesser-known side of his work: his belief that human awareness can engage with other planets directly, perceiving landscapes and conditions far beyond the limits of the five senses or physical presence.
UFOs/UAPs
Planetary Explorations
Non-Human Entities
The UFOs/UAPs page presents Ingo’s unique view of these phenomena, not simply as unusual craft, but as encounters that interact directly with human perception and consciousness. Drawing from Penetration and from his own hinted experiences with advanced UAP-related technologies, he described how these events often operate behind a “perceptual veil,” masking their true nature or altering how they are sensed.
For Ingo, such encounters revealed two mysteries at once: the presence of unknown intelligences or technologies, and the deeper question of how human awareness responds when confronted with the extraordinary.
Non-Human Entities
Non-Human Entities
Non-Human Entities
The Non-Human Entities page reflects Ingo’s view that the intelligences he occasionally bumped into during his perceptual work were not guides, allies, or higher teachers, but trickster-like intrusions, beings that could mislead, distort, or manipulate awareness. He emphasized that these encounters were never the goal of his research; they appeared only when he pushed human perception into unfamiliar territory. Ingo warned that such entities often operate in deceptive or destabilizing ways, and that relying on them for insight or direction is both naïve and dangerous. For Ingo, these experiences reinforced a central principle of his work: the real development must happen within the human being.
Creator
Non-Human Entities
Empiricist
The Creator page showcases Ingo as an artist and author whose creative work was inseparable from his exploration of human perception. His books, Everybody’s Guide to Natural ESP, Penetration, The Great Apparitions of Mary, and many others, reflect the full range of his thinking, from practical instruction to deep investigations of consciousness, symbolism, and human potential.
Alongside his writing, the page also highlights his paintings, symbolic imagery, and visual experiments. For Ingo, art and literature came from the same source: a need to express the inner layers of awareness, intuition, and perception that he spent his life studying.
Empiricist
Non-Human Entities
Empiricist
The Empiricist page presents Ingo as a disciplined and curious researcher whose investigations into human perception unfolded across many settings, not only at Stanford Research Institute. Throughout his life he designed and participated in controlled experiments on Remote Viewing, human sensing, biofield effects, and perceptual modeling, documenting each step with precision. His manuscripts, field notes, session records, and correspondence are now preserved in the Ingo Swann Collection at the University of West Georgia, offering a detailed look at the rigor behind his ideas. These archives show a thinker committed to testing and refining his observations, leaving a clear and organized record for future researchers to study and build upon.
Biomind
Influences
Influences
The Biomind page draws from Ingo’s original Superpowers of the Human Biomind website, gathering the essays in which he explored the deeper structure of human awareness. In these writings, Ingo described the biomind as an integrated system of body, mind, and biofield, our natural perceptual architecture that extends far beyond the five senses.
This section brings together his core essays on intuition, subtle perception, non-local awareness, and the larger spectrum of human sensing. Many of these essays have also been adapted into short videos, which visitors can find on our YouTube and Instagram channels. The page offers a clear doorway into Ingo’s most expansive ideas about what human consciousness is capable of.
Influences
Influences
Influences
The Influences page traces how Ingo’s thinking and work were shaped by a wide array of sources: from ancient contemplative traditions and Western esoteric lineages to 20th-century art-movements and cutting-edge science. It shows how he drew on the meditative systems of India, the symbolic vision of abstract painting, the research culture of experimental consciousness, and even indigenous awareness practices, weaving these threads into a unique tapestry of perceptual inquiry.
Visitors are invited to explore the cultural, philosophical, artistic and scientific roots of his work, how he stood at the convergence of art and science, inner practice and outer experiment.
Through this depth of reference, the page highlights that his ideas didn’t emerge in isolation but were informed by centuries of human inquiry into perception, awareness and the unseen.
FAQ
Influences
FAQ
This page answers key questions about Ingo’s legacy, his archived collections (notably at University of West Georgia and other institutions), and how his name and materials may be used (especially in the age of AI).
A standout quote from Ingo:
“Truth cannot be managed. Only lies can be managed.”
-- Ingo Swann
The page reminds visitors that the real journey lies in “first-hand experience” of one’s own awareness, not reliance on second-hand information
A Multidimensional Mind, Decades Ahead of His Time
Ingo’s lifelong work was rooted in the conviction that human perception is far richer than the usual “five senses” paradigm suggests. He believed that we are equipped with innate perceptual-awareness systems: the biobody, the biofield, and the biomind. These are not fringe add-ons but fundamental layers of our being:
- The biobody refers to the living physical organism (cells, nervous system, physiology) and the way it interacts with its environment beyond mere sensory receptors.
- The biofield describes the subtle energetic field in and around the body: the milieu of information, resonance, and influence that links us to our surroundings, other beings, and even non-ordinary phenomena.
- The biomind is the living intelligence that bridges body and field: a sentient matrix of awareness, memory, creativity and extended perception. In his words, the superpowers of the human “bio-mind” are species-inherent faculties that “transcend the conventionally perceived limits of space and time, and of matter and energy.”
He reframed what is often labeled “psi,” “paranormal,” or “extrasensory” into something broader and far more human: exceptional human experiencing. For Ingo, these phenomena weren’t strange, supernatural outliers, they were signs of the deeper perceptual architecture built into every person. These experiences were not meant to be dismissed or hidden in the margins of human life. They were signals, indicators of latent capacities waiting for acknowledgment, cultivation, and understanding.
Through decades of work in laboratories, studios, and personal inquiry, Ingo explored how these innate systems could be trained, structured, and brought into conscious skill. He approached exceptional perception not as a gift but as a learnable function; something that could be practiced, refined, and integrated into creative work, scientific investigation, and everyday decision-making. His methods spanned the logical and the intuitive, the measurable and the symbolic, always circling back to the same premise: human perception is larger than we have allowed it to be.
At the core of his thinking was a radical shift in perspective: these capacities must be understood at the species level, not as rare abilities granted to a few unusual individuals. When we stop viewing these experiences as anomalies and instead see them as expressions of human design, the entire landscape changes. As Ingo wrote, when we move the hypothesis “from the individual to the species level,” a much broader panorama opens, one in which exceptional perception isn’t paranormal but fundamentally human.
This shift invites a deeper question: what does it actually mean to be human? To be a creature equipped not only with a physical body and a sensory system, but also with a biofield that interfaces with subtle environments, and a biomind capable of sensing non-locally, symbolically, and intuitively? What does it mean to recognize that awareness is not fixed, but expandable? That perception can reach beyond what is immediately visible? That experience can stretch into possibilities we’ve barely begun to map?
Whether you come to Ingo’s work as a researcher, a creative, a seeker, or a skeptic, his legacy invites you into a larger frame of reference. It encourages you to explore not just what humans do, but what humans are capable of. It challenges you to consider that the boundaries of perception may be far wider than you’ve been taught, And that within those wider boundaries lies a rich terrain of potential, curiosity, and discovery.
University of West Georgia (UWG)
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.
A Fresh Look at the Hidden Side of Being
Inspired by Ingo’s Works
Most people sense, at some point, that they are more than the personality they wear in a single lifetime. Ingo’s writings invite us to look deeper, to see that human consciousness is not a closed system, but a multi-lifetime journey stretching across worlds and dimensions of awareness we rarely explore.
His work reveals two interconnected movements of the soul (the life-being that carries your real identity: ancient, luminous, creative, and only partially expressed in any single human life): awakening our deeper perceptual nature and becoming harmless enough for our inner light to emerge.
The Journey We’re Already On
In Resurrecting the Mysterious, Ingo describes the soul as a life-unit moving through many embodiments. Most people reincarnate unconsciously, pulled by instinct, desire, or the pressures of society, what he called “the Equalizer.” This isn’t because they lack a soul, but because their deeper awareness lies dormant.
When perception begins to awaken, the inner terrain comes into view. Patterns that once felt random start revealing themselves. The long arc of one’s existence becomes recognizable. With that clarity, something remarkable happens: the soul, the YOU, becomes capable of choosing its direction instead of being swept along. This is the beginning of what Ingo calls the upward path: a movement toward clarity, coherence, and freedom from compulsion.
When Inner Shadows Fall Away
In Master of Harmlessness, Ingo shifts from theory to vision. He paints a scene where people shed their inner “demons”: the distortions, fears, and “psychic” knots that accumulate throughout life. When these dissolve, something luminous appears: the angelic aspects of each person, radiant, refined, unmistakably their own. These aren’t external beings; they are the liberated forms of our true nature.
Harmlessness, in Ingo’s view, isn’t passivity. It is what happens when the soul is no longer at war with itself. A person without inner conflict naturally expresses beauty, clarity, and uplift. And when many people reach this state together, a communal field arises, what Ingo calls communion and rapture: a shared illumination in which love, understanding, and presence need no words.
The Heart of Ingo’s Worldview
Across both works, a unified message shines through:
- You are far more than the life you remember.
- You are a multi-lifetime being capable of perception, choice, and evolution.
Perceptual awareness lets you see your true history. Harmlessness lets your true self shine. Together, they form a path toward inner liberation. A path available to anyone who seeks it.
A Word About Today’s World
Ingo spoke about the “Equalizer”: the collective forces that fragment attention and pull consciousness downward. He wrote this long before social media existed, yet his insight applies powerfully to the world young people now inhabit.
Today, many live inside systems engineered to capture attention, fuel comparison, and keep the mind outwardly focused. Anxiety, self-doubt, and disconnection have grown where inner stillness once lived. From Ingo’s perspective, this isn’t a moral problem. It’s a “psychic” one. When our awareness is constantly pulled outward, we lose contact with the quiet, luminous self within. His work reminds us:
- Your inner being is not fragile.
- It is powerful, ancient, and capable of clarity even in overwhelming times.
- Reconnecting with it is not mystical. It’s essential for well-being.
Resources for Support and Reconnection
Ingo believed every life-unit contains the map of its own growth. But he also understood that support is sometimes needed. If you or someone you love feels lost in today’s digital noise, these resources can help:
- Mental health professionals for grounding, clarity, and emotional support.
- Mindfulness and contemplative practices such as meditation, breathwork, journaling.
- Digital wellness practices including intentional breaks, limited screen time, curated feeds.
- Peer support and community spaces, where people can share openly and be heard.
- Creative expression such as art, writing, and music that reconnects you with yourself.
These tools strengthen the inner journey and restore what Ingo might call coherence: the ability to see yourself clearly without distortion.
A Simple Invitation
Ingo’s writings are more than metaphysics or philosophy. They open a doorway to what he called the “psychic whole”: the layered nature of human consciousness. He wrote that we are not just a physical body, nor even a single “self,” but a collection of interconnected psychic systems:
- the innate clarity of the genetic body;
- the emotional and experiential humanoid psyche;
- the creative, threshold-level superhuman qualities; and
- the vast, interconnected field he called the Emerald Realm: the matrix in which all life exists.
What feels chaotic often comes from the self we’ve been conditioned to believe is who we are. Beneath that taught identity, a deeper awareness stays steady and expansive, waiting to be recognized.
Ingo’s invitation is simple: step beyond the fear of your own inner life, not by withdrawing from the world, but by rediscovering your connection to all that lives within and around you. Fear begins to dissolve through kindness, clarity, and the willingness to look beneath the veils.
Whether you arrive at his work through curiosity, personal exploration, or a desire for deeper understanding in a complicated and distracted age, his message remains steady:
- You are not defined by the world’s expectations.
- You are not confined to this single moment or lifetime.
- You are a luminous, evolving being remembering what you have always been.
