"I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible." Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle (1915-2001)
There is a direct link between Ingo’s work as an artist and his research in remote viewing, parapsychology, consciousness exploration and bioenergetics, clearly described by Martin Ebon in the quarterly journal Spiritual Frontiers: “It was when Ingo started to make drawings of his psychic visions that he discovered a very basic kind of ESP system that lies within us in undeveloped form. It is this system and the process of using it that became the foundation of Ingo’s lifelong research.”
This lifelong research as a “guinea pig” or what he called, an experimental subject in a parapsychology lab, saw him involved in a number of research projects. His driving goal in all of this was to show that these abilities can be validated through established and peer reviewed scientific methods.
The repository of much of that research is the University of West Georgia, Ingram Library, Special Collections, which specializes in Parapsychology and Humanistic Psychology. Notable among the existing Collections are the papers and records of Dr. William Roll, project director of the Parapsychology Laboratory at Duke University and Ingo’s dear friend.
Of primary significance is the preservation there of Ingo's SRI research files, a treasure trove of information on the history and development of remote viewing. One set of SRI files contains records on all the first RV test subjects, including Tom McNear and Ingo himself, with transcripts, sessions and memos about the sessions, and the emerging understanding of the process of locating and developing the ESP core. Another set of files holds the many documents and memos Ingo created while at SRI, including requests, memos to file and general correspondence.
As part of Ingo’s personal research, he conducted remote viewing sessions targeting the planet Jupiter and its surrounding moons, Mars and Mercury. The findings in his well-known Jupiter probe were later confirmed by Voyager’s own tour of the planet in 1979. Edgar Mitchell, who made his historic moon voyage in 1971, said in the National Enquirer, “It took Mariner 10 months to get to Mercury – but Mr. Swann was able to project his consciousness there in an instant. Mr. Swann’s findings – weeks before we received the Mariner 10 data – were incredibly accurate.” The files, containing all of the remote viewing sessions, slide presentations and speeches he created to document the results, along with a binder containing the data supporting his findings are part of the Ingram Library’s Special Collections.
The research at SRI was aided by hundreds of scientific and other documents that provided significant insights and information. Ingo did not want those contributions to be forgotten. He kept reference files of journals, papers and articles from the 19th and 20th centuries, covering any information that pertained to the phenomena being researched. The files represent an invaluable history.
A descriptive summary of the Ingo Swann collection at the University of West Georgia can be found at http://uwg.galileo.usg.edu/uwg/view?docId=ead/MS-0060-ead.xml
For more information about the Ingo Swann collection, please contact Blynne Olivieri, head of Special Collections at special@westga.edu or 678-839-5455.
The University of West Georgia's psychology program is distinguished by its academic specialties in humanistic psychology and parapsychology. In order to support teaching, learning, and research for those unique disciplinary areas, Special Collections at UWG actively collects archival materials and printed materials pertaining to human consciousness and humanistic psychology.
Notable among these collections are papers of Ingo Swann who coined the term “remote viewing,” along with his book collection; the papers and print collections of Dr. William G. Roll whose area of specialty was psychokinesis (PK) and was on faculty at West Georgia College; the papers of Dr. Stanley Krippner; the David Wayne Hooks library which originated from the Psychical Research Foundation; the papers of scholar Sidney Jourard, who founded the American Association for Humanistic Psychology; Carmi Harari, who founded the Division of Humanistic Psychology within the American Psychology Association; the papers Janet Lee Mitchell who conducted experiments in extrasensory perception and psychokinesis; and the papers of Anne C. Richards who served on Association for Humanistic Education (AHE), trustee for the Field Psych Trust, and surveyed University of West Georgia students’ attitudes towards sexuality from 1981-1999. Also notable are the papers of psychologist Edith Weisskopf-Joelson who studied schizophrenia, alienation and logotherapy.
Special Collections holds extensive rare print materials from the fields of Human Consciousness in particular. These materials include monographs and serial publications such as journals and newsletters. There are several major personal and organizational libraries within their collections. This includes the libraries of Ingo Swann, William G. Roll, Sidney Jourard (in the field of Humanistic Psychology), the Psychical Research Foundation library, and what is called colloquially as the "Hooks Books." The Hooks collection is a 1,600-volume library of 19th and 20th century books covering subjects such as life after death, extra sensory perception, out-of-body experiences, apparitions, and altered states of consciousness. It belonged to David Wayne Hooks and was acquired by UWG in association with the Psychical Research Foundation.
You can search the library's catalog through a direct word or through a key word search. To see the contents of a person's library, like Ingo Swann's library, you can search Swann, Ingo as AUTHOR.
For their full finding aids database, please visit https://aspace-uwg.galileo.usg.edu/
Special Collections is glad to help you in locating any book or serial of interest to you in their collection. Please reach out to them by email at special@westga.edu and they can schedule an in-person or on-video research appointment with you. Use of the rare print materials in their collections is through in-person use of the item in the Special Collections Research Room, or they can guide you on how to request a scan of an item through your academic or local library's Interlibrary Loan/Resource Sharing services.
An Introduction to Archival Research | Debra Lynne Katz
The fellowship was established to advance scholarship in the field of human consciousness and to encourage use of the human consciousness collections in the University of West Georgia, Ingram Library’s Special Collections in unique and creative ways.
Christopher Senn
Elizabeth Bergen-Bartel
Dr. Derek Lee
A Preliminary Bibliography of Scientific and Other Sources Containing Significant Clues for Research and Development of Remote Viewing at SRI.
Suggested Reading List (pdf)
DownloadArchives of those mentioned in Ingo's Roll of Honor from his Real Story of Remote Viewing:
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