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American remote viewing pioneer (1933–2013)
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(1933-09-14)September 14, 1933<br>Telluride, Colorado, U.S.[1]<br>DiedJanuary 31, 2013(2013-01-31) (aged 79)[2][not specific enough to verify]<br>New York City, U.S.[3]<br>Known forRemote viewing
Ingo Douglass Swann (September 14, 1933 – January 31, 2013) was an American psychic, artist, and author, whose claims of clairvoyance were investigated as a part of the Central Intelligence Agency’s Stargate Project. Swann is credited as the creator of the term "Remote Viewing,"[4] a term which refers to the use of extrasensory perception to perceive distant persons, places, or events.[5]
Early life<br>[edit]
Swann was born in Telluride, Colorado, on September 14th, 1933. Swann claimed to have out-of-body experiences beginning at three years of age, during a tonsil removal operation, after which he began to see colorful 'auras' around certain objects.[6] These experiences continued throughout childhood, and eventually prompted Swann to volunteer as a participant in parapsychology research at the age of 37.[7]<br>Part of a series on theParanormal<br>Main articles
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Remote viewing<br>[edit]
Before severing his ties with the organization in the late 1970s, Swann was a prominent celebrity Scientologist, having attained the level of Operating Thetan through Scientology auditing.[8]<br>It is purported that the attainment of the level may extend one’s psychic abilities including controlled out-of-body experiences, called "exteriorization" in Scientology.[9][10] In 1972, Swann first demonstrated his exteriorization skills[11] at the Stanford Research Institute in experiments that would come to be known secularly as remote viewing. These experiments caught the attention of the Central Intelligence Agency. He is commonly credited with proposing the idea of controlled remote viewing, a process in which viewers would view a location given nothing aside from its geographical coordinates, which was developed and tested by Puthoff and Targ with CIA funding.[4][12][13]
Uri Geller<br>[edit]
Due to the popularity of Uri Geller in the seventies, skeptics and historians basically overlooked a critical examination of Swann's paranormal claims.[14] Uri Geller commented very favorably on Swann, saying, "If you were blind and a man appeared who could teach you to see with mind power, you would revere him as a guru. So why is Ingo Swann ignored by publishers and forced to publish his astounding life...