Person

Swann, Ingo

1933–2013

In 1955 he earned double bachelor’s degrees in Biology and Art from Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah...Around 1968, Swann began writing erotic fiction and focusing on painting...Swann was later involved in experiments, using a term he coined, "coordinate remote viewing," where the subject visualizes locations based on geographical coordinates, work which was part of the United States' "Project Star Gate" which investigated whether psychic phenomena had domestic and military applications...Swann’s tenure at SRI was from 1972-1990...Swann authored numerous books including: To Kiss Earth Good-Bye (1975), Star Fire (1978), What Will Happen When the Soviets Take Over (1980), Natural ESP (1987), Everybody’s Guide to Natural ESP (1991), Your Nostradamus Factor (1993), The Great Apparitions of Mary (1996), Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy (1998), and Psychic Sexuality (1999). He wrote erotic fiction, published under imprints of Olympia Press under the pen names Defence Eakens, Bigger than Life (1971), Honeymoon Perversion (1971) and Hero Haubold, Golden Balls (1971). Swann also served as the editor of the book Cosmic Art (1975)