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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
06:02:2013 -- Listen as Solar Flare Engulfs Radio Waves
Dear Friends,
Be Well.
David
By Breanna Draxler |
February 6, 2013 8:09 am
Spectrograph of the February 2 solar flare. Image
courtesy of Richard Flagg, Windward Community College Radio Observatory.
We’re not supposed to look at the sun, but no one said
anything about listening. If you, like amateur astronomer Thomas Ashcraft, had
your radio tuned to the right frequency last Saturday evening, you would have
heard the garbled effects of a solar flare drowning out radio waves here on Earth after it
erupted on the surface of the sun. For those of you who still want to listen
after the fact, you’re in luck:
Thomas Ashcraft is an independent, self-taught radio astronomer
who operates his own Heliotown Observatory in north central New Mexico. Using optical
telescopes and radio instruments, Ashcraft keeps an eye (and an ear) on the
Sun, Jupiter, meteoric fireballs and transient luminous events called red
sprites. He recorded the sound of the solar flare this weekend and shared his
methodology and thoughts with DISCOVER writer Breanna Draxler via
e-mail.
DISCOVER: What exactly are we hearing on this
recording?
Ashcraft: We are hearing a solar Type III radio burst
that was generated by a solar flare as recorded at 28 MHz and 21 MHz. Although
the flare was relatively small, this particular radio burst was quite strong.
Type III solar radio emissions are produced by electrons accelerated to high
energies by solar flares. As the electrons stream outward from the sun, they
excite plasma oscillations in the sun’s atmosphere. The plasma oscillations in
turn generate radio emissions that sweep out into space.
On one stereo channel there was a voice transmission
in progress, likely a ham radio operator, and as the solar radio wave passed
through the voice gets thoroughly overpowered and then returns as the blast
passes through. Type III solar bursts are also called “fast drift bursts”
because they drift down in frequency. It is a little hard to hear in this
recording but the burst actually hits one channel at 28 MHz first and then can
be heard at 21 MHz a second later on the other stereo channel. Listen
close to hear this.
What kind of equipment do you use to record the
activity of a solar flare?
I have a complex array of instruments and observe at
multiple frequencies. This particular solar burst was recorded using two simple
shortwave radios connected to a three element yagi antenna. The Sun radiates
across the full spectrum but, serendipitously, it can be very strong and hot at
common shortwave radio frequencies. I audio record into a digital recorder.
Was the flare on February 2 a big one, relatively
speaking?
The flare at 1954 UT on February 2, 2013 was
relatively small in x-ray output. It was measured at C 2.9. Stronger flares go
way higher into M classification and occasional very powerful flares achieve X
classification. But interestingly, some X-class flares produce minimal
receivable radio bursts whereas some smaller flares can send forth a strong
electron blast.
How does it compare to the superflares of 1960 and
1859?
This flare was generated by a small sunspot group so
there was less physical area of magnetic entanglement. Superflares are
generated by very very large sunspots so they pack more force due to sunspot
size across and below the sun’s surface.
What kind of damage could a major flare do to our
electronic-dependent society today?
Well, that is a complex question. Modern satellites
are prepared for strong flares to a great degree. Occasionally a satellite is
knocked out by a strong flare but not often, at least so far. I have
experienced the strongest solar flares of the past two decades and I don’t
think the modern power grid sputtered appreciably up to an X 28 flare, which
was the largest flare in recorded history. Modern society cannot afford to have
business transactions interrupted so they work hard to safeguard their
equipment as best they can.
What can we expect in terms of solar flares as the sun
enters a new solar cycle this year?
The sun is well into its solar cycle at this point,
nearing maximum actually, and it has been a relatively weak solar cycle in
terms of strong flares. It is baffling to solar scientists. So, it is somewhat
hard to predict what is coming. But, I would bet, and as an astronomer myself,
hope, that there will be some large sunspot groups within the next year or two
based on my own experience of the past three solar cycles. Large sunspots
and hot radio emissions make for great fun.
For all the details on superflares and their future
threats, check out DISCOVER’s Beware:
Superflare.
05:02:2013 - January 1st is Not the Start of the “True” New Year
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Friends,
Be Well.
David
January 1st is Not the Start of the “True” New Year
We live in an age where is timekeeping has become an assumed background condition that we do not question. Yet nothing regulates our lives as much as the clock and calendar do. They tell us when we are supposed to work, rest, worship, celebrate and play. So let us begin with questioning with the purported start of the Euro-western New Year.
But first lets define what is meant by a year. A year according to the dictionary is a period of time measuring 12 months or 365 days long. More precisely a year is atemporal cycle measuring the Earth’s orbit around the Sun in said periods of smaller cycles—days and months.
And what is a cycle but a process that repeats. So a year is a temporal cycle of specified duration that repeats—so far so good. The question for us is how do we determine the criteria for the start of the solar cycle. That question is not that easy to answer once you realize that a cycle is a circle and its impossible to determine where a circle starts or ends.
Fortunately for us perfect seamless circles are extremely rare in nature. Stars and planets are not perfectly spherical for they bulge around their midsections. And planetary orbits are not perfect circles either rather they are elliptical or ovoid like an egg. As such the Earth is nearest the Sun on January third and furthest away on July 4.
The following excerpt from another article of mine entitled In Search of a Universal New Year: In Honor of August 13th or the Day the World was Born provides us with the criteria that various cultures have used or still use to determine the start of the year cycle.
Presently there is no universal basis for what qualifies the start of a new year. Every culture seems to have its own set of regional parameters for determining the start of the new year. The Chinese celebrate theirs in either late January or early February according their lunar calendar.The ancient Egyptians linked the appearance of the star Sirius and the annual flooding of the Nile river in the month of July to signal the start of their new year. The Egyptian new year starts 1 month after the summer solstice. The many cultures of India celebrate the new year on various dates during the month of April or within one month of the spring equinox.Europe’s Nordic cultures keyed theirs to the winter solstice. The Celtic, Samhain, now vulgarized as Halloween, is celebrated by present day neopagans, Wiccans and Druids as the start of their new year.The Maori of New Zealand looked for the appearance of the Pleiades in May to signal the start of the new year. The Hawaiians also pegged their new year to the appearance of the Pleiades, but their new year fell in October. The Aztec-Mexicas celebrated the new year in early March several days before the spring equinox.And then there is Gregorian January first to mark the start of the new year for Euro-westerners. The Gregorian calendar inherited January 1st from the Roman Julian calendar. The Romans marked January first as the new year in order to honor Julius Caesar’s exploit as the founder of the “rational calendar”. Contrast the Roman criteria with the fact that the new year of all other cultures is related to some seasonal and/or astronomical aspect. The foregoing is why I refer to the Gregorian calendar as an urban calendar for it reflects the whims of the city lords more than anything else.The most common denominator for the start of the new year in most other calendrical systems is the start of the growing season or end of the harvest. In some cases, either the solstices or equinoxes are recognized as the start of the year. The start of the new year for cultures other than the Euro-western is more often than naught related to the agricultural, seasonal and astronomical particulars of their respective region.Many pre-Christian cultures of Europe’s northern hemispheric latitudes recognized thewinter solstice as the start of the new year as the sun symbolically dies and is reborn on that day.The start of the new year cycle can be viewed as universal for those in the northern hemisphere when reckoned from the winter solstice, and as defined by the atmospheric changes (rain, dryness, snow,) that accompany the gradual increase and decrease in ambient air temperature as the sun ascends and descends respectively. The same would apply to those of the southern hemisphere except that their new year would start with the summer solstice.The process of cooling and warming is minimized in most parts of the tropical regions. The most defining aspect of seasonal variation in the tropics is dry and rainy seasons. Nonetheless it is the sun’s to and fro movement, and its attendant affect on atmospheric conditions that drives precipitation patterns. Therefore we can safely equate the start of the new year with each hemisphere’s ascendant solstice, for it is the ascendant sun that initiates the life cycle for either hemisphere.
Thus it is the ascendant solstices that provide us with the fixed and natural starting points for each hemisphere’s respective new year as it relates to the initiation of the life cycle. Even so some cultures will focus on the particular seasonal markers of their region to signal the start the new year. Whatever the case the defining parameter for non Euro-western cultures is the start of the life cycle as it progresses from seed/bloom to harvest or from the general increase in the availability of food sources.
There is nothing to distinguish January 1st as the start of the year cycle. It is the solstices and equinoxes that provide us with the most telling and universal markers of the year cycle. And then it is the ascendant solstice for each hemisphere that initiates the all important and supremely significant life cycle.
Belated New Year wishes to all of you in the Northern Hemisphere!!
05:02:2013 - What The Sky Would Look Like If U Could C The Stars In NY
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Be Well.
David
Starry, Starry, Starry
Night
PHOTO ILLUSTRATIONS BY
Thierry Cohen
What would New York or Shanghai look like with
a full sky of brilliant stars? Thierry Cohen, a French photographer, thinks he
can show us by blending city scenes — shot and altered to eliminate lights and
other distractions — and the night skies from less populated locations that
fall on the same latitudes. The result is what city dwellers might see in the
absence of light pollution. So Paris gets the stars of northern Montana, New
York those of the Nevada desert. As Cohen, whose work will be exhibited at the
Danziger Gallery in New York in March, sees it, the loss of the starry skies,
accelerated by worldwide population growth in cities, has created an urbanite
who “forgets and no longer understands nature.” He adds, “To show him stars is
to help him dream again.”
Julie Bosman
05::02:2013 -- What is the purpose of the Universe? Here is one possible answer
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What is the purpose of the Universe? Here is
one possible answer.
George
Dvorsky
The more we learn about the universe, the more
we discover just how diverse all its planets, stars, nebulae and unexplained
chunks of matter really are. So what is all this matter doing in our universe,
other than just floating in space?
Well, it just so happens that there is a theory
that gives a kind of raison d'etre to our universe and all the objects flying
through it. If true, it would mean that our universe is nothing more than a
black hole generator, or a means to produce as many baby universes as possible.
To learn more, we spoke to the man who came up with the idea.
It's called the theory of Cosmological Natural
Selection and it was conjured by Lee Smolin, a researcher at the Perimeter
Institute for Theoretical Physics and and an adjunct professor of physics at
the University of Waterloo.
In his book, The Life of the Cosmos, Smolin
proposed that Darwinian processes still apply at the extreme macro-scale and to
non-biological entities. Because the universe is a potentially replicative
unit, he suggests that it's subject to selectional pressures. Consequently,
nearly everything the universe does is geared toward replication.
"It's a scenario that explains how the
laws of nature are chosen," Smolin told io9, "and if true, these
parameters are geared to maximize the number of black holes made in the
universe."
Of cosmological singularities and baby
universes
Indeed, black holes — and the cosmological
singularities they produce — are central to Smolin's theory. These are regions
of space-time where the quantities used to measure gravitational fields or
temperature become infinite. It's also where general relativity stops being useful,
making any kind of prediction impossible. Classical general relativity says
that a singularity exists inside each black hole. But both string theory and
loop quantum gravity suggest that black hole singularities can be eliminated —
and when this happens, it may be possible to describe the future evolution of
the space-time region within it.
"Everything that falls into a black hole
doesn't just hit the cosmological singularity and just stop evolving so that
time simply comes to an end," he says, "Time continues and everything
that fell into the black hole would have a future where the singularity was,
and that region is what we call a baby universe."
Moreover, Smolin says these baby universes are
immune to whatever happens in the parent universe, including eternal inflation
and its ultimate heat death.
"Black holes are predicted to evaporate by
making radiation — what's called the Hawking Process," he says, "but
only until they get down to an equilibrium with the temperature of the cosmic
microwave background." This process, says Smolin, has to do with the
properties of the horizon — and it's only the horizon that evaporates.
"The baby universe may come into a kind of
contact with the original universe in a way it didn't before, but whether this
happens or not depends on the details of the quantum gravity theory," he
says.
A Darwinian model
And like Darwin's theory of variation and
selection, Smolin also surmises that baby universes are slightly different than
the parent who spawned them. In turn, this cosmological "mutation" —
in which the parameters of nature have been slightly modified — may result in a
new universe that's either better or worse in terms of its replicative ability.
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For example, if the cosmological constant and speed
of light were slightly tweaked, or if the law of gravity became too weak or
strong, the new universe could be suboptimal in its ability to make massive
quantities of massive stars. In such a universe, matter might not be able to
coalesce into stars, or galaxies might be unable to form.
In this model, a "fit" universe,
therefore, is one that has evolved such that its ability to produce black holes
has been optimized. And this may explain why we observe a universe that
produces large swaths of giant stars — each one an attempt to make a baby.
The idea of cosmological variation, however, is
one of pure conjecture. "It's an hypothesis," Smolin concedes.
But that said, Smolin points to string theory
as a potential mechanism. "There could be a connection there," he
told us, "it describes a landscape of different cosmological parameters —
different phase transitions between them — and this is almost exactly the kind
of example I had in mind when trying to explain the variation of the constants."
Smolin is also unsure how many baby universes
each black hole is able to produce — though he suspects that it's one per black
hole. "The answer," he says, "will ultimately depend on quantum
gravity theory."
Life as epiphenomenon?
We asked Smolin if life in the universe is
therefore an accident — that humans and all other organisms are mere
epiphenomenon, a sideshow to a much larger process.
"If the hypothesis of Cosmological Natural
Selection is true, then life — and the universe being biofriendly — is a
consequence of the universe being finely-tuned to produce black holes by
producing many, many massive stars."
But he added: "Those if statements are
important."
Other scientists have conversely argued that
the universe is freakishly biophilic — that the laws of nature appear to be
geared towards making life. Some even suggest that this is the ultimate purpose
of the universe — that it's fine-tuned to spawn biological organisms (the
so-called biocosm hypothesis).
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Similarly, philosophers like to talk about the
Anthropic Principle — the notion that any analysis of the universe and what
happens within it must must take into account the presence of observers (i.e.
intelligent life). We're subject to an observational selection effect, they
argue, which means we can only ever observe a universe that's friendly to life.
Smolin, on the other hand, brushes these lines
of argumentation aside, saying that cosmologists should study and understand
the properties of the universe in a way that doesn't connect it to life. The
Anthropic Principle, he says, is simply incapable of making a falsifiable
prediction for any kind of testable experiment.
At the same time, however, "Cosmological
Natural Selection," he says, "is very capable of doing just
that."
Moreover, the laws of the universe — and all
the stuff that's within it — can all be explained without referencing it to
life.
"It's not a coincidence," he says,
"that we live in a world which has lots of carbon and oxygen in it, along
with long list of suitable stars, and so on." The presence of these
apparent life-friendly elements — like carbon and oxygen — has a perfectly good
explanation outside of the biophilic paradigm. These elements, says Smolin,
creates the conditions necessary for the efficient formation of sufficiently
massive stars that form black holes.
The claims made as evidence by Anthropic
Principle supporters, he says, can be explained in an alternative way.
The critics
Needless to say, Smolin's Big Idea has received
its fair share of criticism. It's an extraordinary idea, after all, and
extraordinary ideas often undergo extraordinary levels of scrutiny.
Cosmologist Joe Silk, for example, says the
universe we observe is far from being an optimal producer of black holes. He
speculates that other "versions" of the universe could do a much
better job.
Similarly, Alexander Vilenkin argues that the
rate of black hole formation can be improved by increasing the value of the
cosmological constant. Smolin is wrong, he says, to hypothesize that the
current values of all the constants of nature are perfectly adjusted to
maximize black hole production.
Ruediger Vaas complains that Smolin's first
mistake was to start making analogies to Darwinian processes. The fitness of
Smolin's universes, he says, aren't constrained by their environments, but by
the numbers of black holes. Moreover, although Smolin's universes have
different replication rates, they aren't competing against each other — what he
feels is a crucial component of any Darwinian process.
Writing in the Edge, Leonard Susskind — Felix
Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University — had this to
say:
Smolin...believes that the constants of nature
are determined by survival of the fittest: the fittest to reproduce that is.
Those properties which lead to the largest rate of reproduction will dominate
the population of universes and the overwhelming likelihood is that we live in
such a universe. At least that's the argument.
But this logic can lead to ridiculous
conclusions. In the case of eternal inflation it would lead to the prediction
that our universe has the maximum possible cosmological constant, since the
reproduction rate is nothing but the inflation rate.
When we asked Smolin about these objections, he
said that many of these concerns were addressed in his book, The Life of the
Cosmos, and that his upcoming book, Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to
the Future of the Universe, will also tackle many of these questions (the book
also dispels the idea that time is a kind of illusion). And when possible,
Smolin has addressed individual concerns (for example, the entire Smolin-Susskind
debate can be read here; and his retort to Vilenkin can be seen here).
Ultimately, however, the objections leave him
unfazed.
"My impression is the idea has not been
refuted even though several people have tried," he told us. "It doesn't
mean the idea is true, but the idea has stood up to attempts to falsify
it."
Pausing for a moment, and speaking more quickly
now, he continued:
"Look, for me, the important part of the
claim is that it is a scientific argument. The idea itself is not the most
important thing — it's a very interesting idea, sure — but it instantiates a
general claim that — if you want to explain the universe — one of the things
you're going to have to explain is why we see certain laws of nature and not
others. And the claim I'm making is that this question can in fact be answered
scientifically — one that will lead toward a way for us to make predictions to
see if the laws of nature are not fixed for all time, but evolved. That is the
key point for me."
As for the exact mechanism of cosmological
evolution, he says that a certain model or scenario might be right, or it might
be wrong. The important point, says Smolin, is that science can only be
completed to the extent of our ability to explain why the laws of nature are
they way they are if they evolved over time.
"As far as the scenario of Cosmological
Natural Selection is concerned," he says, "it's just an hypothesis
just as much as it was for Darwin and Mendel — two scientists who figured out
how natural selection worked before knowing anything about DNA or the molecular
instantiation of genes."
Images: NASA/JPL-Caltech; Smolin pic:
ideacityonline; galaxy/dna: physics.sfsu.edu.
Sunday, February 3, 2013
02:02:2013 -- Ingo Swann
Dear Friends,
http://www.rviewer.com/IngoSwann_encyclopedia.html
Be Well.
David
Ingo Swann
From: Encyclopedia of
Occultism & Parapsychology * 4th Ed.
Swann, Ingo (1933-2013)
Prominent American psychic
research subject, parapsychologist, and author. Born September 14, 1933, at
Telluride, Colorado, he studied at Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah,
receiving a double bachelor's degree in biology and art. He enlisted in the
U.S. Army and served three years in Korea, after which he worked for twelve
years at the United Nations Secretariat while pursuing an independent art
career.
Swann's active participation
in parapsychology research began in 1969 when he was 36 years old. During the
next twenty years he worked only in controlled laboratory settings with
scientific researchers. Although he lectured widely on the importance of
psychic faculties and potentials, he has never publicly demonstrated his
abilities. Because of his participation in hundreds of thousands of
experimental trials, author Martin Ebon wrote of him as "parapsychology's
most tested guinea pig," and Psychic News and other media often refer to
him as "the scientific psychic."
During the 1950s and 1960s,
because of psychic potentials partly evident in childhood, he became actively
interested in occult and parapsychological literature and in a variety of novel
mind-development programs which took positive approaches to the enhancement of
ESP potentials.
Swann early distinguished
between psychic phenomenon and psychic mind-dynamic processes. He especially
noticed that while parapsychology researched the existence of paranormal
phenomena (such as ESP, telepathy, and psychokinesis), there was little
interest in the mental processes involved in producing evidence of them. From
this distinction he slowly developed unique theoretical approaches to process
enhancement of psi perceptions, which was in keeping with ancient descriptions
of Siddhis as found in various Eastern Yoga literature and Abraham Maslow's
developmental abilitism theories.
In 1970-71 Swann
experimented with Cleve Backster in attempting to influence plants by mental
activity. In 1971-72 psychokinetic experiments involved successfully
influencing temperature recorded in a controlled setting devised by
parapsychologists Gertrude Schmeidler and Larry Lewis at City College, New
York. this involved PK effects upon target thermistors (temperature measuring
devices) in insulted thermos bottles at a distance of 25 feet from Swann. (For
a report, see G.R. Schmeidler, "PK Effects Upon Continuously Recorded
Temperature," Journal of the American Society for Psychical Research, no.
4, Oct. 1973).
Swann was also the subject
of experiments in out-of-body travel, or psychic perception at a distance.
These took place during 1971-73 at the American Society for Psychical Research.
They involved Swann sitting in a chair and attempting to project his
consciousness into sealed boxes on a small platform several feet above his head,
in which there was a target symbol completely shielded from view. Swann was
monitored by electrodes that would have recorded any movement from the chair.
Under these difficult
laboratory conditions, Swann nevertheless scored significant successes in
describing the targets. In one test he was actually able to state correctly
that a light that should have illuminated the target was inoperative. There was
no normal way of ascertaining this fact without opening the box.
In 1972-73, at the American
Society for Psychical Research, Swann began suggesting experimental protocols
to test for the existence of mind-dynamic processes that would enhance ESP and
Dr. Gertrude Schmeidler, he coined the term "remote viewing" to
describe the experiments in which subjects attempted to view targets at a far
distance. His original remote-viewing protocols were later utilized and
expanded upon in collaboration with the researchers Dr. H.E. Puthoff and
Russell Targ. Other laboratories ultimately repeated various kinds of remote-viewing
experiments.
Swann's successes on the
East Coast attracted the attention of the quantum physicist Harold E. Puthoff,
at the Standford Research Institute, in Menlo Park, California (later renamed
SRI International). From late 1973 until 1989 Swann worked principally at SRI's
"psychoenergetics project" established by Puthoff to examine
important psi faculties (rather than psychic phenomena per se).
One of the first most
remarkable experiments involved a successful attempt to influence the stable
magnetic field of a super-cooled Josephson junction inside a quark detector (a
complex apparatus designed to detect subatomic particles). The apparatus was
completely inaccessible, being encased in aluminum and copper containers and
buried in five feet of concrete. When Swann mentally visualized the hidden
target, significant variations were recorded in sine waves. This PK effect was
reported at a conference on quantum physics and parapsychology.
On April 27, 1973, in
another extraordinary experiment, Swann "visited" the planet Jupiter
in a joint "psychic probe" shared by fellow psychic Harold Sherman.
Swann's drawings made during the experiment showed a 'ring' of tiny asteroids
around the planet which scientists at the time said did not exist. The existence
of the ring was later scientifically confirmed in 1979.
From the first experiments,
Swann was increasingly considered a very unique test subject because, at the
command of the experimenters, he could reproduce and sustain the desired
effects over time at a significant rate of success. Throughout the history of parapsychology,
other test subjects had been temporarily or spontaneously successful. But these
subjects typically suffered from the well-known "decline effect" or
"psi-missing effect" which statistically erased the successes, and
thus permitted skeptics to believe that the successes were due to some outside
factor other than claimed human psi abilities.
Most books and articles
written after 1973 about parapsychology and psychic matters refer to Swann's
work in some way. Many analysts of science and parapsychology generally concede
that his work and the high levels of official sponsorship it obtained gradually
influenced positive reevaluations of the validity of psi in human experiencing.
After nineteen years on the
cutting edge of psi developments, the "longest run" of any subject on
record, Swann retired from full-time research to undertake independent research
into the problems and states of consciousness. In final interviews regarding
the dimensions of his past work, he stated that the long-term stresses of
laboratory work and the constant need to defend the validity of psi faculties
and exceptional experiencing had taken their toll. He occasionally accepts
invitations to lecture but refuses to talk to the media. In a paper read at the
United Nations in March 1994 (entitled "Scientists find the basis for
seventeen-plus human senses and perceptions"), he stated that psi
faculties and exceptional experiencing are not purely scientific issues. Their
discovery and development involve larger social, philosophical, political, and
religious problems not amenable to objective research and rational
appreciation.
ADDENDUM
The above encyclopedia
article is alright as far as it goes, but it was written before the full extent
of government involvement in ESP research, especially remote viewing, was
widely known. Now more of Ingo Swann’s
fascinating story is available, and I will summarize it here (many more details
are available in my book, Reading the Enemy’s Mind: Inside Star Gate –
America’s Psychic Espionage Program).
The most significant missing
fact is that the research program in which Hal Puthoff engaged Ingo was started
and funded by the United States intelligence community, and continued by
various of the military Services. You
can read a good overview of this part of remote viewing history on this site at
The Beginnings of Remote Viewing
Supported by the military
and intelligence communities, Ingo worked through the program at
SRI-International to not only explore the boundary conditions of remote viewing,
the consciousness-based skill that he had discovered and developed, but he used
it operationally to discover some of the secrets America’s erstwhile Cold War
opponents were trying to hide.
Eventually, Swann and Puthoff were asked to develop a teachable method
of remote viewing that could be transferred to otherwise ordinary military
personnel so they, too, could function as psychic spies.
After extensive research
over a number of years, the Swann/Puthoff team leveraged the resources of the
SRI consciousness program to develop what is now known as “controlled remote
viewing” – a six-stage method that can be taught and mastered by anyone of
sufficient mental competency. Among
those taught this method directly by Puthoff and Swann were Ed Dames, Bill Ray,
Tom McNear, Charlene Shufelt, and myself (Paul H. Smith) – though an
undisclosed number of others were taught as well. We in turn trained now widely-known remote
viewers such as Mel Riley, Lyn Buchanan, and David Morehouse.
Over the course of his career,
Swann not only introduced revolutionary new ways of thinking about
consciousness research, but created what is today probably the most successful
and widely-used method of teaching the practical use of consciousness-based
skills. In accomplishing those purposes,
he himself performed uncountable thousands of remote viewing sessions in
support of research, training, and operational goals. A listing of his research accomplishments can
be found here.
Even in his retirement, Ingo
Swann maintained an interest in the progress of our understanding of human
mental functioning, and was an avid observer not only of the human condition
itself, but of the inroads being made to discover the full potential of the
mind. At the time of his death, on
February 1, 2013, Ingo was well along in the process of creating a new book
featuring his marvelous art work.
Paul H. Smith, Ph.D.
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