Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy By Ingo Swann
I couldn't put this book down! I enjoyed reading this book. It was fascinating to read about the experience of Ingo Swann. Ingo was a natural, gifted psychic and remote viewer. This book touches about his remote viewing experience and being tasked on off-planetary targets and coming across Extraterresrials and telepathy! I always seem to learn something new about our universe, our consciousness from one of the old-timers of remote viewing.
I'm so amazed by the things that go on in our planet that never gets talked about, or information that gets suppressed. Ingo's Penetration is just another example of the human potential that we have in using our subconscious. I highly recommend this book.
Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy If you're interested in remote viewing, this is a must read. The book talks about how remote viewing came about, how it got its name, and some of the targets Ingo was asked to use it for. Ingo is very easy to read, completely unpretentious, direct, and funny. And the things he has experienced will probably make you sit back and wonder. The book is fascinating, thought-provoking, and mind-blowing; this is my second reading and I find myself looking forward to reading a chapter or two every day. I highly recommend this book if you are at all interested in RV. Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy Like all of Ingo Swann's writings, Penetration requires a reader willing to be surprised and engaged by both unusual events and explanations for them that only a talented psychic can present. That he sometimes does not do so in the prettiest prose can be a turn-off (why 4 stars and not 5) but one well worth plowing through.
He presents his viewpoint on some of the well-known elements of his life story (remote viewing with the SRI group including his psychic journey to Jupiter in 1973) and some less known (an out-of-body probe to the far side of the moon in which he telepathically observed what appeared to be an alien installation). There is a lot more of such material, which the read can take or leave as his judgment dictates.
But the book is far more valuable for Swann's thought-provoking hypotheses and observations if not straightforward answers on subjects critical to rational adjudication of fact/fiction in the realm of the paranormal.
For example:
...telepathy might be a universal 'language' system of some kind that operates through consciousness entities everywhere.
...the best evidence we have for telepathy, for example, is that it seems to be universal to our species. People experience it regardless of their different cultures, their different backgrounds. If we assume that Intelligence can be universal, we also have to assume that Intelligence also has to have sensing factors that also are universal.”
.Since people tend to operate based on feedback, they tend to forget about stuff that never achieves the feedback.
The book is loaded with concepts that require and deserve deep grokking (Swann likes to use this Heinlein term for deep pondering) even if they are outside one's comfort zone. After all, it is Swann's intent to move the human population beyond its current comfort zone, which sadly is smothering the race into oblivion.
Penetration is a tough read from an intense author on controversial subject matter, tall of which signal it to be required reading.
Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy Important read on Extraterrestrials.
Wow, Ingo Swann has finally put into book form some of his amazing experiences. This book covers not the time he spent with Stanford University's remote viewing psychic research unit, of which he was one of the original members besides aiding in developing the protocol. Instead he goes into some of the extra secret work he did concerning exploration of the Moon and Jupiter. Totally gobsmacked. Towards the end, he goes into his own personal speculation on what it all means. As I respect Mr. Swann for both his abilities and intelligence, I can only give serious consideration to what he has written. I suggest you read this and come to your own conclusions. Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy I had watched a few videos at youtube on the topic of remote viewing. Reading this book was enjoyable, and though controversial and hinting towards apparent conspiracy theories, I found it engrossing as a popular introduction to remote viewing. Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy
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-Extraterrestrials
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Ingo Swann--renowned PSI researcher--reveals a long-held secret series of experiences with a deep black agency whose apparent charter was simple: UFOs and extraterrestrials on the moon, and worries about ET telepathic/mind control powers. The agency was so secret that it had no paper trail, and hence no written secrecy agreements. Only the verbal ones, which in Ingo's case expired several years ago. Now, in this era of burgeoning UFO glasnost, he tells a story of meetings held in a secret underground facility not far from Washington DC, and of being taken to a remote location near the Arctic Circle to witness the expected arrival of a huge UFO over the surface of an Alaskan lake.
This book discusses undeveloped human telepathy and contrasts it with the probable existence of fully developed alien telepathy, which may have many different forms.
Ingo also explores the fact that we officially know far more than we're admitting about the Moon - its origins, its atmosphere, its occupants and many other unusual features.
Penetration is about one of the means by which we can learn more about those not of this earth (and vice-versa - telepathy. Do we have the means to answer some very important questions that many have been asking for quite a long time? Inside this book are the answers to some. Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy
One of the most intriguing and provocative books I so far had the privilege of reading. The story in first part will likely stay with me for a long time to come. I don't see any reason why this one could be made up. after all the story or rather a disclosure was made more than 10 yrs after it occurred. this book wasn't very popular, actually out of print now. amazon has used prices of around US$2200. But fortunately you can find a copy online. I never really thoroughly read the 2nd and 3rd part because they never really interested me. But the first part, a number of times. I would like to say a lot more as part of 'what I think' but I do not want to create spoilers for anyone who might be as interested as me. Google it and check it out! Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy This non-fiction book was written by one of the original people who worked on the Stargate Project: Ingo Swann.
A little Background: This was a 1978 Defense Department (DIA) effort. It's research and subsequent project were in response to similar work being done in the USSR at the time. It developed and used a form of mental telepathy with people as 'viewers' by using their abilities to virtually spy on others. I say virtual because the viewers were located in one location and the scene the would view was in another location. This is referred to as 'remote viewing'. The American effort was started earlier (1970) by the CIA under the name 'Scanate', an outgrowth from the Stanford Research Institute located at Fort Meade, Maryland, conducted by Russell Targ and Harold Puthoff.
Ingo Swann was part of a group of people that worked with this attached organization that was formed by them. Others that were part of the 'group' including Joseph McMoneagle, who's work for the defense department included 'finding' more then 150 targets that were UNAVAILABLE from other sources.
This book is divided into three sections:
Part 1 - (Ultra-Secret Going-Ons), I found this section to be the most interesting. Not surprising since it is where Mr Swann outlines being called upon to do a remote viewing session for an ultra-secretive client named Axelrod. He not only has the session, but he has odd interactions with this client and staff. He gets a little more then he bargained for, both during and after the event, including an eye-opening situation that later occurred in a grocery store.
This is the foundation for the discussion outlined in the book. This first section is worth the price of admission all by itself.
PART 2 - talks about the Moon and describes how odd it is that we stopped going there after such a national effort was utilized to get there initially and first, ahead of the Russians. He talks about how much of the Moon has been mapped and then ignored. Passed off as a dead environment to the public, in what he calls the 'Dead Moon Dictum'. Why areas were used by us and other areas avoided, including the back side. He writes about the information that was suppressed and evidence that it is not the 'dead' Moon that we have been lead to believe it is. These include the anomalies that the experts refused to share with us. He includes descriptions by different authors, who over the years, tried to share information about the moon that was contrary to what was considered to be the normal description through the years. Included at the end of the book is an update that is directly related to this scenario.
PART 3 - focuses more on the discussion of the conscience of Man and other Beings, or what he refers to as 'Earthside Telepathy and Spaceside Telepathy'. while still utilizing the information about the Moon's history. He describes a method that keeps us ignorant about the Moon and many other things that should be more obvious to the public in what he calls 'Intellectual Phase Locking'. At least until it's convenient to be informative, such as in the overdue admission of the Moon having many more resources available then admitted to by our government and science community.
All in all, I guess you can place whatever weight you are comfortable with on this information, however there is no denial from the Defense Department towards it that I've seen. I see some of the reviews that say there is interest in this, but it doesn't sway their opinions about things Paranormal, including extraterrestrials. I don't know how you could read this and find it persuasive yet not be convinced by what it says.
I really enjoyed the first section, while parts two and three were not as much fun, per se, yet he presented good arguments, aimed at exposing the contrary information that is taken for granted by so many!
I believe this was more then well worth reading! I would have given a 4.5, if I could the stars to work that way. That somehow seems poetic.
Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy
He surely may have a point (or many) in his approach to themes like telekinesis, remote viewing, precognition, clairvoyance (and other siddhis, according to the Sanskrit language).
For many years a “materialistic” science has prevented these phenomena from being properly addressed. At stake: it’s the “scientific method” of “1845” which limits the reality to a physical reality. Obviously, Ingo’s approach admits “multiple dimensions”; and like the old India's traditions: reality has several levels (the realm of desire, the mind,…); the physical one, being just one of them.
He praises Sanskrit language for being an ”experiential” language, unlike English (a 200 year old vocabulary” that made us “too much trapped in the past”).
Yet science is “changing”. It's been uncovered “more stuff”, well beyond matter: “dark energy”, “dark matter” etc.
Ingo points to the fact that there are many experienced things that one cannot prove they happened; also, there are other experiences you cannot take into a lab.
The book has got three parts. The first one reports his involvement in the PSI research. Noteworthy and curious I’ve found his initiative of introducing “adventure and enjoyment” in research, with the Jupiter Experiment. Though laughable (“a psychic, mind-trip to Jupiter”! “get there psychically before NASA) an idea, he managed to succeed his remote viewing of a planet, then not so well known in its features.
With proper controls in place, that Saturday of 1973, the raw material obtained was “one page of sketches” and “two and half pages of verbal observations”.
Almost incredible, that in the years ahead several space missions confirmed what was obtained by remote viewing. Namely, these features of Jupiter: a hydrogen mantle, tornados and storm winds, high infrared reading, cloud color, temperature inversion, the dominant orange color…. How he did it, it’s not in the book.
The part two concentrates on the Moon; its hollowness, namely. As to the UFO phenomenon, Ingo believes that “there are authentic reports”.
Part three approaches the topic of Telepathy, from the Earth side and from Space side.
Elsewhere I’ve watched Ingo suggesting that remote viewing can be trained.
Good luck. Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy I read this book because I find Ingo Swann to be the kind of person who can totally entertain you with the recalling of his adventures. As one of the subjects of telepathic research back in the '70s at SRI when the pentagon was interested in such things, Ingo undoubtedly had the chance to experience some interesting things to say the least. I found his chapters on the moon to be very interesting. I came away not convinced of any ET activity, but the cloak and dagger tales and his compilation of factoids regarding the moon were worth the time and thought provoking. I definitely would not recommend this to any hard core skeptics out there, but anyone with an open mind and interested in this type of subject matter will probably find it entertaining. Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy ''Once in his car, in the parking lot, I asked him to wait a few moments. He asked what was wrong. I said, 'just wait.'
Shortly the female came out pushing a loaded grocery cart. 'Study that one, and tell me what you think.'
Conrad looked briefly at the woman, and then said the most remarkable thing: 'Well, if you mean: do I think she's an extraterrestrial? Yes.' ''
Remote viewing is fascinating.
The phenomena has found itself, in study after study, to be, at least to some degree, somewhat real—obviously it's not 100% accurate, or even 50% accurate, but its accuracy is leagues above what would be expected from pure chance.
And, for better or worse, one of the most famous figures in remote viewing is Ingo Swann.
This fame stems mostly from his widely publicised remote viewing of Jupiter in 1973, where he predicted certain elements of the planet's surface and structure that weren't confirmed (many weren't even speculated) by scientists until the Voyager probe sent back images in 1979, 6 years later.
Many have written Ingo's descriptions off as lucky guesses, and pointed out that he got certain things wrong. But it's hard to deny that, even with all of its mistakes, the accuracy of the description is far beyond what would be expected from even a planetary science enthusiast, let alone a layman.
That said, it is possible that it was all some elaborate parlour trick.
Theroretically, if you wanted to do this fraudulently, you'd just need to find a high level research scientist with a specific interest in Jupiter, get him drunk, and have him speculate about the most fringe Jupiter theories he can think of—atmospheric crystals, for example—and then stake your entire career on those fringe theories actually being found to be truer than the accepted theories.
It's not totally outside of the realm of possibility—and it's the only concrete explanation Ingo's critics have so far managed to come up with.
Regardless, even if Ingo's abilities as a remote viewer can be called into question, his abilities as a storyteller cannot.
While I find myself pretty unable to believe his claims of humainoid aliens walking around naked on the moon, building giant structures, threatening world governments, and deliberately suppressing human psychic development, the story itself is absurdly fun.
One minute Ingo's in a secret underground research facility remote viewing aliens on the moon for a shady governmental organisation, the next he's in a supermarket being stalked by femme fatale aliens—who are in turn being stalked by tank-top wearing secret agents undercover as LA beach rats—and then just a few pages later he's up in the northernmost forests of America watching UFOs rise out of massive underground tunnels and incinerate animals and trees with death rays.
It's pure unrestrained psychedelic conspiracy paranoia.
As fun as this story is, it leaves me confused as to what to think about Ingo himself.
The guy was clearly involved in high level research—and the research he was involved in did show slight (read: statistically significant) evidence that remote viewing itself is more than just random guesses that occasionally hit—but I also feel that the book's core story is almost entirely fabricated, or at least wildly embellished.
I want to believe—oh God, I so desperately want to believe—that Ingo Swann saw a UFO use a death ray to burn down a forest, but I just find it too unbelievable.
It's a great story, but a story is all it is.
Maybe Ingo was a victim of some MKUltra style brainwashing program that was intended to strip the real details of the paraphychic research he did with the CIA out of his brain, and these real details were replaced, maybe intentionally, with ludicrous paranoid delusions of a global conspiracy of mind-reading alien imposters.
The supermarket sequence, especially, is chillingly reminiscent of the paranoias experienced by victims of CIA brainwashing programs through the 60s and early-70s.
Unfortunately, only the first half of the book is about Ingo's supposed experiences in the 70s conspiracy heyday, and the second half of the book is much weaker.
Penetration's second half is split down the middle between a pretty rote discussion of conspiracy theories regarding the moon, and a mildly interesting discussion of the universality of psychic ability.
There's a lot of potentially interesting stuff in these chapters, but it's all glossed over in broad strokes devoid of the detail that would upgrade it from interesting to truly fascinating.
I can see why Penetration became a classic of conspiracy literature—the first half is one of the great stories in the genre—but the second half is a real let down that makes the book as a whole feel disappointingly slight.
Not quite as conceptually wild as Keel's stuff, nor as rigorous and Vallee and Hynek's, Penetration sits at that comfortable middlpoint of fun throwaway inconsequentiality.
Junk food literature. Penetration: The Question of Extraterrestrial and Human Telepathy
