4 Short Stories that stay with you. Their beauty grows in you.
You will find yourself referring back to them for the rest of your life. Small Book. One could rush through them in a morning, but I found each story worth savoring for a few days before I went on. Exceedingly useful for those who are "wild-type" psychics: people who have had spotty experiences with precognition, clarivoyance or the like but don't know how to handle it, or perhaps more pertinent, don't know how to understand the resentment that follows these special people.
Helps one to cope with and put into perspective the abilities that we all have, when they surface in our lives. Thank you Ingo. Your work will live long in our hearts.

Four BEAUTIFUL little short stories that teach about the powers of perception that we all have in us. We are wonderful perceiving and discriminating beings. Our powers have been stifled. Covered up. Undeveloped. And their lack of development gives power to the power elite, who revel in our helplessness and make us pay with our lives and our freedom. These little stories are for all ages. They tell us how to discover, utilize and handle our innate abilites. They help us to understand and still love those who fear it in us. We can revel in our wonderousness. Read them to your children. Read them over and over. Almost too beautiful to bear.

Hampton Roads Publishing Company has begun
to reissue classical metaphysical texts in their
new series, Studies in Consciousness/Russell Targ
Editions. Mind to Mind, originally written by
telepathy researcher Rene Warcollier, is one of
the first classics chosen for the series.

Ingo Swann has written a new preface for this
edition, noting that while Warcollier's 1948 book is
still valid, "it is useful to partially reset
Warcollier's seminal work into a larger, and now more
inclusive, historical overview." For one thing, little
was known in Warcollier's time about psychic phenomena.
Additionally, Warcollier's pioneering research has
withstood the test of time.

Contemporary physicist and psychic researcher
Russell Targ, along with Jane Katra, Ph.D., wrote an
interpretive introduction, which describes current
investigations into remote viewing, distant healing,
prayer, and self inquiry. They "conclude that the
scientific and spiritual implications of psychic
abilities are evident in the continually unfolding
mystery of the space-time in which we live."

The remainder of the book details Warcollier's
meticulous experiments, which provided "impressive
scientific evidence for the untapped power of human
consciousness." He was a chemical engineer, who became
interested in telepathy after studying psychology. He
sought to answer questions about what information is
actually transmitted during telepathy, how it's
transmitted, and its relation to the unconscious. He
eventually collaborated with researchers worldwide,
including the United States.

Mind to Mind is an excellent resource for all
readers interested in understanding the foundation and
background of research into telepathic phenomena and
human consciousness.

I was blown away by this book and squandered an entire weekend glued to it. Now I want a telescope really really bad.
Could it really be true that our very own moon is not really "our very own"? Read Ingo's personal account of it and add up the facts for yourself.... fascinating story.

We will never forget Ingo Swann for his pioneering work into making it possible for all of Humanity to develop their inborn psychic abilities. Ingo Swann is the Francis Bacon of this era: we just don't realize it yet. This book is unforgettable! One thrilling fast read. Engaging. Eye-opening. Another selfless service to his fellow earthlings. You mayn't have mine as a used copy! Get your own now, while you still can!

This book by the first remote viewer is powerful because of who Ingo Swann is in remote viewing history. I have read everything around by the top remote viewers and what they have remote viewed this is by far the most interesting and enlightening because he was one of the first to do it after he left SRI. The fact he tells what he saw years later doesn`t diminish it. Today all these things are commonplace in todays literature of UFO`s and extraterrestrials and he corroborates them. His humorous writing style gets the reader involved because he is so down to earth in his opinions about the government, military and the CIA. A facinating read from a true pioneerin the field.

This book is certainly valuable as a kind of encyclopaedia of apparitions of Mary through history. But it is, unfortunately, coloured by the author's own political agenda. In many cases Swann tries to interpret Mary's message as some kind of anticommunist propaganda, although the actual quotes from the texts seldom supports that interpretation.

In the case of La Salette 1846, Swann interprets Mary's warning for disasters as partly referring to the rise of Communism. In the case of Zeitoun in Egypt 1968 Swann even suggest that Mary's apparition was the reason for Egypt moving closer to the US some years later. Mary is seen as a cold warrior on the US side! This says something essential about Swanns own political views but almost nothing about the apparitions. It is sad that the author use this interesting subject as a pretext for writing a rightwing pamphlet.

The apparitions of Mary are indeed fascinating but it is hard to distinguish between those things in the stories that are genuine and what are later additions by the Catholic Church, or by local sectarians. Swann is incapable of making these distinctions, because he is sometimes a defender of orthodoxy, sometimes a defender of sectarian views (cf how he downplays the anti-semitism in the Wisconsin "apparition" in 1949!).

But for those who seek a short overview of the Mary apparitions Swanns book is certainly useful.

A last comment, though. Isn't it sad that the woman who made the Magnificat is portrayed as a symbol of reaction!

Don't get me wrong, I'm a Catholic and I love my heavenly mother, but this guy is bonkers for Mary. It was downright scary the powers that he gives to her. It made me want to dis-believe in all the private revelations. I don't think Mary would smile on this one. However, there was lots of legendary information there.

As one (non-Christian/Catholic but spiritual and Jewish...go figure) who has been fascinated with Marian Apparitions, I enjoyed this book and found it informative. There are apparitions included that I was not familar with, as well as the more "famous" sightings, such as Fatima, etc. Swann has also inlcuded a lot of detail about various apparitions that have not been addressed by other writers. I personally found the section on the Egyptian apparitions particulary interesting. Swann treats this subject with respect. I wish Swann had included a little more of his own personal thoughts on what these apparitions are; religious? "alien?" truly paranormal/supernatural? etc. but it's a minor point, and he does give his thoughts throughout the various chapters. A concluding chapter of "what if/what is it?" would have been interesting. But Swann has chosen to focus on specific apparitions, with detail and information that has not appeared elsewhere, or, is very difficult to find. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in this subject, including as a first book for someone just beginning to become familar with this area. I enjoyed it very much, and appreciated Swann's style, tone, and detail.

You've probably had a day when you said to yourself, "If I had known it was going to be this kind of day, I never would have gotten out of bed!" You may have gone through times when you felt, "If I had known life was going to be like this, I never would have been born!"

Those of us who accept ideas such as precognition and reincarnation know the irony of such statements. Somewhere during the night our sleeping selves did know what kind of day was coming. Somewhere in the heavens our unmaterialized souls did know what life held in store.

Why then do we forget? Some have speculated that it is exactly because the foreknowledge would discourage us from going through the experience. If so, then why do we sometimes get brief breaks in the amnesia, allowing us glimpses of the future? What is this game?

I'm pondering these paradoxes because I've just read a book that has fascinated and shaken me more than most I've seen lately. The book is, Your Nostradamas Factor: Accessing Your Innate Ability to See into The Future (Simon & Schuster). The author, Ingo Swann, is a prominent psychic, learned and influential in the field of parapsychology. He has participated in countless experiments, projects his own creative wit helped make more interesting than the average statistics-gathering routine. By inventing the term, "remote viewing," a techno-speak metaphor for clairvoyance, he prompted a new line of research that has achieved one of the best track records demonstrating the psychic abilities of the average person. In his newest book he turns his talents to what he calls "future-seeing."

He presents the mental dynamics responsible for future-seeing as well as for blocking future-seeing. He repeatedly emphasizes diagramming one's ideas to foster the psychic process of visualizing. He gives many hints on how to release our inner Nostradamus factor from the triple-walled prison of ignorance, prejudice, and expectation. One of the propositions in his theory, refreshing to someone who lives in a community where being psychic seems to pass for an education, is that it is easier to correctly see the future for subjects about which you are knowledgeable than for subjects about which you are totally ignorant. Knowledge creates a range of feasibilities for the future, focusing psychic sensitivity on anticipating the unexpected.

To test his theory on eliciting the Nostradamus factor, Mr. Swann conducted his own experiment, the "American Prophecy Project." For somewhat over a year, he distributed a newsletter to a select mailing list in which he published his predictions. He accurately predicted the U.S. economic downturn of 1990 and Margaret Thatcher's resignation, both of which were contrary to general expectations at the time he published them. In other areas where he was less knowledgeable, such as concerning geological events (e.g., earthquakes), his predictions were less than stunning.

The book concludes with a solemnly guided tour of the future. Swann challenges us to form our own predictions and to act accordingly. His own predictions are quite sobering and yet different from what we might expect. Most of us have been exposed to enough fuss about "end times" to become numb to the future. Such numbness is exactly the opposite of what Swann intends. He wants us, in fact, to wake up to our own sense of the future, to begin to anticipate it more consciously.

Swann proposes that future-seeing properly belongs to us as a daily tool for "right living." It is not just the ability to see around the corner but also the ability to anticipate the consequences of our actions. What kind of future are you creating now? Can't you see it?

I wonder what it would be like to awaken in the morning and see flash before me what my day will be like, and watch that prognosis change as I shift to put my right foot down first instead of my left. Yes, every wiggle, every thought, has its ripple effect. As chaos theory shows, the flap of a butterfly's wing can lead to a hurricane thousands of miles away!

We can know all things, but can we handle all that information? No wonder we play ostrich with our future-seeing ability. Sometimes, however, our Nostradamus factor does try to get our attention, to prompt us to get our head out of the sand. How then do we respond to these occasional wake up calls?

Take violence, for example, whether in the form of guns, earthquakes or financial calamities. Violence is a wake up call that Swann highlights as an ominous portent of things to come. Violence is a last resort reaction to inertia. If you have ever been so frustrated with your inability (AKA unwillingness?) to change a bad habit that you got angry with yourself, perhaps you can intuit how violence is born. Violence signals us there's conflict about change.

There is a war brewing, Swann says, a war where the future tries to save itself from the past. Today's cigarette smoker is experiencing a precursor to this war. A private habit has become a public nuisance and the extermination campaign attracts zealots. Smokers are the target of aggressive attempts to extinguish their habit. If you feel righteous about society's right to clean air, think about how righteous your children's generation may feel one day about their right to survive, even if it means extinguishing those people whose private habits contribute to ecological or economic malaise.

"If you don't like the future, change it!" Such is our enlighte

This book had minimal value as a source of information regarding Remote viewing. I found the same information just form surfing the web. However, while surfing the web I was not forced to read the life story of a woman who had several bad marriages (due to her propensity for finding men who like to abuse their wives, whic she should have known if she were such a great psychic). In telling her life story she goes from childhood to adulthood and back to childhood experiences so rapidly that you can easily become lost. Then she jumps into her contact with extraterretrials. I personally believe in ET's, but this womans ramblings had me doubting her completely.

As for useful information on RV, read something else. I was attempting to learn something about the practice of RV from this book, what I learned was that she could not write. How this got past an editor astounds me as much as the fact that Ingo Swann endorses the book. Makes me think that if you remote view you lose sight of the ability to be coherent.

If you really want to feel something stronger on this subject then read, "Apocalypse Angel," by Charles Rivers.

.... ...this book, which I just finished this evening, held my interest throughout. I start many books and finish only a few. The main insight gained from her book was the relationships between remote viewing, OBE and Astral Projection. It seems that these psi activities are on the same continuum; that one interested in proving the reality of it will retain the consious mind and use RV, one wanting to explore the physical will use imagery and other techniques to induce an OBE, and those of us that want a mystical, spiritual, ecstatic experience will pursue AP.

Some of the chapters, particularly later in the book, do seem a bit choppy; but they are informative and provide a very good bibliography.