13 WWW.PARAPSYCH.ORG Volume 13 Issue 2 2021 Mindfield W hen I frst began volunteering in the Ingo Swann archival collec- tion, located in the basement of University of West Georgia’s In- gram’s Library (which doubles as the university’s tornado shelter), I thought of Swann mostly as a talented psychic. I was aware he had exhibited convincing evi- dence of PK and was the creator of the controlled remote viewing (CRV) methodology, which I had been studying and practicing for several years. By the time I lef campus afer spending most Fridays with Ingo (posthumously) for two and a half years, my view of him had dramatically changed. From what I had learned through cataloging his correspondence fles, followed by an indepen- dent study of his SRI fles as part of my doctoral work, I was convinced Ingo was not just a psychic subject - he was as much a scientist in his own right as anyone he had worked with at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), the laboratory overseeing the clandestine U.S. governmental remote viewing operational pro- grams that spanned two decades. I’d classify Swann as both an experimentalist and social scien- tist. I also discovered he was not merely a naturally gifed psychic, but rather had spent an exorbi- tant amount of time developing his skills and then trying to fgure out how he could pass on his knowledge to others, even while continuing to hone his own. Fridays Fridays with Ingo: with Ingo: Scientist and Scientist and Psychic Psychic | by DEBRA LYNNE KATZ Downloaded by debrakatz on Thursday, December 30, 2021 at www.parapsych.org. Not intended for redistribution.