To Kiss Earth Good-Bye

To Kiss Earth Good-Bye is Ingo Swann's account of his life and his work as a psychic research subject, centred on the claim that the mind can perceive distant or unseen targets, an ability he helped name "remote viewing." The book frames such perception not as occult marvel but as something to be approached through repeatable experiment.

Swann draws on his experiences at the American Society for Psychical Research and at the Stanford Research Institute, where he worked with physicists on perception experiments and served as both architect and subject of the protocols that became coordinate, later controlled, remote viewing. He recounts demonstrations, including an attempt to describe Jupiter from coordinates, as evidence that disciplined method could constrain psychic impressions.

The work belongs to the effort to give psi a scientific posture, and Swann's research fed into the long-running United States government remote-viewing program. Presented here as a sincere and well-documented experiment in the powers attributed to mind, its evidential status remains scientifically contested and unproven.