Stephan A. Schwartz is a Distinguished Associated Scholar for The California Insitute for 
Human Science, Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, and a BIAL Foundation 
Fellow. He is an award-winning author of both fiction and non-fiction, columnist for the 
journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net in both of which he 
covers trends that are affecting the future. His other academic and research 
appointments include: Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli 
Institute; founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory; Director of Research 
of the Rhine Research Center; and Senior Fellow of The Philosophical Research 
Society. Government appointments include: Special Assistant for Research and Analysis 
to the Chief of Naval Operations, consultant to the Oceanographer of the Navy. He has 
also been editorial staff member of National Geographic Magazine, Managing Editor of 
Sea Power Magazine. And staff reporter and feature writer for The Daily Press and The
Times Herald. For 40 years he has been studying the nature of consciousness, particularly 
that aspect independent of space and time. Schwartz is part of the small group that founded 
modern Remote Viewing research, and is the principal researcher studying the use of 
Remote Viewing in archaeology. Using Remote Viewing he discovered Cleopatra's Palace, 
Marc Antony's Timonium, ruins of the Lighthouse of Pharos, and sunken ships along the 
California coast, and in the Bahamas. He also uses remote viewing to examine the future. 
Since 1978, he has been getting people to remote view the year 2050, and out of that 
has come a complex trend analysis. His submarine experiment, Deep Quest, using Remote 
Viewing helped determine that nonlocal consciousness is not an electromagnetic 
phenomenon. Other areas of experimental study include research into creativity, 
meditation, and Therapeutic Intent/Healing. He is the author of more than 200 technical 
reports and peer-reviewed papers. In addition to his experimental studies he has written 
numerous magazine articles for Smithsonian, OMNI, American History, American Heritage, The 
Washington Post, The New York Times, Huffington Post as well as other magazines and 
newspapers. He is the recipient of the Parapsychological Association Outstanding 
Contribution Award, OOOM Magazine (Germany) 100 Most Inspiring People in the 
World award, and the 2018 Albert Nelson Marquis Award for Outstanding 
Contributions. He has produced and written a number television documentaries, including 
Psychic Detectives ABC, Psychic Sea Hunt NBC, the series Report from the Unknown, 
MCA/Universal, It’s A Small World USIA, and has written four non-fiction books: The Secret 
Vaults of Time, The Alexandria Project, Mind Rover, Opening to the Infinite, and his latest, The 8 Laws 
of Change, winner of the 2016 Nautilus Book Award for Social Change, as well as three
novels, Awakening – A Novel of Aliens and Consciousness Winner of the Book Excellence Award 
for Literary Excellence, The Vision – A Novel of Time and Consciousness, 2018, and The Amish 
Girl – A Novel of Death and Consciousness, 2019.. He is listed in: Who’s Who in the World, Who’s 
Who in America, Who’s Who in the West, Who’s Who in Healthcare and Medicine, Professional Who’s Who. Schwartz and his consciousness and social transformation work have been covered 
and reported on by hundreds of magazines, newspapers, television programs, and podcasts
worldwide.
He thinks the United States and the world is in trouble. He tells us why and offers some solutions.