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Curriculum Vitae

Stephan A. Schwartz

 

 

Government Appointments:

Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations under Admirals

Zumwalt and Holloway (Certificate of Commendation) (1971-1975);

Consultant to the Oceanographer of the Navy (1973-76);

Member, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Secretary of Defense Discussion Group

on Innovation, Technology and Society (1971-1975).

 

Government writing (speeches, Congressional testimony, and articles) for:

Admiral Elmo Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations,

Admiral James Holloway, Chief of Naval Operations,

Richard M. Nixon,

James Schlesinger, Secretary of Defense, and

John Warner, both as Secretary of the Navy and as Chairman of the Bicentennial Commission.

 

Academic and Research Appointments:

Scholar-in-Residence, Atlantic University (2007-present)

BIAL Fundacao Fellow (2006 to present);

Research Associate, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental

Research (1997 to present);

Senior Advisor and Director of Research, The Rhine Research Center (2005 to 2006);

Public Spokesperson, Parapsychological Association (1996 to present);

Chairman and Research Director of The Mobius Society, (1977-1992);

Visiting Professor at John F. Kennedy University (1981-1983);

Senior Fellow of the Philosophical Research Society (1976-1979).

 

Scholarly Editorships:

Columnist and Contributing Editor , Explore: The Journal of Science and Healing

Editor-in-Chief, Subtle Energies (Journal of the International Society for Subtle Energies and

Energy Medicine);

Editorial Advisory Board of Phoenix: New Directions in the Study of Man (Journal of the

Association for Transpersonal Anthropology).

 

General Circulation Editorships and Staff Writing:

Editor - www.Schwartzreport.net

Associate Editor, Seapower Magazine,

Editorial staff member, The National Geographic Magazine,

Staff Reporter, The Daily Press ,

Staff Reporter, The Times-Herald; and,

Contributing Writer, The Virginian-Pilot.

Editorial Advisory Board, Intuition Magazine

 

 

 

Expeditions:

¥ Grand Bahamas Banks, Project Leader and Research Director (1987-88), location of the Brig

Leander and 18 other wreck sites;

¥ Jamaica, Team leader, Institute for Nautical Archaeology expedition (1985), survey of St.

AnnÕs Bay.

¥ Lake Erie (1984), location of the cargo vessel Dean Richmond.

¥ Alexandria, Egypt, Project Leader and Research Director (1979-80), resulted in the first

modern mapping of the Eastern Harbour of Alexandria, and the location of numerous

shipwrecks covering many centuries, as well as the Emporium and the Timonium, Mark

AntonyÕs palace in Alexandria, the Ptolemaic Palace Complex of Cleopatra, the remains of the

Lighthouse of Pharos, one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, and a major civic building

in the nearby buried city of Marea;

¥ Santa Catalina Island off the coast of California (1977), location of a previously unknown

coaster cargo vessel.

 

Books:

Opening to the Infinite, (Nemoseen, 2007);

Mind Rover, (Nemoseen Press, 2001);

The Alexandria Project, (Delacorte: New York, 1983) (revised and reissued, (The AuthorÕs

Guild: New York, 2000));

The Secret Vaults of Time, (Grosset & Dunlap: New York, 1978) (revised and reissued, (The

AuthorÕs Guild: New York 2000) (Selected for The Classics of Consciousness Series, edited by

Russell Targ. (Hampton Roads: Charlottesville, 2005))

 

Book Chapters:

World History (McGraw Hill: New York, 2001);

Hot Chocolate for the Mystical Soul (Plume/Penguin: New York, 1998);

Introduction to Creativity (Copley: New York, 1994);

Stories from Omni, (Little Brown: New York, 1984).

Listening to Rolling Thunder (in press, 2009)

Mysterioous Mind: The Neurobiology of Extraordinary Experience (in press, 2009)

 

Book Introductions and Prefaces:

One White Crow by George McMullen (Hampton Roads: Norfolk, 1993);

The Psychic Detective by Cohn Wilson (Mercury: San Francisco, 1984).

 

Film, Video, DVDs and CDs:

Remote Viewing: The Gold Standard Course (producer and writer, Nemoseen Media, 2004)

Remote Viewing Through Time and Space (producer and writer, Nemoseen Media, 2004)

Traveling Through Time and Space (producer and writer, 2004)

Remote Viewing (producer, writer, and narrator, Nemoseen Media, 2003)

Before the Beginning (producer, writer, and narrator, Nemoseen Media, 2003)

Healing (producer, writer, and narrator, Nemoseen Media, 2003)

2050 (producer, writer, and narrator, Nemoseen Media, 2003)

Reflections on Vatican II (PBS Special, Advisory Board, Leech Communications, 1998);

Mind Over Matter (MCA/Universal series, executive producer and writer, Clearlight

Productions, 1991);

Interspecies Communications (MCA/Universal, executive producer and writer, Clearlight

Productions, 1991);

Crop Circles (MCA/Universal, executive producer and writer, Clearlight Productions, 1991);

Psychic Detectives (MCA/Universal, executive producer and writer, Clearlight Productions,

1991);

Healing (MCA/Universal, executive producer and writer, Clearlight Productions, 1991);

Psychic Detectives (ABC network prime time special, executive producer and writer, Clearlight

Productions, 1989);

The Alexandria Project (documentary, expedition leader, executive producer and writer, Labrys

Productions, 1979);

Project Deep Quest (syndicated series, expedition leader, producer and writer, Alan Landsburg

Productions, 1977).

Conversations at the Smithsonian: Innovation, Technology and the Future (three-part series,

writer and host, Smithsonian Institution, 1973);

National Treasures (documentary, writer, USIA Productions, 1972);

ItÕs a Small World (documentary, writer, USIA Productions, 1971); and,

Master of the House (feature, co-writer, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1965).

 

General Circulation Articles (newspapers and magazines):

American Heritage

American History

AttachŽ

Harpers

Intuition

Kindred Spirit (U.K.)

New Age Journal

Omni

Parabola

Seapower

Shift

Smithsonian

The Daily Press

The New York Times

The Times-Herald

The Virginian-Pilot

The Washington Post

The Washington Star

Venture Inward

 

Selection of General Circulation Publications (2000 to present):

Schwartz SA. ÒGeorge Mason: Forgotten Founder.Ó Smithsonian. May 2000. Vol. 31, No. 2 .

Schwartz SA. ÒDr. FranklinÕs Plan.Ó Smithsonian. June 2001. Vol. 33. No. 3.

Schwartz SA. ÒA Sacred Space.Ó (Antietam) AttachŽ. September 2003.

Schwartz SA. ÒFranklinÕs Forgotten Triumph.Ó American Heritage. October 2004.

Schwartz SA. ÒSpirit WorldÓ (American Spiritualism). American Heritage. April 2005.

Schwartz SA. ÒOpening to the Infinite.Ó Shift. May 2006. No. 10.

Schwartz SA. ÒBen FranklinÕs Gift That Keeps on Giving.Ó American History. February 2009. Vol. 43.

No. 6.

Schwartz SA. ÒThe Mist Wolf.Ó Parabola. February 2009.

 

Peer-reviewed Journals, Proceedings, and Technical Reports:

Schwartz, SA. ÒDeep Quest: An Experiment in Deep Ocean Psychic Archaeology and Distant

Viewing.Ó Invited Paper. Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropology Association/ the

Association for Transpersonal Anthropology. March 1978.

Schwartz, SA. ÒAssociated Remote Viewing: A Protocol for Using Remote Viewing for Event

Prediction.Ó Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropology Association/ Association for

Transpersonal Anthropology. April 1979.

Schwartz, SA. ÒProject Deep Quest: A Prototype Experiment in the Application of Intuitively

Derived Data in Marine Archaeology.Ó Invited Paper. American Society for Psychical Research.

January 1979.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Use of Intuitionally Derived Data in Archaeological Fieldwork.Ó Annual

Meeting of the Southwestern Anthropological Association/Association for Transpersonal

Anthropology, 10 March 1980.

Schwartz, SA. with Side-scan Sonar Survey by Harold E. Edgerton. ÒA Preliminary Survey of the

Eastern Harbour, Alexandria, Egypt Combining Both Technological and Extended Sensing

Exploration.Ó Annual Meetings of the Society for Underwater Archaeology. 11 January 1980.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Ecuador Project: Remote Viewing in the Location and Reconstruction of a

Pre-Columbian Site in Ecuador.Ó Mobius Technical Report, 1980.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Marea Probe: An Experiment in Applied Parapsychology involving the

Location, Reconstruction, and Excavation of a Byzantine Structure - Marea, Egypt.Ó Invited

Paper. Annual Meetings of The American Research Center in Egypt. De Young Museum. 14

April 1980.

Schwartz, SA. ÒA Case Study of Intuitive Remote Sensing in Archaeological Seriation.Ó Annual

Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropology Association/ Association for Transpersonal

Anthropology. 14 April 1980.

Schwartz, SA. ÒA Field Methodology for Collecting and Evaluating the Psychic Readings of

Shamans and Fortune Tellers, Including a Case Study with Precognitive Aspects.Ó Annual

Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropology Association/the Association for Transpersonal

Anthropology. April 1981.

Schwartz, SA. ÒPreliminary Report on a Prototype Applied Parapsychological Methodology for

Utilization in Archaeology, with a Case Report.Ó Research in Parapsychology 1981, Eds.

William G. Roll, Robert L Morris, and Rhea White (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London,

1982). pp. 25-27.

Schwartz, SA. with De Mattei, RJ. ÒThe Mobius Psi-Q Test: Preliminary Findings.Ó Research

in Parapsychology 1982, Eds. William G. Roll, John Beloff, and Rhea White (Scarecrow:

Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1983). pp. 103-105.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Past is Prologue: The Exploration of a New Context for Parapsychology.Ó

Research in Parapsychology 1982, Eds. William G. Roll, John Beloff, and Rhea White

(Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1983). pp. 256-257.

Schwartz, SA. ÒApplied and Laboratory Psi Research.Ó Research in Parapsychology 1984, Eds. Rhea

White and Jerry Solfvin (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1985). p. 122.

Schwartz, SA. ÒFirst Steps in Application Methodologies for Parapsychology.Ó Invited Paper.

Proceedings: Symposium on Applications of Anomalous Phenomena. 30 November - 1

December 1983.

Schwartz, SA. ÒHidden Agendas in Parapsychology.Ó Research in Parapsychology 1984, Eds. Rhea

White and Jerry Solfvin. (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1985). pp. 104-105.

Schwartz, SA. with De Mattei, R., and Schlitz, M. ÒThe Pecos Project: Reconstruction of Life in a

Southwestern Indian Village Along the Lower Pecos River, Circa 8th Century A.D.Ó American

Anthropology Association Annual Meetings 1984.

Schwartz, SA. ÒRemote Viewing: An Applications-Oriented Perspective for Anthropology.Ó

Invited Paper in A Summary of Data and Theories from Parapsychology Relevant to

Psychological Anthropology. 84th Annual Meeting American Anthropology Association.

1985.

Schwartz, SA. ÒApplications of Remote Viewing: Two Cases in Archaeology.Ó Invited paper. Proceedings. Institute for Theoretical Problems (Moscow). 1986

Schwartz, SA. De Mattei,R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. ÒInfrared Spectra Alteration in Water

Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.Ó Research in Parapsychology 1986, Eds.

Debra H. Weiner and Roger D. Nelson. (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1987,). pp. 24-

29.

Schwartz, S. and De Mattei, R. ÒThe Caravel Project.Ó Research in Parapsychology 1987, Eds.

Debra H. Weiner and Roger D. Nelson. (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1988). pp.

100-101.

Schwartz, SA. De Mattei,R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. ÒInfrared Spectra Alteration in Water

Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.Ó Invited Paper. Annual Meetings of the

Society for Scientific Exploration 1987.

Schwartz, SA. and De Mattei, R. with independent archaeological evaluation by Roger Smith,

(Institute for Nautical Archaeology) ÒRemote Viewing and the Search for Columbus' Lost

Caravels.Ó Conference on Underwater Archaeology/Society of Historic Archaeology Annual

Meetings 1987.

Schwartz, SA. De Mattei,R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. ÒInfrared Spectra Alteration in

Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.Ó Proceedings. Annual Meetings of

The Association of American Chemical Societies. 1988.

Schwartz, SA. De Mattei, R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. ÒInfrared Spectra Alteration in

Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.Ó Invited paper. Proceedings. Popov Institute

(Moscow) 1989.

Schwartz, SA. and De Mattei, R. ÒThe Discovery of an American Brig: Fieldwork Involving

Applied Archaeological Remote Viewing.Ó Research in Parapsychology 1988, Eds. Linda A.

Henkel and Rick E. Berger. (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1989). pp. 73-78.

Schwartz, SA. and De Mattei, R. ÒThe Discovery of an American Brig: Fieldwork Involving

Applied Archaeological Remote Viewing, Including a Comparison with Side Scan Sonar and

Satellite Imagery.Ó Proceedings. Conference on Underwater Archaeology/Society of Historic

Archaeology Annual Meetings. 1989

Schwartz, SA. ÒTherapeutic Intent and the Art of Observation.Ó Subtle Energies. Vol. 1. No. 1 pp.

ii-viii. 1990.

Schwartz, SA. De Mattei, R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. ÒInfrared Spectra Alteration in

Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.Ó Subtle Energies. vol. 1. no.1. pp 43-

73. 1990.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Challenge and the Promise of Anomalous Research.Ó Subtle Energies. vol. 1

no. 2 1990. pp.iv-x.

Schwartz,SA. ÒKuhn, Context, and Revolution.Ó Subtle Energies. vol. 1 no 3. 1991. pp iv-ix.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe New Covenant Process: America's Opportunity to Establish a Critical

Consensus for the 90s and Beyond.Ó In Blueprint for Presidential Transition. Section. IV -

Citizen Participation and Public Consensus. (The Blue Print for Presidential Transition

Project: Los Angeles, 30 October 1992). An edited version appeared under the same title in

The New Paradigm Digest. Vol. 1. No. 4. Winter 1992. pp. 63-64.

Schwartz, SA. ÒAnomalous Research and Strategies for Change.Ó Invited Paper. Proceedings.

TREAT VI Conference. March 1993

Schwartz, SA. ÒIntuition and Creativity.Ó Invited paper. Proceedings of the Global Intuition

Network Conference at the East-West Center. May 1994.

Schwartz, SA. ÒA Soldier in the Sensoid Wars: Observations From 25 Years on Both Sides of the

Battlefield. Media and Science.Ó Proceedings. Annual Meetings of the Parapsychology

Association, 1996.

Schwartz, SA. ÒNIH and the Harkin Directive: Subtle Energies and Social Policy.ÓProceedings.

Annual Meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. 1997.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Eastern Harbor of Alexandria, Egypt: A 16 Year Case Study in Science, the

Media, and the Anomalous.Ó Invited paper. 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific

Exploration. 1997.

Schwartz, SA. ÒEffect of retroactive intercessory prayer. Correspondents showed misapprehension

of principle.Ó BMJ. 2002 Apr 27;324(7344):1038. PMID: 11977264

Schwartz, SA. ÒRemote Viewing: The History of an Idea.Ó Invited paper. 22nd Annual Meeting of

the Society for Scientific Exploration, 2003.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Realm of the Will.Ó Explore (NY). 2005 May;1(3):198-207. PMID: 16781531.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Blind Protocol and its Place in Consciousness Research.Ó Explore (NY). 2005

Jul;1(4):284-9. PMID: 16781550.

Schwartz, SA. ÒAn American Profile.Ó Explore (NY). 2005 Sep;1(5):338-9. PMID: 16781563.

Schwartz, SA. ÒDeath on the Wing.Ó Explore (NY). 2005 Nov;1(6):433-6. PMID: 16781587.

Schwartz, SA. ÒA Chinese Puzzle.Ó Explore (NY). 2006 Jan;2(1):17-8. PMID: 16781603.

Schwartz, SA. ÒHomo Superiorus.Ó Explore (NY). 2006 Mar;2(2):106-8. PMID: 16781623.

Schwartz, SA. ÒA Different Kind of Woman.Ó Explore (NY). 2006 May;2(3):198-9. PMID:

16781641.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Hot and Cold of Success.Ó Explore (NY). 2006 Jul-Aug;2(4):302-3. PMID:

16846817.

Schwartz, SA. ÒA Soldier in the Sensoid Wars.Ó Explore (NY). 2006 Sep-Oct;2(5):394-8. PMID:

16979101.

Schwartz, SA. ÒDisease of Distinction.Ó Explore (NY). 2006 Nov-Dec;2(6):515-9. PMID:

17113492.

Schwartz, SA. ÒWhere were you?Ó Explore (NY). 2006 Nov-Dec;2(6):486-7. PMID: 17113488

Schwartz, SA. ÒWater...Water... Hot and Salty.Ó Explore (NY) 2007 Jan-Feb;3(1):11-2. PMID:

17234562.

Schwartz, SA. ÒAnd Nary a Drop to Drink.Ó Explore (NY) 2007 Mar-Apr;3(2):95-7. PMID:

17362844.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Governator and the New States Rights.Ó Explore (NY). 2007 July/August

2007, Vol. 3, No. 4. PMID: 17681255.

Schwartz, SA. ÒThe Neuron Strategy.Ó Explore (NY) 2007 September/October. PMID: 17905354.

Schwartz SA. ÒBy the numbers.Ó Explore (NY). 2007 Nov-Dec;3(6):558-60. PMID: 18005907.

Schwartz SA. ÒGiving.Ó Explore (NY). 2008 Nov-Dec;4(6):357-8. PMID: 18984546

Schwartz SA. ÒGood news and a debt of gratitude.Ó Explore (NY). 2008 Sep-Oct;4(5):300-1. PMID: 18775399.

Schwartz SA. ÒWillful ignorance.Ó Explore (NY). 2008 Jul-Aug;4(4):232-4. PMID: 18602615.

Schwartz SA. ÒLeverage point.Ó Explore (NY). 2008 May-Jun;4(3):168-9. PMID: 18466846.

Schwartz SA. ÒAn arrow through time.Ó Explore (NY). 2008 Mar-Apr;4(2):95-100. PMID: 18316052.

Schwartz SA. ÒThe beingness doctrine.Ó Explore (NY). 2008 Jan-Feb;4(1):15-7.  PMID: 18194786.

Schwartz SA, Utts J, Spottiswoode SJP, Shade, CW, Tully L, Morris WF, Nachman G. A Study to Assess the Validity of Applied Kinesiology (AK) as a Diagnostic Tool and as a Nonlocal Proximity Effect. Jour. Amer. Med. Assoc. (in review, 2009).

Schwartz SA and Dossey L. ÒObservations on Prayer and Intention Studies: Laying a Foundation for the Future.Ó Brit. Med. Jour. (in review, 2009).

 

Memberships:

Past-President and founding member of The Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness (a

unit of the American Anthropology Association);

Member of the Board of Directors of The Russian American Center;

Member of the Board of Directors and Spokesperson of the Parapsychological Association;

Founding member, Director, and Past-president, International Remote Viewing Association;

Member of the Board of Directors of The World ChildrenÕs Transplant Foundation (presently

inactive);

Member of The AuthorÕs Guild;

Member of WGA West. (inactive);

Member American Anthropology Association;

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science;

Member PEN Center America.

 

Personal:

Marriage (widower):

Hayden Oliver (Gates).

Two daughters, Katherine and Lea, a step-daughter.

 

Listings:

WhoÕs Who in America (1980 – 1996, 2009)