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Curriculum Vitae

Stephan A. Schwartz

Stephan A. Schwartz is the Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute, a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research, and a BIAL Fellow of the BIAL Foundation. He is the columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net which covers trends that are affecting the future. Previously he was the founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory, and Director of Research of the Rhine Research Center. 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. In addition to numerous technical papers and reports on this work he has written four books: The Secret Vaults of Time, The Alexandria Project, Mind Rover  and his latest, Opening to the Infinite. His submarine experiment, Deep Quest, using Remote Viewing helped determine that nonlocal perception is not an electromagnetic phenomenon.  Other areas of interest include research into creativity and Therapeutic Intent/Healing.

Academic and Research Appointments:
Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing. Samueli Institute. (2010 to present)
Scholar-in-Residence, Atlantic University (2007-2008)
BIAL Fundacao Fellow (2006-2010);
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).

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.

Scholarly Editorships:
Columnist, 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. Ann’s 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 Antony’s 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 Author’s Guild: New York, 2000));
The Secret Vaults of Time, (Grosset & Dunlap: New York, 1978) (revised and reissued, (The Author’s Guild: New York 2000) (Selected for The Classics of Consciousness Series, edited by Russell Targ. (Hampton Roads: Charlottesville, 2005))

Book Chapters:
The antique road show: How denier movements critique evolution, climate change, and nonlocal consciousness. In Debating psychic experiences: Human potential or human illusion?S. (Eds.) Krippner & H. Friedman. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger 2010.
Nonlocality and Exceptional Experiences: A Study of Genius, Religious Epiphany, and the Psychic. In Advances in Parapsychological Research Volume 9. (Ed.) S. Krippner. New York: Plenum Press, 2010.
Listening to Rolling Thunder (Ed.) S. Krippner. (in press, 2010);
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);
It’s 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
Attaché
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. “George Mason: Forgotten Founder.” Smithsonian. May 2000. Vol. 31, No. 2 .
Schwartz SA. “Dr. Franklin’s Plan.” Smithsonian. June 2001. Vol. 33. No. 3.
Schwartz SA. “A Sacred Space.” (Antietam) Attaché. September 2003.
Schwartz SA. “Franklin’s Forgotten Triumph.” American Heritage. October 2004.
Schwartz SA. “Spirit World” (American Spiritualism). American Heritage. April 2005.
Schwartz SA. “Opening to the Infinite.” Shift. May 2006. No. 10.
Schwartz SA. “Ben Franklin’s Gift That Keeps on Giving.” American History. February 2009. Vol. 43.
No. 6.
Schwartz SA. “The Mist Wolf.” Parabola. February 2009.

Peer-reviewed Journals, Proceedings, and Technical Reports:
Schwartz, SA. “Deep Quest: An Experiment in Deep Ocean Psychic Archaeology and Distant Viewing.” Invited Paper. Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropology Association/the Association for Transpersonal Anthropology. March 1978.
Schwartz, SA. “Associated Remote Viewing: A Protocol for Using Remote Viewing for Event Prediction.” Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropology Association/ Association for Transpersonal Anthropology. April 1979.
Schwartz, SA. “Project Deep Quest: A Prototype Experiment in the Application of Intuitively Derived Data in Marine Archaeology.” Invited Paper. American Society for Psychical Research.
January 1979.
Schwartz, SA. “The Use of Intuitionally Derived Data in Archaeological Fieldwork.” 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. “A Preliminary Survey of the Eastern Harbour, Alexandria, Egypt Combining Both Technological and Extended Sensing Exploration.”Annual Meetings of the Society for Underwater Archaeology. 11 January 1980.
Schwartz, SA. “The Ecuador Project: Remote Viewing in the Location and Reconstruction of a Pre-Columbian Site in Ecuador.” Mobius Technical Report, 1980.
Schwartz, SA. “The Marea Probe: An Experiment in Applied Parapsychology involving the
Location, Reconstruction, and Excavation of a Byzantine Structure – Marea, Egypt.” Invited Paper. Annual Meetings of The American Research Center in Egypt. De Young Museum. 14 April 1980.
Schwartz, SA. “A Case Study of Intuitive Remote Sensing in Archaeological Seriation.”
Annual Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropology Association/ Association for Transpersonal Anthropology. 14 April 1980.
Schwartz, SA. “A Field Methodology for Collecting and Evaluating the Psychic Readings of
Shamans and Fortune Tellers, Including a Case Study with Precognitive Aspects.” Annual
Meetings of the Southwestern Anthropology Association/the Association for Transpersonal Anthropology. April 1981.
Schwartz, SA. “Preliminary Report on a Prototype Applied Parapsychological Methodology
for Utilization in Archaeology, with a Case Report.” 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. “The Mobius Psi-Q Test: Preliminary Findings.” Research in Parapsychology 1982, Eds. William G. Roll, John Beloff, and Rhea White (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1983). pp. 103-105.
Schwartz, SA. “The Past is Prologue: The Exploration of a New Context for Parapsychology.”Research in Parapsychology 1982, Eds. William G. Roll, John Beloff, and Rhea White (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1983). pp. 256-257.
Schwartz, SA. “Applied and Laboratory Psi Research.” Research in Parapsychology 1984, Eds. Rhea White and Jerry Solfvin (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1985). p. 122.
Schwartz, SA. “First Steps in Application Methodologies for Parapsychology.” Invited
Paper. Proceedings: Symposium on Applications of Anomalous Phenomena. 30 November – 1 December 1983.
Schwartz,SA. “Hidden Agendas in Parapsychology.” 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. “The Pecos Project: Reconstruction of
Life in a Southwestern Indian Village Along the Lower Pecos River, Circa 8th Century A.D.” American Anthropology Association Annual Meetings 1984.
Schwartz, SA. “Remote Viewing: An Applications-Oriented Perspective for Anthropology.”
Invited Paper in A Summary of Data and Theories from Parapsychology Relevant to Psychological Anthropology. 84th Annual Meeting American Anthropology Association. 1985.
Schwartz, SA. “Applications of Remote Viewing: Two Cases in Archaeology.” Invited paper. Proceedings. Institute for Theoretical Problems (Moscow). 1986
Schwartz, SA. De Mattei,R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. “Infrared Spectra Alteration
in Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.” Research in Parapsychology 1986, Eds.
Debra H. Weiner and Roger D. Nelson. (Scarecrow: Metuchen, N.J. & London, 1987,).
pp. 24-29.
Schwartz, SA. and De Mattei, R. “The Caravel Project.” 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. “Infrared Spectra Alteration
in Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.” 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) “Remote Viewing and the Search for Columbus’ Lost Caravels.” Conference on Underwater Archaeology/Society of Historic Archaeology Annual Meetings 1987.
Schwartz, SA. De Mattei,R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. “Infrared Spectra Alteration
in Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.” Proceedings. Annual Meetings of The Association of American Chemical Societies. 1988.
Schwartz, SA. De Mattei, R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. “Infrared Spectra Alteration
in Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.” Invited paper. em>Proceedings. Popov Institute (Moscow) 1989.
Schwartz, SA. and De Mattei, R. “The Discovery of an American Brig: Fieldwork Involving
Applied Archaeological Remote Viewing.” 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. “The Discovery of an American Brig: Fieldwork Involving
Applied Archaeological Remote Viewing, Including a Comparison with Side Scan Sonar and
Satellite Imagery.” Proceedings. Conference on Underwater Archaeology/Society of Historic Archaeology Annual Meetings. 1989
Schwartz, SA. “Therapeutic Intent and the Art of Observation.” Subtle Energies. Vol. 1. No. 1 pp.ii-viii. 1990.
Schwartz, SA. De Mattei, R., Brame, E. and Spottiswoode, J. “Infrared Spectra Alteration
in Water Proximate to the Palms of Therapeutic Practitioners.” Subtle Energies. vol. 1. no.1. pp 43-73. 1990.
Schwartz, SA. “The Challenge and the Promise of Anomalous Research.” Subtle Energies. vol. 1 no. 2 1990. pp.iv-x.
Schwartz,SA. “Kuhn, Context, and Revolution.” Subtle Energies. vol. 1 no 3. 1991. pp iv-ix.
Schwartz, SA. “The New Covenant Process: America’s Opportunity to Establish a Critical
Consensus for the 90s and Beyond.” 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. “Anomalous Research and Strategies for Change.” Invited Paper. em>Proceedings. TREAT VI Conference. March 1993
Schwartz, SA. “Intuition and Creativity.” Invited paper. Proceedings of the Global
Intuition Network Conference at the East-West Center. May 1994.
Schwartz, SA. “A Soldier in the Sensoid Wars: Observations From 25 Years on Both Sides of the Battlefield. Media and Science.” Proceedings. Annual Meetings of the Parapsychology Association, 1996.
Schwartz, SA. “NIH and the Harkin Directive: Subtle Energies and Social Policy.” em>Proceedings. Annual Meetings of the Society for the Anthropology of Consciousness. 1997.
Schwartz, SA. “The Eastern Harbor of Alexandria, Egypt: A 16 Year Case Study in Science, the Media, and the Anomalous.” Invited paper. 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration. 1997.
Schwartz, SA. “Effect of retroactive intercessory prayer. Correspondents showed
misapprehension of principle.” BMJ. 2002 Apr 27;324(7344):1038. PMID: 11977264
Schwartz, SA. “Remote Viewing: The History of an Idea.” Invited paper. 22nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Scientific Exploration, 2003.
Schroll M and Schwartz SA Whither Psi and Anthropology? An Incomplete History of SAC’s Origins, Its Relationship with Transpersonal Psychology and the Untold Stories of Castaneda’s Controversy. Anthropology of Consciousness 16:1, 6-24 2005.
Schwartz, SA. “The Realm of the Will.” Explore (NY). 2005 May;1(3):198-207. PMID: 16781531.
Schwartz, SA. “The Blind Protocol and its Place in Consciousness Research.” em>Explore (NY). 2005 Jul;1(4):284-9. PMID: 16781550.
Schwartz, SA. “An American Profile.” Explore (NY). 2005 Sep;1(5):338-9. PMID: 16781563.
Schwartz, SA. “Death on the Wing.” Explore (NY). 2005 Nov;1(6):433-6. PMID: 16781587.
Schwartz, SA. “A Chinese Puzzle.” Explore (NY). 2006 Jan;2(1):17-8. PMID: 16781603.
Schwartz, SA. “Homo Superiorus.” Explore (NY). 2006 Mar;2(2):106-8. PMID: 16781623.
Schwartz, SA. “A Different Kind of Woman.” Explore (NY). 2006 May;2(3):198-9. PMID:16781641.
Schwartz, SA. “The Hot and Cold of Success.” Explore (NY). 2006 Jul-Aug;2(4):302-3. PMID:16846817.
Schwartz, SA. “A Soldier in the Sensoid Wars.” Explore (NY). 2006 Sep-Oct;2(5):394-8. PMID:16979101.
Schwartz, SA. “Disease of Distinction.” Explore (NY). 2006 Nov-Dec;2(6):515-9. PMID:17113492.
Schwartz, SA. “Where were you?” Explore (NY). 2006 Nov-Dec;2(6):486-7. PMID: 17113488
Schwartz, SA. “Water…Water… Hot and Salty.” Explore (NY) 2007 Jan-Feb;3(1):11-2. PMID:17234562.
Schwartz, SA. “And Nary a Drop to Drink.” Explore (NY) 2007 Mar-Apr;3(2):95-7. PMID:17362844.
Schwartz, SA. “The Governator and the New States Rights.” Explore (NY). 2007 July/August 2007, Vol. 3, No. 4. PMID: 17681255.
Schwartz, SA. “The Neuron Strategy.” Explore (NY) 2007 September/October. PMID: 17905354.
Schwartz SA. “By the numbers.” Explore (NY). 2007 Nov-Dec;3(6):558-60. PMID: 18005907.
Schwartz SA. “Giving.” Explore (NY). 2008 Nov-Dec;4(6):357-8. PMID: 18984546
Schwartz SA. “Good news and a debt of gratitude.” Explore (NY). 2008 Sep-Oct;4(5):300-1. PMID: 18775399.
Schwartz SA. “Willful ignorance.” Explore (NY). 2008 Jul-Aug;4(4):232-4. PMID: 18602615.
Schwartz SA. “Leverage point.” Explore (NY). 2008 May-Jun;4(3):168-9. PMID: 18466846.
Schwartz SA. “An arrow through time.” Explore (NY). 2008 Mar-Apr;4(2):95-100. PMID: 18316052.
Schroll MA and Schwartz SA. Whither Psi and Anthropology? An Incomplete History of SAC’s Origins, Its Relationship with Transpersonal Psychology and the Untold Stories of Castaneda’s Controversy. Anthropology of Consciousness 16:1:6-24 8 Jan 2008.
Schwartz SA. “The beingness doctrine.” Explore (NY). 2008 Jan-Feb;4(1):15-7.  PMID: 18194786.
Schwartz SA and Dossey L. “Observations on Prayer and Intention Studies: Laying a Foundation for the Future.” (2009)
Schwartz SA. Genius. Explore (NY). 2009 Jan-Feb;5(1):16-9. PMID: 19114259
Schwartz SA. Migration. Explore (NY). 2009 Mar-Apr;5(2): PMID: 19272578
Schwartz SA. mind-body and the social dimension. Explore (NY). 2009 May-Jun;5(3):142-5.
PMID: 19409361.
Schwartz SA. The Gift: Benjamin Franklin and the Creation of Micro-lending and American Philanthropy. Invited Paper Society for the History of the Early American Republic (SHEAR) annual meetings. Springfield, IL. 17 July 2009.
Schwartz SA. The illness profit industry and national security. Explore (NY). 2009 Jul-Aug;5(4):197-9. PMID: 19608109
Schwartz SA, Utts J, Spottiswoode J, Shade C, Tully L, Morris, W, and Nachman, G. A Study to Assess the Validity of Applied Kinesiology (AK) as a Diagnostic Tool and as a Nonlocal Proximity Effect. Proceedings, Parapsychological Association Meetings, 2009. Brit. Med. Jour. (in review, 2010). Presented as selected paper, Parapsychological Association annual meetings, Seattle, WA. 17 July 2009, and as a selected paper at the BIAL Foundation Conference, Porto, Portgugal. 8 April 2010.
Schwartz SA. A Secret in Plain Sight: Mediation and Human Performance. Explore. Explore (NY). 2009 Sep-Oct;5(5):263-4. PMID: 19733811.
Schwartz SA. The Vanishing Middle Class. Explore (NY). 2009 Nov-Dec; 5(6):327-9.PMID: 19913758.
Schwartz SA. Mr South Whidbey, Globalization, and the Worship of Profit. Explore (NY). 2010 Jan;6(1):15-6. PMID: 20129307.
Schwartz SA. Nonlocal Linkage and the Social Dimension. Explore. Explore (NY). 2009 Jul-Aug;5(4):197-9. PMID: 20362264.

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 Children’s Transplant Foundation (presently inactive);
Member of The Author’s Guild;
Member of WGA West. (inactive);
Member American Anthropology Association;
Member American Association for the Advancement of Science;
Member PEN Center America.

Listed: Who’s Who in America (1986-2002, 2009 to present)

Personal:
Widower: Hayden Oliver (Gates), 29 January 2001.
Remarried: Ronlyn Arnatt Osmond, 26 June 2010.
Two daughters, Katherine and Lea, a step-daughter.