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Stephan A. Schwartz

Stephan A. Schwartz is a parapsychology researcher with a five-decade career investigating nonlocal consciousness and its applications in archaeology, medicine, and policy. He is profiled on ESP-Nexus across multiple research domains.

Experiments

Schwartz has conducted research across several distinct research programs:

Remote viewing in archaeology and marine contexts. He directed the Mobius Society’s archaeological and marine expeditions, applying remote viewing methodology to fieldwork.

Precognitive remote viewing. In 2025, he published an analysis of precognitive remote viewing protocols and accuracy-testing methodology, examining consensus trends in verbal and drawing data to detect patterns with low a priori probability ^[3]. The work discusses the application of analytical methods comparable to intelligence analysis and investigative journalism to the interpretation of remote viewing data.

Intention effects on physical and biological systems. Schwartz has developed a systematic research program on whether human intention can correlate with measurable, nonlocal effects, particularly on water and other substances.

Energy medicine and therapeutic intention. He has investigated mechanisms by which intention and interpersonal energetic exchange may produce measurable biological effects, grounded in the proposition that the hands, heart, and consciousness operate as dynamic energetic systems.

Consciousness and societal outcomes. Schwartz has developed a framework linking collective consciousness to measurable outcomes in public health, democratic stability, and social welfare, proposing that national wellbeing can be calculated as a measurable function of policy choices and collective consciousness.

Methodology

The retrieved sources do not provide detailed protocol specifications for Schwartz’s experimental designs. The 2025 precognitive remote viewing paper ^[3] describes an analytical approach using consensus analysis on verbal and drawing data to detect low-probability observation patterns, framed as comparable to methods in intelligence work and investigative journalism, but the full methodological apparatus is not detailed in the excerpts retrieved.

Data

The sources retrieved for this question do not present quantitative data (effect sizes, p-values, hit rates, sample sizes) from Schwartz’s experiments. The 2025 precognitive remote viewing paper ^[3] discusses accuracy analysis and consensus-detection methodology but the specific numerical findings are not present in the retrieved excerpts. For detailed quantitative results, the full papers and the relevant ESP-Nexus study-audit pages would be needed.

Skeptical critiques

The sources retrieved for this question do not include published criticism of Schwartz’s work.

For deeper engagement with his research programs across domains, see the ESP-Nexus scientist hub for Stephan A. Schwartz, which covers nonlocal consciousness, intention effects, energy medicine, and consciousness-policy linkages.