For more than 40 years, Schwartz has studied the nature of consciousness.  He is the author of more than 175 books, technical reports, and papers.  In addition to his experimental studies, he has written numerous magazine articles for the Smithsonian, OMNI, American History, American Heritage, The Washington Post and The New York Times.  He is also an award winning novelist, "Awakening," "The Vision," and "The Amish Girl" being his latest works.  Schwartz is a distinguished consulting faculty member of Saybrook University, Fellow of the William James Center for Consciousness Studies, Sofia University, Fellow of the BIAL Foundation, and a research associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research.  He is a columnist for the journal "Explore" and editor of the daily online publication "The Schwartz Report," where he covers trends that are affecting the future.