Scientist, futurist, and award winning author Stephan A. Schwartz is the columnist for the journal Explore, and editor of the daily Schwartzreport.net. Current academic and research appointments: Distinguished Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University, a Fellow of the William James Center for Consciousness Studies, Sofia University, and a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. Prior academic appointments: Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind and Healing of the Samueli Institute; BIAL Fellow; founder and Research Director of the Mobius laboratory; Executive Director of the Rhine Research Center; and Senior Fellow of The Philosophical Research Society. Government appointments: Special Assistant for Research and Analysis to the Chief of Naval Operations, consultant to the Oceanographer of the Navy. He is author of more than 130 technical reports and papers, 20 academic book chapters and four non-fiction works and two novels: He is the recipient of the 2017 Parapsychological Association Award for Outstanding Contributions, and was selected by OOOM Magazine (Germany) as one of the 100 most Inspiring People in the World. 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 Science and Medicine.