“If the conscious self is an illusion – who is it that’s being fooled?” *
“What the deniers do not acknowledge is that paradigms do change, and that it is theories, and the experiments that test them, that create paradigms … in this context consciousness researchers such as parapsychologists are simply early-adapters.”
– Stephan A. Schwartz, The Antique Roadshow
The Antique Roadshow: How Denier Movements Critique Evolution, Climate Change, and Nonlocal Consciousness (pdf)
Stephan A. Schwartz, 2010
“Publication History: This paper, presented at the American Psychological Association Annual Meetings, 4 August 2011 in Washington, D.C. had been previously published. A shorter slightly different version appeared as a paper in the journal Explore as ‘The Denier Movements Critique Evolution, Climate Change, and Nonlocal Consciousness’, May 2010 6:3 p. 135-142. This version was a chapter: ‘The antique road show: How denier movements critique evolution, climate change, and nonlocal consciousness’, in Debating Psychic Experiences: Human Potential or Human Illusion? (Eds.) S. Krippner & H. Friedman. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2010.”
Crossing the Threshold: Nonlocal Consciousness and the Burden of Proof (pdf)
Stephan A. Schwartz, Schwartz Report, Explore Magazine, March/April 2013, Vol. 9, No. 2, p. 77-81.
False Equivalencies and the Mediocrity of Nonlocal Consciousness Research Criticism (pdf)
Stephan A. Schwartz, Schwartz Report, Explore Magazine, May/June 2013, Vol. 9, No. 3, p. 131-135.
Stephan A. Schwartz is the Senior Samueli Fellow for Brain, Mind, and Healing at the Samueli Institute.
* Quote is from the website Conscious Entities.