Stephan A. Schwartz is a Distinguished Consulting Faculty of Saybrook University and a Research Associate of the Cognitive Sciences Laboratory of the Laboratories for Fundamental Research. For 40 years he has studied the nature of consciousness, particularly that aspect independent of space and time. In addition to his experimental studies, Stephan Schwartz has contributed to major magazines and newspapers including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and Smithsonian. He has also written multiple television documentaries and four books.