Stephan A. Schwartz, Edgar Cayce scholar

Open to the Infinite: Exploring Human Consciousness Known as “The Sleeping Prophet,” Edgar Cayce is perhaps the 20th-century’s most famous psychic, making predictions, medical diagnoses and cosmological pronouncements while asleep for more than 50 years. A farmer’s son, Cayce gave more than 14,000 documented “readings” during his life, covering topics such as the kingdom of Atlantis, the original course of the Nile River and thousands of medical diagnoses and treatments, sometimes of patients he hadn’t seen. Though he died in 1945, he retains a large following even to this day. Other than Cayce’s lifelong secretary Gladys Davis Turner, and perhaps his son Hugh Lynn Cayce, Stephan A. Schwartz is the only person to have read all of the approximately 14,000 Edgar Cayce Readings. As of the founders of modern Remote Viewing, and an experimenter in nonlocal consciousness research for over half a century, Schwartz’s experiences have given him a unique perspective on this extraordinary body of work. In this presentation, Schwartz will discuss the work of Edgar Cayce: why he went into a trance to give his readings, his accuracy and errors and why his readings are couched in the language they are. He will also discuss what Edgar Cayce was doing, how his Readings fit into the larger context of nonlocal consciousness research and what this body of work is telling us about what it means to be a human and our place in the matrix of consciousness. Scientist, futurist, and award-winning author Stephan A. Schwartz is a columnist for the journal Explore and editor of the daily web publication Schwartzreport.net, where he covers trends that are affecting the future. For 40 years Schwartz has been studying the nature of consciousness and its role in social transformation, exceptional human performance, social outcome research and trends that are affecting the future. He is part of the small group that founded modern remote viewing research and is the principal researcher studying the use of remote viewing in archaeology. He also uses remote viewing to examine the future. The author of more than 130 technical reports and papers, Schwartz has written numerous magazine articles for Smithsonian, OMNI, American History, American Heritage, The Washington Post and The New York Times, as well as other magazines and newspapers. He has produced and written a number of television documentaries and has written four books: “The Secret Vaults of Time,” “The Alexandria Project,” “Opening to the Infinite” and his latest, “The 8 Laws of Change,” winner of the 2016 Nautilus Book Award for Social Change.