August 8, 2001: Remote Viewer - Stephan Schwartz

Remote viewer and researcher Stephan Schwartz joins Art Bell to discuss remote viewing, consciousness, creativity, and his 2050 future-viewing project after a first-hour climate segment with Whitley Strieber. Strieber discusses accelerating climate change evidence, from record Arctic temperatures of 75 degrees to mysterious 30-degree temperature spikes in Morocco occurring in just 15 minutes. Strieber warns that two years of crop failure in the United States could starve the world and describes scarlet rain falling in Kerala, India, followed by plagues of unidentifiable black insects.Schwartz explores the relationship between consciousness, creativity, and psychic functioning. He argues these are three manifestations of the same information channel, citing research showing that CEOs who score high on precognitive tests consistently lead more profitable companies. He describes how breakthrough ideas emerge from the collective unconscious, noting that Edison was the 37th person to patent a light bulb concept.Schwartz discusses his ongoing 2050 remote viewing project, where participants as early as 1978 described a blood disease sweeping out of Africa and something resembling virtual reality. He addresses the political paralysis around energy policy, comparing American oil dependence to drug addiction, and argues that climate change represents the most serious threat facing humanity, with evidence suggesting glacial transitions could occur in as few as ten years.