Dr. Gary E. Schwartz giving the keynote address on "The Soul Phone Technology". Presented at the the Academy for Spiritual and Consciousness Studies (ASCSi) conference on "After Death and the Survival of Consciousness" held in Scottsdale AZ on December 2, 2016. For more information visit: SoulPhoneFoundation.org

Dr. Gary Schwartz is Professor of Psychology, Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry, and Surgery at the University of Arizona. In addition to teaching courses on health psychology and the psychology of religion and spirituality, he is the director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. ​

He received a nearly two million-dollar award from the National Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health to create a Center for Frontier Medicine in Biofield Science at the University of Arizona, which he directed for four years. Dr. Schwartz founded the Academy for Advances in Postmaterial Sciences (AAPSglobal.com). He also was the founding president of the Forever Family Foundation. Gary collaborated with Canyon Ranch on biofield science and energy healing research and serves as the Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing. He also served as Chairman of Eternea, an organization whose mission is to foster the integration of science and spirituality for personal and global transformation.

Gary received his Ph.D. in psychology from Harvard University in 1971 and was an assistant professor at Harvard for five years. He later served as a professor of psychology and psychiatry at Yale University, director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center, and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic, before moving to Arizona in 1988. He has published more than four hundred and fifty scientific papers, including six papers in the journal Science. Gary has also co-edited eleven academic books.

He is the author of The Sacred Promise (2011), The Energy Healing Experiments (2007), The G.O.D. Experiments (2006), The Afterlife Experiments (2002), The Truth about Mediums (2005), and The Living Energy Universe (1999). Gary is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychological Society, the Society for Behavioral Medicine, and the Academy for Behavioral Medicine Research.