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“Barbara had been a dedicated materialist. But during that year of rebuilding her body, when she thought about that night on the dock, she now saw it as an earlier example of opening to nonlocal consciousness”
― Stephan A. Schwartz, The Vision: A Novel of Time and Consciousness

“As she delved ever deeper into her research she became increasingly convinced that consciousness had to be part of physics if civilization was going to survive.”
― Stephan A. Schwartz, The Vision: A Novel of Time and Consciousness

“The Hill Center people were linked at a deeper level than race or religion, as powerful as those connections were. What bonded them was the open inclusion of nonlocal consciousness in each of their lives.”
― Stephan A. Schwartz, The Vision: A Novel of Time and Consciousness

“This phenomenon suggests nineteenth-century German polymath Adolf Bastian’s theory of Elementargedanke, literally “elementary thoughts of humankind,” which so influenced physicists like Planck, Pauli, and Einstein, indeed many of those in the German school of physics, which was dominant in the early decades of the twentieth century leading up to World War II, as well as anthropologists like Franz Boas (the father of American anthropology) and physicians such as Jung. The idea of the collective unconscious (Jung’s term for the nonlocal domain) was in the way he expressed it. It proposes a worldview in which all manifestations of consciousness, regardless of the complexity of their physical forms, are part of a network of life. A network in which each component both informs and influences as it is informed and influenced. It”
― Stephan A. Schwartz, The 8 Laws of Change: How to Be an Agent of Personal and Social Transformation

“It was the summer evening as she lay on a dock looking up at the stars, having smoked a particularly good number, that she had the insight into the nature of information which won her the prize. It had taken her almost a year to translate that experience into the equation that won her the prize.”
― Stephan A. Schwartz, The Vision: A Novel of Time and Consciousness

“Like herself he understood that the big question was: what is information?”
― Stephan A. Schwartz, The Vision: A Novel of Time and Consciousness

“she had had a near death experience. It confirmed for her the existence of nonlocal consciousness, consciousness that was not physiologically dependent, and the central role of information.”
― Stephan A. Schwartz, The Vision: A Novel of Time and Consciousness