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Gary E. Schwartz is a professor of psychology, medicine, neurology, psychiatry, and surgery at the University of Arizona and the Director of its Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health. Schwartz is also an author and the Corporate Director of Development of Energy Healing for the Canyon Ranch Resorts. Schwartz is known for his controversial experiments with mediums and energy healing. ==Biography== Schwartz received his PhD from Harvard University and was a professor of psychiatry and psychology at Yale University as well as Director of the Yale Psychophysiology Center and co-director of the Yale Behavioral Medicine Clinic from 1976-1988. He is the Director of the Laboratory for Advances in Consciousness and Health (LACH, formerly the Human Energy Systems Laboratory) in the Department of Psychology at the University of Arizona. Schwartz claims that his initial interest in psychic ability stemmed from a car accident he had with his then wife while driving on the FDR highway in Manhattan. The car was reportedly stopped on the roadway when he "heard a voice" tell him to "put his seat belt on." He told his wife to do so, and moments later, said they were rear ended by a car going 50 MPH. It was having his life saved by a mysterious voice that prompted the young Harvard PhD to begin his research into where that voice might have come from. 〔Martini, Richard (2014). ''It's a Wonderful Afterlife: Further Adventures in the Afterlife volume two''. Homina Publishing, p. 58. ISBN 0970449976〕 〔 Accuracy and Replicability of After-Death Communication (HBO experiment) Journal of the Society for Psychical Research, 2001, Vol. 65.1, Num. 862, pages 1-25- veritas.arizona.edu 〕 In his early career, Schwartz wrote on biofeedback research and health psychology. Schwartz's more recent research has been in parapsychology and consciousness-based healthcare. His VERITAS research project, which concluded in 2008, was created primarily to test the hypothesis that the consciousness (or identity) of a person survives physical death. Schwartz performed experiments at the University of Arizona testing mediums such as John Edward, of the TV show ''Crossing Over'', and Allison DuBois, who inspired the TV series ''Medium''. Schwartz believes that DuBois could contact dead people. Schwartz says his experiments with DuBois included a reading for celebrity physician and author Deepak Chopra following the death of his father that Chopra characterized as 77% accurate. Schwartz's research projects at LACH involve investigate the following: # The Evolution of Consciousness and Understanding (Universal Hypotheses and Post-Materialism) # The Role of Consciousness in Health and Healing # The Survival of Consciousness After Death # Quantum Holographic Consciousness # Group and Global Consciousness # Animal Consciousness # Other Worldly / Higher Spiritual Consciousness # The Universal Intelligence Hypothesis Schwartz's methods have prompted criticism from skeptics such as University of Oregon professor Ray Hyman, who says Professor Schwartz's research deviates from the accepted norms of scientific methodology, and criticizes Schwartz for research errors such as inappropriate statistical tests and using subjects predisposed to believe in psychic abilities. Skeptic Robert Todd Carroll maintains that Schwartz's evaluation of mediums is subjective and a product of "wishful thinking."〔 When retired stage magician and infamous skeptic James Randi asked the University of Arizona to submit Schwartz's research data to an independent panel for evaluation as part of his One Million Dollar Paranormal Challenge, Schwartz declined because he thought that the panel, which he believed would be picked by Randi, would be biased. The University of Arizona's then-president Peter Likins, decided that Schwartz's statements were matters of "freedom of expression." 〔Schwartz, Gary E. (2005). ''The Truth about Medium''. Hampton Roads Publishing, p. 106. ISBN 1-57174-459-2〕 Schwartz has also been accused by psychic Laurie Campbell and Allison DuBois of exploiting their psychic abilities for his own publicity. Schwartz is the co-author of ''The Living Energy Universe'', and is the author of ''The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death'', ''The Truth About Medium'' and co-author with John Edward of ''The Sacred Promise: How Science Is Discovering Spirit's Collaboration with Us in Our Daily Lives'' and over 450 scientific papers. He has also edited academic books.〔http://www.experts.scival.com/aus/printpage_cv_ctrl.asp?n=Gary+E+Schwartz&u_id=3682&oe_id=1&o_id=45〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gary Schwartz」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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