Welcome to one explained extra, with me, Richard McClain Smith.

Where for the weeks in between episodes we look at stories and ideas that for one reason

or other didn't make it into the previous show.

In our last episode, Mobius Stripped, we learned about the curious work of Stefan A Schwartz

and his fascination with the nature of human consciousness.

Over decades of work in various fields, Schwartz has become convinced that all life is interconnected

and that consciousness is not a local thing that exists only within ourselves.

Instead, according to Schwartz, that sense of consciousness that we experience individually

is in fact part of a much larger, universal plane of consciousness that we can supposedly

access.

Schwartz has dedicated much of his time to researching the possibilities of remote viewing,

a practice that has been described as the ability to acquire information about spatially

and temporally, remote geographical targets, otherwise inaccessible by any known sensory

means.

It is Schwartz's belief that it is the existence of a universal consciousness that enables people

to successfully perform remote viewing by essentially allowing their minds to wander through

it, with the potential to effectively see things happening anywhere at any time.

At first, Schwartz directed his attention to the past, asking participants in a number

of experiments such as the Alexandria Project as featured in last week's episode to see

if they could use remote viewing to look back in time, then in 1978, satisfied that this

was indeed possible, he had an epiphany.

If experienced remote viewers could look back in time, could they also look into the future?

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