Schwartz has signed the Discovery Institute's A Scientific Dissent from Darwinism and is a proponent of mind/body dualism.

Schwartz appeared in the 2008 Film No Intelligence Allowed, in which he told interviewer Ben Stein that science should not be separated from religion.

When we see an elite, and it is an elite, an elite that controls essentially all the research money in science saying there is no such thing as moral truth, [that] science will not be related to religion.

If you believe in God, and you believe that there's an intrinsic order in the universe, and you believe that it's the role of science to try to pursue and understand better that order, you will be ostracized.

However, Schwartz's 1998 book A Return to Innocence plainly attributes the development of human cognitive neurology to biological evolution:

Because its wiring is quite similar to that of a chimpanzee (our closest nonhuman relative, who shares 98 percent of our genes), your human "vehicle" has goals, desires, and impulses of its own.

Over the course of the book, Schwartz describes how human beings can transcend their animal nature through spiritual disciplines, drawing extensively on Theravada Buddhist philosophy, while noting occasional parallels with Judeo-Christian moral teachings. Schwartz commends Buddha as the most relevant spiritual master for modern times, because Buddha's teachings are phrased in empirical terminology that doesn't strike modern people as religious. These statements suggest that Schwartz's views on intelligent design are not Biblical Creationist in nature, unlike most members of the organized Intelligent Design organizations such as Discovery Institute, but reflect Buddhist philosophies that emphasize the role of consciousness in directing evolution.

Books

• Jeffrey Schwartz and Sharon Begley, The mind and the brain: Neuroplasticity and the power of mental force, New York: Regan Books, 2002. ISBN 0-06039-355-6.

• Jeffrey Schwartz and Beverly Beyette, Brain lock: Free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior: A four-step self-treatment method to change your brain chemistry, New York: Regan Books, 1997. ISBN 0-06098-711-1.

Articles

• Schwartz, J. M., Stapp, H. P., and Beauregard, M. (2005). Quantum theory in neuroscience and psychology: A neurophysical model of mind-brain interaction. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 360(1458):1309-27. Full paper

• Schwartz, J. M., Stapp, H. P., and Beauregard, M. (2004). The volitional influence of the mind on the brain, with special reference to emotional self-regulation, in Beauregard, M. (Ed.), Consciousness, emotional self-regulation, and the brain, Philadelphia, PA: John Benjamins Publishing Company, chapter 7. ISBN 9-02725187-8.

• Schwartz, J. M., Gulliford, E. Z., Stier, J., and Thienemann, M. (2005). Mindful Awareness and Self-Directed Neuroplasticity: Integrating psychospiritual and biological approaches to mental health with a focus on obsessive compulsive disorder, in Mijares, S. G., and Khalsa, G. S. (Eds.), The Psychospiritual Clinician's Handbook: Alternative methods for understanding and treating mental disorders, Binghamton, NY: Haworth Reference Press, chapter 13. ISBN 0-78902324-5.