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1/9/2012

I will be appearing on Paul and Ben Eno’s Behind the Paranormal radio show on Monday, January 9 at 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM Eastern. This show is simulcast live on the internet and on WOON 1230 AM in the Southeastern New England area. For web access, go to http://www.behindtheparanormal.com/#UPCOMING_SHOWS_-_QUICK_FIND and scroll down the page to find my photo and interview listing, and follow the instructions to listen.

Immediately following the above interview, I will be appearing on Rob Bradbury’s Gut and Bones Show at 7:30 PM, and aired on the Tenacity Radio Network. This will be somewhat of a continuation of my interview last week with S.E. Burns, since Rob was in the studio at the time. Go to http://www.thegutandboneshow.squarespace.com/ and scroll down at the bottom of the show listing, then click on the “Tune In Live…” link. You can also listen live by going directly to http://tenacityradio.com/, where the recorded archive of the show can also be accessed.

I will be making a return appearance on California Haunts Radio at 9:30 PM Eastern on Wednesday January 11. As you know, I am particularly excited at the opportunity to reach out directly to prominent paranormal research organizations that sponsor their own radio shows, and this is one of those. I’m looking very much forward to speaking again with Charlotte Kosa and her team members. The team’s website is at http://www.californiahaunts.org/. The live program and the posted podcast can be accessed at http://www.blogtalkradio.com/californiahaunts or http://www.californiahaunts.org/radio.html.

Next is the Jeff Rense Show on Friday, January 13. The show is live from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM Eastern. I will be on for only a portion of that time slot, but as of today, the timing of my segment has not yet been determined. What’s really great is that Jeff’s co-host for that evening is none other than Brad Steiger, perhaps the most prolific and recognized author in the paranormal field. This is a rare opportunity, and I’m really excited about it. Go to http://www.renseradio.com/hosts.htm and click on the Listen Live button at the top of the left column. Archives of the programs are available to paid subscribers only, so this is another reason not to miss the live broadcast of what promises to be an incredible show.

And finally, we’ll have the second part of two-part series on Scott Morrow’s Fearless Ghost Hunter show on the new ParaMania Network on Sunday, January 15 at 10:00 PM Eastern. You can catch the show live, and the podcast of last night’s Part One interview at http://www.paramaniaradio.com/index.php (archived shows can be accessed through the On Demand link on the navigation bar).

7 Comments

Thales

1/9/2012 09:43:53 am

Not sure if this comment section is meant to start discussion or just for statements, but I had a question regarding Thomas' idea about the store of information (the Logos) he talks about which all things seem to be instantiated from. Would this information be akin (with some modifications) to Plato's world of the forms? There is almost a parallel amongst Plato's forms, Thomas's idea of information, and the computer programming design system of Object-Oriented design. In this type of programming one creates classes which constitute a sort of blueprint, with variables and methods that define the class. From these classes, specific objects can be instantiated. As many objects as you want can be created and they can be unique in their own way but are constrained within the confines of the form's or class' definitions. If you remember or have recorded the exact variables for a specific object you can recreate the exact same object of a class in another instance.

I would like to know from Thomas if this is along the same lines as he has envisioned the Logos or if I am way off. Thanks!

Tom

1/9/2012 09:50:45 pm

Thomas here. You're on the right track. The idea of a body of information outside space-time from which physical reality emerges is a very old concept, and has been presented in many forms under many different labels over millennia. I'm most fond of physicist David Bohm's idea of implicate order (pre-physical information) giving rise to explicate order (physical structure), not only because he was one of the most prominent and respected physicists of the 20th century, but also for his attempts to suggest how this information is propagated. Also of note is his paper with Louis DeBroglie on non-physical guide waves as an explanation for the seemingly uncertain nature of the quantum world. I also mention often the Biblical Wisdom of God or the Word (Logos) of God as ancient examples of this concept with which most of my readers and listeners are familiar. An entire book can be written on the numerous iterations of this concept.

In my own work, Behind the Cosmic Veil, I have chosen the name supergeometry for several reasons. First, geometry is something far easier for us to tangibly envision than merely the term 'information', since we deal with geometric objects all the time, and most understand implicitly that geometry is an expression of information. The prefix 'super' shows that it is an order that resides above space-time (not beneath it), a distinction not always made in these other versions of the concept. This prefix is also scientifically consistent, since science often uses it to designate higher orders. I also use the term "superphysical" as opposed to pre-physical or extra-physical for the same reasons.

The advances and improvements that I've made to this concept of an external body of information--what I call supergeometric theory--are severalfold. First, the book describes for the first time the conceptual mechanics behind how this supergeometric information actually materializes into physical reality (a process that I call paranormal or supernatural 'mechanics'). Secondly, this mechanical model of supergeometry also shows how both gravity and the arrow of time come into being, a feat never before described in this way. Thirdly, it resolves certain enigmas currently facing science involving things like gravity, light and time dilation. It shows how supergeometry, and the mechanics by which that superphysical information materializes into hard reality, can explain all primary and secondary paranormal and supernatural events in a consistent and uniform way with a single cosmological model. Additionally, it does this all with visual concepts without the use advanced math or unnecessarily complicated models like superstrings or multiple universes, just as Einstein did with his eloquent and simple 'thought experiments', thereby conforming to the Einsteinian principle of unnecessary complexity (i.e., the simplest solution is almost certainly the best). To have a single, simple model that answers so many of these kinds of questions is the essense of simplicity, which is why it's causing such a stir. And finally, the supergeometric theory described in Behind the Cosmic Veil actually makes physical predictions that can be scientifically tested, an achievement that competing theories with spiritual overtones have failed to do.

Thales

1/10/2012 08:25:18 am

I am currently about 1/3 of the way through the book, and have also listened to many of your interviews, which are a great supplement to the text, especially the extended ones with GeorgeAnn Hughes. I would hesitate to propose questions like the one I did without completing the book so as not to have you waste your time reiterating or clarifying something that can be ascertained from the text, but the idea of Platonic forms kept popping into my mind when I read or heard you speak of supergeometry.

Undoubtedly the concept of supergeometry, has its ancestry by many other names, and this is why your concept and the way you describe it is so compelling. Through my study of Catholic/Christian apologetics and philosophy I have come across a great many ideas from a wide range of sources. Some of the sources are antithetical to the Christian faith but as great minds, like St. Thomas Aquinas, explained about the pagan philosophers of Greece, there are often times partial truths within, though the overall is erroneous. I see the system you are describing in "Behind the Cosmic Veil" as isolating out and connecting much of these partial truths together into a more complete consistent body of truth. I think a lot of people will also find the disassociated truths they have in their mind finally coalescing under your theory. It is a great book and I hope it will make the picture of reality much clearer for people so they don’t have to resort to absurdities or error to make the truths they know hang together.

Thanks again for addressing my question! I’m sure in the future after I’m done reading the book I’ll have more questions; is this blog comments section the appropriate place to ask questions and start discussions with others and yourself?

Tom

1/11/2012 03:25:21 am

Thanks for your comments. The blog comment section is the means we decided upon with which to conduct such conversation, so we're fine with this. We chose against a forum based on the nonsense we see in forums everywhere. For example, in a number of forums in which I've posted my ideas and announcements, I either received no comments at all or was attacked in both subtle and overt ways. I understand there is actually a thread out there on a Christian forum (which I find sad and even shameful) that paints me as some sort of antichrist spawn of the devil, which you know upon reading the book that nothing could be further from the truth! Of course, since none of them actually read the book, they wouldn't know this, but that has never stopped fools from shooting their mouths off, has it? It seems a proportion of all forums are populated by what I call the drive-by stone throwers, who seek to establish some self-identity and significance by slinging their marks upon a forum page like a graffitist defaces houses and buildings with spray paint. Other forum members who wish to make positive comments normally try to contact me privately, since they hesitate posting out of fear of becoming a target also. You see these trolls listen to radio shows where they obviously disagree with the show's very founding premise and the host's perspective for the sole purpose of mining for more targets at which they can sling mud, thereby elevating themselves in their own tarnished minds by means of their 'obvious' superiority. Such fall under the category for which the modern saying "get a life" was coined. Their mentality is very much like that of a common thug, and in these forums they inevitably find each other and form packs like wolves, just like the predators they are, hiding behind the anonymity of the internet just as wolves hide in the shadows at the edge of forests. If you ever met them face to face in a mixed audience, all but the most arrogant would be too frightened to peep a sound! Such cowards care nothing for truth, but only that they must attack anything that might fearfully threaten the tenuous underpinnings of their own emotional security. We all know them--anything outside their self-edifying dogma is to be destroyed at any cost. It has been my experience that the majority (thankfully, not all!) of the human race expends much mental and emotional effort into constructing self-justifiable means by which they can avoid or suppress truth because they simply cannot handle it. And although I have a certain amount of sympathy and compassion toward them (since the human need for survival and self-preservation outweighs most other considerations), my accommodation ends where they extend that dogma to aggressively attacking any and all voices that might speak to the contrary. The funny thing is that when you really look carefully at their words, they almost never bring up a specific point of disagreement by which they could be publicly debated on its merits (something which they avoid at all costs), and say nothing original. I suspect they would suffer a brain hemorrhage if ever an original idea or a profound thought of their own devisement entered into their heads! If you took away the mainstream establishment dogma behind which they hide, they would be as flaccid as a gang member without his boys behind him. I imagine that it may be an act of Divine Mercy that those who are as described herein will be unable to recognize themselves in the description, while those who know them will.

That being said, all are welcome in these comments sections to ask questions or voice opinions, even those that are dissenting or challenging views, as long as they are respectfully and reasonably framed and that address specific aspects and ideas directly related to the content and substance of my work. This allows all parties to respond based on the specific merits of those points in an orderly and civil manner.

Yes, the idea of a superphysical body of information is very old. It persists because it provides plausible answers to questions that a strictly materialistic interpretation of the universe cannot without embarking on highly complex and sometimes convoluted theoretical maneuverings that ultimately never resolve themselves, but always end in an entirely new set of paradoxes that are not only self-created, but equally unresolvable as the initial, strictly materialistic premise. So then more theories arise to answer the anomalies created by the first theory, which in turn spawns its own anomalies, and so on and so forth, each new theoretical branch unable to terminate in a consistent and coherent conclusion that is not in itself self-contradictory. It then becomes a case of choosing the one that has that particular set of unresolvable contradictions that one finds least distasteful. (continued in next comment)

Tom

1/11/2012 03:26:09 am

(continued from previous comment)
We find the concept in many iterations with varying degrees of similarity to supergeometry. Some are considered purely philosophical or religious like Plato's Forms which do indeed display some remarkable parallels), cosmic consciousness, universal mind, Wu-Li, Freud's psychoid entities, the Biblical Wisdom of God or the Word (logos) of God, Jungian synchronicity, akashic records, Aristotle's Prime Mover, infinite intelligence and a host of others. Ideas with a more modern, scientific foundation are Theodore Kalusa's non-local gravity, David Finkelstein's coherent superpositions, David Bohm's implicate order, Rupert Sheldrake's life fields, John Wheeler's pre-geometry, Louis de Broglie's guide waves, configuration space and, of course, my own supergeometry. Our modern concept of 'information' that has arisen in our computer age has contributed to important theoretical advances in this line of thought by casting this superphysical structure in a more sensible and scientifically reasonable way.

You are correct in pointing out there can be important distinctions between the various 'species' of this concept. Supergeometry is unique among these alternative models in that it expresses this basic notion in a way that is also consistent with scientific anomalies, the body of paranormal and supernatural evidence and Judeo-Christian principles, as well as illustrating the emergence into our reality of gravity and time.

You are also right in noting that in spite of the similarities, the philosophical, scientific and spiritual implications of each can be quite different at times. For example, my own understanding of the Biblical Word of God from my Christian faith encompasses qualities and religious considerations far beyond what these mere theories (including my own) only hint at, being at best limited to a logical system by which we can recognize and define the visible evidence for the existence of the 'Mind' of God, rather than ever being able to describe that Mind in some humanly conceivable way. I believe the best we can humanly do is to recognize the 'trail' left by the activity of that Mind on the face of creation. Those who allege that I represent supergeometry as anything more than this have not read the book.

Thales

1/13/2012 06:58:13 am

On trolls and other forum degenerates-
How you have described the behavior of certain individuals and their conduct in forums is spot on. Being an amateur apologist and engaging in this work primarily through forums, I've run into my fair share of the people you describe. My approach to the whole matter is to find truth and relay the truth as best as I can with charity, never being nasty, name-calling, or attacking a person, only attacking ideas and error with the light of reason and facts. Aside from the trolls, dealing mostly with agnostics, atheists, and anti-theists as I do, you can imagine and you have probably experienced, the degree of nastiness towards you can get pretty high, especially when the other party begins to realize that sound reasoning and good facts undermine their position. In order to keep chugging along in what often times seems to be unfruitful, humiliating (becasue the level of nastiness endured) work, I always recall what I once heard Fr. Robert Baron say. He remarked that although you may be engaged with one or two others who seem particularly hard hearted and unresponsive to the truth, for each person actually posting, there are likely many others who are simply following along with the conversation, too timid to post or sitting on the fence in regards to subject at hand. Those are the most impressionable people and who you are really trying reach and if you are honest, charitable, and speak from a reasoned faith rather than blind faith, they will be affected.

Supergeometry and apologetics-
It strikes me as very odd and a little horrified that a Christian would criticize you so, as to call you the antichrist, when the presentation of your theory, though not rooted in any sort of faith or on a faith based initiative, certainly opens up an otherwise closed box to all that the Christian faith proclaims without, as far as I see, any contradictions. This is one of the main reasons that drew me to your book.

A starting point from which I have always found very helpful in beginning to break through to the materialistic minded non-believer is establishing the reality of the supernatural. If there can be even the tiniest demonstrable evidence of the non-physical then the whole materialistic, naturalistic worldview falls to pieces. I have always maintained that thoughts and ideas affect the brain in a non-local way. When you think about it, where does an original thought exist? It seems to be there, as in one’s mind which, not to be confused with the brain, is not really physical either, but it certainly produces effects in the brain in the form of chemical production and electric pulses. Anyway, I think your book lays this same argument out, which I thought was fantastic.

I wanted you, Thomas, to know that, though I am no expert in theology, I have studied a good deal and rather than think your theory presents antinomy to faith (faith of any kind) I think it opens up in many ways the truth of faith. And for anyone else reading this again, don't think this book is a work of apologetics or centered on faith. It is a primarily a physics centric theory which by its merits of being scientific, factually based, and well reasoned encompasses explanations of paranormal and some religious phenomena.

Tom

1/14/2012 08:08:26 pm

I've had several other readers opine as to how well my description illustrates these degenerate forms of forum fauna. It brings back fond memories of the early AOL and the incredible people you would meet in the chat rooms during the time when they charged by the hour. Once they caved to the growing competition by changing to a 19.95/month unlimited access model, that was the end of it, and all the really good organizations that hosted some of these chat rooms quickly fled the ensuing mayhem and carnage. Just goes to show: if for admission you charge nothing, you will invariably admit some who bring nothing.

Thank you for pointing out that my work is not presented or framed as Christian or religious outside of employing the ancient cosmology reflected in various Biblical principles as a workable element of a supergeometric model that offers plausible solutions to certain mysteries of physical reality. And although it's easy to see how this model can indeed be adapted as a significant new avenue for Christian apologetics that would bear particular relevance in a 21st century world enveloped in science and technology, its value and merits can certainly be recognized and weighed completely indepentently of any religious consideration without affecting its principles or practicality. That's part of its groundbreaking characteristic. The supergeometric model can be--exactly as it stands with no need to alter or modify it in any way--deeply spiritual, deeply Biblical, deeply scientific, and/or deeply philosophical all at the same time, and that these positions could each be equally held separately or even collectively. And what's more, this same model makes predictions about reality that are scientifically testable! If one were to truly find "A New Vision of Reality Merging Science, the Spirtual and the Supernatural," how could it be any other way?

The Bible indicates that God made all things both visible and invisible, and made all according to a particular order. If so, then is not science and physics also a reflection of that one order? Are then not all things supernatural also according to that same order? If everything was made according to one order, would not the untimate expression of that order be a perfectly harmonious merging of all things scientific, spiritual and supernatural? Or is God and his order confined to and defined by the precepts and doctrine of a particular denomination? And if so, which one? And does any of these denominational doctrines also give us an accurate description of atomic structure or thermodynamics, both which were brought about by God's order? Or is the knowledge and use of science and technology a violation of the order that defines them? Is the technology of the car in which you drive to church each Sunday contained within the Bible, or does the order of God contain both the car's technology and the Bible alike? I can't help but feel this relates in some way to Jesus' criticism of those in his day who acted as if God was confined to and by their religious dogma, so that in their rigid adherence to their precepts and rituals they strained out the gnat, but swallowed the camel.

Thank you, my friend, for sharing with others here the true nature of my work.

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Thomas P. Fusco has devoted nearly three decades of research into the relationship between mind, physics, spirituality, parapsychology, scientific anomalies and paranormal phenomena with the goal of uncovering the unifying cosmological framework that has eluded mankind for generations. He has been invited to speak as a guest on over 100 national and international radio programs, including Coast To Coast AM.

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