The Synchronized Universe: New Science of the Paranormal

Claude Swanson, Ph.D.

All my life I have been driven by the desire to know things, to seek answers, and to try to put together the puzzle of what reality is, and how to explain many of the great mysteries of life and human experience.

I think that the author of this book, Swanson, is a soul-mate of mind. He seems driven by the same motives and interests. The difference is that I just read about things and he has actually done the work, done the studies, and compiled them into this most remarkable book.

Swanson is obviously bright (MIT undergraduate degree) and accomplished (Ph.D. and other advanced degrees in physics from Princeton and Cornell.) Furthermore his hero, the Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman, is also my personal hero. Here in Swanson's own words is his approach to life, which is reflected in this book:

I often wonder how my physics education would have been different if, instead of conducting experiments on radioactivity and superconductivity, for which physics has very good theories, if I had taken the same equipment and gone to a haunted house! Or measured the energy fields around healers as they worked. Then, instead of confirming the science of the textbook, I would have measured things that defy the textbooks. Unfortunately, my curriculum did not include such adventures, and it was ten years later before I got around to those more unconventional pursuits

But it is an important lesson for all scientists. Our educational curriculum is designed to convince that the theories in the book are true. There are no organized curricula in physics departments which encourage the student to seek out the strange places and events that break the rules.

Science has no clue about what consciousness is, for example. There is no adequate physical theory of it, and yet each one of us has one (it?). It is familiar but inexplicable. In this book we have reviewed other subjects which science cannot explain: the out-of-body experience, remote viewing, ESP, prophecy (knowledge of the future), the effects of group consciousness… and psycho kinesis (PK) to name a few. These have been proven repeatedly in laboratory experiments over decades, with the rules of scientific statistics and controls. By any objective measure, they are real phenomena. [Emphasis added]

So, that pretty much tells you where the author is coming from and what this book is about. All that I will add is that it is remarkably readable and the data and experiments chosen are fascinating and often mind-blowing. Swanson is not only an accomplished scientist; but he has obviously done his homework on the spiritual side, citing references from many profound sources. I loved this book!! I hope you will give it a try. Whether you are a believer or a skeptic, a seeker or a finder, a scientist or a layman, I am almost certain you will enjoy the data and the presentation.

Review by Len Oppenheim