THE PARACAST NEWSLETTER
April 9, 2017
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Paul Eno Discusses Alternate Dimensions, the Multiverse, on The Paracast
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This Week's Episode: Author and radio host Paul Eno returns to The Paracast to talk about his “unified field theory” for paranormal events. Is it possible that UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot and other phenomena are all part of our multiverse? How does this view compare with the traditional view of space visitors, missing links and life after death? Paul — and his son Ben — are co-hosts of the Behind the Paranormal radio show. They are also co-authors of a book based on their radio show studies, also called “Behind the Paranormal: Everything You Know is Wrong.” Is it? Paul will ask some thought-provoking questions about the paranormal that cry out for logical solutions.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Behind The Paranormal: ON 1240 Radio's Behind the Paranormal with Paul & Ben Eno
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on April 9: Author and talk show host Paul Eno rejoins Gene and Chris, first focusing on so-called psychic healings. The discussion quickly moves to the multiverse and concepts of a universal consciousness. What about related belief systems that have survived thousands of years? What about the merging of realities and how our experiences might undergo constant alteration before our very eyes? Paul also talks about cases involving “parasitical entities” who want “feed” on us and set us up one against another, to shatter our unity, especially in connection with some of the exorcisms in which he participated.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
A Unified Field Theory of the Paranormal
By Gene Steinberg
Conventional wisdom has it that flying saucers are spaceships, doubtless from other planets revolving around star systems located light years away from us. The government knows the truth and is hiding it from us for reasons best known to themselves, perhaps due to national security concerns.
Ghosts are manifestations of people who died but apparently are stuck in a way station between the world of the living and heaven — or that other place. Perhaps there is unfinished business here, or they are stuck in a repeating loop hoping to eventually find the means to enter the light and ascend to their reward.
Bigfoot? Well, such cryptids may well represent a species that has survived through the ages but has kept itself mostly hidden in remote regions around the world as a means to survive. Perhaps it’s a missing link between apes and humans, stuck in an evolutionary dead end.
Unless, of course, such creatures exist somewhere beyond our reality, and manage to just disappear rather than return to some hidden locale in the woods. And why have we not been able to find their corpses? Are they buried somewhere beneath the ground?
It’s common to place such phenomena in different categories, investigated by different classes of investigators. Some may believe in multiple mysteries, whereas others may embrace the theory that they are all related somehow.
And that takes us to a fascinating area of speculation.
Now some time back, my friend Red Pill Junkie, a blogger on all things paranormal, wrote a lengthy piece in this newsletter in which he pointed to the possible connections between so-called near-death experiences and UFO abductions.
It all began when I asked him to write a guest editorial about a topic he brought up on The Paracast. I assumed it would be similar in length to mine, about 1,000 words or so, or perhaps a bit longer.
He took a little more time than I expected to get it done, but it was clear he had a lot to say, because the article rang up over 4,680 words. It was entitled, “Charon's Silvery Boat: The Overlap Between Near Death Experiences and UFO/Alien Encounters,” and you can check it out at: Your Paracast Newsletter — August 23, 2015
But if flying saucers are from outer space, and near-death experiences are what the title implies, recollections of what happened to someone when they briefly stopped breathing, how could they possibly be related?
Therein lies the dilemma, a huge dilemma, that takes us to the heart of such mysteries.
Now I suppose one might suggest both events are simply illusions. What you claim to remember after your heart stopped beating for a short time didn’t really happen. What you recalled was influenced by our cultural conditioning about the afterlife.
But why should such experiences be in any way similar to what people who claim to be abducted by aliens undergo?
Just what is going on here?
More and more of the researchers we’ve talked to on The Paracast speak of multiple dimensions, a multiverse, where existence is divided into an infinite number of separate realities.
The common sci-fi and comic book concept of the multiverse posits alternate dimensions, separated perhaps by different frequencies. So there is an Earth-1, an Earth-2, an Earth-38 — an endless number. Each reality may contain the same or similar people living separate lives. On one Earth, you may be a doctor, on the next a talk show host, on yet another a government leader. Or you may be dead.
When you see what you think of as a ghost, it’s not someone who has died, but someone living and breathing in another reality who briefly popped into this one, or perhaps the realities have temporarily merged.
If you die on this Earth, what happens to your counterpart on another Earth? Can that person come — or be taken to this dimension — and replace you? That was one of the plot points of a Fox TV series, “Fringe.” On the surface it appeared to be a sci-fi show in the tradition of “X Files.” But along the way — and this is a key spoiler for those who never saw the series — we learn that one of the main characters, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) was brought here from another reality to replace his dead counterpart.
Can that possibly happen in the “real” world? Has it already happened? What’s more, if one’s reality is being altered constantly, does that possibly explain lapses in human memory? You undergo an experience or you see something happen, but over time the event has changed because the reality in which you reside has changed.
What about the all-too-common arguments among people who completely disagree over something that happened to them? We can chalk it up, again, to our imperfect memories. But is that true?
Now about the flying saucers:. If they are from other worlds, do they travel to Earth via an advanced propulsion system, perhaps a variation of the warp drive concept? Or do they travel at more conventional speeds in city-sized spaceships that take centuries to reach their destinations? In the latter case, the crew might live and die through several generations, or they are placed in suspended animation and are only awakened when they’re orbiting the world to which they’re traveling.
Certainly, there are loads of sci-fi stories that depict these and other concepts. I’ve read a few stories where a person doesn’t actually go anywhere, but his or her consciousness is uploaded across time and space to reside in another body.
So are UFOs coming here from other planets, or are they actually aircraft from alternate Earths? And if that’s the case, do they have the means with which to jump across realities? Or is their presence here accidental, a byproduct of rips in the wall, barrier, or “membrane” that separates one reality from another?
There are loads of possibilities that we can only begin to understand.
Scientists are seriously considering a multiverse as part of their studies of quantum mechanics. So there’s something called the “many-worlds interpretation,” where your so-called doppelgänger or the alternate version of yourself might reside elsewhere among an infinite number of dimensions.
Perhaps there is only one amorphous reality, but we only perceive tiny bits of it. But we are all part of the same universal consciousness and are connected via a non-localized system that might be roughly similar in concept to the “cloud.” We understand the cloud as gigantic networks of computer servers that share data and make it available to anyone who makes a connection, logs in.
But I do realize that such terms as “quantum mechanics” may be used by paranormal researchers not as a means of trying to understand what’s really happening, but as a buzzword to sound impressive.
What is certain is that we only have a limited understanding of the reality surrounding us. Focusing on simple, if improbable, solutions to paranormal phenomena may make it all seem easier to grasp. But that doesn’t mean any of it is correct.
For now, it’s probably safe to suggest that paranormal phenomena of any sort may involve forces that we do not yet comprehend. Saying “expect the unexpected” doesn’t even begin to convey what’s really happening.
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April 9, 2017
www.theparacast.com
Paul Eno Discusses Alternate Dimensions, the Multiverse, on The Paracast
The Paracast is heard Sundays from 3:00 AM until 6:00 AM Central Time on the GCN Radio Network and affiliates around the USA, the Boost Radio Network, the IRN Internet Radio Network, and online across the globe via download and on-demand streaming.
SUPPORT THE SHOW AND ENJOY A PREMIUM PARACAST EXPERIENCE! We have another radio show and we’d love for you listen to it. So for a low subscription fee, you will receive access to After The Paracast, plus a higher-quality version of The Paracast free of network ads, and chat rooms when you sign up for The Paracast+. We also offer a special RSS feed for easy updates of the latest episodes, the Paracast+ Video Channel, episode transcripts, Special Features, Classic Episodes and there’s more to come! We’ve just begun to add podcasts and videos from Paul Kimball’s “Other Side of Truth.” Check out our new lower rates, starting at just $1.49 per week, plus our “Lifetime” membership and special free eBook offers! For more information about our premium package, please visit: Introducing The Paracast+ | The Paracast — The Gold Standard of Paranormal Radio.
This Week's Episode: Author and radio host Paul Eno returns to The Paracast to talk about his “unified field theory” for paranormal events. Is it possible that UFOs, ghosts, Bigfoot and other phenomena are all part of our multiverse? How does this view compare with the traditional view of space visitors, missing links and life after death? Paul — and his son Ben — are co-hosts of the Behind the Paranormal radio show. They are also co-authors of a book based on their radio show studies, also called “Behind the Paranormal: Everything You Know is Wrong.” Is it? Paul will ask some thought-provoking questions about the paranormal that cry out for logical solutions.
Chris O’Brien’s Site: Our Strange Planet
Behind The Paranormal: ON 1240 Radio's Behind the Paranormal with Paul & Ben Eno
After The Paracast -- Available exclusively to Paracast+ subscribers on April 9: Author and talk show host Paul Eno rejoins Gene and Chris, first focusing on so-called psychic healings. The discussion quickly moves to the multiverse and concepts of a universal consciousness. What about related belief systems that have survived thousands of years? What about the merging of realities and how our experiences might undergo constant alteration before our very eyes? Paul also talks about cases involving “parasitical entities” who want “feed” on us and set us up one against another, to shatter our unity, especially in connection with some of the exorcisms in which he participated.
Reminder: Please don't forget to visit our famous Paracast Community Forums for the latest news/views/debates on all things paranormal: The Paracast Community Forums.
A Unified Field Theory of the Paranormal
By Gene Steinberg
Conventional wisdom has it that flying saucers are spaceships, doubtless from other planets revolving around star systems located light years away from us. The government knows the truth and is hiding it from us for reasons best known to themselves, perhaps due to national security concerns.
Ghosts are manifestations of people who died but apparently are stuck in a way station between the world of the living and heaven — or that other place. Perhaps there is unfinished business here, or they are stuck in a repeating loop hoping to eventually find the means to enter the light and ascend to their reward.
Bigfoot? Well, such cryptids may well represent a species that has survived through the ages but has kept itself mostly hidden in remote regions around the world as a means to survive. Perhaps it’s a missing link between apes and humans, stuck in an evolutionary dead end.
Unless, of course, such creatures exist somewhere beyond our reality, and manage to just disappear rather than return to some hidden locale in the woods. And why have we not been able to find their corpses? Are they buried somewhere beneath the ground?
It’s common to place such phenomena in different categories, investigated by different classes of investigators. Some may believe in multiple mysteries, whereas others may embrace the theory that they are all related somehow.
And that takes us to a fascinating area of speculation.
Now some time back, my friend Red Pill Junkie, a blogger on all things paranormal, wrote a lengthy piece in this newsletter in which he pointed to the possible connections between so-called near-death experiences and UFO abductions.
It all began when I asked him to write a guest editorial about a topic he brought up on The Paracast. I assumed it would be similar in length to mine, about 1,000 words or so, or perhaps a bit longer.
He took a little more time than I expected to get it done, but it was clear he had a lot to say, because the article rang up over 4,680 words. It was entitled, “Charon's Silvery Boat: The Overlap Between Near Death Experiences and UFO/Alien Encounters,” and you can check it out at: Your Paracast Newsletter — August 23, 2015
But if flying saucers are from outer space, and near-death experiences are what the title implies, recollections of what happened to someone when they briefly stopped breathing, how could they possibly be related?
Therein lies the dilemma, a huge dilemma, that takes us to the heart of such mysteries.
Now I suppose one might suggest both events are simply illusions. What you claim to remember after your heart stopped beating for a short time didn’t really happen. What you recalled was influenced by our cultural conditioning about the afterlife.
But why should such experiences be in any way similar to what people who claim to be abducted by aliens undergo?
Just what is going on here?
More and more of the researchers we’ve talked to on The Paracast speak of multiple dimensions, a multiverse, where existence is divided into an infinite number of separate realities.
The common sci-fi and comic book concept of the multiverse posits alternate dimensions, separated perhaps by different frequencies. So there is an Earth-1, an Earth-2, an Earth-38 — an endless number. Each reality may contain the same or similar people living separate lives. On one Earth, you may be a doctor, on the next a talk show host, on yet another a government leader. Or you may be dead.
When you see what you think of as a ghost, it’s not someone who has died, but someone living and breathing in another reality who briefly popped into this one, or perhaps the realities have temporarily merged.
If you die on this Earth, what happens to your counterpart on another Earth? Can that person come — or be taken to this dimension — and replace you? That was one of the plot points of a Fox TV series, “Fringe.” On the surface it appeared to be a sci-fi show in the tradition of “X Files.” But along the way — and this is a key spoiler for those who never saw the series — we learn that one of the main characters, Peter Bishop (Joshua Jackson) was brought here from another reality to replace his dead counterpart.
Can that possibly happen in the “real” world? Has it already happened? What’s more, if one’s reality is being altered constantly, does that possibly explain lapses in human memory? You undergo an experience or you see something happen, but over time the event has changed because the reality in which you reside has changed.
What about the all-too-common arguments among people who completely disagree over something that happened to them? We can chalk it up, again, to our imperfect memories. But is that true?
Now about the flying saucers:. If they are from other worlds, do they travel to Earth via an advanced propulsion system, perhaps a variation of the warp drive concept? Or do they travel at more conventional speeds in city-sized spaceships that take centuries to reach their destinations? In the latter case, the crew might live and die through several generations, or they are placed in suspended animation and are only awakened when they’re orbiting the world to which they’re traveling.
Certainly, there are loads of sci-fi stories that depict these and other concepts. I’ve read a few stories where a person doesn’t actually go anywhere, but his or her consciousness is uploaded across time and space to reside in another body.
So are UFOs coming here from other planets, or are they actually aircraft from alternate Earths? And if that’s the case, do they have the means with which to jump across realities? Or is their presence here accidental, a byproduct of rips in the wall, barrier, or “membrane” that separates one reality from another?
There are loads of possibilities that we can only begin to understand.
Scientists are seriously considering a multiverse as part of their studies of quantum mechanics. So there’s something called the “many-worlds interpretation,” where your so-called doppelgänger or the alternate version of yourself might reside elsewhere among an infinite number of dimensions.
Perhaps there is only one amorphous reality, but we only perceive tiny bits of it. But we are all part of the same universal consciousness and are connected via a non-localized system that might be roughly similar in concept to the “cloud.” We understand the cloud as gigantic networks of computer servers that share data and make it available to anyone who makes a connection, logs in.
But I do realize that such terms as “quantum mechanics” may be used by paranormal researchers not as a means of trying to understand what’s really happening, but as a buzzword to sound impressive.
What is certain is that we only have a limited understanding of the reality surrounding us. Focusing on simple, if improbable, solutions to paranormal phenomena may make it all seem easier to grasp. But that doesn’t mean any of it is correct.
For now, it’s probably safe to suggest that paranormal phenomena of any sort may involve forces that we do not yet comprehend. Saying “expect the unexpected” doesn’t even begin to convey what’s really happening.
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