Dr. Claude Swanson was educated as a physicist at MIT and Princeton University.
During those years he worked at the MIT Science Teaching Center, Brookhaven
National Laboratory and a Virginia cyclotron in the summer. At Princeton he
received the National Science Foundation Fellowship and Putnam Fellowship. His
Ph.D. thesis at Princeton was done in the "Gravity Group," which focuses on
experimental cosmology and astronomy, and was headed by Nobel laureate Robert
Dicke. His thesis advisor was Prof. David Wilkinson, who later became chairman
of the physics department.
Swanson conducted postgraduate work at Princeton and Cornell Universities on the
design of superconducting plasma containment vessels for fusion energy systems.
He then began work for Aeronautical Research Associates of Princeton, a
consulting company, and later formed his own consulting company which carried
out studies in applied physics for commercial and governmental agencies,
including DuPont, United Technologies, the U.S. Army and Navy, DARPA and the
CIA, among many others.
For the last fifteen years, interspersed with his conventional professional
career in applied physics, Dr. Swanson has pursued investigations into
"unconventional physics." His principal interest has been unified field theory,
the so-called "Theory of Everything" which could explain the universe at the
deepest possible level. This has led him to investigate many aspects of the
paranormal, which appear to be completely real phenomena which violate our
present science. Paranormal phenomena, which have now been proven in the
laboratory in many cases, offer a window into the deeper universe, the mysteries
of consciousness, and unlock new forces and principles which conventional
science has only begun to glimpse.
Among paranormal phenomena which are now known, it has been found that signals
can move much faster than light, and the human consciousness and even human
influence, can move backward and forward in time. Science fiction concepts such
as teleportation and levitation seem to occur in reality in paranormal events,
and offer powerful evidence that this will be the new frontier of science.
At the same time, thousands of out-of-body and near-death experiences show that
other dimensions and other realities do exist. This has been the domain of
speculation by theoretical physics, but OBE and NDE cases indicate that parallel
realities and dimensions are in some sense real. And finally, paranormal
research suggests that the human soul, the center of human consciousness, can
survive death and is apparently an energy form which can move and exist
independently of the body. Science is discovering that, in the words of the
pioneer Robert Monroe, " we are far more than our physical bodies."
Dr. Swanson has conducted extensive research in these areas, including research
of the scientific literature, interviews with scientists in these fields,
attended and spoken at conferences, and conducted experiments and
investigations, to better understand how such paranormal phenomena can be
incorporated into modern science.
This research has involved underwater archaeology in Bimini, scientific
measurements in haunted houses, experiments in remote viewing and psychokinesis,
and testing of new devices which can measure these strange forces. He has just
published a book, The Synchronized Universe, which summarizes some of the new
discoveries of this emerging science.
