November 8, 2003: Parallel Universes - M.R. Franks
The Art Bell Archive · Arthur William Bell III
June 28, 20252h 51m
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Show Notes
Art Bell opens with remote viewer Major Ed Dames, who declares that the recent extreme solar activity represents the long-predicted shot across the bow, a precursor to escalating solar events he calls kill shots. Dames describes an 11,500-year solar cycle and warns of progressive coronal mass ejections that will destroy satellites and disrupt power grids in coming weeks. Art then transitions to Professor Ramon Lopez, a solar physicist, who confirms the unprecedented nature of the current activity and notes that solar magnetic output has doubled over the past century.
The main guest, Professor M.R. Franks, a law professor and lifelong cosmologist, presents his theory that the universe consists of an infinite number of static, frozen parallel universes through which consciousness moves at tremendous speed. He argues that prayer, voodoo, remote viewing, and mass consciousness all work by shifting awareness into alternate realities where desired outcomes already exist. Each universe differs from its neighbor by only one quantum transition, and consciousness selects the path through this lattice.
Franks contends that the strong anthropic principle ensures that each observer is effectively immortal in their own frame of reference, since there always exists a version of reality in which they survive. Art challenges him on the implications for tragedies like September 11th, and Franks maintains that the victims' consciousness continues in universes where the attacks never occurred.
The main guest, Professor M.R. Franks, a law professor and lifelong cosmologist, presents his theory that the universe consists of an infinite number of static, frozen parallel universes through which consciousness moves at tremendous speed. He argues that prayer, voodoo, remote viewing, and mass consciousness all work by shifting awareness into alternate realities where desired outcomes already exist. Each universe differs from its neighbor by only one quantum transition, and consciousness selects the path through this lattice.
Franks contends that the strong anthropic principle ensures that each observer is effectively immortal in their own frame of reference, since there always exists a version of reality in which they survive. Art challenges him on the implications for tragedies like September 11th, and Franks maintains that the victims' consciousness continues in universes where the attacks never occurred.