Dr. Jack Tremel

I am delighted.

Thank you.

So for those who are just meeting me, I'm a sociologist.

I work at Mount St.

Mary's University in Maryland.

And I'm really interested in the supernatural and in the unexplained.

And so I teach a lot of courses related to that.

And I've done a lot of research related to that.

So I'm kind of like what you would call a sociologist of the unexplained.

And for me, what Rick is talking about with the quantum bridge,

dovetails very nicely with some theories i'm evolving as a result of my research about people experiencing these things and and by the way i just saw before we got on air that there's a report that says 3.5 million americans claim that they have had an encounter or have been abducted by aliens and i still can't believe that number i'm going to check it out

but that's mind-blowing that one out of every 100 Americans has experienced that or claimed to have experienced that.

And so, I look at it through the lens of three things, the physical, the psychological and the phenomenal and things like spiritual belief and religion fall into that phenomenal area and what people believe

is tantamount to me because as a sociologist, if people believe something, then sociologically speaking, it's true because they're going to arrange their life as if it were true and they're going to live their life as if it were true.

And so, it becomes true in that sense.

And so, as I've developed my studies of the supernatural including cryptids and aliens and all kinds of things in addition to just the classic what people would call paranormal,

I've really become to appreciate that the science is only a teeny part of the equation.

And if people believe they've experienced something, whether they did or not in a scientific way is less important to me than it used to be.

And it's more important to me that they're living their lives as if it was something that happened.

it's funny i tell my students a story about when i was a kid in new york city living in an old crumbling brownstone my parents were not very well off at all we were very poor and so we were living in this creepy old brownstone on the seventh floor and i would always see a woman come into my room