Thomas Solomon - Superstitions/Hidden Messages

Superstitions/Hidden Messages

While Solomon has never endorsed psychic ability in himself or others, he does acknowledge a 'magic' or a supernatural energy beyond human understanding that communicates through our five senses and intuition, as well as through numbers, words, dreams, and symbols. A believer in the Law of Karma and the power of symbolic messages in dreams, Solomon told the Magic Circular in a recent interview that he himself is plagued by recurring, sequential and often disturbing dreams and has been since childhood.

Solomon also has a fascination with ciphers, codes and other wordplay. He is an amateur cryptographer and is striving to create an unbreakable cipher, that disallows complicated encryption and decryption techniques—making it user-friendly in the field. He commented recently on an article about on-line security in Wired Magazine in which he gave his solution to making passwords more secure. His posters, some images, his promotional decks of playing cards, DVDs and other items often contain hidden messages; some are written in cipher or code. Others are written backwards or worked in with graphics (as in the blue poster). He has used palindromes, recursive acronyms, Morse code and other devices to conceal messages, solutions to an escape, names or important dates related to the image. In a famous picture taken of him on the New York City subway, there are no less than six hidden images and written messages buried within the picture.