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Summary: No Time Like The Present
Review: Nearly everyone has dreamed at some point in their lives about traveling in time. Whether to go back to the past and rectify some mistake or to journey to the future and see the outcome of some struggle in the present, there is a universal desire, albeit often an unconscious one, to step out of the prison of the present and control our own destiny in time.Bearing that widely shared idea in mind, authors Commander X and Tim Swartz have created a wonderful study of the nature of time--and the myriad ways it is bent out of its normal shape--that is not only fascinating to read but which may also open new possibilities about traveling in time that the reader never befoe dreamed possible. The opening chapter gives the reader a primer on time as it has been dreamt of by philosophers and scientists down through the ages. Everyone from Isaac Newton to Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking has grappled with defining the nature of time, and Commander X and Tim Swartz quickly bring the reader up to speed on both the historical and the current state-of-the-art thinking about time as we know it. There are also a great many stories of people who have had unusual experiences involving time, including being thrust into the past so completely that they experience being literally and physically "there." That phenomenon, called "retro-cognition," is illustrated beautifully by the tale of two English school teachers who in 1901 visited the Palace of Versailles as tourists. The two women, after finding themselves oddly alone at the popular tourist attraction, are surprised to suddenly see people in period costumes from the era of Marie Antoinette, and even the long dead queen herself appears before them, sketching a landscape to idle away the hours and seemingly oblivious to the mob from Paris that would soon arrive. Both women described the feeling of being oppressed by waves of sadness throughout the experience, and they later theorized that "the visions that had enveloped them were scenes from a vivid, melancholy daydream that had once filled the queen's mind." The story of the slip in time experienced by the two teachers is told with a wealth of interesting narrative details by the authors, and the numerous anecdotes of still more unnerving experiences of coming unstuck in time that form the bulk of the book are spellbinding in their bizarre yet utterly believable events. And true to their word, Commander X and Tim Swartz do ultimately manage to offer a kind of "How-To Insiders Guide" on time travel. Their advice consists mostly of various ways to induce an out-of-body-experience, or OBE, as a means of traveling to the past or the future, as well as help in locating those doorways in time and space that occasionally open up and provide free passage to another dimension. "Self-awareness and the power of the mind," write the authors, "are all that is needed to break down the barriers of Time and Space. Spiritual masters have been telling us for centuries that time is simply an illusion created by the brain's need for patterns and order. Existence is a continuous state of Now." It's just that kind of marriage between physics and mysticism that may finally allow us to cross over the thresholds in time the way the authors envision. Meanwhile, there's no time like the present to order "Time Travel: A How-To Insiders Guide."
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Summary: Not what I expected
Review: The title is misleading, the book is filled with stories about time travel and only about two pages of How to with little detailed instructions. You can find a lot of books better than this one, for shure.
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Summary: A waste of money and time
Review: this book is a waste of your money and time the title is totally misleading because there is no really info or how to here about time travel like the others reviewers say I gonna sell this book or put it in the garbage save your money.
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Summary: Intresting Insight into Time Travel History
Review: Useful for Time Travel Historians,But Not To Those Looking For Detailed Plans on how to build a time travel device.this book includes only a few plans,but i read it in a day and thought it was intresting:)
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Summary: Wish I could go back in time...
Review: Wish I could go back in time and not buy this book. This is perhaps the first time I really feel regret over the purchase of a book from Amazon. The first sign of trouble were the ads in the back of the book for publications about Black helicopters, conspiracy summits and UFOs. I felt like I was waiting in line at a supermarket thumbing through the Enquirer or The Weekly World News. The publishers bill this book as a How-To guide to time travel when in fact 95% of the book is dedicated to silly anecdotes about unexplained disappearances and Twilight Zone-like time travel episodes. When it finally gets to demonstrating Time Travel techniques it resorts to common new age cheese like Astral projections OBE. And to add insult, they offer childish schematics for gFlux Capacitorsh designed by an admitted mental patient. Ifll let you read that last sentence again in case you thought I was kidding. I could go on about this book, but I think I have already wasted enough time. Suffice to say, your money is better spent on a few cold beers and ohckeep away from anything published by Global Communications unless youfre one that thinks the X-Files is a documentary.
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