Fred Alan Wolf - The Yoga of Time Travel, How the Mind Can Defeat Time

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Praise for Fred Alan Wolf

The Yoga of Time Travelis one of the most imaginative books I have read about the nature of time. It makes us wonder if time travel is possible, not only through the use of technology, but through yoga, which anyone can practice.

A MIT G OSWAMI , P H .D., author of Physics of the Soul

InThe Yoga of Time Travel, Fred Alan Wolf takes the reader beyond the normal boundaries of space and time into the world of the infinite, eternal spirit. He blends physics and spirituality in a way that is both seamless and intriguing.

G LEN K EZWER , author of Meditation, Oneness, and Physics

Wolf is at the forefront of creating a new integral science that includes psychology, physics, and spiritual thinking. InThe Yoga of Time Travel, he makes concepts such as black holes, the space-time continuum, and parallel universes something we can feel.

A RNOLD M INDELL , P H .D., author of The Quantum Mind and Healing

Fred Alan WolfsMind into Matterbreaks new ground that is both enthralling and energizing, giving us maps to explore consciousness and the cosmic mystery. This is quantum alchemy at its finest.

M ICHAEL T OMS , cofounder and host of New Dimensions Radio

Entering WolfsThe Spiritual Universeis like stepping into a laboratory in a spaceship careening through the universe and manned by a philosopher-scientist. If you have a head for scientific reasoning, youll enjoy the spirited journey. If youre a romantic, earthbound, poet-type like me, youre in for some mind expansion.

T HOMAS M OORE , author of The Reenchantment of Everyday Life

The Spiritual Universecreates a brilliant New Physics of the Soul and ushers us into the third millennium with deepening faith, bold heart, and profound insight.

E RNEST L. R OSSI , P H .D., author of The Psychobiology of Gene Expression

Fred Alan WolfsParallel Universesis a wild intellectual ridean enthralling read.

P UBLISHERS W EEKLY

How the Mind Can Defeat Time

FRED ALAN WOLF, P H .D.

Learn more about Fred Alan Wolf and his work at www.fredalanwolf.com and http://fredalanwolf.blogspot.com

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Copyright 2004 by Fred Alan Wolf

First Quest Edition 2004

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Wolf, Fred Alan.

The yoga of time travel: how the mind can defeat time / Fred Alan Wolf.1st Quest ed.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN: 978-0-8356-0828-2

1. Space and time. 2. Yoga. 3. Time travel. 4. TimePsychological aspects. 5. TimeReligious aspects. I. Title.

QC173.59.S65W65 2004

ISBN for electronic edition, e-pub format: 978-0-8356-2036-9

Sixth Printing, 2010

To my future readers:
May your travels be timely

I would like to thank Carolyn Bond for her skillful editing of the manuscript and for making several important improvements in the writing. To my editor in chief at Quest Books, Sharron Dorr, I offer my gratitude for her editing and for offering many valuable suggestions. I also want to thank my wife Sonia Sierra Wolf, whobeing a student, a teacher, and practitioner of Iyengar yogamade numerous helpful contributions.

I dont understand you, said Alice. Its dreadfully confusing!

Thats the effect of living backwards, the Queen said kindly: it always makes one a little giddy at first

Living backwards! Alice repeated in great astonishment. I never heard of such a thing!

but theres one great advantage in it, that ones memory works both ways.

Im sure mine only works one way, Alice remarked. I cant remember things before they happen.

Its a poor sort of memory that only works backwards, the Queen remarked.

Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass

M ost of us assume, as Alice does, that whatever we can remember has already taken place. If asked why we dont remember scenes from our future, we might answer: Because, dummy, they havent happened yet! But as the Queen in Lewis Carrolls delightful book suggests, perhaps we do have memories of the future, however nonsensical that may sound. Consider the albeit radical possibility that the Queen is right: memory does work both ways. That is, you are perfectly able to remember the future just as well as you can recall the past. Further, consider that having a two-way memory could lead, as the Queen suggests, to distinct advantages. For example, it might help you deal with synchronicities and experiences of dj vu, avoid health problems, make significant predictions about your life, and offer many other benefits, as may become clear as this book unfolds.

To begin exploring this idea, lets think first about the nature of memory as we commonly know ithaving to do with the recall of past events. Certainly you remember your last vacation, as well as a favorite restaurant you went to, or a show you saw, and so on. And Im sure there are some past experiences you dont remember, though possibly your spouse does: Oh, dont you remember that day in Paris when we saw those flowers on the bank of the Seine? she or he asks, and you draw a blank.