Does the Future Already Exist? Are the Distinctions Between the Past Present and Future Illusions as claimed by Einstein? Is it possible to travel into the future through the power of mind? Memory enables us to travel into the past, but mental time travel allows one to visit a future; a future which may already exist as predicted by Einstein's field equations: time may be a circle leading from the present to the future and then the past. Relativity also predicts that the only way to travel to the past is to first travel to the future, at which point one contracts to a size smaller than a Plank length and in so doing blowing a hole through the fabric of the space-time continuum and which may lead to a mirror universe if one dares to cross over the Einstein-Rosen bridge--and similar bridges are predicted to lead to other universes upon entering and surviving a journey through a black hole. Quantum mechanics also predicts time reversal in spaces smaller than a Plank length. Although the branch of quantum physics known as the “many worlds interpretation” rejects a central role for the collapse of the wave function by conscious observation and the act of measurements, the implications remain that there is no universal “now” and more than one past, present, or future, some more probable than others. The “many worlds” interpretation also resolves issues related to possible paradoxes of time travel, such as changing the past, which just becomes one past among many. As explained in this volume, Einstein’s relativity not only predicts that there is no universal “now” but that the future and the past and the experience of time are also relative to an observer.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Mental Time Travel: How The Mind Escapes From The Present
2. How the Mind Escapes from the Present
3. Mental Time Travel And The Self-Concept
4. Continuity In Hippocampal Function As A Constraint On The Convergent Evolution Of Episodic-Like Cognition
5. The Theory of MindTime
6. Space, Time and Consciousness
7. Many Mansions: Special Relativity, Higher-Dimensional Space, Neuroscience, Consciousness and Time
8. Brain, Consciousness, and Causality
9. Time, Altered States of Consciousness, And Neuroscience
10. Consciousness Vectors
11. The Time Machine of Consciousness. Past Present Future Exist Simultaneously. Entanglement, Tachyons, Relative Time, Circle of Time, Quantum Time, Dream Time, PreCognition, Retrocausation, Deja Vu, and Premonitions
12. The Observer’s Now, Past and Future in Physics from a Psycho-Biological Perspective
13. Synchronicity, Entanglement, Quantum Information and the Psyche
14. Consciousness, the Paranormal and Higher Dimensions
15. The Nature of Reality, the Self, Time, Space and Experience
16. Perceived Reality, Quantum Mechanics, and Consciousness
17. Temporal Non-Locality and the Cognitive Perception of Happiness: From the Upanishads to Quantum Theory
18. Quantum Reality and Mind
19 Consciousness and Quantum Physics: A Deconstruction of the Topic
20 How Consciousness Becomes the Physical Universe
21. Cosmological Foundations of Consciousness
22. What Consciousness Does: A Quantum Cosmology of Mind
23. Does the Universe have Cosmological Memory? Does This Imply Cosmic Consciousness?
24. Classical Anthropic Everett Model: Indeterminacy in a Preordained Multiverse
25. Logic of Quantum Mechanics and Phenomenon of Consciousness
26. Quantum Paradoxes of Time Travel: The Uncertainty Principle, Wave Function, Probability, Entanglement, and Multiple Worlds
27. Time Travel Through Black Holes and Worm Holes in the Fabric of
28. Detecting Mass Consciousness: Effects of Globally Shared Attention and Emotion
29. Consciousness and Quantum Measurement: New Empirical Data
30 A Quantum Physical Effect of Consciousness
31. The Conscious Observer in the Quantum Experiment
32. Does Quantum Mechanics Require A Conscious Observer?
33. Quantum Physics, Advanced Waves and Consciousness