The Oneironauts (eBook)

Using dreams to engineer our future

Paul Kalas (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2018
358 Seiten
Paul Kalas (Verlag)
978-1-7324631-4-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Have you ever had a strong feeling of deja vu or witnessed that a dream came true in the future? Are such experiences precognitive or just illusions of the mind? How would a top scientist approach such questions about the paranormal? The Oneironauts, or the dream travelers, introduces new scientific evidence that we really do experience possible future events in our dreams.Author Paul Kalas is the University of California, Berkeley astronomer who captured the first picture of a planet orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut using the Hubble Space Telescope. This image appeared on the front page of the New York Times and is displayed in the National Air and Space Museum. In The Oneironauts he reveals for the first time that this pioneering discovery was recorded in his dream diary nine years before it was actually discovered. In Chapters 1-3, Dr. Kalas relates how prophetic dreams allowed him to both avoid an unpleasant event and affirm a desired goal. He concludes that fate is an illusion, the future can be changed, and both our gut instincts and sense of hope arise from precognitive dreams.Chapters 4 presents the famous astronomical discovery and precognitive dream in detail, while Chapter 5 analyzes a total of 332 precognitive experiences. Dr. Kalas interprets precognition as a phenomenon related to memory and learning that also influences our personal identity and life path.Dr. Kalas reviews modern concepts of space and time in Chapters 6 and 7. From physics and astronomy he introduces the reader to relativity, gravitational lensing, the particle-wave duality of light, quantum entanglement, and biophysics. From neuroscience he explains key breakthroughs in our understanding of memory and the perception of spacetime through the study of the hippocampus, sleep and theta rhythm.In Chapter 8, Dr. Kalas engages the reader with his vision of how precognitive dreaming can improve the lives of individuals and ultimately the future of humanity. What will our society look like in 1,000 years when humans and artificial intelligence have developed reliable methods to recover information from the future?The Oneironauts will dazzle anyone who has had a precognitive experience or simply wishes to read what a leading scientist predicts about the future. It is beautifully illustrated with 34 original figures and clearly explains modern scientific topics with a touch of humor and references to over 100 writers, poets, artists and scholars.

Inhalt

Preface: The Socratic Gamble

1. Twin Towers Falling

2. Destiny, Hope and the Trifid Nebula

       Trifid Poster Falling

       The Paradox of Many Universes and Precognition

       The Janus in Us

3. The Heidelberg Dome

       The Irrational Path to a Bargain Universe

       Expanding the Physical Basis of Instinct and Intuition

       Predetermined Destiny vs. Hyperactive Free Will

4. Fomalhaut

       Fomal…. what?

       Road to Discovery

       Dreaming the Discovery

       House of Cards?

       Is it Jesus Toast?

       Fomalhaut vs. the Twin Towers

       Is it Science?

       The Janusian Mind: Two Times Meeting in One Brain

       Fate Revisited—The Question of Self

       Experiencing Many Worlds

       Pseudodivine Knowledge—What’s at Stake?

5. Dissect the Oneironaut!

       The Medical Interview

       Release the Oneironaut

       Dissect the Déjà Vu

       Summary

6. The Physics of Time Using Nature’s Swiss Army Knife

       The Big Knife: Speed of Light

       The Magnifying Glass: Warps in Spacetime

       The Screwdriver and the Corkscrew: Particle and Wave

       The Swiss Cross: Entanglement

       The Little Scissors: Light Influences Biology

7. Hippocampus

       The Gatekeeper

       Spacetime in the Mind

       The Gatekeeper’s Tango

       Janus, the Glitch

       Ratman’s Angels

8. The Oneironauts

       The Dreamnet

       The Oneironauts of Today

       IAPO—The Oneironauts of Tomorrow

       The Local Oneironauts

       Research, Education and Funding for the Oneironauts

       The Global Oneironauts

       The Machine Oneironauts

       Law and Ethics: The LEO Branch

       Synthetic God

       What Dreams May Come

Appendix I: Characters in The Oneironauts

Appendix II: Glossary

Appendix III: Captions for Chapter Heading Images

Appendix IV: Videos

       “How luggage is lost”

About the Author

NOTES

INDEX

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.10.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Lebenshilfe / Lebensführung
• Schlagworte: Deja vu • Hubble space telescope • Neuroscience • Paranormal • precognition • Prophecy • psychic • Sleep
• ISBN-10: 1-7324631-4-X / 173246314X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-7324631-4-1 / 9781732463141