The Yoga of Time Travel: How the Mind Can Defeat Time

by Fred Alan Wolf

Book Overview

Time travel is not just science fiction; it may actually be possible. Wolf draws on yoga and quantum physics to show that time is a flexible projection of mind. Cheating time, he says, is an ancient metaphysical idea from the Vedas having to do with moving through meditation to a place where time stands still.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 083560828X
• ISBN13: 9780835608282
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Quest Books (IL)
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Delightfully Crazy Book

I haven't finished to read this book yet, however, it is very interesting and delightfully crazy.Excelent point of view.

A different angle on time

As a mental health professional, I recognized Wolf's context of going into the past, since I have led many clients into the past by recreating experiences that hurt them and gave a poor perception of the world. When I take them back, I can have them re-look at the experience from the ones who caused the hurt so they realize the context of the action, and that it was not meant to hurt them at all or as badly as it did. Wolf's concept of recreating the past event fits nicely with his proposed use of time travel into the past. Regarding time travel in the future, Wolf talks about being open to future ideas, and reminded me of a time when I wrote "from the top of my mind," which led to ideas I had not heard of before. The experience sounded very similar to his description of future time travel. Finally, the romantic idea of getting into a contraptions and actually going back or forward for an "in person" visit was discouraged by the book, but the realistic use of time travel became much more down to earth and usable. The experiences of reaching timelessness through meditation I have experienced and his descriptions are right on target. The reader will be pleasantly surprised with all of what goes into making up "spacetime" and how the concept of linear time came about. I have a much fuller understanding of types of time and the beginning of an understanding of it. Very readable and interesting for the non-scientist.

A page-turner, yet inconclusive

First and foremost, I have great reverence for Dr. Wolf and am a great admirer of the cool and cooky, irreverent approach he has to explaining such high-brow stuff to those unschooled in physics, such as myself. His explanations of such complex matters as the general and special theories of relativity, wormholes, superstring theories, quantum physics and so forth are truly invaluable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, although I could not put the book down and devoured it in little over a week, it seemed to me as somewhat inconclusive. The bottom line: as body yoga helps you detach from your bodily constraints to gain awareness, "mind yoga" will help you detach your mind from the physical constraints that impede you from travelling forwards and backwards in time. Perhaps I missed a point or two (I ought to, and probably will, read it over again), and perhaps it's assumed to be so, but I don't recall the text going over whether this form of time travel consists in an actual displacement of the traveler (or her consciousness) resulting in a difference between the external time elapsed in the system which she inhabits and the time span through which she has displaced her awareness, or just recollections of the past and anticipation of the future. On the other hand, he stresses the use of "mind yoga" in order to acheive time travel, and makes several references to Raja Yoga and Trascendental Meditation. However, and although I've yet to bounce these specific ideas off with an extremely learned yogui I have the privilege to be acquainted with, in a previous opportunity he and I had to discuss the prospect of achieving such forms of temporal displacement through yoga, past lives therapy and even astral travel, the outcome turned out to be that it remains questionable for such an undertaking to be feasible through such means. For what I've read so far, modern trends in physics posit time travel as possible, theoretically, or at least not barred by the laws of physics, but if yoga were the way to go about it, I gather that the capitals of the world would be crawling with "mind yoga" studios more than with Ashtanga or Kundalini yoga ones; after all, a sizeable number of people would probably rather travel in time than improve their breathing, posture or self-awareness, right? As I said, perhaps it's me, so I should go over the book again more carefully and therefor apologies are in order, but in my first reading I failed to find the formula to travel through time using mind yoga. Even so I enjoyed it loads.

Time Travel.

The Yoga of Time Travel is written clear enough for anyone to understand, and will answer most of your questions pertaining to time travel. Once the author explains to you the science and it's limits, when it comes building a time travel machine, he will show you the metaphysical side of time travel. There is no way a book on time travel will satisfy everyone's beliefs. Quantum Physics can only explain so much, and when one starts to write about the spiritual side of time travel, there are just too many beliefs to be able to use the right words to keep everyone happy. In other words, read the book and enjoy the book. Naturally there will be books that go more deeply into Quantum Physics and books that go more deeply into Yoga but this is not what the author is trying to do. He is giving the reader a clear look at where science and metaphysics is at when it comes to time travel. So do like I did, and enjoy it.

The Best Time Travel Book Ever!

You can't find a more fascinating and delightful book about the nature of time and reality than Fred Alan Wolf's YOGA OF TIME TRAVEL! Chapter One alone is more than worth the price of the book, as it describes how a yoga adept can overcome the five barriers to reaching the state of egoless mind... which is what Wolf explains one needs to do in order to travel through time without a time travel device. THE YOGA OF TIME TRAVEL shares a compelling vision of the nature of time travel by combining essential elements from yoga and physics with extraordinary clarity. Wolf provides readers with the perfect blend of warmth, wit, and scientific detail for readers to grasp such physical concepts as possibility waves, probability waves and qubits. THE YOGA OF TIME TRAVEL is so provocative that you'll want to read it more than once to comprehend the wonderful world of time travel! I was delighted to see how Wolf explains how the so-called time travel paradoxes such as the "creativity paradox" and the "grandfather paradox" can be completely resolved when considered in the context of parallel universes. Wolf explains how time travel is no longer relegated to science fiction, but is instead required by current models of the physical world, which moves the burden of proof from defending the possibility of time travel to proving there is any kind of law forbidding it. THE YOGA OF TIME TRAVEL is surely destined to become a classic, as it covers a topic that has never before been addressed with such insight and elegance. I give this book my highest recommendation!