Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/20/83; site hlexa.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!floyd!whuxlb!pyuxll!eisx!npoiv!npois!hogpc!houxm!mhuxi!mhuxh!hlhop!hlexa!hsf From: hsf@hlexa.UUCP Newsgroups: net.books,net.philosophy,net.sf-lovers Subject: Time and Immortality (book announcement) Message-ID: <202@hlexa.UUCP> Date: Mon, 26-Sep-83 10:08:56 EDT Article-I.D.: hlexa.202 Posted: Mon Sep 26 10:08:56 1983 Date-Received: Wed, 28-Sep-83 04:19:49 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Short Hills, NJ Lines: 120 AN AFTERLIFE? CHILDISH FAIRY TALES! After all, consciousness depends only upon the brain. But wait...Science has shown that the flow of time is a subjective reality--that the past "still" exists. "Time Twins, a nonsupernatural concept of survival after death," by Henry Friedman, explains how time itself ensures our survival--in the future as well as the past. Reply by mail if you are interested in the above manuscript for the revised and enlarged second edition of the above book. If enough interest is shown, portions of it can be electronically published on this net (in short installments). A table of contents and capsule outline is included below. The concept includes some parapsychology, e.g., telepathy and synchronicity, which some might find of dubious worth, but large portions of the book are fairly soundly based in modern physics. Introduction 1. Is Yesterday Really Gone? Two opposing philosophies of time. The meaning of time as the fourth dimension. Free will, determinism, and the "many worlds" concept of quantum physics. 2. What a Coincidence-- Jung's concept of meaningful coincidences (synchronicity). Explanations of meaningful coincidences from modern physics. Archetypal dreams and images. The relationship of synchronicity to such paranormal phenomena as the "I Ching" and astrology. The cyclical view of time. 3. --There You are Again! "Reincarnation experiences" explained as mental communication through time between different persons with like personalities: the concept of time twins. The predictability of time twins by synchronicity. 4. Whispers in Time Additional support for precognition, telepathy, etc., from quantum physics and astrophysics. Unconscious mental communication among time twins. Can time twins be considered a type of survival after death? A paradox: different persons, yet the same person. 5. So What's New? New models of reality relegate former "truths" to the role of figurative constructs. If this process, so natural in the physical sciences, is thwarted in the domain of religion by blind literalism, we are eventually deprived of our faith. Multiple realities and the mythic dimension. 6. "Who Knows Where or When?" Do the ideas treated in this book offer any hope for a reunion with our loved ones after death? The psychology of coping with change. The idea of belonging to a particular period of time. 7. Gathering Data Some suggestions for experiments to test the hypotheses presented in this book. An explanation of the "twins clock paradox" of special relativity and its relationship to the possibility of time travel. 8. A New Heritage A summary of the ideas presented to this point. New significance for the role of the individual. Two opposing models of the "end of time." A new type of data bank. 9. Ghosts, Mediums, and the Astral Plane Suppositions concerning other areas of the paranormal, based upon the ideas about time discussed earlier. Interpenetrating universes and multiple pasts. 10. The Arrow of Time Does time really flow? A clear explanation for the layman of a complex subject (motion picture analogies are used for ease of under- standing). How humankind participates in the very process of creation. Zeno and Parmenides: the two sages from Elea. Some cosmological implications of time. 11. Another Type of Picture, Another Type of Wave Paranormal ramifications of the holographic process of photography and Pribram's holographic model of human memory. The concept of "synchronicity waves." Is there a super-reality, from which all other realities are, as it were, projected? 12. In Your Spirit's Spirit The mechanism of our survival in the perpetual past via infinite waves of consciousness rippling across time. Is there a transfer of aware- ness into the past at death? Parallels are then drawn between Jung's description of the many different meanings of the word "spirit" and the concepts of immortality discussed in this book. The power of the mythic dimension of life. 13. A Scene from the Future Some implications for religion and philosophy of rapid advances in artificial intelligence. 14. Reflections from Warped Time The humorous side of a profound subject. 15. Time: God's Monument to Man Concluding meditation, tinged with personal nostalgia for my lost childhood and college years. Time and the search for a purposeful universe. --- Henry Friedman (the author)