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Subject: Time and Immortality (book announcement)
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Date: Mon, 26-Sep-83 10:08:56 EDT
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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)