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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.
In The Press
"The Oneironauts is especially valuable in that it provides his data consisting in a longitudinal study of how déjà experiences can develop as one ages. Additionally, it manages to be an amazing romp! Wow! I thoroughly enjoyed all the speculation and the visions of possible futures. This book expands the mind and broadens horizons. I recommend it unreservedly."
-- Dr. Art Funkhouser, Instructor in dreamwork, C. G. Jung Institute, Küsnacht, Switzerland
"So I’m back with an exciting book review. I just came across this today and it deals with déjà vu. If you’ve ever had déjà vu, when you link that familiarity to a memory you have from a past dream you’ve had days, weeks, months or years, this book covers that explicitly in great detail.
What’s so exciting is here you have Paul Kalas who has written The Oneironauts and it is an outstanding approach to this phenomenon. Now, if you’ve had this experience, I highly recommend this book. His approach looks at it from a scientific perspective. I have always appreciated people who are academic and have this experience and then write about it, and I’m always impressed because I find so many common themes in their writing. The last time I came across a book that takes a person’s personal experience and writes about it scientifically is J.W. Dunne’s “An Experiment with Time” which was published back in 1927."
It [déjà vu] is not uncommon. In fact frequency studies done by Dr. Art Funkhouser and many other scientists that have investigated this show a really high percentage of people have this experience. So I think it’s really healthy to open up about it and Paul’s book is fantastic."
-- Ian Wilson, posted here on YouTube
This book is groundbreaking in a parallel fashion to The Tao of Physics, which back in 1975 converged the worlds of mysticism and modern physics. Kalas, an active and accomplished astronomer, delves into his personal experiences with dreams of the future, and explores the possible scientific and biological mechanisms for this phenomena. Those who have memories of dreams of future experiences he denotes as Oneironauts, and he is one of them.
In the final chapter, Kalas examines the practical aspects of the oneironaut phenomena. He gives practical advice for those interested in building their dream recall; outlines how groups of people—even whole societies—can build a “Dreamnet” using a giant database akin to big data and use it to determine future events; and he examines the huge moral and legal implications should the prediction—or rewriting—of future events become commonplace. Have you seen the movie Minority Report about a future where people are arrested for crimes they have contemplated but haven’t yet committed? This chapter is Minority Report on steroids.
-- John808, posted on Amazon.com
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