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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.
Read Online The Oneironauts Using Dreams to Engineer Our Future Paul Kalas Books
"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.
Early on, Kalas acknowledges that many readers may have deep skepticism about the reality of reliably dreaming of future experiences. But as I read, my own skepticism started melting away, as Kalas skillfully addressed a huge number possible objections, including the many that could be self-deceptive on his part.
Of course if the oneironaut phenomena is real, that has broad implications for our concepts of time and space. Kalas addresses this area in depth. His chapter titled “The Physics of Time Using Nature’s Swiss Army Knife†explores some of the basic concepts of modern physics— such as the nature of light, gravity, and relativity—in a quest to explain how the oneironaut phenomena may operate.
Another chapter examines the hippocampus of the brain as the seat of memories, navigation and time keeping, and its probable role in future-dreaming. Kalas outlines many of the scientific experiments on the hippocampus, including research into the “place cells†and “time cells†of the hippocampus and how they relate to dreaming and the déjà vu phenomena.
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.
You might think such a book would be ponderous, but Kalas keeps the style light and entertaining, with many creative analogies and metaphors to assist the reader in understanding what might normally considered dense going.
I’m going to read The Oneironauts again, and linger as I contemplate the deep significance of this phenomena. Predicting the future has always been the holy grail. What if we could not only predict the future but manipulate it as well? Sounds like science fiction, but Kalas brings such things much more into the realm of possibility. As Kalas concludes, “I think we are active participants in what we call destiny. On top of this, I am claiming that we haven’t even realized the full extent of how this works to date, and how it could work in the future.â€"
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The Oneironauts Using Dreams to Engineer Our Future Paul Kalas Books Reviews
- 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.
Early on, Kalas acknowledges that many readers may have deep skepticism about the reality of reliably dreaming of future experiences. But as I read, my own skepticism started melting away, as Kalas skillfully addressed a huge number possible objections, including the many that could be self-deceptive on his part.
Of course if the oneironaut phenomena is real, that has broad implications for our concepts of time and space. Kalas addresses this area in depth. His chapter titled “The Physics of Time Using Nature’s Swiss Army Knife†explores some of the basic concepts of modern physics— such as the nature of light, gravity, and relativity—in a quest to explain how the oneironaut phenomena may operate.
Another chapter examines the hippocampus of the brain as the seat of memories, navigation and time keeping, and its probable role in future-dreaming. Kalas outlines many of the scientific experiments on the hippocampus, including research into the “place cells†and “time cells†of the hippocampus and how they relate to dreaming and the déjà vu phenomena.
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.
You might think such a book would be ponderous, but Kalas keeps the style light and entertaining, with many creative analogies and metaphors to assist the reader in understanding what might normally considered dense going.
I’m going to read The Oneironauts again, and linger as I contemplate the deep significance of this phenomena. Predicting the future has always been the holy grail. What if we could not only predict the future but manipulate it as well? Sounds like science fiction, but Kalas brings such things much more into the realm of possibility. As Kalas concludes, “I think we are active participants in what we call destiny. On top of this, I am claiming that we haven’t even realized the full extent of how this works to date, and how it could work in the future.†- I loved this book. We have all wondered about déjà vu. Many of us have had "dreams come true". Dr. Paul Kalas is a leading astrophysicist who reflects upon his own personal experiences with "precognition". Dr. Kalas brings scientific credibility to this phenomenon and discusses it in an easy to follow, eloquent, and highly entertaining way. I consider this a "must read" for anyone who has ever experienced or wondered about déjà vu, lucid dreaming, or precognition.
