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NEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCENEWSCIENCE AN INTRODUCTION TO PARALLEL UNIVERSES AN INTRODUCTION TO These changes in time perception are _ interface between dimensions"; it also notes PARALLEL UNIVERSES occurring in a similar psychological that the scientific insights reported by Karen Klockner and David Brennan _ environment to what sports psychologists _ correspond with the views of reality as passed ©2005 describe as an athlete being in the zone or in down through history by enlightened sages the flow, i.e., having an altered perception of _ who had evolved beyond consciousness to a Abstract transcending to a heightened level of mental _ state of pure awareness (p. 299). odd incident and attempts to give | However, the experience of actually moving as having a higher frequency or vibration explanation in the light of new findings through a portal towards another dimension _ than normal matter-energy. Hindu literature and directions in the realm of quantum _ in space and time is in itself vastly different. asserts that the energy body possesses a T= following article describes a rather awareness rather than of physical awareness. The human energy field has been described mechanics and theoretical physics. higher vibration than normal matter (Talbot, The article is intended to provide the reader Paranormal Physics 1991). with a brief background into the current theo- Murphy and White (1995) have written an It is put forward that human beings are ries used to explain disappearances into paral- extensive account of some 6,500 stories of — made up of energy that is vibrating in a certain lel universes and the resulting time perception _ transcendent experiences and provide insight — pattern—normally, particles forming a wave changes. Whilst the first part provides the into just how many people are experiencing pattern. A wave is defined as a "vibrational reader with further references to writings in unexplained phenomena. The concept of _ pattern in space and time" (Capra, 1976). this area, the second part explains in layper- _ time differentials is a growing area of interest Capra wants readers to "picture our wave son's terms how such phenomena could _ in both investigations of the paranormal and packet not as a pattern in space but as a occur. Physics theories and spirituality in later theoretical physics work. Physicists vibrational pattern in time...the vibrational beliefs are related to give the reader a picture are currently working on some very interest- _ pattern represents therefore the uncertainty in of explanations from various but congruent ing theories which may ultimately help _ the temporal location of the event" (p. 168). perspectives for this paranormal experience. explain these types of occurrences, and which If the vibrational rate of a human energy are briefly mentioned here. ield could be increased to match that of Altered States Talbot (1991) states that "two of the another field vibrating at the same rate, the In the winter of 2002 a dressage rider world's most eminent thinkers", physicist possibility could exist that the two energies having a lesson disappeared off the arenain David Bohm, a former protégé of Einstein, would meld into one, the two parallels merg- front of the instructor, returning afew and quantum physicist Karl Pribram, pio- _ ing, perhaps resulting in the human energy seconds later. The rider and instructor were _ neered the holographic paradigm, which basi- _ field transcending into the different time and unable to explain the phenomenon. cally states that the world as we view itis space dimensions of the other field. The rider had experienced a feeling of nothing more than a hologram, made up of Time anomalies continue to be experienced complete weightlessness and a visual percep- "projections from a level of reality so beyond _ and ever increasingly reported. Talbot (1991) tion of entering a haze-type atmosphere _ our own itis literally beyond both space and __ postulates: "Is the boundary between the which appeared to be in another time dimen- _ time" (p. 1). present and the past so flimsy that we can, sion, but had still been conscious of being on Work by David Hawkins (1998) on the under the right circumstances, stroll back into the horse. The instructor acknowledged the inquiry into human consciousness discusses _ the past...? At present we simply do not disappearance of both horse and rider. the acceptance of David Bohm's idea of both know, but in a world that is comprised less of There is a growing bank of recorded tangi- _ an invisible implicate ("enfolded") order and _ solid objects traveling in space and time, and ble evidence that athletes experience changes a manifest explicate ("unfolded") order. more of ghostly holograms of energy in the perception of time. The perception of Hawkins's study is comprehensive and _ sustained by processes that are at least time speeding up or slowing down, especially describes his finding for a "wormhole _ partially connected to human consciousness, during athletic performance, has been voiced _ between two universes—the physical world, such events may not be as impossible as they by many famous identities who have experi- and the world of the mind and spirit—an —_ appear" (p. 228). enced this variation in time perception. The rider mentioned above had been experimenting with these time change occur- ~ 1 rences through practical experience both at — | | | home and out at competition. The rider had {| come to regularly experience riding in a state “ape “r of complete slow motion, described as a total tm Mopac perceptual awareness of nothing else but each \s Rare step of the horse, taking perhaps five or 10 \ BEAUTIFUL seconds—within which time the rider feels they have the ability to control every human movement with as much ease as needed and in as much time as required. The rider had been practising this distorted perception to determine whether the state of altered time consciousness could be entered into upon demand. by Karen Klockner and David Brennan APRIL — MAY 2005 NEXUS + 47 www.nexusmagazine.com