The Future is My Past: . . . The End of a Trilogy - Softcover

Clovis, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1504384903 ISBN 13: 9781504384902

Publisher: BalboaPress, 2017

Synopsis

In this final book of the trilogy, award-winning journalist, Dr. Donna Clovis, writes from Einstein’s lecture hall and takes classes in physics at Princeton University. Here, she recounts stories of Princeton, New Jersey through its current events by means of citizen interviews, diaries, and articles that demonstrate a microcosm of modern-day America.

Using theoretical physics, relativity from Einstein, and synchronicity from Jung, The Future is My Past, explores time travel to reveal a special connection with the past that projects an important memory into the present lives of its characters. This memory like a twilight sonata, sings a repetitive lullaby resonating a secret the reader must discover in the text on their journey through the last book of the trilogy.

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The Future is My Past

... The End of a Trilogy

By Donna Clovis

Balboa Press

Copyright © 2017 Dr. Donna Clovis
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-5043-8490-2

Contents

Introduction, xi, 
Foreword The Conscious as Quantum, xv, 
Chapter 1 A Mad Hatter's Tea Party, 1, 
Chapter 2 Down the Rabbit Hole, 3, 
Chapter 3 Golden Afternoons at Princeton University, 5, 
Chapter 4 The Cheshire Cat, 7, 
Chapter 5 It's All About Time, 9, 
Chapter 6 Heaven in a Hoagie, 11, 
Chapter 7 Black Squirrels and Tiger Tales, 13, 
Chapter 8 Pink, 15, 
Chapter 9 Taking to Twitter, 17, 
Chapter 10 Airports, Attorneys, and Other Explanations of Time Travel, 18, 
Chapter 11 The Pool of Tears, 20, 
Chapter 12 Lessons From a Caterpillar, 23, 
Chapter 13 The Heart-Shaped Pin, 27, 
Chapter 14 Bless "Said" Be the Peace Makers, 30, 
Chapter 15 Tweets and Leaks, Fake News, Oh, My!, 32, 
Chapter 16 Princeton: A Sanctuary City, 34, 
Chapter 17 This Is Not America, 36, 
Chapter 18 The Case of Woodrow Wilson Revisited, 39, 
Chapter 19 Lights, Camera, Action!, 41, 
Chapter 20 There's No Place Like Home, 43, 
Chapter 21 Sacred Secrets, 45, 
Chapter 22 A Mathematical Constant, 47, 
Chapter 23 Who Stole the Art of News?, 49, 
Chapter 24 The Freedom to Write: A Journalist's Story, 51, 
Chapter 25 The Charter School Quadrille, 53, 
Chapter 26 The Snow Queen's Ballet Grounds, 55, 
Chapter 27 Stealing Time, 57, 
Chapter 28 Theories of Racial Relativity Hidden in a House, 59, 
Chapter 29 PJ's Pancake House and a Sign of Dr. Nash Memories, 61, 
Chapter 30 An Evening Roaming the Cosmos, 63, 
Chapter 31 The Tiny Door Behind the Curtain, 65, 
Chapter 32 Miss Ida B.'s Evidence, 66, 
Chapter 33 The Queen of Hearts, 67, 
Chapter 34 And Then, I Rise, 69, 
End Note A Long Tale: Synchronicity and the Quantum Field, 71, 
Afterword Telescopes and Time Machines, 75, 
Appendix A "One Moment in Time", 77, 
Appendix B Creative Writing as a Gesture in Synchronicity, 79, 
Appendix C Quantum Consciousness and Possibilities of Time Travel, 83, 
Bibliography, 87, 
Appendix D Abstract. Time as Now. Here as Space: Neuroscience and Theory of Einstein Relativity, 89, 
Appendix E Abstract. Quantum Consciousness in the Extreme, 91, 
About The Author, 93, 

CHAPTER 1

A MAD HATTER'S TEA PARTY

"Wait!" a voice cried from behind the large white door.

"Wait, you must be Michaela's mom." The door opened wide. A sudden gust of wind passed like a sigh. As the door opened, Michaela caught sight of her friend next to her mother. The home was beautiful and large. They had just moved in and I could see the boxes piled in the first parlor. The mansion was very old. She told me that it used to be a plantation house on many acres before it was later subdivided.

We sat down for tea while our children ran upstairs to play. "After tea, I want to give you a tour of the house," her mom said. "It's historical. It has four floors with the top floors which used to be slave quarters. Look what we found in this box in the basement."

She pulled out a dusty old box filled with old black and white photographs of the house. Then she handed me a red diary. "It belongs to Daisy, the owner of the mansion who wrote this in 1912. Amazing, isn't it?"

I looked at the diary with curiosity. I skimmed through a few pages and realized there was a connection between this and one of the people I interviewed several months before. Ms. Ida B. was here.

Within the diary, Ms. Ida B. was mentioned by name. I knew I had to write about this. The diary was the key to an important story that needed to be told.

I gasped. "Do you mind if I borrow this? You would not believe this, but an old woman I interviewed several months ago lived here. And her name is mentioned several times in this diary."

"Oh my, what a coincidence. I had no idea you wrote about people like this. And the coincidence of her name in this diary. I would have just left this in the basement when I found it and never mention it. It's a strange sort of find, you know. For some reason, I felt compelled to show it to you. Of course, you may borrow it. And every time Michaela comes over for a play date, feel free to write. You must write about this. ..."

CHAPTER 2

DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

As I looked back upon the circumstances and writing of my first novel, I wanted to understand more about synchronicity as a "moment" in time and consciousness as a possibility for time travel. Jung and Einstein had glimpses into this through their research. Princeton University, who maintains records of Einstein's research in relativity and active courses in quantum mechanics and astrophysics, was a great start for understanding the process. In addition, the research placed me at the heart of Princeton at the University and Princeton, the subject of my books. I was able to take these courses and see first-hand some of the important research in the field of quantum mechanics.

Professor Gott was one of the professors who wrote and taught one of the foundation courses. Students used his book and research as a main text in his course. His research explained time travel, quantum mechanics, and Einstein's theories of relativity. The books, Cosmos, Quantum Mechanics, Quantum Physics,Time Travel in Einstein's Universe, and Foundations of Astrophysics, expanded our knowledge of the planets, the universe, and black holes. These books helped us learn the important mathematical equations and problem solving that Einstein worked with in order to prove his theories about the quantum field and investigate the possibilities of time travel.

And this semester brought the NASA information and discovery of seven new Earth-like planets called the Trappist-1 series, orbiting a red dwarf star nearly forty light years away ...

CHAPTER 3

GOLDEN AFTERNOONS AT PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

Princeton is a bustling but quiet town. It's difficult to find parking on the university campus. Of course, students and professors have parking permits cemented on their back windshields to park in prescribed lots. But these lots are far away from the destination of buildings and classrooms. If you want to get closer, you park next to a meter, feeding it quarters during a two-hour span. Or buy a "smart" card from the lot in the center of town that can hold sixty dollars-worth of meter time. Classroom lecture and library study time will quickly use the card up.

The afternoon sun was golden. It glowed and reflected golden slithers on the withered brown grass beneath my feet as I walked. It was my first day of classes at Princeton University. Crowds of students fill the streets and Gothic-style tunnels and pathways on campus. My courses in astrophysics were held in Peyton Hall in the afternoons. I searched for my building and classroom passing the oddly shaped library that stood next door.

My professor began her lecture. "The more we learn about the universe, the less we understand." Her words coincided with a tweet I saw on Twitter earlier the same day by Nassim Haramein, physicist and the Director of Research for the Resonance Science Foundation, who said, "The concepts of spirituality are typically the physics we haven't understood yet."

I knew I was in the right place.

I furiously took notes about the movement of planets, the discovery of dark energy, and the notion that we can see the past in what is our present through a single beam of light coming from a dead star at the other end of space many light years away. I wrote in my notes about the death of stars, their light as the remaining past shining back into the present ...

CHAPTER 4

THE CHESHIRE CAT

One of the things I learned while taking coursework at Princeton University in astrophysics and quantum mechanics is that there is always talk about the real possibility of time travel based on scientific theories. This fourth dimension was discussed by Princeton scientist, J. Richard Gott in his book Time Travel in Einstein's Universe, used in the first course on astrophysics. There are four dimensions: length, height, depth, and time. Our consciousness moves along the time continuum from the beginning to the end of our lives.

Our universe is four-dimensional and represented in a quantum field. It's like the example I wrote about this experience in my journal regarding Jung's consciousness and synchronicity two years before taking my coursework at Princeton that verified my findings. In order to give you the exact location in the fourth dimension, you would need the location or corner you might find in New York City, 33 East Fifty-Second Street and 5th Avenue, 5th floor, and the exact time of 10:00 a.m. My moving into the future through a moment in synchronicity was like going to the tenth floor with information and returning to the fifth floor in the present moment of time.

Einstein used this idea in his theory of relativity in 1905. He laid the foundation of these paradoxes, knowing that our bodies and ideas could travel only as fast as the speed of light. And to support this, famous scientist Stephen Hawking noted that these light waves spread out like circular ripples in a pool creating a grand unified "theory of everything" or super string theory. These time dimensions can be dreamlike or experienced in a form of a consciousness moment, which could bring you into future time and back to the present, like Jung's ideas on synchronicity.

The discussions and research between Jung and Einstein from 1905 to 1912 laid the foundation for me to explore the idea of Jung's view of consciousness and Einstein's view and theory of relativity through the quantum field. If light can travel at its relative speed in the quantum field, then consciousness can travel at the speed of light from the present to the future and back again into the seemingly present "moment" of synchronicity, according to Einstein's theory of relativity which is now supported today by quantum physics.

In synchronicity, the moment of time of coincidence allows for possible time travel into the past and future back to the present. I soon discovered through my research that Jung's work specialized in the sub-atomic inner world of consciousness and thought, while Einstein's work dealt with the larger cosmos or universe. Both arenas mirror each other in the laws of physics. Together, their research would provide answers and possibilities about time. Time travel is made possible by observers who move relative to different views of time consciousness in the quantum field.

CHAPTER 5

IT'S ALL ABOUT TIME

One can hear the phantom sound of counting during dusk of day. "One, two, three ..." the heavy breathless voice echoes and reverberates into silence near my classroom at Peyton Hall. It is Princeton University's crew team counting strokes on Carnegie Lake. Creeping across and slithering sideways against the wind in a practice. Timing in the sport of crew is everything.

Today on Saturday, I wait for my oil change at the local garage nearby. I see a display brochure sitting on a nearby window: It's All About Time. This serves as another moment of synchronicity for me as I realize through my research and daydream the connection between the quantum field and consciousness in time travel.

Not only was Einstein a great physicist, but he was a great believer of the power of the human mind. As Einstein said, "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and forgotten the gift." No wonder Jung and Einstein were close researchers at one time. Jung and Einstein were on their way to making an important discovery about the possibilities of time travel according to my research and readings. These readings, along with my research, allowed me to open the door to synchronicity and finally finish telling the story about Miss Ida B. from my first two novels, Quantum Leaps in Princeton's Place and Six Doors Down.

CHAPTER 6

HEAVEN IN A HOAGIE

There's a place down Nassau Street close to the university that opens at 10:00 in the morning until "LATE," so the front sign says. It is the small shop with an orange and black facade of university colors. It has large, cloudy panes of glass that diffuse upon the sidewalk at midday and glowing lights that penetrate the darkness outside at midnight.

Everyone at Princeton University knows of it because of the long lines at all times, especially in March during mid-term madness at midnight. High school students know of it because of the "Phat Lady" and "Heart Stopper" sandwiches piled with French fries and bacon atop a cheesesteak, drizzled with oil and vinegar. The place is called "Hoagie Haven."

Founded in 1976, the haven has fed thousands of sleepy-eyed and starving students.

Suddenly, I break out of my daydream by a deep booming voice as if from heaven saying, "Next!" I am now the person in line closest to the counter. My judgement day has come. I hesitate and then order the ham and cheese hoagie with oil and vinegar with a Coke.

As I squeeze through the crowded lines in the space to the door and leave, I chuckle and smile. For I'm just another hoagie junkie in Princeton headed to class with my fix for lunch today.

CHAPTER 7

BLACK SQUIRRELS AND TIGER TALES

The large, dusty, red brick buildings hover. Their pointed peaks signal the sky. The green-aged slate plates of roof hold folded, pale yellow, dim-lit, multi-paned windows that reflect the daylight. These are the famous frat mansions and eateries of Princeton University that house the elite. The looming buildings feed the streets with students during passing time. And across the street lies the sterile white Woodrow Wilson School, with its tall cement columns and long, thin, blurred eyes of cloudy glass.

There is a path, a shortcut, I use between this brick building with its golden number 13 nailed on the front door and the Cannon Club, with its huge ebony black cannon on the front lawn. It's like taking a walk through history to my science classes every time I go by.

The Cannon Club, the Eatery of the Ivy League, on my left as I walk, was founded in 1893 and occupied as a small house that the Tiger Inn used. On my right, thickets of dark green ivy decorate the grounds of the brick fraternity house with frolicking black squirrels. They dance and hang from the branches above. They squeeze and race around the buildings below.

Princeton seems to be the only place on the East Coast where one can find this breed of swinging black squirrel. They are friendly creatures, morphed from the same grey squirrel species. And there are many. According to myth, they emerged from the bowels of a biology basement filled of unauthorized experiments. These escapees now dominate the Princeton campus. Another myth tells us that a resident, Moses Taylor Pyne, imported black and orange squirrels to match the university's colors. But to this day, no orange squirrels have emerged.

Nevertheless, fearless black squirrels are a large part of the Princeton University experience. One can see them under the thick brush beneath thick oak trees, collecting food for winter. Their black bushy tails swish and twitch high in the air as they pretend to be the mascot for Princeton, wagging their imaginary tiger tails.

CHAPTER 8

PINK

Pink palettes of knit kitten hats with ears on every head bob like waves in a crowded sea. Then swell shades of rose-colored blush, fuschia, and flamingo. Ballet slipper pink, bubblegum, and strawberry crush. They swarm and squeeze into the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on January 21, 2017.

It is the greatest march for equality. It is energized and creative. It is peaceful and diverse. There are mothers and fathers. There are grandmothers, children, and babies. It is the Women's Day of Protest when millions take to the streets of major cities all over the world after the call on social media to knit thousands of pink hats to wear on that day in solidarity.

Luxury buses filled with women protesters left Princeton, New Jersey and headed to the nation's capital building. Chants echo the melody, "Women's rights are human rights!"

Princeton mayor Liz Lempert attended the protest in Trenton, New Jersey that started at the Trenton War Memorial and ended at the State House. "It is going to be more important than ever that people will stand up and be vocal about things important to them," Lempert said, "and to use our collective voice to make a strong statement."

"I'm so excited to be here and participate," Melinda Brown, a fifteen-year-old from Princeton attending the Washington, D.C. protest said. "I'm here with my mother to make history, but most of all to make a statement about women's rights and the future. We're not going away!"

CHAPTER 9

TAKING TO TWITTER

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, 2017, Twitter showed us photographs with the names of each Jewish person who came to the United States as refugees from their countries in Europe trying to escape from the Nazis. This exhibition was to show solidarity with Muslim people prohibited from entering the United States by means of a ban. One by one, we see the hope of life in their faces as they sought asylum in the United States by ship. But they were turned away by the United States and sent back where they later faced their deaths:

1939 Evelyn Greve: murdered in Italy.

1939 Ruth Karliner: murdered in Auschwitz.

1939 Erich Dublon: murdered in Auschwitz.

1939 Betty Kaufherr: murdered in Auschwitz.

1939 Maximillian Kohn: murdered in Auschwitz.

President Trump makes no mention of this day in any of his political comments. Last year, President Obama recognized the day in remembrance. "We are all Jews," he told the world.

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: BalboaPress
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1504384903
• ISBN 13: 9781504384902
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112