Future Memory - Softcover

P.M.H. Atwater

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571746889 ISBN 13: 9781571746887

Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing, 2013

Synopsis

According to P.M.H. Atwater, one of the foremost investigators into near-death experiences, future memory allows people to live life in advance and remember the experience in detail when something triggers that memory.

Atwater explains the unifying, and permanent, effect of that experience is a brain shift which she believes may be at the very core of existence itself. In FUTURE MEMORY, Atwater shows that structural and chemical changes are occurring in our brains, changes indicative of higher evolutionary development.

This mind-blowing exploration of a mind blowing topic traces her findings about this phenomenon and provides an important step in understanding the relationship between human perception and reality.

FUTURE MEMORY:

Provides a series of steps to assist in developing future memory

Explores new models of time, existence and consciousness

Presents an in-depth study of the brain shift and how it can be Experienced

Offers an extensive appendix, resource manual and notes

About this title

About the Author

P.M.H. Atwater is one of the premiere near-death experience researchers. She is in much demand as a lecturer and is the author of many books. Visit her at www.pmhatwater.com.

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FUTURE MEMORY

By P.M.H. Atwater

Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc.

Copyright © 2013 P.M.H. Atwater
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-57174-688-7

Contents

Dedication, 
Acknowledgments, 
Introduction, 
The Purpose of This Book, 
Parable, 
Part I: Future Memory, 
1. The Labyrinth Begins Here, 
2. Reality Shifts, 
3. Modes of Futuristic Awareness, 
4. The Future Memory Phenomenon, 
5. Slipping between the Cracks, 
6. Learning to Remember, 
Part II: The Innerworkings of Creation and Consciousness, 
7. Deeper into the Labyrinth's Depths, 
8. Connections within the Flow, 
9. Memory Mazes and the Brain, 
10. Illusions of Perception, 
11. Living in Time and Space Differently, 
12. The Innerworkings of Creation and Consciousness, 
13. The In-Between, 
14. Secrets in the Web, 
15. The Thought That Stirred, 
16. The Unbroken Web of Wholeness, 
Part III: Beyond Illusion, 
17. The Labyrinth Revealed, 
18. Fixed and Flexible Futures, 
19. The Higher Brain, 
20. Shadows and the Third Way, 
21. Centerpoint, 
Appendix I, 
Appendix II, 
Appendix III, 
Appendix IV, 
Appendix V, 
Resources, 
Notes, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

The Labyrinth Begins Here

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

—Sir Rabindranath Tagore

Journey with me through the universe of the mind, into deeper realms of internaland external environments, where states of consciousness play out like overleafsupon the backdrop of personality and place—who we think we are and where wethink we live.

Few ever question these deeper realms, much less bother to investigate them. Wedo, and that's what this book is about.

The ancient Hindu parable of "The Five Blind Men and The Elephant" best definesthe territory we are about to tackle: the span that exists between perceptionand truth, between what seems real and what is real, between life's many puzzlesand how they interconnect and interweave.

We tackle this territory for one reason, to search for what neither perceptionnor truth can supply—perspective—the perspective to understand why existenceexists and why we are who we are. And we do this, attempt to describe what isthought to be indescribable, in a spirit of high adventure.

To begin our journey, we will explore shifts in the awareness of reality, amongthem future memory—a peculiar phenomenon that challenges our understanding ofsequence. Like the old riddle "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" wewill question the necessity of one event to always follow on the heels ofanother. In part two, we will grapple with the inner workings of consciousnessand especially how that relates to creation itself, the universe, planets,souls, and the concept of deity. This will enable us to see how time and spacecan be but mere illusions in a grander scheme of life after life. Finally, inthe last section, we will step beyond notions of real versus unreal to confrontthe truth that undergirds existence itself.

A common thread interweaves our journey—what the ability to remember the futurereveals about brain development.

A common admonition fuels our passage—know thyself, for knowledge without wisdomcan distort and deceive.

A common desire ever directs us toward our goal—the reawakening of wonderment.

As we embark upon this, the journey of a lifetime, consider first the followingobservations summarized from various studies conducted over the years on earlychildhood development.

Children prelive the future on a regular basis. By the age of four, the averageyoungster spends more time in the future than in the present. The temporal lobesof the brain develop during this period, enabling the child to project ahead andrehearse in advance whatever might someday be expected of him or her. Childrenplay with futuristic possibilities and potential outcomes as a way of "gettingready." A child's preoccupation with the future is healthy. It is a naturalcomponent of growth, a desirable state of affairs ensuring that both brainstructure and brain capacity meet the requirements of an emerging consciousness.

What if adults do the same thing as children once their brains shift after atransformational event such as a near-death episode, a shamanic vision quest, akundalini breakthrough into spiritual enlightenment, a religious conversion, orbecause of head trauma or being hit by lightning?

What if the adult ability to prelive the future is actually a reliable signalthat temporal lobes are expanding—so an increase in brain structure and braincapacity can be accommodated, preparatory to accessing enlargements ofconsciousness?

It is known that people who experience major spiritual transformations becomemore childlike afterward, in the sense that they often glow with a newfoundinnocence plus a desire to relearn and redefine life. Most of them possesslevels of curiosity and intelligence greater than before, and are seldomaffected by limitations from former attitudes and beliefs. Able to easily slipin and out of stages of behavior development once thought the exclusive domainof youngsters, such experiencers appear to "grow up" all over again.

During the twenty-plus years I spoke with or interviewed thousands of near-deathsurvivors and their families and friends, I noted that the ability to "remember"the future was quite typical of the aftereffects. Most experiencers displayedthe trait. Yet I also observed this same characteristic with people who hadnever undergone a transformational event of any kind. This so surprised me thatI sought out these "other" people.

What I found challenges how brain development is viewed and how "real versusunreal" is determined. Indicated as well is the distinct possibility that eachand every one of us may be able to transcend our daily fare and quite literallylive the future before it occurs. (Don't confuse what I am saying here with whatsome near-death researchers term "flash forwards." What I have observed andexperienced myself is far more complex and dynamic than that, physically real tothe individual involved and lived in minute and verifiable detail.)

It may strike you as odd the way I've decided to arrange this book and divulgemy findings, yet what follows is the only viable framework I could constructthat can encompass the enormity of the information we need to cover while at thesame time providing us both with a fun trip.

Yes, I turned this book into a labyrinth, one you can traverse via the writtenword. Throughout its pages, I intend to tease you with a labyrinth of subjectiveand objective stories and facts so that the awesome wonder of what lies beyondworlds internal and external to us can emerge.

What do I mean by a labyrinth?

According to the dictionary a labyrinth is a devious arrangement of passages andpathways that form the pattern of a maze. No ordinary maze, admittedly, but onewith a single way in and out, encircling as it enfolds back upon itself, againand again, in steady progression toward a central core.

According to tradition, however, walking, running, or dancing one's way througha labyrinth invokes a sense of healing and balance in the participant—order outof chaos, if you will. That's because a labyrinth is designed to stimulate theexpansion of a higher form of consciousness. A typical maze is meant to confuse;but a labyrinth, with spirals that mimic the convolutions of the brain, leadsone into the depths of soul, arousing a gut response to the mysteries ofcreation, of birth and life and death and rebirth. You're turned "inside out"and memory, the memory of who you really are, is awakened.

To quote Reverend Dr. Lauren Artress, author of the charming book Walking aSacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Tool: "Walking thelabyrinth clears the mind and gives insight into the spiritual journey. It urgesaction. It calms people in the throes of life transitions. It helps them seetheir lives in the context of a path, a pilgrimage. They realize that they arenot human beings on a spiritual path but spiritual beings on a human path."

This book is a labyrinth in the truest sense. Each chapter and section has beencrafted to both stretch your mind and challenge your beliefs. You read your waythrough it in the same manner as you might walk through a labyrinth, and withthe same result—a shift in consciousness.

Take a deep breath.

Ready yourself.

Your exploratory journey through the universe of time and space and memory andconsciousness—through the enfolding turns of the laby-rinth—has begun.

CHAPTER 2

Reality Shifts

We human beings invent reality as much as we discover it.

—Lawrence LeShan

Perception determines "truth." We invent our own reality this way, by notquestioning perception, ours or anyone else's, and by accepting what appears tobe real as "real."

History is filled with stories of people who, in "slipping between the cracks"of their own consciousness (thus altering how they perceived the world aroundthem) uncovered different ways to experience reality. What they accomplished indoing this made an impact on society. You and I, all of us, have profited againand again and still are profiting because this happened, because some peoplewere dazzled by wonder instead of silenced by dogma.

Here are some examples of what I mean. Tripping through these tidbits will helpestablish common reference points, which are necessary, I believe, for theexploratory journey we have embarked upon.

Let's start with Xerox.

Chester F. Carlson, inventor of the Xerox duplication process and founder of theXerox Corporation, was a devotee of a certain trance medium who channeled spiritbeings from The Other Side. While attending a series of sessions with the woman,he eventually "received" the photocopy process from the spirit beings shecontacted. After experimenting with the technique and making a few adjustments,Xerox was "born" along with a multibillion-dollar company. I don't know aboutyou, but after having worked as an executive secretary during the fifties andsixties and making the copies I needed the only way you could then—by stuffingpacks of carbon paper in a typewriter and banging the keys hard enough to makethe images pass through—I am immensely grateful that Carlson frequented seances.He revolutionized the business world because he did (and certainly made my lifeeasier).

Switching to peanut butter ... the Woodrew Update, a well-researched andprovocative newsletter, reminds us that:

George Washington Carver took the peanut, until then used as hog food, and theexotic and neglected sweet potato, and turned them into hundreds of products.His list included cosmetics, grease, printer's ink, coffee, and, of course,peanut butter. Carver said he got his answers by walking in the woods at four inthe morning. "Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best whenothers are asleep," he said. "In the still hours before sunrise, God tells me ofthe plans I am to fulfill."

Thomas Edison unsuccessfully tried to hire Carver, confiding to his associates,"Carver is worth a fortune." Henry Ford also tried (and failed) to hire him,calling Carver "the greatest living scientist." When Carver's plans werefulfilled and his dreams translated into realities, he refused to take out anypatents, believing that all inventions and discoveries belonged to mankind, notto one man. The result is that much of what he learned is lost in the annals ofhistory.

How did George Washington Carver communicate with God during the wee hours ofmorning? He said it himself: through the assistance of angels and fairies. Andhe isn't the only one to make such a claim. Peter and Eileen Caddy and theircolleague Dorothy Maclean give the same credits in describing the work theyaccomplished.

This troupe, along with Caddy's three sons, took up residence near an inlet tothe North Sea at Findhorn, Scotland, for the purpose of setting up a cocreativetwo-way link between themselves and nature intelligencies—that is to say, angels(what they later called "devas") and fairies ("nature spirits"). They becamewilling workers with nature's own in an attempt to cocreate a garden the likesof which would defy every known rule of convention and climate. That was 1962.Today, the now famous Findhorn Gardens regularly draws people from across theglobe to tour the premises and take classes at Cluny Hill College, classes onhow to communicate with angelic forces and helper spirits, while at the sametime enhancing one's own sense of spirituality.

Perelandra Gardens, the next generation in angel-fairy communication, goesbeyond that of a fixed-based operation (like at Findhorn) to a method anyone canuse no matter where they live to improve their life and expand theirconsciousness. Started by Machaelle Small Wright and her partner, ClarenceWright, this forty-five-acre hideaway about fifty miles south of Washington,D.C., near the tiny hamlet of Jeffersonton, has grown from the initialexperience in 1973 of Machaelle hearing disembodied "voices" coming from thewoods on their property to a well-established Center for Nature Research, anopen-air laboratory dedicated to the discovery of nature's laws and theprinciples and dynamics behind the cocreative relationship between humans andthe varied intelligencies of nature.

The people I have mentioned came to perceive reality from another vantage point;then they used what they gained from that experience to benefit others, as thisaddendum to the Perelandra story demonstrates:

According to a Canadian agronomist, soil samples taken from Perelandra in 1989tested out with the highest vitality rating of any soil ever tested—untilseveral other people achieved the same rating that same year using thePerelandra Method on soil in their own gardens. For this reason, and because ofextensive documentation on methodology and results, the internationally esteemedmagazine Organic Gardening featured an article about Perelandra in theirNovember 1990 issue. The article quoted Albert Schatz, Ph.D., a retiredprofessor at Temple University in Philadelphia, and the one who introduced theconcept of chelation (a major factor in soil formation), as saying: "I havespent a lot of time trying to find scientific holes in what Wright is doing andI have not been able to do that, which amazed me. She has integrated health andagriculture in a very unique and effective way, and her research isscientifically sound and valid. I can find no evidence to draw any otherconclusions. Her research is the basis for the future of agriculture."

Different ways of experiencing reality happen when individuals expand theirconsciousness. Whether accidently or on purpose, that shift in perception alsoalters the validity and the importance of time and space.

Documented cases of native runners, especially those in North and South America,illustrate this. The Spanish, for instance, once recorded native runners whocould cover in excess of150 miles per day, making the trip from Lima, Peru, toCuzco in three days, where it took Spanish riders on horseback twelve days to dothe same thing. Running was and still is considered a sacred task by nativepeoples. Adherents observe strict disciplines in exchange for what they believeare the holy gifts of speed and invisibility.

From Peter Nabokov's book Indian Running, an anthropologist by the name ofGeorge Laird described what happened to a particular runner who lived in thesouthwestern part of the United States: "One morning he left his friends atCotton Wood Island in Nevada and said he was going to the mouth of the GilaRiver in southern Arizona. He didn't want anyone else along, but, when he wasout of sight, the others began tracking him. Beyond the nearby dunes his stridechanged. The tracks looked as if he had just been staggering along, taking giantsteps, his feet touching the ground at long irregular intervals, leaving printsthat became further and further apart and lighter and lighter in the sand. Whenthey got to Fort Yuma, they learned that he had arrived at sunrise of the sameday he had left them." (Thus arriving before he departed.)

We know native peoples are capable of such feats because so many cases have beenstudied. But let's not forget the Australian aborigines. Theirs is the oldestcontinuously existing culture on earth (around for at least fifty-thousandyears), and they maintain an understanding of time and space, of reality, thatdeserves our attention.

What they call "dreaming" has little to do with sleep or dreams that occurduring sleep. Dreaming for them is actually more akin to a type of "flow," whereone becomes whatever is focused upon and suddenly knows whatever needs to beknown at the moment. Aborigines sometimes use drugs to achieve this state but,more often than not, drumming, chanting, rhythmic movements, certain sounds, andrituals suffice. In this state of consciousness, participants seem to "mergewith" or "enter into" soil, rocks, animals, sky, or whatever else they focus on—includingthe "In-Between" (that which appears to exist between time and space,as if through a "crack" in creation).

(Continues...)

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Edition details

• Publisher: Hampton Roads Publishing
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571746889
• ISBN 13: 9781571746887
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 344