I just saw The Time Traveler’s Wife. It’s an excellent movie. I’ll review it in my Movie Reviews at http://highvibrations.net/movie_reviews2.html#flicks1_flicks2

But is it real? Do things like that really happen? Let me talk about my experiences with moving outside of time and space.

I’m sitting at the Black Oak Restaurant, just off Highway 101, with my friend Linda. I’m driving south along the West Coast, and she just drove an hour from San Luis Obispo, to meet me. We have one hour to catch up on everything that has happened to us in the last two years.

She’s talking. We’ve been taking turns. We’ve covered a lot of ground. It’s exciting and stimulating and totally juicy and fun. I don’t want it to end, but of course it has to. I don’t want to be rude by looking at my watch, so I look at hers. It says 1:45, and I have until 2. That’s more time than I expected. Good.

Now it’s my turn to talk. How can I possibly tell it all? But I just have to tell her these stories. I talk and talk, and she’s totally engrossed. When I feel like we’re close to 15 minutes, I glance at her watch. What? It still says 1:45! That’s too weird.

But don’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Now she’s talking. Oh, I’ve gotta hear this story! I forget about time as I allow myself to get pulled into her story. Then I wrench myself away, to check the time and . . . . omigod. What is going on here?

“Linda, this is too weird. I’ve been checking the time on your watch and it keeps telling the same time! Is your watch stopped or something?”

“Me too!” she sputters. “I’ve been watching your watch, and it keeps saying 1:45. How could that be?”

We turn around and look up at the wall, and there’s a big clock, and it says 1:45.

“We must be outside of time and space!”

Have you ever had that happen to you? As it turns out, when I ask people that question, LOTS of people have had similar experiences. In fact, I’d love to hear your stories and to share them here.

I have this theory that when we prepare to do a past life regression (or--to put it differently--when we visit concurrent lifetimes), we step outside of the time-space continuum, and re-enter at a different zone. Or you could say that we move into a different parallel reality.

As for deliberate time travel, Yogananda reported in Autobiography of a Yogi that there were certain yogis who had the abililty to be in two places at once. Anastacia, a Siberian recluse, in The New Civilization by Vladimir Megre (the 8th book in the Ringing Cedars series), shares a specific technique for leaving your physical body and reappearing in a different location. I haven’t tried it yet, but I intend to.

During the seventies, Robert Monroe worked with several physicists to document and verify hundreds of genuine OBE’s (Out of Body Experiences). This is described by physicist Thomas Campbell in his book, My Big Toe. People would go Out of Body and travel, and describe what they saw. Later people would validate their findings. Two people would meet out of body, and return later and independently share their experiences, and they would both describe the same experiences. People would go into the future and report on events that later were validated.

I appreciate movies like The Time Traveler’s Wife because they open people’s minds to the possibility that we really can travel in time. BUT it annoys me that these movies throw in a lot of inaccuracies, and there is no way that ordinary people can gauge what is possible and what is pure fantasy. So I’d like to address that.

To the best of my knowledge, the person who does the traveling (we can call him or her the time traveler) chooses to do the traveling. Though I would allow for the possibility that a severe trauma (such as the auto accident that occurred for the boy in the movie) or an extreme drug experience, or a chemical imbalance (which society would label as a form insanity) could conceivably thrust a person into the past or the future, without their having chosen to make that journey.

I know plenty of people (including myself) who have traveled into the past and witnessed their own past lives. This is a common phenomenon, and there is a great deal of evidence that it is real, though I don’t know if anyone has found a way of absolutely validating these experiences. Through the device of visualization (such as going through a cave), we can enter into a different lifetime.

So far I have not heard of anyone returning from their journeys into the past or into the future with any change to their current physical body or their physical age (though you may feel more relaxed, or you may even experience an alleviation of a physical or psychological symptom). If you have any actual experience to the contrary, please do write and let me know about it.

Now I do want to mention that there is an excellent book, with lots of photographs, of people who remember past lives in which they were, for example, stabbed in the back, and in their current lifetime they have a distinct birth mark or scar or visible picture of that event on their body. (Sorry, I do not know the title. Does anyone else know the title of this book?? It is a very large book.)

Theoretically, it should be possible to go back and talk to your own younger self (I have done this as a kind of visualization), or even to the younger self of someone you know (as in the movie). Indeed, it should be possible to go forward and chat with your own older self, or to progress forward to your own death (I have witnessed other people doing this, and it seems to be accurate).

Now whether the ability to time travel is genetically acquired is an interesting question. It has been shown that shamanic powers are definitely passed through the genes (there’s a good discussion about that at the end of Visionseeker, the last in the Spiritwalker Trilogy by Hank Wesselman). If you have a “gift,” you can probably find a similar gift in one of your parents or grandparents. On the other hand, most studies of psychic phenomenon strongly indicate that anybody can do almost anything (see Thomas Campbell, My Big Toe and also Lynne McTaggert in The Field and The Intention Experiment and also The Holographic Universe by Michael Talbott). So it may be a lot more about the huge amount of our brainpower that we don’t use because we don’t believe that we can.

The part of the movie that I consider pure fantasy is when the protagonist literally dissolves in front of your eyes (nice special effects), and then appears naked in the future or the past. In my experience, you don’t take your body with you. You get a different body and different clothes. One of the first things you do when you arrive in a new time zone is to look down at your feet. Then you’ll know whether you’re male or female, what your approximate age is, and whether you’re rich or poor. Just by looking at your feet.

Nevertheless, it was a brilliant movie, and a great love story.

And Hey, if you’ve had any experiences to the contrary, or if you’d like to comment on what I’ve written, please write.