Sutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga yoga (literally, the eightlimb

Sutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally
referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga,
bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya
yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading
adepts to say that hatha is kriya is raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time
summed up in the Sanskrit word samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the
yoking of spirit to spatial and temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher
of yoga philosophy, points out, "Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal
meaning of samsara is flowing together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of
causal relationships. As the late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night
Live," this flowing together can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or
another, "it's always something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in
quantum physics, and it is vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events.
We will look at this in detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also
refers to something that the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the
idea of the wheel of existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth,
set in motion by causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of
view, these cycles can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the
egomind to " anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego.
Samsara is also a term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we
participate in the flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT
ART OF T r M E CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum
physics, as we shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-
is the progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this
ancient wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel
through time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells
us how we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking
that modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much
of modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
ed practice), which is now generally referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most famous Hindu text, the
Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three pathways for attaining
enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When you compare them, you
find they complement each other, leading adepts to say that hatha is kriya is raja. Yoga as both a
practice and a system implies a concept of time summed up in the Sanskrit word samsara. Samsara
signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the yoking of spirit to spatial and temporal confinement.
As Georg Feue
Sutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally
referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga,
bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya
yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading
adepts to say that hatha is kriya is raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time
summed up in the Sanskrit word samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the
yoking of spirit to spatial and temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher
of yoga philosophy, points out, "Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal
meaning of samsara is flowing together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of
causal relationships. As the late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night
Live," this flowing together can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or
another, "it's always something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in
quantum physics, and it is vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events.
We will look at this in detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also
refers to something that the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the
idea of the wheel of existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth,
set in motion by causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of
view, these cycles can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the
egomind to " anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego.
Samsara is also a term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we
participate in the flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT
ART OF T r M E CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum
physics, as we shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-
is the progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this
ancient wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel
through time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells
us how we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking
that modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much
of modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
rstein, a noted scholar and teacher of yoga philosophy, points out, "Above all ... Samsara is time. "2
Feuerstein explains that the literal meaning of samsara is flowing together-a per
Sutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally
referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga,
bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya
yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading
adepts to say that hatha is kriya is raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time
summed up in the Sanskrit word samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the
yoking of spirit to spatial and temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher
of yoga philosophy, points out, "Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal
meaning of samsara is flowing together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of
causal relationships. As the late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night
Live," this flowing together can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or
another, "it's always something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in
quantum physics, and it is vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events.
We will look at this in detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also
refers to something that the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the
idea of the wheel of existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth,
set in motion by causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of
view, these cycles can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the
egomind to " anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego.
Samsara is also a term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we
participate in the flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT
ART OF T r M E CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum
physics, as we shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-
is the progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this
ancient wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel
through time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells
us how we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking
that modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much
of modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
Sutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally
referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga,
bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya
yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading
adepts to say that hatha is kriya is raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time
summed up in the Sanskrit word samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the
yoking of spirit to spatial and temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher
of yoga philosophy, points out, "Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal
meaning of samsara is flowing together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of
causal relationships. As the late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night
Live," this flowing together can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or
another, "it's always something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in
quantum physics, and it is vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events.
We will look at this in detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also
refers to something that the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the
idea of the wheel of existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth,
set in motion by causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of
view, these cycles can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the
egomind to " anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego.
Samsara is also a term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we
participate in the flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT
ART OF T r M E CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum
physics, as we shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-
is the progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this
ancient wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel
through time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells
us how we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking
that modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much
of modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
Sutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally
referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga,
bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya
yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading
adepts to say that hatha is kriya is raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time
summed up in the Sanskrit word samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the
yoking of spirit to spatial and temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher
of yoga philosophy, points out, "Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal
meaning of samsara is flowing together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of
causal relationships. As the late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night
Live," this flowing together can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or
another, "it's always something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in
quantum physics, and it is vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events.
We will look at this in detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also
refers to something that the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the
idea of the wheel of existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth,
set in motion by causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of
view, these cycles can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the
egomind to " anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego.
Samsara is also a term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we
participate in the flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT
ART OF T r M E CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum
physics, as we shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-
is the progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this
ancient wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel
through time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells
us how we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking
that modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much
of modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
petual flux of things and events producing consequences of causal relationships. As the late Gilda
Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night Live," this flowing together can
produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or another, "it's always something.
" This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in quantum physics, and it is vital to how
the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events. We will look at this in detail in the
upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also refers to something that the
Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the idea of the wheel of
existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth, set in motion by
causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of view, these cycles
can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the egomind to "
anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego. Samsara is also a
term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we participate in the
flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT ART OF T r M E
CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum physics, as we
shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-is the
progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this ancient
wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel through
time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells us how
we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking that
modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much of
modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
and how quantum physics and consciousness are related. But first let's look more closely at what one of
the ancient Indian texts has to say. 13 C HAPTER ONE THE B HA GAVAD GITA In the early part of the first
millennium BCE, Indian philosophers found evidence for the beginnings of what we today call the
perennial philosophy. It can be stated in three sentences: 1. An infinite, unchanging reality exists hidden
behind the illusion of ceaseless change. 2. This infinite, unchanging reality lies at the core of every being
and is the substratum of the personality. 3. Life has one main purpose: to experience this one realityto
discover God while living on earth. One of the ancient texts in which these principles are set forth and
discussed is the Bhagavad Gita.4 The spiritual wisdom of the Gita is delivered in the midst of the most
terrible of all possible human situations: warfare-literally, on the battlefield itself. On the eve of combat,
the prince Arjuna loses his nerve and in desperation turns to his charioteer, Krishna, asking him what to
do. But Krishna is no ordinary horse-and-cart driver; he is a direct incarnation of God, and he responds
to Arjuna in seven hundred stanzas of sublime instruction that includes a divine mystical revelation.5 He
explains to Arjuna the nature of the soul and the nature of the timeless, spaceless, changeless infinite
reality and explains that they are not different. The Gita does not lead the reader from one stage of
spiritual development to another, but starts with the conclusion. KSutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga
yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most
famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three
pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When
you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading adepts to say that hatha is kriya is
raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time summed up in the Sanskrit word
samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the yoking of spirit to spatial and
temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher of yoga philosophy, points out,
"Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal meaning of samsara is flowing
together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of causal relationships. As the
late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night Live," this flowing together
can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or another, "it's always
something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in quantum physics, and it is
vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events. We will look at this in
detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also refers to something that
the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the idea of the wheel of
existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth, set in motion by
causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of view, these cycles
can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the egomind to "
anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego. Samsara is also a
term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we participate in the
flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT ART OF T r M E
CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum physics, as we
shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-is the
progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this ancient
wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel through
time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells us how
we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking that
modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much of
modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
and how quantum physics and consciousness are related. But first let's look more closely at what one of
the ancient Indian texts has to say. 13 C HAPTER ONE THE B HA GAVAD GITA In the early part of the first
millennium BCE, Indian philosophers found evidence for the beginnings of what we today call the
perennial philosophy. It can be stated in three sentences: 1. An infinite, unchanging reality exists hidden
behind the illusion of ceaseless change. 2. This infinite, unchanging reality lies at the core of every being
and is the substratum of the personality. 3. Life has one main purpose: to experience this one realityto
discover God while living on earth. One of the ancient texts in which these principles are set forth and
discussed is the Bhagavad Gita.4 The spiritual wisdom of the Gita is delivered in the midst of the most
terrible of all possible human situations: warfare-literally, on the battlefield itself. On the eve of combat,
the prince Arjuna loses his nerve and in desperation turns to his charioteer, Krishna, asking him what to
do. But Krishna is no ordinary horse-and-cart driver; he is a direct incarnation of God, and he responds
to Arjuna in seven hundred stanzas of sublime instruction that includes a divine mystical revelation.5 He
explains to Arjuna the nature of the soul and the nature of the timeless, spaceless, changeless infinite
reality and explains that they are not different. The Gita does not lead the reader from one stage of
spiritual development to another, but starts with the conclusion. KSutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga
yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most
famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three
pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When
you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading adepts to say that hatha is kriya is
raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time summed up in the Sanskrit word
samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the yoking of spirit to spatial and
temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher of yoga philosophy, points out,
"Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal meaning of samsara is flowing
together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of causal relationships. As the
late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night Live," this flowing together
can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or another, "it's always
something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in quantum physics, and it is
vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events. We will look at this in
detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also refers to something that
the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the idea of the wheel of
existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth, set in motion by
causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of view, these cycles
can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the egomind to "
anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego. Samsara is also a
term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we participate in the
flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT ART OF T r M E
CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum physics, as we
shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-is the
progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this ancient
wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel through
time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells us how
we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking that
modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much of
modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
and how quantum physics and consciousness are related. But first let's look more closely at what one of
the ancient Indian texts has to say. 13 C HAPTER ONE THE B HA GAVAD GITA In the early part of the first
millennium BCE, Indian philosophers found evidence for the beginnings of what we today call the
perennial philosophy. It can be stated in three sentences: 1. An infinite, unchanging reality exists hidden
behind the illusion of ceaseless change. 2. This infinite, unchanging reality lies at the core of every being
and is the substratum of the personality. 3. Life has one main purpose: to experience this one realityto
discover God while living on earth. One of the ancient texts in which these principles are set forth and
discussed is the Bhagavad Gita.4 The spiritual wisdom of the Gita is delivered in the midst of the most
terrible of all possible human situations: warfare-literally, on the battlefield itself. On the eve of combat,
the prince Arjuna loses his nerve and in desperation turns to his charioteer, Krishna, asking him what to
do. But Krishna is no ordinary horse-and-cart driver; he is a direct incarnation of God, and he responds
to Arjuna in seven hundred stanzas of sublime instruction that includes a divine mystical revelation.5 He
explains to Arjuna the nature of the soul and the nature of the timeless, spaceless, changeless infinite
reality and explains that they are not different. The Gita does not lead the reader from one stage of
spiritual development to another, but starts with the conclusion. KSutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga
yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most
famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three
pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When
you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading adepts to say that hatha is kriya is
raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time summed up in the Sanskrit word
samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the yoking of spirit to spatial and
temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher of yoga philosophy, points out,
"Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal meaning of samsara is flowing
together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of causal relationships. As the
late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night Live," this flowing together
can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or another, "it's always
something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in quantum physics, and it is
vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events. We will look at this in
detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also refers to something that
the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the idea of the wheel of
existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth, set in motion by
causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of view, these cycles
can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the egomind to "
anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego. Samsara is also a
term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we participate in the
flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT ART OF T r M E
CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum physics, as we
shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-is the
progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this ancient
wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel through
time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells us how
we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking that
modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much of
modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
and how quantum physics and consciousness are related. But first let's look more closely at what one of
the ancient Indian texts has to say. 13 C HAPTER ONE THE B HA GAVAD GITA In the early part of the first
millennium BCE, Indian philosophers found evidence for the beginnings of what we today call the
perennial philosophy. It can be stated in three sentences: 1. An infinite, unchanging reality exists hidden
behind the illusion of ceaseless change. 2. This infinite, unchanging reality lies at the core of every being
and is the substratum of the personality. 3. Life has one main purpose: to experience this one realityto
discover God while living on earth. One of the ancient texts in which these principles are set forth and
discussed is the Bhagavad Gita.4 The spiritual wisdom of the Gita is delivered in the midst of the most
terrible of all possible human situations: warfare-literally, on the battlefield itself. On the eve of combat,
the prince Arjuna loses his nerve and in desperation turns to his charioteer, Krishna, asking him what to
do. But Krishna is no ordinary horse-and-cart driver; he is a direct incarnation of God, and he responds
to Arjuna in seven hundred stanzas of sublime instruction that includes a divine mystical revelation.5 He
explains to Arjuna the nature of the soul and the nature of the timeless, spaceless, changeless infinite
reality and explains that they are not different. The Gita does not lead the reader from one stage of
spiritual development to another, but starts with the conclusion. KSutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga
yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most
famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three
pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When
you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading adepts to say that hatha is kriya is
raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time summed up in the Sanskrit word
samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the yoking of spirit to spatial and
temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher of yoga philosophy, points out,
"Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal meaning of samsara is flowing
together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of causal relationships. As the
late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night Live," this flowing together
can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or another, "it's always
something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in quantum physics, and it is
vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events. We will look at this in
detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also refers to something that
the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the idea of the wheel of
existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth, set in motion by
causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of view, these cycles
can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the egomind to "
anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego. Samsara is also a
term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we participate in the
flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT ART OF T r M E
CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum physics, as we
shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-is the
progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this ancient
wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel through
time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells us how
we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking that
modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much of
modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
and how quantum physics and consciousness are related. But first let's look more closely at what one of
the ancient Indian texts has to say. 13 C HAPTER ONE THE B HA GAVAD GITA In the early part of the first
millennium BCE, Indian philosophers found evidence for the beginnings of what we today call the
perennial philosophy. It can be stated in three sentences: 1. An infinite, unchanging reality exists hidden
behind the illusion of ceaseless change. 2. This infinite, unchanging reality lies at the core of every being
and is the substratum of the personality. 3. Life has one main purpose: to experience this one realityto
discover God while living on earth. One of the ancient texts in which these principles are set forth and
discussed is the Bhagavad Gita.4 The spiritual wisdom of the Gita is delivered in the midst of the most
terrible of all possible human situations: warfare-literally, on the battlefield itself. On the eve of combat,
the prince Arjuna loses his nerve and in desperation turns to his charioteer, Krishna, asking him what to
do. But Krishna is no ordinary horse-and-cart driver; he is a direct incarnation of God, and he responds
to Arjuna in seven hundred stanzas of sublime instruction that includes a divine mystical revelation.5 He
explains to Arjuna the nature of the soul and the nature of the timeless, spaceless, changeless infinite
reality and explains that they are not different. The Gita does not lead the reader from one stage of
spiritual development to another, but starts with the conclusion. KSutras, Patanjali sets forth ashtanga
yoga (literally, the eightlimbed practice), which is now generally referred to as raja yoga. Again, the most
famous Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita, talks about karma yoga, bhakti yoga, and jnana yoga-three
pathways for attaining enlightenment. The Gita also speaks of kriya yoga, as do the Yoga Sutras. When
you compare them, you find they complement each other, leading adepts to say that hatha is kriya is
raja. Yoga as both a practice and a system implies a concept of time summed up in the Sanskrit word
samsara. Samsara signifies conditioned existence, boundedness-the yoking of spirit to spatial and
temporal confinement. As Georg Feuerstein, a noted scholar and teacher of yoga philosophy, points out,
"Above all ... Samsara is time. "2 Feuerstein explains that the literal meaning of samsara is flowing
together-a perpetual flux of things and events producing consequences of causal relationships. As the
late Gilda Radner used to remind us on the television show "Saturday Night Live," this flowing together
can produce unexpected and undesired consequences-if it isn't one thing or another, "it's always
something. " This flowing together of things and events has a counterpart in quantum physics, and it is
vital to how the mind " creates" time and the appearance of objective events. We will look at this in
detail in the upcoming chapters, particularly chapters 8 and 9. But samsara also refers to something that
the Western mind, with its "linear" view of time, does not consider. This is the idea of the wheel of
existence-that the soul experiences endless rounds of birth, life, death, and rebirth, set in motion by
causal links created in past lives . It turns out that, from a quantum physics point of view, these cycles
can be experienced by the time traveler through recognition of the role played by the egomind to "
anchor" experience-literally bind it into time providing an active focal point or ego. Samsara is also a
term for maya, or illusion-the persistent beliefs that bind us to space and time so we participate in the
flow of these perpetual cycles rather than escaping from them. This 12 T HE ANC IENT ART OF T r M E
CHEAT ING view of life taught by ancient adepts, too, resonates with findings in quantum physics, as we
shall see in chapter 8. Many ancient hymns tell us that time-the past, present, and future-is the
progenitor of the cosmos and that time itself is the child of consciousness. Contained within this ancient
wisdom is a secret: that it is possible through technique to cheat time-in other words, to travel through
time, and even to reach the shores of timelessness. Again, quantum physics agrees, and it tells us how
we can draw a map of these shores so the traveler sees what they may look like. I find it striking that
modern physics posits the existence of a timeless, spaceless realm of existence without which much of
modern physics would make little sense, nor would it connect with reality as we perceive it. Well and
good, you may say, but what does this have to do with time travel? Digging deeper into these ancient
texts, we find that they say time and space are products of the mind and do not exist independent of it.
The principles of quantum physics, remarkably, tell us the same thing. This is an extraordinary key. The
trick to going outside the confines of space and time is to reach beyond their source-the mind itself.
Paradoxically, we need a theoretical picture created by the mind to understand what it means to reach
beyond the mind. We also need a form of practice. To make time travel real, not just a theoretical
exercise, requires a way of slipping around the corner, peeking under the screen, so to speak, where our
usual motion picture of reality is projected. The ancient Vedas referred to this behind-the-scenes look at
creation as kala-vancana, literally, " time-cheating. "3 It is possible, they say, to escape the space-time
illusion of samsarathe projections of the mind itself, which turns out be our own memory in disguise-and
cheat time, that is, travel through time. In the coming chapters, we will examine how we think of time
and how quantum physics and consciousness are related. But first let's look more closely at what one of
the ancient Indian texts has to say. 13 C HAPTER ONE THE B HA GAVAD GITA In the early part of the first
millennium BCE, Indian philosophers found evidence for the beginnings of what we today call the
perennial philosophy. It can be stated in three sentences: 1. An infinite, unchanging reality exists hidden
behind the illusion of ceaseless change. 2. This infinite, unchanging reality lies at the core of every being
and is the substratum of the personality. 3. Life has one main purpose: to experience this one realityto
discover God while living on earth. One of the ancient texts in which these principles are set forth and
discussed is the Bhagavad Gita.4 The spiritual wisdom of the Gita is delivered in the midst of the most
terrible of all possible human situations: warfare-literally, on the battlefield itself. On the eve of combat,
the prince Arjuna loses his nerve and in desperation turns to his charioteer, Krishna, asking him what to
do. But Krishna is no ordinary horse-and-cart driver; he is a direct incarnation of God, and he responds
to Arjuna in seven hundred stanzas of sublime instruction that includes a divine mystical revelation.5 He
explains to Arjuna the nature of the soul and the nature of the timeless, spaceless, changeless infinite
reality and explains that they are not different. The Gita does not lead the reader from one stage of
spiritual development to another, but starts with the conclusion. K