The Oneironauts

Using dreams to engineer our future

Paul Kalas

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English

Paul Kalas
26 October 2018

Social forecasting, future studies; Time (chronology), time systems & standards; Clairvoyance & precognition; Dreams & their interpretation; Psychic powers & psychic phenomena

"Have you ever had a strong feeling of deja vu or witnessed that a dream came true in the future? Are such experiences precognitive or just illusions of the mind? How would a top scientist approach such questions about the paranormal?

The Oneironauts, or ""the dream travelers,"" introduces new scientific evidence that we really do experience possible future events in our dreams.

Author Paul Kalas is the University of California, Berkeley astronomer who captured the first picture of a planet orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut using the Hubble Space Telescope. This image appeared on the front page of the New York Times and is displayed in the National Air and Space Museum.

In The Oneironauts he reveals for the first time that this pioneering discovery was recorded in his dream diary nine years before it was actually discovered.

In Chapters 1-3, Dr. Kalas relates how prophetic dreams allowed him to both avoid an unpleasant event and affirm a desired goal. He concludes that fate is an illusion, the future can be changed, and both our gut instincts and sense of hope arise from precognitive dreams.

Chapters 4 presents the famous astronomical discovery and precognitive dream in detail, while Chapter 5 analyzes a total of 332 precognitive experiences. Dr. Kalas interprets precognition as a phenomenon related to memory and learning that also influences our personal identity and life path.

Dr. Kalas reviews modern concepts of space and time in Chapters 6 and 7. From physics and astronomy he introduces the reader to relativity, gravitational lensing, the particle-wave duality of light, quantum entanglement, and biophysics. From neuroscience he explains key breakthroughs in our understanding of memory and the perception of spacetime through the study of the hippocampus, sleep and theta rhythm.

In Chapter 8, Dr. Kalas engages the reader with his vision of how precognitive dreaming can improve the lives of individuals and ultimately the future of humanity. What will our society look like in 1,000 years when humans and artificial intelligence have developed reliable methods to recover information from the future?

The Oneironauts will dazzle anyone who has had a precognitive experience or simply wishes to read what a leading scientist predicts about the future. It is beautifully illustrated with 34 original figures and clearly explains modern scientific topics with a touch of humor and references to over 100 writers, poets, artists and scholars."

By: Paul Kalas
Imprint: Paul Kalas
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9781732463134
ISBN 10: 1732463131
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 26 October 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

PAUL KALAS is an astronomer who searches for planetary systems around other stars using the most advanced telescopes in existence. He is an astronomy faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, a research scientist at SETI Institute and an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research career includes the publication of four breakthrough papers as first author in the leading scientific journals Nature and Science. In 2008 he announced the first optical image of an extrasolar planet orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut using the Hubble Space Telescope, for which he was awarded the Newcomb Cleveland Prize in 2009.

Reviews for The Oneironauts: Using dreams to engineer our future

The Oneironauts is especially valuable in that it provides his data consisting in a longitudinal study of how d j experiences can develop as one ages. Additionally, it manages to be an amazing romp! Wow! I thoroughly enjoyed all the speculation and the visions of possible futures. This book expands the mind and broadens horizons. I recommend it unreservedly. -- Dr. Art Funkhouser, Instructor in dreamwork, C. G. Jung Institute, K snacht, Switzerland So I'm back with an exciting book review. I just came across this today and it deals with d j vu. If you've ever had d j vu, when you link that familiarity to a memory you have from a past dream you've had days, weeks, months or years, this book covers that explicitly in great detail. What's so exciting is here you have Paul Kalas who has written The Oneironauts and it is an outstanding approach to this phenomenon. Now, if you've had this experience, I highly recommend this book. His approach looks at it from a scientific perspective. I have always appreciated people who are academic and have this experience and then write about it, and I'm always impressed because I find so many common themes in their writing. The last time I came across a book that takes a person's personal experience and writes about it scientifically is J.W. Dunne's An Experiment with Time which was published back in 1927. It [d j vu] is not uncommon. In fact frequency studies done by Dr. Art Funkhouser and many other scientists that have investigated this show a really high percentage of people have this experience. So I think it's really healthy to open up about it and Paul's book is fantastic. --- Ian Wilson, posted here on YouTube