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Contact with the Future: The Nature of Extrasensory Perception Paperback – September 10, 2020

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This book is about the nature of extrasensory perception, and is based on a 25-year investigation into the physical and biological principles underlying its occurrence.

Jon Taylor has carried out a careful examination of the case histories and laboratory research. He concludes that precognition is the fundamental phenomenon of ESP, and that it occurs when people connect with their future experience of an event. The precognition is due to a transfer of information from the brain in the future to the brain in the present, just as telepathy is due to a transfer between different brains. Taylor rejects the clairvoyance interpretation—direct connection with the event—and suggests that acceptance of this interpretation by a majority of parapsychologists has led to an important misunderstanding about the nature of ESP.

To explain the transfer of information through space and time, Taylor applies the special theory of relativity along with David Bohm’s interpretation of quantum mechanics. He then examines the memory system in the brain and shows how influences produced on the neuronal networks enable information to be retrieved from the future in precognition, in much the same way as from the past in ordinary memory. He avoids any speculations involving consciousness as the information carrier—such speculations having led to skepticism among scientists in the past.

The theory clarifies many misconceptions about extrasensory phenomena. This applies especially to intuition, in which information from the future helps people to make decisions and serves as an important aid to survival. Intuition also accounts for homing instinct in animals, dowsing for minerals, successful use of the I Ching, and the remote viewing techniques used in STAR GATE—the U.S. government’s 22-year program in psychic espionage.

In view of the controversial nature of ESP, a rigorous multidisciplinary approach is taken. The detailed proposals are supported by a glossary of terms and bibliography including over 470 references. Numerous illustrations and personal anecdotes help to make the book accessible to general readers and scientists alike. Finally, Taylor describes several ways in which readers can experience ESP for themselves—this, he suggests, is the best way for skeptics to become aware of the reality of ESP.
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B08HTDC8G2
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Independently published (September 10, 2020)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 368 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8670033022
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.58 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.83 x 10 inches
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Jon Taylor is an interdisciplinary scientist with a Cambridge MA in Natural Sciences. His early career was in marketing, followed by consultancy work in the oil industry. More than 25 years have been dedicated to an investigation of ESP. He has lectured widely in Britain and Europe and published articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He is a professional member of the Parapsychological Association and lives in Puerto de Santa Maria, Spain.

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Stanley Krippner
5.0 out of 5 stars The Future Explains ESP
Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2020
Jon Taylor's book Contact with the Future is an equal opportunity offender. It will offend orthodox scientists and those laypeople who agree with them as to the impossibility of extrasensory perception. But it will also offend readers who are sympathetic with the goals of parapsychology, but whose explanations of "psychic phenomena" follow a linear model. Taylor sees these phenomena as the result of a brain in the future corresponding with a brain in the present. To explain this type of precognition, Taylor draws upon David Bohm's concept of the "implicate order," which shows how information can be transferred between different locations in space and time. Taylor makes many applications of his theory to related fields, notably intuition, non-human animal instinctual behavior, poltergeist activity, dowsing, and divination -- such as found in the ancient Chinese I Ching, or Book of Changes. In recent years there has been a plethora of books on "psychic phenomena," but this one presents a reader-friendly, original perspective that brings new insights to this controversial field.
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Glyn
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 18, 2021
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I have always been interested in extra sensory perception. I read JW Dunne’s ‘An Experiment with Time’ years ago, and he came to the conclusion that in his precognitive dreams he may be somehow retrieving information from his own memories in the future, and that immediately lit up a lightbulb for me that has never gone out. Jon Taylor carries Dunne’s ideas further, and he considers how precognition may actually work. So if you are interested in ESP, or are even just curious, then this book is most definitely for you. Jon Taylor is a scientist, so there is no flim-flam, his ideas are thoroughly researched and thought out. So much in there, so much food for thought. I have just finished it, and can thoroughly recommend it.
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Sarah
5.0 out of 5 stars Fascinating!
Reviewed in Germany on September 13, 2021
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This is a really exciting book about precognition!

(Vorweg: Für alle deutschsprachigen LeserInnen: Nur Mut! Ich musste mit einem normalen Abitur-Englisch nur wenige Wörter nachschlagen!)

The main point for me is that our memory seems to be able not only to detect the past , but also the future!
Apparently, the future, and exactly the one we ourselves will experience one day, is already accessable in the now.

To remember the past our brain activates a neuronal spatiotemporal pattern, it selects the specific pattern among many others that is most similar to the original experience. In the process of detecting these neuronal patterns related to the memory we are looking for, different neuronal networks are activated and at the same time others are inhibited. Through our feeling of resonance between the present event and the earlier experienced event we are finally given feedback on whether we have traced a matching memory or not (yet).

According to Taylor the same process occurs in the detection of future events. If a strong neural resonance is activated between a presently experienced event and one that is still in the future, the event that will occur in the future is identified. And vice versa, if no resonance is experienced between current and later experience, this event will probably not occur in the future. Taylor sees precognition as an internal connection between the present self and the future self. The person connects to his or her own future knowledge of an event that is in the future and of which he or she will receive information at a later time. So the future knowledge will be available in the future and therefore it is already retrievable at the present time.

Intuition is - according to Taylor - the creative element that comes into play when a person does not perceive any resonance between the now, e.g. an intention to do something, and the future. With the help of our intuition we then reschedule our present plans until a secure sense of resonance comes forward.

You can easily find out if the theory works for you: Just observe very carefully how you make decisions, why you abandon some plans and others not, what exactly happens when you make new decisions,... And observe your inner feelings of resonance ...
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