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Future Memory: How Those Who 'See the Future' Shed New Light on the Workings of the Human Mind

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It's uplifting and transformational. Atwater tells us of her extraordinary experiences, and we are carried away to new levels of understanding of the Universe. Many of her Brain-shift experiences were mind-blowing, but they are presented in such a way that we can easily accept the truth which they suggest and know that it's certainly possible for those of us who have NEVER had an NDE to perceive this same reality as well.

For me this confirmed ideas that have been brewing in me for a long time, and gave them substance and strength. So many of the books I have been reading lately are zeroing in on the understanding of how this whole existence can be happening right inside the mind of God, and that we are actively participating in the extraordinary evolution of the Creator of the Universe. This is big and it's important that we understand and accept the responsibility of this reality, and it's a joyful realization as well. Tears of gratefulness streamed down my face as I read of "the wonders of spirit unveiled...a splendor forever seeking release in a desire to experience and express itself."

Atwater's story is as poetic as it is scientifically compelling. It's so well-written and well-organized that it reads like a novel you won't want to put down, even though it's packed with a substantial dose of physics, metaphysics, and philosophy. Future Memory will put a smile in your heart which you will never forget. Find your place in the Cosmos and realize "we are beloved thoughts in The Mind of God...the real heaven."

Do you wonder what it's like to remember the future? How would it feel to remember events from both your future and your past? PMH Atwater's book, FUTURE MEMORY presents compelling evidence and a fascinating explanation of the future memory phenomenon, where people prelive future experiences while still active and functional in present time. Atwater's expertise in the field of Near Death Experiences (NDE) shines through as she shares many stories from her personal life and guides readers through the labyrinth of the mind and the fabric of time, space, and the universe itself. FUTURE MEMORY masterfully balances subjective experience with relevant theories and scientific findings, bringing the otherwise lofty material "down to Earth" for practical applicability in daily life. We can all experience expansive brain shifts when we experience the Void that lies at the heart of All That Is with patience and receptivity... and can benefit tremendously when our consciousness expands. I felt torn between devouring this book as quickly as possible and savoring each and every page. If you've been looking for a book that will shift your mind into higher gear, this is it!

a delicate bouquet. This is a really good book. Very sincere and well written and truly interesting. This reviewer tends to shy away from New Age science, unless there's some hard scientific evidence to back up any claims. The author's science seems sound, but the crux of her message rests on her personal experience. Having had several uninvited experiences of some of the phenomena dealt with in this book (particularly Out-of-body-experiences)I can say that this book was well worth reading, a discussion on matters that should be discussed more in the way that this book does, because there's enough pompous charlatans out there ruining such discussion because they want to get money by titillating you into thinking you need them for some grand Answer.

I really admire previous reviewers their apparent ease in reading this book. I found it hard to follow the lateral mental leaps P.M.H.Atwater takes in endeavouring to interpret her post NDE experiences and those of others. Autobiographical details (which I found highly gripping but hard to sort out chronologically because of the frequent retrospective leaps) are interspersed throughout a personal philosophy of reality that the author matches up with what seems to be a random selection of quantum theories.

There are some real pearls of wisdom and some astute observations of human nature, but I find the likes of Tart, Tiller, McTaggart and others far easier to follow - and more orderly - than P.M.H. Atwater's conclusions. Her approach, in my view, is often speculative, although she speaks with complete authority. But all experience, even that of an NDE, is surely filtered through our personal perceptions. I like the poet Rilke's point that we need to have "the courage to live the questions." I would have preferred the author to discuss possiblities rather than aim at certainties.

I would also have liked her to include the fact that people who have survived a major trauma can also have the same kind of mind shift she refers to with NDEs. An important point I would think, because we don't all need an out-of-this-world experience to achieve the transformation described - there's a remarkably similar alchemy to be found in life at ground level.

Perhaps the book was meant to convince (which I didn't need.) But I was disappointed there were few down-to-earth suggestions for approaching one's own reality shifts. To me, therefore, it was more a philosophical exploration than a pragmatic exercise.

This is a "heavy" book that shakes up all preconceived notions we have of memory, space, time, creation, and consciousness. The insights are based on P.M.H. Atwater's near-death experiences (she had three) and her scientific research, which include several hundred interviews she conducted with others who had near-death experiences. The author boldly declares that "The brain can rearrange itself in as little as fifteen minutes, if excited in novel and creative ways. Time is accelerating. The atomic clocks have been reset 19 times since 1972. Recent shifts in the earth's magnetic and electric fields are affecting our immune systems, fatigue levels, and weather. To keep up with our changing times, we too must change. The future is now! Return to an awareness of the Spiral's Edge where all things can be seen. Guidance from your soul awaits."

This book requires you to be completely open to new theories regarding our existence. For example, P.M.H. Atwater explains how movies appear to be continuous but are just a series of still shots separated by periods of darkness. In the same way, a chord of music is really a series of notes separated by silence. Atwater theorizes that "The subconscious mind regularly absorbs more than a billion pieces of information per second," and that "our brains are so bombarded that less than 1 percent of what comes in ever reaches the conscious mind." These insights encourage you to be more aware of the space in things and the space in ourselves.

Future Memory is a tool to help you evolve to a higher level of consciousness. It allows you to be more receptive to new ideas and to become more comfortable with the cycles of life and death. You may not resonate with all of her theories; to do so will take time, requiring a complete shift of your paradigms and some first-hand experience. But the concepts are imbued with truth. For instance, "There are only two religions on this earth, the religion of love and the religion of fear," and "the only gospel we can ever know is the experience of God in our own heart ... Enlightenment is ongoing, not a plateau we achieve, as the term describes an evolutionary shift from one phase of brain function to another, opening the way for dimensions of experience without number and realm of spirit without end."

This is the second time that I've read this book and no doubt I shall read it many more times in the years to come. You see, like Bucke's _Cosmic Consciousness_,who the author credits and validates, this is one of the great Books of metaphysics. I can think of it in no other terms but a unified field theory of metaphysics. The torus/vortex ring model of creation and evolution is brilliant. So is her "colloidal state" of awakening and transcendence. Her model accounts for everything in the hermetic, theosophic, and gnostic sources. This book has the unmistakable ring of truth.

As for the claim by some that the book is "poorly edited", this is simply not true. This book has been purposefully and masterfully crafted in the form of a prose labyrinth. It is constructed in such a manner as to help shake the reader's mind free of preconcieved notions and open them up. Any confused, small-minded, infant that would accuse this book of being "poorly edited" would no doubt have claimed the same of Joyce....

I read this book quite awhile ago or was it just tomorrow? I am fascinated by all things that have to deal with time, the nature of reality, and God. I guess I could have worse hobbies. But things are not always what they seem to be. In truth, things are always much, much more than what they appear to be.

I had an experience once where all of the sudden I was somewhere in my past. It wasn't like a memory...I was actually there and yet I was simultaneously conscious that I was also somewhere else in time and then I realized if I could be in the past as well as the present I wondered if I could also move into the "future" and lo and behold, I was there. And then before I knew it, I was back in what I knew to be my present reality.

We cling to our beliefs of what we feel to be true of certain things and when those beliefs are threatened, we're threatened because we think we've been mislead or lied to when all that really took place is that we were given some incomplete information and that's okay, no need to get our knickers in a bunch, just go forth in this new now moment..the only time there REALLY is and accept, embrace, and embody the Truth that ALL things, including your "little" life is much bigger than you had previously realized.

I remember that you already bought this book next week and you told me three weeks ago you really, really liked. All things are taking place in the now. All the possibilities of time and space converge upon a single point.

This is a great book and a great find. Read it and blow your linear mind right out of the waters of pragmatism.

This book is really wierd. I bumped into it a wierd way because I was in Portland on a vacation, and this book caught my eye more than any other at a cafe, and I liked just what I read there so much that I begged the people in the cafe to let me buy it. They sold it to me for $10.

Ive allmost died seriously a couple times, once when I was 1, I drowned, another time I got my windpipe kicked closed. There have been dozens of other times where I would have died if I wasnt so lucky, stuff like getting hit by cars or having a gun on me.

Ive allways been able to predict with pretty good accuracy whats going to happen in my life. What I allways thought it was was that I simply had good forseight, and a good idea of how everything should turn out, but I guess it isnt a normal "skill".

This book really rang a chord in me though, I suggest that if you have found out about it, you really should read it. The resources in the back on wierd subjects with addresses and phone numbers is pretty amazing.

I found this book both informative and inspiring. Some people might not enjoy the scientific discussions that tend to get a little dry, but if you can get through that section it will be worth it.
At the beginning of the book the author describes her early years and the problems she had in school which mirrored my life. I was the same type of child who saw different things than others saw, I knew the future because I had future memory events and didn't know it until I read this book. I was call by my teachers the " child of the devel" because I was left handed, not to mention the episods of future memory I sometimes talked about because I forgot to keep it to myself. I grade 2 I got the strap allmost every week because I would not stop using my left hand. And my parents supported it. These things leave their mark on you.
I know the long road of recovery. P.M.H Atwater travelled that road. Either you become very bitter to life or you forgive everyone and move on. Phylis chose the second option and the book showes you what a good option it was.

This was a slow book for me to trudge through, and I'm normally a fast reader. Trying to make sense of the author's concepts and assertions definitely slowed me down; it was often hard to tell if she was describing dream sequences or some manner of organic brain damage, or true genuine insights into the nature of reality. (Not that they're mutually exclusive, necessarily.) It should be recalled that everyone views reality through their own set of filters, and that's very much true here. There were certainly some concepts that rang true for me, and others that I found highly doubtful. Maybe that's the true value of this book - it will definitely push your boundaries, whether you agree with it or not. It's worth the read, and perhaps will be worth another read in a few years, but I can't imagine working my way through it again any time soon.

Just for the sake of accuracy I'll mention that there's precious little about the "future memory" phenomenon in this book, despite the title. The first few chapters go into it, and then it's forgotten in favor of a much more complex "big picture."