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The Time Travel Handbook: A Manual of Practice Teleportation & Time Travel

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Having been disappointed many times by books promising to reveal previously secret methods of time travel, astral projection, teleportation, and such, I approached this title with an understandable skepticism. What would distinguish this work from, for example, Danielski's 1989 work, "Teleportation and Time Tripping: A Manual," or Bearden's 1994 volume, "Other Bodies, Other Worlds: Crossing the Barrier of Time and Space." Imagine my delight when I found this work to be not another rehash of now tired Theosophian thinking, but rather a fresh and engaging effort to document some of the latest--and some of the most ancient--thinking in one of the most exciting frontiers of the emerging post-science, post-rationalism age. The editor has done a fine job of assembling many of the most important and relevant documents in this field, and I can unabashedly recommend this tome to anyone seeking to prepare themselves for the undoubtedly fantastic world which will be upon us as the New Millennium dawns.

This book, starts out as a pretty dry read concerning the physics of time travel. This is alright, since the concept is pretty deep, but is better covered by a physicist like Paul Davies, in his book "About Time". The science part reads like a college term paper rather than an interesting portrayal of the science. Then again, we're not buying it to learn about Einstein, are we? No, we want to see about time travel!
Once past the science stuff, we begin to see what 'paranormal' or unexplained events may indicate time travellers. U.F.O.'s is a common theme here, although I'm surprised Childress, who does seem to discuss everything, didn't talk about people purportedly appearing from nowhere. These cases are well documented, and certainly related to the idea of 'time travel'. That aside, he displays some nice photographic and illustrated documentation of U.F.O.'s, starting with the late 19th century. This continues, including Rastafarian Time Travellers. It goes on into the Philidelphia Experiment and how it may relate to time travel. Then, into some people's unfounded claims of either a.) being a time traveller b.) channeling time travellers c.) finding time capsules supposedly left by time travellers, etc. The section on 'Seth' (of 'Seth Speaks' fame) was particularly painful, nearly equal to the lengthy babblings concerning the 'Wingmakers', (look it up on the internet). Later, the book goes into some patents, and ends up with an excellent re-iteration of an actual, verified teleportation performed in California-perhaps the only truly verifiable evidence in this book.
Aside from these difficulties, it really has quite a few photographs and drawings of time machines, either patent ideas or left by 'time travellers'. A few amusing cartoons are included, and it does go into depth (as much as is possible) to speculation of actual work on space-time related projects. Fun to read? Read Well's 'Time Machine' for that (which I was surprised and disappointed Childress did not find some connection to allow him to speculate Wells was writing from first-hand experience). It is a nice collection of the 'time travel' theories, ideas, and purported events in existence to the public today, and for that it is worth a purchase.

I'm blown away. This is the first book I purchased on time travel. I was actually looking for a book on wormholes, and this was the closest (and best rated) that I could find. I feel foolish now to think that I was just looking for a book on one tiny subject in a gargantuan field.

This book covers so much, it is difficult to swallow. The first section deals with theoretical physics concepts like general and special relativity. These concepts are explained well, for the most part. There are some shortcomings in the editing (like using a term before defining it, and not providing an index or glossary of terms), but it wasn't so bad that it became incomprehensible.

From there, it moves to application of these concepts, The Philadelphia Experiment, and much more. I'm only about half-way through the book, but so far, it just keeps getting better and better. The portions on current research into vertical timelines and defying our conventional perception of physical space are mind-blowing. Even if this book is a complete lie, it is an amazingly well thought-out and thoroughly supported one! Highly recommended. (Don't let the embarrassingly stupid cover or laughable typography fool you, the content is completely professional and fascinating.)

This book has some interesting theories and stories but it's very technical. That part bored me rather quickly because I'm not a scientist so a lot of it was over my head. The parts that are not so technical...documented stories are VERY interesting and I'm glad I read the book just for those. So if you are not technically minded then I suggest you not give youself a headache by trying to understand stuff in this book but rather be willing to skip to the good parts.

I'm blown away. This is the first book I purchased on time travel. I was actually looking for a book on wormholes, and this was the closest (and best rated) that I could find. I feel foolish now to think that I was just looking for a book on one tiny subject in a gargantuan field.

This book covers so much, it is difficult to swallow. The first section deals with theoretical physics concepts like general and special relativity. These concepts are explained well, for the most part. There are some shortcomings in the editing (like using a term before defining it, and not providing an index or glossary of terms), but it wasn't so bad that it became incomprehensible.

From there, it moves to application of these concepts, The Philadelphia Experiment, and much more. I'm only about half-way through the book, but so far, it just keeps getting better and better. The portions on current research into vertical timelines and defying our conventional perception of physical space are mind-blowing. Even if this book is a complete lie, it is an amazingly well thought-out and thoroughly supported one! Highly recommended. (Don't let the embarrassingly stupid cover or laughable typography fool you, the content is completely professional and fascinating.)

This book is not a manual. It is consisted of a collection of stories and articles about possible time travel incidents, such as the Philadelphia experiment and other like occurrences: no new information.

If you already have some understanding of how the relativity theory of a space-time continuum replaces the Newtonian concept of an absolute time and space, then this book is not for you. It is for people who want to acquire this knowledge. It is for beginners.

So, unless you are an absolute beginner to new science, do not waste your time and money on this book.

I do laud the editor for his effort nonetheless.

Here's my review of this book, it's great. Now I would like to say that what is written in this book is quite possible and has been observed and experienced by people, namely myself.

There is a small lake I like to walk around near where I live. It's just a short 2.5 mile single path loop. One day as I entered the path and began to walk I quickly overtook an elderly woman using a cane. She was hobbling along very slowly. I passed her at about the 1/4 mile mark. As I continued trucking along at a fast pace I soon came upon the 1 mile marker. Much to my surprise, ahead of me by about 50 yards was the same old woman with a cane! I overtook her again! Sounds impossible doesn't it? Either she teleported herself to the midway point on the path, or I was sucked into some kind of temporal time disortion loop or something, where I lost consciousness and re-emerged none the wiser. At any rate I have no idea how or what exactly happened, only that it did. I thank God for the experience, man. It was beautiful.

Thanks God! (spoken while pointing both index fingers toward the heavens!)

After several failed attempts at building a time machine I had come to the conclusion that it was not possible, or at least not with our current technology. Imagine my delight when I read this book and had what can only be desribed as a 'Eureka' moment whilst having a bath one morning. I suddenly realised that time-travel was indeed very possible, and I am at this moment constructing a time machine designed by my father and myself. Once completed I intend to travel millions of years into the future and bring back physical proof of my journey back with me. Such as a singing octopus, or a pig with wheels for feet or something.

I have about a dozen books on time travel, so when I saw that this was the actual "handbook" I thought I'd check it out. Unfortunately, there are a lot of problems with it. Most of the time it seems like book is simply trying to SOUND intelligent, without actually achieving that. It actually REPEATS entire sections that you've already read underneath pictures describing (poorly) what you've already read. There are certainly interesting sections of this book, but nothing you can't find elsewhere in a more cohesive manner.

Okay, the book is "interesting". But unless you really understand a lot of scientific mumbo jumbo, this book is a guaranteed sleep agent. I enjoyed reading about the strange stories and what not, but, honestly, I could have read them in a Time-Life book. Some are stories that everyone already knows about (Philadelphia Experiment). Some of the diagrams are pretty cheesy. One supposedly is a "time machine", but looks like a baby walker. Please! Most of the "scientific" data is nothing but a bunch of photocopies of other people's work. This book is in no way a "manual" for anything. You won't learn how to time travel. Save your money. Or you can buy mine cheap.