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Joe predicts future & why it can't be known with certainty!, September 19, 2001
This review is from: The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer’s Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium (Paperback)
I have known Joe for more than a decade. I first met him at the Monroe Institute. This stuff is real. I have watched him be given a set of computer generated latittude and longitude map coordinates and a date and had him somehow "go" there and accurately describe what he saw. He tried to teach me how to do it, but I don't have his talent.
What I really like about Joe is his total lack of ego envolvement in what he predicts. He does not come across like "Weird Willy from the Mystical East who Sees All and Knows All" - Lord knows I've met enough of them. If you met him you would be amazed at how down to earth he is. He is the first to admit that some of what he "sees" doesn't happen. He takes up the first third of the book explaining why and some of the techniques of Remote Viewing.
If you read this book carefully he explains that the future is NOT determined. The future is a plastic set of evolving interrelated possibilities. Some of these possibilities happen, some collapse, many are interrelated - if "A" happens then "B" & "C" will happen.
Joe and his friends, like Ed Dames, et al, are constantly trying to find ways to become more accurate. Sometimes there is a difference of opinion, sometimes the majority is right somethimes the majority is wrong. I have absolute faith in his integrity. He tells you what he sees.
Yes, some of his predictions did not come true. But he accurately predicted the mid 2000 stock market collapse. The book was published in 1997.
The only difficulty I find with the book is organization, which comes from the way the remote viewers do their thing. They target one date and one topic in the future at a time. The book tells you what they saw. But just like history, future events are always interrelated. War, and stock market flucuations, as we have seen, may be the result of from terrorist acts.
If you want insight into the future, at any rate, his book is a big improvement over the Rorschalk test unintelligible mumblings of Nostradamus wherein anyone can see whatever they wish. A lot of very important people rely on what Joe McMoneagle sees.
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50 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
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Can we see the past and the future?, May 19, 2000
This review is from: The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer’s Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium (Paperback)
Joe McMoneagle's The Ultimate Time Machine is fascinating and entertaining, but, for me, it is his view of time that makes the book special. What is the past ? What is the future? Do we really have access to both? McMoneagle takes us in both directions through his skills as a Remote Viewer, a term that simply means accessing information through psychic means, but with a disciplined methodology. As a writer and author myself, I can't resist the concept of time travel and I was delighted to find that something I've come to believe is one of McMoneagle's predictions: that the same discovery that will one day let us move instantaneously from one location to another will also let us move in time. Time and place are connected and we will conquer both. The solution, I think, will turn out to be simple, and not entirely dependent on technology. We will come to a new understanding of the true non-linear nature of time. Do we create the future when we predict it? Maybe we do, and McMoneagle leaves that fine point to us to decide. Is he helping to bring about a vision, or simply seeing it? I think it is a bit of both and not everything he views will come to pass. Remember the words of Yoda, Star Wars Jedi master: "Always in motion is the future."
I can forgive Joe for the few blown predictions that we already know about -- the pope did not die in late 1999 as predicted. Many others will happen. Which ones? That's what makes it entertaining; reading the predictions gets your own mind working creating your own vision of the future. McMoneagle is very direct in these predictions, stating clearly and unambiguously what will happen and when. These are no vague Nostradamus-type ramblings that can be interpreted in multiple ways. McMoneagle lays it all out, and even gives us a vision of the year 3000. His vision is a hopeful one for mankind. The next thousand years will see wonders and terrors, and, make no mistake, it's going to be a bumpy millenium. But then, we knew that, didn't we? By the year 3000, we will have gotten a lot of it right. I found the book to be really good reading of the "can't put it down" variety. If you have intense curiosity about the mysteries of the past and the promise of the future, buy this book.
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23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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Thought-provoking., September 7, 2001
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This review is from: The Ultimate Time Machine: A Remote Viewer’s Perception of Time, and Predictions for the New Millennium (Paperback)
I'll be honest. I really like Joe's MIND TREK (the personal and RV parts are fascinating, though occasional RV-brainy parts are a bit thick). I feel Joe's REMOTE VIEWING SECRETS is hands-down the best how-to work on psychic function likely to be written in the next decade or two -- a classic standard from day 1. But for THE ULTIMATE TIME MACHINE my feelings are mixed. Prophecy is my least-favorite aspect of psi. I do admit the book is very interesting, despite this topic not really being my bag.
McMoneagle (a long-time soldier and then science-researcher) in his second book has improved on his writing of complex material without sounding like a military report. So it's more readable even in the more densely-informative areas, and extremely readable in certain others that are darn-interesting. The outline of topic-date-prediction is more organized/logical than anything I've seen done in the psi arena, but I actually found this less pleasing. I think had the book been done in a more narrative fashion it might have made it less practical, and less referenceable, but more fun... easier reading for the general public. I suppose it is up to readers to decide what they prefer. McMoneagle is, as anybody who knows him or has even met him would vouch for, one of the most practical, logical (not to mention brilliant) human beings around. So, it's his book, he did it his way.
Some of his predictions have proven out; others have not. Some predictions seem vague, while others are very specific. Some others, even at the point where they might happen, are likely to require historical perspective to get the real facts. Most of his personal interest seems to be about humanity. In other words, I think he was a lot less interested in the sound-bite "volcano erupts by Tuesday!" approach to predictions than he was the questions "What is our world going to be like? What will we be like?" Sometimes that includes quite specific descriptions, and sometimes it's a general commentary on changes or tendencies.
The author does a nice job in talking about psi, time, some related difficulties and more. If I were going to read a book by anybody about psychic predictions, it'd be McMoneagle, since he's so far the only person who's demonstrated accurate, under-controls, in-public/gov't/military/science-lab remote viewing -- including of future events. Since he's one of the only people with actual credentials in the Anomalous Cognition field, his work deserves being approached with respect, whether or not this particular book is as exciting for most as his other two.
For those into cultural anthropology the book is fascinating. He talks a lot about life in the future; a different manner of living (from how we'll eat to the kind of physical structures our culture will favor), and many other things. Even if you take the psychic equation out of it, the book is good food-for-thought and discussion-group-inspiring. Which as even Joe would say, until one gets feedback on the facts is all it can be.
One thing -- Joe covers from now out until a certain point in time, and then jumps to much farther in the future. There is a large gap there. Given the changes from one part to the other, what he does NOT say but I got the impression of, was that at some point the planet is going to lose an awful lot of people and have some massive changes in culture and perhaps even physicality. Like I said, he doesn't really spell this out, but thinking about what he does say would kind of lead to this conclusion. I wasn't sure why he did that. Maybe it was just limited space.
I think if you are interested in psychic work and/or psychic predictions/prophecy, this is a good book to have. The author's a real-world expert, and there is tons of material here. If you are more interested in personal psychic development, I recommend Remote Viewing Secrets instead. If you would just like an interesting book that contains both narrative autobiographical story and intriguing psychic sessions and some hands-on advice, Mind Trek is a very good introduction.
Like all Joe's books, you might believe in psychic ability or not, you might like the book or not, but there is no disputing his intelligence, his down to earth, no-nonsense approach, and his intriguing ability to conceptualize a lot about aspects of reality most people just never consider. In the end, other than being an thought-provoking read (which is enough on its own merits), I suppose the primary value of this book will have to be proven the same way its contents will -- from considerably into the future, looking back.
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