What Is Time? with Gary Lachman

Gary Lachman is the author The Return of Holy Russia: Apocalyptic History, Mystical Awakening, and the Struggle for the Soul of the World as well as over twenty other books about the influence of esotericism on politics and society. He has written biographies of Carl Jung, Aleister Crowley, Rudolf Steiner, Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, Emanuel Swedenborg, P. D. Ouspensky, and Colin Wilson. His newest book is Dreaming Ahead of Time: Experiences with Precognitive Dreams, Synchronicities and Coincidences.

Here he compares the standard, Newtonian view of time with other approaches. Einstein, for example, described the past and the future as stubbornly persisting illusions. Hermann Minkowski, who taught Einstein, referred to time as the fourth dimension. P. D. Ouspensky, the Russian philosopher who worked with G. I. Gurdjieff, postulated a six-dimensional universe with three dimensions of time. Even the pre-Socratic philosophers, argued about the relationship between the flow of time and the perfection of eternal timelessness.

New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in “parapsychology” ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980). He is also the Grand Prize winner of the 2021 Bigelow Institute essay competition regarding the best evidence for survival of human consciousness after permanent bodily death.

(Recorded on February 23, 2022)

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Gary Lachman, Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson – https://amzn.to/3daXSPT

Gary Lachman, Jung the Mystic – https://amzn.to/2L807Yx

Gary Lachman, Rudolf Steiner: An Introduction to His Life and Work – https://amzn.to/3fbCjRj

Gary Lachman, Lost Knowledge of the Imagination – https://amzn.to/3dfeoyz

Gary Lachman, The Quest for Hermes Trigmegistus – https://amzn.to/35q7kMG

Gary Lachman, Aleister Crowley: Magick, Rock and Roll, and the Wickedest Man in the World – https://amzn.to/2W001YQ

Gary Lachman, Madame Blavatsky: The Mother of Modern Spirituality – https://amzn.to/2Sx5jch

Gary Lachman, Swedenborg: An Introduction to His Life and Studies – https://amzn.to/3fi10LC

Gary Lachman, In Search of P. D. Ouspensky – https://amzn.to/2yn88WA

Gary Lachman, Dark Star Rising: Magicking and Power in the Age of Trump – https://amzn.to/3aZaDLV (As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases.)

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