Time Shifts: Experiences of Slipping into the Past and Future

by Von Braschler, Frank Joseph (Foreword)

A comprehensive examination of sudden, accidental “time slips”--shifting from ordinary reality into the past or future

• Shares detailed accounts from people who have experienced time slips, including the author’s own experiences, as well as the practices of shamans, yoga masters, and Samadhi mystics who use trance-like meditative states to travel outside normal space and time

• Offers step-by-step exercises to prepare you to experience time shifts, to help set them up, and to enhance the experience when you have slipped through time

• Examines criticisms of and scientific support for this phenomenon, debunking claims that time slips are delusions or remembrances of past lives and showing that they may be related to energy vortices, black holes, or astral travel

Every now and then somebody reports stepping out of normal time and space. It doesn’t seem to matter where they live or their background--the veil of ordinary reality drops and they suddenly slip into the past or future, usually seamlessly and unknowingly, experiencing a temporary and accidental form of time travel.

Sharing detailed accounts from people who have experienced time slips and shifts between realities, including his own experiences, Von Braschler examines what their stories have in common to establish the pattern behind how these sudden slips in time occur. He examines criticisms of and scientific support for this phenomenon, debunking claims that time slips are delusions, implanted memories, or remembrances of past lives and showing that they may be related to energy vortices, tears in the fabric of our reality, black holes, astral travel, or light body movements. Studying reliable models from both the West and the East, he compares these excursions with shamanic journeying and the practices of yoga masters and Samadhi mystics, who use trance-like meditative states to travel outside normal space and time. Exploring the work of Einstein and other physicists, the author also examines the different speed with which time passes in ordinary reality and during time shifts--people will find that only a few minutes has elapsed for a time-shift experience that appeared to take hours.

Offering step-by-step exercises to prepare you to experience time shifts, to help set them up, and to enhance the experience when you have slipped through time, the author provides a road map allowing anyone to explore shifts in time and space and expand their awareness beyond ordinary reality.

Genres: Paranormal, Nonfiction

192 pages, Paperback

Published April 6, 2021

Reviews

[Christopher Heckman · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not so much about time shifts.

The book starts out interesting enough, with some classical cases of people suddenly finding themselves in a different time, some of which look like they might be verifiable. (It's too bad that Abraham Lincoln never wrote about his meeting with "Fweddy.") The author and foreword-writer Frank Joseph also relate some of their own experiences.

Somewhere around chapter 4 (page 36), I started losing interest. (This must have been where I stopped skimming in the bookstore.) The author relates how he walked down a main street but didn't recall doing so. He also saw a different town from the usual one. He also talks about having sat in a dark room for half an hour.

I call this "spacing out." Von calls it "meditating." It is a well-known phenomenon which happens a lot when people drive on the highway; arriving at their destination without remembering every detail of the route, yet not having crashed their car.

Then we turn to lucid dreaming. Then he talks about how several societies view time (as being nonlinear). Then he brings in light and has definitely wandered off from the original topic.

He concludes with some "practical personal exercises" which look like the typical spacing out, er, meditation, methods.

[Denise · Rating 3 out of 5]

In this book, Von Braschler explores the experiences of people (including himself) who have found themselves briefly in another time or place. He admits the experiences are rare, but compares them with the astral travels of Hindu mystics and native shamans. Although the contemporary examples in the book all occurred spontaneously, the author says they can be achieved deliberately. No time machines are needed for these trips, just an awakened consciousness, dedicated meditation, and focus. Although those who experience these "time slips" feel they are there physically in the other time period, those present in the other time cannot seem to perceive them. Meanwhile, the bodies the travelers left behind simply carry on sitting or walking or whatever rote act they are doing, and when their consciousness returns, they cannot account for missing time.

The book is clearly written, if a little too simply for my taste, but is apparently done so for those who are completely unacquainted with any paranormal subjects or even meditation. In the end, Braschler outlines several practical exercises. For those exercises involving time travel, I think it unlikely that people trying them would be able to tell if they had experienced a time-slip or just had a good imagination--but then I haven't tried them, as I have no burning desire to go day-tripping through time. Overall, I would say the book is mildly interesting and something to ponder.

[Sosen · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Time shifts" is Von's catch-all word for time slips, hauntings, astral projection, and other neat stuff. There's fair amount of Theosophy / New Age wisdumb in here, but it's still a good read. Came for time craziness, stayed for awesome stories and meditation exercises.

[Amber Hughey · Rating 5 out of 5]

I found this to be a very interesting book full of personal stories and theories on time Shifts. He brings meditation and out of body experiences as other theories as well.

[Logan Anderson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice read.

An enjoyable book for anyone who has or haven’t experienced a time shift. Good for Shamans as well time travelling.