There are many different paths to the future. According to P.M.H. Atwater, one of the foremost investigators into near-death experiences, future memory allows people to "live" life in advance and remember the experience in detail when something triggers that memory. Atwater explains the unifying, and permanent, effect of that experience is a brain a "brain shift" which she believes "may be at the very core of existence itself." In Future Memory , Atwater shows that structural and chemical changes are occurring in our brains, changes indicative of higher evolutionary development. This mind-blowing exploration of a mind-blowing topic traces her findings about this phenomenon and explores its implications for the individual and for society. Future Memory : Provides a series of steps to assist in developing future memory - Explores new models of time, existence, and consciousness - Presents an in-depth study of the brain shift and how it can be experienced - Offers an extensive appendix and resource manual Future Memory is an important step in understanding the relationship between human perception and reality. "A giant step forward, toward achieving an expanded knowledge of 'simultaneous-everywhere-information.' This book deserves to be read one page at a time." -- Dannion H. Brinkley ― Reviews P.M.H. Atwater is an international authority on near-death states as well as a near-death experiencer who "died" three times. She is the author of 20 books and lives in Charlottesville, Va. Visit her at: pmhatwater.blogspot.com FUTURE MEMORY By P.M.H. Atwater Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc. Copyright © 2013 P.M.H. Atwater All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-1-57174-688-7 Contents Dedication, Acknowledgments, Introduction, The Purpose of This Book, Parable, Part I: Future Memory, 1. The Labyrinth Begins Here, 2. Reality Shifts, 3. Modes of Futuristic Awareness, 4. The Future Memory Phenomenon, 5. Slipping between the Cracks, 6. Learning to Remember, Part II: The Innerworkings of Creation and Consciousness, 7. Deeper into the Labyrinth's Depths, 8. Connections within the Flow, 9. Memory Mazes and the Brain, 10. Illusions of Perception, 11. Living in Time and Space Differently, 12. The Innerworkings of Creation and Consciousness, 13. The In-Between, 14. Secrets in the Web, 15. The Thought That Stirred, 16. The Unbroken Web of Wholeness, Part III: Beyond Illusion, 17. The Labyrinth Revealed, 18. Fixed and Flexible Futures, 19. The Higher Brain, 20. Shadows and the Third Way, 21. Centerpoint, Appendix I, Appendix II, Appendix III, Appendix IV, Appendix V, Resources, Notes, Index, CHAPTER 1 The Labyrinth Begins Here You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. —Sir Rabindranath Tagore Journey with me through the universe of the mind, into deeper realms of internaland external environments, where states of consciousness play out like overleafsupon the backdrop of personality and place—who we think we are and where wethink we live. Few ever question these deeper realms, much less bother to investigate them. Wedo, and that's what this book is about. The ancient Hindu parable of "The Five Blind Men and The Elephant" best definesthe territory we are about to tackle: the span that exists between perceptionand truth, between what seems real and what is real, between life's many puzzlesand how they interconnect and interweave. We tackle this territory for one reason, to search for what neither perceptionnor truth can supply—perspective—the perspective to understand why existenceexists and why we are who we are. And we do this, attempt to describe what isthought to be indescribable, in a spirit of high adventure. To begin our journey, we will explore shifts in the awareness of reality, amongthem future memory—a peculiar phenomenon that challenges our understanding ofsequence. Like the old riddle "Which comes first, the chicken or the egg?" wewill question the necessity of one event to always follow on the heels ofanother. In part two, we will grapple with the inner workings of consciousnessand especially how that relates to creation itself, the universe, planets,souls, and the concept of deity. This will enable us to see how time and spacecan be but mere illusions in a grander scheme of life after life. Finally, inthe last section, we will step beyond notions of real versus unreal to confrontthe truth that undergirds existence itself. A common thread interweaves our journey—what the ability to remember the futurereveals about brain development. A common admonition fuels our passage—know thyself, for knowledge without wisdomcan distort and deceive. A common desire ever directs us toward our goal—the reawakening of wonderment. As we embark upon this, the journey of a lifetime, consider first the followingobservations summarized from various studies conducted over the years on earlychildhood development. Children prelive the future on