Practical Time Travel Tools

June 2nd, 2010

Practical Time Travel Tools

Written by:Jimmy
Published on June 2nd, 2010 @ 11:47:08 am , using 778 words, 620 views

Posted in Mind Machines, HDR Time Travel

Statue of Cleopatra VII, San Jose
Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum;
photo by myrkathika; CC 2.0 License.

Since I've been busy the past few weeks making a living I have only played with the Stephen Gibbs Time Machine or HyperDimensional Resonator once, recently. That would, I think, be my eighth experiment in the ten-effort series, and I got no results at all from it that I noticed. It's not really disappointing, since I've had some interesting results now and then, and I'd think I'm doing better than the expected ten percent success if I look at this in terms of something cool happening.

There is a simpler way to travel back through time and speak with the dead and I use it most of the time, instead of the time machine and whatever astral talents I might be able to trigger occasionally. This other method was well respected even in the old days when the priesthood was a closed society and knowledge was available to a select few. One of the requirements for a person wishing to become an adept of the Egyptian mysteries, for example, was the ability to read and write. It's pretty much essential, since books are the best time travel machines we have.

My interests include many other things besides mental or physical time travel, and I spend most of my days and nights doing those other things. Lately I've been taking renewed interest in books, researching old topics and conversing with dead masters by digging through the books I have lying about, looking for important bits and pieces I remember. I've been picking some of my favorites out and explaining why they were important to me (on Smoke, one of the other blog pages on Skinwalker Files. Many of these books are now available online at no charge -- some in public domain and others intentionally released.

Follow up:

I still prefer reading physical books to reading online, especially when my choice is a book or a text file or a pdf. I choose the physical book when I can, because it's portable, easy to operate, and dependable. I have used a pocket pc from time to time (never did work right) but I don't own a Kindle. The Kindle costs more than I can spend on nonessentials at the moment. I didn't realize until just recently that's there a free Kindle app for PC users, but now that I have it I expect to take more advantage of the Kindle system. If a book is available in Kindle format, the price drops by about half, sometimes even more than that, and I can't afford to not take advantage of that savings.

Book, the Astral Plane by C.W. Leadbeater

The Astral Plane by C.W. Leadbeater, viewed on Tom's eTextReader.

Amazon also converted about 20,000 books from Project Gutenburg to Kindle format, free for download from the classic books section at Amazon. I found several there which I thought were of interest, including some from a series by C.W. Leadbeater, written about principles of Theosophy and published in the 1890's. Both the Internet Archive and Project Gutenburg now offer downloads in Kindle format. Internet Archive alone offers 1.8 million books for free electronic distribution.

I use two ebook readers, both of them free applications. The one I've been using the longest -- Tom's eTextReader -- works from any plain txt file and converts the file to a book format. Turn pages with the keyboard arrow keys. Click the right arrow key twice to simulate turning the page, once to simply shift pages left. Other controls are equally simple. CNET and many other sites offer it, and it's apparently bug-free.

Kindle is something I'm just getting into but already I like it, and the things I thought were wrong with the system aren't wrong. I just didn't expect it to be this good. Font size adjusts, so I can reduce things to the fine print I enjoy. The page location bar at the bottom of the screen is excellent, no more clicking through a book to find where I was reading last. Kindle includes bookmarking, an automatic filing system, highlighting and even note taking. That's something I need and use and actually I do all of that with Tom's eTextReader but I do it manually. With Kindle it's all set up -- all I had to do was download the app, register the Kindle account with Amazon, and learn how to work the simple software.