NPPF Dunne On Time

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"Not infrequently the menace is well concealed, and the innocent incident
will turn out to possess, if jotted down and looked up later, the kind of
precognitive flavor that Dunne has explained by the action of "reverse
memory";  (ADA)


http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/precognition.html
Despite the difficulty in understanding precognition, it is the easiest form
of extrasensory perception to test in the laboratory. J. W. Dunne, a British
aeronautics engineer, undertook the first systematic study of precognition
in the early twentieth century. In 1927, he published the classic An
Experiment with Time, which contained his findings and theories. Dunne's
study was based on his personal precognitive dreams, which involved both
trivial incidents in his own life and major news events appearing in the
press the day after the dream. When first realizing that he was seeing the
future in his dreams, Dunne worried that he was "a freak." His worries soon
eased when discovering that precognitive dreams are common; he concluded,
that many people have them without realizing it, perhaps because the do not
recall the details or fail to properly interpret the dream symbols.

Dunne's Theory of Serial Time proposes that time exists in layers on
dimensions, each of which may be viewed in different perspectives from
different layers. The origin of all layers is Absolute Time, created by God.
Needless to say, the scientific community rejected Dunne's theory.

http://www.espresearch.com/experimentwithtime/
An Experiment With Time
by J.W. Dunne
Preface by Russell Targ

             The general reader will find that this book demands from him no
previous knowledge of science, mathematics, philosophy, or psychology. It is
considerably easier to understand that are, say, the rules of Contract
Bridge.

             The 'Infinite Regress', I may explain to the uninitiated, is a
curious logical development which appears immediately one begins to study
'self-consciousness' or 'will' or 'time'. A self-conscious person is one
'who knows that he knows'; a willer is one who, after all the motives which
determine choice have been taken into account, can choose between those
motives; and time is [sic] but this book is about that.

             The usual philosophic method of dealing with any regress is to
dismiss it, with the utmost promptitude, as something 'full of
contradictions and obscurities.' Now, at the outset of my own perplexing
experiences, I supposed that this attitude was justified. But the glaring
regress in the notion of 'time' was a thing which had intrigued me since I
was a child of nine (I had asked my nurse about it).

             At the end, I found myself confronted with the astonishing
facts that the regressions of 'consciousness,' 'will' and 'time' were
perfectly logical, perfectly valid, and the true foundations of all
epistemology.

             The book contains the first analysis of the Time Regress ever
completed. Incidentally, it contains the first scientific argument for human
immortality. This, I may say, was entirely unexpected. Indeed, for a large
part of the time that I was working, I believed that I was taking away man's
last hope of survival in a greater world.

>From the Introduction, J.W. Dunne, March 15, 1934