THE BEGINNING

"We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

— Max DePree

What if you could jump into a parallel universe and experience an alternate self, live a different life?

Or what if you could travel through time, go to your future and return with things that would improve and enrich your present?

What if you could leap over the breakdowns and tough times in your life, to the breakthroughs and bright future on the other side?

If there was a way to bring your future into your present, to Be Now who and what you dream of Becoming, how badly would you want to learn it?

I can teach you how to do that and even more.

I wrote this book as a road map to show you, my readers, exactly how to do what I have already done.

My journeys into the future began out of a need to meet my future self and train under my own tutelage. They began because I was a wreck emotionally. Devastated by divorce and the deaths of two loved ones, I desperately needed to heal.

There are times when life sends you reeling, like a punch drunk fighter who has just taken one on the chin, head spinning, lost in a daze, you stagger around not knowing what to do or even where you are. That's how I felt when I turned forty.

My wife had just left me and I was broken-hearted on so many levels that it's hard to capture the hurt, loss and loneliness in words. Of course, as unique, specific and special as our own heartbreak feels, everyone who has loved and lost has felt that same heart-wrenching, crushing feeling.

In many ways, it felt like I had lost my entire life not just my wife. We were happily married with two boys. In fact, I grew up in a loving and wonderful family with one brother and had always wanted to have the exact same thing when I grew up. So losing my marriage and family felt like I was losing my entire life, losing everything I had longed for, wanted and worked for since I was a kid.

I watched myself as if I were moving through life in a daze and knew that something had to change. I knew that there had to be more, that I had an important purpose to fulfill, but I had no idea how to discover what it was.

So I began training with him — with my future self — because there simply was no one else in the world who could point me to all the right teachers and teach me everything I needed to learn in order to heal my wounds and find my true purpose. It was time to step into who I knew I was supposed to be, time to regain what I had lost and time to discover what I was supposed to give others.

I was ready to learn it all, to manifest the latent skills inside me that I was meant to, and the only person who knew those skills and the path toward attaining them lived in the future. The only person who could teach the middle-aged me was the elderly me, the one who had already lived through those decades of life and learning, the one who had already met those teachers, read those books and lived through those experiences.

And the same thing holds true for you, right now. Your greatest present teacher is your future self.

So I began astral projecting, or quantum leaping forward into my own future on this plane of existence in order to meet and learn from my future self through meditation. These quantum leaps and our conversations began quite simply in an armchair in my own home, but they didn't end there. In fact, they never ended at all. They took me and continue to take me, all over the multi-verse — to the past, present and several potential futures.

Perhaps I should describe the experience for you first, tell you what a quantum leap feels like and then I can tell you about the science and theory behind the process.

As I left my meditating body I would feel myself propelled up into the sky, flying forward and upward toward the clouds. I had been taking flying lessons for several months at the time that I started quantum leaping so I had good clear images in my memory to work with.

I would fly higher and higher, like going up for a power-on stall with the stall siren wailing, but during this flight all was quiet. Silently I sailed up and through the clouds and into the bright expanse of sky and space. Far out ahead of me I could see the vast blackness of space filled with bright blinking stars and swirling lights and colors.

Then I felt my momentum slow and my body turn, and at the zenith of my arc, I stood before a door. Opening it and stepping through, I suddenly felt myself falling down the back side of the arc, just like cresting that first hill on a roller coaster. I would drop down through a swirling black tube, with colors and darkness spinning around me while sounds buzzed in my head, until I was spit out into the bright emptiness of space again.

Then I would feel a second drop and I was falling back down through clouds and plummeting toward the earth. I watched as the planet rushed up to meet me, seeing greens and browns coming into view, then mountains and forests and open meadows, until I recognized my parents' place in the Colorado Rockies. This is where Corey would usually choose to meet me for our conversations. I could see their house below, rushing up toward me.

My momentum would slow as I neared the ground and I'd drop softly into a chair on the deck. Then, unhurried and as natural as you please, Corey would emerge from the house, usually with two cups of tea in his hands and we would begin to talk.

The idea to begin quantum jumping or leaping into my future came to me from my Silva Method training. Jose Silva is world famous for his Silva Mind Control Method which essentially teaches you how to reach Alpha brain wave levels and do powerfully transformative work there with your conscious and unconscious mind.

In our waking state, Beta, our brains produce waves at about 21 cycles per second. As we relax into a meditative trance or hypnotic state, our brain waves slow to Alpha, which is between 7 and 14 cycles per second. Below that is Delta, sleep, and farther down is Theta, unconsciousness. Once we enter the Alpha state we can program the unconscious directly, both hemispheres of our brain are activated and MRIs show a larger percentage of our brain is being used than at any other time and thus we have a wide range of new perceptions and abilities in this state.

Burt Goldman, a long time Silva Method instructor and practitioner, initially developed the concept and practice of quantum jumping. The basic concept comes out of Quantum Physics: that there are an infinite number of alternate planes of existence, that we live in a multi-verse and that it is theoretically possible to bridge time-space and visit these other planes of existence in the multi-verse.

In each alternate plane of existence, we have an alternate self,...