Perfect Timing: Mastering Time Perception for Performance Excellence

It took a near-fatal car crash to straighten me out about time perception. Until that rainy day when my little Triumph sports car nearly missed a turn and dumped me over a cliff, I had shared the standard concept of time as precise and inflexible. My car was racing to the bottom of a hill with a hard ninety-degree turn fast approaching. Suddenly I saw the muddle of water at the bottom of the hill and realized that I would hydroplane out of control, instead of making the sharp turn. That’s when I began to alter my perception about time.
I tuned out all distractions around me and got very quiet inside myself. My nervous, little brain seemed to disconnect in an instant; and a higher mind inside me started to process information very quickly. I debated several possible courses of action in a split section, before deciding to do the unthinkable. I jammed the little sports car into first gear, turned the wheel sharp to the left, and floored the accelerator. I would either jump over the embankment or turn the car with wheels spinning wildly in the rain puddle. Fortunately, the tires caught enough of the pavement to turn the car at the last possible instant.
I considered this my first epiphany about time and our mysterious ability to step outside it when needed.

Athletes Control Time
As a reporter for a newspaper and then a sports magazine, I thought that I might be in a position to start investigating this mystery.
I began to notice many top athletes who controlled time in this manner. I started to see how many successful athletes seemed able to stretch time at critical times during competition, so that everything around them seemed frozen in time. We popularly call this "seizing the moment" or being in the moment. Eastern mystics call this the Eternal Now.
Baseball batters would describe a blazing fastball coming at them as moving in slow motion, as big as life. Basketball and football players at golden moments during a game would sense the action around them slowing down, as though everyone else were moving in slow motion.
Rescue squads often master time in the same way. Every now and then a fireman or witness to a roadside accident would seize the moment and rescue several people miraculously against great odds in just a few seconds. They, too, seemed to stretch time by stepping outside the normal laws of physics.
I interviewed inventors who would only tell me that people shouldn’t accept commonly held views about the nature of things, but should try to alter our perception.

Time Is an Illusion
Later, I heard about a yogi from India who was lecturing on benefits of meditation. The Hindu mystic spoke about entering a state of timelessness, where all things are possible and all things knowable. He grabbed my attention immediately. When he opened the discussion to questions, I asked him whether time manipulation were possible. He answered that the only way he knew to manipulate time was through deep mediation by entering a state of heightened consciousness and leaving the body.
At last I had my answers-or most of them. I continued my research on time perception and mastery and learned that several leading physicists today agree with Eastern mystics that time is an illusion, upheld only through our group attention. What we seem to experience as the flow of ongoing time in motion is only a series of still photographs we record within our little brains as instances of the great Eternal Now. We tend to play these still photographs like a movie reel in our little brains to give us the sense of comfort that things are progressing and enduring in a certain flow that we can measure.
When we enter a state of heightened consciousness, however, our higher minds leave the limitations of this physical world behind. This is because the world of spirit is not governed by physical laws. If we add magical intent as a component in our out-of-body adventures, we can become active participants in meditation. We do this by focusing our intent on where we want to go and what we want to do or learn. We energize and drive our intent by projecting our magical will.
Anyone can learn these techniques. The exercises in my new book will empower the dedicated student to alter perceptive reality, enter heightened awareness, and leave the body in an adventure of personal self-discovery. Along the way, the student will learn that space and time can be mastered by learning to leave the body with focused intent. The student will also learn distance healing, bilocation, remote viewing, and time travel. Fixed time, after all, is an illusion. Mastery of time is not. It is personal magic that anybody can learn.