Bøger af Paul Kalas

Introducing a new adventure guide for people who love to travel and SWIMThis is a pioneering swim travel guide with over 20 locations around the Mediterranean island of Crete, where open water swimmers can discover routes between 25 meters and 6 km that have a particular beauty, novelty, scenery, or history.Explore impressive marine caves, fabulous beaches, circumnavigate islets, and swim through tunnels, gorges, and under sea arches.Swim in a bay where the great Odysseus once anchored his ships on his way to Troy, or over a WWII ship sunk on its way to rescue Allied troops.Experience amazing night swims to marvel at the brilliant stars above and flashing bioluminescent plankton below.Read extensive tips on open water swimming techniques, safety, preparation, gear, and navigation (piloting).Includes short swims for beginners, more difficult routes for advanced swimmers, and all are great for kayaking and stand-up paddling.Each location has a satellite map of routes, accurate GPS coordinates, and photography to guide the swimmer.Enjoy a dynamic eBook version that can be read immediately where all information links and GPS coordinates are clickable.

Have you ever had a strong feeling of deja vu or witnessed that a dream came true in the future? Are such experiences precognitive or just illusions of the mind? How would a top scientist approach such questions about the paranormal? The Oneironauts, or "the dream travelers," introduces new scientific evidence that we really do experience possible future events in our dreams.Author Paul Kalas is the University of California, Berkeley astronomer who captured the first picture of a planet orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut using the Hubble Space Telescope. This image appeared on the front page of the New York Times and is displayed in the National Air and Space Museum. In The Oneironauts he reveals for the first time that this pioneering discovery was recorded in his dream diary nine years before it was actually discovered. In Chapters 1-3, Dr. Kalas relates how prophetic dreams allowed him to both avoid an unpleasant event and affirm a desired goal. He concludes that fate is an illusion, the future can be changed, and both our gut instincts and sense of hope arise from precognitive dreams.Chapters 4 presents the famous astronomical discovery and precognitive dream in detail, while Chapter 5 analyzes a total of 332 precognitive experiences. Dr. Kalas interprets precognition as a phenomenon related to memory and learning that also influences our personal identity and life path.Dr. Kalas reviews modern concepts of space and time in Chapters 6 and 7. From physics and astronomy he introduces the reader to relativity, gravitational lensing, the particle-wave duality of light, quantum entanglement, and biophysics. From neuroscience he explains key breakthroughs in our understanding of memory and the perception of spacetime through the study of the hippocampus, sleep and theta rhythm.In Chapter 8, Dr. Kalas engages the reader with his vision of how precognitive dreaming can improve the lives of individuals and ultimately the future of humanity. What will our society look like in 1,000 years when humans and artificial intelligence have developed reliable methods to recover information from the future?The Oneironauts will dazzle anyone who has had a precognitive experience or simply wishes to read what a leading scientist predicts about the future. It is beautifully illustrated with 34 original figures and clearly explains modern scientific topics with a touch of humor and references to over 100 writers, poets, artists and scholars.