Time Travelling in the Eastern Sierra

De: David Tuffley

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

El Camino Sierra, or mountain highway is an historic route in California that runs from Los Angeles up to Lake Tahoe, East of Yosemite. As far back as 1910 the Camino has been a showcase for the natural beauty of California from the Mojave Desert to Yosemite and the high Sierras. These days, there are quicker routes to traverse the state, but few are as scenically beautiful as the Camino. It is reminiscent of the the road less travelled referred to by Robert Frost -- Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

Most people driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco would take the Interstate 5. I’m using this historic highway and my journey on it as a metaphor for travel as a spiritual practice. It explores how to create the future you want for yourself by seeing the patterns of the past and building on them into the future.

Time travel is something we do everyday when we day-dream. And that’s OK -- in moderation. It becomes a problem when we spend too much time somewhere other than the here and now. We living in the present which the only place you can actually live. Going back over the events of the past and projecting our minds into the future to run detailed simulations is a kind of time travel that only we humans can do. It's had a big impact on human evolution. It gives us the ability to discern the cause and effect links between what we did yesterday and what is happening to us today. Its made humans unique among all sentient creatures. And if we can do that, we can also look to the future. What do I need to do now to make something good happen? We come to see all the events of our lives as an intricate web of cause and effect.

Mystics say that the essence of becoming enlightened is to feel the interconnection of all things. To experience it on a feeling level. But it is not always easy to see the connections. Those connections might be hiding behind the white noise of everyday life. This book shows you how to use this ability, a super-power, really, to extend you’re your abilities way beyond their current level to achieve great things. Whatever it is you can imagine and have the determination to follow through on with enough effort. Some goals are unattainable, such as becoming the President of the United States if you were born outside of the US. They will not change the Constitution for you. Just ask Arnold Schwarzenegger who had Presidential aspirations but had been born in Austria. Sorry Arnold, it just isn’t going to happen. But if you have a goal to become a billionaire by helping a billion people to a better life, then that is entirely possible. Just ask the folks down in Silicon Valley.