The Future Is My Past: . . . the End of a Trilogy

By Dr. Donna Clovis

In this final book of the trilogy, award-winning journalist, Dr. Donna Clovis, writes from Einsteins lecture hall and takes classes in physics at Princeton University. Here, she recounts stories of Princeton, New Jersey through its current events by means of citizen interviews, diaries, and articles that demonstrate a microcosm of modern-day America.

Using theoretical physics, relativity from Einstein, and synchronicity from Jung, The Future is My Past, explores time travel to reveal a special connection with the past that projects an important memory into the present lives of its characters. This memory like a twilight sonata, sings a repetitive lullaby resonating a secret the reader must discover in the text on their journey through the last book of the trilogy.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Oct 1, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504384919

Dr. Donna Clovis

Dr. Donna Clovis is an adjunct professor at Rider University with a doctorate from Columbia University.

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ISBN: 978-1-5043-8490-2 (sc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-8492-6 (hc)

ISBN: 978-1-5043-8491-9 (e)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2017911754

Balboa Press rev. date:   08/10/2017

This book is dedicated to my loving husband, Jim,

my parents, my in-laws, and my children—

the past, the present, and the future of my lifetime.

And thank you always to my editor, Gabriella Oldham

The voiceless have a voice. A journalist’s job is to amplify it.

— the late Steve Buttry, journalist (May 18, 2016)

I sit in Einstein’s lecture hall at Princeton University and write on a regular basis. The warmth of the sun coming through the window speckles my brown skin. I follow footsteps of ideas and thoughts that I hear in the silence of synchronicity. It is like sitting in the Rosedale House of Quantum Leaps in Princeton’s Place. My body and mind are in space at the right time. And then I walk down the path to take my courses in theoretical and quantum physics…

This is my journey…

Contents

Introduction

Foreword The Conscious As Quantum

Chapter 1 A Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

Chapter 2 Down The Rabbit Hole

Chapter 3 Golden Afternoons At Princeton University

Chapter 4 The Cheshire Cat

Chapter 5 It’s All About Time

Chapter 6 Heaven In A Hoagie

Chapter 7 Black Squirrels And Tiger Tales

Chapter 8 Pink

Chapter 9 Taking To Twitter

Chapter 10 Airports, Attorneys, And Other Explanations Of Time Travel

Chapter 11 The Pool Of Tears

Chapter 12 Lessons From A Caterpillar

Chapter 13 The Heart-Shaped Pin

Chapter 14 Bless Said Be The Peace Makers

Chapter 15 Tweets And Leaks, Fake News, Oh, My!

Chapter 16 Princeton: A Sanctuary City

Chapter 17 This Is Not America

Chapter 18 The Case Of Woodrow Wilson Revisited

Chapter 19 Lights, Camera, Action!

Chapter 20 There’s No Place Like Home

Chapter 21 Sacred Secrets

Chapter 22 A Mathematical Constant

Chapter 23 Who Stole The Art Of News?

Chapter 24 The Freedom To Write: A Journalist’s Story

Chapter 25 The Charter School Quadrille

Chapter 26 The Snow Queen’s Ballet Grounds

Chapter 27 Stealing Time

Chapter 28 Theories Of Racial Relativity Hidden In A House

Chapter 29 Pj’s Pancake House And A Sign Of Dr. Nash Memories

Chapter 30 An Evening Roaming The Cosmos

Chapter 31 The Tiny Door Behind The Curtain

Chapter 32 Miss Ida B.’S Evidence

Chapter 33 The Queen Of Hearts

Chapter 34 And Then, I Rise

End Note A Long Tale: Synchronicity And The Quantum Field

Afterword Telescopes And Time Machines

Appendix A One Moment In Time

Appendix B Creative Writing As A Gesture In Synchronicity

Appendix C Quantum Consciousness And Possibilities Of Time Travel

Bibliography

Appendix D Abstract. Time As Now. Here As Space: Neuroscience And Theory Of Einstein Relativity

Appendix E Abstract. Quantum Consciousness In The Extreme

About The Author

INTRODUCTION

T his time, synchronicity began with butterflies in December of 2014. My father passed away in the beginning of the month and I searched for thank-you cards. Butterflies captured my attention on several stacks of cards, with extreme detail of embroidered black ink outlines and vivid colors of gold, red, and blue. I bought them and brought them home. I had also purchased Pam Grout’s book E=MC 2 , because of my love of research and Einstein.

I sat for a few hours and wrote thank-you cards, noticing the butterflies on the cards as I wrote. I noticed the details of butterflies on my walls. They are real butterflies from South America framed by specialists of entomology in New York City.

When I took a break from writing, I began reading Pam Grout’s book. I was surprised to see that she spoke about