Making Time: Why Time Seems to Pass at Different Speeds and How to Control it

By Steve Taylor

Why does time seem to speed up as we get older? Why does it seem to drag when we're bored or in pain, or to go slowly when we're in unfamiliar environments? Why does it slow down dramatically in accidents and emergency situations, when sportspeople are 'in the zone', or in higher states of consciousness?

Making Time explains why we have these different perceptions of time, suggesting that there are five basic 'laws' of psychological time and uncovering the factors which cause them. It uses evidence from modern physics and unusual states of consciousness to suggest that our normal sense of time is an illusion, 'created' by our minds. But perhaps more importantly, on a practical level, this book shows us what we can do to control our sense of time passing, to make it pass slowly or quickly in different situations. It suggests that it is possible for us to live through more time in our lives, and so effectively increase the amount of time which we are alive for.

In the final chapter, Steve Taylor uses insights from Buddhism - investigating the practices of mindfulness and meditation - to show how we can actually transcend linear time, and learn to live fully in the present moment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Release date: Aug 2, 2007
• ISBN: 9781848312630

Steve Taylor

Steve Taylor is the founding pastor of Graceway Baptist Church (www.graceway.org.nz), in Ellerslie, New Zealand. He is completing a PhD on the emerging church and has a Masters in Theology in communicating the cross in a postmodern world. Steve receives requests to supply spirituality resources and to speak in UK and US.

Reviews for Making Time

[anthonypeake · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This book is simply fascinating. It is full of those "I experience that all the time" like moments that mark out a good book. For example why does time seem to slow down when you are bored and yet it speeds up when you are enjoying yourself? and why is it that as a child the summer holidays went on for ever and now the years flash by?I could not put this book down and read it in one sitting that seemed to last about ten minutes but when I looked at the clock three hours had passed!!!