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| Subjective Time Travelers 
Subjective Time Travelers This is Jeff Layton's sixth book. Book Cover Art Work: Jeff Layton
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Lee Boswell is interested in dreams, time traveling, and consciousness. In his dream, he meets an ancient shaman-time traveler, Kyodi, who instructs Lee on how to time travel. He calls it subjective time traveling. Lee undergoes the operation. Lee becomes Chronos, a subjective time traveler. Chronos travels through time consciously using his dreams, and his life is forever changed. Have you ever wished you had a time machine? Would you go back and prevent past mistakes and wars? Or would you seek a ringside seat at key historical events? And what would your time machine look like? Book Review: "This isn't just a time travel story; it's a meditation on consciousness, reality, and the nature of existence itself. This is a deeply philosophical, intellectually ambitious work that seamlessly blends time travel, consciousness exploration, and spiritual inquiry, creating a narrative that feels both mind-expanding and emotionally grounding. "4.5 stars" Line quotes: Lee Boswell investigates time travel, dreams, and consciousness, and learns to time-travel from Kyodi, an ancient shaman. He calls it subjective time travel. Lee undergoes an operation in which a doctor injects his brain with foreign DNA known as G-quadruplexes. Lee becomes Chronos, a subjective time traveler. Chronos travels through time consciously using his mind, and his life is forever changed. The story of Chronos builds as he travels through time. He meets another subjective time traveler, who was also a student of Kyodi. Her name is Flora. Flora has been traveling for centuries longer than Chronos. She is an astute and learned peer teacher for Chronos. They enter a body, mind, and spirit relationship and uncover the God gene. |
Ronald Betta: 5.0 out of 5 stars Thought Provoking and Fresh. November 14, 2025 Subjective Time Travelers is really one of the most unusual and thought-provoking Time Travel books I’ve read. It isn’t about stepping into a machine so much as stepping into a different way of seeing reality. Jeff Layton uses time travel as a vehicle to explore consciousness, memory, and what it means to be fully awake to your own life. Instead of hard sci-fi gadgets, the story centers on “subjective time travel” through the mind. Chronos and his guide Kyodi move through history, faith traditions, and key scientific moments—from dinosaurs and the Buddha to Da Vinci, Edison, Einstein, and the moon landing. Those sequences are vivid and sensory, but they also carry real philosophical weight; you’re not just watching history, you’re invited to think about how perspective, choice, and awareness shape everything. I especially enjoyed the relationship between Chronos and Kyodi, and later the connection with Flora. Those human moments keep the book grounded emotionally, even as the ideas get bigger—multiverses, spiritual growth, and the “big C” consciousness that sits behind it all. The closing epilogue, reflecting on religion and how stories evolve over time, ties the whole journey together in a memorable way. This is not a quick, conventional sci-fi romp. It’s a reflective, spiritually-minded journey that blends science, metaphysics, and personal transformation. If you enjoy Time Travel stories that also make you stop, think, and maybe see your own life a little differently, Subjective Time Travelers is well worth the trip.
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Jeff Layton's Writing Style Looking at his body of work, it isn't easy, as with most writers, to nail down a specific writing style. The genres have been Speculative Fiction, Magical Realism, Time Travel, Introspection, Spirituality, Imaginative Fiction, Multiverse Fiction with elements of mystery. He has noted many times one of his favorite styles of writing is magical realism and the use of metaphors. So maybe metaphorical magical realism or metaphorical magical metaphysics. Jeff uses a metaphorical writing style to invoke an emotional response and paint a vivid mental picture to create a mood or phenomenon. He also mentioned William Faulkner's writing and his use of stream-of-consciousness and naturalistic prose. He plays with the elements of fiction in verse and uses third-person omniscient-the narrator speaks freely about everyone and everything. There are no limits to the time, space, or character the narrator can access. Themes of consciousness and science are used to explain and examine the trilogy of life, death, and the in-between- point of view and perspectives of life. Whether they are metaphysical-religious, or spiritual beliefs that help shape the quality of our lives and how we relate to one another and the world. Or the point of view that they are physical, scientific, the philosophy of the here and now.
Jeff Layton has his hands full, blending William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez into his unique creative descriptive narratives about life today, yesterday, and what lies ahead for each of us.
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Questions and Answers
Consciousness (Click Here) | Time Travel, Multiverse Connection (Click Here) Alien, Are UFOs Drones - Multiverse Connection (Click Here) I Am but a Dream (Click Here) | In a Metaphor of Life (Click Here)Question: Is there a central theme running through your books? Answer: The theme would be consciousness. I use different vehicles, and narratives to write about becoming aware of consciousness. I've used every experience that made me stop, reflect, and sometimes a direct encounter with higher consciousness unfolding now. Question: Why consciousness? Answer: Consciousness is everything. It is what makes life, and most importantly I feel is all we have at the end of life.Question: You mention vehicles, and narratives to talk about consciousness. What are they? Answer: Dreams-Be it lucid dreams or dreams that stand out and make you examine the thoughts behind them. Hallucinations-Drugs (psychoactive), or events that bring on different experiences of reality. Meditation-Individual, group, or guided. Spiritual, Religious-Anytime consciousness looks at consciousness, through opening oneself up to the bigger self and stepping away from the ego, aha moments can be experienced. These are true gifts. Question: In the Multiverse Connection, you bring up time travel?Answer: Yes, Elias, the main character, discovers a mirrored universe parallel to our universe that he can enter that dimension and travel back in time.Question: So, Elias only can travel back in time in that universe to observe our time reality?Answer: Yes, he enters a parallel time dimension with physical laws not applying to Elias, as he is not from that universe. He is not bound to its physical laws.Question: In the Multiverse Connection, you ask these questions: "Why hasn't humankind discovered advanced alien civilizations? We are finding possible hints of their existence. Are UFOs drones?" And just a segment of that answer you write, it is all inner space, not outer space. Can you share a little about this? Answer: These are set-up questions for the reader to turn inward-inner space thinking. In our cultured and trained consciousness through education, movies, and books, we look up at the night sky for visitors from other worlds to visit us. Or for us humans to see them. Now our science is discovering that there are other dimensions outside of our perceptions that exist. The universe or universes came from the singularity and are now forever expanding away from that point. Or are they? Traveling in outer space in an expanding universe using only our four dimensions is a very drawn-out endeavor, but now we are learning that there may be better ways to go about this. I'm suggesting turning inward toward the singularity and exploring the multiverse. How to do this read on. Question: In your book, I Am but a Dream, you mention time travel in Chapter 12, Time Travelers? Answer: Yes, but in a different way of time travel than in The Multiverse Connection. Both books are related to consciousness and how the physical laws don't apply in the mental universe. In this chapter, Bodi and Debra explore the fourth dimension of time. They are conscious bodies, not physical, and can move in time. They move to several periods in time. Bodi tells Debra that time travel in the past in a dream state of consciousness is safe, but "Avoid the future because it is fluid, always changing in flux." Question: In a Metaphor of Life, Rose, Red Roses is a unique book. What can you tell me about this book? Answer: This was my first book. This speaks somewhat to my past when I began studying writing and took physical art classes to expand my horizons. I then dropped writing for painting as I felt I could express my pathos- emotions and the sympathetic imagination, better, more directly. After three decades, I returned to writing but wanted to explore how visual I could be. Also, again everything to me that I enjoy writing about is about consciousness. So, I explored the minds of four artists. Three artists are more present time and Van Gogh of the past. |
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