from Chapter I

"Time travel skills vary depending on how far through or across time you travel, the further away from your originated time* you go, the greater your expertise in time travel needs to be. Not only because of the endless knowledge of history or the skill in anthropology, physics, chemistry etc...needed to predict situations in the future, but also the mental and physical preparation needed to deal with the dramatic time shifts your mind and body has to deal with. There is no end to to the study of time travel, your knowledge of this subject must be as infinite as time and space itself. You must be in good physical condition to travel regularly. The physically and mentally weak are at risk of becoming subject to injury and disease.

"Those who are under the naive impression that time travel is something that can be used casually, will only have themselves to blame if they find themselves stuck in the eternal limbo of the matterless void.

"Originated time- The time in which your current physical state (body) became manifest."

from Chapter II

"It is believed by many in the field of time travel that some time travelers are lucky enough to be born with a gift that enables them to travel without a physical device. These are sometimes referred to as 'free-travelers'. They are able to connect with the space time continuum purely by the means of their minds. Although they may not be able to literally transpose their existing body into a different time - unless extremely advanced and well practiced in their skills (the event of a free traveller achieving this has only ever been heard of in legend*), the ability to mentally exist in the future or the past is just as valid a method as any other. You may ask 'how can you affect the environment of the past/future, if you do not physically exist in that time?'. The answer is that these beings can possess an object both animate and inanimate that they can control as perfectly as their own bodies, the ability to possess a living being obviously gives the free traveller visual/audio/sensory experiences and so is the most effective method. As with all time travel, abilities vary. The most skilled beings will be able to occupy and control the body of a human being for a lengthly period. humans are far more difficult to occupy as the gifted being must learn to overcome the existing conscience of the human they wish to possess. More amateur free-travelers usually end up occupying an inanimate object and as thier skills develop, will be able to move that object with their will. Some say this could explain the phenomenam of ghosts and poltergeists, though their is no conclusive evidence, as the whole notion of free-traveling is still under debate. The problem being, that free travelers can only provide evidence of where they have traveled, with their own recounts of the event, they cannot bring physical matter back with them or travel with other people."

“Although ‘Free Travelling’ is probably one of the more low risk forms of time travel, because of issues to do with the physical body are eliminated, there are risks of becoming mentally detached from your Originated Time. The mind can become disorientated and confused even more when you have no physical grounding in time, it is possible to forget where you came from and to which body you belong. There have been cases in which people from different times have left their body in its Originating Time and reside for the rest of their conscious life in the body they Free Traveled into. This is a sad case for the body and life they leave behind and the for the person/animal whose body they choose to inhabit, for the conscious mind of borrowed body’s original owner will usually die or become trapped after being possessed for such a length of time.

There are several methods of avoiding this type of confusion:

1. Do not spend longer than one hour out of your Originated Time.

2. Do not move between times more than three times in a row (depending on how skilled you are) try to return to your Originated Time between traveling. This instills the reality of your existence firmly in your mind.

3. For those who might wish to ignore the first two rules, you can attempt method number 3, but it is not always reliably, for it depends on an either a person or object out of your control, it can also be limiting. Some refer to it as a ‘constant’. As long as you travel only to a time where your constant exists and are able to make some kind of contact with your constant, you will be able to carry on traveling for some time on a consistent journey without stopping, or at least only stopping to make contact with your constant. The method is simple, but as I remarked, it can be unreliable, if you fail to make contact with your constant for reasons out of your control, the consequences can be disastrous. The sort of contact you make is a matter of preference, it is something personal to the traveler, some find it effective to just hear it, some prefer to see and others use physical interaction, ie touch. All three together are of course, best. Whatever will convince your mind that your constant exists in that moment is all that us necessary.”