The Pulse of Time

About this book

Have you ever felt you are a prisoner in the cell of the present moment? And that your mind is a wild horse refusing to be bridled by the limits of "now"? In his book "The Pulse of Time," writer Ahmed El-Hosseiny takes us on a journey unlike any other, a journey beginning at midnight, when the world's noise quiets and the noise of thinking awakens. Our hero is no mere passerby, but a seeker of freedom in the folds of history, driven by a deadly curiosity and an experience fraught with danger to breach the barrier of time through a mysterious pharaonic papyrus. From the darkness of the Great Pyramid and the silence of its terrifying corridors, he finds himself suddenly facing "the cradle of humanity"; shaking hands with primitive man in his pristine forest, witnessing the moments of the unification of the Two Lands at the hands of King Narmer, and dialoguing with the great engineers and scientists in the ages of past glory. "The Pulse of Time" is no mere narration of events, but a human meditation on the nature of civilization and how human awareness is formed. The work moves us between battlefields, and the councils of science in Baghdad and Cordoba, reaching meetings with leaders who changed.