Outside of Time sources from the author's shamanic and Chinese medicine studies, along with Jean Gebser's philosophic detailing of states of consciousness in his treatise, The Ever-Present Origin. The story entails wild Peruvian adventures and liberal pinches of plant medicine contrasted against a backdrop of life in New York City. The book brings Gebser's consciousness states to life, which serve to illuminate its heroine's path to greater self-realization and wholeness.