The more I thought about that, the more I considered time itself. I recently drove my good friend, Rod, crazy talking about the idea of time, raising the idea of all time being a single fixed point in the universe. Everything that has ever happened anywhere, any time in history all happening now, right now. He seemed to be alright with that thought, but when I proposed the idea that everything that ever would happen, also resides in this same infinite point of time, he neighed. The suggestion that all future possibilities were already there, or here as it were, threw him off. He felt that the future is unwritten, so how could it all exist at once?
I believe that all events, everything, is happening right now, this very moment. We exist in this form, either by intelligent design, as we are human, or to simply enable us to perceive events from our human linear perspective, or our minds are simply too primitive to grasp the concept of anything other than linear time. I feel strongly that people are occasionally able to tap into this non-linear time perspective. We see ghosts, for example. We observe doppelgängers. Some of us, such as myself have had near death experiences where we are separate from out physical bodies, and see our whole lives flash by in an instant. Why? That's the question, isn't it? Why are we sometimes given these perspectives? I feel like under certain conditions, our minds dip into this point in time, like a stray electric current headed towards Earth ground. Suddenly we have the ability to see more. Out of body experiences, ghosts, maybe even dreams can be explained by this time/mind phenomena. The question remains, "Why?" How is it all connected? How can this information be meaningful? What changes in our brain chemistry reveal this view?
Assuming that these ideas have some merit, wouldn't articulating time as a single point, an infinite event, be the first step in realizing time travel? If we can understand and quantify that principal, what is keeping us from simply moving through those currents in time?
Ghosts, apparitions, psychic residue, telekinesis, prophesy, even so called UFO's might be explained if time is an infinite, singular event. We simply cannot see it that way. All we can see is what is before us at any given moment, that is, usually.
So, understanding this, there's no reason for me to worry about the order of these memories I set down here. If these scraps of my mind are ever put onto paper, I can put them back into chronological order then. But feeling like they are all here at once, which they evidently are, it will nevertheless not make much difference.
For now, I'll write in my memories as they come.
This tangent is now at end.
Dan
