Jan 14, 2025 10:03 PM
(This post was last modified: Jan 14, 2025 11:34 PM by Magical Realist.)
When you really think about it, there is an astonishing mental faculty that we all use constantly every day that to me is just as magical as precognition. It too is the perception of events in a different time, only it is confined to past events. We call this ability to perceive events of the past memory.
In essence, it is a form of extratemporal perception that is beyond our 5 senses and would seem to qualify as a form of "ESP". The events we perceive with memory may be somewhat embellished with our own personal perspective/feelings, but nobody questions the fact that it is still THAT particular event which no longer exists, that we are really remembering. It is different from looking at old photos or watching home movies because these utilize sight to summon the perception of past events. But we only experience these visual images as past events due to memory "retrojecting" * them as such. And while memory itself may often be triggered by such, it can as easily summon past events without any visual data at all. If the physicist's concept of "block time" is true, then that we can perceive events that have been suggests that we can as easily perceive events that will be. Or at least as possible future timelines. Think of all the events that have ever been, and all the events that will ever be, as all stored inside some vast cosmic archive, which we have the ability to access at any time!
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
* retrojection--my term for the conception of some event as having happened in the past. It does not require memory to function as we constantly retroject read about and video recordings of events we have never experienced.
In essence, it is a form of extratemporal perception that is beyond our 5 senses and would seem to qualify as a form of "ESP". The events we perceive with memory may be somewhat embellished with our own personal perspective/feelings, but nobody questions the fact that it is still THAT particular event which no longer exists, that we are really remembering. It is different from looking at old photos or watching home movies because these utilize sight to summon the perception of past events. But we only experience these visual images as past events due to memory "retrojecting" * them as such. And while memory itself may often be triggered by such, it can as easily summon past events without any visual data at all. If the physicist's concept of "block time" is true, then that we can perceive events that have been suggests that we can as easily perceive events that will be. Or at least as possible future timelines. Think of all the events that have ever been, and all the events that will ever be, as all stored inside some vast cosmic archive, which we have the ability to access at any time!
“It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards,' says the White Queen to Alice.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass
* retrojection--my term for the conception of some event as having happened in the past. It does not require memory to function as we constantly retroject read about and video recordings of events we have never experienced.