http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-source_hypothesis

Why do we seem to live in one universe, rather than an infinite number of them? Our brains, Wolf speculates, may somehow composite all of this infinite number of possible universes into one lived-in universe at the moment of observation; the past and future meet to create the present we choose at the moment we choose it, and go off their merry ways to become probabilities again when we aren’t looking any more.

In Wolf’s view, there is no set future and no set past; the present moment is the only one that is “real,” and even that a temporary illusion over which consciousness functions as a kind of overlay, creating one world from an infinite number of possible ones.

At this very moment, Wolf speculates, an infinite number of possible past yous may be sending singals to the future you, and an infinite number of future yous may be sending signals to the past; the closer these signals get, and the more the resemble each other, the greater the chance they have of becoming real in the present.

Wolf describes these clashing waves of probability travelling in opposite directions through time as “streams”; when the streams encounter each other in the present, consciousness somehow “marries” them. He speculates about how to “tune in” future possible realities:

“It is quite possible that visionaries are those who… marry streams coming from far time-distant sources… If we were totally able to “marry” corresponding times each and every moment of our time-bound existences, there would indeed be no sense of time and we would all realize the timeless state… But we fail to do this because we fail to discriminate between the many past and future sending stations attempting to communicate with us… …Well, if there are parallel futures out there, all broadcasting back in time to us, surely there are some people who hear them or see them…”

(Frederick Alan Wolf, Parallel Universe: The Search for Other Worlds, p.224, pub. A.D.1988)

We did not fall, period.

Don’t look down, then.

Right, like in the cartoons - characters get caught up in the chase, run off the cliff and it’s only when they look down and realize they no longer have the cliff under them that they fall!

check out ‘Collective Electrodynamics’ by Carver Mead

Thank you, this looks really interesting!

This is all getting close to alchemy…

No coincidence, all investigations into Nature (known as science, history, mathematics, etc.) are (I believe, tyro that I am) equivalent to the Hermetic Operation in principle, but are tainted by superfluities which must be purged. Attempting to clean the wound with a dirty scalpel only exacerbates the problem, hence years are wasted on phlogiston, string theory, and false histories, not to mention the dangerous Industrial byproducts. The blade is so rusted and corroded that it turns back upon itself and is deflected from its goal.

We did not fall, period.

Don’t look down, then.

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Tim, have you considered that the source and sink may be one, only distinguishable by function? The past and future could be thought of as simply two (virtual, conceptual) directions into which one can inquire, the present being the only apparent starting point.

…the moments which we call “now” are more like the “interference patterns” where two lasers meet, captured on film in the creation of a hologram? If that’s the case, then the way that I would imagine our brain/mind might work is by firing the third laser onto the “film” which then renders a three dimensional image duplicating the original. It may be a convoluted metaphor…

Convoluted? Give yourself some credit, it’s actually one of the best metaphors I’ve seen.

You might want to take a look at Peter Carroll’s 6d (3d space + 3d time) model, if you haven’t already, and Ebony Anpu’s Tesseract Working.

It sure seems like there’s some reality hopping going on, very likely a big one recently and a bunch throughout history; especially if you look at the number of times during the cold war in which we were right up at the brink of complete world annihilation; yet, here we are, still going! If there have been so many close calls through history that we are aware of, imagine how many more must have happened that we never heard about. Maybe, each time, we shed the uninhabitable parallel world like a snake sheds its skin. Do prophecies of doom make it easier to avoid their target reality, harder, or are they just ephemeral trivia?

Constellations of coincidence and paradox radiate out from the fulcrum point and can provide evidence that the universe has pulled another fast one, right in front of our eyes, however the connections and distribution patterns are rarely, if ever, trackable to their source. They follow a tenuously connected thread of seemingly random association, numerical asshattery, irrelevant linguistic jokes, and puns of the worst sort. Countless souls have spent their lives analyzing the tiniest threads of this phenomenon, so vastly complex beyond our comprehension that it appears practically random, and assembled them into the most preposterous metaphysical conspiracy theories. Down that road lies madness. It is much better to just observe. Get a feel for the ebb and flow of these cosmic tides so you know instinctively when to jump or where to push your way into the universe next door.

We did not fall because of a moral error; we fell because of an intellectual error

We did not fall, period. That thought is just a false sense of nostalgia for past ignorance, a hopeless desire to be the eternal infant sucking in bliss on mommy’s tit.
Eating the Fruit of Knowledge was the best thing that ever happened to us, easily worth one thousand lifetimes of suffering, a bargain at twice the price.

This is all getting close to alchemy… are we talking about objective phenomena, or about how people see the world? Or both? Lots of weirdness on this road.

Time is just the absence of eternity

Interesting description.

The ‘arrow of time’ is a perennial scientific conundrum: why does heat flow from hot to cold? The classical laws which we understand concerning the motion of atoms are ‘reversible’, meaning a universe run in reverse looks OK; the laws which we understand concerning heat are ‘irreversible’, meaning that a universe run in reverse looks really silly (smashed glasses reassembling themselves etc.) And we are taught at school that heat is just the motion of atoms, right? If you dig down to quantum mechanics you come across the idea that observation can change things irreversibly. From there you’ll find Bell and Aspect, whose basic conclusions are that we don’t really understand what ‘observation’ is in the first place.

The holographic idea made sense to me the first time I heard it, ‘cos I’d already come across a crazy thing in electromagnetics by these guys Stratton and Chu, working from the ideas of that old fossil Huygens. If you draw a bubble round a region of space, and you know what the electromagnetic fields are on the bubble, then it turns out that you know all the fields inside the bubble too… Gnarly.

The phenomenal world does not exist; it is a hypostasis of the information processed by the Mind.

We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which we have lost the ability to read. We ourselves are a part of this language; changes in us are changes in the content of the information. We ourselves are information-rich; information enters us, is processed and is then projected outward once more, now in an altered form. We are not aware that we are doing this, that in fact this is all we are doing.

these above are from pkd`s tractates. i think we get glimpses of how to read and interact with the creative and coincedances are a clue to pay more attention……….see more clearly, day by day. (part of the lord`s prayer we used to say every day as children in england.)

Dick seems to talk about this in lines 30 - 37 in the Tractates
http://deoxy.org/pkd_tcs.htm