Note to Future Me

Note to Future Me

  

I just read an article that completely blows my mind (yes, I’m an old hippie and sometimes revert to using phrases from that era). Anyway, the article dealt with this new quantum physics concept called entanglement. If you haven’t read anything about this concept, I suggest you google it and do a little reading up on it. It will blow your mind too. Anyway, here is an excerpt from the article I was reading this morning:

Dean Radin, the author of two groundbreaking books on controlled paranormal experiments, The Conscious Universe and Entangled Minds, spoke at a January conference, Electric Universe, in New Mexico. He described his recent pilot study on time and precognition. A small group of advanced meditators who use the “non-dual” technique, were tested. While meditating, they were subjected to random interruptions: a flash of light and a beeping sound. Measuring their brain activity, Radin found that significant brain changes occurred BEFORE the light flashes or the beeps. A control group of non-meditators were tested in exactly the same way, but their brain measurements revealed NO such changes. In other words, the brains of the meditators anticipated the timing of the unpredictable interruptions. The future was registering now. This, of course, opens up another way of thinking about time. Serial time, the idea that, in this continuum, we experience a smooth progression of moments, with the present becoming, so to speak, the future, is the conventional view. But suppose that is a grossly limiting and sketchy premise? Suppose that, for those who can be aware of it, the future is bleeding into the present? It is making an impact “before it happens.”

  Okay, with that said, I’m flashing back to scenes from “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure” where Bill says “Note to Future Self, put keys to handcuffs in this drawer.” And then when he opens the drawer, voila! – there’s the keys that his future self used his time travelling ability and went back and placed there for him. We all have had flashes of things or thoughts that then seem to happen. Like you’ll be driving down the road and think about a song, and then it is the very next song that plays on the radio. Coincidence? Maybe not according to this study. That song on the radio thingy happens to me all the time. (Maybe because I do tend to get in a pretty deep meditative state when doing something as patently boring as driving down the freeway). Or you’ll be with someone and they say something like, I think we should go out to eat at such and such restaurant tonight, and you were just sitting there thinking the exact same thing. That happens between my darling, sweet wife and I occasionally. Or I will pick up the phone to call her, and it rings as soon as I pick it up and it’s her calling me. That happens every now and then too. Our minds seem to be pretty entangled whether the rest of us is or not. So is there something to all of that above and beyond the coincidental, random, chance occurrences?  According to this study, the answer is a big fat yes.

  So, note to future me…If some writer out there in your time writes a great story that ends up on the number one best seller list, meditate really hard about it and send the idea back to me in the present (your past) so I can beat them to the punch. Would that be plagiarism? Not if my copyright gets on the story first. Ha!