Back to the Future

I had been thinking about this for quite a while, and as a writer, Diarist and catalyst-healer working with manifold people, groups and organisations, I had to figure out a way and devise a method for knowing which path is best for me and is most compatible with my life's purpose and mission. And after extensive contemplation and analysis, I believe I have found it..

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Enter the Rule of Temporal Bases

When we wish to achieve something, we usually try to formulate a plan and strenously come up with an intricate and time-consuming plan to attain our desired end result.

The rule of Temporal Bases obviates the need for that (at least partially, depends on the context of the situation) and allows us to create virtual ‘bases’ (like overseas military bases) in the future and then vicariously operate from there in the present.

The benefit is that we can then operate from a place of, not panic or loss, but from a place of victory, because if this temporal base in the future is virtual and imaginary (which of course it is), then, we could mount that base in a future scenario where we have succeeded, and not failed.

After all, Our eyes aren’t just lenses by which we see the world, they’re also projectors, and whatever we are seeing, there is a second scenario -a vision- that is playing on, and augmenting, our reality.

The trick is simply to trace back our steps from our virtual time travel journey, and replicate those vicariously taken steps to achieve our end goal. In other words, instead of operating from the present into the future, we operate from the future into the present; as if we were time travelers from the future.

I apply this whenever I am confused or unsure how to proceed. I virtually travel into a future where all my goals have been achieved, vicariously operate from there, and then trace back my steps -or as Steve Jobs put it, connect the dots looking backwards- and try to connect that future with my current present and thus, determine which path is most likely to get the present me to that future.

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It is really as simple as that.

So, by not traveling forwards, but backwards in time, we become empowered to have incomparably greater clarity and vision and see which path is most compatible with that future we want.

I often encapsulate all of this in the question: "What is that future we want, and what path is most likely to get us there?"

After all, as Stephen Hawking put it "We are all time travelers, journeying together into the future. Let us work together to make that future a place we want to visit."

This all empowers us by providing us with a powerful perspective that then becomes our guide and light into the future; the future we’re coming from; a future, where we have succeeded and won the battle; the battle we’re still fighting today.

For the doors to the future are two-way open, and all we have to do .. is walk through.

Original Entry Date: 6/4/2023