To myself

If I wake up all of a sudden in what I consider to be my past, and see myself will I speak to myself ? Will I tell myself that this or that needs to be changed  or say hello or a simple thank you? What an amazing quintessential question about your own existence. I am what I am is because of the decisions in the past (good or bad). My interference with my own decisions ensures that the me that exists now or is speaking to the me in the past will disappear. Any small change in the past will ensure that the me that exists today does not. Self preservation tells me that I should not speak to myself if I travel to the past, not just not speak but not interact. It as such surprises me when a lot of folks I know say things like “I wish i could tell my self that “, or  what I like the most “I should go back in time to help myself ; I would be far happier today”. 

Let’s flip this story a bit, what if I wanted to speak to a future self. Would that future self speak to me and tell me about the decisions I am about to make or will make in the future?  Quantum physics tells us of the existence of parallel universes, if one believes in that possibility every moment of life gives birth to infinite possibilities. Infinite timelines with infinite end points. This basic idea is the crux of all the current teachers that talk about the “Secret” . The basic idea is that one connects or visualises the one they want to be and then discusses the how and when it happened. 

Not everyone can visualise or connect. What then for those folks ?the secret is a good read but it falls short of finding a solution for the ones that cannot visualise. I am unable to visualise in my head a picture of anything. I know for example what a pen is but if I close my eye and think about a pen I wont see it - all I see is black with interesting patterns none of which correspond to the shape of a pen. I can think about the characteristics of a pen and explain that while my eyes are closed however that is not the same as visualisation of a pen. I may be blind in a different sense when one thinks about it. May be my minds eye is closed or does not exist ? How then do I connect with a future self ? Learn from that self that I cannot see ? 

There is  another way - far more difficult if one can’t visualise. This way delves in the realms of dreams; lucid to be precise. I know I can dream and have had a few lucid dreams that were more trippy than anything that the 70’s could have conjured (I say this knowing very well that my teenage years were in the 80’s).  It surprises me that when I dream I can see things clearly but when I shut my eyes and try and think of an object it does not appear.  Must be an quirk that I am blessed with. Well something more to learn about. 

Dream on 

C