By Anthony Talmage
Many scientists think it is possible that time is not a straight line going from yesterday to today, through to tomorrow, but is something more like a big picture or a landscape where every moment exists simultaneously.
Think of watching a movie on Netflix: the beginning, middle, and end of the film already exist, even though you’re watching one scene at a time. Time might work the same way - with past, present, and future all there simultaneously. Physicists call this idea the “block universe.” Einstein’s famous Theory of Relativity backs this up. He discovered that time is flexible and, depending on how fast you move, it can speed up or slow down. This means that everything exists everywhere all at once and isn’t the same for everyone.
This concept is embodied in what ancient traditions and spiritual philosophy call the Akashic Record - a massive, invisible library containing all knowledge, past, present, and future, of every person, animal, and event ever. If such a record exists, it fits perfectly with the idea that every moment is stored somewhere, ready to be accessed.
Sometimes people experience things that support this idea. For example déjà vu - that weird feeling of having seen or experienced something before. Or perhaps dreaming about something happening in the future which then really happens. This is called precognition, and there are masses of such experiences – just Google it! Then there’s retrocognition, precognition’s opposite, where people can clearly sense things from the past that they couldn’t know. These experiences suggest the human mind can somehow tap into a timescape that’s eternal.
Quantum physics shows even stranger things. In quantum entanglement experiments, two particles can instantly affect each other, even if they’re millions of miles apart - like invisible communication without any time delay. To get my head round this concept I see it as the particles being at either end of a steel rod – turn the rod and the particles move simultaneously, however far apart they are.
This confounds Einstein’s contention that the speed of light is the fastest speed in the Universe. Nothing can beat it. But we now know, yes it can be exceeded. Quantum entanglement crosses millions of miles instantly. If science can show us this, perhaps time really is all connected, and we’re only experiencing one small part of something much bigger. And if particles can behave this way, maybe our minds can sometimes access information from different points in time, too.
Also, when people have near-death experiences, they often report seeing their entire life flash before their eyes. They sometimes even feel the emotions of everyone they’ve ever known, as though time no longer matters. How could this be? How can a lifetime’s experiences be perceived in seconds? Just like looking at all the pages of a book at once instead of one page at a time.
Another way of looking at this phenomenon is to imagine life like a Spotify playlist: all songs exist at once, but you can only hear one at a time. You can skip forward or go back, but every song - just like every moment - is already there. It’s our minds that experience tracks one at a time, confirming the view of a linear world which goes from the past, into the present and on to the future.
The Block Universe theory is powerful because it explains mysterious things like intuition, déjà vu, and dreams about the future. If time isn’t just a straight line, perhaps we really can tune into different parts of the past, present and future without realizing it.
Maybe one day we’ll fully understand the magic of time, not just as something that passes - but as an exciting universe where everything is connected, waiting to be explored. As we navigate the mysteries of life, this perspective offers a profound reminder: that every moment is already part of the eternal now. And that we should live mindfully and make choices that we’ll be proud of, knowing they’re part of something eternal.
What story will each of us weave into the tapestry of time?
About Anthony Talmage: Anthony Talmage is author of five books in his Psychic Mind series: Dowse Your Way To Psychic Power, In Tune With The Infinite Mind, Unlock The Psychic Powers Of Your Unconscious Mind, How To Crack the Cosmic Code andMindfulness and the Pendulum all available in Kindle, printed and audio versions from Amazon and all good on-line bookshops.
You can listen or download Anthony’s dowsing podcast free here: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1742930
