Changing Past Events
When viewing time it is as if we are being dragged backwards through a sea. As we travel through the sea of time the future is liquid, and therefore changeable but as we pass over the present the sea freezes and the iced-up sea retreats into the past.
We can see behind us but not in front. We can obviously change the future – what we do today will affect how tomorrow plays out – but can we change the past? Even in the recent past there are regions that are only partly frozen and can, to a certain extent, be changed. In ‘The Nature of Reality’ I explained how certain aspects of the past are not necessarily fixed and can be changed by concentration and adopting the correct attitude.
Human beings have very little understanding of time. There are accounts of people who have been in isolation, for example kidnap victims, and have retreated into fantasy. They often describe being so absorbed in the fantasy that they seem real. The images, sounds and even the tastes and smells are recalled as if they are currently being experienced.
Psychics sometimes get a brief insight into a situation. For example, when doing a reading they may find themselves with a sudden view of their client. This may be the briefest of flashes but it is so intense and so rich that it may take weeks to extract the information. Unless the psychic is well grounded they are overwhelmed by the experience and what they perceive is contaminated by their own views. Not only is a good psychic able to view the experience objectively and report on it, but also they can return to the insight to re-experience it and retrieve more information, in the same way as you might replay a movie over in your mind to get another insight into it.
It has been found the when people are asked about memories they get distorted by suggestions. For example, in an experiment a number of college students were asked to write about a traumatic experience they had as a child. Over the next week in lectures some ideas were expressed to them such as being lost as children or watching a dog being run over by a car. Some time later the students were recalled and told there was a mix-up and their papers were lost. Could they write again about their traumatic experiences? This, of course, was a typical fabrication used in psychological experiments. What the experimenters found was that many of the new essays reflected ideas that had been planted by the experimenters – being lost or watching the dog die – as if they had happened personally.
When this process takes place with regard to psychic phenomena, it is called contamination. The flash of insight is coloured by the psychic’s own ideas. Part of the job of a good psychic is to develop a clear mind so that these psychic flashes can be seen in their original form.
A great clairvoyant was doing a reading and she saw in her mind an image of a rope being unwound. Had she been a lessor psychic than she was, she may have used this image to question to the person, for example “do you know anyone who worked on a ship or in a rope factory”, that sort of thing. Instead she waited and a voice came into her ear: “The name is Roper”. When she asked the person he replied that he knew someone called Roper who had died.
