Under hypnosis (actually, even just a light trance) it is possible to get extremely coherent and common feedback on how people see their own 'Timeline'. Although the exact dimensions and spatial orientations vary slightly from person to person, the overall structure is virtually identical.
If there is an archetypal basis for this then we can make a non too half-assed assumption there is a rational reason for it. Actually, I'm none too sure rationality comes into it.
With all that fluff out of the way, and to get to the point, it really doesn't matter what the 'real' structure of time is. Temporal Singularity, linear, cylindrical, circular, vanilla ice-cream. The trick as with all things, is how we perceive it.
I've done enough work myself on this to know it is quite possible to alter one's perception of time - both in the speed of its passing (as in (1) when you're doing something really pleasurable that only seems to last a second or two - yet you've been there/doing it for a couple of hours compared with (b) waiting in line at the bank/Post office at lunch time with only one teller on duty) and in 'pushing/puling' events closer to/further away from you.
But these are 'just' perceptions. What I'm keen to investigate is if there is any basis for demonstrably either using the knowledge of future/past time and/or physical manipuilation of past/ future events. (Yes, I really do mean that, and yes, even past events...woo hoo).
I know tis is out on the edge for many traders (or anyone for that matter) and may well draw the usual crowd for allusions to other t2w members posts, but I am being quite serious.
This is probably one of those posts that's too long to draw a response - and maybe the better for it - but if anyone does have anything sensible to add I'd really appreciate it as it is an on-going area of study for me.
