The Science in the Fiction

The possibility of sending information back in time to potentially help a former self didn’t enter my consciousness seriously until I suffered a subdural hematoma after falling off a diving board when I was 10.

After which I died 3 times, was in a coma, and wound up paralyzed and blind for a time.

It wasn’t that I wanted to go back and prevent the event from happening.

In hindsight I could see numerous silver linings that had come from it.

I wanted to send a message to that child sitting in a classroom.

My then 11-year-old self.

I wanted to assure my younger self it would be okay – if in the distant future.

I wanted to give her something to hold onto along the bumpy ride.

By the time I was in high school and having interactive conversations about quantum physics I had additional information i wanted to pass back.

That my thoughts about such concepts back then were valid in spite of research roadblocks.

Circle Back 

Days before my wedding I T-boned a kid driving a truck illegally across multiple lanes.  

My wedding dress which I’d just picked up was in the backseat.

Thankfully no one was hurt.

The crumple zone of my Ford Taurus and airbag did exactly what they were meant to do.

Ironically a cop was eating at a McDonald’s yards from where this happened and ran out.  Needless to say he was glad no one was hurt.

In spite of the fact my car was totaled and that kid’s pickup ended up flipped over in a ditch.

In the months after I had trouble not reliving the “what ifs?” each time I closed my eyes.

Silva Dangles Possibilities

I was fortunate enough to take the Silva Method BLS with Marjorie Dearmont.  While I gained knowledge that repaid itself in hundreds of ways I couldn’t help wondering.  Could it help me deal with the PTSD of that accident? 

This wasn’t about going back in time so it never happened so much as could I use some technique to deal with it?

I contacted the wonderful instructor we’d had and asked her thoughts on the matter.  She suggested I reprogram the event via one or more of the techniques taught.

She suggested two that might work.

While heartened by her agreement there should be a way to help in this situation I was a bit disappointed.  I was hoping she had something a bit more concrete.

Something I could identify with.

It ended up helping me in a back door way.

Knowing

I knew there had to be a way.  This knowing drove me to work on the problem in my spare time.

Pondering while walking and talking with others open to such philosophical concepts.

I married the approach she suggested to my previous considerations for the diving board incident and threw in some rather interesting and more recent dream events that’d had a major impact on my adult life.

Getting valuable information from another realm just when I needed it.

Speaking of Dreams

The sequence of events set up for a rather interesting validation of my original belief.

Sending information back in time.

There was a quirk to my opinion on the matter.

Trust The Source

To trust the information.

I felt it best sending some version of our future self back would be ideal.

So the former self would accept the information.

Because they were more likely to trust the source.**

Validation

I published the Metatron’s Army series beginning in 2016.  8 years and 13 books later I came across an article that grabbed my attention because it addressed the concept of the time travel paradox.

The way I did in my series.

Specifically, why it isn’t a paradox.

From New Scientist published May 29, 2024. (link as of October 13, 2024)

Deutsch’s version was inspired by the many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics: he argued that a time-traveling particle that went back and destroyed itself would simply enter another strand of the multiverse.

From Positional Play

“Imagine you are walking along a path,” he replied, handing her a glass of wine and taking the water.  “At a certain point you turn left.  In another universe you went right and in yet another, straight.”

“And in another I might have turned around and gone back or turned around and gone left or right.”  

He nodded, sipped his wine.  “In each of those universes you will take steps.  Each step forms a new existence.  In each of those existences you will take the same steps over and over, each time repeating the creation process.”

“That’s a lot of existences.”

“Each step, each action, creates a new timeline.”

“Timeline and existence are the same?”

** Brings to mind Mike + The Mechanics Silent Running video.

“Yes.”

 With a leetle lemon twist.