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A Bug on the Pond of Time
The Analogy:
L
et's say that you are a bug sitting on the Pond of Time, and
that you are hungry. You look across the pond and see, far across
the pond, another bug sitting idly beside a rock. You think that
it would make a good meal, so you begin skimming across the pond
toward it.
But, in the process of making your way toward the bug, you set
up a wake before you and the distant bug, sensing the disturbance
in the water, flies away.
You arrive at the rock where the bug used to be, only to find
that it is no longer there. It was there, but now it isn’t. But
the rock still is.
The Meaning of the Analogy:
Just as Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle states that the
observations of an experimenter will effect the experiment, it is
also true that the observations of a viewer cannot help but affect
the thing being viewed – at least in some very miniscule way.
For some aspects of the target, the very act of viewing a future
event, person, or location will cause those aspects to change.
In a very real way, remote viewing through time sets up disturbances
in time, and some aspects of the target site which is sensitive to
that may take action to change things. Some things, like the rock
in the analogy, will not change, no matter how much you view it or
even try consciously to change it. But other things in the future
can be changed, either by accident or with intention.
However, the most immediate thing on most people’s minds, when they
relate to this analogy is the first bug’s hunger. When people set
out to view the future, they want to win the lottery, know what the
stock market will do tomorrow, predict the right home to buy or the
right time to take a vacation. They do a remote viewing session
and come away from it, having done everything correctly, with the
feeling – the certainty – that what they have seen across the
Pond of Time is actually there. Then, they
wait until they get there, only to find that it isn’t. A feeling
of failure sets in, and soon, their viewing is beset with doubts and
even the expectations of failure. “The future can’t be viewed”, they
declare. "Remote Viewing the future is not accurate." the tell
everyone.
It is perhaps one of the great paradoxes of remote viewing that
the better you view the future, the more effect you will have on
it, and the more some aspects of it will change. Many times, the
very act of getting information about the future changes the
future to make the viewer’s information incorrect. But, like in
the analogy, it doesn't mean that that future was not there at
the time the process started. The viewing across the pond of
time was accurate when it was done. The fact that the future
changed because of the viewing does not mean that the process
failed.
Once you understand this principle, you learn that a future which
was once there may no longer be. You also learn that the future
can be changed. "The future isn't what it used to be!" is an old,
but true saying. You quit blaming yourself for failure and learn
to do repeated sessions on future events, not to get an average of
the findings, but to keep track of what changes are made as you view
them. In effect, you learn that sessions done on future targets
have to be updated periodically to keep track of the changes which
will normally occur.
Of course, the analogy continues with the fact that the closer you
get to the other bug, the more it can feel the wake of your coming,
and the more prone it is to fly away. Many people think that the
close future is easier to view more accurately, but that is only
true at the point where you are so close that the easily changeable
things in the future do not have time to change very much. So,
predicting the numbers which will show up on a lottery ball is
easy to do mere seconds before the ball is drawn, but by then,
there is not time left to bet on the number.
But remember that there are rocks in the Pond of Time
, as well, and that they remain unchanged. It is these
types of targets for which predictive remote viewing has a
constant and dependable reliability.
The trick for remote viewers is in learning what types of targets
are "bugs" and what types of targets are "rocks" in the Pond of
Time.
A Ramification of this theory:
Many people think that if you change one little thing, the future
curves off into a new direction and everything is changed forever.
Some people like to even believe that you have started a “new reality”,
although I personally find such a god-like power to be lacking in
myself and others I know. The analogy of the rock in the
Pond of Time indicates that there are “rocks”
in the future which will not change, no matter how hard we try to
move or change them. Therefore, if you make a change in one little
thing, the immediate future might curve off in some new direction,
but it will curve inextricably back to the next immovable and
unchangeable rock in time.
Perhaps another analogy is in order to better explain this point: