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The Man Who Took His Pocket Knife Back in Time
I believe that this story came from a short story written by
Robert Heinlein, but am not certain. I do not have the
original, so I will paraphrase here.
The Analogy:
T
here was once a man who invented a time machine. He had always
said that when he got it done, the first thing he wanted to do
was to go back through time and meet his grandfather, about
whom he had heard so many good things. This inventor even
carried his grandfather’s special pocketknife with him at
all times. He knew that the pocketknife was considered
special because it had come from a special place and had
once saved his grandfather’s life. But that was all he
really knew about it. Perhaps, when he met his grandfather,
he could find out more."
“He finally got the time machine working and, just before
jumping back in time to meet his grandfather, he noticed that
one of the adjustment screws was slightly out of line. So,
he took out his grandfather’s pocketknife and tweaked the
adjustment. There. Just right. He then hit the start button
and went back through time."
“But the adjustment had not been just right. He wound up at
the place he wanted, but many years too soon. He suddenly
appeared there to see a very young man about to be mugged and
killed by a gang of hoodlums. He could see that the young man
would lose the fight, so he yelled to him and threw him the
knife. The young man (in actual fact, the inventor’s
grandfather) caught the knife and defended himself. The
sudden appearance of a strange man sitting in a machine and
tossing a knife to their victim scared the hoodlums away.
About that time, because of the bad adjustment, the inventor’s
machine returned him to his normal time, and he and the machine
disappeared from the sight of the young would-be victim.
Because of this, the inventor’s grandfather lived to have a
son and grandson, and to pass the very special knife on to
them as his most prized possession.”
The story is a nice one, but poses some very difficult questions:
1. Who manufactured the knife? Where did it come from in the
first place?
2. What happens to the knife over the history of all time?
3. Will the knife one day wear down from use, over its many
trips from past to present to past to present, only to one
day fail to save the grandfather, who then does not live to
have a son and grandson?
The Meaning of the Analogy:
The story is, of course, one of those paradoxical stories of
science fiction lore. However, it has a very real application
when it comes to the science of remote viewing.
Remote viewing, whether people realize it or not, deals a lot
with “loops in time”. Most beginning viewers jump forward
30-45 minutes in time and view their feedback picture instead
of viewing the actual target site. So, from the very
beginning, they are jumping into a future moment and bringing
back information to the present moment, causing the session
to have the success which ultimately rewards them at the future
time, when they see the feedback picture. Are we confused yet?
Time loops are that way. The beginning viewer must, with
experience, learn how to view the target site instead of the
feedback picture. The reason for this is that when, say, you
work for a police department, or for some customer who deals
with classified information, you may never get feedback. If
all you can view is your feedback, and there isn’t going to be
any, then you don’t stand a chance at having a good session.
Associative remote viewing (ARV) is a formalized time loop.
You go to the moment of feedback, gain information, bring it
back for, say, winning the lottery, and then work forward
through time until the moment of feedback, to physically get
the information you have already mentally taken into what is
now the past.
The confusing nature of time loops is suspected to be one of
the reasons why a person, working ARV will do well, but then
lose interest and quit working it, sometimes in spite of great
success. The mind just doesn’t want to deal with such a
paradox.
Time loops also figure greatly into the process of Controlled
Remote Viewing (CRV), as the viewer is pulled back and forth
through time to different aspects of the target.
The analogy also symbolizes the tendency of a viewer to aim
for one time, but instead, be drawn to a more important one
– whether they know it is important or not. Just as a series
of unconscious events led the time-machine inventor to make
the error which would set up the time loop in the first place,
so a remote viewer will tend to go to that time which is most
important for the mission at hand. The general rule of how a
viewer moves through time during a CRV session is:
When a viewer views a site, he/she tends to default to
present time, unless there is a temporal attractor. If there
are more than one temporal attractors, the viewer will tend to
default to the strongest.
Therefore, if a viewer is given a target without feedback, he
will tend to go to present time at the target. If there is
to be feedback (such as a picture from a magazine), the
feedback’s moment of interest tends to be an attractor and
will draw the viewer in time to the moment of interest
(the moment the picture was made). If, however, there is a
much stronger attractor, the viewer will tend to be drawn to
that. For example, if the target is a picture of, say, Pearl
Harbor, taken last year when your aunt and uncle were on
vacation there, the moment of the picture (them standing at
the memorial) will be more attractive than the present moment,
but the moment of the attack on Pearl Harbor will be an even
stronger one, and will attract you to that moment, rather than
the moment of the picture. It is hard for any viewer –
especially a novice – to view Pearl Harbor the day before the
attack.
Time loops and temporal attractors are very important aspects
of the remote viewing process, no matter what methodology is
used.