What If The Future Could Affect The Past? Well, guess what? It does.
In the well-regarded and peer-reviewed Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Daryl Bem, a well-respected academic psychologist, showed that present time behaviors can be influenced by future events. His experiments were then replicated, independently, ninety times, in thirty-three laboratories, in fourteen different countries around the world.
That's not all. Hundreds of experiments on precognition, (afore-knowing,) have been successfully conducted, and have then had their results published, since 1935. Yet, interestingly enough, psychic ability and precognition is still considered taboo in the western mindset.
So, despite the impeccable science and ample replications, there are continual and persistent attempts at discrediting these findings. I've heard it said that too often we vehemently deny new ideas until suddenly they are overwhelmingly accepted.
This brings me to the point I'd like to make. It's a good idea for us to think fondly of our future selves, who are looking back at us today. To me, this is almost like calling on our angels. When we imagine our future selves being who we'd like to be and doing what we'd like to do, not only do we pave the path for those outcomes, as any good day dreamer knows, but we also open the doors for magic to happen in our lives. Real magic.
From his humble beginnings as a bell hop, Conrad Hilton knew that one day he would own and operate many hotels. Undoubtedly as an older man, he must have looked back upon his younger years of drive and conviction, with pride and fondness. The youthful daydreamer met the experienced and seasoned mentor in the etheric realms of creation as past and future came together in harmonic resonance.
Thoughts like this give me great hope and joy. Think of how effective we could become, if we all began to realize this synergistic creativity as our birthright, our very human nature.
We look upon our children with hope and pride, why not look upon ourselves this way too. We can start by looking back with fondness at how we were ten years ago, or twenty or thirty and seeing how far we've come. We can commend our younger selves and pat us on the back, or hold out a helping hand and imagine giving ourselves a leg up into the next phase of our life's growth and journey.
Then, as well, why not imagine ourselves ten, twenty or thirty years in the future, looking back at us now. Seeing the struggles we are in and knowing how they help us to grow. This is a pretty fun exercise to try. Why don't we all just tune in and try it right now. Even if only for thirty seconds. It's fun and the science indicates it's fruitful.
So, I'll leave you with that. Let yourself take a little vacation in your mind, right now, and visit yourself some decades ahead, looking back at you now and cheering you on to a glorious future, one that we can all celebrate together, one that we can be proud of.
© Josephine Laing 2019
Throughout much of the modern world, we have historically had three great taboos: sex, death and finances. In recent decades these have been coming up for healing. It is always best if we deny nothing. We can push things away for a time, but in the end they will be made known. Such is the case with taboos.
When I was a girl, back in the
1960’s we collectively faced our sexual taboo. It was so amazing for me to watch as 'The Summer of Love' raised itself up, with it's pinnacle at The Haight, in San Francisco, in my home state of California. As this change swept over our nation, women’s liberation and gay rights were soon free to be born. The
environmental movement and AIM followed suit as the feminine principle
began to rise.
Then in
the 1990’s the taboo of death began to be addressed. My father was
wholly unable to face the reality of his inevitable death and he, like
many others of his generation, could neither speak nor think of his death. Death was
the enemy to be avoided at all costs and the standard western medical
model of healing was the savior.
Then, the need to release that
outmoded ideology began to surface. Culturally, we could no longer deny the reality of death. Exercises addressing the prospect of death and dying began to enter our collective minds. These have grown in acceptance and in popularity as the years have progressed. Now, with the Hospice Movement, death has re-entered the home and our loved ones and their time to go is embraced with dignity and allowance.
But, our third great taboo, financial transparency has still not yet been culturally addressed. We have great disparity of wealth, not only among our friends and family members, in our neighborhoods and nation-wide, but also, and grossly so, around the world. This has resulted in untold amounts of personal suffering along with a separation from the love and oneness that we know we all share. And that is the key here, we only need to learn how to share.
Even among my closest friends, I have little idea about their financial situations. People can get fired from their jobs in this country if they even so much as discuss their income figures with their co-workers. This is still the great and firmly entrenched taboo of the western world.
So, the other morning, I found myself up early, before the day was fully awake, sitting in the softest light of the soon-to-be rising sun. I had been asking myself over the last few weeks what this new situation at the pinnacle of our nation’s government was about. Knowing that Divine Creator has a hand in everything, I was hoping for an insight, and then one came. Without a thing on my mind, in that still sleepy morning light, it dropped in to my awareness, and I heard the words, “Financial Transparency.” Instantaneously I knew that this was the answer to my question. The time has come upon us now for this last, final great taboo to rise up for its healing.
May we all be blessed in this Holiday Season with equality and love.
© Josephine Laing 2016
