This is me again, the guy who posted a few years back regarding the concept
of "retroactive appointments". I've since learned a thing or two, and
wished to state the refinements to the practice which I've found to be
necessary.

First off, at this point in time I cannot state definitively where I've
ever made any sort of blatant "contact" with any intelligence outside of
our own present time. There are reasons for this, but it has nothing to do
with suppression of information - it has more to do with the nature of
localized realities such as our "here, now" reality and acausal "smears"
(for want of a better word) such as multi-thread world-lines and future
paralell world lines with common shared histories, things of that nature.

IOW, if ever I met a time traveller or received some sort of trans-temporal
contact, I'd be unable to tell you about it. Not because anybody would stop
me, but because any world line in which I did so would create a paradox and
instantly self-anihilate. That's the key that humans are going to have to
learn if ever they are to begin delving into any serious exploration of
that facet of reality being spoken of when discussing "time". It stems from
the fact that while we are experiencing what -appears- to be a
cause-and-effect type of reality, the true nature of reality as we perceive
it actually transcends this and is entirely acausal. Our place in the
universe doesn't allow for easy recognition of that fact, but a fact it is
just the same. Only acausal realities that do not self-destruct can ever
actually emerge. Ultimately all realities lead back to their source in a
loop, so to speak, and anything resisting that process is very harshly
dealt with by the forces of existence.

This is how it goes: A reality is born. It instantly begins dividing into
an ever-increasing number of world lines in which different courses are
taken to create divergent histories. But from the point where the reality
emerges, there is also the point where the reality will some day collapse
back in upon itself - though not necessarily from the perspective of those
within that reality. All world lines emerge from the same point, and all
world lines eventually lead to the same point. This means that no matter
what alternate futures we create for ourselves and no matter how many of
them we manage to come up with, there will come a point where they all
begin heading slowly and methodically back towards their point of origin.

It's every bit what happens when matter/antimatter pairs are observed. From
our frame of reference, they last only an instant, but from the frame of
reference of that matter/antimatter pair, its existence is eternal, since
as some have guessed, it is really the same particle just moving in
different directions in time. It emerges, goes one direction, is spun
around to the opposite direction and eventually reaches its point of origin
again - and again, and again and again.... From its perspective, were it
conscious, the process would literally be eternal - this is the nature of
that some refer to as the "eternal now". It is how things come to be
-apparently- infinite - they're not, not truly, they're just wrapped up and
warped around in ways that allow them to -seem- this way. It's a virtual
type of eternity, but for the one living it that doesn't matter - so what
if it seems dead and gone to others who have continued on in a different
stream of time?

In any event, this is where the paradox effect kicks in. There is a point
at which an event may or may not happen - that, I refer to as a probability
horizon. Certain courses of action cannot ever manifest, even though
they're technically possible - these world lines arise and fall, emerge and
fade continuously, we experience them as dreams and feelings of "what might
have been if...". They cannot manifest because they would breech the
toleration limits of the probability horizon - for instance, it's
technically possible that I might get up right now and jump out the window.
Some world lines emerge in which I do exactly that because anything that is
possible -does- end up happening - but because the resultant world line
such an action would create is inconsistent and paradoxical (the action
isn't within the probability horizon of those actions available to me), the
worldlines in which that occurs simply fade back into the churning of
oblivion. I may experience the notion as a fleeting thought or peculiar and
unheeded impulse - but it actually happens "somewhere" before collapsing
back into the nothingness again.

It's a lot for a modern human mind to digest, I'm still not finished
processing everything I've picked up over the past few years of my
research. But we have reached the point where this sort of thing is finally
within our intellectual grasp - we -can- understand it now, and so we are
going to begin striving to do exactly that. But it's virtually impossible
for any great number of people to understand because of all the
paradox-spawning variable behaviors such a state implicitly entails.

In order to start to understand, you have to give up on the notion of ever
having some sort of trans-temporal event occurring in your life and sharing
that event with any others in your world. You have to vow to yourself that
you will not react to the event, you will not try to tell anyone about it,
and then if and when it happens, you must keep your vow. Because if you do
not, then you will never experience it. It's a real catch-22, to be sure,
but it -is- something we are capable of.  :-)

I wish I could be more explicit, but I cannot. However, I can give you this
piece of advice: If you live anywhere near a large city, or near any single
place where large numbers of people gather on occasion (a football stadium
perhaps), get in the habit of taking walks through these areas and keep
your eyes on the ground - look for things that others have lost. Cell
phones, memory cards, cameras, pictures - anything at all. Then when you
find them, find some way of acknowledging the find that can be seen and
understood by others, even if they have to figure out a little puzzle or
two first.

Once you start finding things - especially the electronics - you'll start
finding them in ever-increasing numbers. Who can say why? Perhaps it's
something to do with time, or perhaps it's naught more than practice making
your gadget-spotting skills perfect.

In any case, I do need to acknowledge a retroactive appointment for today,
at the pedestrian walkway on the inbound side of the West End Bridge in
Pittsburgh, right around 4:30-5 p.m. EST. I have 4 finds to acknowledge,
though I shall keep their specific nature secret.

Lordy, I know how this is going to sound. But if you've read thus far,
hopefully you're starting to catch on. ;-)

Sincerely,
Bill