Basement #009: Eric Wargo | Time Travel Physics, Precognitive Dreams, and Quantum Biology
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Takeaways
- ❖The block universe theory, accepted by most physicists, posits that all moments in time (past, present, future) exist simultaneously.
- ❖Retrocausation, where future events influence the past, is supported by quantum physics experiments like Wheeler's Delayed Choice and specific laser tests.
- ❖Psychologist Daryl Bem's studies showed statistically significant precognition effects, such as participants choosing correct curtains before erotic images were randomly generated.
- ❖Precognition is framed as 'pre-memory' or intuition, with dreams being a common medium for experiencing future events.
- ❖Artists and writers, like Michael Richards and Philip K. Dick, have historically produced works that uncannily predict future personal or global events.
- ❖The 'bootstrap paradox' (e.g., receiving a math proof from your future self) is re-framed as a 'tautology'—something that must happen—and is central to creativity and innovation.
- ❖Microtubules in the brain, involved in memory consolidation, are proposed as potential quantum computers capable of processing information across time.
- ❖The scientific community's resistance to retrocausation stems from philosophical discomfort with determinism and challenges to the concept of free will.
- ❖UFO phenomena, such as objects appearing, splitting, or merging, could be interpreted as a single object reversing its course in time, or a single object scrubbing a timeline.
Bottom Line
UFO sightings featuring objects appearing, splitting, merging, or swarming could be manifestations of a single object (or 'time ship') manipulating its temporal direction, appearing as multiple entities to an outside observer as it scrubs its timeline back and forth.
This offers a novel, physics-based explanation for complex UFO behaviors often dismissed as unscientific, linking them to advanced time manipulation rather than just extraterrestrial travel.
Further research into the physics of time manipulation could inform the design of future aerospace technologies or offer new perspectives on interpreting anomalous aerial phenomena data.
The widespread belief that advanced technologies like anti-gravity and zero-point energy are being suppressed by defense contractors and military-industrial complexes is plausible, preventing public access to transformative solutions for global problems.
This suggests a significant barrier to human progress and environmental sustainability, as potentially world-changing technologies are hoarded for strategic advantage.
Advocacy for transparency and declassification of advanced energy and propulsion research could accelerate solutions to climate change and resource scarcity, if such technologies exist.
Creativity and innovation, often perceived as originating from individual genius, might actually be a 'bootstrapping' process where future insights or solutions are 'received' by the present self, effectively creating ideas from 'nowhere' in a linear causal chain.
This redefines the source of inspiration, suggesting that 'original' ideas are part of a larger, non-linear causal loop, potentially demystifying the creative process and reducing the pressure of 'originality.'
Developing techniques to enhance this 'bootstrapping' process, perhaps through specific meditative practices or cognitive training, could accelerate problem-solving and artistic output.
Key Concepts
Block Universe
A cosmological model derived from Einstein's special relativity, proposing that space-time is a fixed, four-dimensional 'block' where all points in time (past, present, and future) exist simultaneously and are equally real, challenging the perception of time as a flowing, linear progression.
Retrocausation
The concept that a future event can influence a past event, or that effects can precede their causes. This idea is explored through quantum physics experiments and psychological studies, suggesting information or influence can travel backward in time.
Time Loop / Bootstrap Paradox
A causal loop in which an event or object exists without an apparent origin, having been sent back in time to cause itself. For example, a future self provides information to a past self, creating a self-sustaining cycle. This is re-framed as a 'tautology'—something that must happen—rather than a paradox.
Precognition as Pre-memory
The idea that precognitive experiences (like prophetic dreams or strong intuitions about the future) are not a form of 'seeing' the future, but rather a form of 'remembering' or 'pre-remembering' a future event that has already occurred within the block universe framework.
Lessons
- Start a dream journal to track and identify potential precognitive patterns, paying attention to specific details and dates for 'kundrical resonance' (events recurring on the same date years apart).
- Practice mindfulness and meditation to heighten awareness of subtle intuitions and 'inklings' about future events, as these are argued to be signals from an existing future.
- Challenge the conventional linear perception of time and the philosophical 'hang-up' on free will; consider that embracing a deterministic, block universe view can be liberating and enhance 'flow states' in creative or skilled activities.
Notable Moments
Eric Wargo's personal UFO sighting in Philly on July 4th, 2009, which involved two orbs 'dancing' in the sky, prompted his deep dive into the scientific study of UFOs and related paranormal phenomena.
This personal experience served as a catalyst for his academic shift, leading him to explore taboo scientific ideas and eventually develop his theories on precognition and time loops, highlighting how anomalous experiences can drive scientific inquiry.
The Jungian 'scarab story' where a patient dreams of a scarab beetle, and Jung immediately finds a real beetle tapping on his window, is re-interpreted by Wargo as a perfect example of a 'time loop' rather than mere synchronicity.
This re-framing illustrates the core concept of a time loop: the dream caused the telling, which caused Jung's action, which caused the dream, demonstrating how future events can causally influence the past without paradox.
The case of sculptor Michael Richards, who created self-portraits of himself in a flight suit being pierced by airplanes, and then died in his studio on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center on 9/11, is presented as a powerful example of artistic precognition.
This tragic and uncanny alignment of art and life serves as compelling anecdotal evidence for precognition in creative individuals, suggesting artists may unconsciously tap into future events.
Morgan Robertson's 1898 novel 'Futility,' which described an 'unsinkable' ocean liner named 'The Titan' hitting an iceberg on its third voyage with insufficient lifeboats, uncannily predicted the Titanic disaster 14 years later.
This historical literary precognition highlights how creative works can contain detailed 'pre-memories' of future events, reinforcing the idea that intuition and imagination can access information from the future.
Vladimir Nabokov's precognitive dream at age 17, where his deceased uncle Vasili promised to return as 'Harry Cukin,' was fulfilled 40 years later when he learned his novel 'Lolita' was bought by 'Harris Kubric Pictures' (Kubric being an anglicized 'Kukin').
This highly specific and personal precognitive experience, which Nabokov later confirmed through dream journaling and replicating J.W. Dunn's experiments, provides strong evidence for long-range precognition and the 'kundrical resonance' phenomenon.
The Beatles' 'Get Back' documentary shows Paul McCartney composing the song 'Get Back' with lyrics about 'Jojo' and 'getting back to where you once belonged,' just days before George Harrison (whose name sounds like 'Jojo') temporarily left the band and was persuaded to 'get back.'
This intricate creative process, culminating in John Lennon adding the line 'But he knew it wouldn't last' on the morning of Harrison's departure, is presented as a potential 'time loop' in action, where the song's creation was influenced by the future event it seemingly described.
Quotes
"The future is also solid and fixed. And what he called this was the space-time continuum. And it's come to be called the block universe because you can sort of visualize it as a big block in which there's one of the dimensions is time."
"This woman had a precognitive dream about being handed a scarab beetle. And lo and behold, the next morning it happens. And well, anyone who keeps a dream journal and is aware of pre-cognition, like, yep, that's what happens."
"A paradox is something that can't happen, right? A tautology is something that must happen and therefore is not interesting in a way or not interesting to a logician because you know like uh you know it's not fair to to defend an argument by its anticedance is it? Yeah. Right. But but it's the way the world works. I think in a time travel universe in in any universe where time travel or time traveling information is allowed then everything on some level is tautological."
"What I'm arguing is that intuition is really based on real, you know, real signals from a real future. And it's not just calculating the odds of something happening based on what's happened in the past. Uh, it's actually getting signals, indirect and fuzzy signals from an actually existing future."
"Microtubules. So if these microtubules are the little quantum computers uh that are presponding to their own future states, it makes perfect sense. You know, it really creates a perfect little hypothesis for how precognition works."
"Your best self always comes out when you're not thinking deliberately about your will, exerting your will. Your best self is that that in the zone when you are a machine, you're part of a machine and you're part of what I think of as a sort of four-dimensional machine that's that's like, you know, cycling through time as well as space."
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