Actual Changes to the Past

Actual changes to the past is a far more difficult concept to wrap ones head around than is the idea that alternate pasts already exist and only some of us have a recollection of them. Both concepts require an agent of causation which today is not widely accepted by the scientific community nor the totality of people who assert they are the beneficiaries of selective knowledge.

For some people the explanation for differing memories is that they themselves appeared in this reality from a different timeline. While this is a lofty and romantic notion, precisely how many ME examples did it take to bring them to that conclusion? Is it a preponderance of examples that helped form their conclusion or is it a feeling that it must be so? A lot of people assert they remember the ME namesake, Nelson Mandela dying in prison in the 1980s but when pressed for any details such as the date, they are absent an answer.

The opposite condition is also an explanation. In that variation, in is not the observer who made the transitions between realities but the events themselves. To those observers the alternate events and conditions are only represented in their memories but not in any remaining physical artifacts.

This brings us to the variation where a single coherent past is actually modified by some (as yet) unspecified agent of causation. The LHC at CERN is one alleged cause. A superior alien civilization is another. Our future selves as time travelers are also suspect. Even ancient earthly civilizations residing inside a hollow earth are hypothesized as the instigators. Lastly, mere quantum perturbation might result in a spontaneous modification of what was originally manifest and some people escaped knowing about the change.

"My biggest smack in the side of the head was digging out my old copy of Springsteen's Born in the USA to see that it indeed is now a red visor cap in his pocket not his signature red bandanna."

Realizing that all matter is really energy waves until an observer observes them makes the next explanation plausible. Every two (or more) waves which interact with each other encode their own natures in each other. Waves move in the three ordinal directions (x,y,z) and one of time (present into the future). Waves also move in the negative ordinal directions. There is nothing to stop them from moving in a negative time direction also.

How far back they have an impact has never been fully explored, although physicists know waves do this. They also know future events help determine the causative events which made the future what it is (will be.)  ME experiences may be a manifestation of backward traveling Event Waves which mix with the "immutable past" and alter it in small, medium and large ways. We only see the changes to things which we have recent memories of with to compare. for example we can discuss the apparent changes of a word in the Bible because we have a Bible to go look it up in. But in a Retroactive Event Modification wave removed an entire chapter from the bible, we could only speculate on its name and what it said. We might go looking at the list of "Lost Books" of the Bible that were proposed but never approved as possible candidates.

So now at this point in time each person must choose his/her own explanation for what they believe.

Mass Brainwashing

Mass Brainwashing

People who clearly recall some little detail in popular culture differently than can be seen by looking at "evidence" have come up with a spectrum of causes ranging from "I just always thought..." to we are all living in a simulation controlled by superior beings, are being manipulated in everything we see, hear and do while the Mandela Effect are glitches in the matrix we are not supposed to notice but do. To some people the superior ones are the Illuminati while for others it is lizard people from Saturn or Nibiru. Another popular explanation is time travelers who are having a go at us with silly bugger changes.

The alterations of popular culture is the possible way to make anyone aware of the changes being made. In a nutshell, most ordinary people are not known by a sufficient number of other outspoken people for it to ever be known they used to have 6 fingers on each hand but somehow now it's only five. Without photographs there would only be a few people who ever knew.

On the other hand, Bart Simpson is far more real in popular culture than most actual human beings. Millions of people have seen him and know of his antics. They know how many fingers he has on each hand. Five, right? Oh, no, now it is only four. And its every character from the very first show.  His signature saying, "don't have cows, dude," would be remembered by most of them. At least the ones who watched from the early days before he stopped saying it."

The idea that a powerful alien civilization has made this simulated world just for us is more than a little bit Christian in its formation. Very Biblical. Genesis to be exact. Even the one god of genesis say WE when they refer to themselves and the making of the world in six days.

Another suggestion is we were all "natural" flesh and blood creatures until the end of the Mayan Calendar in December 2012 when its end signified that something catastrophic "might have happened" and we all were resurrected in this simulated world. ME and déjà vu are glitches in the software. What was so special about humanity that it warranted being recreated in a cyber world that is exactly as flawed as the old one was? The architects of this simulation decided that all 7 billion people needed to be preserved even though they will appear to suffer and die of environmental and manufactured causes. Or are all those "others" just non-conscious props for the benefit of we who are sentient and conscious as in "Breakfast of Champions?" That is a dangerous supposition that will allow us to minimalize the plight of those others.

This brings us to the concept of us all being brainwashed into thinking we are more than we are and need all the stuf (or stuff) that is being sold. Exactly to what end are we being enslaved by the brainwashing? Automation is making human labor obsolete. Soon there will be few if any people working. Everyone will be given their "daily bread" by the masters just for standing around being submissive. Again very Biblical.

The whole idea of a massive slave population is a bad one at best. Consider 7 billion people all wanting the attention of the Master, dependent for everything. This is why parents expect their children will eventually grow up and move away and many times kick them out after 18 to 20 years and told to get a job.

Next up: Actual Changes of the Past

Three Phases of ME

Thousands of people have the sense that something in their past has changed and only a few other people have any sense of it happening. The phenomenon has been labeled "Mandela Effect" by Fiona Broome.  To them the question becomes: did something alter mine and many other peoples' memories or did the Past actually change. For them there is only those two possibilities.

A third explanation emerges which is equally able to describe and explain the experiences people have with respect to the Effect. Briefly the Mandela Effect is a memory fluke which is derived from the reports that when Nelson died on December 5, 2013, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg, South Africa (Wikipedia) people surfaced who said they thought he had died in prison many years earlier. To them Mr. Mandela never was the President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999 and the man who presided over the dismantling of the Apartheid government. While they "clearly remember" him dying in prison, they have no idea who was the President during the years 1994-1999 in South Africa. Basically, they were not paying close enough attention to African politics at the time.

This third explanations requires a large communication portal wherein large numbers of people can read what others say and post their own responses to either agree with or disagree with what is said. The Internets create this great filter through which the information flows. Many hundreds if not thousands of participants add their part to the collective recollections. Without the ability to communicate with large numbers of people who appear to have the same recollection there could be no body of knowledge we now call the Mandela Effect. Each person would casually dismiss their own recall as being faulty with no corroboration from others to validate the error of that memory.

Now that the phenomenon has a name, multiple Youtube channels and a presence on Facebook and Twitter, many more people are able to validate their faulty memories.  The erroneous memories seem to only manifest in pairs. It was THIS way or it was THAT way as in Berenstain and Berenstein Bears, or Fruit Loops vs Froot Loops. In this manner the cause in not likely a merging of quantum realities since many other permutations of the alternate spellings of word choices would have equally probable presence. We should see many different appearances.

Should some time traveling adventurer return to our past and make changes, he or she would be wasting massive amounts of high-energy resources to Punk us here in the early 21st century. Adding a dividing line in the VW logo, a curly F in the Ford logo or the "male arrow" to the other circular Volvo logo, would be playing silly buggers with us here for no apparent reason.

The ability to aggregate opinion via a massive telecomm system facilitates the Mandela Effect. Cartographers have from time to time emphasized and deemphasized the presentation of the spherical planet onto a flat piece of paper. Until an accurate time piece was made which remained accurate during turbulent sea voyages, longitude was a "best guess" by the navigators who were on the exploratory trips around the globe. As their skill improved as well as the accuracy of their clocks, so were their maps.

Ship's Captains commissioned by Kings were not adverse to stretch the extents of their travels with deceptive maps. After all there was no one to challenge their veracity. Recall that Christopher Columbus was not looking for two new continents but a westward route to the India and China. Imagine Queen Isabelle and King Ferdinand saying," But I always thought the world was flat and resting of the back or a turtle. Something must have changed."

So now is it that the person feeling the Mandela Effect is merely being wrong or did someone tamper with his brain?  Next up: Mass brainwashing.

To ME or not to ME

During the previous decade there has arisen an assertion that millions of people have experienced a "memory phenomenon" wherein they remember facts, events, visual presentations which are not substantiated by an historical review of what the vast majority of people both remember and now today see.

Simple differences can be shown in whether or not there is an apostrophe in a brand name, an "s" at the end of a celebrity's name, a word or two different in a title or movie dialog. The most elaborate difference claimed by various persons is whether the Presidential motorcade limousine in which JFK was assassinated has/had two rows of seats or three. The emotional attachment a person has to his experience and his explanation for how it came to be makes much of their testimony suspect.

Even though there IS a physical mechanism for how the past might become altered and for there to be convergences of quantum realities, much of that has been put forth as evidence has little probability of being accurate.  Many claimants say proof of their experiences and recollections are accurate. One only has to cite examples of errors which are not Mandela Effect related to show most of the examples fall in the "not ME" category. One of the hallmarks of a compelling ME example is there is zero physical evidence to point to. If there are such artifacts those artifacts can be attributed to raising the confusion in the first place.

Pic of the album in my vinyl collection

Compelling ME examples are the VW logo, the Volvo logo and the Red hat/bandanna of Springsteen's Born in the USA album. In the latter example the hat is highly unusual since Bruce did not use such a hat in his personal image but did use a red bandanna.
Advertisers have used the phrase "feeling ones oats" to signify the vitality a person will get if they breakfast on their cereal. That phrase has been around a long time and has gained a meaning of its own apart from the original words "fielding ones (wild) oats."  Its meaning and usage is not appropriate for oat cereal products. To most people reading this blog post the "feeling" variant is the only one they ever herd and the reference to springtime reproductive rites is unknown. The change took place was and propagated so widely that the original phrase is mostly unknown. It is highly unlikely that "feeling" would ever be altered to be "fielding."

Here is another phrase to consider. It's a"tough road to hoe."  Why is it a road with a hoe? how many people hoe a road? Well even though common usage had made it a road the phrase is "row to hoe" as in farming or gardening in dense hard-packed soil. Similarly to the previous example in is highly unlikely a road reference would ever become a farming reference.

The English language is a highly volatile and flexible one where nuances can be made with the sweep of a pen, words sound similar and most people do not practice diction to a high degree. Graphic designers love to make unique and memorable messages by altering some small part of the images and text. Therefore, unusual spellings are not that unusual.

If the "real original" name and spelling was Berenstein Bears it would be highly improbable people would gloss over the spelling and come up with Berenstain by accident.  The converse is not equally probable.

A subset of people reporting ME experiences also impute that they are from an alternate timeline of the Earth. Their observation is of such things as continental positioning. In particular South America seems to now be about a thousand miles further east than they remember it being located. Neglecting cartographers' variations the continents do move. South America did diverge from Africa and move westward to where it is today. Tectonic pressures are are now pushing it eastward again. For an alternate timeline explanation to hold true, both variations must have been possible but differently manifest. Internal Earth pressures did likely place the South American continent in each of the reported positions. A spurious event would necessarily have at some date in the multi-million years ago past happened or not happened to result in the position of today. For those people the alternate timeline hypothesis holds at least some water.

The other big geological example is the alleged land mass west of Australia. While some people have a "recollection" of such a place, they have no name for it or and physical description of its character. There is no unemerged sub-sea formation which alternate time references would either create or suppress its rise to dry land in the region. For their supposition to hold any validity we need to elevate their hypothesis from mere alternate timeline to a completely different manifestation of Earth itself.

There is no consistency yet for what the ME actually is:

1. Illusion
2. Wishful-thinking
3. Manipulated memory
4. Erroneous memory
5. A timeline phenomenon
6. Converging realities
7. Alteration of the past
8. Some even more exotic cause

My opinion is #7 by a combination of natural and man-made causation.

Quantum Heaven

Quantum Heaven

Here is a huge question to spur the minds of deists and atheists alike. Is there a quantum universe where there is a god and another where there is no god? The mathematics suggest many universes are in existence somewhere where we can't right now see them. Were any of them or all of them created by a god or did they all come into being spontaneously?

Heaven

This one is for the people who believe in Heaven.  People who merely believe in an after-life of some sort or another can add in their views on a parallel posting in this blog. Just now I am looking for what people believe about that place where some people end up after they die.

Hell is a concept of anti-heaven where the deserving of hellish treatment is meted out for eternity as punishment for acts committed in this physical world we are sitting in right now.

The questions posed here for an answer are these: 

1.        What does the landscape of Heaven look like?
2.        What will you be wearing?
3.        What will you be doing for the Eternity you will be there?

There are hundreds of other questions to answer about the nature of Heaven and the character of the people who will populate the place. Those questions will be posed if this first batch of questions receives a sufficient number of replies to warrant moving on to more involved questions.

A more scientific premise of Heaven is that it is a quantum reality in which we already exist but do not know it because of the bright, warm and noisy world we live in now. The fact is all the stars that are visible at night are up there shiny down on the earth all day too. We just cannot see them.

Comment with what you think.

Retroactive Event Modification

The more time that goes by brings an ever increasing number of possible examples of alterations of the past. Skeptics chalk the phenomena to "misremebering" while others call it the Mandela Effect. 

Some people suggest the past is being changed by Time Travelers from our future who either make these silly changes for unknown reasons or the observed changes are merely artifacts of a larger change that has gone unnoticed. I previously suggested the 2000 Presidential Election was way too easy to flip and nobody ever suggested it was the result of a REM (Retroactive Event Modification.) All one had to do was influence ballot design in Florida.

The ballot had been redesigned earlier that year by Theresa LePore (Supervisor of Elections, and member of the Democratic Party). She said that she used both sides of the ballot in order to make the candidate names larger so the county's elderly residents could more easily see the names.^{[30] Wikipedia}

As Secretary of State for the State of Florida, Katherine Harris made decisions which ultimately made George w Bush the President. 537 votes made the difference.

If one wanted to alter the outcome of that election to make it the way we remember, or to even stop the George W Bush Administration, there is the pivot point to target.

Skeptics of time travel say it is impossible. One of the main objections is that the Earth is nowhere near where it was what anything happened in our past. The other objection is the alleged amount of energy it would take to accomplish the task. Yet another is all the paradoxes which might arise in making a trip.

Romantic allusions of actually visiting a former time and place being set aside for the moment, there is another way the past can change without the need for time travel. A large and/or exotic energy wave propagating outward in all dimensions would necessarily travel in an XYZ and -X, -Y and -Z. also it would travel it the T and -T dimension too. All waves of similar composition interfere constructively and destructively with each other. 

The matter and energy of what we see as reality were influenced by all energy waves up to the moment we are looking at that reality. The energy of a backward moving wave would also shape what we have always known to be an immutable past.

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It Can Be Done: Creation in 6 Days

Creation, In 6 Days

The Bird Brain had a great concept of how to create an "earth-like" planet in exactly 6 solar days. The following is an excerpt from "Ruminations of a Bird Brain, Vol. 2" Go to my Amazon Author Page to buy the eBook and read more about the Bird Brain.

Creation, In 6 Days 

I was pecking at a spill of taco salad next to a bench in the plaza at Market Square. Two guys were sitting at opposite ends of the bench arguing about how this whole world came to be. The guy with the white shirt and bowtie kept saying that a god made it all in 6 days while the guy in the blue tee-shirt said it came into existence all by itself. I've never seen this god nor does it seem logical that it just popped into existence either. Both remained unconvinced that what the other said had any merit at all whilst I thought they both were majorly deceived.  Their argument digressed into name calling and insults to the intelligence of people who thought like themselves.  Actually, I mean "the other." It got me thinking about how I would make a world like this one, and do it in 6 days.

I was surprised by just how much thinking is actually inside this tiny head of mine. Brain size doesn't seem to have any relationship to how smart it is or how much intelligence it has. I started getting this idea in my head and it needed to get out soon if it was not to make it explode.

This plan is Highly Intelligent Design and can easily be accomplished by anyone with a high school education and a Time Machine. First we have to believe in education and that it is useful.

Here is the Steps of Creation that can be done in six Solar Days. Strap on your thinking caps and free your mind. Mine is quite small and consists of a bit of cloth I found on Excelsior Street. On Monday morning, get your coffee and Danish (off the sidewalk as for me), and step into your time machine. Set your destination coordinates for a cluster of asteroids and a temporal displacement of 10 million years in the future. It is important to move into the distant future so that nothing you do will accidentally make your discovery of time travel impossible or yourself for that matter. Ten million years hence is a reasonable safety buffer.

When you get there you merely bump a few asteroids together so that their collective gravitational pull will keep the aggregation going. Then get out of the way and go home. Back in your basement apartment you have the rest of the day to lounge around and listen to Pink Floyd and Nirvana since you set the temporal coordinates to return 10 minutes after you departed. Me, I'd go and enjoy a good laugh at the nuts at the Coo-coos' Nest.

On Tuesday afternoon after you get up and remedy that hangover from the night before, you make the plan for Day Two. On this day you jump into your time machine, well okay, stumble into your time machine and set the coordinates for the cluster of asteroids you started in the location it will be when you get there 510 million years in your normal future. I did say you could do this with a high school education, didn't I? Well the time machine has all the computing power to figure out the XYZ coordinates and temporal displacements.

When you get there you see what has become of your initial actions. The glob of asteroids is quite large now and the ice chunks in the galaxy have made clouds above the surface and the surface has gotten cooler and solid. The process is going well so you can just go home and goof off the rest of the day.

Wednesday is the seminal day in your Plan of Creation. 500 million more years in the future you go there with a sack of seeds. Included are acorns, buckeyes, ginko pods, wheat, marsh grasses and a whole lot of varieties of weed. As you pass over the fledgling planet you scatter your seeds in every crevice. Extremely tired and in want of a cigarette you go home and sleep until the sun goes down and you wonder just what time is really is and wonder does anybody really know what time it is.

On Thursday you are already up to Day Four and must get serious. At an aggregate temporal displacement of 1,510 million years you arrive to find the entire planet to be Edenesque and covered by trees, fields of grass and weeds. You see a lot of varieties that you did not bring and realized they all adapted to this world. At this point you dump bags of water from your own world into the seas there on that planet. In it are amoebas, rotifers, plankton, algae, and a couple of guppies. After this long day of activity you sample some of the weeds for their medicinal properties and decide that it is good.

Friday, you decide to blow it off and check out some more varieties of plant life that had evolved since your last visit. This is not really a problem because you can always fix anything in post-production if necessary.

Saturday is the big Sixth Day. You set the temporal displacement to 2.5 billion years in your normal future and jump to the proper galactic position. Upon landing you see that things had gone terribly wrong. There are human-like people all over the place dressed in form-fitting tights and everyone has one color cape or other. They all have neck gills and vestigial fins on the forearms and lower legs. Just then you remember what became of your DC and Marvel Comic books. The guppies had evolved into all sorts of species. Even the cat-like critters had back fins and fish tails. The outcomes of the evolutionary processes were not too strange especially "missing link" examples that were mermaid like females who still swam in the estuaries and continually beckoned you to come in for a swim. I think there would be 6 foot pigeons who could converse in English, of course, and actually had something to say.

You stay longer this trip than you usually did but that didn't seem to be a problem for some reason. On your way home at the end of the day, just before sundown, you go back to your Thursday time and place and collect your forgotten comic books. This method of fixing your mistake is far more humane than drowning everyone and starting over. Besides, attempts to drown all the descendants of guppies would probably fail anyway.

Sunday, you go again to the 2.5 billion year mark just to see if your micro fix was effective. Oh, horrors!

Hey, this explanation is no worse than what humans have believed for thousands of years. Besides that, prove me wrong.

Internal Crossing: Epilogue

This is an excerpt from the upcoming eBook by Robert3 Carlson 

Note 1: 2017

Altering the past is no simple undertaking. In trying to establish a desired outcome one must weight thousands of events and decision points. The entire concept of quantum possibilities comes into play when such alterations are planned.

Every great accomplishment in history was preceded by the kernel of thought or accident of discovery leading to the full blown development of a new idea or a new manifestation of change. For example the first male soldier to get kicked in the balls was the impetus for the codpiece. That early development probably spread quite rapidly by word of mouth. On the other hand the invention of the aluminum crotch cup predated the adoption of the football helmet by about 100 years. The point here is that a simple decision grows rapidly when the outcome is considered to be positive.

Anybody wanting to time travel to alter the past would be well advised to look for those seminal points in time and the decisions there which can be modified with the least effort. There are influential people here in this time and place who have not yet attained the ability to time travel but who are nonetheless able to assist with the project from the future.

They are about the business of creating key time points where a simple decision can be flipped to create the future desired outcome. These present-day people do not need to concern themselves with who will ultimately employ the fix or to what ends it will be put. Theirs is only to create the points where the flip can be made.

Consider the 2000 Presidential Election in America. Someone made the decision to use a "butterfly ballot" instead of a straight paper one and the resulting confusion resulted in the confirmation of George W. Bush over Al Gore for President. By providing the rationality for using or not using the ballot design a simple point of decision was established which could be flipped later on if necessary. It was only a quantum fluctuation that needed to be employed since both outcomes equally exist in a quantum space-time.

Not all outcomes are equally weighted when it comes to quanta. Having thought about and actually considering an alternative gains more probability than some random possibility like a hurricane pummeling the precinct where voter turnout needs to be lowered. Men can influence the decision of an elections official far more easily than the trajectory of a major tropical storm.

During the 2016 election season, there had been ad naseum reports of whether Hillary Clinton was or was not guilty of a punishable criminal offense, whether or not she was indictable and whether or not she would be indicted. If she remained the fore running DEM candidate, she would most likely be elected. However, should that victory ever be deemed a negative outcome, all that is needed is to retroactively influence the Attorney's General to move forward with an indictment and quash her Presidency before it ever begins. Literally a flip of a coin and its Heads or Tails orientation could shape the future of this country for the next century. This extra-temporal influence can be implemented at any date after the election and most everyone would not be aware that a tweak had ever taken place.

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Thoughts on Swirl Theory

When you go looking for something and do not find it there are a few possibilities to consider:

1. You are looking in the wrong places
2. You are looking for something that doesn't exist
3. You are looking at the wrong time
4. You haven't been looking long enough.
5. You might have overlooked it and are no longer looking where it is
6. You might have assumed you knew what it looked like and ignored it when found
7. What you are looking for might be on the move

There are a few phenomena that by their nature are difficult to grasp and identify. First one is everything you see, hear, smell, taste or touch is the result of an electrical signal from outside your body. The signal is conveyed up and into your brain. There it registers on your consciousness and is felt to be back out where it is first contacted. You do not "feel" the sensation of a pain in your hand or foot but only in your brain. Your brain transfers the sensation back to where you think it originates. The illusion is extremely difficult to ignore.

An example is everything you see with your eyes is about the size of 2 nickels, its curved and upside down. Your brain receives the tiny image data and projects it out into the world and we call it reality. Your eyes have no color receptors for yellow but your see yellow anyway. Red, green and blue are the three receptor types along with grayscale cells.

You can only think about something if you have it in your memory. If a memory is not in the conscious part of your brain you cannot speak about it to tell anyone it is there. If your memory is ever in anyway altered, you have no way to detect the change unless other people contradict your claim of memory.

The Mandela Effect is real, but it is is not fully understood. It might be an illusion. It might be mass hysteria, confirmation bias or some such thing. It might represent an actual alteration of the past by some poorly understood means. Some alleged examples may not be related at all, while other are.

We have no idea how often any part of the past becomes altered since anytime it changes what we see is always the way it was. The concept of a fluid changing past is explored in the article Swirl Theory on the Vulnerable Geometry blog site. Retroactive Event Modification (REM) phenomena is possible and it doesn't require time travelers or intent to make changes. Physicists say such a phenomenon is possible but cannot say that it is a fact mainly because they have never remembered seeing it happen.

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Excerpt From Internal Crossing

Excerpt From Internal Crossing

The conversation had become quite intense. Jack who was the skeptic kept up his barrage of denial and asserted that everyone who thought there was an instance of altered Past events were deceiving themselves. His take on the Mandela Effect was it was a fiction created by people who wanted there to be "something new under the sun." As far as he was concerned the myriad of people reporting alteration of indelible past events all stemmed from a single "first thought" by an obscure author who posited the idea as part of the plot of a movie or a second rate Sci-Fi Novel.

Robert³ countered with, "there are tens of thousands of people who report their experiences. Not all of them have the same faulty memory of the same thing together. Mostly it is only one or two examples per person. They don't fabricate their memories then go looking for what they might be. They notice an anomaly and it strikes them as being so odd they decide to look it up and see if anyone else agrees. When they find agreement they are stunned by the variety of experience other people have."

Jack said, "therein lies the problem. They look it up and find agreement. The agreement reinforces the delusion and they become believers just like every born-again Christian. Suddenly their eyes are opened and now they are awake and know the truth. It feels real and very strong."

Jack was also relating the phenomenon of Gumaraji the boy Perfect Spiritual Master of the 1970s. He was a 13 year old Korean boy who toured the United States building on the longing of young mostly white boys and girls who were looking for answers their parents' churches could not provide. He bestowed Knowledge and Bliss on the worthy supplicants. They became True Believers in the moments of conversion. Suddenly, everything they knew was wrong. It was like the Firesign Theater skit of the same name.

People were easy to mislead as far as Jack was concerned. But so true, too, was the idea that people were easily able to be lead away from the truth as well as toward it. One could be convinced that what they saw was not what really happened. After all nobody can see both the front and the back of another person at the same time.

"People are so easily mislead." He said, "And they will grasp onto the flimsiest of evidence to support their beliefs." His position was such insignificance as the spelling of a product name or the name of a fictional bear family was anything a time traveling operative would bother himself with was preposterous. "Yeah, let's go back in time and change the name of colorful fruity breakfast cereal. That will get their attention and make'em wonder."

Robert³ continued to attempt to make his case for actual modification of the past happening. His position was that while the name changes and movie dialog tweaks were what people noticed, it was what they failed to notice that was important. In 1971 the San Fernando earthquake damaged a dam that held back millions of acre-feet of water. The water level in the reservoir had been significantly lowered prior to the quake. That decision saved the lives of 92,418 people who otherwise died in the failure. Only a few people remember the events as they once happened because the retroactive event modification phenomenon allowed the water level to be lower and the dam only to be damaged and not significantly failed. As the result of the dam failure and a REM impact, people only remember minimal death and injuries were manifest. People remember the concomitant alteration of the Volvo logo plate from that of a circle to that of the symbol for Male.

No single change is ever manifest when a massive event wave passes over and through history. There are always a multitude of alterations taking place, most of which will go unnoticed. The wider is the public exposure of a place, name, event, person, the more likely there will be many people who realize a change has taken place.

Jack rolled his eyes and said nothing. Robert³ watched as Jack gained the 80 lbs of weight he lost over the most recent two years when a retroactive event modification wave passed through the room. "Jack, I thought you were on a weight loss schedule to lose weight."

"Yeah, Bob, I really tried, but after my wife came back to me I abandoned all hope. My motivation was lost. She never really cared how big I was."

"So you're back together now."

"Yeah. I thought you knew that."

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Mandela Effect

Street Coin Mandela

Mandelas appear in many cultures and even on the ground in our cities and towns. I call them "Street Coins" because that seem to be circular metal plates strewn all about.

Beyond the physical manifestations in the environment, mandalas represent metaphysical phenomenon which fascinate observers throughout the centuries.

Recently the word Mandela has become synonymous with a strange experience people report having with increasing frequency. This context of the word is derived from the name Nelson Mandela, the former President of South Africa. It seems many people upon hearing of his rise to political prominence recalled that he died in prison several years earlier.

The apparent contradiction leaves those people with a conundrum. They certainly heard wrong, misremember what they hold to be a true memory, or the Past somehow changed! This last option is the one which intrigues them the most. The presence of people who remember the way history used to be are not small in number. To them the question becomes: did something alter mine and many other peoples' memories or did the Past actually change. for them there is only those two possibilities. This is the source of the so called  "Mandela Effect" coined by Fiona Broome.
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The Nelson Mandela example is not the only one. There are many alleged altered memories/altered past examples to consider. Berenstain Bears vs Berenstein Bears. Fruit Loops vs Froot Loops. Looney Tunes vs Looney Toons. Many more progressively complicated examples can be found in the Googles.

The the book Internal Crossing, Robert Corbin experiences some of the confusing scenarios and discovers what probably is the cause. His revelations can lead civilization into non-existence.

Also see:

MandelaEffect.com or the mirror site: https://mandelaeffectsite.wordpress.com/

FionaBroome.com

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Cosmic Consequences

Internal Crossing is a new #eBook which will be available at #Amazon coming in November 2016. It is the latest offering by Robert Carlson who writes on both non-fiction and fiction topics. You can see his Author Page at Amazon by visiting to see the titles and read about them. Please feel free to purchase any book of your choosing. Many are available via Kindle Unlimited.

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Author's Note: The book cover images in the side margins of this blog are my own publications of eBooks available at both Amazon and B&N. Please take a moment and go to the sites and read about them. Then if you like it, buy one or two.

Meeting Ones Self

Some people have seen another person from afar and thought that person looked an awful lot like themselves. The person they see may seem sinister or like they are following. Many people report such doppelgangers but usually the whole incident comes to naught.

But what if you actually met the person who looks like you and you had the opportunity to sit down and talk. during that conversation you discover that this person IS you. Well almost you. Very similar, with the same name, the same family and friends, but not exactly the same.

He or she doesn't claim to be a time traveling visitor. This person knows nothing of how such a meeting might take place. This person is of the here and now, just like yourself. Having this experience once would be enough to mess with the mind of most people, but for Robert Corbin
it was just the beginning.

After the second such encounter he realized these people are versions of himself resulting from some small event in life or a decision not made. Soon he is finding many more of these versions and needs to figure out how and why they are there. On his quest he is transformed as though he becomes a different version of himself after the fact.

Not only does he realize he is the nexus of the phenomenon, but there is also a force altering the Past in unseen ways both large and minute. He seems to be the focal point of those modifications. But why him? And what would be so powerful as to undo years of a Presidency years later and nearly nobody even notices?

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