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Piercing Space-Time With Sigils

Tamayyurt

01:34 / 09.11.01

OK, I've come up with an experiment! I'm guessing you all know who Edgar Cayce was, right? One of the top Psychics of the 20th century. He could see the past and the future. Space-time meant nothing to him.
Right so, I'm going to send him a message in the form of a sigil that, once launched, works itself backwards through time to it's target. Sorta like a temporal-astral e-mail and I want to see if Mr. Cayce writes back.
Technically this could work on any such sensitive i.e. Nostradamus, Dee, Jesus, the Buddha. I picked Edgar Cayce cause he's from the 20th century and the cultural and language gap is narrower which should make things easier.

Thoughts/Suggestions?

penitentvandal

01:34 / 09.11.01

Well, aside from the lottery numbers, you could always do an Emma Frost and try to find out 'the awful truth about Tom & Nicole'...

Mystery Gypt

10:09 / 09.11.01

but if he is able to read this because he has special powers of perception, but you don't have those powers, how will you know if he writes back?

unless he encodes messages to you in his books, which would mean you'd be able to verify the success of your experiment before you perform it.

penitentvandal

10:27 / 09.11.01

And which would also mean you'd have to go around telling your mates that Edgar Cayce sent you secret messages in his books...

'No, look, paragraph two, page 73 - if you take all the initials of each seond word and reverse them, it says 'Hi, impula!' It's obvious, man! don't you see?

Tamayyurt

14:48 / 09.11.01

Hmmm, I didn't really think about how I'd get his messages... I just figured I'd be dreaming and all of a sudden a voice would boom, "YOU'VE GOT MAIL". I'm sure he'll think of something. I mean, who wouldn't want a pen pal from the 21st century?

[ 09-11-2001: Message edited by: impulsivelad ]

Toasty

18:26 / 10.11.01

Also because of the dubious nature of time, what's to say WHEN you'll get the response. You may have recieved it when you were 5 and you thought you saw your dad cutting a tree down or something. Maybe it'll appear in 5 years time when you've deemed it a failed experiment.

It's a great idea, but it's a nightmare to verify. Maybe sending yourself a message in the future and seeing what comes back? A much bigger chance or success, although again it gets weird. Problem with time...

Ooooo. Maybe you could send yourself a message to when you were still the womb and see what comes back. Now that does remove the "I knew before hand" aspect, but it does mean you need to be careful with the interpretation of what comes back...

Hmm. Great idea. I might try it myself

Hmmmm. Toasty.

Tamayyurt

22:55 / 10.11.01

Yeah, you're right, that is a great idea!!!

What would an impulsiveweelad from the womb have to say? Um, but that still leaves the "what's to say WHEN you'll get the response" problem. I think I'll send Edgar another message specifying the date of the response and ask him to make it real obvious. I'll do the same with mini me.

Lionheart

19:11 / 12.11.01

Dang! Didn't any of you watch the end of Back To the Future 2?!!

Tell him to send you a postcard that will be delivered in... 2 days. November 13th.

Tamayyurt

15:45 / 13.11.01

Damn that's true. Doh!

Toasty

19:46 / 13.11.01

Becomes a problem when you want to talk to your great great great great great great great great grandfather

I'm sure they didn't have a reliable postal system in the 1500's

I'm still waiting for my response from mini me. I'm looking forward to what a foetus has to say...

Hmmmm. Toasty.

SMS

01:17 / 15.11.01

quote:Originally posted by Toasty:
Becomes a problem when you want to talk to your great great great great great great great great grandfather I'm sure they didn't have a reliable postal system in the 1500's.

Another technique from Back to the Future: find some cave that isn't likely to have a lot of human contact, and have the message sealed inside a box with your ancestor's initials on it.

glassonion

07:41 / 17.11.01

they did, it was called W.A.S.T.E. for lots of 'clear' info on theories of reroactive enchantment see carroll's latest psybermagick. his theories of universe make casting spells into the past to reap benefit now conceptually possible, but my own limited experiments suggest that it's very hard to actually make work.

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