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For me, the only legitimate time travel would be as King Mob's: go to the past, meet someone (Judith), come back to the present, meet again Judith and have her acknowledge she met you in the past just as lively and fresh as you are today.
Interestingly, lets say that Y meets X in the present. Now, in the line of retroactive enchantment and quantum mechanics as I read above, there exists a probability field of an experience in which Y and X have met in the past during Y's time traveling. I believe that a very skillfull hypnotist (Y) could drive a highly suggestible and complying individual (X) -the same can be said as "given a strongly empathic relationship between Y and X"- to "remember" having met Y at some point of his past, and actually have all, or at least some, of X's relevant memories arranged in line with this.
[Therapy related babblings of my own: In a sense, or "in essence", this is what occurs at emotional levels in some approaches of psychotherapy and hypnotherapy, where "memories" or "perceptions of the past" become rearranged, although the consensual component is left untouched for the sake of sanity, and beloved purring Kitty still dies crunched under the wheels of the truck -after all, hypnotherapy and psychotherpay are not time-miracle-travelling therapy. In other less desired therapeutic arenas, we know that subjects, either through hypnotic trance, drugs, or whatever you want to call the "process", have also remembered full blown events of ritual abuse, abductions, rapes, and other delights, that although there was no consensual evidence that they ever occured, they powerfully get to form part of their "past life" as "real" events.][Back to X and Y]
Now, inversely, lets say that X and Y meet in the present. X claims that he met Y in the past, just as Y appears now in the present, during Y's time travelling, although Y says he never time travelled and has never before met X. Again, "given a strongly empathic relationship between Y and X", X suggests/proposes/persuades/compells/ Y to time travel to the past. Y time-travels and meets young-X in the past, comes back to the present with the memory of the whole thing, and agrees with X on the exact events of the past when they met.
I think this could happen also, and I really do not give a hell as to discuss if it is hallucination, hypnosis, time travelling or brain washing, but I definitely go for the consensual agreement between X and Y regarding what EXACTLY happened and was said in the past, just as King Mob's and Judith's story.
Wanna try?
PS. For the literary prone magi, I have just remembered a short story by JL Borges in which he seats on a bench by a riverside in the US and suddenly notices that he himself is sitting younger by his side on the same bench, but in front of an european river, while young Borges was living decades back in Switzerland. They discuss a great deal of what is going to happen to each other, and then they say good-bye. |
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