How to Make a Time Machine
How to make a time machine:
Exploring less- and more-developed communities than your own is a straightforward way to time-travel, because you’re basically traveling into the past and the future. What we might normally consider as traveling to another place in space can actually be more like traveling to a different era in time. I experienced this most strikingly when I sneaked into Cuba in 2008 and roamed all over Havana. To an extent I felt like a time-traveler as well when I got a scholarship for a journalistic survey of Israel as a student. Then again, I loved the mind-altering process, the evolution, really, of coming to live full-time in Southeast Asia for what has now been over a decade.
Perhaps you land in a utopic golden era, or perhaps in a dark age—or somewhere in-between. What may seem like a backwater to you may feel like a charming and picturesque little village full of ambience and spirit to another. And it has always been this way. While one area of the world experiences an eclipse and dark night of the soul, others undergo forms of consciousness expansion and cultural renaissance. You may or may not be able to tell which is which, either, merely by outward appearances and development.
Moving backwards and forwards through the background and foreground of the mind is another, perhaps more fundamental and profound, way to time-travel. Meditation and reflection are beyond time-travel, lending perspective with grand views and wholistic encounters, leading to insights into detailed causes and effects. Going back to specific months in our lives, and moments of personal development, and revisiting exactly how we reacted or responded to events, and in the mind taking an alternate path or two from that point, expands conscious awareness of both those legacy turning points and potential new ones tomorrow.