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 – Terrence McKenna, "New Maps of Hyperspace", pp. 101-2 in //[[https://www.zotero.org/groups/foam_library_brussels/items/itemKey/G33EJ5JJ/q/archaic|The Archaic Revival]]//</blockquote>
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+In the latter case the course was easier and more material. With suitable mechanical aid a mind would project itself forward in time, feeling its dim, extra-sensory way till it approached the desired period. Then, after preliminary trials, it would seize on the best discoverable representative of the highest of that period's life-forms. It would enter the organism's brain and set up therein its own vibrations, while the displaced mind would strike back to the period of the displacer, remaining in the latter's body till a reverse process was set up.
+The projected mind, in the body of the organism of the future, would then pose as a member of the race whose outward form it wore, learning as quickly as possible all that could be learned of the chosen age and its massed information and techniques.
+Meanwhile the displaced mind, thrown back to the displacer's age and body, would be carefully guarded. It would be kept from harming the body it occupied, and would be drained of all its knowledge by trained questioners. Often it could be questioned in its own language, when previous quests into the future had brought back records of that language.
+If the mind came from a body whose language the Great Race could not physically reproduce, clever machines would be made, on which the alien speech could be played as on a musical instrument.
+The Great Race's members were immense rugose cones ten feet high, and with head and other organs attached to foot-thick, distensible limbs spreading from the apexes. They spoke by the clicking or scraping of huge paws or claws attached to the end of two of their four limbs, and walked by the expansion and contraction of a viscous layer attached to their vast, ten-foot bases.
+– H. P. Lovecraft, //[[http://www.sacred-texts.com/nec/hpl/hpl50.htm|An H. P. Lovecraft Anthology]]//
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+As a matter of fact, in reality our relation both to the past and to the future is far more complicated than it seems to us. In the past, behind us, lies not only that which really happened, but that which could have been. In the same way, in the future lies not only that which will be, but everything that may be.
+The past and the future are equally undetermined, equally exist in all their possibilities, and equally exist simultaneously with the present.
+By time we mean the distance separating events in the order of their succession and binding them in different wholes. This distance lies in a direction not contained in three-dimensional space, therefore it will be the new dimension of space.
+This new dimension satisfies all possible requirements of the fourth dimension on the ground of the preceding reasoning.
+– P. D. Ouspensky, //[[http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/to/to07.htm|Tertium Organum]]//
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