If you think time travel is a sci-fi fantasy, you might be wrong. We talk with Mike Ricksecker about the subject and how our concept of linear time is just perception but not reality.
You can find his recent book on the subject, Travels Through Time: Inside the Fourth Dimension, Time Travel, and Stacked Time Theory, at Amazon: https://amzn.to/3OTugel
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Jim:
Time travel. Is it just the stuff of fiction? Well, Mike Rickesecker says not so fast, and we talk about it today on the Paranormal Podcast.
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Jim:
Welcome to the Paranormal Podcast. I’m Jim Harold and so glad to be with you this week, and really looking forward to a great conversation on time travel. But first, I wanted to tell you about something I’m doing and it’s actually free. Now, to say I’m doing it isn’t exactly correct. I am a small part of it, but our good buddy Ryan Sprague is putting on a very ambitious virtual conference on September 1st and 2nd on YouTube. It’s called Anomacon, A N O M A C O N and it’s a free virtual conference covering all things anomalous, paranormal, supernatural, everything from UFOs to ghosts. And I think you should check it out and you can find it right on his YouTube channel @RyanSprague51. That’s AT R Y A N S P R A G U E 5 1. Ryan Sprague. And I really am very impressed with the lineup he’s put together, so I think you really enjoy it.
And guess what? It’s free, so check it out, support Ryan. And I’m doing a Campfire talk, so I’m talking about the importance of storytellers and respecting storytellers and sharing some of my favorite Campfire stories, maybe something you’ve not heard in a while. So check it out September 1st and 2nd on YouTube @RyanSprague51 And with no further ado, let’s get right to this interview. It’s a fun one.
This is going to be absolutely fascinating because we’re going to talk about a topic that has long interested me and so many of you out there: the idea of time travel, and there is a new book out tackling that subject. It is called Travels Through Time Inside the Fourth Dimension, Time Travel and Stacked Time Theory. And the author is Mike Rickesecker and we’re so glad to have him with us today. He is the author of multiple bestsellers, including a Walk in the Shadows: a Complete Guide to Shadow People, and Alaska’s Mysterious Triangle, plus several historic paranormal books.He’s been on multiple TV shows including History Channels’ Ancient Aliens and The Unexplained; Travel Channels’ the Alaska Triangle, Discovery Plus’ Fright Club, and many more. He is the producer and director of the docuseries, the Shadow Dimension, available on multiple streaming platforms. He has hosted the Edge of the Rabbit Hole Livestream show and also hosts the Connecting the Universe Interactive class. He has his own book publishing and video production company, Haunted Road Media. His work has been featured in multiple publications, and he’s a native of my hometown, same town I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He’s also a US Air Force veteran with a degree in simulation programming and an avid baseball fan; a renaissance man if I ever met one. Mike, welcome to the program today.
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, thanks for having me back, Jim. I really appreciate it. And yeah, yeah, it’s Cleveland. It’s the old hometown, so it’s wonderful to realize that we are originally from the same area.
Jim:
Yeah, yeah, it’s very cool. It’s very cool. And there’s a lot of spooky people from Cleveland, and I mean that in only the best way. I think it’s so cool. Something about kind of the grittiness of our area, I think, particularly I grew up in an area where there were steel mills and all stuff, a lot of people interested in the paranormal, kind of interesting the way that works out. But today we are talking about time and what got you, I mean, obviously looking at all these paranormal topics and so forth, what got you onto this subject of time? Travel specifically enough to do a major book on it?
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, absolutely. Well, time has always been an interest of mine, the way it works, of course, science fiction movies that deal with time travel are always fascinating the way they deal with paradoxes and things like that. And with this particular topic as I’ve been conducting paranormal research over the past couple of decades, the very nature of what we might call a haunting or something supernatural in many cases could be related to some sort of strange phenomena dealing with time. And I had a personal interest always going back to my childhood, the movie Somewhere in Time, starring Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour. And it always stuck with me that we could really travel in time, that rather than a Flux capacitor and a DeLorean using something mechanical, it would probably be more along the lines of willing the consciousness back in time he had done in that movie.
And so those were things that I began exploring a couple decades ago , and the book itself, since you had asked how the book actually came about was this was going to be a piece of a book and the book was going to be connecting the universe where I talked about a lot of different topics in time and time travel was going to be part of that. But when I was in Egypt this past February and I’d done a big presentation on Stargates’ portals, Atlantis, talked a little bit about time within that, coming out of that and just on the bus headed to one of the temples, it just struck me that now connecting the universe is not just a single book, it’s an entire series. And I decided to tackle the issue of time upfront since it really is going to permeate throughout the entire series. It gives us a base from which to start.
Jim:
So in general, with time, I think most people look at time as very linear. It goes in one direction. The past is the past, the present is the present, the future is the future. But it’s my understanding science has kind of said that’s an illusion. That’s not true. That’s not really the way it works. What is wrong? I mean, because it seems to me that I’m holding up a coffee cup. That coffee cup is there now. To me it seems like it’s solid, but we know it’s a collection of atoms and so forth that aren’t really at all solid. So it’s a perception. So what’s wrong with the idea that time is linear, kind of the way we’ve lived our lives and live our lives every day?
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, absolutely. Einstein had a famous quote there just before he passed away in 1955 where he said that time is nothing more than a stubbornly persistent illusion. So yeah, our sciences have been telling us this. We have scientific tests coming out of Antarctica right now that are talking about based on their neutrino experiments, that we have a parallel universe running in reverse time, which I think really boggles the mind for a lot of people. And we don’t know what it is that keeps us in what we call the river of time, but we use that analogy as a river. The thing is that’s holding time and place time as the river, the water, it’s the banks, the banks are keeping that on a steady flow and we don’t know what that part of it is. But if we were to let the banks go, then you would just have big puddle, big pond, big lake, whatever, and you could come and go wherever you wanted to within all time.
So the way that I have looked at it, and another way to look at that is another analogy just real quick, is let’s say you’re driving through a town and you see a couple of houses, maybe a little store, gas stations, that sort of thing. It takes you five minutes to drive through this little town. That’s that town in time. So if you were to fly over it, you see below you the entire town in one shot, and now what was in time is now in space. So it’s really our perception in how we look at time. Time is just, it’s a human construct that we’ve developed to be able to describe our day-to-day reality, use it as a tool to help plant crops, tell the seasons, get to our jobs at the right moments so our supervisors don’t get upset, that sort of thing.
But the way I have viewed time for a while now, and as I started doing my research and it’s like, oh, Einstein has some similar concepts with this space time continuum and his block universe ideas, and that is something I called ‘stack time theory.’ So basically this idea is that just take a place right where you’re sitting right now, Jim, and everything in that spot that has happened is happening and will happen are all happening concurrently, all there at the same moment, but stacked up. Take each moment as like a photograph, all stacked up on top of each other. And there are some times in which, some moments in which you will get a glimpse of some of these other things. Two of those, because everything’s frequency resonance, vibration, you’re kind of alluding to it earlier with the atoms. It all comes down to electromagnetism. And two of those moments will resonate the same frequency for just a moment, and we might get a glimpse of another. So this may be we see a time slip or something that we might think is a ghost or an apparition was actually another glimpse in time.
Jim:
Yeah, it is amazing to me. One concept actually that I was talking with a few years ago, I wasn’t familiar with it. I was talking with James Renner, who actually is from our area and is a popular true crime author, and somehow the topic of retro causality came up. The idea that something that I’m doing now, as crazy as it sounds, something I’m doing now could impact the past. And in my own experience, I’ve always wondered about this. I had a series of jobs that I highly disliked. I had always wanted to be in front of the mic and I always wanted to be in front of a camera. I always wanted to do that sort of thing. Ended up working in advertising and business in radio, and I did not know at the time, but it allowed me to transition into a medium that didn’t even exist when I started out in radio, which is podcasting.
And the fact today, much like you, I can run my own business, and I call it running a little radio station without a tower, but I know all of those functions and I know all of that behind the scenes stuff, and I couldn’t have done it without those jobs. So it’s almost like what I’m doing today almost informed those choices and those paths I took that at the time looked like terrible paths. And this sucks and this is a horrible thing, but what I’m doing now informed me, Hey, take that job. Oh, you better do that. You better do this. I always wonder about that, was my future self talking to my past self and saying, Hey, pay attention. How do they do the billing and the radio station? I wonder about that. And retro causality is something that’s fascinating to me. Is that something you talk about in the book?
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, absolutely. That’s one of the chapters, chapter 10 I believe, if I have my numbers correctly and future, future influencing the Future past and was, I came across it in a book called Man in Time by JB Priestly. He called it the F I P principle, Future Influencing Past or Future Influencing Present. You could look at it either way. And I’ve actually had a very similar type of a thing happened in my life actually just here recently. And it’s a really cute story because it involves myself and my fiance in which when we first met was in first grade long, long time ago, and it just shocked me one day we were in the library at the school and I’m just looking through a stack of books and all of a sudden she just plants a kiss right on my cheek.
Jim:
Oh my
Mike Ricksecker:
Shocked me. I had, whoa, no idea. Because we had little interaction up to that point, but not much. And this was just really out of nowhere. And we had fourth grade together, seventh grade, and then that’s when in eighth grade I had moved back to Ohio. I was born in Cleveland, moved to Massachusetts for 10 years and then moved back to Ohio when I was 13. So we had stayed kind of in touch off and on over the years. And one of the things that I asked her when we got a little bit older as adults and felt comfortable in asking, okay, that kiss in the library, what was that? And she’s like, I don’t know, you just had this chubby little cheek sitting out there and something told me to kiss it. Okay, fine. So last year we finally got together after all these years and we went back last summer to that grade school in Massachusetts, which is now a performing arts center for the local college.
We’re just walking the grounds, peeking in windows, that sort of thing. And we’re peeking into the windows of the old library, which is now some sort of little music center, and you’re pointing at the location of where the kiss was. And Jen starts shouting through the window, kiss him, kiss him, and laughing and having a good time with that. We thought it was pretty cute, but it got us thinking later on, wait a minute, all that time ago, back in first grade, something she had heard something tell her to kiss me on the cheek. So was this actually in her six year old self hearing, her 48 year old self reverberate through time to tell her to do it?
Jim:
Yeah, yeah. I mean, if you think about something like a hunch, if you think about a hunch is that your future self saying, Hey, do this, don’t do that. And this gets, we did interview with the gentleman, Anthony Peak, I think is his name, Cheating the Ferryman. He believes that the way we live is there’s like two of us, there’s the Jim and Mike, like we’re talking right now. And then there’s a higher level of us, the Eidolon, who has experienced our lifetime after time after time. And it kind of tells us, Hey, leave for work five minutes late today, that kind of thing, or steer away from that car. It’s dangerous. And I’ve had experiences like that. One time I was in West Virginia where my family was originally from, I was walking by a log truck, me and a young lady were walking, I walked by the log truck, I’m like, you need to get away from this log truck. I sped up my gait, we were past it maybe 10 yards. I heard a big rumble. I looked back, all the logs fell off on the side that I was walking. Something told me that. Was that my future self? I don’t know. Was that my eidolon? I don’t know. But it makes me believe that there’s certainly something about this going on. We’ve had great calls on the campfire about time slips. I know in your book you specifically have a chapter about time slips. What do you think time slips might be?
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, time slips, kind of what I was alluding to earlier is those two moments within that stack, wherever it’s at, that suddenly get in tune with each other a little bit, resonate the same frequency, and we get a glimpse of that. So a great example of that is what’s known as the Conjuring House out in Harrisville, Rhode Island. Den Cherry Perrin is a wonderful friend of mine, and it’s very different than what the movie portrays in the Conjuring. They experienced a haunting there for 10 years, all that time that they had lived in that house from the moment they moved in to the moment they moved out. But what Andrea says is really the most significant thing that ever happened there, all the hauntings aside, is this one evening where she and her mother was up, and it was after the really bad seance that was there with the Warrens.
And Carolyn wasn’t really doing all that well following that. Something had touched her, something had reached out from the other side during that seance. And so they’re up and Andrea’s trying to help make a pot of coffee, get a little food together, that sort of thing. And all of a sudden from sitting in the parlor, they see they’re in the dining room area. This family from the 17th century morph into view. There’s a woman cooking over the fireplace, the hearth, which at that point in time, the fireplace was all boarded up. A couple of kids are running around, there’s two gentlemen sitting at a table and they turn and they look at Carolyn as if she’s the ghost and the one says the other, well, would you look at that? Which is absolutely fascinating. Then the scene ended up dissipating. But that was a moment there in which they believe, okay, at that point when they first see the scene, they think, okay, well these are ghosts, something happening in the house. But no, it was actually a glimpse into the past. It was fascinating is those gentlemen from the past when they turned and looked into the parlor, they’re actually seeing the future.
Jim:
So is it fair to say, talking about the stacked time theory, which you talk about extensively in the book, Abraham Lincoln, he may to us be dead, but he actually is still alive on his timeline and he still exists right now. It’s just something that we can’t access. Is that correct?
Mike Ricksecker:
Right. Yeah. And I think that we could consciously eventually access these things when we do get glimpses. I mean, we’re getting access, but we don’t know what the catalyst is. And so yeah, out there, Abraham Lincoln is still alive at all those different places where he had been at those different moments. So you could take that. I mean that’s true of anyone. Basically you have to kind of break down the dimensions. So we are in the fourth dimension, which is time. First dimension is a line, second dimension is a plane, third dimension, we’re talking 3-D objects. Fourth dimension, where our consciousness resides is time. And basically wherever you reside, you have free access to all of those dimensions. So if you were to go up one more dimension to the fifth and beyond, you would see time conceptually, much like we see a 3-D object, we would have access to everything in time because it would be like an object to us, and so therefore we would be able to readily move between each moment in time.
So kind of what you were talking about before, there’s two yous, and you think of the universe like projections, and I do talk about the holographic principle within the book. So if our consciousness is projected from whatever the beyond is, call it another, whether it’s the afterlife, heaven, another world outside the simulation, another dimension, I mean in a lot of ways they’re all kind of almost the same thing. So if we’re projected from another dimension here, we would be able to project to really any moment in time. So when we talk about having past lives, we could actually be experiencing multiple lives at the same time.
Jim:
Interesting. It is a fascinating discussion. We’re talking about Travels Through Time: Inside the Fourth Dimension, Time Travel, and Stacked Time Theory with Mike Ricksecker, and we’ll be back right after this.
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Jim:
We’re back on the Paranormal Podcast. Our guest is Mike Ricksecker. We’re talking about his new book Travels Through Time: Inside the Fourth Dimension, Time Travel and Stacked Time Theory, and we’re having a great mind bending conversation about the subject of time and time travel. One thing I thought was really interesting that you did in the book is you talked about how those in the past looked at the question of time and people say, well, those societies weren’t as advanced as we are and so forth. And sometimes I think there’s truths in what they say that are more advanced than where we are. Did you find that and what is some of the very interesting viewpoints of time from our ancestors?
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, absolutely. I have, of course a very profound interest in ancient Egypt. So I do include some of the different perspectives of time from ancient Egypt such as the Egyptian, well, we call the Egyptian Book of the Dead. It’s really the Book of Going Forth by Day. And there’s many of these around in various parts, but the most famous one would be the Papyrus of Ani, and he was a ancient Egyptian scribe. And basically the story is taken from Ani as he’s going through the afterlife or the Egyptian duat. And as he’s going through, he has a conversation with Atum, which is one of the netters of creation. And he starts asking about his life and how long everything is. And Atum starts talking about your life is for millions of years upon millions of years. And he starts layering the idea of time as times in different layers, which is a lot of what we’re talking about right now with stack time and what Einstein talked about in his block universe.
And then he talks about recycling in renewal of time, which is something that we see in the symbolism of the Ouroboros, which is the snake eating its own tail. And that is a symbol of recycle and renewal for a lot of different things. Life, it’s used a symbol of healing, trying to regenerate life, and then also time in the universe. And so I related that symbolism to what we were talking about a little bit earlier with the experiments that are coming out of Antarctica with the neutrinos running in reverse. So therefore, they believe that there is a parallel universe running in reverse time. And if you look at the way that the illustration by of the Ouroboros from the 1400s, which he copied from an older alchemical tract from around 400 AD, you see the duality that’s included within there, the two different colors.
You have a lot of other alchemical symbols within it, but it struck me looking at that, okay, we have the recycle renewal, we have the two different tracks that are there. So you would have one operating in one direction, one operating the other. If we have a parallel universe running in reverse time, their end is going to be our beginning. Our beginning was their end, and at some point those two are going to meet again. And I believe that’s where in the symbolism of it, that’s where the snake is eating his tail, where the mouth is meeting the tail. To me, that’s the symbol, basically the symbolism of the big bang. What’s going to happen is that we will, as our universe ends, well the parallel universe, theirs is just beginning. So that’s the moment where everything restarts again. So the question of what was before our universe, the universe, what comes after the universe? Universe, universe. Again, it’s a constant recycling.
Jim:
Wow. So it’s kind of like reincarnation writ large in a way, I guess.
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, and here’s the interesting thing is when the universe reforms, I mean it’s going to be a little bit different. It’s not like we get to do all of this all over again exactly the same. I do cover recurrence, eternal recurrence in there. I don’t think it works like that. But also as we’re kind of talking about time slips and things like that, one of the possibilities, if we have this parallel universe running in reverse times, we could be getting glimpses of that parallel universe as well. So if we’re running forwards and they’re running backwards, and by the way, we could be the one running backwards unbeknownst to us, we could be getting a glimpse of that as well.
Jim:
One of my favorite stories from Campfire was a man that called up, I think he was in his twenties, and he told this story of when he was six, seven years old, he was in the family home, he was going down a hallway, walked past the kitchen and got a little freaked out because he saw a hooded figure who appeared to be making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich in the kitchen, and he ran away. And then he said what was really interesting was several years later, he was a teenager, he was minding his own business, he had his hoodie on and he decided he’d like to have a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. So he went out to his kitchen and he was making his sandwich, and all of a sudden he looks out the doorway and passed the hallway. There’s this little childlike figure runs past and he doesn’t know who he is. That to me is kind of like a doppelganger effect, a time slip, kind of seeing your own ghost. I thought that was a fascinating story. You talk about doppelgangers in this book, where do doppelgangers come in? Something? Honestly, I knew it existed. I had read a book on it years ago, I think when I was in college, which was many moons ago, but I never knew it was such a thing until I started doing the Campfire show, and so many people called in with doppelganger experiences.
Mike Ricksecker:
So Jim, it’s fantastic that you bring up that story because you had mentioned that story to me a couple years back now on one of your shows when you were interviewing me and you brought it up when we were talking about shadow people and the hooded figures and that sort of thing. And so I included that story in the book and I referenced your podcast. I gave you some credit there.
Jim:
Thank you. I appreciate
Mike Ricksecker:
That. Yeah, that is a really fascinating story because we were talking about shadow people at that time, and when you relay the story to me, then that was kind of the perspective. He was seeing these hooded figure, a shadowy form, that sort of thing. And it’s also a doppelganger story; he saw himself, which is very, very interesting. But it was really a type of a time slip. And the reason why it came off as kind of like a shadowy nature, I believe, is because we were talking before about resonance frequency vibration. Well, those two moments were almost resonating at the same frequency, but not quite. Think of it like the old school radio dials as you’re trying to tune into a channel. When you get right on the channel, everything’s clear, but if you’re a little bit before or a little bit past, it comes in kind of static and you don’t hear it so well.
And so I think that’s what was happening in that moment. He was experiencing some sort of time slip, but it wasn’t perfectly tuned. And so he got a glimpse of these parts of his life as a little bit of a shadowy in nature. But we see these in other types of stories like this. So doppelganger German word for double walker. And over the centuries, these legends of lore have been kind of placed on top of this to refer to these as evil twins and that sort of thing. But a lot of the stories and cases that I’ve come across have either read about or talked to people about, it seemed to be more like a time slip in nature. And one from a very famous individual, the famous German poet, Goethe, he was walking down the road to Drusenheim one day, and he’s kind of lost in his thoughts.
He’s having an affair with a young woman and like we do when we mow the lawn or drive and we kind zone out a little bit, it’s our turn, that sort of thing. Oh, I was lost to my own thoughts. Same thing for him as he was walking down this road and then off to the side, he notices this man walking down the other side of the road and he’s in this gold trimmed gray suit. And then as he turns his head to look at this guy, he disappears. So he’s suddenly gone. What in the world was that? What happened there? So he continues on. A couple years later, he’s walking down the same road in the opposite direction, and as he comes across that same spot that he had that experience before, he looks down on himself and realizes, wait a minute, I’m the guy that was in the gold trim gray suit.
I’m wearing it right now. I actually saw myself. So people call this a, if you look it up online, they put it under doppelganger stories, but it’s really not. Yes, it’s himself, but it’s not an evil twin or a carbon copy. It was a time slip. He saw himself at another moment in time. I think what happened was because he was lost in his thoughts and kind of zoning out, for lack of a better term, was that he was in a quasi meditative state. And as our brain waves enter into different states, we have access to different elements of our universe, whether it’s the collective cautious, I cover Akashic records in the book. Another aspect can be setting that brainwave your brainwaves into a state in which you are able to access other moments in time and experience things like time slips.
Jim:
Yeah, that’s just fascinating. Absolutely fascinating. Well, given your educational background, I really think this is an interesting situation. You have a degree in simulation programming, which what seems to tie in nicely with the question of do we live in a simulation anyway? And does that kind of, I mean, I think of when we’re talking about time that you can access different things. I think of it like random access, memory, the hard drive of your computer. There’s stuff scattered all over it, and if you call up a particular application, a particular program, a particular file, it can almost instantaneously access that. It’s kind of what it reminds me of. So the idea that if time is not linear and it can almost, if you knew how to do it, you could access any point in time at any time. That seems like random access memory to me, which seems to fit well with the idea that all of this is a simulation. And by the way, I’ve almost felt this way. Maybe it’s a different way. It’s about talking about the same thing, because if you believe in a creator isn’t a creator, a lot like a programmer, your thoughts?
Mike Ricksecker:
Short answer yes. But yeah, let’s delve into that a little bit. Yeah, please do. Yeah, I do believe we are in some sort of a simulation. I don’t necessarily think it’s a computer. I think we related the idea of a simulated universe to a computer right now, our current technology. You look back a hundred years ago when Nicola Tesla was building his automatons, which is really an early version of a drone, and he was talking about giving this its own sentience so that it could make its own decisions. He’s talking about a very, very early version of AI, but he had no idea the silicon microchip was going to come along or anything like that to drive that type of technology. He was thinking this in radio waves and gears and wheels and that sort of thing. But the idea was in place there, but the technology changed. So I think the same thing with the idea of the simulated universe is that we are thinking of it in terms of a computer right now, but I think it’s probably going to be something more organic, biological on a molecular level, something beyond what our current comprehension is.
But the philosophy behind it is there. So yeah, the idea of a simulation, it really goes back into ancient times, although they didn’t use that word. You look at the ideas of reincarnation, the eastern philosophy there. You come from a home world for lack of a better term, and we come down into this life, we live a life, learn some lessons, we pass away, we go back to that home world and we start to cycle over again, which is essentially logging in and out of a computer program, spending some time and there experiencing it and then logging back out, whether that’s a flight simulator or a computer game or what have you. And yeah, when you talk about the memory or really the storage, and I look at it as it’s a program, our universe right now is a program and all of the information for that program whether, okay, go ahead, fine, take a computer game or whatever, and you’re loading it up on your computer, your PS5 or whatever, all the information’s there, all the levels, all the characters, everything is there, but it takes you playing to get to those other places.
Now, there are times in which you might be able to access other levels that you’re not supposed to. Think about the old Mario games, if you jump up really high and you walk across the top of the screen, you can’t even see yourself, and then you drop down into another level. Well, that was a part of the program that basically you found a back door to be able to get into. So all the information, all the levels are there. And so the same thing with our universe when we’re talking stack time theory, it plays right into that. All of those moments are there. It’s just right now we’re going through the program and that’s talked before about what are the banks of the river keeping the flow, and it’s whatever that program for lack, again, whatever it is that program is, that’s keeping that flow in place. But like Morpheus says in the Matrix, some rules are meant to be bent, others are meant to be broken. And I think that happens sometimes and that’s why we see some of these time slips and things that we’ve been talking about.
Jim:
Yeah, it’s just amazing. Now, I know you also talk a bit about dreams. Where do dreams come into play? Are we able to access different times via our dreams?
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, absolutely. So when we’re in our sleep state, our brainwaves go through different levels. Alpha, beta, theta, delta, these different states. And so our dreams are on a couple of these different levels. And people report all the time waking up from a dream that ends up being a premonition that maybe that day, a week later, a month later or whatever, whaever they saw in their dreams suddenly plays out: exact same room, exact same people are there, exact same events happen. And so when that happens, really they’re getting a glimpse of the future, something that is about to play out. We call that a premonition, but really it’s accessing another point in time and being able to get a glimpse of that. Other things that can happen while you’re sleeping is you tap into some sort of eternal knowledge. We talk collective unconscious ideas there about Karl Jung and really to kind of simplify that concept is there’s the information of the universe that’s kind of floating out there. Again, if you take it as it’s a simulation, all the information, the entire program is there. And so when you’re in these different states of mind while you’re sleeping, sometimes you’re able to access that information that’s out there. What’s fascinating, you look back through history, you’ll find, especially when it comes to inventions, that all of a sudden you’ll have five guys, six guys across the world, no connection to each other, and suddenly they’re all trying to invent the same thing and the race is on.
Jim:
Yep. Television I think was one of those things.
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, how did they all think of it when they had no connection to each other? So there was something that they were all tapping into. They were on the same wavelength, same frequency, and boom, tapped into that piece of information that’s out there. The Akashic records is similar in nature, and so our dreams are one way in which we can access this universal knowledge that’s out there and be able to access other moments in time.
Jim:
Just a great discussion, and we’ve only scratched the surface. One last question, then we’re going to tell everybody where they can get the book and follow everything you do. Do you think in the next 20, 30 years that someone will be able to demonstrably be able to access other times, whether it’s via some kind of laboratory experiment, more kind of using instruments, or whether it’s through some kind of consciousness experiment, and it would be something that would be widely recognized as valid? Because I know some people say they can access different times and do different things, but a lot of that stuff is not necessarily scientifically vetted, but do you think in the next 20, 30 years, and there’s selfish reasons, and I ask for that because that would put me in my eighties, my early eighties. So I am hoping it happens before I shuffle off this mortal coil. But do you think that’s possible?
Mike Ricksecker:
I mean, I do when it comes to what I think would be real time travel, and that is using your consciousness, willing your consciousness back to another point in time that would be very difficult to scientifically prove because I think that has more to do with meditation. And how do you prove somebody sitting there in a meditative state, even if you have them hooked up to EEG or whatever, to monitor their brainwaves, how do you prove that they went back in time? That would be very, very different. Difficult. But other science aside from that, like in the lab, they are starting to work on some of these different things. Last November, there was a paper published in which they claimed that they had actually created a wormhole in the lab. Now, this was on the quantum level, very, very small. And reporters asking them, well, could you pass a dog through there?
Jim:
No!
Mike Ricksecker:
A question: why are we going with a dog first? Why are we not sending in like a probe or something like that? But that is very, very small and we’re just kind of starting to explore this. But they were able on the quantum level to create a very, very small wormhole in the lab. So as they continue down that path, it’s going to lead to bigger things. And I think at some point, yeah, they’re going to open up some doorway into another point in time. But again, I think it’d probably be more on the consciousness level laboratory. The laboratory I think might almost get a little Frankenstein in nature, but they might figure something out
Jim:
There. It could get scary. It could get scary. I think that everybody should take their time and actually don’t take your time and hurry up and get Travels Through Time: Inside The fourth Dimension, time Travel and Stacked Time Theory by Mike Ricsecker. Mike, where can folks find the book and more information on everything you do because you do a lot?
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, absolutely. Well, you can go to my primary website, which is mikericksecker.com. I also have my online learning portal, connected universe portal.com and do a weekly class out there, as well as all kinds of other information, videos, articles, things like that on that site. And then of course, as far as the book, I have links on both of those sites to the books, but just Amazon, Barnes and Noble, wherever books are sold.
Jim:
Oh, and before we go offline, you had mentioned to me you have a Egyptian tour coming up.
Mike Ricksecker:
Yeah, absolutely. Stargates of Ancient Egypt Tour 2. This is the second one that we’re doing. Third time overall, that’ll actually be in Egypt, but that is next April 17th to the 28th. Tickets are now available, and that’s absolutely life-changing experience going to Egypt. We get two hours, just our own little group in the Great Pyramid of Giza to ourselves, and the whole thing has opened up. So areas that are off limits to the public, we get inside. So absolutely fascinating too. So I encourage people to join us for that.
Jim:
Fantastic. Well, a great discussion and be sure to get this book. Folks, if you’re interested in Time Travel, I think it’s such a fascinating topic. Mike Ricksecker, thank you for joining us today. And also, I didn’t mention this before, but thank you for your service to our country.
Mike Ricksecker:
Thank you. I appreciate it. Jim, as always.
Jim:
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