The future isn’t the inaccessible, intangible realm it’s thought to be. But so few admit its existence except as an abstract concept. So few let its messages reach them! . . . The future isn’t a verbal construct. It’s a place with an existence of its own. Right now, as we sit here, we are also there, there plus one, there plus two, there plus n—an infinity of theres, all of them at once, both previous to and later than our current position along our time line. Those other positions are neither more nor less ‘real’ than this one. They’re merely in a place that happens not to be the place where the seat of our current perceptions is currently located.
[But occasionally our perceptions] cross over, . . . Wander into other segments of the time line. Pick up events or moods or scraps of conversations that don’t belong to ‘now.’ (pp. 117)