Can these alternate realities be accessed? In fact, we do so every day of our lives, and furthermore, we observe them as we compare experiences with other people. Each of us is making our way through a unique set of alternate realities that comprise what we call our life. No two people live through identical alternate realities, as can be demonstrated by interviewing multiple witnesses to an event such as a crime.

This is not a mystery; take two witnesses of this hypothetical crime scene. One of them is smoking and, on seeing the crime take place, removes the cigarette from their mouth, throws it on the street, and stomps it out. The other witness is not smoking at all. The smoker's reality includes the smoking as well as the extinguishing of the cigarette, while the non-smoker's reality includes neither of these aspects of experience. The non-smoker could have chosen to smoke, but they did not, and that choice made their reality alternate to that of the smoking witness. This difference in realities (smoking vs. non-smoking) is only a single example of many differences between the realities each of us live through.

What we experience as movement through time is in a direction transverse to the actual time dimension. As a result, we are surrounded by neither the past nor the future, but rather a vast plurality of alternate realities that converge and diverge at the point we call "now". The choices we make continually determine which of the alternate realities we live through. This should help you understand what I mean when I state that time is pure potentiality; that potentiality is actualized differently by each of us as we make individual choices.

However, movement through time is not Real, but is a result of dimensional limitation. Actually, any perception of dimensions requires dimensional limitation to be inherent in perception, because finite dimensional measurements are fractions of whole dimensions, while whole dimensions in turn represent fractions of Infinity. This concept, "fractions of Infinity", is explained in Fractalic Awakening; to recap, a fraction of Infinity is a unique parameter of infinite measure, such as a line of infinite length or a plane of infinite area. Since time is One, just as everything else is, accurate perception of time as a whole dimension would be indicated by a simultaneous Awareness of the entirety of the dimension, not just a point or finite distance along the dimension. To perceive in this manner would be to perceive all of time as a simultaneous structure rather than as a linear progression.

An exercise to help you visualize this concept is to imagine yourself at a point on a line, moving inexorably in one direction with no option to reverse course. You can imagine what lies "ahead" and remember what lies "behind", but you cannot alter your rate or direction of travel. Next, visualize yourself "escaping" the limitations of this point and line by "moving" away from them at right angles to the line. From this new dimensional vantage point, you can now see the entire line, including the point you were once limited to, and you see it all simultaneously as a unit, not as a point-by-point progression. From this new vantage point, there is no "past" or "future", just the time dimension as One. Interestingly enough, the only vantage point where this is true is the center; if you move in a direction away from the center, rather than towards the center, you will not be able to see all of time simultaneously because the curvature of time will keep part of the dimension "hidden" from that vantage point. (continued in Part IV)