Recently, I mentioned something about timelines and parallel worlds.

While spirituality often talks about timelines and parallel worlds, the reality is much simpler. When viewed from a single perspective, it's quite straightforward. Although multiple parallel worlds exist for different individuals, and strictly examining them would lead to an infinite and incomprehensible expansion, the basic concept is simple.

Let's imagine a time machine.

This time machine allows you to live your life, travel back in time, and move forward in time. You can go to the past or the future. This is the basic premise.

This is quite common, I believe, and aligns with what is often discussed in spiritual contexts.

Regarding timelines, the fundamental concept is a single timeline for the life you are currently living. This timeline extends from the past to the future.

However, multiple timelines branch off from a specific point in the past, creating a branching structure. These branches do not merge; they diverge. While choices made by individuals can cause timelines to branch, they never converge.

This already creates a multitude of timelines, but let's simplify it further. For your own life, this simplified view is often closer to the truth.

Suppose you live life A. As a result of living that life, you reflect on the good and bad experiences, as well as your desires. Then, what happens in the next life? You might choose a completely different life, or you might go back in time and relive your life. In the former case, the subsequent timeline appears to be a continuation. In the latter case, it might seem like a parallel world. However, from a spacetime perspective, there is not much difference between the two.

Even if you live a life in a later era, or if you go back in time to the same era, or even if you are born as the exact same person in the same family and the same place, it is essentially the same as living a life in a later era from a spacetime perspective.

The life you initially lived will always exist as a "past that transcends time" (I'm not sure if there's a better way to phrase this) and will remain as the first timeline in the sequence of timelines. This experience is accumulated as the experience of your higher self, or a higher aspect of yourself.

Then, you can be born again as the same person in the same era. This might be because you had unresolved issues in your previous life, or because you had a mission that you couldn't accomplish, or because you wanted to try living a completely different life. Regardless of the reason, there is a conscious decision to relive your life. In this case, it's not simply a parallel world that exists independently; the experiences from your previous life exist in another parallel world. This parallel world, like your current normal life's past life, is a continuous sequence of experiences.

Therefore, unlike simple science fiction, the existence or non-existence of parallel worlds, or the existence or non-existence of parallel universes, or whether other worlds are interesting or not, are relatively unimportant. Instead, parallel worlds are created and experienced for various reasons, such as learning, curiosity, self-improvement, or regret.

Because parallel worlds are constantly being created, there are various patterns.

Pattern 1: Past →→→ (Life) →→→ Future → (Next Life)
Pattern 2: Past →→→ (Life) →→→ Go back to the past → (Next, different life)
Pattern 3: Past →→→ (Life) →→→ Go back to the past → (Life of a different pattern of the same person)

At that moment, the will is focused on the current point in time, so even if you go back in time, you experience things as the current time.

For example, if you have:
Life 1 → (Go back to the past) → Life 2 (Life 2 is in a more ancient era than Life 1)

In Life 2, while Life 1 is in the future from a historical perspective, it is perceived as "the past" from the perspective of consciousness. This might be a confusing point, but from the perspective of the soul or consciousness, you experience Life 2 after experiencing Life 1. Therefore, even though Life 1 might be newer historically, it becomes the past from a conscious perspective. This is like a past life being in the future historically.

To explain this in terms of parallel worlds, if the histories of Life 1 and Life 2 overlap, it could be considered a parallel world. However, such a historical perspective is not very important. Instead, it's better to think of there being separate timelines for Life 1 and Life 2, and that they might or might not overlap historically. In reality, that's the case.

Because it starts with a historical perspective, it leads to a parallel world concept. However, if we consider the perspective that consciousness transcends time from the beginning, it's not about parallel worlds, but simply that consciousness travels to the past and future, experiencing life in each era.

In this case, parallel worlds become less important. What matters is the sequence in which consciousness experiences life in different eras and accumulates experiences.

However, this is a perspective often held by spiritual individuals. The closer one is to the material world, the more one lives according to the historical timeline. Rocks, water, and even air have existed consistently throughout time, and while they may have a form of consciousness, that material consciousness does not transcend time.

Similarly, the less spiritual and the more "ape-like" one's consciousness is, the more one is bound to the historical timeline, meaning one experiences life according to the era.

Whether one can freely move through time at will is subject to spiritual constraints. However, there are also cases where one receives help through guides or contracts to transcend time. Therefore, the ability to transcend time is not necessarily directly proportional to one's spiritual level. Generally, the higher one's spiritual level, the more one can design one's life as desired.

From this perspective, here are some common misconceptions and the actual reality:

- Misconception: "It feels like there are parallel worlds." Reality: "There is a memory of having experienced a different life in the same era."
- Misconception: "I can jump to a parallel world." Reality: "I can shift my consciousness to a timeline I have experienced before. If I prefer the previous timeline and want to start over, I can shift my consciousness to a specific point and branch off into a different timeline from there, branching off from a point in the previous timeline."
- Misconception: "There are multiple futures, creating parallel worlds." Reality: "There are two possibilities: either there is a memory of the future based on a timeline I have experienced in the past, or there are simply multiple astral consciousness templates. The former is a memory, while the latter is just a form of thought. They are different things, and the latter is not an experiential memory."

The future is said to be the accumulation of current choices, but the astral form of thoughts shapes the future. This is completely different from the (transcendent) past experiences in a timeline. While the astral form may appear like a future timeline, there are simply multiple astral forms in the future, and it is not 100% certain which one will become reality.

In addition, there are times when a past timeline (transcending time) that I have experienced happens to be the future, making it appear like the future. However, this is because I am re-experiencing the same era with a different pattern after experiencing that timeline, so it is not certain whether it will be the same future.

These two are subtle, but with practice, one can distinguish between the future memory of the past and the simple astral future in meditation or dreams. These are relatively shallow levels of consciousness, and the information is accessible from the conscious or subconscious mind.

Completely separate from this, at a deeper level, the spirit can transcend time and leave the body, allowing it to see the past and future. In this case, one can see things more comprehensively, freely travel through time, view timelines, and plan the future.

There may be seemingly contradictory situations where one sees the future as an astral form during meditation, and where one plans the future as a spirit during out-of-body experiences. When one uses a deeper level of consciousness, closer to the conscious mind, to see the future during meditation, one sees the future as a form of thought.

On the other hand, when one becomes a spirit and has an out-of-body experience to actually go to the future, one recognizes the future as a real thing.

Therefore, in everyday life, one generally does not have this perspective of the spirit, but rather glimpses the astral future as a form of thought. On the other hand, the past feels like a memory.

In addition to that, if out-of-body experiences can be performed at a deep level, connecting with the spirit, it becomes possible to transcend time and space. At that time, it becomes possible to travel to the past and future, and regarding the future, by actually moving to "that point" in time, the spirit can influence the future in the context of the present, thereby changing one's life.

These two perspectives have different ways of being expressed depending on the school of thought, but one belongs to the conscious mind, while the other belongs to a deeper consciousness, sometimes referred to as the higher self.

These two are used to create the future. In everyday life, we meditate or glimpse the subconscious mind through dreams, and we live our daily lives. At that time, as mentioned above, we see the astral consciousness of thoughts as an image of the future and use it as a guide for living.