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Dr. Edwin May, Psychic Theories (Precognition, Remote Viewing, Entropy)

Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World

CHAPTER

The Importance of Causality

If there is something like Stephen Hawking's causality protection principle, then it will be impossible to change the past. On the other hand, I hold a philosophical and scientific position known as eternalism which holds that the past, the present and the future are all real from an a temporal perspective outside of time. That doesn't mean that things within time are fixed in such a way that no freedom is involved. So I would say we can have free will, and we can then make different choices that will affect future outcomes. And so if I could somehow sense to use a bit of physics jargon, the wave form of the future, I would know the probable future that I could then take steps

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