As we go through life, we remain ever cognizant of time: how much we’ve spent, how much we have left, and how we can get more. We learn from our past and anticipate our future. Essentially, we live at the mercy of time. However, why have we become so certain that time is so fixed and linear? In The Ultimate Time Machine, government-certified remote viewer Joseph McMoneagle attempts to re-create our notion of time and reality. Where we view time as untouchable, McMoneagle takes the complete opposite view, challenging us to take a more active understand of our own reality as it relates to time. In understanding McMoneagle’s ideas, we may be able to understand the connection between our past, future, and present, especially as it may relate to the phenomena of UFOs and remote viewing.…show more content… In doing so, he places great emphasis on the fact that our current understanding of time limits our participation in it, adding a passive and intangible dimension to life. He then goes on to explain that the past is one of the only parts of time that we have influence in. For example, Robert Schoch’s discovery of pre-dating changes our perception of the past, and, as a result, time as a whole. This introduces the concept that time and, on a greater level, reality is dictated by the consensus of society; or better put: “our willingness or openness to change and our automatic bias and prejudice” (56). Perhaps this idea of a multilateral-reality is better fit within the notion of the present, but its impressions span across time as a whole, including the
