"Now: Ancient Rome exists, and so does Egypt and Atlantis. You not only form the future, as you think of it, but you also form the past You have been told simple tales, and they are delightful ones; but if you were not ready to hear more you would not be in this room."
—SETH SPEAKS, Jane Roberts
Prentice-Hall, Inc., New Jersey, 1972
Since I actually view predictions about the future as an act of creation, I feel a responsibility to my fellow human beings. Stepping outside of the Unconscious Consensus and attempting to influence what might be waiting down the road, requires some degree of caution.
One of the things we have to remember when we begin to talk about the future is how emotionally attached we might be to the outcome. If I were to make a statement like "In the year 2560, there will be no more grass," a lot of readers would find that to be a very distressing statement.
However, you have to remember that by the year 2600, we may have already gone six or seven generations without grass, so it would probably not be a problem for those who are living then.
After all, how many of you miss the great herds of bison cutting across your front lawn or the sky going dark with the clouds of migrating geese?
The world is a living and breathing entity and it, too, is constantly changing. Sometimes it changes on its own; sometimes in our ignorance, we help it along. The point is that change does occur, and it is only as good or as bad as those who have to experience it want it to be.
I've had people tell me that this should not be an excuse for having allowed some of the less-than-desirable changes to take place. Aren't we guilty of poisoning the air, the water, and ground?
Yes, we are. There is no doubt about that. However, we as a species have only done what other species have done, nothing more and nothing less. We have lived, made babies, and have spread across the globe, sweeping everything in our path, then eventually, we die. So, where does our responsibility begin and end in this matter? I don't pretend to have an answer.
This is a book about time—the past, present, and future. It addresses these issues within the context of remote viewing, or making psychic predictions. Since it is impossible not to project some of my own beliefs, concerns, or feelings into the content, I haven't tried not to. I've pretty much let my feelings fall where they may. Like everyone else, I am burdened with my time and place in space.
In writing this book, I've actually developed a bit more optimism for the future. First and foremost, I believe there will be a future—maybe not the one that I would like to see, but one that I can live with. So, it seems there will always be room for compromise.
There is also strong evidence that, in general, humans ultimately try to do the right thing. In some cases, our choices may not be all that good, but we try and do whatever is best within the given circumstances.
Within this book are some very scary issues, such as runaway growth in world population, our inability to feed everyone, and our concern for the impact this might have on our future generations. There are no apparent answers. However, there appears to be a solution in the prediction of a world that does not have the numbers we have today. One should not automatically jump to a conclusion that a terrible calamity is necessary to bring population growth under control. Because there are eight billion fewer people in the year 3000 does not necessary guarantee a devastating plague of mythic proportions. The answer might be found in the discovery of a new form of transportation that will allow us to resettle on Earth-type worlds hundreds of light years away. It might also reside in simple attrition over a thousand years of sane policy, based on good sense and pragmatic decision making.
The point I'm trying to make here is that you shouldn't automatically jump to a conclusion based on anything you read here. Instead, allow yourself to become open to the possibilities. Use the knowledge you might garner from this book to be creative in developing your own day-to-day solutions to problems, and in your interactions with others. The solutions to the problems we face are within us, but they won't be accessible to a closed mind, or a frightened one.
This book talks about time: how and why the past can be changed as easily as our clothing; why the present probably doesn't exist; and how we can manipulate our future. I don't present the information in a way that provides answers, but hopefully in a way that demands thought. In some cases, I might even come across as subtly trying to provoke the reader.
A large portion of the book is filled with very specific predictions. Some people will agree with some of them and some people won't. Of course I'm hoping for both.
Finally, there is a chapter on the year 3000—a world as far from us in time as a neighboring star. Or is it?
As removed as the year 3000 may seem to be, we had a lot in common with those who lived a thousand years before we arrived. We can see very little difference in us or in our ancestors.
In the year 1000, kings and emperors ruled great cities—Otto III moved into Rome, King Rajaraja conquered Ceylon, and Olaf I died in battle making Norway Danish.
Beowulf was written in old English, and The Pillow-Book of Sei Shonagon, the diary of a woman in the Imperial Court of Japan, was forbidden literature.
Fresco and mosaic paintings became the rage in Italy, art and science flourished in Ghazni, the Abbey of St. Hilaire, in Poitiers. The Mayan civilization abruptly ended on the Yucatan peninsula; Leif Ericson discovered North America; and an Indian by the name of Sridhara recognized the significance of zero. And . . . there was widespread fear that the end of the world and the last judgment day was upon the human race.
There is also a hidden element in this book. It's a secret formula written between the lines, and probably the most important message the book carries. This book is about a philosophic viewpoint, one that comes and goes throughout history, but that never seems to stick.
We are ultimately responsible for reality itself, a consequence of our thoughts, words, and actions. So it is about the power and battle of consciousness, our relationship with the Grand Engineer, and our responsibilities for what our future will contain.
One additional note is required. There are some issues I do not address within this book, which some will feel should be addressed. An example would be the Y2K problem, or what is going to happen as a result of the computer chip date malfunction, in the year 2000. So, deciding what should go into this book was a significant issue from the outset.
To solve this dilemma, I decided that I would not address those issues which in themselves were already well-known. In other words, since we know there is going to be a problem with computers and chips in the New Year 2000, and we know why, simple logic should suggest appropriate actions that need to be taken, and therefore it should be unnecessary for me to address it.
Joseph W. McMoneagle
Nellysford, Virginia