If you are into Possibilianism, consider this scenario: rather than incarnating from a historic past life into this present life and then on into some future life - you reincarnate into the same time and same place, over and over again. Each time you grow in terms of spiritual evolution.
In such a scenario, there was no past before your birth, there will be no future after your death - just an endless loop of lives lived that span the 20th and 21st centuries. But each version in which you participate will become incrementally better and better, tending towards a perfect future, that's always just an eternity away.
Imagine being born again as you, to your parents, only they are just happen to be ever so slightly wiser. Everything in this new iteration of the life you currently live will be an improvement; there's less anger, aggression and violence. You have better teachers, better food. And there's a better environment - with greater ecological awareness in more people's mindset and habits. A kinder, happier, healthier world. One notch up. And so on, and so on, into infinity. From the mid-20th to the mid-21st centuries, over and over and over again. Your consciousness never experiences the late-21st century; nor will you ever get to peek into the 22nd century. And why ever not?
I woke up for a wee at 04:30; just as I was dropping off, the words { messaging information... } appeared in my mind - not as an auditory hallucination, just a telepathic signal that I could not ignore. I dropped off to wake up at 06:30 to receive the words { ...to the goneself.} The gone self; the self that has gone.
But which self? The ego or the consciousness? The material self or the spiritual self?
The spiritual self doesn't go. It is eternal. Ask yourself the question - who you'd have been had your parents never met? The biological you is a product of that pairing, shaped also by the environment in which you grew up and in which you live. Your consciousness would have been in a different biological form had your parents never met - but it would still be around.
So the goneself is a previous biological self. But messaging information to it?
My intuition, based on a lifetime's anomalous qualia memory events, leads me to believe that the goneself is now historical. That guy born around 1920, died in 1957, lived in the US; my canonical past-life dreams place him growing up around Kentucky or Ohio, taking part in the Pacific War as a mechanic in the US Marine Corp, re-enlisting in the USAF around the time of the Korean War, then working for a private corporation developing, making and selling military equipment. Died in a motorcycle accident (preventable had a helmet been worn, had that corner been taken more slowly, had beers not been consumed beforehand, had there not been an early frost that night).
What { information } could I { message } to my { goneself? } It can only be transmitted in the interstices between being awake and slipping into sleep... A message should be prepared - a warning, maybe? But wouldn't that change history, removing my consciousness from my current body, giving it several more decades in the past one?
Or does { messaging information to the goneself } prove the existence of parallel universes?
One for me to ponder on.
This time last year:
Many Machcins
This time four years ago:
The Long Dark Half-Hour of the Consumerist Soul
This time six years ago:
Fields filling up with houses
This time 13 years ago:
Battle of Britain: Poland's contribution
This time 14 years ago:
Sewer under ul. Karczunkowska
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