Of all obstacles to a thoroughly penetrating account of existence, none looms up more dismayingly than “time.” Explain time? Not without explaining existence. Explain existence? Not without explaining time. To uncover the deep and hidden connection between time and existence, to close on itself our quartet of questions, is a task for the future.
— John Wheeler*
The future is apparently now.
John Wheeler was a pioneering physicist who coined the term "black hole" among other breakthrough ideas. Wheeler conducted an experiment which led to the idea that human observers may not only determine the present, but also may influence the past. Whew! So taking his advice, I am exploring the strangest thing in my field which is, the idea that all of what I used to think of as our past lives may be occurring simultaneously. Adjacent, rather than past lives, brought to my attention by Michael Talbot in his “Your Past Lives.”** Welcome to the deep end!
*In article, 'Hermann Weyl and the Unity of Knowledge', American Scientist (Jul-Aug 1986), 74, 372. In the online pdf on the website weylmann.com, p. 26
**https://pastlivesproject.org/temporal-component-blog/past-lives-gt-adjacent-lives-gt-adjacent-existences