Real-Time Travel via Consciousness: A Scientific Exploration

Abstract

This article examines the phenomenon of real-time travel through consciousness, focusing on remote viewing, bilocation, and target resonance within cortical microcolumns. Drawing from empirical data and theoretical models, we propose a framework for inducing conscious bilocation that may lead to actual temporal transference. Additionally, we outline a practical setup for training this ability.

1. Introduction

Time travel has long been a subject of fascination, often relegated to the realms of science fiction and esotericism. However, emerging evidence from remote viewing studies and neuroscience suggests that consciousness may not be strictly bound by linear time. This article explores the possibility that, through specific practices and neurological mechanisms, individuals can achieve a state of conscious bilocation, effectively experiencing real-time travel.

2. Remote Viewing and Temporal Nonlocality

Remote viewing (RV) is a practice wherein individuals perceive information about distant or unseen targets without the use of the traditional five senses. Notably, RV has demonstrated the ability to access information across time, suggesting that consciousness can transcend temporal constraints. Controlled experiments have shown that remote viewers can accurately describe events in the past and future, indicating a form of temporal nonlocality inherent in consciousness.

3. Bilocation: Conscious Presence in Multiple Temporal Locations

Bilocation refers to the phenomenon of an individual being present in two locations simultaneously. In the context of consciousness, this implies the ability to anchor one's awareness in multiple points in time. Anecdotal reports and experimental data suggest that with sufficient focus and resonance, consciousness can maintain simultaneous presence in both the present and a target temporal location, leading to a form of temporal bilocation.

4. Target Resonance in Cortical Microcolumns

Recent neuroscientific theories propose that cortical microcolumns—vertical arrangements of neurons in the cerebral cortex—may function as resonant structures capable of tuning into specific informational frequencies. By aligning these microcolumns with the informational signature of a target time and place, it may be possible to achieve a resonant state that facilitates conscious bilocation. This resonance could be enhanced through practices that focus attention and intention on the desired temporal target.

5. Environmental Simulation as a Resonance Amplifier

Creating an environment that closely simulates the target temporal location can serve as a powerful amplifier for achieving resonance. Sensory inputs such as clothing, sounds, smells, and visual cues consistent with the target time period can enhance the brain's ability to align with the desired temporal frequency. This approach is reminiscent of the method depicted in the film Somewhere in Time, where the protagonist immerses himself in the past through environmental cues and focused intention.

6. Case Study: Time and Again by Jack Finney

Jack Finney’s novel Time and Again (1970) offers a compelling fictional illustration of the principles we explore in this article. In the story, a secret U.S. government project enables time travel not through machines, but by using complete environmental immersion and focused mental alignment. The protagonist, Simon Morley, is trained to immerse himself in a fully recreated environment from 1882—down to the clothes, surroundings, and social customs. Through deep visualization and sensory immersion, he effectively "relocates" his consciousness and body to the past.

The process portrayed in Time and Again is remarkably consistent with our proposed model of conscious time travel via neural and environmental resonance. Rather than relying on speculative technology, Finney’s narrative suggests that the key to time travel lies in the human mind's ability to entrain itself to another moment in the temporal continuum, provided that the correct internal and external conditions are met.

This fictional case echoes reports from remote viewers and neurological theories about the role of sensory environments and belief in reinforcing temporal orientation. While Finney’s work is a novel, its premise serves as a valuable metaphor and speculative prototype for real-world experimentation in consciousness-based time travel.

7. Stimulus as Address: Building the Resonance Map of Time

To access a precise location in space-time through consciousness, stimuli—whether visual, auditory, tactile, or olfactory—must be understood not as passive decorations, but as active informational nodes, functioning like addresses within the matrix of temporal reality. In remote viewing terminology, this means that each sensory detail contributes to defining the signal line, ultimately allowing the viewer to orient and align consciousness with the target time period.

When constructing an immersive environment meant to induce temporal bilocation or resonance, these stimuli act like individual ideograms—symbols that emerge spontaneously in standard remote viewing protocols, which represent non-local data compressed into sensory form. Each detail, from the fabric of a waistcoat to the crackle of a wax cylinder recording, serves to "probe" deeper into the informational field of a particular moment in time.

The Consciousness Map Is Multi-Sensory

As the environment becomes saturated with accurate temporal cues, the brain's microcolumns begin to entrain with the total frequency pattern of that era. Just as a trained viewer draws layered impressions to gradually clarify a target, each stimulus adds resolution to the temporal field being accessed. The goal is to establish a coherent address—a full-spectrum lock—on that time, through cumulative sensory and cognitive alignment.

This theory finds support in real-world psychological experiments. Notably, in a series of studies often referred to as the "Counterclockwise Experiments" (initially led by Ellen Langer at Harvard), elderly participants were immersed in a meticulously recreated 1959 environment. After only a week of living in this setting—dressed in era-appropriate clothing, watching 1950s television, and discussing contemporary events as if they were current—many participants displayed measurable signs of rejuvenation: improved memory, posture, hearing, and even joint flexibility. Their bodies responded as if they were, in fact, younger—not by magic, but through the resonance of belief, environment, and sensory feedback aligning their consciousness to a previous version of reality.

The Music of Time

This process can be further refined. Once a viewer—or traveler—is proficient, a single stimulus may suffice to re-enter a previously mapped time. A melody from the period, a phrase, a scent—when emotionally charged and cognitively reinforced—can serve as a carrier wave, allowing consciousness to “jump” directly into that target.

Preston Nichols, in The Music of Time, speculated that sound itself carries temporal codes embedded in its waveform structure. According to his theory, specific melodies or tonal patterns can resonate with a moment in time because they are imprinted with the emotional and psychic field of their creation. In a remote viewing framework, this concept becomes practical: the melody becomes a shortcut ideogram, connecting the conscious mind with a full multi-sensory construct of that era.

Conclusion to Chapter 7

All stimuli—once carefully selected and consciously engaged—become waypoints for the traveler. The remote viewer is not only an observer but a participant in the construction of a navigable spatiotemporal field. With enough training and environmental precision, what begins as a session of mental perception can unfold into embodied bilocation, and potentially, full ontological shift.

8. Experimental Framework: Inducing Conscious Temporal Transfer Using Remote Viewing and Environmental Stimuli

To empirically test the hypothesis that consciousness can transfer—at least partially—into another point in time through resonance, we propose a controlled, repeatable experimental setup. The goal is to induce a shift from standard remote viewing perception into a state of immersive bilocation, and eventually, full ontological engagement with a past era. This is not merely a metaphorical experience, but one that may carry physiological, neurological, and even paraphysical effects.

The Cognitive Advantage of the Remote Viewer

Remote viewers are uniquely suited for this experiment. Unlike subjects untrained in accessing nonlocal information, the proficient viewer has already internalized the experience of moving through space and time without traditional sensory mediation. They are familiar with bilocation, target resonance, and the suspension of consensus reality models. This makes it significantly easier to elicit the necessary temporary suspension of disbelief—a key component in initiating deep resonance with a non-present temporal field.

In other words, the remote viewer’s brain already "knows what to do." The neural patterns involved in remote perception and time-skipping are established; our job is to amplify and stabilize those circuits with structured cues and layered stimuli.

Proposed Experimental Protocol: “Phase-Locked Temporal Entrainment”

Objective:To test whether a trained remote viewer can transition from perceiving a past time target to experiencing full conscious immersion and temporary bilocation in that era, using structured multisensory stimulus.

Participants:

• 6–10 trained remote viewers (minimum intermediate level with verifiable sessions).

• 1–2 novice controls for comparison (not trained in RV but briefed on procedure).

Phases of the Protocol:

1. Target Selection and Encoding:A historically specific target (e.g. “Paris, Spring 1890, café near Montmartre”) is chosen. Target should be data-rich but unfamiliar enough to avoid contamination.

2. Initial Remote Viewing Session (Blind):Participants are given the target using standard RV protocol—no sensory cues, only coordinates or neutral tags. They produce data that will be used as a baseline and subconscious entry point.

3. Stimulus Entrainment Phase:Over the next sessions, viewers are gradually introduced to specific environmental stimuli that match the target period, such as:

   • Audio: Period-authentic music or ambient soundscapes.

   • Visuals: Recreated rooms, period photographs, flickering lamplight.

   • Textile/Tactile: Clothing fabrics, objects from the era.

   • Olfactory: Scents like leather, tobacco, candle wax.

   These cues act as ideograms-in-form, each one probing a new layer of resonance.

4. Belief Suspension Enhancement:Before the session, viewers are primed with a focused induction: “This is real. You are not imagining. You are not watching the past—you are in it.”This works best with trained viewers, whose mental model of reality is already elastic enough to permit such framing.

5. Phase Locking Technique (Optional):For advanced subjects, a repeating melodic structure (e.g. a tune from the target era) is played at low volume in a loop. Inspired by Preston Nichols’ concept of “music of time,” this can help lock brainwave patterns to the emotional frequency of the target moment.

6. Observation of Shift:During and after each session, the participant is monitored for:

   • Shifts in speech, gesture, affect, posture.

   • Descriptions of movement rather than observation.

   • Emotional or somatic reactions linked to the past environment.

   • Time dilation or time loss reported post-session.

7. Integration and Repetition:Sessions are repeated over several weeks to solidify the viewer’s cognitive address of the time period. The goal is to reduce latency between intention and “arrival” and document any progressive physical or psychological effects.

Metrics of Success:

• Viewer reports and drawings become increasingly immersive and sensorimotor-rich.

• EEG, if available, shows phase synchronization in specific cortical bands (theta and gamma).

• Participants can later re-enter the time field using only a single stimulus (e.g. a melody or scent), indicating that an address-lock has been successfully encoded.

9. Cortical Microcolumns: The Neural Architecture of Temporal Resonance

Cortical microcolumns, also known as minicolumns, are fundamental organizational units of the cerebral cortex. Each microcolumn consists of a vertical assembly of approximately 80 to 120 neurons, including pyramidal neurons and interneurons, spanning the six layers of the cortex. These structures are interconnected and receive common inputs, suggesting they function as basic computational units of the brain .people.brandeis.edu+5ScienceDirect+5Wikipedia+5Wikipedia

In the context of perception, microcolumns are believed to process specific features of sensory information. For instance, in the visual cortex, microcolumns are organized to respond to particular orientations of visual stimuli, contributing to the brain's ability to interpret complex visual scenes . This columnar organization allows for efficient and parallel processing of sensory inputs, enabling rapid and nuanced perception.

Furthermore, microcolumns are thought to play a role in higher-order cognitive functions. Their arrangement and connectivity facilitate the integration of sensory information with executive processes, such as decision-making and attention. Disruptions in microcolumnar organization have been implicated in various neurological conditions, including autism and schizophrenia, highlighting their importance in maintaining normal cognitive function .Oxford Academic

In the framework of remote viewing and temporal resonance, microcolumns may serve as the neural substrates that enable the brain to align with specific temporal and spatial targets. By engaging in practices that stimulate particular sensory modalities—such as listening to music from a desired era or immersing oneself in period-specific environments—it's hypothesized that these microcolumns can be entrained to resonate with the informational patterns of that time. This resonance could facilitate a state of conscious bilocation, where the individual experiences a sense of presence in both the current and target temporal locations.

Understanding the role of cortical microcolumns in perception and cognition provides a neurobiological basis for exploring how structured sensory stimuli and focused intention might enable access to different points in time through consciousness. Further research into the dynamics of microcolumnar activity could offer deeper insights into the mechanisms underlying such phenomena.

Comparing cortical microcolumns and cognitons (a term often used in cognitive science or theoretical models of cognition) reveals a parallel between biological structure and informational function—essentially linking neural hardware to mental software.

Definitions:

• Cortical MicrocolumnsThese are vertical clusters of neurons in the cortex (about 80–120 neurons each) that process specific types of information—such as line orientation in vision, phonemes in language, or temporal sequences in music. They are considered the smallest repeating functional units of the neocortex.

  
  

• CognitonsThe term “cogniton” is not universally defined in neuroscience but is often used to refer to discrete packets of cognitive information or experience. Think of a cogniton as an atomic unit of thought, memory, or perception. Some use it to describe mental “quanta” of conscious experience, a kind of cognitive primitive.

Parallels Between Microcolumns and Cognitons:

Cortical Microcolumns	Cognitons
Physical: made of neurons	Informational: made of meaning/data
Process input (like visual lines, tones)	Represent perceptual or cognitive content (like "a face," "a sound," or "a word")
Repeated modular structures	Repeated patterns of thought or perception
Part of distributed cortical computation	Part of distributed cognitive representation
Can be entrained to rhythms (e.g. theta/gamma)	Can be organized into mental frames or schema
Specific columns fire during task perception or recognition	Specific cognitons may “activate” in conscious awareness when relevant

Linking the Two:

We can hypothesize that cognitons are the functional manifestations of microcolumn activity patterns.

In other words, when a specific network of microcolumns becomes active in a particular pattern—due to sensory input or internal thought—a cogniton emerges in consciousness. This makes microcolumns the physical substrate, and cognitons the subjective or informational output.

This view aligns with neural correlates of consciousness (NCC) research, which looks for specific patterns of brain activity that give rise to units of experience. Microcolumns would be one of the most likely candidates to host or generate these patterns.

In the Context of Remote Viewing and Time Resonance

• Microcolumns are the hardware being entrained through stimuli and intention.

• Cognitons are the resulting units of perception, target impressions, or emotionally resonant snapshots that emerge in the viewer's mind.

• As resonance deepens, the coherence of microcolumn activity leads to the emergence of more vivid, stable cognitons, culminating in the viewer feeling present at the target time—this is the basis of bilocation.

🧠 Cortical Microcolumns vs. Cognitrons

⚙️ What is a Cognitron?

The cognitron is a type of artificial neural network architecture introduced by Kunihiko Fukushima in the 1970s. It is one of the precursors to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and was designed to simulate the hierarchical structure of visual processing in the human brain.

In a cognitron:

• Lower layers detect simple features (like lines, dots).

• Higher layers recognize complex patterns (like shapes, objects).

• It uses self-organizing principles: the network learns patterns from repeated exposure.

Cortical Microcolumns (Biological)	Cognitrons (Artificial)
Smallest functional unit of the cortex	Layered unit in a neural network
Processes specific sensory/cognitive inputs	Detects hierarchical features in data
Arranged in vertical, repeating modules	Organized in layered, feature-detecting levels
Can respond to stimuli like orientation, sound, etc.	Learns to recognize patterns via unsupervised learning
Engage in dynamic feedback with neighboring microcolumns	Incorporates bottom-up and sometimes top-down signals
Basis for real-time perception, memory, attention	Foundation for early machine vision and pattern recognition

🧬 Shared Functional Concepts

• Hierarchical Feature Processing:Just as microcolumns contribute to hierarchical perception (e.g., visual cortex detecting edges, then faces), cognitrons build understanding layer by layer.

• Self-Organization:Microcolumns form connections based on developmental input and use; cognitrons learn feature maps without needing labeled data.

• Resonance & Pattern Matching:Both systems operate through resonant recognition of patterns, whether it's recognizing a face in real-time or locking onto a mental target in RV.

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💡 In the Context of Time Travel via Consciousness

In our theoretical framework:

• Cortical microcolumns are the biological real-time processors of space, time, and pattern.

• Cognitrons are an artificial analog—suggesting how machines might one day simulate or support the same kinds of conscious time-targeting processes.

• Stimuli from a given time (music, architecture, language) may serve to activate microcolumns in patterns that resemble the layered activations of a cognitron, guiding the brain toward a stable "target lock" on another time.

  
  

This opens interesting paths: Could an advanced AI cognitron-like system help identify or reinforce the right stimulus sequences for optimal bilocation? Could the brain be supported by artificial “resonance maps”?

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🧠 Neuroscience & Microcolumns

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🪐 Theoretical & Experimental Time Travel Concepts

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