124. Love and Time – Julia Mossbridge

Julia Mossbridge is a scientist in the true sense of the word, a curious and open-minded investigator and seeker. She has balanced beautifully on the perceived border between traditional science and the esoteric realms. She has created two institutes, whereof one bears the intriguing name The Institute for Love and Time (TILT). It is about creating technologies that support wellbeing related to feeling unconditional love. How can love and time go together? “Both are powerful and healing to humans”, Julia says. On a deeper level, she explains, people experience that when the boundaries of time are removed, the conditions of connection are also removed, which opens the door to unconditional love. The way Julia describes the experience of time is somewhat at odds with the “live in the now” mantra. We can extend the self in time, she says. And by doing that we break down boundaries. “It gives you a lot more chances to do good for yourself and the world. It doesn’t have to be all at once. We have all this time.” “Folks say you can’t do anything about the past, and the future is all about potentialities, so you can only do something about it in the now. The reason this is so enticing is that we’re built to experience free will. So that’s how we’re gonna make a lot of money on self-help books”, Julia laughs. “I think it’s a racket. I think it makes people look for control rather than take responsibility.” In reality, we are not in control. Everything we experience has already happened. That has even been measured (the thought of doing something sudden arises after we’ve done it). “To even come close to being in control, we must extend the definition of ‘I’. To really be in control we must extend it indefinitely to include the whole universe and everything that has happened and everything that is going to happen.” The Iroquios have a word for this extension: the long body. Julia Mossbridge has done extensive research on precognition, the intuitive knowledge about a future event. She uses a metaphor: An event that triggers precognition is like a stick in the stream of consciousness. The stick creates a wake, which is the slowly fading memory of the event after it has happened. But on the front end it also creates an area where the “arrow of time” is reversed. “There's backpressure. The stream of consciousness ‘prepares’ itself to go around the stick.”  Precognition most commonly appears in dreams. “The conscious mind is like our story of what is happening, but the unconscious mind really has access to all the incoming data from the universe”, Julia says. She agrees with psychology pioneer William James that the brain is like a filter. “When your brain is damaged, you're not changing consciousness, you're changing the capacity to receive it.” She is also in agreement with the theories of cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman, who describes physical reality as an interface, where living beings are “conscious agents”. If we were to look “under the hood” (which may be what enlightenment entails), we would see a completely different reality that doesn’t make sense in the physical world. Mossbridge also delves into what AI does to us, and with us, and what we can do with AI. “Human potential is going to explode with AI if we do it right. It can be a partner in our evolution. We are in this together.” Julia’s bio: Affiliate professor in the Dept. of Biophysics and Physics at University of San Diego Senior consultant with Tangible IQ Co-founder of TILT: The Institute for Love and Time Founder of Mossbridge Institute Author and co-author of multiple books and scientific articles related to time travel, artificial intelligence and unconditional love PhD in Communication Sciences and Disorders (Northwestern University) MA in Neuroscience (UC San Francisco) BA in Neuroscience with highest honors (Oberlin College) Julia on Linkedin Julia on Medium The Institute for Love and Time (TILT) The Mossbridge Institute