Wow, Evelyn, this is a mind trip in a great way! It has the feel of mythology or an ancient text, even though it refers to advanced technology. But then again, we're talking about unfathomable time spans and time travel, so maybe ancient doesn't really mean anything in this context! Also I like the idea of having a cycle every four or five summers. That sounds ideal!
ive read this twice and each time it seems to have the effect of creating a dream-like state of mind. i wonder if you were in a dream like state when you wrote it? having read some of your other work now i can see how you are drawing from a larger imagined universe and mythology which means there isnt as much exposition as there would likely be if this was a completely new train of thought for you. Always enjoy reading your work Evelyn.
Yes, I am drawing from a much larger setting, which may seem like a flaw to some readers who are unaware (yet) of more details about that setting. I often make these oblique references which obviously mean something to me, but might be confusing to others. So from that point of view it’s a flaw.
On the other paw, I’m also kind of hoping that I’m creating unanswered but intriguing questions, which is a significant aspect to narrative theory and, well, reading - if you get the reader’s engagement then they will be asking their own questions (i.e. creating their own subtext, with the help of the writer’s suggestions) - but it is important for the writer to be mindful of what those questions might be, and to make sure you don’t ultimately leave your readers frustrated by either taking too long in the narrative to answer those questions, or not answering them at all.
In regards to this first story, I am hoping that it provides enough unanswered stuff for people to indeed want to know what happens next. After arrival on this planet in the cretaceous, I mean. And how, timeships notwithstanding, or why, did they end up 120 million years in the future (i.e. now, lol).
You are also on to something there when you mentioned the dream-like state - I do indeed get into that trance-like state when I write, like a kind of method acting perhaps. Or meditation. So I’m kind of ‘there’ and just writing down what I’m seeing/hearing/feeling/experiencing etc. It’s a dissociation thing.
There were several points that stood out. Some made me think deeply like the bit about the reptilians and how they have matured.
Time and time travel are subjects I find intriguing. I love reading about them, and I also like to explore them in some of my stories. What if what we call "space travel" is time travel. What if different densities are different times? What if different lands are different times? I'll stop now. 😄
This is the kind of piece that makes you slow down and want to reread it again to absorb everything. I think using a conversational, first-person voice is great here so it feels we're being spoken to than observing. We feel closer to her. I also find interesting how the story jumps through time. We're able to see how her perspective changes and growth across time. Also, I got the feeling she's reminiscing, warning, teaching, and preparing us all at the same time.
The sadness about being forced to leave your home is universal. Earth is beautiful. I wish we took care of her better. 😔
I notice you do the 1st person in your Transmissions series, which does bring the reader closer in. That's very true. Although I often do a similar thing when I do 3rd person, simply by making the narrator more visible and opinionated, and I'll sometimes use the second person to address the reader directly, which has a similar effect of drawing them in. Sort of like breaking the fourth wall.
Please don't stop philosophising about time travel and different densities on my account!
Here's a thought for you. If we consider infinity, then this must include all of time. By this I mean an infinity of 3D coordinates also encompasses every possible position of every particle. If we think of time as change, this means the change in x, y, z coordinates of a particle. Given that a particle can't be in two places or states at once (incommensurability - or, for example, a person can't be in two places at the same time - paradoxes etc.), there has to be different spatial locations in order to accommodate the totality of possibilities. This includes miniscule variations in a historical timeline. We could call that a parallel universe of course - so the real separation is between space, not so much 'time'. To go back in time, one would go 'across' to an identical timeline, but to a location corresponding to a 'before' of your own timeline (avoids paradoxes etc.).
We then have the concept of repetition and universal cycles (also necessary for infinity to exist). Although, from the infinite point of view, every repeated cycle exists at once - even if it's in a different spatial location. I've come to think of the universe/multiverse as an infinite series of spiral arms emanating from a centre point. Time progresses along the flow of the spiral arm (and not necessarily constant), but eventually, after a certain number of orbits, the spiral arm curves back around and re-unites with the centre point, but could perhaps then fly through and back out again. And so on.
So, to get from one universal spiral arm to another means exceeding the escape velocity of your home arm. We could think of that as the speed of light in a vacuum perhaps. The universe would look really rather beautiful from above that speed of light, because you'd see the light in more than one place at once.
Paschats call this 'outer time' (i.e. beyond the phyical/matter). The lore also talks about sort of 'circuits' of time - I think of this as 'gaps' in the continuum which one can fly through, to get from timepoint A to timepoint B. Thus time travel becomes an issue of navigation, more than something more exotic.
In Shari'ana's case, this is the sort of thing she still has a lot to learn about. The more spiritually mature Paschats being the Karidel, who do the time travel stuff. The Paetri, being somewhat younger, still have to follow an evolutionary pathway before they get to Karidel stage. The Karidel know this, of course (being wise), so they knew the Paetri would have to leave and find a new home. Part of growing up...
Honestly, I enjoyed reading your perspective on time. I am with you that what we call time travel could be travelling to different locations/parallel realities which are identical but with minute changes like Looney Toons vs Looney Tunes (Mandela Effect). So we're traveling across space to a distant reality that looks like the Earth you remember.
Here's a thought...does that mean if you change something there, it has no effect on your home coordinates? Let's say you want to stop a major war on this Earth, you time travel back in "time", manage to stop it then come back to your original Earth...the war still happens because you just changed it in that specific coordinates not yours! In other words, you aren't overwriting your own past, you were just visiting your other self's home.
If humans evolve to their multidimensional selves, will we be able to travel easily to different realities and worlds?
I love the imagry when you mentioned traveling faster than light, then you could look down and literally see the present, past and future existing all at one. Reminds me of Interstellar!
If time travel is an issue of navigation, and with the right coordinates, you could travel back and forward in time, then civilizations that have mastered this would have already tried it. Especially if we consider the theory that all of time is happening at the same time.
I feel humans might eventually get to that point where we'll be able to time travel, but that depends on our evolution. I wonder where different evolutionary paths take us, which timelines already exists. Spiritual evolution vs transhumanism path. Right now it feels both paths are possible. What if we have to choose individually and collectively and the path we choose shifts us to that timeline. Perhaps we split?
Something that I think about from time to time is our choice in relation to what we're discussing. What if we are shifting timelines constantly with every choice we make? What if our consciousness is so advanced that we aren't physically moving but our awareness is jumping many times per second to the next parallel 3D coordinates which is 99% identical? What if the shift is so fast and smooth that to our conscious mind it's just living...until a glitch happens like with the Mandela Effect or someone you know behaving differently, or not being able to find something you know was in a specific place or even Deja Vu? What if people aren't misremembering Toons but they actually spent in a timeline where it was spelled that way?
So here's my question: if we are shifting coordinates with every choice, does that mean our memories are just a record of the places we've been rather than a fixed history of who we are?
I apologize for the length but this is something I enjoy talking about!
You'll never need to apologise to me for lengthy comments full of fascinating thoughts.
I especially like that idea of it's the consciousness which does the travelling between timelines (even continuously, depending on the different choices). I have an old Katrina's Journal entry from a few years ago (girl from parallel world), where she mentions the curious case of Lerina Garcia (link: https://anomalien.com/the-mysterious-case-of-lerina-garcia-gordo-woman-from-a-parallel-universe/)
She takes a spiritual view of it, concluding it was the Goddess who sent her from one parallel world to another. I agree completely with your point about evolution and time travel. Specifically, it would be something which is only capable of doing by spiritually advanced (i.e. mature) lifeforms. Meaning it's only 'permitted' to those who by definition can act responsibly, as it were. Spiritually, in this sense, I think the universe/multiverse has a kind of built-in protection mechanism.
I often see these transhumanist types as materialist and spiritually immature. Ultimately it's the soul which evolves. And that's the important point. I think a lot of the worldly problems we are having to put up with on this planet (and historically), are ultimately caused by spiritually immature people in positions of power and control.
I just had a quick look at that particular Journal-K entry and it's a different one where she mentions what she calls 'multiversal molecule theory'. I'll try and remember it correctly. Universes with the same laws of physics, and with near-identical timelines, cluster together to form molecules. These molecules then connect up with other molecules to form the multiverse.
And here's the 'ethical' or 'spiritual' aspect of it. All (similar timeline) worlds exist somewhere on a spectrum between perfect utopia and perfect dystopia. In other words, between heaven and hell. Most are somewhere in between of course. But in terms of reincarnation, which sort of world you end up on in your next life depends entirely on how you conduct yourself in this one.
I think that's a great way of looking at 'Karma'. And how it also retains the free will aspect.
It suggests we as individuals choose our evolutionary path, and this doesn't have to be all set in just one timeline/world. Although I do also believe in soul families (small groups of soul-friends who reincarnate together).
I love thinking about Mandela Effect stuff. Psychologists (materialists, that is) try and put it down to 'imperfect memories' etc. That may explain some instances, but not all. Then there's the conspiracy theory which is that some of these historical truths have been rewritten, and erased from the archive then replaced with the new one (think 1984). Then reinforcement and group think do the rest.
Regardless, a bit like UFOs, even if 95% or so are explained, that still leaves the unexplained 5%.
I thought of another option, actually, which fits it into my Solaris Hypothesis for UFOs, crop circles, high strangeness/paranormal phenomena and so on, namely it's the Goddess/planetary intelligence again - changing everything except people's memories of the thing. The point, perhaps, being to provoke people to think about spiritual things, parallel worlds, different timelines, and so on. To evolve, in other words.
Thank you for sharing those links. I'll definitely check them out!
Yes, your point that the universe has its own rules and protective mechanism makes total sense or else there would be chaos everywhere! 😄
"I think a lot of the worldly problems we are having to put up with on this planet (and historically), are ultimately caused by spiritually immature people in positions of power and control."
Well said. This is, at the end of the day, the root cause of all the problems we have in this world. If we had spiritually mature and evolved people in power and control, the world would be like heaven on Earth. I suppose this is the process a species need to go through to get to that point. Some of us are growing impatient and saying "how long is this going to take?!" 😆
I actually like the multiverse molecule theory! It provides a great explanation of how karma and free will interact. The idea that our behavior acts like a frequency dial to determine which molecule we align with in our evolutionary step.
Now your Solaris hypothesis in relation to the Mandela Effect is thought-provoking. Because when you think about it (whether one believes in the Mandela Effect or not), it does force people to expand their minds to the possibility that our reality is not what it seems. It makes people rethink everything, and like you said, be open to spirituality and the truth of our universe. The true structure of our reality is stranger than fiction.
Something else that came to me during this discussion is if space and time are ultimately the same thing, then what if different locations on Earth are actually vibrating in different eras? You know how you visit a city or a specific location and it feels like you stepped back in time or forward in time?
Then it made me think what if what we call developed (heavy concrete cities) might be outdated as they anchor those places and people in dense timelines which might explain a lot of the stress and illnesses in cities. And areas which are seen as underdeveloped or rural (mostly natural) are more fluid which allows them to anchor lighter frequencies/higher timelines. I have been to places very rural with not a lot of people, and the energy I was feeling felt like the future compared to modern cities. It's hard to explain.
If the present and future are happening at the same time, maybe that's why we are seeing more and more people suddenly feeling the overwhelming urge to move out of dense cities and into smaller or rural regions. I wonder if they are unconsciously acting as grounding rods, physically anchoring the higher timeline for their future selves.
Thank you for this discussion. It's been a pleasure! :)
That's quite an amazing observation about urban versus rural. I instinctively agree with you. I now live in deep rural France, our village/commune has fewer than 250 inhabitants, all spread out quite a bit and we have half an acre, which is like our own ecosystem. And it's really very timeless and 'dense with the spirit' if I can put it like that. I have certainly felt much less depressed, frustrated, and so on since coming here and, well, 'communing'.
I can also well believe - and it's sort of obvious when one thinks of it - that the Goddess/the planetary intelligence, would prefer these rural places to lifeless urban centres packed full of humans. I say obvious because it's, well, 'natural'. The spirit itself is 'natural'. And I am convinced this is how she wants humans to live - as they always used to.
I would also very much accept the idea that urban centres have a sort of blocking effect, so spiritual energies simply can't get anywhere.
I often come back to the social cognition number (or Dunbar's number - 150), which is an evolutionary adaptation to the size of prehistoric human groups within which the brain evolved. That's to say, humans are hard-wired to live in small rural groups - take them away from that and discordant things happen.
With regards to places resonating across time. I've had this in some places I've visited - the sense that I have been there before, and the ease of navigating my way around, despite it being the first time (in this lifetime) I'd been there. Prague and Salzburg especially come to mind. Both very beautiful cities as well.
Aside from the obvious reincarnation explanation, perhaps it's that certain places are conducive to the spirit/intelligence, so she likes to hang around, as it were...
Ah - with regards to the process we have to go through. That requires a much longer answer! Because I think it only applies to 'younger souls'. If you think how many people there are on the planet today compared to even just a few centuries ago (I think it's doubled during my own lifetime alone), then it makes sense to think we have, let's say, at least 7 billion or more young souls. They are the ones who need to go through a process. So the reason why it's frustrating for older souls is precisely because they are old and they don't need to go through the process.
...and the stories we carry with us too.
Wow, Evelyn, this is a mind trip in a great way! It has the feel of mythology or an ancient text, even though it refers to advanced technology. But then again, we're talking about unfathomable time spans and time travel, so maybe ancient doesn't really mean anything in this context! Also I like the idea of having a cycle every four or five summers. That sounds ideal!
ive read this twice and each time it seems to have the effect of creating a dream-like state of mind. i wonder if you were in a dream like state when you wrote it? having read some of your other work now i can see how you are drawing from a larger imagined universe and mythology which means there isnt as much exposition as there would likely be if this was a completely new train of thought for you. Always enjoy reading your work Evelyn.
That’s a lovely thing to say, thank you!
Yes, I am drawing from a much larger setting, which may seem like a flaw to some readers who are unaware (yet) of more details about that setting. I often make these oblique references which obviously mean something to me, but might be confusing to others. So from that point of view it’s a flaw.
On the other paw, I’m also kind of hoping that I’m creating unanswered but intriguing questions, which is a significant aspect to narrative theory and, well, reading - if you get the reader’s engagement then they will be asking their own questions (i.e. creating their own subtext, with the help of the writer’s suggestions) - but it is important for the writer to be mindful of what those questions might be, and to make sure you don’t ultimately leave your readers frustrated by either taking too long in the narrative to answer those questions, or not answering them at all.
In regards to this first story, I am hoping that it provides enough unanswered stuff for people to indeed want to know what happens next. After arrival on this planet in the cretaceous, I mean. And how, timeships notwithstanding, or why, did they end up 120 million years in the future (i.e. now, lol).
You are also on to something there when you mentioned the dream-like state - I do indeed get into that trance-like state when I write, like a kind of method acting perhaps. Or meditation. So I’m kind of ‘there’ and just writing down what I’m seeing/hearing/feeling/experiencing etc. It’s a dissociation thing.
Hopefully it works…
Oh - thanks for reading it twice! That’s a real compliment!
I love all the threads you wove into this. And I think I have a Paetri living in my house.
'Of course' if I was judging this would win. But then if I was judging no other entries would be read. Which I imagine isn't really fair?
Course it’s not fair! Got to give the other guy at least a fighting chance, eh!
Very interesting piece Evelyn!
There were several points that stood out. Some made me think deeply like the bit about the reptilians and how they have matured.
Time and time travel are subjects I find intriguing. I love reading about them, and I also like to explore them in some of my stories. What if what we call "space travel" is time travel. What if different densities are different times? What if different lands are different times? I'll stop now. 😄
This is the kind of piece that makes you slow down and want to reread it again to absorb everything. I think using a conversational, first-person voice is great here so it feels we're being spoken to than observing. We feel closer to her. I also find interesting how the story jumps through time. We're able to see how her perspective changes and growth across time. Also, I got the feeling she's reminiscing, warning, teaching, and preparing us all at the same time.
The sadness about being forced to leave your home is universal. Earth is beautiful. I wish we took care of her better. 😔
I'm so glad you liked it!
I notice you do the 1st person in your Transmissions series, which does bring the reader closer in. That's very true. Although I often do a similar thing when I do 3rd person, simply by making the narrator more visible and opinionated, and I'll sometimes use the second person to address the reader directly, which has a similar effect of drawing them in. Sort of like breaking the fourth wall.
Please don't stop philosophising about time travel and different densities on my account!
Here's a thought for you. If we consider infinity, then this must include all of time. By this I mean an infinity of 3D coordinates also encompasses every possible position of every particle. If we think of time as change, this means the change in x, y, z coordinates of a particle. Given that a particle can't be in two places or states at once (incommensurability - or, for example, a person can't be in two places at the same time - paradoxes etc.), there has to be different spatial locations in order to accommodate the totality of possibilities. This includes miniscule variations in a historical timeline. We could call that a parallel universe of course - so the real separation is between space, not so much 'time'. To go back in time, one would go 'across' to an identical timeline, but to a location corresponding to a 'before' of your own timeline (avoids paradoxes etc.).
We then have the concept of repetition and universal cycles (also necessary for infinity to exist). Although, from the infinite point of view, every repeated cycle exists at once - even if it's in a different spatial location. I've come to think of the universe/multiverse as an infinite series of spiral arms emanating from a centre point. Time progresses along the flow of the spiral arm (and not necessarily constant), but eventually, after a certain number of orbits, the spiral arm curves back around and re-unites with the centre point, but could perhaps then fly through and back out again. And so on.
So, to get from one universal spiral arm to another means exceeding the escape velocity of your home arm. We could think of that as the speed of light in a vacuum perhaps. The universe would look really rather beautiful from above that speed of light, because you'd see the light in more than one place at once.
Paschats call this 'outer time' (i.e. beyond the phyical/matter). The lore also talks about sort of 'circuits' of time - I think of this as 'gaps' in the continuum which one can fly through, to get from timepoint A to timepoint B. Thus time travel becomes an issue of navigation, more than something more exotic.
In Shari'ana's case, this is the sort of thing she still has a lot to learn about. The more spiritually mature Paschats being the Karidel, who do the time travel stuff. The Paetri, being somewhat younger, still have to follow an evolutionary pathway before they get to Karidel stage. The Karidel know this, of course (being wise), so they knew the Paetri would have to leave and find a new home. Part of growing up...
Honestly, I enjoyed reading your perspective on time. I am with you that what we call time travel could be travelling to different locations/parallel realities which are identical but with minute changes like Looney Toons vs Looney Tunes (Mandela Effect). So we're traveling across space to a distant reality that looks like the Earth you remember.
Here's a thought...does that mean if you change something there, it has no effect on your home coordinates? Let's say you want to stop a major war on this Earth, you time travel back in "time", manage to stop it then come back to your original Earth...the war still happens because you just changed it in that specific coordinates not yours! In other words, you aren't overwriting your own past, you were just visiting your other self's home.
If humans evolve to their multidimensional selves, will we be able to travel easily to different realities and worlds?
I love the imagry when you mentioned traveling faster than light, then you could look down and literally see the present, past and future existing all at one. Reminds me of Interstellar!
If time travel is an issue of navigation, and with the right coordinates, you could travel back and forward in time, then civilizations that have mastered this would have already tried it. Especially if we consider the theory that all of time is happening at the same time.
I feel humans might eventually get to that point where we'll be able to time travel, but that depends on our evolution. I wonder where different evolutionary paths take us, which timelines already exists. Spiritual evolution vs transhumanism path. Right now it feels both paths are possible. What if we have to choose individually and collectively and the path we choose shifts us to that timeline. Perhaps we split?
Something that I think about from time to time is our choice in relation to what we're discussing. What if we are shifting timelines constantly with every choice we make? What if our consciousness is so advanced that we aren't physically moving but our awareness is jumping many times per second to the next parallel 3D coordinates which is 99% identical? What if the shift is so fast and smooth that to our conscious mind it's just living...until a glitch happens like with the Mandela Effect or someone you know behaving differently, or not being able to find something you know was in a specific place or even Deja Vu? What if people aren't misremembering Toons but they actually spent in a timeline where it was spelled that way?
So here's my question: if we are shifting coordinates with every choice, does that mean our memories are just a record of the places we've been rather than a fixed history of who we are?
I apologize for the length but this is something I enjoy talking about!
You'll never need to apologise to me for lengthy comments full of fascinating thoughts.
I especially like that idea of it's the consciousness which does the travelling between timelines (even continuously, depending on the different choices). I have an old Katrina's Journal entry from a few years ago (girl from parallel world), where she mentions the curious case of Lerina Garcia (link: https://anomalien.com/the-mysterious-case-of-lerina-garcia-gordo-woman-from-a-parallel-universe/)
The Katrina's journal entry is here: https://inadifferentplace.substack.com/p/katrinas-journal-07-january-2022?r=2s9hod&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
She takes a spiritual view of it, concluding it was the Goddess who sent her from one parallel world to another. I agree completely with your point about evolution and time travel. Specifically, it would be something which is only capable of doing by spiritually advanced (i.e. mature) lifeforms. Meaning it's only 'permitted' to those who by definition can act responsibly, as it were. Spiritually, in this sense, I think the universe/multiverse has a kind of built-in protection mechanism.
I often see these transhumanist types as materialist and spiritually immature. Ultimately it's the soul which evolves. And that's the important point. I think a lot of the worldly problems we are having to put up with on this planet (and historically), are ultimately caused by spiritually immature people in positions of power and control.
I just had a quick look at that particular Journal-K entry and it's a different one where she mentions what she calls 'multiversal molecule theory'. I'll try and remember it correctly. Universes with the same laws of physics, and with near-identical timelines, cluster together to form molecules. These molecules then connect up with other molecules to form the multiverse.
And here's the 'ethical' or 'spiritual' aspect of it. All (similar timeline) worlds exist somewhere on a spectrum between perfect utopia and perfect dystopia. In other words, between heaven and hell. Most are somewhere in between of course. But in terms of reincarnation, which sort of world you end up on in your next life depends entirely on how you conduct yourself in this one.
I think that's a great way of looking at 'Karma'. And how it also retains the free will aspect.
It suggests we as individuals choose our evolutionary path, and this doesn't have to be all set in just one timeline/world. Although I do also believe in soul families (small groups of soul-friends who reincarnate together).
I love thinking about Mandela Effect stuff. Psychologists (materialists, that is) try and put it down to 'imperfect memories' etc. That may explain some instances, but not all. Then there's the conspiracy theory which is that some of these historical truths have been rewritten, and erased from the archive then replaced with the new one (think 1984). Then reinforcement and group think do the rest.
Regardless, a bit like UFOs, even if 95% or so are explained, that still leaves the unexplained 5%.
I thought of another option, actually, which fits it into my Solaris Hypothesis for UFOs, crop circles, high strangeness/paranormal phenomena and so on, namely it's the Goddess/planetary intelligence again - changing everything except people's memories of the thing. The point, perhaps, being to provoke people to think about spiritual things, parallel worlds, different timelines, and so on. To evolve, in other words.
Thank you for sharing those links. I'll definitely check them out!
Yes, your point that the universe has its own rules and protective mechanism makes total sense or else there would be chaos everywhere! 😄
"I think a lot of the worldly problems we are having to put up with on this planet (and historically), are ultimately caused by spiritually immature people in positions of power and control."
Well said. This is, at the end of the day, the root cause of all the problems we have in this world. If we had spiritually mature and evolved people in power and control, the world would be like heaven on Earth. I suppose this is the process a species need to go through to get to that point. Some of us are growing impatient and saying "how long is this going to take?!" 😆
I actually like the multiverse molecule theory! It provides a great explanation of how karma and free will interact. The idea that our behavior acts like a frequency dial to determine which molecule we align with in our evolutionary step.
Now your Solaris hypothesis in relation to the Mandela Effect is thought-provoking. Because when you think about it (whether one believes in the Mandela Effect or not), it does force people to expand their minds to the possibility that our reality is not what it seems. It makes people rethink everything, and like you said, be open to spirituality and the truth of our universe. The true structure of our reality is stranger than fiction.
Something else that came to me during this discussion is if space and time are ultimately the same thing, then what if different locations on Earth are actually vibrating in different eras? You know how you visit a city or a specific location and it feels like you stepped back in time or forward in time?
Then it made me think what if what we call developed (heavy concrete cities) might be outdated as they anchor those places and people in dense timelines which might explain a lot of the stress and illnesses in cities. And areas which are seen as underdeveloped or rural (mostly natural) are more fluid which allows them to anchor lighter frequencies/higher timelines. I have been to places very rural with not a lot of people, and the energy I was feeling felt like the future compared to modern cities. It's hard to explain.
If the present and future are happening at the same time, maybe that's why we are seeing more and more people suddenly feeling the overwhelming urge to move out of dense cities and into smaller or rural regions. I wonder if they are unconsciously acting as grounding rods, physically anchoring the higher timeline for their future selves.
Thank you for this discussion. It's been a pleasure! :)
That's quite an amazing observation about urban versus rural. I instinctively agree with you. I now live in deep rural France, our village/commune has fewer than 250 inhabitants, all spread out quite a bit and we have half an acre, which is like our own ecosystem. And it's really very timeless and 'dense with the spirit' if I can put it like that. I have certainly felt much less depressed, frustrated, and so on since coming here and, well, 'communing'.
I can also well believe - and it's sort of obvious when one thinks of it - that the Goddess/the planetary intelligence, would prefer these rural places to lifeless urban centres packed full of humans. I say obvious because it's, well, 'natural'. The spirit itself is 'natural'. And I am convinced this is how she wants humans to live - as they always used to.
I would also very much accept the idea that urban centres have a sort of blocking effect, so spiritual energies simply can't get anywhere.
I often come back to the social cognition number (or Dunbar's number - 150), which is an evolutionary adaptation to the size of prehistoric human groups within which the brain evolved. That's to say, humans are hard-wired to live in small rural groups - take them away from that and discordant things happen.
With regards to places resonating across time. I've had this in some places I've visited - the sense that I have been there before, and the ease of navigating my way around, despite it being the first time (in this lifetime) I'd been there. Prague and Salzburg especially come to mind. Both very beautiful cities as well.
Aside from the obvious reincarnation explanation, perhaps it's that certain places are conducive to the spirit/intelligence, so she likes to hang around, as it were...
Ah - with regards to the process we have to go through. That requires a much longer answer! Because I think it only applies to 'younger souls'. If you think how many people there are on the planet today compared to even just a few centuries ago (I think it's doubled during my own lifetime alone), then it makes sense to think we have, let's say, at least 7 billion or more young souls. They are the ones who need to go through a process. So the reason why it's frustrating for older souls is precisely because they are old and they don't need to go through the process.
I think there's a lot in that.