Karen

I am always intrigued by any hypnotically induced narration from anyone, since the validity of the technique is quite questionable. There are many instances when information gleaned from hypnosis has been proven to be incorrect. Never-the-less, the premise is quite captivating. The information does seem to be coming from a source external to the conscious mind of the patient. Whether that source is soul or something unknown will remain a mystery till we die. My suspicion is that anyone in a relaxed, susceptible state can be influenced by spiritual entities who may have ulterior motives. Those entities could easily carry on a narrative such as is presented which would lend credence to reincarnation, and misleading future events. If we are on a timeline which is plastic and alterable, even the "remembered" future could be faulty. A multi-path, alternative realities existenceÊoffers a more valid concept of time eddies than one with a rigid, fixed-outcome.

On another note, the peculiar mix of metric and non-metric units causes a flag to emerge, but I suppose even today we use both depending on context.

Ê Wanew
South Carolina

Dear Sir,

I haven't read the book but there seems to be a flaw in the logic. It is stated that worlders can't stay on the space platform or the moon indefinitely because various physical degenerations take place that eventually kill them. If that is the case, how did ep's ancestors survive for multiple generations? And if they found a way to survive, why could it not be applied to worlders they were transporting up currently ? Why would they all have brown skin and black hair if the space stations were a world-wide effort ? Sincerely,
Joel Kreger

Viewzone:

Wonderful Sci-Fi story and very thought provoking. Could it be possible to see, or get information, about the future? I like to keep a check on reality, and as a scientist, like to see if I can disprove a new ideal. I think I can find a number of technical flaws in the story which therefore mean its reality can be seriously questioned. One very obvious flaw to most people must be Albert's comments about enjoying time off to watch asteroid or meteor showers. Of course you only get to see these when you are on earth where the tiny specks of dust and dirt (about the size of a grain of sand) burn up in the atmosphere at between 60 - 40 km altitude. During a meteor show on earth you might have a couple of dozen per hour. In space however, you wouldn't see a thing. There is no atmosphere for them to burn in, and they would pass by you, a speck of dust or grain of sand, in darkness, at many thousands of kilometers per hour. Even one the size of a house would be practically invisible, and extremely rare.

Hey Zone,

I really enjoyed your thought provoking story. I hope my comments dont spoil other's enjoyment of it.

Albert's quote: "I can trade my P-time to somebody, or they can trade it to me. And we do that sometimes. So I might work longer, and then take longer, 'specially during an asteroid or meteor shower. I really like those. "

Regards
Graeme Smith

Editor:

The problem with these accounts is that nobody can know or prove whether they are the product of imagination. I do not hold with the concept of reincarnation. This does notÊ mean I am a fundamentalist fanatic that believes only in what my eyes can see in front of me. Reincarnation as a concept is self-defeating. In it we come back again and again to learn, but every time we "die" we forget all we learned in the previous existence, which defeats the very purpose of the concept. I don't remember any previous existence, do you?

The concept of reincarnation probably arises from the fear people have of dying, which is a frighteningly unknown quantity. It is a somewhat juvenile attempt to stave off the unknown. But if you think about it, it makes no difference whether we die forever or keep coming back to learn. What happens upon death will happen upon death no matter what one chooses to believe during the fleeting moment of life. It is all an ongoing process of awareness in which the stage of the process that is called life is just a tiny aspect of it. Is there an awareness of death in death?Ê Nobody can say.

It is an interesting phenomenon that everybody seems to be so afraid of death. Everybody appears to be doing it. It has been happening since the world began, evidently, and it seems to be still going on. Why not just come together with the understanding that mortal flesh eventually decays and disintegrates, then go about living the life that is available to its fullest and happiest?

Lokey