Time though seemingly linear can only ever be frequential in measure. Everything we use to measure it is a cycle - the clock face, the standardised second (frequency of quartz vibration/piezoelectric effect), day and night, the seasons, orbits.

Even our biology and nature is based on a these rhythms; heartbeats, breathes, circadian rhythm, the carbon, water and nitrogen cycle, tides, replication - the great merry-go-round of life. Everything seems to be a complex interaction of multiple overlapping oscillations.

Historians have noted the consistent swing of the pendulum from liberalism to conservatism and back, the boom to bust to boom of the economy, pandemics floating to the forefront roughly every 100 years or so, war and the periods of peace that interject between them...

So when it comes to prediction and the idea of prophecy, it seems not so imposible when founded on a basis of frequency, not as intangible and make believe as we would like to think... for a circle that can identify its own arc can see the end and beginning and the path between.

To understand the past, to appreciate the whole dynamic should then, in theory, grant one some rough sense of things to come.

We often experience some strange deja vu in life, the happenstance of certain coincidences, the deep innate intuition and instinct that somehow in a moment on some subliminal level gives us a feeling or impression of what will happen next. If the brains circuitry is built on a framework of this same oscillation maybe one can remove many of the uncertainties, maybe there is a way the mind can be trained to track some or many of these rotations and perhaps some are gifted enough to effectively predict “the big picture”.

I had a dream last night (well more of a nightmare) and the crux of my fears were realised in full this morning in shocking parallel. It he dream was random and unprovoked, strangely detailed, and related to something distant in the past and yet today of all days it comes to fruition. It makes one wonder about the simulating ability of the mind. How well can one calculate? Can permutations really be reduced to a clear path before that path is tread upon?

The coincidence of these rare events naturally sends a chill down the spine because whether it is simply that - coincidence, or something more, it’s impact on ones life can significant.

What I’m saying is that perhaps predictions and forecasts of the psychological kind could be just as those for the weather are, not so much mysticism but rather something founded in logic and reason about how time progresses. And it is simply our lack of a deep understanding of them that makes it appear magical.

Thoughts?