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If you understand history, you will see it in the present. It's an amazing tool for enriching your own experience. If you, when you go to get a hamburger at Adrien's Hamburger joint, know that this is happening because you're caught in a resonance related to the expeditions of the Roman emperor Hadrian, to Scotland, I mean, you're totally schizophrenic, of course, to entertain thoughts like this, but it makes life a lot more interesting. Instead of seeing a linear thing with a fading past and an unpredictable future, you live in a super-rich - kind of baklava - style of time, where time is folded, and folded, and folded, and the layers are very thin, and the stuff between is very sweet. (..)
After you've watched it correctly predict the future for a while, months or years, however long it takes, you gain confidence in it. And, as you gain confidence in it, you discover that it gives you permission to let go of anxiety about the future. You've got a map of the future. .... And what's happening, you see,