Author: J. Sands Loch

So I introduced myself to the girl who played the drums and found out more about her story. She was in town celebrating a family birthday and staying at the hotel across the street. Since she was underage, the bartender said she could stay and listen to the band play but she would need to play in the band.

I asked if I could use her story in this book and she said yes, which was good since I had already written it into the book 😉

I gave Demi and her Mom a brief description of the book and explained that because of these unexpected events, we can see futures where Demi is playing in a band in a bar or elsewhere. I expect to hear her play again.

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The girl sitting at the table next to me just played drums for one of the songs. The bartender had just introduced her as a drummer, and the band allowed her to play. She knew the bartender because she had been at the bar last night with her family. She plays in a band with her dad. There are already enough unexpected events here that point toward her having a possibility of playing drums with this band in the future and playing in this bar in the future. Those universes and possible futures are there – they exist. Whether she experiences them or not is to be determined by her free will and the laws of our probabilistic universe.

2015-0803M @ Sand Bar, Capitola Beach

Here is an assignment for you to demonstrate in a personal way how unexpected events are strongly connected to your possible futures.

Pick something important in your life – it can be anything. Now trace backwards in time to events that lead to the fact of this important thing in your life. For each event, make a mental note of whether the event was expected or unexpected. Continue this until you find a totally unexpected event. You will find one – there is always at least one and often more than one. Analyze the connectedness of these events and look for those unexpected events that you could have used to see into your future.

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Events have a fixed amount of connectedness that is distributed among past, present, and future possible events.

All events that you experience have connections with other events that you may or may not have experienced in the past and with events that you may or may not experience in the future.

I realize I’m restating this point but it is important and has a corollary:

Unexpected events should be paid attention to – they are predictors of your possible future.

2015-0803M

I’m listening to a band at the Sand Bar in Capitola. I heard them playing as I was walking back to my car. My car is parked ten yards away. I parked there because it was the first open spot I found – most spots were filled. I came down to Capitola Beach because my two roommates were home talking and I wanted to go somewhere I could write. Normally, only one roommate would be there, but due to an unexpected illness of a friend, both were there.

All of these events are connected. It should seem obvious to you that events are connected. Now I’ll tell you something that is less obvious …

2015-0803M @ Sand Bar, Capitola Beach