May 16th, 2203

To Trevor Madison, 

Minister of Scientific Exploration of the Spiritual Realm,

Peace be unto you. I think after some time spent in the spiritual realm I am ready to tell you about what I have found on Time. Time is a fickle subject because it both exists and is nonexistent in the spiritual realm. It is beyond reckoning and incredibly precise. It is both there as a physical object and as an abstract. 

Time is something that spirits can move freely through and be stopped dead with a time-block. Many friends and colleagues have freely traversed through time.to the far past of their own timelines, reliving events that have happened. Joy that is felt and ancestors visited. I don’t need to tell you that time travel to see the middle ages is something that is ever forgotten. Indeed, there have been many discoveries about humanity’s past that have long been thought of as something without merit. When these specific instances are seen then the world becomes more clearer. To know that man did not evolve from monkeys has been a major realization for many of the time seekers. Many minds in the scientific community were of the mind that the Theory of Evolution could be proven through time travel, the opposite proved true. Men have always existed because we were created to be so. I don’t suppose that I have to tell you that though. I am sure that you are as avid a traveler as I am within the spiritual realm as I am. 

Time travel is such an amazing prospect to those that spiritually travel. To spend time with a deceased parent and reliving childhood memories as if to catch a glance of some supreme wisdom that our fathers had. It is within the past that most people travel. Always seeking to understand the past to better know the future. Thus, we come to a particular wrinkle in time. Future learning. It is an odd principle that the future does not come back and influence the present. That is one of the creator’s laws for living spirits that transverse the realm of spirits. We cannot go beyond our time and can only look behind, and never communicate with our past. It is like being in an aquarium, we can see the past time passing as we sit in a bubble and simply observe what has happened. We cannot interact with the shades of the past. Even among other spirits, ones from beyond our individual time speak only in broken sentences and cannot be easily understood. 

Now, there are a few items that I wish to talk about. I wonder if you ever made it to Salem during the witch trials? That is perhaps an infamous time when witches were known to exist. For witches have always existed, but this particular time has seen so much tourism that the witches that existed have begun to sense the excessive flow of spirits. So they have a sort of inane babbling that very few can understand. They begin to shout thought-to-be-prophecy, when it is only instead the multitude of voices from the future telling them the nice and accurate things of the time of the spirits. I believe an author of the twentieth century predicted something within this realm of occurrence happening. Anyway, the witch trials are seen as one of the points in history when the barrier between the spirit realm and the physical realm is slightly more weakened than that of others.

For a weakness in one instant often leads to strength in another part. For there is one instance that can never be disrupted one matter what. There are angels and demons guarding this place and only the barest of glimpse can be obtained. It is this singular glimpse that has revolutionized the Faith of mankind and the reason that we can travel to the spiritual realm. For this time is under a block that no living spirit can disrupt and no dead spirit can talk about what is inside. It is a conundrum and perhaps a highpoint in spiritual warfare. It was meant to be observed by the dead and discovered by the living. I cannot fathom what lies under such guard, I can only hazard a guess.

That guess will have to wait until later though. My last letter will explain all the vagities that I have stated. I hope that you have found these letters informative.

May Peace continue to surround you.

Rufus Gand