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Metaphorically, time & space might be like a vast cosmic disc, a record or interactive running program on something like a cosmic hard drive in the multiverse. This merlin timetrak program is quite interesting in how it can access some key things in the future.
Various people have their own take on this type of thing. Some are physicists or psychics & some are writers that occasionally tap into possible future data points.
Sonia Barrett interview at redicecreations.com
A VR simulation program can be created to practically represent anything.
The_Illustrated_Man_(film) was released in 1969, some 30 years before The first Matrix movie. www.thematrix101.com
The Moody Blues also provided a glimpse 30 years before The Matrix movie.
A man awakens to a larger perspective of reality like Neo would do 3 decades later. A cold, digital entity like the Architect tells him that he is nothing more than magnetic ink in his program. He questions such rhetoric & is encouraged by a cool & comforting voice from someone like Morpheus. Then as the song progresses there is a sense of the pre-Neo reuniting with someone like Trinity.
Perhaps RUSH was also tapping into some Signals from the future. Neo started out as The Analog Kid induced inside an urban dream of "Busy streets & dizzy heights." He grew up as a Digital Man trapped inside a full immersion pod connected to The Matrix. "He's got a date with fate in a black sedan." The 1982 song, Digital Man & The Matrix movies reference Zion.
Test_for_Echo was released a few years before The Matrix & features the appropriate song, Virtuality.
Discovering some synchronicity between numbers, people, places & things can reveal more clues about reality.
Time is connected to temporal data & how consciousness interacts with it. However, consciousness isn't limited by time as we perceive it in this reality, or cosmic-data-field.
Before one can fully grasp the implications of a cosmic library or the akashic records, its good to look at various libraries on earth & their digital counterparts. timetraks.org