Knowing you are being looked at.
I spend a lot of time sitting around these days, watching the world go by. And, of course I am watching people. Many girls here are very beautiful, especially Latin girls. There are many Colombians in Lanzarote and I have a soft spot for the country and the people. My gaze is chaste but sometimes it lingers a little too long. And guess what? Sometimes the person looks around at me. This affect has been studied at length by Rupert Sheldrake and he runs tests in which we can all take part.
There must be something emanating from me, as well as the light which comes from the subject. It would seem that looking at something involves a two-way communication.

A further thought about what we see. Question: where is the image that we see when we look at a scene? Most is well-known science. The light enters our two eyes, an inverted image is projected onto the retinas and the image is transferred to the brain via the optic nerves. But then it becomes more mysterious. The brain creates an image based on what it receives via the optic nerves, but where is that image? Is it inside the skull or is it outside the skull? And, if it is outside our skull, then maybe other effects can occur outside the skull also? 
Light, and vision are things we take for granted on a daily basis, but when we look more deeply into photons and the nature of light, things are not so clear! Maybe the phrase, “God is light” is not so far from the truth!

Block Universe
So where are past events stored if not inside the head? My theory is that they aren’t stored. Maybe there are two types of memory. I have difficulty remembering Spanish words and maybe these are stored inside my head. But experiences from the past? These contain elements of the actual event, the emotions, the smells, for example. For this reason, I like the idea of the Block Universe, one of many theories about our mysterious world. This theory (unproved, of course!) suggests that all events past and present exist in a “block” with time as the scale. And that, to re-live a past experience, we actually connect with that event.

There is one large pitfall with this theory: that, if future events are also stored in the Block Universe, then our future is decided, so there is nothing we can do to change it. Many Christians come close to this idea in that they believe that God has everything mapped out for us. Or that God has a “plan”. I believe that my future is in my hands, or influenced by future events. I mean… I can’t decide if I am ill or when I  die, but I can decide whether to go swimming today, regardless of what the Block Universe says! I think I just have to accept this dilemma, of the future stored in the block universe but I can make decisions about my life (or, I suppose someone is just kidding me to believe that!)