Hi Lowell,

Well, he's not the only one writing about things and places before events occur. Right from the start when I would write a story in Seismic Wave about a place sure enough shortly thereafter an earthquake occurred. It happened all of the time. Now I wonder, is the Genesis Project going to happen before my book gets published, or after?

Another weird happening. Don and I and a friend were speculating that the San Gregario Fault that runs from the south side of the Golden Gate Bridge to Montery bay was going to have a large earthquake at some point. At that time the USGS listed its probability at around 10% compared to other large faults in the bay area. That was in July or August. December 1999 I and one other went to the AGU only to sit in on a presentation about the San Gregario Fault. They said the their uptake using the Coulomb Hypotheses was that this fault was right up there with many in the bay area and should have been listed at 25%, not 10%. Spooky huh?

Now here's a concept that I had a lot of trouble understanding, but its interesting. Some people believe that each of us are living many lives all at the same time. They are in different time periods and that each persons high soul is connected to each person at their various times in history. In other words, one of me might be living in the old west as a lady of the night, I am here now as an insurance agent, and in the future I'm a seismologist. So when one uses the term of reviewing your life like a "skein of time", they would mean that you were assessing your success or failure of your objectives of the sum total of all of your experiences. Just imagine 20 Petra's all existing at the same time. I wonder what I would have been like during the Civil War. No doubt the wife of a Plantation owner and wearing pretty dresses and letting him believe I was positively stupid, while I was organizing freedom for the slaves. Does it sound far fetched? Not really, most people who know me know of my strong efforts in equal opportunity for women.

How can anyone explain how we feel about time. When we are doing something we hate or are bored, time goes so slow. But doing whatever we like the hours seem to pass like minutes. Is time only a concept? But my best one is understanding that when you look into the night sky you are seeing stars with light that was already 10,000 or more years ago in its delivery. It took that long for it to arrive here so we could see it. Does that mean in 10,000 years there won't be anymore stars in the sky? We really don't know.

So Lowell, is far fetched really that far, or closer than we think?

Petra