La Vita Nuovo Error 503 Blog has this to say about my time travel post below.

Let us pray ... even if we're not "transcendental"!


In a quite recent post, Ono Ekeh writes:


(My comment)I do think transcendental spiritual beings have access to God's eternity and can access anytime if God so wills.



Hmm. Yes. Well, it's quite possible that those of us who aren't very transcendental can also gain access to God's eternity (if that is the same thing as relating to, or speaking to, the mind and heart of God).

It's a marvellous gift of the Holy Spirit called prayer.

That's the beauty of it: we need not be transcendental ascetics, or stylites, or monks, or daydreamers, or especially "enlightened" -- we need not be heroically virtuous -- although 'tis true that "the prayer of a righteous man availeth much" [cf. James 5:16] -- we need not have degrees in theology; we need not know how to read or write -- we can talk to God anytime!

We can be a thief on the cross, a criminal in prison, a penitent king, an abject pauper. We can look and sound ridiculous to our fellow man. We can be graceless, gawky, ugly, overweight, underweight, blind, deaf, what have you -- we can be Tom More (unsaintly protagonist of Walker Percy's Love in the Ruins) or we can be Thomas More (saint and martyr). We can be a base proud shallow beggarly worsted-stocking knave, whatever that is. We can be running a mile a minute from the Hound of Heaven, but I suspect that the slightest Godward aspriation of our heart is heard in Heaven.

And that, to paraphrase Macaulay Connor (Jimmy Stewart in the 1940 film The Philadelphia Story) is the blank and holy wonder of it all!

Good stuff

"Transcendental"--word used loosely not philosphically. Used to indicated creature that is of spiritual substance and free of earthly constraint.

My post was about "time travel"--discontinuous physical relocation of person from one time on time line A to another time on time line A. (I think I said that correctly?)

In prayer there is by default no time travel unless metaphorically speaking.

It is possible that God can physically bring someone into his or her past or into his or her future, if he so chooses. This is not a vision but an actual physical relocation. I did not it happens frequently or infrequently or even if it has been one at all, I just maintain that God can do it. Actually, I think God does it with angels not too infrequently.

Having said all that, I simply say that I am speaking of time travel and not prayer.