It is nice to see this perspective spreading and I will do my part. This comes from a friend who adds,"let yourself be silly or foolish and you can learn more than you could pretend to know".

Here, kitty, kitty ... Who said quantum mechanics is not practical is absolutely nuts! Uncertainty principle = space and time patterns/attractions and repellings with people.

What if the unobserved past is indeterminate until it effects the present?

This would really be no different to Schroedingers cat being both alive and dead until you look at it - in effect the part of the past that belongs in the sealed box is just like a quantum blur, and only when an observer in the present actually opens the box does the system provide a fixed past of either a dead or alive cat.
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And my perceptions simply magnify this effect up to a cosmic scale. The further back in human history I go, the less determined the past gets. The past "decays". Then, for whatever reason, if the "I" in the present takes an action which requires a definite history to have occurred, then the Universe "fills in" the missing bit pretty much like how it fills in the contents of Schroedinger's box when I look.

And, what is "filled in" does not necessarily have to be the same as "the original history", which has already "decayed" and gotten lost.

I have a number of different reasons for believing this to be true, the implications of quantum mechanics being one, and my "beliefs" about the nature of time and consciousness being another. As a result of these beliefs, many things become possible. My "beliefs" provide me with a mechanism that makes it possible to twiddle with the unobserved past to create probability defying synchronicities in the present, which can, to others, have the appearance of the miraculous.

Being alive may be a lot more than just being alive.

I'm watching the news last night, they were showing a photograph of a six year old girl standing at the head of her father's coffin as it was being lowered into the ground. Her father was home from Iraq. It was touching, especially the utter look of confusion on the girl's face. There was some minister stating the usual platitudes of this man who fought and died from a sense of duty and patriotism.

As they cut from this story a commercial for Eastwood's new movie "Flags of Our Fathers" was there on the screen. Eastwood is sitting in a chair saying the premise of the movie is the sacrifice for their country by the Marines on Iwo Jima.

I just went off into the reality of combat again. Somebody owes the truth to that little girl. Not that the sacrifice of her father and for those guys on Iwo was not valid but that the idea they did it for their country is bull shit.

You see, an individual may enlist out of patriotism (and most do) but when the shit hits the fan and your asshole puckers all the patriotism and ideals go away except one, the person next to you. Your ideals shrink real fast and everything gets real personal..

That is why what a kid with their leg blown off wants more than anything is the return to his unit, his buddies. They don't really want to return, but the thought of their buddies still there and "in the shit" and them not, is unacceptable.

Ask yourself this of any combat veteran of any conflict. I defy you to find one who lost a buddy or stood shoulder to shoulder with someone and faced death together, they will tell you nothing other than their buddies sacrifice for them or that the reason why they stayed put and were willing to die was for that buddy.

Warriors are sent to battle because of flags and nations and even an honorable idea but they fight and die for the one who stands beside them, not the concept. I believe that little girl could grasp that better and closer rather than some grand words.

These same factors caused me several years ago to repropose an old model. I call it the "Braveheart Style". It proposes, if the leader is not willing to get out front and lead the charge then everyone gets to stay home,