TimeScan® 2OO9

“There is no difference between Time and any of the other three dimensions of Space except that our consciousness moves along it.” H.G. Wells, today’s date, 1896.

We are taking a few small tentative steps toward time–travel. Perhaps it’s better to think of time–scan since we don’t actually travel anywhen. Our minds’ eyes are learning to scan (not just premember) past or future Times. When we imagine Space travel, we may think of Captain Picard saying “Set a course for Roklev-2 at warp-3. Engage.” A more appropriate image for our endeavor is the Wright brothers near Kitty Hawk, NC. They were airborne for less than 23 seconds. By the same tokin, we are finding ways to be timeborne for a few moments each year.
We found a place, and there we will meet to initiate the cycles of Time–scanning. We use a variety of temporal artifacts to facilitate TimeMagic. Mimicking an ancient ritual we toss quarters; we read the Story; we consult the ancient scroll; we chant all 23 verbs of the alphabet; we assemble 42 round metal objects...
We are creating a window in the SpaceTime continuum. We TimeScan® through this Window which, for unknown reasons, seems to follow 7 and 23 year cycles. We began to open the TimeWindow at the 23rd Festival. In 2OO3, Spaceniques sent the Story 30 years back in Time. In 2OO9, we scanned back through the TimeWindow, the 23rd Festival, and the 7th Festival to a gathering at Space head quarters in October 1973. Then we wend our way back to the “present”.

“Right now, you’re just browsing through Time.” PeggySue’s grandmother, 1960

Like all Spaceniques, past and future, we cast our coins to the West. Since we do this after noon, the Sun actually pulls the coins toward the heavens and we in turn give the Earth an extra little push as it rotates. From Colchis (now Gruzinskaja), tossing to the West means tossing into the Black Sea. Because they tossed their coins in the same place at the same Time each year for many years, the Colchins were able to scan forward and backward in Time. 
The Scroll reefers to tossing round metal objects at Summer Soulstice. It was transported from Egypt to Minoa during the third millennium BCE. The first coins were minted in Lydia circus 623 BCE. Jason brought the Scroll from Lydia to Colchis. Reading the Scroll in 356 BCE, Thesben and Flaxseed thought they were supposed to toss coins on mid–summer's eve. It all connects in Space.