The first time the phrase "parallel timelines" really landed for me, I was sitting in meditation trying to get clear on what I really wanted in my life when I cut out all the noise. What I came out with felt wild. And a little impossible. But with time I began to take so much comfort in the parallel timeline theory.
If there is already a version of me living my wildest dreams, then OF COURSE this is alll going to work out. She is proof of that. I just have to live from that frame of mind, and in the slow microdecisions of every day, I will become her.
Something about it, just clicked! I don't need to know the entire how (see my article on the archetype of The Fool and how hard this was for me to embody!).
That's the heart of it. A timeline is just one thread of choices playing out. And your timeline is the one you are choosing to experience in your consciousness, in this reality.
The multiverse is the whole tangle of them at once, every version of your life running side by side. It sounds enormous, and it is, but it can also feel weirdly gentle once you sit with it.
So what does that actually mean?
Think of your life as a line you've been drawing without lifting the pen. Every time you make a choice, the line could have gone a different way. The version where it did go the other way didn't disappear. It kept going, somewhere, with a slightly different you holding the pen.
Stack enough of those lines together and you get a field, not a single path. That field is what I'm always trying to draw. The swirls and the layers in my work are me trying to show all of those threads happening together, overlapping, glowing where they touch.
"You're not choosing between timelines. You're choosing which one to lean into until it feels like home."
Quantum jumping, minus the hype
You've probably seen "quantum jumping" tossed around online like it's a cheat code. I think of it more simply. It's the practice of acting like the version of you on the timeline you actually want is the real one. Not pretending, not forcing, just leaning your attention there until your choices start to match.
For me, painting is how I do it. When I sit down to make a piece about the timeline I want to be on, I'm not just illustrating an idea. I'm spending an hour living inside it. By the time the marker's dry, that version feels a little more like home.
How I visualize it? Layers.
A single clean line would be a lie. Real life doesn't feel like one tidy path, it feels like a hundred of them humming at once. So I build the layers up slowly, letting colors bleed into each other, leaving the seams visible on purpose.
If you stand back, the chaos resolves into something whole. That's the part I love. It mirrors how the whole idea works. Up close it's overwhelming, but from a little distance you can see the pattern, and the pattern is beautiful.
If any of this resonates, that's your invitation to play with it. Pick the timeline you want. Lean your attention there. And if you want to see more of how I bring these ideas to life, the gallery is full of them.
