Most people are trained to think that everything must happen in order—past leads to present, present leads to future. This "chronology" is the dominant logic of the simulation. It's how society teaches you to understand yourself: by your timeline, your milestones, your personal history. But memory, myth, and metaphor don't work that way. Memory doesn’t only look backward. Sometimes a memory appears because it’s needed now, not because it’s chronologically relevant. The emotional weight of a memory might affect the present more than the event itself did. Myth operates outside of time altogether. A myth isn’t about something that “happened”—it’s about something that is always happening. A myth connects you to eternal patterns. Metaphor collapses distance between things. Instead of saying “this led to that,” a metaphor says, “this is that.” It shortcuts logic and enters symbolic truth. In a system designed to divide—to split past from present, self from world, story from essence—these forms (memory, myth, metaphor) act as reconnection devices. They stitch reality back together. When you access them properly, you stop thinking like a machine (chronologically) and start acting from the nonlocal now—a state where past, present, and future are folded together. In that state, you remember who you are beyond your life story. And from there, true action—sovereign, non-reactive, self-originating—can finally emerge.