One of the more interesting “schools of thought” that emerged as a result of these meetings was the idea that is “trajectionism”. The basic premise for “trajectionism” is the common idea of parallel universes, every action in life has an indefinate number of possibilities and therefore an indefinate number of possible results. Thus, when we perform any action, we are chosing which universe we are about to perceive but at the same time also creating other possible futures. According to the trajectionists however, these alternative realities in no way are isolated paths in history/future but instead what we should focus on is the actual actions. Reality as we perceive it is at any moment an endless “horizon of possible actions” and their causality, and even though many people perceive their life as a series of logical action-reaction occurences which could be traced back (and forth) as one path (of many) the “trajectionists” instead claim that certain actions can move your perception radically along this “horizon of possible actions”. What is important is not the one path that logically explains the steps in which your reality has been created, but instead the trajectory that you as an individual have navigated along “the space-time realm of possible actions”. Actions that can move this trajectory in drastic and unforeseen directions include magic rituals, drug intake or any event that produce a strong emotional recognization of the present and therefore removes the “buoy of past inferences” and let the individual free-float along the “horizon”. Everything does not have to be groundbreaking alterations of the reality though, and “trajectionists” also often explain seemingly random unexplainable events in daily life as proof of movement along the “horizon”. This could be items appearing at strange places, things coming “un-done” or people not remembering contents of a shared conversation. It has also been claimed that some “plains of alternative reality configurations” might exist totally independent from others, such as the “dreamscape” which can be experienced (and in a higher extent manipulated) through dreaming, drug usage and mental illness.
Kunstmann, Uve (2006) “Trajectionism - physical anarchy for the 21st century?” in The Journal of Alternative Social Science, Volume 34, Issue 3
