The Mandela Effect

Alternate time lines, multi-dimensions, time-space continuum, folding time - they are all part of quantum physics and much theorized or proven by Albert Einstein and other famous scientists. People speculate and wonder about time, well, all the time.

We also wonder, “What if?” What if Operation Valkyrie had been successful? What if Percy Spencer had already eaten that chocolate bar? What if you turned right instead of left?

The wonderment of alternate possibilities meets science with the potential of multiple, alternate time lines where, at any given point where a decision is made, all of the alternatives unfold. When Fiona Broome was talking with some friends about an incident, part of the group remembered a different outcome. She wondered how many other events people remembered differently. Her inquiries led to discovering groups of memories. Unlike an accident where multiple witnesses have multiple accounts, there were events and famous occurrences people remembered in limited but distinct ways.

Because Nelson Mandela was one of the earliest examples she came across, the phenomenon was called, “The Mandela Effect.” Some people remember Mandela dying in prison; others recall he was released and died later; still others remember him being elected president of South Africa.

A dear friend told me she learned that there have been changes in common phrases of the Bible. She, I and many others recall scripture from Isaiah that mentions the “lion with the lamb.” Her personal Bible that she used since a child, and that stays on her coffee table at home, contained those words because across from the page of scripture was an illustration of a lion with a lamb. When she heard the phrase “never existed and is now ‘wolf with a lamb.,’” she scoffed. “Who ever heard of the wolf with the lamb? Maybe in Bugs Bunny cartoons, but not in MY Bible.” She told me that as soon as she got home, she went straight to her Bible, to the page with the lovely illustration, and the picture she knew to be a lion and lamb, was now a wolf and lamb; the scripture reflected the wording as well.

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Original broadcast 12/09/2020