Imagination · “Feel It Real”
Time Travel & Archetypes
Use imagination and soft intent to revisit a past event and shift its felt charge, or to invoke an archetype/quality and step into it — Bartlett frames this as ‘time travel’; understood honestly it is imaginative reframing that leverages relaxation and expectancy.
Time Travel & Archetypes in 5 lines: Drop into the playful heart state. In imagination, revisit a charged past moment (or invoke an archetype/quality) and let its felt charge soften — “soft intent is enough.” Return and notice the shift. Bartlett calls this “time travel,” but you change the present charge of a memory, not the literal past or physics — it’s imaginative reframing plus relaxation and expectancy. Keep deep trauma with a professional.
What it is
Within Matrix Energetics, Richard Bartlett teaches a family of imaginative techniques that go beyond the Two-Point.
Two recurring ones: - “Time travel”: in imagination, revisit a past moment (a wound, a decision, an event) and — from the relaxed heart state — let its charge shift, or “bring back” a state of health/resourcefulness from another moment into the present.
- Archetypes: invoke an archetype, template, or quality (a figure, a role, a “module”) and step into energetic rapport with it, using it as a lens for change. Both run on active imagination + soft intent. Bartlett’s own framing is dramatic — he describes being able to “travel in time” and “bring them into the present for immediate, profound results.” Rendered honestly, these are imaginative reframing practices: they change the present meaning and felt charge of a memory or self-state, not the literal past or literal physics.
The Method
As taught in Matrix Energetics (2007) — which includes a chapter on Archetypes — and his seminars: Time travel (memory reframing):
- Drop into the heart and go playful/neutral.
- Pick the event. Bring to mind a past moment that still carries charge.
- Revisit it in imagination. “Go” to it without forcing — light, curious, “soft intent is enough.”
- Let it reorganise. Imagine the scene shifting, a resource entering, the charge softening; or “pick” a preferred version from a “sea of possible” outcomes.
- Return and notice. Come back to now and notice how the memory feels different. Archetypes:
- From the heart state, call up an archetype, template, or quality you want.
- Step into rapport with it — let it “overlay” you or the situation; play with it imaginatively.
- Let go and observe what shifts. (Faithful summary with short attributed quotes — not a reproduction of copyrighted material. Bartlett presents these playfully, with “no wrong way.”)
Source & Lineage
Richard Bartlett built these imaginative tools into Matrix Energetics alongside the Two-Point, drawing the “archetype” language loosely from Jungian culture and the “time travel”/“sea of possibilities” language from a quantum-mechanics metaphor.
They sit squarely in the broad New-Thought / active-imagination tradition of using vivid imagining to change inner state. Direct cousins in this library: Neville Goddard’s Revision, which reimagines the day’s events to change their charge — essentially the same move, minus the physics claims; and godform/archetype assumption work. The honest mechanism is shared: imagination reshapes present meaning.
Common refinements
Believing the past literally changed. It did not — what changed is the present charge and meaning. Keep that distinction honest.
- Forcing a result. Like the rest of Matrix Energetics, it relies on light, low-effort play; straining undercuts it.
- Diving into heavy trauma alone. Reframing a mildly charged memory is fine; deep trauma can re-trigger and belongs with a trained professional.
- Refinement: treat it as a deliberate reappraisal exercise — name what you’re doing (“I’m reframing how this feels now”), which keeps expectations truthful and still captures the benefit.