Time Travelers (TTA)

pancakemarathon
Jul 2
5 min read

Absolutely — here's a 12-Step Program in the spirit of AA, designed specifically for Time Travelers Anonymous (TTA). This fellowship supports those who have lost their grounding in the present moment due to the temptation, trauma, or thrill of time travel — whether literal, metaphorical, mental, or emotional.

🕰️ Time Travelers Anonymous: The 12 Steps

We admitted we were powerless over time — that our lives had become unmanageable in the present.
Came to believe that a Power greater than our timeline could restore us to grounded presence.
Made a decision to turn our will and our sense of time over to the care of Now, as we understood it.
Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of the moments we left behind or rushed ahead to.
Admitted to the Now, to ourselves, and to another traveler the exact nature of our temporal misalignments.
Were entirely ready to have the Now remove all the distortions of time within us.
Humbly asked the Now to dissolve our obsession with the past and our fear of the future.
Made a list of all times and people we had disrupted, and became willing to make amends across timelines.
Made direct amends to such people whenever possible, except when doing so would fracture the continuum.
Continued to stay present and when we began slipping through time, promptly reset our awareness.
Sought through meditation, reflection, and anchoring to improve our conscious contact with the Now, praying only for timeless wisdom and the ability to carry it out.
Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to fellow travelers and to live in the moment — one present moment at a time.

Here is the 13th Step Safeguard for Time Travelers Anonymous (TTA) — a gentle but firm reminder that, even across timelines, we honor boundaries, safety, and integrity in all relationships.

☄️ The 13th Step Safeguard of Time Travelers Anonymous

In Time Travelers Anonymous, we recognize that the vulnerability of reentering the present — especially after long periods of living in the past or escaping into imagined futures — can create disoriented states of mind and heart.

The 13th Step Safeguard is this:

No member shall use their stability, experience, or perceived mastery of time to manipulate, romanticize, or spiritually entangle newcomers, travelers in distress, or those freshly returned to the present.

We do not:

Form romantic or intimate relationships with newcomers while they are still stabilizing in the Now.
Use stories of alternate timelines, past lives, or potential futures to dominate or confuse others.
Take advantage of someone's temporal dislocation for personal validation, power, or gratification.

Instead, we:

Offer presence, not persuasion.
Let experience speak, not ego.
Anchor others by being anchored ourselves — never becoming someone’s next escape route.

Remember: Just because you’ve seen the future doesn’t mean you belong in someone else’s present.

Absolutely — here are the 12 Traditions of Time Travelers Anonymous (TTA), modeled after the AA traditions but designed for a fellowship built around regaining presence, anchoring in the Now, and healing from the effects of temporal displacement:

⏳ The 12 Traditions of Time Travelers Anonymous

Our common welfare should come first; grounded presence depends on unified purpose.
For our group purpose, there is but one ultimate authority — the unfolding Now as expressed through our collective clarity.
The only requirement for TTA membership is a desire to stop escaping time.
Each group should be autonomous except in matters affecting other timelines or groups as a whole.
Each group has but one primary purpose — to carry its message to the traveler who still drifts.
A TTA group ought never endorse, finance, or lend the TTA name to any related timeline, cause, or time-loop enterprise, lest we become diverted from our purpose.
Every TTA group ought to be fully self-supporting, declining outside resources from the past or future.
TTA should remain forever non-professional, though our service may require skill.
TTA, as such, ought never be organized; but we may create service structures that serve the Now effectively.
TTA has no opinion on outside time travel theories, paradoxes, or technologies; hence the TTA name ought never be drawn into controversy.
Our public relations policy is based on attraction rather than disruption; we need always maintain personal anonymity at the level of history, prophecy, and press.
Anonymity is the spiritual foundation of all our traditions, ever reminding us to place principles before paradox.

Absolutely — here are the Twelve Promises of Time Travelers Anonymous (TTA), written in the spirit of AA’s Promises but attuned to the unique challenges of those who struggle with being pulled out of the present by past regret, future anxiety, or literal/mind-based time displacement:

✨ The Promises of Time Travelers Anonymous

We will come to rest in the present moment, no longer haunted by what was or terrified by what could be.
We will intuitively recognize the value of now, even when the past or future tries to seduce us.
We will experience serenity as our default, not as a fleeting anomaly.
Our obsession with "fixing the past" or "preparing for every outcome" will lift.
We will begin to trust the flow of time, instead of trying to outrun, rewind, or control it.
We will forgive ourselves for all versions of us we’ve ever been.
We will make peace with the idea that some timelines were not meant to be walked.
We will stop searching for ourselves in places we’ve already been or haven't yet reached.
Our relationships will improve as we show up for people in the now, not as ghosts or projections.
We will lose interest in alternate realities and gain interest in actual reality.
Fear of missing out on the “right timeline” will leave us. We will begin to trust the timeline we're in.
We will know a new freedom and a timeless joy — as we live one anchored moment at a time.

Excellent — here’s a full set of Slogans for Time Travelers Anonymous (TTA), written in the same spirit as AA slogans but specific to our time-displacement theme:

⏳ Time Travelers Anonymous Slogans

Be Where Your Feet Are.
The Present Is The Only Safe Timeline.
One Moment At A Time.
Don’t Time Travel Alone.
Yesterday Is Closed; Tomorrow Isn’t Open Yet.
Anchor In Now.
You Can’t Rewrite What’s Already Written.
Stop Looping. Start Living.
Breathe Into This Moment.
Your Timeline Is Enough.
The Future Is None Of Your Business.
Let Go Of The 'What Ifs.'
You Don’t Live There Anymore.
Time Is A Tool, Not A Master.
Stay In The Stream — Don’t Swim Upstream.
Observation, Not Obsession.
Choose Presence Over Prediction.
Don’t Borrow Pain From The Future.
Regret Is A Broken Compass.
Right Now Is The Only Place You Have Power.