What is the past teaching us; what about time being flexible

I was thinking about when Anne wrote in her diary that Peter's cat had disappeared and he was "beside himself." And the conversations they had about dealing with their emotions. I wanted to say, I learned some things about energy medicine points, & maybe these things can help you, too. As if maybe, on another level, time is flexible, and you can converse with people who are gone, and this time, things could be different....