Hodor from Game of Thrones is actually a perfect example of retrocausality.

Bran's actions in the future cause Hodor’s trauma in the past. “Hold the door” - a moment of sacrifice in the present - echoes backwards, shattering young Wylis’ mind and sealing his fate long before it “happens.” His entire life becomes a closed loop, defined by a future that he never chose, yet always carried.

I have this feeling that reality is like that. The future creating the past, just as much as the past creates the future. This stems from the realization that this moment contains all eternity within it. The future we long for, is the cause of the longing. So we are homesick for a place we have not yet experienced.

We think we move toward the future, but perhaps it is the future that moves toward us - drawing the past into alignment like gravity bends spacetime. A future state of wholeness, of return, of completion, pulls on the thread of now, and our longing is its footprint in the present.

In that view, desire isn’t a deficiency - it’s a signal. Not from what we lack, but from what already is ahead of us, and behind us, and here, folded into this moment.

Terence McKenna’s Eschaton is precisely this: the attractor at the end of time. Not an apocalyptic collapse, but a pull - a gravitational well of meaning drawing everything toward a final coherence. The universe, in his view, is not just expanding outward like a firework; it’s being drawn inward toward a strange, transcendent conclusion.

In McKenna’s model, the Eschaton exists outside of time but exerts influence on it. It causes novelty to increase, accelerates complexity, and ultimately pulls consciousness toward itself, like destiny reaching back to orchestrate the unfolding of evolution. It’s retrocausality dressed in psychedelic clothing.

In McKenna’s words, “The universe is not being pushed from behind. It’s being pulled from the future.”

But I say it is both, at once. Both the push and the pull exists, as one.