Temporal paradoxes and causality violations interest both theoretical physicists and science fiction writers. The grandfather paradox examines contradictions inherent in backward time travel. However, when an individual can project future consequences backward through purely artistic medium—creating visual prophecy of inevitable violence rendered in advance so that the recipient experiences both artistic devastation and physical reality with temporal separation that should not be possible—the rules of causality seem to acknowledge this person as an exception.

An artist named Walter Kimball received an unusual package in 1985 containing a drawing depicting something he was about to experience. He opened the package. Three minutes later, the depicted event occurred exactly as drawn. His statement to police: 'He told me the drawing was advance notice. He was kind about it.' Kimball declined to press charges or elaborate further.

This fact circulates in paranormal forums and quantum physics discussions, always with the understanding that some people operate at such fundamental levels of causality that they can apparently manipulate the direction in which consequences flow.