this "intensity of focus" can also be utilized to break out of tick tock blindness . . . you can "retrieve" information from the past (or future) through meditation
it can be done; this is how I (and others) "predict the future" as well as "read past lives"
there are layers that can be peeled and time/space blown up -- the issue is simply "focus"
and all spiritual disciplines, at their core, are about finding ways to "hold on" to the moment of transcendence
you practice so you can hold that space
it all comes down to this