I think it is worth referring to how our reality is probably built. At higher levels of Density, where Information reigns, and existence is based on Thoughts. There is no matter there that can be used to manifest anything. There is also no question of such a thing as time, because what reference to use to determine this time where everything is fluid and follows the thought?
Our world, most likely like all existence, is derived from these higher Densities and is designed there. It is very possible that if you are in Density 5 and 6 you can see the entire cycle from start to finish. This cycle combines two issues: the development of the soul (what is important from the perspective of develop to higher Density) and the situation in the material world of 3rd Density.
The thoughts and information that is composed, on the higher non-material levels of Densities, creates a 3rd Density world that is like creating the Program. Just like computer code, is used to create, for example, a 3D computer game. I think so about it.
Computer code is used to organize information so that it creates a game with a specific plot, setting, and other rules. The same thoughts and information serves those of higher Densities (possibly also ourselves in the future/our higher selfs) to create such lower Density worlds, and analogously to the 3D game example.
Instead of a code, we have our/someone else's thoughts and information that we arrange, and instead of a plot and environment like in a game, we have various cosmic events, terrestrial (natural) events, we have all kinds of people with inclinations and predispositions, we also have other "players" for example with 4 Densities. For this we have a lot of different scenarios that all these "actors" will play. None of it would exist if Thought had not started it.
The computer game has the most important limitations to the gameplay and the things you need to do to take it to the next level. We, in turn, have cosmic limitations and influences. They can influence our own paths or influence entire nations. We are still subject to cosmic catastrophes. However, even our everyday life is influenced by the cosmos. I remember C's mentioned that the stars and planets were "portals" and/or "windows."
C's even indicated what Density level a given celestial body is at. It is, after all, something characteristic of planets and stars that their different Density levels constantly maintain their presence, probably at every possible Density, at least at the 3rd Density level, we can still see Saturn, even though it is on 4th Density level. I think that celestial bodies as portals and windows are windows for different forces from different levels of Density from. These are the main restrictions for our "game", they affect global events as well as our individual lives, affecting us on an unconscious level. Astrology shows us such things.
Time, what is time, if time does not exist, what we can "substitute" for time and what would satisfy our understanding of "time". We know suggestions about "swapping" time with consciousness. At any rate, this is not a linear time measure. How to present it? And possibly relate it to the time that we expected to see and understand? I will try refer to cycles and sequences. I imagine there is one big cycle, this cycle we could relate to that period of 309,000 years of human history, that's one cycle. There are other smaller cycles "in" it that we might call sequences.
If I have one cycle, this smaller cycle will develop perpendicular to the larger cycle. I can imagine it having one rim and the other rim attached to one of the points on this larger rim and forms another cycle by itself. The beginning and end of this minor cycle occur at the same point in this larger cycle. We can call these points (on the bigger cycle) as sequences. By entering one sequence, we open another cycle.
I think these smaller cycles may be an opening to other, even lower in the "hierarchy" cycles. The division into sequences/smaller cycles also has one interesting feature. If a point on a cycle is a point that is the opening of a minor cycle, then its "time" does not affect the "time" of the larger cycle, because then in this point everything that happens takes place in a dimension that no affects the "time" of the larger cycle. Larger cycle only has to do with what gives takes as input and what it returns back by minor cycle. Such a "deepening" and "hierarchical" structure (like a tree) of different mini-cycles can be some starting point to understand why different things seem to happen independently on different levels and finally they compose into a larger picture where things overlap.
Now a little bit different. A bit about reincarnation and time. We see, for example, that as the world continues to follow a fixed path, and none of the people living there will want to work to change the conditions on the planet, for example by sharing deeper knowledge with all the people on the planet so that they have the opportunity to change themselves. It can be changed. Appropriate attitude can changes the terms of the Program. Changing the conditions of Program is to change World conditions. It's reprogramming this part of the Universe. If Program will be different that may means that entirely new conditions and chances may appear for all of the poeple on the planet by their new access to knowledge.
This is to what "volunteers" are needed, those who have gone through these Lessons and are again incarnating here, having all this knowledge written deeply in the subconscious and through their lives they reorganize this knowledge in adapting to what they learn in the current life and share it with others.
Consider this situation: There are two souls: one soul is a "young" soul that has only, let say, one previous incarnation in 3rd Density, for example. Such a soul looks at the Earth from 5th Density and perceives that on Earth, he/she may lead a new life that is interesting for him/her. Due to the fact that he/she is a young soul may want to be, for example, a model, this soul is interested in materialism and a life of Service to Self. For him/her, being born on Earth and having such an incarnation is incarnating into the future. For him/her, such a world and such life is the reality of the future. Those are totally new oppurnity to learn things that were never learned before. Previous experiences may have taken place at 2nd Density.
There is also another soul. The soul who has had all these incarnations in 3rd Density and has already finished the Lessons. But such a soul wants to be the kind of "volunteer" I mentioned earlier. So such a soul incarnates in something that is the reality of the past for he/she. He or she lives again in the conditions once went through and left them, and now soul comes back to live that life again, learning and sharing things with others.
Both of these souls (from these two examples) are also time travelers. They can meet in what they call the present. This present could be the life that is going on right now on this planet, here and now. Only for one soul it will be a return to the past, and for the other soul it will be the future. What really makes them different is that at the subconscious level (deep within it) there will be different memories, other experiences, a different level of knowledge, which will affect their interests, inclinations, goals, in this current life, the life they will be consider (in their mind) as the present.
In a universe where time as we usually perceive it does not exist. It's hard to talk about time loop as something that is strictly related to time. For me, closing self in the time loop is simply closing self to certain living conditions, which are also a kind of coercion. A coercion that might not have existed (because of free will) if people had not chosen that 309,000 years ago. I would say that humanity lives in the "time loop" as a loop of experiences where events follow exactly the same course and are the same lessons, and the only thing that changes are the roles that people play because of the consequences of their previous actions.
Time loop is nothing captivating as long as a given soul learns specific lessons, and some souls are able to do it. It is not time that is a problem, but mistakes from previous incarnations that lead to a situation in which somebody can come across the same circumstances in which have been before (didn't learn in the past), maybe he/she can even intuitively feel, or have some regression experiences to previous incarnations and at some point recognize: "I've been in this before," or "I've found the same times again."
This is the "time loop" we are dealing with, I think. Which is not really a prison for us, but just a part of natural development and if we are focused on continuous development towards higher Densities and Service to Others, then there is no force that would enslave us, because our Universe is the Universe of Free Will.
So if I were to sum it up I would say that:
Past is "time" of our previous incarnations when we have been learning lessons that we are have learned.
Present is just present. However it sounds... it's best to say that, just have to look around and everyone can see present.
Future is "time" of our future incarnations and lessons that have yet to come.
And "time loops": Time loops are events/situations/experiences where we have been before, they may look a bit different (for example, level of technology development can be different, or people are different, as we occupying a different body), but they relate to exactly the same lesson to be learned.
And somebody end up in something like this, the oppurnity to learn the same lesson, but only with a different superficiality, because either missed learning a lesson (simply experience has taught nothing) or maybe one saw and understood things, but went beyond certain limits and gained Karma. Maybe we saw and understood things, but we went beyond certain limits and gained Karma. It all can locks somebody up or group of people in the "time loop".
Searching for the issue of time and how we measure time, do various calculations, we will rather not do anything here, because everything will fall apart for us. There is no objective basis. But when we look at the past/present/future, referring to the awareness and the number of Lessons she has learned in relation to the environment in which she is located and what it offers in this regard. It already looks better. For example, a 4th density soul is incarnated in 3rd density, so it is a "time traveler", has moved from the future to the past. Or when we compare levels of Consciousness as such. The well-known "we are you in the future". Two levels of Consciousness, one level in the future, learned all these Lessons, the lower level of Consciousness belongs to the past, must learn the Lessons.
Likewise, to be locked in the "time loop" is to experience exactly the same for the purpuse to learn exactly the same lesson, which learning opportunity was wasted previously. But it is the level of Consciousness that determines this. Time as such has no say.
Well, that's my few cents on that subject...