Posts Tagged ‘Time’
So people say things like “The Future is Now” or “The Past and Future are Illusions” or “The Now Moment is the only moment that exists.” And yet this can still seem kinda out there, y’know? It doesn’t really make sense. While we may say those things and hear others say it, it may not fully resonate with the very core of our being, in every fiber of our body. There may still be an element of “I understand that you’re saying that everything exists now, but I’m still experiencing past and future!”
Instead of trying to see timelessness from the perspective of time, let’s see how timelessness sees time. Let’s see if we can bring some clarity to the idea that “Everything Exists Now.”
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So how old are you?
Does your physical age define or limit you? Is there something more?
All my life people have told me stuff like “You’re so lucky to be getting this stuff so early in life.” or “You’re only XYZ years old? How do you know all this so young?”
To be honest, the age of this physical body has little do with the age that I feel I am, and this is probably true for many of us, isn’t it? Yet it’s what people see nonetheless.
How old are we? Let’s take a look at that question by diving deeper into both the seen and the unseen.
It seems that by starting with the physical age and exploring beyond, there’s many different ways we could look at age:
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Scientists like to explore the idea of consciousness as if it’s something that a physical being has. You know, people have a consciousness and when hit in the head, can lose consciousness. Rocks don’t have a consciousness. They have a physical existence, but presumably no conscious awareness of their own existence. Pysicality is taken to be primary and consciousness is taken to be some sort of optional secondary manifestation that may or may not arise from physicality. What causes consciousness? Perhaps it’s a chemical reaction in the brain, a product of our biology… it’s somehow a functioning of physicality.
This is further evidenced by the fact that we can seemingly lose consciousness, and we even go unconscious when we sleep at night. Clearly our bodies still exist, and other people can confirm this for us, but we have no sense of self-awareness, and so it seems like physicality comes first, while consciousness comes second. If anything, the body, as temporary as it is, seems more continuous and experientially permanent than consciousness. From this perspective, it’s only natural that we perceive ourselves to be this physicalized being. At the same time, there’s “my” consciousness and “your” consciousness.
I’m sitting here reading through a copy of I Am That by Nisargadatta Maharaj and he just brought up something (Chapter 18) which shot right through the heart of a deep confusion and misunderstanding within me and triggered a big ‘aha’. In the book a questioner sits down with Nisargadatta and brings up the points and enters into a dialogue about this subject.
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Okay, so I feel like I’m going a little crazy now.
Some of what I’m gonna write about here I’ve written posts about but didn’t feel like publishing them, so I’m gonna make one big mish mash of a post.
Let’s hit the highlights.
My body quite literally feels like this image, and around it is nothing. Pure void.
The past week and a half or so, my third eye has been opening about 8-10 times per day, minimum. I’ve been seeing how to bring heaven down to earth, among other things. Many projects and people have been drawing into my life.
Right now as I write this I feel the back of my third eye opening. This is new.
Various chakras light up throughout the day. Usually the heart. Sometimes the solar plexus. Sometimes sacral, root, crown. A lot of heart and a lot of third eye. Not so much throat.
At times it feels like this body is being breathed with energy, particularly when I go into intense surrender. The energy pulses in and out in waves, releasing repressed sadness as tears.
It’s 9/9/9. I’m watching the movie “The Nines” after Jonas’ recommendation on facebook. Perfect recommendation. Thank you Jonas. My life is a lot like this in many ways.
I literally feel like I’m in a dream world. Everything I see is no more real than my night dreams, visualizations, or day dreams. For real…
One of my first youtube videos was about the collapse of space and recognizing that everything is here. Space is something I haven’t experienced for months now. I got how everything was Here, but I couldn’t quite grasp how everything is Now. I see this now and have lost my experience of time altogether. 5 minutes feels identical to 5 hours. Identical. For the past 4-5 days or so, I’ve discovered that I no longer experience time. It’s very natural actually, as if time is just another layer of illusion on top of Reality. It doesn’t feel like anything important is lacking, any more than how you’d feel something important (the experience of time) is lacking when you’re doing something you love and time flies. In awareness, there is no time. This is something I’d like to go into more depth on later.
Things I think about keep manifesting. It’s getting pretty ridiculous. Not only has synchronicity been cranked way up lately, but manifestations are much more vivid and powerful. Manifestation literally doesn’t take time. As time collapses, manifestation happens much more quickly.
It feels like I’m being given much more power in this dream world. Before I could tell myself that maybe I wasn’t actually creating everything in my reality. Now it’s practically impossible to buy that thought. The buffer or delay between thought energy arising and resultant manifestation is obvious.
People talk about how what you think about you bring about or how the world is your mirror. This is all so obvious. It’s all ONE. Of COURSE this happens! Your energy manifests in the world because there is nothing BUT your energy. Thus there is no other possibility!
It’s literally impossible for anything to go wrong. There are no mistakes. There are no accidents. Everything is divinely guided, beautifully orchestrated. Seeing that nothing can go wrong, guilt and shame drop away, as does the need to apologize. All of those presume that something can go wrong. This is not true. From the perspective of ego, sure. From the perspective of This, not at all. Whether or not what happens happens in the highest good, ahhh, now that’s another question. Everything is intentional, but not necessarily intended in alignment with the highest good.
What is Here is not just a living manifestation of the Divine. What is Here is also God Unmanifest. Some call this Source. Both are Here as One, yet what you see in the domain of the physical, not just “me” but throughout the totality of the Universe is what I AM in living manifestation.
Deeper and deeper, it’s like more surrender, sitting back as awareness and allowing what is to be.
It’s not all comfortable, really. It’s not superbliss or ecstasy or anything. It feels more like a continual purging of toxicity, as if this body and nervous system are being stepped up to a higher level.
There are breaks, pauses. This all happens in waves. In sections. Bit by bit. It’s somewhat cyclical. Sometimes I feel nothing. Something it’s very intense. Even during the intense moments it cycles in intensity.
There’s really nothing to do but sit back as awareness and allow this energy to do what it may, to be, to allow, to witness this change from the vantagepoint of the unchanging.
Ohmmm… 
Consider this: From the linear perspective of time, with your five senses you can not perceive what is actually arising in the present moment. It’s technically impossible.
Everything you’re seeing happened a fraction of a second ago or more. It takes time for light to travel from what you’re looking at to your eyes. Thus, you are not actually seeing the present, but the past. You’re seeing something as it existed some time ago.
When you look up in the sky at the sun, you’re not looking at where the sun is now, but where the sun was 8 minutes ago. When you look up at the stars at night, you’re not looking in the direction of where the stars are now (if they even still exist and haven’t exploded since), but where they were hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years ago!
The same applies for sound. It takes time for sound to travel through the air and vibrate your ear drums. So again, you are not perceiving the present, but the past.
What about taste and touch? Perhaps they’re different because in order to experience those senses, you have to be in physical contact with the object. Thus there’s no delay as the vibration travels through space to your body.
Well, it takes time for the nerve’s impulses to travel through your body to your brain so that they may be perceived by the mind. This process too takes time.
To recognize this more clearly, why is it that when you touch a hot stove, you almost instantly pull your hand back? That’s right. Reflexes. Your body knows to pull your hand away before the signal makes it up to your brain, is processed as pain and danger, and the brain then sends a signal back to your arm to pull your hand away. Thanks to our reflexes, physical responses can happen even before mental perception.
Perception takes time. What we perceive is actually the past. You can not perceive the present moment with your physical senses. It’s physically impossible.
Perceiving in Time and Space
With your senses, you’re clearly not perceiving the entire universe at once. It’s like you’re only perceiving a tiny fraction of all of time and space at a time.
What you perceive at any moment depends both on where you are and when you are there.
If you change when you are in a particular location or space, what you perceive in that space changes. You can’t just be in the right place, but you have to be at the right place at the right time.
Similarly, if you change where you are physically relative to any object, what you experience about that object at any point in time will be different. For example, if you’re far away from a loud noise, you’ll hear it later in time than if you were really close to it. Thus, when you experience something totally depends on where you are in space.
Time and space are inseparable. They truly depend on one another. This is why people call physical reality a time/space reality or refer to time more accurately as spacetime. You can’t have one without another.
What you are perceiving at any particular moment in time is not actually what is arising in the present, but your own version of the universe, depending on where in time and space you happen to exist at any moment. It’s almost like being in your own little world! 
Thus, if you want to experience the Now as it is in its pure and undistorted essence, if you want to see Reality as it actually is, a deeper part of yourself must be awakened, a part of you that exists beyond time and space. It is what is Here and Now.
Awareness, Here and Now
As long as we approach the the Present moment through the content that arises in the present, we will always perceive the past. We won’t be experiencing the Now.
Even if we think about the future, we’re looking at a thought that arose in the past, but we’re looking at it now. The looking happens now. What we are looking at happened in the past.
Let me repeat this because this is so important.
The looking happens now.
What we are looking at happened in the past.
As long as we look to experiences, memories, or perceptions, we’re not seeing the Now itself, but rather the mind’s stuff that happened in the past. The mind exists in past and future, and yet awareness is seeing whatever it is seeing, right now.
The content was created in the past, but awareness is seeing it now.
Right now, Awareness is looking at these words, regardless of when they were typed or when they showed up on your computer screen.
Awareness is aware of this moment. There is a big difference between awareness which is aware, here and now, and the content and experiences that arise within awareness.
Awareness is present. Awareness is always present. It is impossible for awareness to not be present.
The only thing awareness can be aware of is what is, here and now.
It’s not something to think about. It’s not something to understand. Thinking and understanding are all more mind-stuff that arise within time, are subject to time, and exist simply as passing content within awareness.
All satori moments, glimpses into your true nature, sudden realizations, feelings of oneness or love.. they’re all experiences that arise within awareness. None of that is what you are. None of that is it.
Connecting with Who You Are
To connect with who and what you truly are, just be.
Be still.
Rest as awareness.
It sounds utterly simple, and it really is.
Just rest as the timeless awareness that is here and now, for that is what you already are anyways.
By looking consciousness straight in the eye, it will come to know itself clearly.
This remembrance, this reconnection to the I Am that I Am, this is the foundation of awakening.
Consciousness is peering into this world, but it is not of this world.
Awareness is like this witnessing presence that is looking through this body/mind, like a watcher of a movie looks at the screen of a movie and is immersed in the sounds and colors.
But awareness is completely independent of the movie.
Rest as awareness.
There is nothing to understand. There is nothing to figure out. Just simply be. Be who you really are. Be still. Be.
There is no such thing as A prediction of THE future.
You see, time is not a predestined linear path. In every moment, you and I are jumping from parallel reality to parallel reality, almost like flipping through a flip book. Now and Now and Now and Now are all parallel realities which all simultaneously exist in the infinite and timeless Now.
The awareness that you are is shifting from one reality to the next, in a similar way that awareness shifts from one image in a reel of film to the next. The film may be scrolling by, creating the illusion of movement within time, but there are many different individual witnessable moments in the film, all of which are simultaneously witnessable Now.
However, unlike a movie, there is not one beginning and one ending, but rather an infinite number of beginnings and an infinite number of endings. Thus there is no one future that can be guaranteed to be THE definite future.
There is no such thing as A prediction of THE future for there are an infinite number of possible futures.
Probable? Maybe, maybe not. Possible? Sure.
There is only a sensing of the energy present at the time the prediction is made, for there is only Now.
What if a Prediction is Wrong?
When I talk about a prediction of the future, I’m not only about psychics. I’m also referring to your day-to-day insights, your intuition, your hunches, your inner guidance, and so on.
Now, if a prediction does not come true, it does not necessarily mean that the prediction wasn’t true at the time it was made. It simply means that the energy changed between the time the prediction was made and the time the prediction was predicted to come into manifestation.
In fact, many times the existence of a prediction will change the direction of the energy because it has made you aware of where the energy is. If you don’t prefer the energy to be there, your consciousness changes the direction of the energy which renders the original prediction obsolete.
Ironically, a good prediction is often times doing its job by rendering itself unpredictable. 
Now, there are a number of realities which have a lot of momentum and energy behind them and thus would be unlikely to shift. We would say these realities are easier to sense and “predict.”
Nevertheless, there is no such thing as A prediction of THE future. There is only the sensing of where the energy is Now. It is this sensing that we call a “prediction of the future.”
Lately there’s been intuitive inner guidance to study higher dimensions of reality, beyond the 3 dimensions we live in.
A number of my wonderful friends have provided me with videos and information regarding higher dimensions. I’ve been jumping into that head first and allowing “myself” to be guided to wherever this takes me. For some reason, the idea of higher dimensions is extraordinarily exciting to me.
Now, I’ve never been particularly excited about geometry, but studying these shapes have been monumentally exciting so I’m going with it. I trust the excitement like a compass needle showing me where to go.
We all live in all dimensions, but we’ve forgotten about this and forgotten how to access higher dimensions. It’s nothing special. It’s just remembering. Same thing as remembering who we really are.
Here’s a quick lesson, much of which was sparked by my recent explorations and then interwoven with my own understandings. It may start off seeming relatively innocuous, but the spiritual ramifications it leads to are profound! So with no further ado… Read More …
If karma is in fact real, wouldn’t we learn our lessons better if we experienced the results of our creations instantly? We would learn our lessons much more quickly. However, this isn’t the way the universe works. Why not? Let’s take a look.
In this physical world, there are two universal laws at play that work hand in hand. The first is the law of free will. It states that people always have a choice in what they choose to do and how they choose to respond to a situation.
Of course there are many responses to various situations, but we can boil down all the responses down to two main categories: Reacting from the ego or responding from the higher self (heart). Fear or Love.
Now, in addition to being able to use the free will that you have, you’re also subject to the universal law of cause and effect, or what is more commonly referred to as karma.
Karmic law states that what goes around comes around. You reap what you sew. Our world is designed like a mirror to show you what it’s like to receive the energies you send out as a way to guide you towards choosing progressively higher choices and ultimately influencing you to choosing to raise your own level of consciousness.
The ego is fear-based and by reacting from the ego, you will attract more fear-based energy into your energy field. Your higher self is sourced in the energy of unconditional Love and choosing to play with this energy will draw more Loving energy towards yourself.
As I’m sure you have noticed, there is a sort of “time gap” between when you throw the boomerang and when it comes back to you. It’s not like if you kill someone, instantly a lighting bolt shoots down from the heavens and zaps you on the spot. In fact, in this lifetime, you may never actually see the resultant manifestations of that energy.
Cue reincarnation. Let’s say a person injures someone in one life. Perhaps in the next life, they may be born with the same injury so that they can see what it’s like to experience this energy. This allows them to choose again and develop acceptance and compassion towards the condition, elevating their level of consciousness. We sometimes refer to this as “learning your lesson.”
It is also possible for them to get angry and imagine that the world is unjust. Perhaps God is angry at them. If they blame their reality on external conditions and refuse to take responsibility for their reality, they won’t truly learn their lesson and grow from the experience.
Cool. Great. Many of us have heard much of this before. Why is this time gap in place? Wouldn’t it make more sense if there was little to no time gap? Wouldn’t people be able to more easily recognize their own creative powers and thus truly realize that they are responsible for their own realities?
Ah, excellent question. However, that time gap was put there for a very good reason. Let me explain. Read More …
