Imagine:

(A) There is that sequence of photos of a person’s life, they are all in line. The first one is that person’s birth and the last one is that person's funeral.

(B) You have a peace of paper cut as a little window that fits exactly a single photo size, and it can slide along the line of photos from the begin to the end of it.

(C) So as long as you move this little window along the line of photos you can see each moment of this person's life one at a time.


Let’s consider


(A)= Past, present and future can be happening at once they're only different pictures of the same “line”. (future already exists)
(B)= The piece of paper cut as little windows is our C1 consciousness.
(C)The photo where the little windows is stopped over at this moment we could call PRESENT.

So let’s imagine that we were able to throw the little paper window away and got an entire line of picture’s view. We would be aware of all the line of photos. (past/present/future)

Conclusion:

Moving our consciousness focus could mean changing the position of our little window from the point it is now from a point ahead (for instance) in the line of photos of the existence.

So it would be possible to see the future once it’s happening just now. We only have to change our focus. (our mind is all along it but our focus is not)

Am I nuts ???????

Yes, Kardec,

Some of us here do believe we occasionally can alter our focus to do this.  I'd like to think that to an extent it is actually possible.  Some people believe they can receive guidance from their "future" self.  

I may have received such guidance from time to time.  It could have just as easily been that kind of guidance rather than another "being" in the afterlife or a "higher self" --  I really don't know for sure.

I like to think that our future self might be able to alter our past self, to iron out the wrinkles here and there....

blink

Hey Kardec,

I like your posts, they are full of insight and make you think, sometimes for more than once and on the same thing haha but i got eventually lol! Plus they are enjoyable to read as well.

I understand compeletly what you are saying and agree if this is already planned and already happened (confused about how we can experience and see he future while still being in present and specially not know about it) well then yes we can change our focus or maybe look at a new window when we are out there.

The thing i don't get is that what about natural or free will? there has been loads of talk on this so i apologise in advance but surly our free will cant be predicted...or maybe we don't have any and just believe we do. If we do then surly what we see on our line (refusing to call time line :) lol can be changed and we need regular updates if we are interested in seeing our future as even little free will choices can affect the future.

Would love to hear your thoughts on this side on the line but apart from that i like the symbolism you did with that, is that the right word? helped me understand really well so it must be good lol!

Ryan

Ryan,

If you believe in timelessness, free will still exists.  How?  Because past, present and future exist at the same time, but all are constantly in flux, and dynamic.

In this "everpresent" mind-numbing system, conscious thought can effect the past and future.  How do you effect the past?  By setting a conscious intention to do so.  Of course you are not going to magically change your present in C1.  But your creative will may make changes in the past as well as the future.

I mentioned in another thread the random number experiment.  Where a ticker tape of heads or tails was randomly generated to produce 10,000 coin tosses.  By pure statistics it should be close to 50% heads and tails.  Volunteers were then asked to take the printed out tape in a box, and concentrate on "heads."  Now, understand, the tape was already formed and printed.  When the tapes were read after the intention, there was a statistically significant difference in heads/tails.  This could only have happened by a present intention changing a past event (the random numbers being generated).  This expereiment was done in the PEAR laboratory I believe in Princeton university.

So, I think free will exists in this system where past present and future are always there but dynamic and in flux.  

Matthew

Matthew thoughts = My thoughts ;)

I basically believe that time isn't real, partly because I've had experiences which have told me that it isn't.

During one experience I knew beyond a shadow of doubt that there is no such thing as a particular moment of time, and no such thing as a particular location. I understood that it is impossible for such things to exist, and they are nothing but concepts.

Another example: Back in the days when I was into Eastern philosophies, I used to think, "when I obtain enlightenment, how will I be able to feel completely happy about things, when I know that a universe of suffering beings still exists." One day while driving some place, I got this deep intuitive understanding that the universe of suffering beings I'm concerned about doesn't exist, because time isn't real. Therefore, my moment of enlightenment is the exact same moment in which all other beings also obtain enlightenment.   Nowadays I think in terms of spiritual perfection rather than enlightenment, but the same principle applies.

Free will? You're going for a walk one day with a heart full of love, and you come upon a person who is in need of help. Hypothetically you might say, I can choose to help this person, or I can choose not to help this person. But do you really have a choice? If the love in your heart moves you to help them, then you're going to help them.

Sometimes things work out so that people aren't able to see the love that is in their heart, but once they are free to see its merits, why would they turn it down?  

My feeling is that in order to discover what's possible when it comes to God's creative power, and in order for us to be able to exist as distinct souls, we have to get lost for a while.

I've received insights that my higher self is this free awareness that is able to view everthing with a comprehensive awareness. Part of what enables it to do this, besides its basic nature, is its freedom from thought influencing belief systems and emotional attachments. Despite this freedom of mind it "can't" just do anything it wants, because the love it feels causes it to act responsibly towards everything else.

I agree with this. Despite how things seem while experiencing linear time, everything is actually worked out in one instant.


wrote on Oct 21^st, 2005 at 8:41am:

Ryan, If you believe in timelessness, free will still exists.  How?  Because past, present and future exist at the same time, but all are constantly in flux, and dynamic. Matthew

By the way, Vicky saw the future during her recent OBE experience (another post).

wrote on Oct 21^st, 2005 at 8:41am:

Because past, present and future exist at the same time, but all are constantly in flux, and dynamic.

I find this concept so hard to understand, its like thinking about how big space is for me. First of all do you know anywhere where i can read up on this all, i really want to understand.

Ok so if they are hapening at the same time how can that be lol, because in simple terms there would have to be three me's living this life at different times in three different places yeah? Where are these places? But in more practical terms there are millions, billions of me all at each stage of my life...hmmm i think im going about understanding this wrong, if someone could give me a direction or any pointers i'd be more than grateful.

I just can understand how I can have other selves, other members but also other points of concious as me now operating on different levels etc, but i can't understand how this point of conciousness right here now, this one being me typing this can operate in in a simple three times, past present and future. this is so confusing! Sorry for asking the same questions im sure you hear a thousand times.

Ryan

I don't know of any good books that address your questions specifically.

I'll say this though, awareness is limited only to the extent that we limit it.

Also, consider our conscious mind. It picks up only a small fragment of what goes on unconsciously. But is the unconscious mind really unconscious? Is it possible for there to be a place in which consciousness doesn't exist?

My guess is that God and our higher selves aren't so selective when it comes to how much they are aware of. Perhaps the goal, for some of us, is to become more completely aware like God and our higher selves are.

I don't know what the limits are, because I haven't reached them.



wrote on Oct 21^st, 2005 at 9:56am:

I find this concept so hard to understand, its like thinking about how big space is for me. First of all do you know anywhere where i can read up on this all, i really want to understand. Ok so if they are hapening at the same time how can that be lol, because in simple terms there would have to be three me's living this life at different times in three different places yeah? Where are these places? But in more practical terms there are millions, billions of me all at each stage of my life...hmmm i think im going about understanding this wrong, if someone could give me a direction or any pointers i'd be more than grateful. I just can understand how I can have other selves, other members but also other points of concious as me now operating on different levels etc, but i can't understand how this point of conciousness right here now, this one being me typing this can operate in in a simple three times, past present and future. this is so confusing! Sorry for asking the same questions im sure you hear a thousand times. Ryan

We think linear due to the limitations of our brain.

Example

I’ve tried to understand it through logic for a long time despite my feelings tell me its thru I can’t figure it out clearly.

Let’s try:

You are Steven Spielberg and you are shooting a new movie. Due to some pratical reason you dived your team into several smaller teams and they are all shooting their parts of the movie simultaneously. It could be 3 scenes PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, for instance. As long a change in one of the scenes happens the two others adapt their selves to reflect it.

The watcher of the movie (our conscious mind) would never understand the movie this way so it’s mounted in sequence to allow the watchers (C1 consciousness) to understand it.

It was the best I could think of. (I had crash on my brain just now) ???

I feel it but I can’t explain it. Sorry.

I think the problem is that with linear thought we try to understand one moment/item at a time. Perhaps awareness doesn't actually have this self imposed restriction.

I've had dreams in which I would do two things at the same time. For example, I would ride in a bus while going one place, while flying to another place at the same time. After waking up it seemed confusing, but it didn't seem confusing during the dream. It seemed matter of fact.

Also, when it comes to my most profound understandings, I can't recreate the feeling of them simply by thinking about them.

It seems to me that awareness has the ability to understand pretty much anything, without having to have some sort of thinking instrument such as a biological brain in order to do so. Even if our neural synapses come up with a conclusion about something, awareness experiences that understanding as an object of perception, similar to how it would experience any other perception.

It might seem difficult to understand how awareness could have such an ability. Since it comes from God, perhaps its ability to comprehend is unlimited just like God's creative ability is unlimited.

Recoverer

I just can say BINGO. I could never explain it better :D

But please let's continue to give some peace of information to this thread.

wrote on Oct 21^st, 2005 at 10:13am:

We think linear due to the limitations of our brain. Example I’ve tried to understand it through logic for a long time despite my feelings tell me its thru I can’t figure it out clearly. Let’s try: You are Steven Spielberg and you are shooting a new movie. Due to some pratical reason you dived your team into several smaller teams and they are all shooting their parts of the movie simultaneously. It could be 3 scenes PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE, for instance. As long a change in one of the scenes happens the two others adapt their selves to reflect it. The watcher of the movie (our conscious mind) would never understand the movie this way so it’s mounted in sequence to allow the watchers (C1 consciousness) to understand it. It was the best I could think of. (I had crash on my brain just now) ??? I feel it but I can’t explain it. Sorry.

  I don't think any of us with bodies can fully logically grasp or understand this... I honestly don't know...but i feel that the above is a great explanation Kardec.  I also really like Matthews and Recoverer's input on it too....

 The only thing i might add, is that our "Higher Self" or more Total Self, while certainly more wiser seeming and more expanded than most of our conscious in-physical selves...is not perfection either.

 The Disk is growing too, and only becomes perfected after consistently being a Co-Creator with the Creative Forces in a like manner...  This touches upon Recoverer's post about Freewill....

 Freewill very much does exist, yet only in creating and choosing the Creators way will we have true and fulfilling freedom.... seems contradictory, or a paradox, yet its the way things are....  And many buck and kick against this, until suffering of their own making, makes them think otherwise...  then the individual Soul, bows to the Creators magnificance with humble appreciation and Love...  Like the man Yeshua of whom Cayce's Source said, "The Son learned obediance through the things he suffered."  The Creator does not punish..its just natural law that illusion though distracting for a time, very much hurts, and reality is what heals and makes one complete...this is Love...

 This is because some things, well one thing... Love energy is an absolute.  "Everything but Love is relative, yet Love is what makes all other energies relative."  By being an absolute, its throws a relative shade on all other things...

 Anything which encompasses and permeates everything else is most certainly an absolute, and not a human belief system, or mere perception....  It is Truth, it is Light, and true Knowledge.  It is the only way "back" to the Creator--the only path to walk.

Thank you

Justin

I agree with you and I would add a statement “Words of Wisdom” those you wrote.

And about love it’s another subject where I can feel what you said as true indeed  but it’s hard to figure out logically.

I haven't finished reading the whole thread, otherwise I would've lost the idea, so I might be repeating someone else here, but here it goes...

If we believe that:

A. We are probes of our higher self thrown into earth.

B. There is no such thing as time up there, as we have discussed before.

Then the higher self can't perceive the meaning of time as we humans see it. So it might just be that only we, as probes (as humans, or the whole line of pictures as Kardec puts it) can percieve this sense of time on earth because that is what we are enclosed to in our limited bodily senses.

Time is the white paper. The pictures are the lessons we learn. We are the whole strip of pictures or maybe the cardboard to which the pictures are glued to. I know, it's hard to explain. Maybe I should stop.

Love,
C:>

 Hi people,
 there is too much easyness in using the term "free will" I think. Free will is by definition the independence of will, otherwise it would be dependent on something and no longer be free. Now, let's think about someone who does something with free will. That would mean, without cause (independence) which means, too, without reason. Doing things without a cause/reason is absolute senseless. You may say this is only concerning linear time, and the truth is there is no linear time and it's only our limited perception? So, if there is NO time, free will cannot be applied. In no-time nothing works which we are common with. In no-time there is no evolution. Yes, it would mean, it's all done. Can we lay back then? The old questions are not solved!
(Btw Matthew, your example with the random-experiment-notes changed time-backwards is not an example for free will, could be all pretty in a cause-effect line, or planned)
 And, is time made of digits (like in the example Kardec brought up, the movie metaphor) or continous?
 "In reality": When we will be in afterlife one day and we have a look at what it is about with time and space etc. and we think we've got it, there always can one come around and tell us: "Well, that's only what you perceive, but your perception is limited. In reality, things are different." As long as we can perceive, we can never be sure what's behind. There is ever a behind. This only stops when we stop perceiving, because it means we no longer have a viewpoint, no longer the division of "here, me" visa "there, not me, what I'm perceiving" (and no self-perceiving/introspection too!). Only then, finally, there is no longer a "true reality behind" our perceptions.
 For me, time does exist. I experience it every day. I can't discount what I am experiencing every day, this would be just shallow talk. This is of course, I believe in my perceptions. It's the only thing I got. If I would have another viewpoint, I may have different perceptions, so I will believe them. And I believe what some people here told, to see the future, it's obviously possible. But to have a look in the future you need that there is something to call future.
 To change the past without affecting the present would mean that the present is independent from the past. That would mean, Kardec's picture would fit, single, divided moments (which can be changed) would be the time stuff. But what about the connection then? Cause and effect? Something must bind it together! Or we will get a mess of pictures with no sense. And every picture is a trap. No movement. No time in this single picture. And, what about the observer of the pictures/movie? Is the observer in time? A super-time? If not, how can the observer change anything? Would be a frozen moment!
 I sometimes wonder when I hear people say they had meditated and were in a no-time-zone telling like this: "...THEN I came there, all frozen and calm...THEN I could see this and that...THEN I could move in time..."--not very convincing for me. Time is still there for the experiencer, so it's just a different perception of time within time.
 
 So, my conclusion is "What you cannot talk about, you must silence about". I think I cannot longer talk about it!

Bye, Spooky

Spooky ;D I feel your frustration. maybe I just share something if I can, not to worry you.

the movement of time is relative to each. some times I wonder what year is this? so u see time is psychological. basically we should start from a common premise. which I assume everyone has a calendar and a watch. but only here we use those. I see the two worlds we explore as one, but when I am physical there is a slow down of vibration.
as analogy, I look to the fan, and the blades are moving so fast, I can see through the fan to the other side, but if I turn the power off, the blades are obstructing my view to the other side, so I see that we dive into matter as spirit, then we cannot fly within time like a bird,but we have two feet and walk around and it is slowed down movement.
this makes me think why am I alive in physical when I could be a bird and fly? because I am in a thing called time now, and I wanted to be here, as here, in time, we can actually accomplish something different to be so solid, to have a body is great gift as a chance for to slip one more life into the bag, chock full of living, loving and exploring ways to get out of it..maybe..hee hee. or ways to stay in time, in physical, good thing also. btw, I did read the other side has order, even if no clocks, they just "know" when to be within a certain level where a lecture is going on, or whatever else they do over there, which i suspect they be living much the same as here, simply speeded up type living, yet naturalness within that.
yes, I saw my own future planned out 16 months before unfoldment, confused me badly. but only made me feel good, to know I should not be needlessly worrying if I saw something positive in the least. and if I saw something negative, I could be ready to deal with it then, to complete my choices how to react.
blessings to you..you know what I think of you already as very wise and loving. love, alysia

Hi Alysia,
thank you!
A story about a different time-perception:
I once had a car crash, my friend was the driver and I was on the passenger seat. He wanted to pass a car before us, and while doing it we came off the street to the left and we crashed against a tree. The car was totally crushed, but we had nothing (except wet feet when we got out of the car and stepped in the ditch the car was in). It was a matter of seconds. My friend couldn't remember what what had happened. But I could. For me, the moment we were aside the other car, time started to lengthen into minutes while it must be only seconds. All did slow down. We came off the road to the left, more and more, slowly, I knew what's gonna happen but couldn't do anything like you watch a movie. I only felt I bent a little to the right in an automatic reaction. When we hit the tree it was not hard, it was soo soft! After a quiet moment I was back in the usual time perception.
 This example of course is not problematic, it's just linear time with a perception of higher resolution.
Bye, Spooky

yes maybe the example not problematic but still I like your contribution. I have found some stuff today about time, space, and motion and have been working on it all day, with thinking of your post for my inspiration. appreciate your presense here. love, alysia

Hi Kardec-
I have flickering fluorescent in my office that chops up my day into little event frames, pictures, that follow the worldline of my daily activities. If we look a little closer, at the subatomic level, we discover that quantum mechanical processes similarly chop up everything. At the smallest level, the interval is about 10^(-44) seconds, one Planck interval.

One day in the past I experimented with salvia divinorum, the sacred divination plant of shamans  (something I do NOT suggest for others - it was painful) and discovered that I was sitting in a coil of event frames that followed a collectively spiralling curve around me. I could have jumped into one of the other frames, but something suggested that that was a bad idea.

The perspective of being able to see these frames in your mind, like little 3-d pictures alllined up, simpply means that you have removed your mind from their 3-space into a higher dimensionality, at least a 4-space.

One of the confusing things is that we view time as a dimension, which is not true, although time involved in processual sequences can be used to calculate the change of dimensions. Time is a vector operator for processual displacement, the difference between starting and completing a single instant of manifestation of your reality. To recognize your lifeline as a sequence of discrete instants means that your awareness is becoming less attached to everyday stuf, and thus is free to see with a new and greater perspective.

dave

thanks Dave, I was thinking about asking for you help on this thread, and guess I'm just as phychic as can be as here you are...well, the shaman plant..I don't know..good thing you didn't go into another place; reminds me of the movie "the fly".
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well heres the glossary terms to a book called The Unobstructed Universe by Stewart White. I read this at 13 and still scratching me head over it.  my comments are interjected as I tried to relate..

CONSCIOUSNESS:The one and all-inclusive reality, in evolution. Man's self-awareness is the highest expression of this reality
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ORTHOS (Greek, ortbos: true.) The operation of consciousness, through co-existent essences, in its unobstructed aspect
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the good thing about the afterlife is they usually don’t get into car crashes as all is energy so its an unobstructed universe btw, occassionally, we slip into another dimension and can go right through solid objects, but this is very rare, still noteworthy in our comparisons to make.
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ORTHIC:Adjective. Pertaining to orthos
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UNIVERSE:The total of all manifestations of consciousness
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OBSTRUCTED UNIVERSE: That aspect of the whole universe which man knows through his senses, including their mechanical extensions
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UNOBSTRUCTED UNIVERSE: That aspect of the entire universe ordinarily considered to be beyond the limitation of man's sense perceptions and their extensions
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focus levels; by jove!
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TRILOGIA:The threefold aspect of orthos, consisting of receptivity, conductivity, and frequency
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read carefully the description of the trilogia coming up
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ESSENCE: (Latin, esse: to be.) The co-existent and coefficient actuality of orthos, manifesting itself in the obstructed universe as Time, Space and Motion
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RECEPTIVITY=The Essence of Time

CONDUCTIVITY= The Essence of Space

FREQUENCY= The Essence of Motion

TIME. The obstructed manifestation of the orthic essence, receptivity
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SPACE:The obstructed manifestation of the orthic essence, conductivity
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MOTION:The obstructed manifestation of the orthic essence, frequency
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ARRESTMENT:An incidence of frequency, conductivity and receptivity, resulting in manifestation in the obstructed universe
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one time I was arrested. sorry for interrupting!
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DEGREE:Consciousness, being in evolution, is in degrees. Each degree represents a specific manifestation
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QUALITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: That aspect of consciousness resulting in species manifestation, as electricity, gold, tree, antelope, man, etc. In the unobstructed universe Quality is in evolution, and therefore in degrees. In the obstructed universe it is of fixed potentiality in its given degree
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QUANTITY OF CONSCIOUSNESS: That aspect of consciousness, in the obstructed universe, capable of, and subject to development by the individual, in evolution and therefore in degrees
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this may be saying ‘how much’ experience have you gathered? for if taking up thought is somewhat a nomenclature, evolution within degree is not?
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MATTER:In the obstructed universe matter is that arrestment of frequency which manifests itself in a threedimensional extension; in the unobstructed universe it is the form attribute of any aspect of the trilogia
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MATERIAL FORCES: Those arrestments of frequency expressing themselves through matter
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storms, hurricanes, nature, earthquakes,the elements, a function of our collective creations.
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AWARENESS-MECHANISM:That equipment of selfaware consciousness whereby the individual perceives that which is objective to him
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PARALLEL LAW: The term connotes the interextension of principles operating in both the obstructed and unobstructed universes
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BETA BODY: The form attribute of that frequency which is an individual consciousness, an I-Am. It is integral, atomic and noncellular
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ALPHA BODY: The form attribute of a combination of frequencies, constituting the physical housing in the obstructed universe of an individual consciousness. Such as the human body.
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PLURALISTIC MONISM: Connotes, one reality expressing itself in individualization, alike in kind but different in manifestation
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this may be comparing peas and corn, both are vegetables but manifesting with different properties.
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JUXTAPOSITION:The manner in which frequency (motion) variably collides with receptivity (time) and conductivity (space) to result in an arrestment, producing manifestation
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some day I will read this book again when I’m in the right head space. I think it will give us a very good feel for being out of body as well as being dead physically. Spooky, this is what I am studying right now. wish me luck!

love, alysia

Hi Alysia-
White's Unobstructed Universe was one of my favorites. I recall that it points out two interesting things - here in the everyday world of individual existences we define reality according to walls and barriers, while in the more general sense of the totality of all existence, there is ultimately only oneness in which the obstructions are not used. (Actually, lower astral seems to be a sort of halfway level). Following this thread, spiritual advancement seems to have something to do with the degree that we can bring an unobstructed existence, or perhaps awareness, into the everyday world.

As an example, we seem to have some sort of gratuitous psychic linkage, what with houses selling and suchlike.  This is certainly not because we set out to "do something", but rather it seems to be a result of not needing to do anything. It's just there.

d

thanks Dave. u are talking about sychronicity, which another author got me excited about, name of Atwater, had NDE's a plenty.

ah, yes, would be nice to experience a need to do nothing at all...

soon...now...hmmm. thanks again.

i've heard people talk about the veil thinning the older one gets... In reference to having closer connections to the spirit world and better chances for OBE.  Could this thinning veil theory also apply to the perception (or illusion) of time.  Ask anyone over thirty five and they will tell you the years fly by faster the older they get.

Hey Spooky, I didn't mean to piss you off with my rambling. I was just having a brainstorm there, playful thoughts. I am really not certain of the meaning of time, besides what we know as minutes, hours, etc. We could feel timeless at some point, may it be in dreams, right here in C1, or what not. I remember Alysia typed this once in here "anything happens that can happen"... and well... i dont know... you never know.


wrote on Oct 21^st, 2005 at 4:37pm:

So, my conclusion is "What you cannot talk about, you must silence about". I think I cannot longer talk about it!

wrote on Oct 21^st, 2005 at 6:43am:

Imagine: (A) There is that sequence of photos of a person’s life, they are all in line. The first one is that person’s birth and the last one is that person's funeral. (B) You have a peace of paper cut as a little window that fits exactly a single photo size, and it can slide along the line of photos from the begin to the end of it. (C) So as long as you move this little window along the line of photos you can see each moment of this person's life one at a time. Let’s consider (A)= Past, present and future can be happening at once they're only different pictures of the same “line”. (future already exists) (B)= The piece of paper cut as little windows is our C1 consciousness. (C)The photo where the little windows is stopped over at this moment we could call PRESENT. So let’s imagine that we were able to throw the little paper window away and got an entire line of picture’s view. We would be aware of all the line of photos. (past/present/future) Conclusion: Moving our consciousness focus could mean changing the position of our little window from the point it is now from a point ahead (for instance) in the line of photos of the existence. So it would be possible to see the future once it’s happening just now. We only have to change our focus. (our mind is all along it but our focus is not) Am I nuts ???????

Words are a thing to me, could not help but stumble over your peace of card, then piece of paper. Some slip made me think sideways! looking through peace at the current point of my time. hmm. tis quiet around here at least.

PeaceLoveEmpathy
Si

Kardek, you are describing C1 consciousness really well.
the focus part as concerning what time is. is true my opinion. words are difficult.
many times to explore within dream or obe, I notice ability of mind to focus. then I feel like I am a camera lens to zoom in. swish! it's fun. also my eyesight is a focus point the same here in C1. but what are my eyes? I am really only mind that learns to focus in on one portion of all that is.

thank you! love, alysia

The two elements that I believe make up our time illusion are distance and speed.  For some strange reason we seem to perceive or associate distance with time.  For example, lets examine our perception of a "time span" from 1930 to the now.  when we think about or see an event from 1930,  it could be an old move, a book, or a faded memory.  We think of it as being far away with much distance.  This distance does not exist.  All that has real changed for us from 1930 is that a lot of stuff or matter moved around.  Next we have to look at the speed at which this "stuff" or matter moved.  Our unit of measure is the movement of our earth (example - one turn=24 hours).  From there we relate this measurement to our own biological clocks, example - 1 hour feels like one hour.  And by-the-way 1 hour feels different all the time, when we sleep, when we are bored, when we are having a good time.  My point is, the instrument (biological clock or physical body) we have to measure the speed of matter movement is... for lack of a better word, a joke.  All the movement of events from the past 10,000 years could happen in an instant, if viewed from other perspectives or dimension.  My conclusion is I have to through out distance and the unmeasureable speed out of the time equation.  This puts all earth events very close together or simultanious and makes your time illusion theory very possibly.

Love to hear what you guys think, I'm sure my theory is missing something.

By the way, I have been a long time reader here and I have finally registered.  A lot of people on this board have given me a great deal of knowledge and insight and I want to thank all of you for that.  I hope to give back and share some of my experiences with you all in the near future.

wrote on Oct 27^th, 2005 at 10:45pm:

The two elements that I believe make up our time illusion are distance and speed.  .  All the movement of events from the past 10,000 years could happen in an instant, if viewed from other perspectives or dimension.

Interesting Point of View…

I know it's hard to explain. Sometimes it's easier to feel than to explain. But I think you got some details that we’ve lost. I think this is the main goal here if we are little pieces from the greater whole the truth is spread in little parts within each one of us.

Thank you for joining us.  Be welcome

aaaiiiieee!! Egdio helped me see something more clearly. I had posted from a book "unobstructed Universe" that time=frequency. now I am reminded of I never say you are 1,000 miles from me. I say instead this: you are a 16 hr. difference from me. so I measure by a time ratio.

also, about the life review process: when a person is dying they see their whole life flash by in entirety. reason? its all happening in the spiritual sense simultaneously, while we have an hour here to live, or a day, or a year, on other side is All Time.

one more thing to share!  I did PE with friend. I thought about being with her in her room in my conscious mind state. didn't know if I was "making it up" but we had agreed, so would try. I thought the distance is so far (australia from america) to travel, I'll just pretend I am there without traveling. pretty soon in my minds eye, we were like wispy curls trying to see each other. I saw her making effort to see me; I hung back, thinking am I here? will she see me? I could see her vaguely; then her phone rang in her house..I jumped; she jumped too! so I knew then distance was really an allusion as mind can travel and just "be there." ps. I didn't "hear" a phone ring; but I felt and saw her turn around to answer it, and she was upset, so I was upset too! only I didn't know why I was upset until she emailed me what happened.

so in conclusion time is definetly related to distance even to say it's like one thing.

love, alysia

So you might find this a little funny.  How I developed my time illusion suspicion or paranoia is... I was watching a college football game from 1983 on the classic sports channel, late at night, by myself.  It was crystal clear, unedited video and I think they even left some of the old commercials in.  It was a game that I remember watching back in 1983.  

If you stop and think about it, this is the first time in modern history you can watch an event older than 20 years on clear video.  Not black and white, not blurry, and unlike film quality... Video gives you a live action feel.  Anyway, watching this big event crystal clear with 70,000 people in the stands refocused my original memory of it.  My faded memory that gave this event so much distance was gone.  I never thought watching this would freak me out like it did.  I had goose bumps and I said to myself, oh my god, this could be happening right now.  I just didn't feel it being far away.  And by-the-way I wasn't on any LSD.  Maybe if I was, I could of really figured out this whole time space thing. lol

Hi egdio,
I had this very strange and uncomfortable feeling when I heard once an audiotape of me speaking with others. Every word was recorded. You can't make it unhappen, it's spoken out, it was me, and it was not for I have become me-now...if you know what I mean.
Spooky