Right on, Alysia!

I highly recommend a book called "The Field," mentioned briefly on the board in a previous post.  I just finished reading it, and basically it addresses these issues in a scientific way.  I was amazed at how many quality scientific studies done at Princeton, and other locations were cited here.  The author, a journalist documents rigorous studies on consciousness, intent, and connectedness and ties them together nicely.

In essence, our consciousness exists outside space and time.  Given this concept, experiments were designed to see if consciousness could alter events in the past or future.  A random number generator was used to basically give a "coin toss" recorded on a tape device.  But it was sealed and not read.  Theoretically, if there were 10,000 coin tosses, the number of heads and tails should average out statistically close to 50/50. 

Volunteers were then asked to try to influence the outcome of the readings of the tape.  The results were fascinating.  If the tape were read once, the results could not be influenced.  If it had been sealed, and the volunteer tried to influence the heads or tails outcome, a small but statistically significant effect was seen.  This could only have happened if the volunteer had an effect on the past.  When a control random tape was sealed and not influenced, it always followed a 50/50 pattern. 

The implication, is that we live in C1 but that past, present and future are all there simultaneously.  If a tree falls in a forest, and nobody hears it, does it make a noise?     I could never understand new age concepts and Jane Roberts Seth talking of altering our past, to shape our reality - that seemed silly to me.  Now, it all makes sense. 

The implications are also that if we concentrate our intent on something in the past or future, we may alter our present.  For example, a cancer may be diagnosed at a crucial time, when saving the person is still possible.  Or if the person is to get chemotherapy, and intent is focused on the future, the body also may respond in a healing way.  Visualization therapy, usually centers in the present time, but this also may respond to imagery geared toward the past or future.

In "The Field," the separation of time from consciousness is further illustrated by studies of remote viewing.  Remote viewers such as Ingo Swann were asked to describe a target person.  Then they were asked to describe that target in different times.  Remarkably, remote viewing appeared independent of time.  In one instance, a viewer described a known facility, but insisted that there were four machines present which he described in detail that were not present.  On reviewing a history of that location, these machines had been there fifty years before the viewing (and were no longer there).

All of this tells me that consciousness is not based in C1 space time.  When we meditate, change the focus of our consciousness, we have access to our past, present and future.  It is an amazing and difficult concept.

Matthew
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Hi Alysia.Your book must be very good.I cant wait to Get it.When will it be ready. Love George

Hi people,
I have noticed I have very good access to biographic memories while in my way of meditating. Of course it's enlightened to see your past for solving problems of the now, just like psychoanalytics would handle it. But the suggestion that the past is actually changeable is indeed a new powerful perspective and worth to try out I think.
(btw, Kyo shared similar infos, but I often need to be reminded of sth more than once before it sinks into my mind)
Bye, Spooky

I learn a new term today through Spooky, "biographic memory." if this means to research your personal biography then that is what I did in my book, only I called it self retrievals.
thanks guys, 

Spooky said:t's maybe just two ways to see the same thing.
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yes but it appears that the process is a little different and the end result waits within time. for instance in the self retrieval is done with images in the mind as well as some short conversations, like to the child, "do you want to go somewhere more fun?" then you get to pondering on the retrieval...this is part of the process to integrate the child's perceptions....you begin to see another viewpoint on it, to change the child's perceptions into the larger view of the adult self, this involves dealing with the hurt inside that you didn't feel with the original retrieval images. so the next time you revisit the past, it has been changed. there is now no more pain there or confusion. the past is no longer the same past.
blessings Spooky!