The Mystery of Time

[Verum Occultum]

Recently I've felt like I can teleport through time in an amazingly fluid sense with my consciousness. At one moment I am in a certain situation, then suddenly I find myself in another, and the gap in-between feels like the same moment. I feel there is no actual time-difference once I'm in the 'new' moment, which could be an hour apart or more. It is essentially basic experience, but the difference lies in how it's experienced in consciousness. So I've been contemplating and meditating with great effort the nature of this experience and found some wisdom.

My understanding of how the passing of events relate to time and our awareness is that each event has its own psychological atmosphere, a kind of feeling-based reality to them. It is not a feeling that arises in the ego or the personality, but exists inherently in all consciousness. It is the medium by which consciousness identifies events as separate things to be experienced sequentially. It is a deep feeling, a certain quality of heaviness that surrounds the given atmosphere of a situation. I call this feeling a "core moment". A core moment is encircled by a multitude of potential sub-moments, and by identifying with different core moments, one can 'leap' through many sub-moments quite effortlessly. You are not in this way skipping moments per se, rather you are widening your perspective of them.

But...

Today a portion of Thoth's Emerald Tablets came into my awareness, and I think I have an at least vague idea of its description. The translated versions of the tablets could be greatly incorrect, but I will nevertheless give my interpretation regarding this idea:

(TABLET X)

...Found I that time moves through strange angles.
Yet only by curves could I hope to attain the key
that would give me access to the time-space.
Found I that only by moving upward
and yet again by moving to right-ward
could I be free from the time of the movement.

Most people agree that time is linear. Perhaps linear time is like a straight line, but often there are many changes in this straight line due to our state of being. One is joyous in a classroom while another feels utter boredom. They experience time differently, one fast, one slow. When the bored person comes out of his boredom, there is a change in the experience of time. Both the joyous and the bored feel a change in time after the class has ended, and they use their 'memory' (imagination) to make 'past experiences' proportional to their present experience. However, the bored one was "stuck", or more focused in sub-moments, thus creating more time. So there is a definitive creation of an angle in time for the bored one.

When time is a curve, core moments are juxtaposed. And when time is a circle, totalities of core moments are merged. Time is like a fractal of varying moments, and in true timelessness the matrix of the fractal is seen for its true nature. In this sense, greater identifications of core moments (and the totalities of core moments) is possible, by being in profound excitement. Ultimately, I believe the deeper awareness of the curve of time permits an individual to age less rapidly in this manner.

[Plenum]

that's a neat post.  What do you think spurred these changes in you?

Most people agree that time is linear. Perhaps linear time is like a straight line, but often there are many changes in this straight line due to our state of being. One is joyous in a classroom while another feels utter boredom. They experience time differently, one fast, one slow. When the bored person comes out of his boredom, there is a change in the experience of time. Both the joyous and the bored feel a change in time after the class has ended, and they use their 'memory' (imagination) to make 'past experiences' proportional to their present experience. However, the bored one was "stuck", or more focused in sub-moments, thus creating more time. So there is a definitive creation of an angle in time for the bored one.

When time is a curve, core moments are juxtaposed. And when time is a circle, totalities of core moments are merged. Time is like a fractal of varying moments, and in true timelessness the matrix of the fractal is seen for its true nature. In this sense, greater identifications of core moments (and the totalities of core moments) is possible, by being in profound excitement. Ultimately, I believe the deeper awareness of the curve of time permits an individual to age less rapidly in this manner.

so non-attachments to these 'sub-moments' then creates the juxtaposition?

[Verum Occultum]

that's a neat post.  What do you think spurred these changes in you?

Thank you.

Well, within this month I have, for the first time, read portions of Seth's explanations about how our thoughts create our experience. Beliefs are strong thoughts that can be either limiting or expansive. My beliefs about this reality were already quite flexible, so I think the activation of deeper examination of them influenced these changes in my consciousness. I strongly believe anyone can do this if they extend their beliefs on a conscious level.

so non-attachments to these 'sub-moments' then creates the juxtaposition?

In my opinion this can be so, but there is a possibility of not fully enjoying sub-moments due not to being attached to them. I understand that is not what you mean, but felt like this was an important thing to say. However, if you flow through the moments then there is no specific attachment and the next "check point" can be pursued. I would still say there is a deeper aspect than non-attachment which creates the juxtapositions we speak of.

In a deeper sense, what creates the juxtaposition between core moments is your own conscious focus of their atmospheres, whether you are attached to their sub-moments or not. I find that the impetus of activity brings core moments closer together. Activity helps because you are doing and moving, not only in space, but in time. Flowing with the current of time is comparable to velocity in space. Therefore, there exists velocity in time.

For example, when you stare at a clock, there is little activity and you are focusing on only one core moment. So the juxtaposition is from this perspective created by your own inner ability to produce activity at a rate that it can cause more and more powerful fluctuations in time, so to speak. When there are no fluctuations in time, you feel 'stuck'. I believe that once you are ready to shift your focus into a different atmosphere, you will (do it automatically). You do it by yourself, because experience is essentially subjective. That is also what Ra understands, which is why we are in the same stream of time [objective] but they exist beyond time as we know it [subjective].

It's not extremely necessary to create divisions like 'core moments' and 'sub-moments', but these terms help me to express my understanding. I think a keyword to be noted in this context is intensity.

[Aion]

Time is a sphere where the center is unmoving.

[ada]

Going back to childhood, time was slow and alive. Things/objects that surrounded us weren't just "background" experience, because we were curious, we had to touch, to climb, to feel.