The Trap of Time
Back when I was just a schoolboy, my 5th grade teacher Mrs.
Sampson hung the classroom clock on the back wall, so as not to distract us
from her lesson plan. It didn't work,
because every kid in that room had the swivel neck, looking over their
shoulders to glance the time many times an hour. Before long She added a hand made sign below
the clock, in the shape of a bumper sticker.
It read: "Time will pass...will You?" We did of course, and along with whatever we
gleaned from the teachings; we also acquired a lifelong relationship with time,
for better or worse.
For some of us, punctuality is the prime directive while for
many it remains an elusive addition to our skill set. For some of us time is a master, for others,
a nagging mother-in-law; and some...well they never give time a second thought,
they just don't have the time for it. In
1971, Spiritualist teacher Ram Dass published his seminal work entitled "Be
Here Now," which among many other things, extolled the virtue of living in
the present moment. In a very real
sense, the present moment in time is all we ever really have. While living in the past may seem attractive
because the rent was so much lower back then, it is essentially a coping
mechanism used by folks who just cannot handle the pace of modern day
life. Conversely, living in the future
(daydreaming) may seem like a productive effort, but only the very talented
manage to make a decent living at it - for all the rest it remains just another
defense mechanism...the eternal hope that the future will be better despite
reality showing no signs thereof.
"Time is an Illusion." ~ Albert Einstein
The reason so many guru's and spiritual teachers want us to
focus upon, and live in, the present moment is because time is an illusion of
our own creation, we made it up, just like we do with everything else. Humans invented the concept of time primarily
to facilitate being asleep within a consensus reality matrix. Those awake within the dream we call life
released the notion of time, knowing as they do that all there is, or ever was
or will be...is the eternal Now. The
Point of Power is always in the present moment, never in the past, or
future...and that is, the power of choice.
Time is spherical, not linear, and as such it connects every aspect of
All That Is with every other aspect...not a single aspect excluded. Put another way, everything that has ever
happened or ever will happen is all happening right now in this eternal moment
of Now. Fortunately we have a built in
mechanism which acts like a series of step-down transformers to prevent this
fact from toasting our grey matter: it's called the 12 chakra system.
"The reason we have time is to keep everything from
happening at once"
~Buckaroo Banzai, (Stolen from Einstein)~
We also use time as a convenient scapegoat when we really
don't want to do something: "I just don't have the time." Balderdash!
Each of us has the exact same amount of "time" with which to
do things. The same number of hours in a
day that Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking have, we also have; so we either If we
hadn't created time then perhaps we'd be less anxious to muck about making
periodic changes in it to squeeze every last dollar from each day ~ Daylight
savings time! Twice a year the owners
force us to gain or loose an hour every day to accommodate purely commercial
enterprises, totally disregarding the sacred sleep cycle. To make it even worse, the last daylight
savings time shift happened to occur during the current period of mercury
retrograde, in Scorpio! Think of the
hundreds of working folk who forgot to adjust their clocks, and as a result
rush franticly to make up the lost time.
How many will cause or be included in a traffic accident because of
time? Speaking of working folk; just who
is responsible for the 40 hour work week anyway? What an archaic abuse of time.
make the time for something or not!
make the time for something or not!
Does anybody keep those kind of statistics...about the cost
in dollars & lives of this ridiculous mockery of time called daylight
savings time? What then of the
additional confusion caused when some communities here and there refuse to
acknowledge DST, and keep the same time year round? Yes it can be chaotic, and often times funny
depending upon one's perspective.
Consider the ancient Maya, who were indeed masters of time. For more than 2000 years their civilization
got along just fine with time. They
understood time perhaps better than anyone ever has, and they measured it in
cycles and patterns, whether the cycle was Trecena-13 days, Veintena-20 days,
Tzolkin-260 days: or the long count of 26 thousand years. I think the Maya understood the timelessness
of time, they understood it in Galactic terms, rather than planetary, I think
they could see the eternal moment of time which surrounds, and eventually
engulfs us all.
"Time is the fire in which we burn"
~Soran~ [Star Trek Generations]
Of course, mankind's tampering with time is as a drop of
water in the ocean compared to what the universe routinely does with time. Thanks to Albert Einstein we know that all
things, including time, are relative. We
know, for instance that a space traveler who went to alpha centauri & back
would return having hardly aged while everyone they ever knew had long since
died. We know that nothing, including
light can escape from a black hole, so what about time...what becomes of it in
such an environment? Kinda gets us back
to that eternal moment of Now. Distances
in the galaxy, and universe are so vast we must measure them in terms of time,
how long it takes light to travel a year at 186,000 feet per second...or a
light year. for example, on this scale,
the light from our sun takes eight minutes & 17 seconds to reach earth.
Because of relativity, time has shown us some marvelous
things, for instance; if you set two identical clocks to the exact same time,
then put one on a space ship traveling at light speed...you get what is termed
spooky action at distance; in other words changes made to the earth bound clock
would also appear on the clock aboard the space ship! Weird enough for you?? Buckle up!!
Scientists are now discovering that even the speed of light may not be a
universal constant, as Einstein thought.
Things get even stranger in regards to time when we look at
the opposite end of the spectrum, where we find atoms, molecules and such. Cutting edge advancements in our understanding
of the quantum world of string theory show that the laws of physics as we know
them work quite differently on the sub-atomic scale. Electrons behave very strangely, as we can
measure either it's position, or speed, but not both at once; the reason for this
being partially due to the electron's ability to appear to be in two places at
the same time! Electrons can manifest
either as a particle, or a wave...(but once again), not at the same moment. And what about Tachyons, those theoretical
particles which cannot mover slower than the speed of light?? Think of the astonishing potential harnessing
tachyons would have. It would enable and
facilitate faster than light communication; such that exchanging messages with
both the past and future would be feasible.
You would of course have to in some manner invoke or create a Lorentz
Invariance to get around some undesirable side effects on the causality of
things, but it could be done, given you could create or collect tachyons.
Don't get comfortable with time just yet because in less
than a nanosecond we're going even smaller, and further down the wormhole. What's smaller than a Nanosecond you may
ask?? Have you heard of Planck Time? Let me put it to you this way... Planck time is the time required for light to
travel (in a vacuum) a distance of one Planck Length: How small is that??? If one atom was the size of the entire known
universe, a Planck length would be the height of the average tree! I mention this mostly to give some
perspective to the discussion of time as we understand and live with it. If we are ever to understand how we fit into
the overall scheme of things, shouldn't we effort to discover how the overall
structure of things functions?
So here we all are at the end of time (Mayan calendar) just
as world shaking changes are taking place, (as predicted) and the resonance of
5D grows stronger with each soul arising from slumber. You might expect that time itself would begin
exhibiting previously unseen attributes, and you'd be right. A great many people nowadays are having the
experience of elastic time when some hours are much longer than others...and
sometimes it seems that time itself freezes for brief periods, and even Just more evidence of shifting
realities and paradigms. Many of us
speak in terms of there currently being two earths, of incompatible resonance
vibration...so imagine the surprise when I begin to see headlines about the
earth splitting in two at the equator this week.
speeds up.
speeds up.
"Time and Tide wait for no man." ~ St. Marher,
(1225)
Obviously, if we are indeed at the end of time then, by
definition we are pioneers ~ being as we are 'where no one has gone before'...
and cannot expect therefore to find such luxuries as map, compass or
instructions. We're here on our own kids,
and that means it's time to put everything we've learned (spiritually) into
play, "It's Showtime!" and the clock is ticking.
Like uncle Albert showed us, time is relative depending on
whether you're using galactic measurements, or Planck lengths: whether you're
talking about time on a geologic, prehistoric, or current day scale. When we humans invent something as cool as
time, we sure don't spare the detail...we go all in. The Rolling Stones may have had time on their
side, but then they weren't living in today's post-Fukushima reality where not
only is time decidedly not on our side, (meaning us, the living), it isn't even
our friend anymore.
There comes a time when no matter how frightening the horror
is; you can no longer hide beneath the blanket, hoping the nightmare will get
better or go away. When even the
strongest denial syndrome cracks from repeated blows of cognitive dissonance,
you simply have to come out and face the monster, and then stare it down, because
it ain't gonna get better and it's not going away. Between the few reports of radiation related
deaths escaping the Japanese barricade against truth, and the scores of sick,
dying and mutated marine life washing up simply everywhere, the Fukushima cows
are coming home to roost big time. The
genocide of the pacific ocean from Fukushima radiation is now so widespread
that not even the most determined efforts can censor it. The truth is out, and as usual...it's far
worse than we have been told.
Just this week we have seen several experts and authorities
openly admitting to the press that the overall situation is, in a word,
Hopeless. Like the super massive black
hole at the center of our galaxy, the nuclear volcano Fukushima will just
continue to eat away at every single lifeform on earth, until at last the only
life remaining will be that which thrives on such extreme environments. Cockroaches!
"I wish it need not have happened in my time."
said Frodo
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who
live to see such times,
But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide
is what to do with the time given us."
J.R.R. Tolkien ~ The Fellowship of the Ring
The point here is simple and easy for anyone to see, and
that is, that time is more precious to us now than it ever has been before in
the history of our species. Simple as
that. When it comes down to your final
days of life, what memories will you cherish most? Will you wish you had put in more overtime
down at the office? Or perhaps you'll
wish you'd spent more time acknowledging, and being with those you care about
the most. Will you curse yourself for
the time you wasted, or be at peace, knowing time spent knowing yourself is
never wasted? Even if every other major
crisis on this planet was peacefully resolved with food and shelter enough for
every single human, and the abolishment of war, slavery and GMO
food-like-products was a fact of life....there still would be no fix for
Fukushima, and it will just continue, long after the last human perishes from
this place.
This then, is the trap of time. What will we do with the remaining time given
us? Will all semblance of civilized
society dissolve into the stuff of every apocalyptic movie ever made...or will
we, as a species show a bit of class, a shard of dignity as we go down with
Gaia; taking a deep breath and accepting our fate? Yeah, I know you'd prefer not to think about
such things...and that's a huge part of the problem here because it prevents
you from finding that peace. The peace
to go out dancing every weekend and follow your favorite band on tour as though
the world was just dandy and fixin to last a million more years. The peace that leads to finding the truly
precious things about life, before you must release it, once again, as you have
so very many times before.
"How did it get so late so soon?" ~ Dr. Seuss
What shall we do? I
rather suppose that we should re-think our priorities in life just now, and
take stock as they say. Make a conscious
effort to acknowledge, and respect all life...ALL life. Maybe dial back the pretentiousness and
aggression enough to see that we really are all one after all, and from that,
take forgiveness & gratitude...and some humble pie. There will of course be hoarding and elevated
competition for dwindling resources, but I'm really hoping humanity can rise
above those levels of barbarism since we are in the very midst of a spiritual
evolution, and all. Perhaps in the final
analysis this is what it takes for us to finally begin to truly value one
another. Just as Hunab Ku, the black
hole at the center of our galaxy; Time has us in it's grip, which doesn't seem
so bad until the corporeal systems begin to fail. And just like the black hole; Time will have
it's way with us - in the fullness of time.
Until Next Time ~ Be Good to Each Other
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