02-12-2011, 12:00 AM
I've been doing a lot of meditation lately on the subject of time and how it relates to the machinations of the foreign installation. As we get older, time seems to run faster, at least to our perceptions. "What do you mean it's Christmas again? Another birthday? Another new year? Where does the time go?" we hear ourselves say.
And yet, time is a humanform construct - created by humans, for humans. It can even be scientifically proven that "time" doesn't really exist in the void between galaxies, and that "time" moves at different rates depending on velocity, proximity to other objects in space, human perception, and so on. So, in short, time is as much a transient illusion as everything else. The problem is... it is a deadly illusion because we perceive it as real and experience it as what amounts to a form of ever-increasing "gravity" that is ultimately lethal to our organic form. It erodes us. We grow old. And in "time," we die. So I ask myself if "time" itself is perhaps the greatest weapon currently in use by the foreign installation - essentially a corrosive force that has quantifiable effects even though the thing itself (time) cannot be adequately defined as a phenomenon unto itself.
So what? Maybe. There are those who would argue that we are "simply" born mortal and that is our fate. We are beings who are going to die, or so we have been told.
And yet... is even that conclusion just one more bit ofthe FI's programming sludge worming its way into our belief systems through the consensus reality? Put another way: do we believe in time because our humanform nature predisposes us to experience things "in time", and through our belief, do we create time as the very phenomenon that ultimately kills us? When I think about it, it's a flawless trap. Absolutely flawless. And absolutely inviible to our perceptions most of the... "time." To me, that is the earmark of the foreign installation: hiding in plain sight, using the very weapons we give it, and how often have we said... "Time is our greatest enemy"? Even don Juan argued that a warrior cannot defeat old age... and what is old age but the erosive effect of Time?
Something my mentor/teacher/double said a few years back:
When you are fragmented, each fragment has its own life and its own agenda, its own internal dialogue. That which is cohesive experiences each moment as an eternity, unbroken, and so life becomes an endless and unbroken series of events, memories and manifestations, a single golden filament of consciousness existing both inside and outside of time, but always originating in the Now. That which is fragmented lives sometimes as many as 5 identities (or personality-roles) concurrently, each overlapping the other and each requiring its own measure of time/energy, so the end result is that time SEEMS to compress because more of it is being used – as if 5 people are drinking from the glass instead of only The One. What you have to do is to inhabit the I-Am at all times, and do it with conscious awareness. This may sound easy or trite, but it is the work of a lifetime, and it is the key to your own cohesion, the attainment of the totalty of yourself.
So the question becomes... as impeccable warriors, how do we step outside of time so as to escape the most powerful weapon of the foreign installation? Is it "merely" a matter of personal cohesion, personal wholeness, achieving the totality of oneself right here and right Now? To what extent do we simply accept what we have been told, even up to and including the Toltec teachings which tell us we are beings who are going to die? Perhaps it's true,but perhaps not. I had never really understood why time appears to go faster as we get older, so the explanation quoted above really caught my attention in that it was the first thing I'd encountered that made sense. If we are fragmented as a result of our tonal lives, if we are living 5 different "identities" at the same time, it stands to reason we are using up 5 times the amount of time... playing directly into the machinations of the foreign installation.
Just a thought in passing, but it also occurs to me that certain altered states may be helpful in overcoming the illusion of time. Ever notice that a minute spent in real pain feels like an hour spent in relative comfort? Anyone who's ever had a toothache in the wilderness can certainly attest to this. So what does it tell us about time and our perceptions? Simply that when we are focused in the Now (one of the side-effects of pain, tantra and orgasm, just to name a few options), the perception of Time alters in major ways. Somewhere in that is a key, a tool for us to consider. Obviously we don't want to live our lives in pain (which is just as much an erosive force as time), but there may be lessons to be gleaned from the effects pain has as a focusing element, something I myself have wrestled with over the past few months.
Something to think about. Input and comments welcome.
And yet, time is a humanform construct - created by humans, for humans. It can even be scientifically proven that "time" doesn't really exist in the void between galaxies, and that "time" moves at different rates depending on velocity, proximity to other objects in space, human perception, and so on. So, in short, time is as much a transient illusion as everything else. The problem is... it is a deadly illusion because we perceive it as real and experience it as what amounts to a form of ever-increasing "gravity" that is ultimately lethal to our organic form. It erodes us. We grow old. And in "time," we die. So I ask myself if "time" itself is perhaps the greatest weapon currently in use by the foreign installation - essentially a corrosive force that has quantifiable effects even though the thing itself (time) cannot be adequately defined as a phenomenon unto itself.
So what? Maybe. There are those who would argue that we are "simply" born mortal and that is our fate. We are beings who are going to die, or so we have been told.
And yet... is even that conclusion just one more bit ofthe FI's programming sludge worming its way into our belief systems through the consensus reality? Put another way: do we believe in time because our humanform nature predisposes us to experience things "in time", and through our belief, do we create time as the very phenomenon that ultimately kills us? When I think about it, it's a flawless trap. Absolutely flawless. And absolutely inviible to our perceptions most of the... "time." To me, that is the earmark of the foreign installation: hiding in plain sight, using the very weapons we give it, and how often have we said... "Time is our greatest enemy"? Even don Juan argued that a warrior cannot defeat old age... and what is old age but the erosive effect of Time?
Something my mentor/teacher/double said a few years back:
When you are fragmented, each fragment has its own life and its own agenda, its own internal dialogue. That which is cohesive experiences each moment as an eternity, unbroken, and so life becomes an endless and unbroken series of events, memories and manifestations, a single golden filament of consciousness existing both inside and outside of time, but always originating in the Now. That which is fragmented lives sometimes as many as 5 identities (or personality-roles) concurrently, each overlapping the other and each requiring its own measure of time/energy, so the end result is that time SEEMS to compress because more of it is being used – as if 5 people are drinking from the glass instead of only The One. What you have to do is to inhabit the I-Am at all times, and do it with conscious awareness. This may sound easy or trite, but it is the work of a lifetime, and it is the key to your own cohesion, the attainment of the totalty of yourself.
So the question becomes... as impeccable warriors, how do we step outside of time so as to escape the most powerful weapon of the foreign installation? Is it "merely" a matter of personal cohesion, personal wholeness, achieving the totality of oneself right here and right Now? To what extent do we simply accept what we have been told, even up to and including the Toltec teachings which tell us we are beings who are going to die? Perhaps it's true,but perhaps not. I had never really understood why time appears to go faster as we get older, so the explanation quoted above really caught my attention in that it was the first thing I'd encountered that made sense. If we are fragmented as a result of our tonal lives, if we are living 5 different "identities" at the same time, it stands to reason we are using up 5 times the amount of time... playing directly into the machinations of the foreign installation.
Just a thought in passing, but it also occurs to me that certain altered states may be helpful in overcoming the illusion of time. Ever notice that a minute spent in real pain feels like an hour spent in relative comfort? Anyone who's ever had a toothache in the wilderness can certainly attest to this. So what does it tell us about time and our perceptions? Simply that when we are focused in the Now (one of the side-effects of pain, tantra and orgasm, just to name a few options), the perception of Time alters in major ways. Somewhere in that is a key, a tool for us to consider. Obviously we don't want to live our lives in pain (which is just as much an erosive force as time), but there may be lessons to be gleaned from the effects pain has as a focusing element, something I myself have wrestled with over the past few months.
Something to think about. Input and comments welcome.