Pendulum Chapter One - Time

Chapter One

TIME

Time is a guardian, our watchdog, hence we can understand why it is intimately connected with the gravity system of the planet. For that which holds us to our planet is that which also enables us to focus upon our time, our lives, our being upon this planet. If we move beyond our own gravity, our own aura, our own orbit, we may temporarily move into a timeless state, or of an even more complex nature, we find that we are in a timeful place. If we were to travel in space we would find that time within our solar system would be a complex intertwining of all those times of various planets.

The relationship between the planets is of essential importance in determining time in interplanetary movement. Much of this will be found in the future. The challenge now is understanding of what and where we are, at present.

What we are at present is as much influenced by what we would determine as the future, as it is by the past. If we were to travel into the future from this present moment of time, we would find people wishing we had thought a particular way; wishing that we, their ancestors, had taken particular steps and had made decisions along particular paths.

Their thoughts from the future then rebound back on us into the present and influence the decisions that we make. So it is with our so called effect upon the past. If, for instance, we look upon what we did yesterday and how we thought yesterday (from our present stance in time), our ability to evaluate it, to analyse it, to learn from it to accept it or reject it, will actively effect what actually occurred.

It is extremely difficult for us to record exactly what occurred, for the very act of recording it, changes it. When we look back on that recording we so invariably recall so little of what it was really like. When we look at the past from the present moment we see in it the causes that have brought about the current day effects. We perceive it from the present and therefore change its very nature. This is of second nature to us all.

Time, then, is but a moment of conciousness. Time is a focus. Time is a means by which we organize and crystallize, the present. It is a means by which we are able to plan the future and measure the past. Time is a focus. It is imperative, then, that in the moments of change when so many of the landmarks by which we secure our conciousness are diffused, when so much goes out of focus and so much is blurred by changing perceptions, by fast moving comprehensions and emotions :- It is important that we have some kind of focus. Often that focus, then, is time.

The picture of an anxious father to be, pacing the halls of a maternity hospital, watching each hand go round on the clock; a focus; The waiting with a stop watch for a race to begin, when the entire system of one's being focuses for that moment when it will begin and we give our all; The moment in time when a baby takes its breath and it has begun. The moment of death, interestingly enough, is not as sharply in focus, and so it should be. Death is less clearly an ending as our first breath is a beginning.

Time then is our security, our stability, an anchor. it is an important anchor amidst any transition. On many occasions a New Year's Eve, a birthday, an important event proceeds, supposedly marking in time, something of significance. We build up a certain amount of tension and excitement waiting for that 'click' - the changing of time whereby somehow we are supposed to feel different, but so often we do not and we are left with an empty unfulfilled anticlimax, a disillusioned feeling. It is not because the event is of any less significance. Rather it is because we have not comprehended the meaning of time. We have tried to hang our emotional and sentimental feelings on a framework which is purely convenient or instrumental. The aligning of that point, however, to a natural occurrence, adds another dimension whereby the full meaning within time & space becomes apparent.

It would be more appropriate then for those anniversary events or in the cycles and seasons of life, to look back on the past from the present; to look to the future and what we would plan and to use that focus in time for that purpose! For if time is used merely to recall the past into the present, then it leaves us with an empty feeling. Any point in time, therefore, must include past, present and future.

If we turn our attention also to plans for the future, on that anniversary event, we find ourselves far more appropriately using the patterns and rhythms of our universe.

The necessity to come to that point of zero, to intertwine and intermesh the past with the present and the future, to utilize the point of zero to plan for the future, to bring the hopes and dreams of the future back into the present, to bring the sentimental longings from the past into the present. How now, it is Time!

The Alpha and Omega. Aneos Drut. That which is, has been and shall be. To grasp that point of zero enables any of us, to move from one planetary system into the other without losing our sense of who and what we are. For if we can understand our movement through time we can also understand our movement through space.

If we can accept the point of zero whereby we are nothing other than an instrument for life's own creation, then we can move willingly from one space to another, without any sense of having to invade it. If we can accept that the time sequences we have known on our planet Earth are unique to our own gravitational systems, we can let these go and move into a nothingness, willing to take on ourselves a new structire whereby we may refocus our conciousness. It is through the restructuring of our planetary time, to align accordingly with our true solar/lunar time, that we may find ourselves in Real Time.









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