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XXIX
Working with Time
Lecture based Questions:
1. In which direction does time flow in the physical dimension?
Time flows (or spreads out) forward, backward, and other directions at the same time, although we experience time as a forward experience. Time can be likened to a river. It flows in one direction, but at different speeds—fast on the top, slower at the bottom. On the sides there are places where there is no movement, and others where eddies swirl around in circles. Time flows at different speeds under different conditions. The physical dimension operates at the speed of time.
Time can also be likened to water pouring onto a table. It spreads out in all directions at the same time. Although we are designed to perceive time as linear and contiguous, it is actually more diverse that that.
2. Can we change our relative positions to time?
Yes. The pace of time is relative to the speed of the mind that perceives it. Time flies when you are having fun, because the thinking has slowed down. When the mind has accelerated [in creative mode] because it is focused on accomplishing a goal, then time can seem much slower than normal.
How?
Focusing on a goal excites activity in the Mental Body, which has a certain influence over time. Do not think about what o’clock it is. Instead, bear the intention to succeed in the front of your mind. Don’t be constantly addicted to entertainment. The mind works fastest when it is free from distraction.
3. How does the Astral World and the Mental World interact with physical time?
The physical dimension is called “The Slow Dimension” by the Hierarchy. The dimensions higher than the third dimension vibrate at a faster rate than time. Each higher dimension increases its velocity of vibration exponentially.
The Astral World (to put it in a simplified way) functions at over double the speed to physical cadence. The Astral perspective of physical time is something like standing on the bank of a river and watching it go by in slow motion. You can jump over it, walk or run alongside of it, or float on top of it.
The Mental view of physical time is even more diverse. The physical dimension is so relatively slow that it seems to be standing still.
Because of this relative slowness, we can learn lessons here without causing much ruckus in the universe from our mistakes. It is a great classroom.
4. What are the mental and emotional conditions required for moving out of time?
If you want to slow down time so that you can get more things done, then you must increase the quickness of your consciousness. When you are completely absorbed in the success of your goal, then the distractions of the physical life cannot pull away your mental efficiency. This concentrated thinking keeps you on track. Emotionally, you want to cultivate the condition of Amused Waiting. In this, you suspend desire and will force. With good humor, you expect the events around you to be entertaining as you observe them with an objective slant. You are not emotionally invested in the outcome, as you have a firm grip on your faith that God handles all things wisely and rightly. All the Masters look at life this way. With these two conditions intact, things go smoothly.
5. Exercise: Predicting the Future
Tagging a specific person or situation, track it ahead to the possible future barring any alterations in condition.
Add a change of condition and then track your subject ahead to this possible future.
Sometimes, your Guardian Angel will send you a picture that represents a definite future about someone. Feel free to speak these messages with confidence.
NOTE: when most people ask you to look into the future for them, they will be usually disappointed by your answer, for they already have some wish-fulfillment in mind, which rarely synchronizes with what you see. The most satisfied clients in this regard are those to whom you have volunteered information that was unsolicited.
7. Draw or describe one of your helpers.
How about your Angel of Enlightenment (Imli)? Check into it for yourself!
Time, Fate, and a River of Relativity
Time is a phenomenon that seems to rule in the physical plane of life. It appears to sweep us along inexorably through a lifetime of events. Einstein touted the equation that time in space outside of earth’s rotation would pass more slowly than time on the surface of the planet. Also, he calculated that time at the rim of a singularity (black hole) would be distorted in great magnifications of freezing and passing and reversal.
The sun shines upon the rotating planet of our physical home. The process creates days, seasons, and lunar cycles. It is possible to work successfully through lifetimes without any further measurement or encasement. Yet we persist in counting and dividing increments of day and night, by the beating of a heart pulse for the convenience of the civilization that we have constructed. It gives us a sense of urgency to produce results. It creates a sense of order and engages one’s interest. To a flower or an ant, the passing of one year into another bears no difference than one day the next. Our emotional needs for rites of passage create the highs and lows of Astral significance in the course of a day or a year. Our human sanity hinges a great deal on our concepts of time and where we fit into it. To challenge a model of time as an immutable structure might threaten some people’s paradigms of life.
If you envision time as a river, generally flowing in a certain direction, yet with many variations of speed and with some areas of still water or counter-flowing eddies, you may have a clear metaphorical picture of the manner in which time affects you and the physical world. If you should cup some of this river in your hand and hold it for a while, then let it trickle out of your fingers back into the traveling stream, then you also have a notion of your own ability to create differences in time through your thought and your intention.
A river flows most quickly on its surface, roiling, jostling, and bumping along. Underneath, currents flow at different rates depending on the resistance of the riverbed and other forms of obstruction. Swirling pools along the banks flow in directions apart from the general flow. Small stagnant pools are fed from the main stream, but do not move appreciably. These are all components of a moving river, and can be correlated to the components of time. From this metaphor, we can see that different situations affect time to a variety of results, and that our physical lives are not as circumscribed as they seem.
The concepts of past and future are both relative to the speed of the consciousness that perceives them. This is key to time relation: the mind that observes the moment determines the direction and speed of its passing. What we are now experiencing has already been created (by the Monad) in an immeasurably complex and well-laid pattern of possibilities, choices, and alternate pathways. We must necessarily assume, then, that the speed of the eighth dimension surpasses all time as we know it. Each lower dimension operates at a slower and less resonating level, until we consider our familiar third dimension, which appears to operate at the speed of time.
By shifting the consciousness to the mental level, we have some ability to create chronos space for ourselves. We can step through the constraints of time flow by the focus of our purposeful efforts. We can “slow time” by speeding our rate of awareness. We can “visit” the past through stretching the mental body to a point of experience or by Astral memory. We can look up a sequence of events into many possible futures. We can “fold” time and space in such a way as to appear to achieve certain magical feats.
There is no mystery involved when we observe life from a higher point of view. With practice and personal proof, one can eventually deal with time as easily as with a pool of water in the palm of the hand. The real work is to live life with good humor, serving our brothers and sisters with love and help despite their resistance or hostility, and maintaining the consciousness as a channel for Light.
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8:00 a.m. September 6, 1950
Kung Fu:
Life’s movements continue in cyclic and in measured order. How many steps have you taken, consciously measured? Behold the wonder, grandeur, the ecstasy of life as it moves about us! The hours have their charged patterns as the sun’s movements bring forth new places emphasized by light and others harmonized by shadow.
Become dedicated stewards of time! I want you to endeavor this new week to learn how wealthy you are in the resources of hours. Eliminate spend-thriftiness. Do not give hours to circumstances, persons, or activities that will be in themselves of no consequence. Learn to turn sharp, measured reasoning upon each new day so that the wide sweep of the hours will be appreciated and likewise properly consecrated in your meditations. It is essential to learn the conquest of procrastination. Recall unceasingly to tune into the soul’s forces of attuned rhythms, and do your work through remembering contacts with solar chargings. Be more mindful of your duties and of how each task must be completed in a certain hour and not two hours hence. When the end of day comes, leave, with a clear mind your desks or tasks and go to other labors that are recreational. Instruct yourselves to keep on measuring the hours with valued use, making every word, every act and motive conscious and bathed by solar anointing—work should be brought to the soul’s attention and given permission to be anointed.
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8:00 a.m. Thursday September 7, 1950
Kung Fu:
Greetings, my pupils and a day well spent to each of you! Time must be measured in your lives. Beginning with yesterday we hinted about those approaches towards which you must aspire in your careful arrangement of the hours. I urge you, this day, before you leave the chapel, to make an interior plan within your minds as to the execution of time within your allotment of conscious waking hours. If you have twenty tasks and three of them can be completed with excellence of conduct and quality of effort within one hour, the remaining seventeen can be performed one at a time, or again brought to accomplishment in twos or threes within an hour. Work not for haste, but for accomplishment. Be less mindful of the crowding of the many duties, but more thoughtful of the total sum that must be executed within one planetary day.
You have only to do and to fulfill in this time
and this time will be elongated
into the growth towards which we are pointing you.
—Master J.
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