TIME

HOW WE TAKE TIME FOR GRANTED!
Do we ever consider what Time is?

“It’s 1:48 pm!” we say, believing that all that has passed is done and gone, while anticipating the events of the next hour. Our collective consciousness is driven by the mechanical processes of time. I remember the first occasion I became aware of the idea of Time and what it represented to the ordinary concrete mind; I was reading a fascinating book that delved into the subject when suddenly in a flash it struck me:

TIME IS AWARENESS! IT DOESN’T REALLY EXIST.

Whatever is being registered in consciousness, whether it is events occurring in the physical, emotional or mental worlds, it is the awareness of these eventualities which gives the illusion of time flowing from the past to the fleeting present and into the future.

“TIME IS THE SEQUENTIAL REGISTRATION BY THE BRAIN OF STATES OF AWARENESS AND OF PROGRESSIVE CONTACTS WITH PHENOMENA. There is no such thing as time on the higher planes, as humanity understands it. The time sense is the response of the brain to a succession of states of consciousness or of events. To the soul on the higher plane, there is no such factor as time but only the Eternal Now is known”, as given by the Wise.
Awareness knows no present, past or future; it is timelessness itself. Why is this realisation – if glimpsed – a point of revelation?

We all recognise the immeasurable value of real insight into life and living; indeed, all of life is revelation if we take the time to register the fact! Our Presence finds itself in this world paradigm for a SPACE OF TIME in order to experience a series of events which hold the potential lessons that are to be learnt. At the end of these events – which we call death – our Presence withdraws from this space/time continuum into the timelessness in which it naturally exists . . . having gained a degree of understanding wrought out through experience. We go through this process again and again until our knowledge is complete.

Identification with time, and the obsessive involvement in the experience of living, are caused by ignor-ance of our true nature, the witnessing consciousness. As a result, the instruments at our disposal (the mental, emotional and physical bodies) are easily driven by the tremendous forces and energies playing on them in time and in space. As we learn to recognise ourselves as PURE PRESENCE – different in nature to all that is being experienced; and by consistently holding the position of the Observer – detached from the mechanism of observation (our three bodies) and all that is contacted in the world, we come to a point of final release. In this trained state of watchfulness, we learn to master all the uses of the three worlds of experiment, experience and expression, and are better able to direct the functions of the mind, emotions, and those energies which propel physical plane expression.

If we can get our heads round the idea that events create the illusion of time, we begin to develop a sort of continuity of consciousness, realising that all events are coming to pass solely for the purpose of edification; and whether they occur in the physical, emotional or mental worlds they are registered as events alone on the sensitive screen of our awareness . . . an awareness that ever exists outside of time.

Expansion of consciousness – our true purpose in being here – is brought about through the ability to identify with our real nature, the Detached Onlooker, and not with our organs of perception nor with the things we contact.
The key lies in the ability to hold the attitude of constant detached observation. This requires a degree of understanding first and followed through with consistent practice.