It’s Time to Talk about Time
Time is not what we think it is. For most, time is a linear path, stretching backwards into a fixed past, and opening forwards into a murky future. Our lives then, in such conception, are bound to the rails of that fixed time, riding along it from our birth to our death. What would it mean if time were something more than that — a vast field of choice, or an object that can be manipulated?
Time need not be seen as linear or fixed. Instead, conceive of time as an illusion we have created to be able to experience choice. This is a difficult concept for most people to understand. There is no past, and there is no future. Everything is actually occurring in a single, timeless, spacious moment - this moment, now. Think about it: everything is, has been, and always will be, occurring now. All you ever have is now. The now encodes memories of a past, but they are not now. And when you actually experienced those events, it was only ever now. You can think about the future, but you are thinking of it from the now. The future never happens. It is always now.
Everything that has happened, everything that will happen, and everything that potentially could happen is all occurring in the now. It is like an old-fashioned TV that is tuned to a specific channel, although there are many other channels on other frequencies that are also occurring at the same time. To create the illusion of time, our consciousness tunes into exquisitely specific slices of this infinitely spacious, timeless moment in order to generate everything that we experience, and thereby create an illusion of continuity and opportunity for choice. Our choices determine the next slice we experience, and the slices that we all largely agree on come together to create our consensus reality, including its remembered and recorded past.
When we view time through this illusionary lens, we can see time as a three-dimensional torus — a donut shape. Imagine that your consciousness sits outside of time at the center of this three-dimensional torus. In each single moment, it is tuning in to one specific “location” on the torus. Our experience of physical reality is on the surface of the torus, with our collective shared time being the ring around the outer circumference of the torus.
Just like space, which has the three dimensions of length, width, and height, time similarly has three dimensions. However, whereas the dimensions of space unfold perpendicularly from each other, the dimensions of time turn on themselves much like a Möbius strip, resulting in only 1.5 useful dimensions from the standpoint of our consciousness.
The first dimension of time is forwards and backwards, around the circumference of the torus. Because of the nature of our particular consciousness, we only perceive the forward movement of time, and not its backwards flow as well, and we find it difficult to perceive how time in fact loops upon itself at many scales. While we cannot as of yet experientially move backwards in time, we can nevertheless recognize that the illusion of time does in fact flow in both directions from the present moment. The past is not nearly as fixed as we tend to believe. As human beings, we have chosen to explore a particular flavor of consciousness, in which, among other things, we see the past as a rigidly fixed accumulation of prior events. However, decisions made at the present moment reverberate both forwards and backwards through time. The changes occurring backwards in time are not obvious to us, as they become immediately incorporated into our understanding of our own and our collective history. The timelines are constantly changing in every direction in every moment. This moment — now — is always the point of power, from which all change occurs. Just as every choice we make now leads to a branching set of probable timelines stretching into the future, every choice we make now also leads to a branching set of probable timelines leading into the past.
The second dimension of time is movement inwards and outwards from the surface of the torus. This is the only fully “unbounded” dimension of time available to human consciousness. Moving inward from the surface of time is a movement into probable realities. The uniqueness of time is that it permits choice. You are making choices in every moment, and for every choice you choose to make, different probable versions of you are making every other possible choice. How close those probable versions of you are to your surface of time is determined by how likely you are to make the particular choice. The closer to your surface a probable reality resides, the more likely you are to choose it, and thereby have it become your surface reality. The reason I use the term “your surface” rather than “the surface” is because each of those probable versions of yourself is individual and sovereign on its own terms, and experiences reality from that self’s own surface — a reality in which you are the probable self.
Moving outward from the surface of time moves into the realm of more generalized or archetypal time. These are the larger movements of narrative and story that shape so much of our collective experience, and yet which do not require the specific granular details of our lives to satisfy — they are foundational movements of energy from which many different narratives can arise, and in which we as a species, all of the beings on this planet in one way or another, and ultimately all consciousness everywhere, participate. All of our myths and ancient stories are energies existing at these more generalized levels. Although these events “occurred” in that their energies are part of the collective shared history of our psyches, an infinite number of events and narratives could potentially fill the contours of those energies. Thus, although Atlantis is in our past, there are an infinite number of different Atlantis stories, each unique, each part of our history, and each fulfilling the contours of the energies that drove certain changes to the shape of our species’ consciousness. Time simply is not linear.
The third dimension of time is movement sideways. This is movement into versions of our reality that are different from consensus reality in a non-contiguous fashion — for example, a reality in which everything is the same as a moment earlier, except there is now a pink elephant floating in the air next to us. Every infinite possibility exists somewhere inwards or outwards from us if it stems from a contiguous reality, or sideways of us if it does not.
Whereas every probable reality from each particular moment is potentially available to us experientially so long as it resonates with our particular beliefs and we (consciously or unconsciously) choose into it, sideways time is largely unavailable to our particular mode of consciousness from an experiential standpoint. Our consensus reality does not generally permit floating pink elephants to suddenly take residence in our reality. The closest we can generally get to sideways time is allowing our consciousness to drift into this space for inspiration and expansions, although physical movement into sideways time, thereby breaking continuity, can happen in the right circumstances, if in harmony with the collective consciousness.
Every event that occurs in time is a packaged construct of interactions that spirals through time, looping via sacred geometry into our experience at different points on the torus, intersecting with our personal time, with our probable and sideways realities and with consensus reality in an ever-changing relationship as both our personal reality and consensus reality constantly change. Time, like each of the 6 realms of magic, is a complete fractalized hologram of the whole, capable of encompassing All That Is entirely through its own frame.
For those interested in understanding and working with time more directly, we offer the attainments of Timelines and Timelessness. Timelines allows us to perceive the web of timelines as a portal to coordinate and manifest our reality, whereas Timelessness allows us to perceive time as time, and thereby manipulate the timing of events by adjusting their coordination into our experience. Regardless of whether you wish to receive the attainments, there are certain ways to think about time that will expand your creativity and give you a better sense in each moment of the potential outcomes of different choices:
When you are faced with a decision, consciously reach out in your mind towards all of the probable realities around this choice. Desire to see the results of the different choices as they manifest in different probable realities. You may find a thought come into your mind, or an image, or a feeling, or simply a knowing. Each of these is a subtle guide from the deeper parts of yourself helping you to make the best choice, and by consciously reaching out to the larger realities of your existence, you are consciously inviting that information into the mix. Trust in your intuition, and start noticing how that trust is rewarded.
Although we cannot easily move into sideways time from our location roughly in line with consensus reality, we can nevertheless reach out with our minds to embrace sideways time and all of its possibilities. The mere understanding that sideways time exists and that it is a place that your psyche can drift to when exploring different potentials makes the process much more effective. This is true of all aspects of spiritual growth, where the conscious awareness of a previously unconscious process strengthens the activity of that process immensely.
It is possible to manifest your reality more effectively by working with timeline magic. Visualize the timelines branching out in front of you. Do not reach for a specific timeline. Instead, picture the larger branch of timelines coming into focus that contains the result you desire. See that branch represented by a crystal heart stone. Send energy from your heart to your crown, and then wrap that energy around the heart stone, encasing it in gold. Feel the energy of your choice radiating forward and backward in time from this moment. As always, for this sort of manifestation to be effective, it must be done without attachment to the result. Simply make the choice, and then move on, unattached to the outcome while desiring a particular result. For those who wish to enhance their capacity to work with timelines, the Timelines attainment is available, which will substantially expand their intuitive understanding of how to work with timelines.
Try to notice how events tend to loop in time. This is easier with the Timelessness attainment; yet even without the attainment, it is possible to begin to notice how different events tend to recur, not at a fixed interval, but rather in larger patterns that each have their own “feel”. In noticing these patterns, it is possible to begin to consciously unwind them, or if related to desirable events, consciously strengthen them.
