Living in the no-time
One of the mantras of our era is “live in the present (moment)”. It means something like we have to avoid the past and the future like hell, just because the past and the future prevent us to make the most of our lives.
There are plenty of quotes about this subject, some of them coming from notorious personalities:
“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.” ~ Buddha
“Life is available only in the present moment. If you abandon the present moment you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
or
“When you are here and now, sitting totally, not jumping ahead, the miracle has happened. To be in the moment is the miracle.” ~ Osho
But the quote I do echo more is from Paulo Coelho:
“When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.” ~ Paulo Coelho
The question here is: how we define time? Or, what is the purpose of time? From my experience, when we enter the realm of our inner self, time lose its functionality. It hasn’t got any functionality at all there, and it’s just our ego the responsible for polluting that realm with such a limiting element.
But we are not used to the kind of freedom that emerges when we get rid of time at all. Not just past or future, but present and eternity too.
Time: one of the (most important) mysteries of life
Time performs a relevant role in our biological realm or dimension. It’s not just as simple as differentiate our biological nature from our spiritual essence and / or from our mind. The relationship between these “elements” is complex. But time is quite relevant, at least its role in the biological plane is, along with the other three geometrical dimensions that shape the physical world we are part of.
Sooner or later, our relationship with time will become challenging. And facing challenges leads us towards discoveries. One of my first discoveries about time is contained in this quote:
Forever and never are two periods of time we have to build every single day of our lives. — Manu Arenas
It’s a paradox, somehow, that confronts the lifetime duration implicit in these two words (forever and never) with our capacity of transforming lifetime magnitudes like these into nothing. When we say that we will never do this or that again, most of the… time, we probably will, for instance. Language is ruled by time too: from verbs to adverbs, all through the temporal expression and adverbial constructions, time is always there when we speak.
But… it is there when we think or feel or when we meditate? Even if it is there, is its presence mandatory when we think, feel or meditate? The answer, for me, is (spoiler alert) “no”. More on this topic later.
So, we are able to play with time. Of course, the biological and physical implications of time are real and draw a linear path in our physical development as “flesh and bones”. But the conscious implications of time, maybe, are mere mental constructions, unnecessary to feel, think or love (“love”, as the universal concept we are capable of as human beings, and not as the “love” we watch on the movies or TV).
Eventually, we will die. And eventually, the Earth will disappear. We haven’t got control over that time. But, in the realm of our inner self, we have freedom to play with it at will. Time hasn’t “power” in the realm of our inner self. In the realm of consciousness.
Moreover, we can get rid of time completely when we develop or build ideas, emotions or when we experiment “enormities” as love. When we wander around in the realm of consciousness, without the handcuffs of the ego, we have total freedom of “movement”.
Baby, child, young adult, adult, elder: we are all of them
One of the first “rules” we are tied to is the timeline of life. We soon learn that every stage of our personality development is related to a biological age. We learn that, as we get older, we have to leave behind those stages and behave accordingly to our age.
So, we end up throwing away everything in our past. We reject memories from our past, without thinking twice (or once). We “forget” them. Not just memories, but emotions, feelings, ideas, or love. In our early ages we don’t have words to describe our conscious processes, feelings or emotions, but (and here it is the foundation of this whole idea of no-time) those “events” occurred in the realm of the conscious are “just” there. All of them, somehow.
We “are” all of them. But, if we don’t go into that realm and stay permanently in our space/time realm, we are just a “four dimensions” projection of the “infinite being” we “are”. That projection is incomplete, and most of the time, we end up being victims of psychological conflicts or traumas. Then, we go to the psychologist or the psychiatrist looking for answers.
If we are lucky, those professionals will “invite” us to go into our childhood memories, or our young adults memories, looking for connections, answers, and questions. Just the “touch” with those emotions and feelings, even though they are channeled through the memory, may heal our conflicts. Or diminish their effects over our health.
When we go through those “stages” of our life timeline using the memory, we are using time to create a sequence of life events. It’s better than nothing, but “memory” removes the ubiquity of our consciousness.
What I’m working on now is in removing time and memory, and trying to go into the realm of consciousness without those “handcuffs” of space and time.
From “one moment” to a “spark” of light. From sound waves to frequencies
What I experienced one day at boom, listening to the Kokeshi session and dancing, and “feeling” was more than a memory in the sense of an event occurred in a specific place and time. It was a consciousness experience, occurred in the no-time/ no-space.
Feeling that “energy” so bright, clean, pure, beautiful, was like moving a muscle you don’t even know you have, or you don’t even know you can move at will. Thus, I’m looking for the way of going into that realm of consciousness at will. And It opened doors I didn’t know that were there.
“One moment” became a spark of light, turning “time” into “light”. That’s a similar process than the Fourier Transform. The Fourier transform converts time into frequencies. When we listen to music, we hear “sound waves”, but in our brain, some “magic” occurs, and the physical sound waves are transformed into “frequencies”.
Frequency is the “inner property” of physical sound. We don’t have air to move into our “self”, but we can use “frequencies” to connect with music even though the music is not playing “for real”. Thus, frequencies don’t have time, neither a physical representation. But they “are”.
Here it is where I find the connection with the quote from Paulo Coelho:
“When you have an intense contact of love with nature or another human being, like a spark, then you understand that there is no time and that everything is eternal.” ~ Paulo Coelho
I change “eternal” with “just like that”.
“Just like that”, the power of no-time
These ideas are just “going on ideas”, of course. But I would like to arrive to a conclusion here. Very preliminary, but a conclusion.
When we go into the realm of the consciousness without the handcuffs of time or the physical dimensions of space, we can go through all of our emotions, feelings, ideas, “just like that”.
If we develop an idea or find a discovery, we are capable of “reshape” all of our emotions, feelings, or ideas accordingly to that developed ideas or found discoveries “just like that”. No need of memory, nor going through painful processes of self “discovery” going through all the stages of our life timeline of babyhood, childhood, young-adulthood or whatever stage you can imagine.
Thus, if we “build” an idea capable of solving a conflict, we are able to reshape every single aspect of ours accordingly to that capability “just like that”. A traumatic experience, “in the past”, may become a healing one “just like that”.
A toxic relationship may become a non-toxic relationship “just like that”. A sad experience may become a constructive experience or even a lovely one, “just like that”.
“Just like That”.
Resources:
Link to the Kokeshi Session at Boom Festival 2022 in Soundcloud
