November 1, 2008
The Conscious Mind Knows Not of Time (Part Two of a Two Part Series)
Pyramid of Time
Time is a construction of our mind used to measure experiences, distances and events.
(continued from Yesterdays Blog Post)
I took the pipe home that night and began to make up a ceremony that I did frequently through the months in the privacy of my home by myself. It consisted of facing the sacred four directions of North, South, East and West and extending blessings and prayers to all living things. About a month later I picked up the book Return of the Bird Tribes. As I read along, I came to the chapters on White Buffalo Calf Woman and her pipe ceremony. As I read about the legend, I came to the section in the book that described the entire pipe ceremony and what I had made up in my little ceremony was White Buffalo Calf Woman’s ceremony word by word. The depth of Violets connection to time and what she could see amazed me, and yet within this gentle soul was an antiquity that I had rarely encountered in all my travels. She remained standing and beckoned me to sit next to her. As I sat, there were several other Aboriginal people who had come to see Violet. She turned to her assistant, a large Aboriginal woman with the deepest blackest eyes I have ever seen and Violet asked her, “Is he a goodie or a badie?” Her assistant went into dream time and slowly opened her eyes and said: ”He is in-between.” Violet then looked at me with a large grin upon her face and said “I know who you are”. You are the one from Atlantis who bridged science and spirituality together and your back to do it again.” Then, she said, “You know that Aboriginal man you were seeing all the time?” (Remember, this is four years later.) I said, “Yes.” She said, “That was you. You have come home.” She gave me my Aboriginal name and spent four more hours with me leading me on several Shamanic journeys. My life was not the same when I left her presence.
I took the pipe home that night and began to make up a ceremony that I did frequently through the months in the privacy of my home by myself. It consisted of facing the sacred four directions of North, South, East and West and extending blessings and prayers to all living things. About a month later I picked up the book Return of the Bird Tribes. As I read along, I came to the chapters on White Buffalo Calf Woman and her pipe ceremony. As I read about the legend, I came to the section in the book that described the entire pipe ceremony and what I had made up in my little ceremony was White Buffalo Calf Woman’s ceremony word by word. The depth of Violets connection to time and what she could see amazed me, and yet within this gentle soul was an antiquity that I had rarely encountered in all my travels. She remained standing and beckoned me to sit next to her. As I sat, there were several other Aboriginal people who had come to see Violet. She turned to her assistant, a large Aboriginal woman with the deepest blackest eyes I have ever seen and Violet asked her, “Is he a goodie or a badie?” Her assistant went into dream time and slowly opened her eyes and said: “He is in-between.” Violet then looked at me with a large grin upon her face and said “I know who you are. You are the one from Atlantis who bridged science and spirituality together and your back to do it again.” Then, she said, “You know that Aboriginal man you were seeing all the time?” (Remember, this is four years later.) I said, “Yes.” She said, “That was you. You have come home.” She gave me my Aboriginal name and spent four more hours with me leading me on several Shamanic journeys. My life was not the same when I left her presence. I have thought since then that she did not live in time as we know it. All time was the same to her as if she had access to all dimensions of time – past, present and future — simultaneously. I have to wonder how difficult it has been for the Aboriginal people to fit themselves into a culture that runs itself so fundamentally differently. It would make it impossible for the Aborigine to integrate into a western model of time or culture. They are a special and sacred people.
So when we think about how Quantum Physics is proving that time is a mental construct and what is real is consciousness, it raises the questions of how real can our past really be and how real is our projections into the future. Worry serves no purpose nor does regret of the past. What does make a difference is our focus of mind upon the eternal and timeless presence of who we are and being in the eternal NOW.
We are quantum creating beings spinning out our world with every thought we think, emotion we produce and word we speak. Let us spin our realities from a heart focused upon the knowingness of ourselves as the eternal traveler. We are returning ourselves back to a state of oneness.
Gary