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Time is that measurable gauge that directly reflects the passage of our reality. It is a product of the brain to give events meaning. Absolutely speaking, though, there is no time at all – there is always only the present moment. We create time to understand reality more rationally. The notion of an event, such as the aging process of an object, is easily understood in logical terms by means of time. Time is an integral, inseparable part of the event for without it, the aging process would not be as easily appreciated.

The Passage of Reality

When you move your hand from one point to another, this is either a succession of hands in a single reality or a succession of realities of a single hand. The former is the most common view, and of course necessitates the concepts of “time” and “space” to explain how the hand moved from one point to another in the same reality.

The latter view, however, involves neither time nor space, because all that is happening is the presentation of a single hand through many dimensions and not many hands within a single dimension. Remember that dimension does not hold things within it, and so the former view is anyway flawed. This reality is not a single dimension. Dimension is a way of viewing something. So one dimension has the hand in the starting position, another, further away, another further away still, until we arrive at the final dimension where the hand is found to be at its destination. There is no time and space here – only dimensions holding the hand’s positions. This is analogous to the frames of a movie that present themselves one after the next. Each frame is a dimension – a dimension through which God comes across as this or that.

Only when the brain asks, “What does this all mean?” the answer is movement, the meaning of which is both space and time. In truth, though, here there are only dimensions to channel God to man. So in our hand example, all of God is the hand in the starting position, all of God is the hand in an intermediate position and finally, all of God is the hand in the ending position. The change in perception from one frame to the next gives birth to the concept of time. This is the error of the brain, for this entire activity is based solely on the assumption of one single dimension.

The ever-present

Everything is in the present. The memories that we have are not over things of the “past”, but are produced always in the moment, by one’s own consciousness that drives the present moment as a projection of itself (consciousness). Positively then, there is no such thing as “the past”. There is only the ever-present, and so for man, this is “God”. Memories do not reflect the past, but the present perception of events regarded by the brain as being “in the past”. When you ponder a memory, you are actually allowing for the manifestation of the now. Even for the brain, neurons have to fire in a particular way to, in the moment, conjure a memory. So even the brain is itself always creating memories and thoughts in the present. Such a manifestation is only called "the past" when the brain, in error, tries on its own to understand the Cosmos from its (the brain’s) vantage point, rather than the other way around. If you go and confirm the memory - for example by actually physically returning to the place of the memory, then again, you are found in the present, and experiencing the now. This is true even if everyone you meet so readily confirms your memories. All these remain but manifestations of your present reality. This is Self – the meaning of God.

Time - the 4th dimension?

Time is often referred to as the fourth dimension. The reason for this is that it is commonly held in view that we dwell in three-dimensional space, and time only adds another dimension to our existence.

Space and Time

Physical body A exist in 3-dimensional space encapsulated in time. Considering this alone, the body thus has a 4-dimensionsal existence.

In our reality any physical body is subject to a single time line within three-dimensional space. So the universe can be considered to be a four-dimensional entity that brings the meaning of space and time to objects.

The Essence of Time

The essence of time was a fabrication of someone's imagination. This imagination chose the sun as the point of reference, assumed that time changes, that it increases, and that it increases in equal amounts. This was done to give order to our physical universe. Without the human mind, chances are that time as we know it would not exist at all. It is only by definition that things grow older over time. If time were defined as a decreasing entity, people would then be born old and die young. I am not talking about language here, but rather definition. They would actually be young when they die. Such a person might be described as young and frail for example. The point is that things don't necessarily grow older or younger, but rather that they change. They merely change from one form to another as the celebratory dance of dimensions continues.

Past, present and future

Past, present and future are all properties of time relative to any one point in time.

Path, present and future

A time line showing the relative positions of past, present and future.

The past is really just the opposite of the future relative to the present, and the past, by definition is behind us on our positive incremental time line. There is no difference whatsoever between the past and the future. Any differentiation is by definition alone and a product of the brain. There is also no difference in essence between events that have occurred and those that are to occur, for everything alone is but of the present moment. This is Self, the meaning of God.

Events

Events are things that happen along a time line. An event can be considered to be anything that is dynamic. If placed on a time line, it’s viewed to have a beginning and an end, and therefore an aging process.

Events on our Time Line

Events A and B both happened in the past, and in that order, whilst event C is yet to occur in the future.

It can then be said that such an event lasted for a certain “period of time”. Without a time line, however, the event would be all-present at every stage of change. It would exist and not exist. It would be both young and old. It would have no beginning and no end at all. It would just be. Be, that is, in every possible state of its existence. An object ages, because it is replaced by another object in the same reality or by another reality concerning the same object.

Changing the Future

Changing the future is something we do all the time.

Changing the Future

Actions at point A cause an event which, in time, is realized at point B.

In the illustration, changes occur from point A, whilst perception occurs at point B. Changing the future really means “molding” the future. If you want a certain consequence of an action to be felt in the future, then act in the present and time will carry the consequences of your actions into the future. Along our time line it is only possible to change the future. The action that occurred at point A automatically leads to an event that, in turn, is perceived at point B.

Changing the Present

No time passes in the present. The present is just a point along our fictitious time line. By definition the present is merely the fulcrum (or separator) between the past and the future. It is neither the past nor the future. Subject to our time line, the present cannot be changed since the present is merely a result of “past” actions.

Changing the Past

By sheer definition of our own particular time line (the fact that it progresses forward incrementally), it’s not possible to change it’s past. Events that have already occurred cannot be changed because their nature and sequence are revealed but in the present moment. The present moment simply comes to man. It is whatever it is, and it is all that there is. This is why, for man, it is itself “God”.

To change the past, then, one would have to change how consciousness projects itself as the present moment. Once this is done, everything in the present moment including memories and physical memorabilia will of course be correct.

Changing the Past

'Changing the past' involves dissolving time through states of being and encapsulating an altered past. This encapsulation is another reality reflecting the change. The alteration occurs at point A, which in turn causes an event which, in time, is realized at point B.

Seen another way:

Split Planes of Consciousness

We exist at point t1 on time line T. Along the path of our reality (Reality C), the present state of being as found on the reality axis, R, is Rc. An attempt at changing reality C's past by means of an event in reality A produces the path of Reality B, with the event being of reality B's past and not of reality C. Altered states of consciousness within Reality C at t1 give rise to realizations of Reality B (incarnations) presented as Rb.

This is how the present has landed where it is right now. “Yesterday”, there could well have been the situation that there was never a second world war decades ago, but we all know right now that there was. Right now, we also know that yesterday there was the situation that there was indeed a second world war decades ago, but all this is only what the present moment currently reveals. I will say it again, that the present moment is but a projection of consciousness – your consciousness. Since it is all that we have, man affectionately calls It “God”.

The Dimensions of Time

The various dimensions of time can be set out as follows. The diagram illustrates the first four.

The Dimensions of Time

a) Time is uniformly incremental and goes in one direction only. b) Time is uniformly incremental but can go in two directions simultaneously. This means that any amount (or none at all) of x-time can pass as any amount (or none at all) of y-time passes. c) Same as b) but now time can go simultaneously in three different directions. d) The encapsulation of c) that is uniformly incremental and going in one direction only.

Notice that the 4th dimension of time is really just an encapsulation of the third as it goes along another dimension, just as the 2nd dimension was an encapsulation of the first that existed in full measure along the second dimension. This encapsulation and introduction to yet still further dimensions goes on and on:

In Summary