A Non-linear Time Experience

Posted on January 6, 2008
Filed Under Awareness, Consciousness |

It was almost mid-night and my wife and I were just approaching the bridge which extends over the extensive marsh-lands near our home town. What we experienced just then, was a pretty intense moment of non-linear time. We had been talking about reality-tunnels, and how moving outside of our own tunnels allows us to view all sorts of phenomena. We hit the incline of the bridge and six years previous my mother-in-law was telling us of her visions of spirits and ‘ghosts’. It was one of those moments where people suddenly open-up and talk about something they have held back for decades.

As mid-night struck on that dark-road we were very conscious of my mother-in-law’s reality tunnel. Two moments in time linked by ‘points of experience’; right at that moment the interceding six years no longer existed and we experienced both moments simultaneously. The sensation deepened into another dimension as we felt the moment connect to yet another related experience point at some undisclosed time in the future.

Sometime later, I once again was awe struck at how fragile our perception and belief in time actually is. We file away memories in a linear fashion as though we are operating a giant filing cabinet – and we mistakenly think that each memory exists in its separate folder in time. It’s actually more like related experiences exist within the same folder – irrespective of time.

Time Bridge

It’s not merely a case that you remember the moment from the past, it is something much deeper and profound; you re-connect with that other experience-point whether it be in the past, present or future. That is the nature of non-linear time – which our minds are quite capable of transcending.

It is as though you stand on one side of a mirror and the object of your experience is the reflection. At another time in the future you find yourself to be somewhere inside that reflection and your ‘point of experience’ is both the reflection and the previous moment in time. The two (or more!) moments are connected via ‘points of experience’ rather than separated by linear steps in time.

It’s a very difficult experience to put into words, but if you let go of your intellectual grasp of time – you will notice that your mind naturally functions in a non-linear manner. If you apply that style of thinking to time – you are actually starting to get pretty close to how time can actually be experienced.

The only problem is that your mind needs to be prepared for - or at the very least aware of the potential for such an experience. It’s certainly something that would blow a gasket in a robust robotic mind. So it’s a good idea to be malleable and flexible, and that comes from being conscious of our Self and increasing our awareness of our reality.

But that’s how it goes with all things isn’t it?