You Are Not A Prisoner Of Time
Time Is An Illusion. ~ Albert Einstein
Time is not a universal constant.
Time passes at different rates and in different ways depending upon who we are, where we are, what we are, why we are counting time, and how we measure time. There is no such thing as an absolute past. There are probably an infinite number of futures for us to choose from. The present isn’t just now, the present also encompasses the past and the future. My perception of time and my reality is different from yours. Most importantly, we are not trapped by time, we can choose to use and take advantage of time as we will.
Time is not constant and one minute is not the same length as another. ~ Jeanette Winterson
Subjectively we know that time passes at different rates depending upon circumstances. If you’re stuck in an airport departure lounge waiting for your much delayed flight, then time passes painfully slowly ~ the minutes seem like hours and the hours crawl by like a wounded fly. Conversely, if you’re getting ready for a really hot dinner date, then the hours fly by, and there’s just no way you’re going to be ready on time.
Scientifically, time also passes at different rates depending upon how fast you’re moving, and how much gravity there is where you are. In the world of quantum mechanics time may, or may not, exist at all.
We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality it contains the only mystery. ~ Richard Feynman.
The present, your ‘now’, isn’t only the present. This instant of ‘now’ also includes the past and the future, and both the past and the future can and will change in a way that’s dependent upon now. Once you accept that time is not an immutable constant you have the ability to change your future, your present, and your past. Changing your own past is called retrocausality.
Everything, and I mean every moment of joy, happiness, sadness, trauma, learning, experiencing, dreaming and imagining, everything that has ever happened to you, and everything that you have ever done is present in the now. Mostly we just aren’t consciously aware that the past is with us in the here and now. But, without your past you wouldn’t be able to walk, talk, drive, hold down a job, or maintain a loving relationship. The downside of this is that all the bad things about us were created in the past. All the anger, attitudes, insecurities, jealousies, phobias, and mental illnesses are from the past. But, you do not have to be a prisoner of your past, you have the ability to change the past.
The future is also with us in the present. Everything you do is dictated by the future. You most likely will go to work on Monday, and that’s dictated by things that will happen much further in the future than Monday. If you don’t go to work, then somewhere in the future you may lose your job, and then your home, because you can’t pay the rent / mortgage / local taxes. If you knew for certain that the Second Coming of Christ was going to happen this Christmas, then most likely you wouldn’t go to work on Monday. The future changes and creates the present, and the present changes the future. The more brave choices you make in the present the greater number of possible futures you have to choose from.
We can choose from our possible futures, but most people are very bad at making brave choices. Almost everyone will do tomorrow what they did yesterday, with exactly the same people in exactly the same places. Those people have made the choice to make no choices at all, and the more they do that the fewer possible futures they have to choose from. If nothing changes then nothing changes.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Albert Einstein
We can choose to change our past. After all, the past is only what we remember and how we interpret those memories. If you had an abusive childhood, then in all likelihood it will have blighted your whole life, right up to the here and now. Trauma in your childhood could have left you with Alcoholism, Borderline Personality Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, or any of a number of other psychological problems.
You can change all that and have a good life now by reinterpreting the past ~ after all the past is only memories. I can’t tell you how to do that, you may need counselling or psychotherapy. However, I can tell you that I stopped the past from blighting my present by unconditionally accepting who I am, and acceptance created a whole raft of new futures for me to choose from. Today I am enjoying enlightenment and empowerment because I changed the past in my present. Today I have more futures to choose from because I changed the subjective past.
You can change your own past, your present, and your future. All you need to do is to have the willingness to change.
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these opinions are mine and mine alone
jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
Quantum Mechanics and Life
Poetry has rules, the sea has rules, even chaos has rules. Quantum mechanics breaks all the rules that make sense in real life. Yet, if you look really carefully, some of the principles described to explain the sub-atomic world are perfectly logical in daily life.
Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle says that it’s possible to know some things, but the more you know about one thing the less you know about another. I know some people who are world experts in their field, but I wouldn’t trust them with a can opener ~ they have concentrated on knowing everything there is to know about one thing, to the exclusion of knowing anything at all about everything else. That is a perfect example of being a hopeless human being. A real Renaissance Man knows a lot about everything, and at one in the same time can do most things ~ from making a wooden chair to designing a boat, and then building it.
Quantum logic also states that the very act of observing something changes the thing / person you are observing. We all know this is absolutely true. As a gross example most people will not scratch their groin if they think there is anyone watching them. A more subtle example is to be found in your significant other. He / she behaves differently when you are around to the way she / he behaves when she is alone or with a circle of friends that does not include you. Normally your significant other is much better behaved when you are observing them than when they are free of your scrutiny. Most sane people will not have sex with another person / several people when you are watching them.
In fact, if you are watching something / someone, both of you stop being independent entities and become one system. For example, professional sports cannot exist without a crowd, and the crowd becomes part of the game.
And, then there is the damn cat. Schrödinger’s cat lives in a box and is both dead and alive at one in the same time. The assumption is that the cat is neither dead or alive until you open the box and take a look. As far as I am concerned the only lesson you can take into real life from this bit of quantum logic is that it’s pointless to worry about anything until it happens. Don’t dig a grave until you have an actual dead cat.
Schrödinger’s cat leads into the probabilistic nature of the universe. This says two things;
- Nothing is certain. There is only a choice of probable / possible outcomes which range from the very likely to the almost totally impossible. But, any of those outcomes is possible.
- Even the most unlikely thing can and will happen.
Someone will win big on the lottery the first time they buy a ticket. The Americans will honestly believe they know how to make a cup of tea. President Obama will not make a fool of himself in Africa.
The multiple universes claimed to exist by quantum theory mean that anything imaginable is possible. For example; Isis and Aphrodite exist today, King Arthur is alive and well and still has Excalibur, and I may finally come to terms with the true nature of spirituality. No, that last will never happen.
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jack collier
jackcollier7@talktalk.net
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