All of our problems are caused by our belief in the illusion of the linearity of time. If we were to free ourselves from this belief, we would realize (a) that our problems are also illusory and therefore are of no concern, or (b) that our problems will inevitably be resolved and (c) since we have no place we need to be or goals we need to achieve by a certain point in time, we can allow our problems to be there until such point as they are inevitably resolved.
Another corollary that emerges is that the only way to truly solve our problems is to go outside of time. Because as long as we put our faith in the linearity of time — which ultimately leads to an illusory endpoint we call Death — we will be the victims of fear and those forces that use fear to control us. Among the main values of the Saturn archetype are time, fear, death. The three are intimately related. So even when we resolve one illusory problem, as long as we remain in the perspective of linear time, another illusory problem will almost immediately pop up to replace it. We then expend tremendous amounts of energy resolving that one, and…
Have you been there and done that? I know I have.
Anyway, last night I had such an interesting experience. I woke up around 4 am and I felt so hungry and thirsty it was driving me crazy. I reached over to the night stand but there was only a swallow of water left in my glass. I kept thinking, “I’ll just go downstairs and drink a glass of water and have a quick little bowl of cereal and then I’ll fall asleep.” But I was so tired, that sounded like a mountain of effort, and the baby was finally sleeping after a horrendous day of baby constipation and what if I woke the baby up in my moving around? I’d be sated, sleepy, finally ready to fall asleep again — and potentially facing two hours of a squalling baby.
I didn’t know what to do and so I kept tossing and turning. Until I awoke 45 minutes later with my arm asleep and my body twisted up against the headboard and I’m asking myself, “How am I here? I just finished my bowl of cereal – how could I possibly have been asleep like this?”
It took me a few moments to figure out that I had not gone downstairs and eaten the bowl of Trader Joe’s Honey Os with the fresh sweet and delicious batch of raw goat milk on top. Nor had I slurped up the cereal-sweeten remainder of the milk straight from the bowl, feeling my stomach fill up to just the perfect level of satisfaction. Nope, rather than getting up and going downstairs I’d just gone back to sleep and done it in my dreams.
And I was just as physically satiated as if I had really eaten the cereal.
Hey, if I could harness that trick I’d be an overnight millionaire. Not to mention slim and well-rested.
The thing is, I believe we all have this capability — to work outside of linear time and achieve results that change our experience within linear time. That’s what the new project is about.
As I’m working on creating the documentation for this new multimedia project, I keep running up against what I call “the time problem.”
Photo by orcmid.
A shorthand version of this goes:
Another corollary that emerges is that the only way to truly solve our problems is to go outside of time. Because as long as we put our faith in the linearity of time — which ultimately leads to an illusory endpoint we call Death — we will be the victims of fear and those forces that use fear to control us. Among the main values of the Saturn archetype are time, fear, death. The three are intimately related. So even when we resolve one illusory problem, as long as we remain in the perspective of linear time, another illusory problem will almost immediately pop up to replace it. We then expend tremendous amounts of energy resolving that one, and…
Have you been there and done that? I know I have.
Anyway, last night I had such an interesting experience. I woke up around 4 am and I felt so hungry and thirsty it was driving me crazy. I reached over to the night stand but there was only a swallow of water left in my glass. I kept thinking, “I’ll just go downstairs and drink a glass of water and have a quick little bowl of cereal and then I’ll fall asleep.” But I was so tired, that sounded like a mountain of effort, and the baby was finally sleeping after a horrendous day of baby constipation and what if I woke the baby up in my moving around? I’d be sated, sleepy, finally ready to fall asleep again — and potentially facing two hours of a squalling baby.
I didn’t know what to do and so I kept tossing and turning. Until I awoke 45 minutes later with my arm asleep and my body twisted up against the headboard and I’m asking myself, “How am I here? I just finished my bowl of cereal – how could I possibly have been asleep like this?”
It took me a few moments to figure out that I had not gone downstairs and eaten the bowl of Trader Joe’s Honey Os with the fresh sweet and delicious batch of raw goat milk on top. Nor had I slurped up the cereal-sweeten remainder of the milk straight from the bowl, feeling my stomach fill up to just the perfect level of satisfaction. Nope, rather than getting up and going downstairs I’d just gone back to sleep and done it in my dreams.
And I was just as physically satiated as if I had really eaten the cereal.
Hey, if I could harness that trick I’d be an overnight millionaire. Not to mention slim and well-rested.
The thing is, I believe we all have this capability — to work outside of linear time and achieve results that change our experience within linear time. That’s what the new project is about.
And I do intend to be slim and well-rested.