02-20-2008, 11:39 PM
Jay Weidner
The mythology of our modern, high-tech culture teaches us that the last frontier for humanity is outer space. Somehow, according to this emerging mythos, the fragile human body is supposed to be able to survive the rigors of travel in outer space over vast distances. The writers of science fiction and Star Trek television shows would have us believe that human beings can endure through every kind of radiation and danger to successfully colonize other planets and solar systems.
But this notion, besides being nearly impossible, is also never going to happen. The last frontier of humanity is not the conquering of outer space, of other planets and solar systems. The last frontier is time.
Space is defined by the three dimensional reality that surrounds us. It is height, width and depth. We humans possess the most spectacular display of physical and mental abilities to conquer three-dimensional space ever devised in nature. Humans have conquered the entire planetââ¬â¢s biosphere. There are people living in the coldest environments imaginable and in the hottest tropical jungles. There is no more mystery left concerning our planet. We can travel to any place on Earth now. As this age ends there will be only one mystery left for us to ponder. The last mystery is the mystery of time.
Our memories of the past become like dreams if we let them cook long enough. The events of the past are repainted in our memories until their very reality loses its solidity. Our remembrances frequently slide into a fantasy disconnected from anything tangible. How often have we encountered someone who remembers an incident in a completely opposite manner from the way we remember it? The brain appears to be constantly rewriting history to make it more agreeable to our present day wishes. Incidents in the past that are disturbing or frightening are frequently glossed over in our memory until they disappear only to be replaced by a memory that is more easily digested by consciousness.
Our view of the future works in a similar but opposite texture. Whereas the past begins to become a dream within our memories, the future is the dream that has not arrived yet. When someone is successful we like to say that they ââ¬Ålived their dreamsââ¬Â. This cliché reveals an intrinsic understanding that present and future reality is created from the dream state of the past.
This idea dovetails with the central belief of the Aborigines of Australia. The essential teaching from that tradition is that everything in our world begins in the Dreamtime. From their perspective, the Aborigines believed that every thought, every action began in an ephemeral landscape that appears to surround our material world, which they called the Dreamtime. According to this tradition each living thing first begins in the Dreamtime. After it has become fully developed in the Dreamtime it then concretizes and becomes a part of our three dimensional reality.
This process is recursive in that our future dreams are frequently constructed from the archetypes of ancient dreams. So the past and the future, the material world and the dream world work together to create culture, mind and spirit. One can easily see that there is a certain control mechanism over this peculiar process. Because reality is so dependent on the dream world, it is possible to shift reality by simply shifting the dream.
New Age charlatans, political leaders, television script writers, preachers and many others know this and use it to re-script reality in their favor. The last thing that they want you to discover is that you are in control of your dreams. They much prefer that you dream their dreams, that you live in their past and that you will help build their future rather than you having the freedom to dwell in your own dream and to create a life and future of your own making. As the word Dreamtime aptly describes, there is little difference between the dream and the time. This very moment will become a dream soon in your memory. Also you are creating the future that is racing towards us right now.
The dream world, time and four-dimensional space are all the same thing. The fourth dimensional world, often referred to as ââ¬Ëtimeââ¬â¢ by physicists, surrounds and permeates our three dimensional reality. Everything that we are is shaped and formed in this topological manifold that flows into and out of our existence. As the stream of time passes we have the ability to alter itââ¬â¢s course. Each moment of our lives offers us the chance to change the course of our dreams and the dreams of those we love.
Understanding this landscape, the ragged mountains and mossy valleys of the wilderness of time, is the frontier that awaits us. When we finally colonize this land and understand its many intricacies and nuances we will realize that any future is possible. We will no longer need to be slaves to systems that require us to live in someone elseââ¬â¢s dream. The powers of the dark sorcerers that rule our world will be overthrown and a new Dreamtime will be created. When we discover how to navigate the river of time, when the topological map of time is finally understood by us, all of the certain dangers that await us will vanish in the blink of an eye during REM sleep.
We are at the crossroads now. There is a choice. One road leads to a mechanistic, toxic, polluted, fascist nightmare from which we may never recover. The other road leads to a revitalized world where we live our dreams in freedom, prosperity and love.
One of the main aims of many spiritual traditions is to provide us with the means to create a conscious break with the almost dictatorial dreams of our past. We are slaves to the dreams that we were born into, slaves to a past that we had nothing to do with. These ancient spiritual traditions teach us how to break with the mental slavery that has burdened us for so long.
Humans frequently hurt themselves and others around them defending the imprinted dreams of their past and creating belief systems that make it all right to hurt and destroy people who come from a different past, a different dreamtime.
The way to stop this recurring cycle is to find our way towards a detachment from the heated beliefs and ego-inspired histories and cultures that we were born into. This is not to say that we should reject our traditions. Only that true liberation of ourselves can only begin when we detach ourselves from ingrained spiritual and cultural habits.
We are trapped by time. And this means that we are trapped in a Dreamtime from which we cannot escape. But escape from the trap is possible. If we change the dream we can change the world and ourselves.
The spiritual emergence that is happening right now across the world is the realization that there is only one kind of time. There is no past and there is no future. There is only NOW. And we can change the now at any time that we like.
http://www.jayweidner.com/ProphecyArticle.html
The mythology of our modern, high-tech culture teaches us that the last frontier for humanity is outer space. Somehow, according to this emerging mythos, the fragile human body is supposed to be able to survive the rigors of travel in outer space over vast distances. The writers of science fiction and Star Trek television shows would have us believe that human beings can endure through every kind of radiation and danger to successfully colonize other planets and solar systems.
But this notion, besides being nearly impossible, is also never going to happen. The last frontier of humanity is not the conquering of outer space, of other planets and solar systems. The last frontier is time.
Space is defined by the three dimensional reality that surrounds us. It is height, width and depth. We humans possess the most spectacular display of physical and mental abilities to conquer three-dimensional space ever devised in nature. Humans have conquered the entire planetââ¬â¢s biosphere. There are people living in the coldest environments imaginable and in the hottest tropical jungles. There is no more mystery left concerning our planet. We can travel to any place on Earth now. As this age ends there will be only one mystery left for us to ponder. The last mystery is the mystery of time.
Our memories of the past become like dreams if we let them cook long enough. The events of the past are repainted in our memories until their very reality loses its solidity. Our remembrances frequently slide into a fantasy disconnected from anything tangible. How often have we encountered someone who remembers an incident in a completely opposite manner from the way we remember it? The brain appears to be constantly rewriting history to make it more agreeable to our present day wishes. Incidents in the past that are disturbing or frightening are frequently glossed over in our memory until they disappear only to be replaced by a memory that is more easily digested by consciousness.
Our view of the future works in a similar but opposite texture. Whereas the past begins to become a dream within our memories, the future is the dream that has not arrived yet. When someone is successful we like to say that they ââ¬Ålived their dreamsââ¬Â. This cliché reveals an intrinsic understanding that present and future reality is created from the dream state of the past.
This idea dovetails with the central belief of the Aborigines of Australia. The essential teaching from that tradition is that everything in our world begins in the Dreamtime. From their perspective, the Aborigines believed that every thought, every action began in an ephemeral landscape that appears to surround our material world, which they called the Dreamtime. According to this tradition each living thing first begins in the Dreamtime. After it has become fully developed in the Dreamtime it then concretizes and becomes a part of our three dimensional reality.
This process is recursive in that our future dreams are frequently constructed from the archetypes of ancient dreams. So the past and the future, the material world and the dream world work together to create culture, mind and spirit. One can easily see that there is a certain control mechanism over this peculiar process. Because reality is so dependent on the dream world, it is possible to shift reality by simply shifting the dream.
New Age charlatans, political leaders, television script writers, preachers and many others know this and use it to re-script reality in their favor. The last thing that they want you to discover is that you are in control of your dreams. They much prefer that you dream their dreams, that you live in their past and that you will help build their future rather than you having the freedom to dwell in your own dream and to create a life and future of your own making. As the word Dreamtime aptly describes, there is little difference between the dream and the time. This very moment will become a dream soon in your memory. Also you are creating the future that is racing towards us right now.
The dream world, time and four-dimensional space are all the same thing. The fourth dimensional world, often referred to as ââ¬Ëtimeââ¬â¢ by physicists, surrounds and permeates our three dimensional reality. Everything that we are is shaped and formed in this topological manifold that flows into and out of our existence. As the stream of time passes we have the ability to alter itââ¬â¢s course. Each moment of our lives offers us the chance to change the course of our dreams and the dreams of those we love.
Understanding this landscape, the ragged mountains and mossy valleys of the wilderness of time, is the frontier that awaits us. When we finally colonize this land and understand its many intricacies and nuances we will realize that any future is possible. We will no longer need to be slaves to systems that require us to live in someone elseââ¬â¢s dream. The powers of the dark sorcerers that rule our world will be overthrown and a new Dreamtime will be created. When we discover how to navigate the river of time, when the topological map of time is finally understood by us, all of the certain dangers that await us will vanish in the blink of an eye during REM sleep.
We are at the crossroads now. There is a choice. One road leads to a mechanistic, toxic, polluted, fascist nightmare from which we may never recover. The other road leads to a revitalized world where we live our dreams in freedom, prosperity and love.
One of the main aims of many spiritual traditions is to provide us with the means to create a conscious break with the almost dictatorial dreams of our past. We are slaves to the dreams that we were born into, slaves to a past that we had nothing to do with. These ancient spiritual traditions teach us how to break with the mental slavery that has burdened us for so long.
Humans frequently hurt themselves and others around them defending the imprinted dreams of their past and creating belief systems that make it all right to hurt and destroy people who come from a different past, a different dreamtime.
The way to stop this recurring cycle is to find our way towards a detachment from the heated beliefs and ego-inspired histories and cultures that we were born into. This is not to say that we should reject our traditions. Only that true liberation of ourselves can only begin when we detach ourselves from ingrained spiritual and cultural habits.
We are trapped by time. And this means that we are trapped in a Dreamtime from which we cannot escape. But escape from the trap is possible. If we change the dream we can change the world and ourselves.
The spiritual emergence that is happening right now across the world is the realization that there is only one kind of time. There is no past and there is no future. There is only NOW. And we can change the now at any time that we like.
http://www.jayweidner.com/ProphecyArticle.html