Time- Does our observation create time?
Time can be explained as a product of our perception . It’s a very complicated concept that proves difficult to consider as long as we operate within its linear progression. By recording one word after another, it could be argued that I capture and hold time. Just as you use time when you read the words held on the page. The understanding of the thoughts behind the words might further use our time.
A fascinating theory that brings science and philosophy closer leans toward the fact that memory, and the conscious ordering of events, make it possible for time to exist. Or, to put it another way, time is not a real thing if there is no linear memory, no observer. In reality, everything rises from and folds back into the now, and now is all that exists.
Wait…what? If we don’t remember something, it fades back into the vast unknown, to be rediscovered in a new now. Language became a way to pass on our definitions, plans, and ideas without having to cycle through recovering them from the potential. Instead of losing everything as another culture collapsed, this time we have learned more elaborate cheat codes. We have created ways to sort and understand previous civilizations, and built a body of knowledge, beliefs and opinions. This constructed order grows, building each layer upon previous understandings of how to organize our reality.
We impose these understandings on the next generation, and other cultures within our reach. Unfortunately, this has led us to believe the world of things is the most important part of our existence. This one belief has allowed technology to define our reality, far out stripping our humanity. Our opinions cause us to lose our true selves in the world of things we have developed and created. We act like this loss of connection with all-that-is, our loss of self, is not important.
Cycles and Philosophy
This dilemma has been around for every great cycle of civilization. It is the Tree of Knowledge compared to The Tree of Life, the Taoist understanding of the cyclical Yin and Yang, the reality of dreams expressed by the aboriginal Aulstralians, and the illusion of the concrete expressed by the Toltec.
Knowledge comes from comparison and contrast, the determining of right or wrong, good or evil, the gradient of things and where they fit on the notching stick of judgment. By putting things in order, we impose ideals on everything and comparisons of real life to the ideal. These notions aren’t wrong, but they cause us to miss the perfections of an imperfect world. They try to place the unnamable potential and its cycles into boxes of defined rules.
As long as we see our reality as this judgment based, dog eat dog world, we will miss our own nature and cling to the illusion. A part of us is drawn to the logic of balance implied by good and evil, black and white, right and wrong. It makes us comfortable to think we know, but that serves our shallow, opinionated self. The potential we truly are is the source of all that is, and lies deeper, beneath what we believe ourselves to be.
The Cycle Repeats
Your limits as a creator are only those you accept. Your realization of this is what terrifies most societies, at the root. They seek to control the masses and how will society do that if each of us is a conscious creator? Not that acceptance of norms isn’t a good thing, but the structures our civilizations build always take it too far. When the societal construct becomes too afraid and stifling, it becomes inflexible and brittle, collapsing as it always does in this world of cycles.
We will rise again from limitless potential as we have unknowable times before. Starting to box and define the potential into manageable chunks, we order things by judging and grading. We do this to protect the people and advance our collective knowledge. The cycle begins again as we pass these chunks of cheat code down.
Limiting the number of folks taught all the secrets, the powerful try to horde knowledge in order to reserve power for the few in-the-know. We do this in the name of protecting the masses from themselves and guiding society. Manipulating knowledge and keeping secrets is what humans do, seeking an advantage in the black and white world is natural, from a certain linear point of view.
We take the tendency of potential to balance things out and modify it so those with the knowledge benefit exponentially more than the ones that don’t have the secrets. This imbalance must be addressed if the cycles are to be broken.
Can We Stop It?
When greed and selfish desire is rewarded, the imbalance is exploited and adjustments aren’t made. This pushes the cycle to complete itself, and through time, each collective society draws closer to collapse, losing all as it falls back into the source.
Rot at the base of a ladder can cause a fall from great height, but those always reaching for more don’t see the need to adjust and repair the structure they stand on, until collapse is inevitable. Attempting to repair the rot is more costly than catching it before it develops, but the few that benefit the most seldom see the value of the initial adjustment to prevent the problems, nor will they agree to the more expensive fix later.
With the privileged few trying desperately to maintain their position on top of the structure, permitting huge benefit with small cost to them, the cycle perpetuates itself and inevitably results in collapse. The selfish focus and fear-based protection of things is the more basic and expected human response within the cycle. This becomes a self-fulfilling end to our societal experiment every time, and the collapse back into our potential happens yet again.
We have, in some cases, attempted to incorporate adjustments into the structure, in a modify-as-you-go set up. In other cases, we have tried to rework the entire system every time power overwhelms. Some of these approaches have worked, allowing civilizations to flourish, slowing the cycle to a limited degree. Few have ever included all of creation and none have been able to raise all into a self-aware vibration. This elevated consciousness will allow all of us to step out of the cycles in which we are trapped.
For the world to break the cycle, each of us must rise above the groundhog day repetition and be who we are, creators. To choose selfless kindness above the world of judgment, to give because there is need, without thought of reward. Helping each other and healing confusion will extend our cycle.
We can balance creation while we reach the mountaintop, but we have to want it as a species. Each of us has to give up the me-me, mine-mine approach to this reality. This is a tall order and the reason only a very few every generation step out of the cycle. We, as a whole, are still living the cycle, instead of rising above judgment and the grading of things.
