Craig, sorry to hear the allegory made you sad. It is not my story, I found it few months ago, but it was so profoundly close to the way I saw the world, that had to share it here.
I see it allegorically as the light of a candle in a dark room.
A solution to the sphere time line viz I suggest this read:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...-dragon-kings/
I posted it for a reason.
Imagine the world through the eyes of every living person right now. We all create a sphere or a 3d Image of what we can observe.
Now, I am here in my room in front of a computer screen, and don't see you physically, but I imagine you being somewhere as a concept, thus you also exist in my world. Together with Alien Ramone, Donk, Bill, Limor, and every person I happened to know a bit on the forum. Some I see as images (based on their avatars), some I see as the images I have created based on their posts and what I think of them. They also have 'me' in their 3D imaginative reality as an image of what they know about me.
This way we share a common reality, even though it is just a 'thought' reality.
Now imagine the whole world of people walking in line, looking in the same direction at the same time- all their spherical images of what they see in front of them overlaps to a great extend- they share the world in that direction. Now substitute 'direction' with 'peace', 'respect', 'love', non duality, non violence etc. That is what the 'time line' of all those looking at all these at the same time will become.
But if most of the same people instead of looking forward in that one direction, were looking in every other possible direction, their scopes of observation will overlap less and less, and they will share less and less of that other reality I was describing. The timeline that will determine the general direction of movement will belong to the majority of people who's spheres of reality overlap.
That is simply how I understand timelines and the nature of our world. That is how I also understand the backdrop people Dolores Cannon speaks about. The moment you accept someone in your 3d world in your mind, that person becomes real to you.
Although sometimes the branches for everyone might seem to be different based on their different situation and choices, there are general branches that lead in several general directions, and if all the singular personal branches point eventually at one of those general directions, they will create one reality, one timeline, eventually.
To look at the concepts here you need to take yourself out of what you understand the world is as a 'matter of fact' right now. Our individual deaths, as long as they don't exists in your personal reality could be considered as the backdrop people of D.C., but since every person can be traced to another person, the world becomes a complex reality and the backdrop people for you are real for me and vise-versa. That is the whole concept of the vast see of existence, where we swim in one direction or another.
My father when he decides to be rude with me speaks about the toilet. When I say how everything is eternal, and how souls and values determine our world, he either says something like:
'Hm, eternal, I have seen such and such person dead and his body berried and ...", or some other physical example of the sort (the toilet that we all visit every day).
I understand he is correct based on his perspective, but I like to compare things that are comparable, like soul and imagination, mind and existence, bread and butter, and so on.
Don't try to describe something from one reality with the tools of another, in other words.
We, I , God, we are full of compassion and there is only beauty in this world, if we decide to see it this way. Our choice of our reality.
I was going home one day after long 12 hours dealing with partially insane people with the complex of inferiority. It was so tiresome that I was drained. The evening was falling, it was dusk, a bit chilly, I was seeing everything in the shades of grey (not re. to the book ). And than I saw a cluster of yellow flowers, cheerful and looking at me. And the evening became full of yellow whispers and tenderness. It was the same evening, and it was the same person, just he was observing the world now differently.
Don't misunderstand me, I do know there is darkness, violence and terror from first hand experiences, but I choose to keep my eyes on the ball at the end of the game, because not all accidental hits on the ball matter at the end.
Sorry for another run of words.
I know now this is more of a scientist's thread, but for me science and philosophy are one and the same, they just use different symbols.
Donk. I agree that it seems we are stuck in, but we actually always move in some direction. Just the farther away you are the less visible is that movement. Some manage to do giant steps though, based on the inertia they have gathered from before (from the accumulation of ... ) It all depends on the POV you are looking at everything.
Agape posted a link to the full length of 'A Beautiful Mind' on another thread, and I think we might really enjoy watching the film once more.
It came with an explanation. I will go find the thread and reference it here.
The vid:
Link to the post I mentioned:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...l=1#post786629
PS of a looong post:Posted by Agape (here)
John Forbes Nash, Jr. (born June 13, 1928) is an American mathematician whose works in game theory, differential geometry, and partial differential equations have provided insight into the forces that govern chance and events inside complex systems in daily life. His theories are used in market economics, computing, evolutionary biology, artificial intelligence, accounting, politics and military theory. Serving as a Senior Research Mathematician at Princeton University during the latter part of his life, he shared the 1994 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences with game theorists Reinhard Selten and John Harsanyi.
Nash is the subject of the 2001 Hollywood movie A Beautiful Mind. The film, loosely based on the biography of the same name, focuses on Nash's mathematical genius and also his schizophrenia
Story more complicated than a fiction ...
It all used to boggle my mind while I was stuck in a plane of thinking. I used to watch a lot of books with images when I was little, those were the golden days of my life, with as many films of all kinds I could get to watch. But the moment someone put me in a room with notebooks to try to remember facts I did not care about, they totally lost me. I was excellent at all the matters, even in the sports school, but I also always felt somehow partially lost, until I had enough energy and desire to say,
"Stop right there because I am getting off your train: job/University/understanding of family/marriage/religion/etc."
Once I went above and saw everything visually, it all made sense.
I still love geometry and mathematics, though.
And my dad says I am an anarchist .