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    It is on my mind a lot these days, so let me it ask it here. What is time, and how does the future affect the past?


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    It is on my mind a lot these days, so let me it ask it here. What is time, and how does the future affect the past?
    Many thanks, Casey, and a warm welcome to the forum!

    Re the first question ("What is time?") many books have been written about this, many PhD theses, and the most intelligent humans ever to have lived have worked hard on trying to penetrate the issue.

    The easiest answer is that it's an invisible fourth dimension. So to move in time is to move along that particular "dimensional axis". It's an exact analogy to moving in the third dimension, i.e. physically traveling in a straight line here on earth.

    That means that to travel in time, "all we have to do" (Ha! ) is to somehow "step sideways" into that 4th dimension, "travel in it", and then pop back into the 3rd again. That's like an instant time-jump.

    Again, the easier-to-visualize analogy is that there are two ways of moving a marble on a table from one point to another.
    1. You can roll it along the table. (That's traveling in 2 dimensions.)
    2. Or you can pick it up and then place it at another point on the table. (Traveling in 3 dimensions.)
    So crank all that up by one dimension in each case, and you have time travel. (Easy, huh? )

    There are MANY videos on this. Here's just one:


    Searches for videos on everything related to this might be by using the phrases
    • [what is time?]
    • [the fourth dimension]
    • [time travel and the fourth dimension].
    I'm certain time travel is possible, and that at least some ET visitors utilize this. But then, the issue emerges of what happens if you go back in time and change something (as in the excellent Ray Bradbury short story A Sound of Thunder, and the perfectly awful film of the same name).

    As best I (and others!) understand, if one were to do that, and you do change something ("killing your grandfather", as in the famous so-called paradox), all that happens is that you create another new timeline.

    I'm as sure as I can be that there exist multiple parallel timelines, a concept physicists call the "many-worlds hypothesis". After all, there's enough "room in the universe" for anything that one might imagine.

    (And that also explains why seeing into the future is so difficult and imprecise, and why sometimes what one "sees" will change. This alone is a huge topic, way beyond the scope of this post.)

    So for beings traveling back in time, as many ET researchers (self included) believe some future ETs do when visiting our planet here and now, then the technical challenge — kind of a "navigational" one — is how to make their way back to where and when they came from, whether they've changed anything during their visit or not.

    I think that has to be possible. But we may be a million or more years away from understanding how the heck to do that.

    So I don't think the "future affects the past" — though I may not have understood your question! — but I do strongly believe that beings from the future could affect the past if they're able to travel back in time.

    I need to apologize, I think, for a grossly clumsy and inadequate response here. As many might understand, this is very hard to discuss in simple terms. But please do ask further questions, or enlarge on your original ones, or challenge me about anything at all which I've tried to outline here. Many might be quite interested to read this.

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    Quote I need to apologize, I think, for a grossly clumsy and inadequate response here. As many might understand, this is very hard to discuss in simple terms. But please do ask further questions, or enlarge on your original ones, or challenge me about anything at all which I've tried to outline here. Many might be quite interested to read this.
    Bill, I absolutely appreciate you giving it a go!.. really I am just asking to hear how your mind moves around the matter. This often triggers something for me. Time is not something I have ever understood, even in what we might call "physical" terms. It is not "there" for me, in the same way that space is. Is it for you? I am a lifelong meditator, a proficient OBEr with experiences in the many hundreds. The explanation of the 4th dimension being time has not made sense to me. In my experience the 4th dimension, as well as the 5th and 6th are physical spaces, where beings have bodies that stem from certain planets. I simply refer to 4/5/6D collectively as galactic space. It is where we go when we graduate our planetary body ( the planetary-level curriculum ) and mostly where I go when I go out of body.

    Space is somewhat easy to consider in terms of frequency, time, however is another matter. Not so easy in the same sense, right? My experiences actually have me considering time on an axis, just as ( 3D ) space is on an axis: up/down, side/side, forward/back : vertical, lateral, horizontal. So, in other words, there being more than one dimension of time. Although I am not feeling we have actual time in 3D, more like a semblance of time, I mean, do we even ever really go forward? Let's say we do, that's not much in the scheme of what is possible. What if in each additional dimension there is an additional, experienceable element of time? What if in 4-5-6D-consciousness, beings begin to no longer travel through space but solely through time? This would certainly line up more with my experience within the event of the OBE.

    This said, it still doesn't answer my question : what is time?

    Could time be experience itself?
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    Default Re: What is Time?

    Quote Posted by Casey Claar (here)

    ...This said, it still doesn't answer my question : what is time?

    Could time be experience itself?
    Hi Casey. If time was invented solely so that we could gain experience, that’s close enough for me.

    I have theory that time is kind of like a sandbag that was thrown in our trunk, slowing us down enough that we may learn order. Heaven knows that takes time.

    About those other dimension folk, maybe the differences in their time that you notice, is just less or lighter sandbags in their trunk.

    They 4 and 5 and 6 ‘D’ folk likely have order mastered, and are working on things like will or wisdom or patience. Am just putting this together, from things I’ve read/heard. BTW, do any of the 6D people say that their sun-star shines through their planet?

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    Quote Posted by Casey Claar (here)
    Quote I need to apologize, I think, for a grossly clumsy and inadequate response here. As many might understand, this is very hard to discuss in simple terms. But please do ask further questions, or enlarge on your original ones, or challenge me about anything at all which I've tried to outline here. Many might be quite interested to read this.
    Bill, I absolutely appreciate you giving it a go!.. really I am just asking to hear how your mind moves around the matter. This often triggers something for me. Time is not something I have ever understood, even in what we might call "physical" terms. It is not "there" for me, in the same way that space is. Is it for you? I am a lifelong meditator, a proficient OBEr with experiences in the many hundreds. The explanation of the 4th dimension being time has not made sense to me. In my experience the 4th dimension, as well as the 5th and 6th are physical spaces, where beings have bodies that stem from certain planets. I simply refer to 4/5/6D collectively as galactic space. It is where we go when we graduate our planetary body ( the planetary-level curriculum ) and mostly where I go when I go out of body.

    Space is somewhat easy to consider in terms of frequency, time, however is another matter. Not so easy in the same sense, right? My experiences actually have me considering time on an axis, just as ( 3D ) space is on an axis: up/down, side/side, forward/back : vertical, lateral, horizontal. So, in other words, there being more than one dimension of time. Although I am not feeling we have actual time in 3D, more like a semblance of time, I mean, do we even ever really go forward? Let's say we do, that's not much in the scheme of what is possible. What if in each additional dimension there is an additional, experienceable element of time? What if in 4-5-6D-consciousness, beings begin to no longer travel through space but solely through time? This would certainly line up more with my experience within the event of the OBE.

    This said, it still doesn't answer my question : what is time?

    Could time be experience itself?
    Imagine a ballon and you are sitting on one spot/side of it, and the ballon keeps groing

    Then this happens, if the balloon keeps growing:

    <-- (future goes here) *you are here* (past goes here) -->

    You can go "float up" a bit and stay there for a while, then go back to your previous 'level', then you'll be in "the future", because the balloon expanded while you were floating above it, and now whatever you were before has moved out of reach, to the right -->

    To go to the future, you don't have to move 'forward', you just have to move 'out of band' for a bit and let it move without you

    To go into the past (to the right) you need to skip for a bit inside the ballon, and then let yourself drop at the point you expect to 'fall', and then you are on the past

    In this direction -->

    But if you 'bounce' then you hit back into this direction <-- at which point you may not be you anymore, as you did not belong there (for some reason or other), then it goes into "Time, is never time at all, you can never ever leave, without leaving a piece of youth" scenario

    If i don't make any sense it's because this is completely none sensical, as it is

    It's always a curve(a spiral most times) of some kind
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    Oh, just remembered this

    If you try to speak up numbers from 0 to 10, and at the same time, in your mind, speak up the numbers backwards "From 10 to 0" but try as much as you can to make your mouth when it says '0, 1, etc' to match your inner voice saying "10, 9, etc", multitask and do both at the same time, going 'forward and backwards' at the exact same time (so as you are going both ways at the same time without any difficult)

    That should explain some things
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    There are authors, Vadim Zeland (Transurfing) and Fred Dodson (Parallel Universes of Self), who use these multiple timelines concepts so you can get into touch with the versions of yourself who already have what you want, and you can then embody it. Many thousands (or way more?) of people all around the globe are actively practicing these teachings, some to mindblowing success.

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    Quote Posted by Casey Claar (here)
    This said, it still doesn't answer my question : what is time?

    Could time be experience itself?
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    For me, time is mutable. It's changed over the last several years. A 24 hour day is now 18 hours long. Time has sped up in my waking hours, but the bedtime hours drag on. More often than not, I have to check the calendar to see which day it is, and the end of the month comes around every three weeks.




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    Umm, I thought Time was God’s way of making sure that everything doesn’t happen at once…

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    Casey Claar and others, I'm not sure if this will answer your question as to "what is time". However, I am convinced we are all time travellers when one explores at a deeper level. Trying to provide the evidence is another question that I can share here.

    I have an interest in faster than light (FTL) communications for future outer space travels and terrestrial applications to address time latency
    Its sometimes called Quantum Super Luminal (QSC) which addresses time latency.

    However, in order to achieve the above you have to go through steps of proving time latency before QSC

    There has been some discussion here by others on PA
    https://projectavalon.net/forum4/sho...-it-real/page2

    Post 35 and onwards

    I'm not to sure if this is part of the definition within time travel or you could call it time shifting, but have worked on a time machine from concept.

    Its called Telephone Anti Telephone or TAT. TAT is a theory you can check up Wiki to describe the theory. However, our theory can be put into practice.
    When one operates this TAT system there is a quantum mechanics QM effect triggered by it that changes the energy field and therefore a time latency.or time shift.

    The idea is that TAT technology could be applied for a future time or address time latency in many applications. However, you can have both past time shift or future time shift. In our case we have developed a program to specifically deal with future time shifts.

    When integrating telephone Anti Telephone (TAT) system within a quantum mechanics (QM) field achieves results for a future time.
    A colleague of mine and myself carried out an experiment about 4 years ago demonstrating a rudimentary system that went into the future. It was demonstrated to a group of scientists at University of St Andrews in Scotland in 2019. Because the system was a proof of concept it did technically achieve a measure of time latency. However, because we were in the same room as the audience the time shift was only in nano secs.

    At present we have scaled this up considerably in a laboratory and we hope to achieve a significant measure in time. The QM aspect does require others to be not in contact with the lab system for some hours so that there is absolutely no connection from a QM consciousness. The TAT system generates within the quantum energy field a time shift that is radial out from TAT.

    Firstly, latency is a delay. What we use is a BIT slip, which is the opposite of a delay. Second, it's not a closed loop. You've got to imagine in 4D a signal moving in a spiral from the future into the past. And there is no collection of data - the spiral simply ends as the device is switched on. Test runs shows we can inject a signal at the top of the spiral while still moving up the spiral, this is key to creating the time shift.

    We have been encouraged by the results so far and are now receiving support from the European Space Agency and one EU government funder.

    It proves that a time machine works. Interestingly enough any time in the past we submitted scientific papers to journals they were rejected because we couldn't define what the new energy was. Editors said we haven't discovered this energy for this to work. Hence we had to develop and demonstrate the system which is still work in progress.

    For those here interested in the slight technical operation of the system can be briefly described:

    There are two parts here: 1. Time shifting. 2. Description of the TAT system.

    1. When the TAT system is fully operational and optimized the following happens.

    Because you are setting up a tool to manipulate a normal QM environment the following happens.
    We discovered that we can create two different time zones. They are only distinguishable when in operation. The present time at TAT in the lab and a different time at a near location independent of TAT.

    The time at the TAT system appears normal, but at a different location the time has shifted. One is not aware this has happened, only when you enter a different location with the other working colleague in situ.

    In this respect you apply this process by having one person at the TAT and the other person with no connection
    or communications with you for some hours at a different location. Its important to have no conscious connection with the other person.
    The other person at the other location should have a future time shift that is different from the location at the TAT lab. When you eventually are in contact with that colleague your time now is the same as there time. We have never tried going back in time.


    2. The general set up for the TAT system can be described technically as follows:

    The frequency of the signal has to be between two distinct frequencies with a nominal frequency.

    • The system is a cycle, where an initial data stream circulates in principle endlessly in the loop.
    • One half of the loop is through the air. So it is a very limited radio type signal.
    • The other half is via the cable system.
    • 18 antennas are used on a disk are rotating so that at any time just 1 or 2 are active. The system is 2.5 metres in diameter.
    • At least one transmitter antenna is always active and so the signal is uninterrupted.
    • The important aspect is the amplifier.
    • You want the signal to die away rapidly, thereby using magnetic induction instead of EM signals.
    • The magnetic signals mean that there is a rapid fall off so that if the transmitter is a lower voltage, the receiver has to have a slightly higher voltage.
    • To maintain the signal, this weak received signal should be amplified to a certain voltage.
    • This is the amplifier signal.
    • One other aspect is that the Doppler affect of the retreating antennas reduces the frequency rapidly at about 1 hz per cycle, with millions of cycles per second,
    • At this point there is a requirement for frequency stabilization system of the amplifier
    • This uses a signal generator with the signal as interrupts in the signal generator output stream.

    There is a complex software to extract the time delays and also to feed the spiral aspect of the system.

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    "As best I (and others!) understand, if one were to do that, and you do change something ("killing your grandfather", as in the famous so-called paradox), all that happens is that you create another new timeline."

    How is it possible to kill one's grandfather?
    The mere fact that you exist and are able to go back in time means that you never did (or are able to).

    I think......
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    Quote Posted by Le Chat (here)
    "As best I (and others!) understand, if one were to do that, and you do change something ("killing your grandfather", as in the famous so-called paradox), all that happens is that you create another new timeline."

    How is it possible to kill one's grandfather?
    The mere fact that you exist and are able to go back in time means that you never did (or are able to).

    I think......
    • I remember British Physicist Professor David Deutch at the University of Oxford solved that paradox saying: the moment you killed your grandfather you created/started a parallel universe being watched/observed by you coming from the original universe that is not altered by your actions as it still continues to exist ... but you exist in a different time-line ... when you fold a peace of paper in a circle you can go back to 1 point and split in to a second line that is not the same as a closed circle ... more like a spiral.
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    Tyler describes Oxford professor and theoretical physicist David Deutsch as a “maximum philosopher of freedom” with no rival. A pioneer in the field of quantum computing, Deutsch subscribes to the multiple-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics. He is also adamant that the universe (or multiverse) is not incomprehensible – believing that the multiverse and human beings within it have maximum freedom.

    He joined Tyler to discuss the importance of these principles for understanding the nature of reality and our place in it. They discuss the metaphysics of Star Trek transporters, how we can know the laws of physics for the multiverse, what geological strata can illustrate to us about the nature of “splitting” universes, why the “Everett universe” is a misnomer, the factors that differentiate humans from all other species, why he believes the universe is comprehensible – but can never be understood fully, the paradoxes of self-reference, the importance of interference experiments, the sociological reasons more physicists don’t believe in the Everett interpretation.

    The effects of the influences of positivism and instrumentalism on generations of physicists, the strengths and weaknesses of Karl Popper, his answer to whether we’re living in a simulation, what William Godwin got right about institutions, the potential of an AI slave rebellion, what libertarians largely get wrong about their political project, what alien observers might notice as being special about our planet, the major defect of his preferred electoral system, why what Western science needs most is diversity, and more.

    In 1991, David Deutsch[2] came up with a proposal for the time evolution equations, with special note as to how it resolves the grandfather paradox and nondeterminism. However, his resolution to the grandfather paradox is considered unsatisfactory to some people, because it states the time traveller reenters another parallel universe, and that the actual quantum state is a quantum superposition of states where the time traveller does and does not exist.

    He made the simplifying assumption that we can split the quantum system into a subsystem A external to the closed timelike curve, and a CTC part. Also, he assumed that we can combine all the time evolution between the exterior and the CTC into a single unitary operator U. This presupposes the Schrödinger picture. We have a tensor product for the combined state of both systems.

    He makes the further assumption there is no correlation between the initial density state of A and the density state of the CTC. This assumption is not time-symmetric, which he tried to justify by appealing to measurement theory and the second law of thermodynamics. He proposed that the density state restricted to the CTC is a fixed-point of ρ CTC = Tr A [ U ( ρ A ⊗ ρ CTC ) U † ] {\displaystyle \rho _{\text{CTC}}={\text{Tr}}_{A}\left[U\left(\rho _{A}\otimes \rho _{\text{CTC}}\right)U^{\dagger }\right]} .

    He showed that such fixed points always exist. He justified this choice by noting the expectation value of any CTC observable will match after a loop. However, this could lead to "multivalued" histories if memory is preserved around the loop. In particular, his prescription is incompatible with path integrals unless we allow for multivalued fields. Another point to note is in general, we have more than one fixed point, and this leads to nondeterminism in the time evolution. He suggested the solution to use is the one with the maximum entropy.

    The final external state is given by Tr CTC [ U ( ρ A ⊗ ρ CTC ) U † ] {\displaystyle {\text{Tr}}_{\text{CTC}}\left[U\left(\rho _{A}\otimes \rho _{\text{CTC}}\right)U^{\dagger }\right]} . Pure states can evolve into mixed states.

    This leads to seemingly paradoxical resolutions to the grandfather paradox. Assume the external subsystem is irrelevant, and only a qubit travels in the CTC. Also assume during the course around the time machine, the value of the qubit is flipped according to the unitary operator U = ( 0 1 1 0 ) {\displaystyle U={\begin{pmatrix}0&1\\1&0\end{pmatrix}}} . The most general fixed-point solution is given by
    ρ CTC = ( 1 2 a a 1 2 ) {\displaystyle \rho _{\text{CTC}}={\begin{pmatrix}{\frac {1}{2}}&a\\a&{\frac {1}{2}}\end{pmatrix}}} where a is a real number between − 1 / 2 {\displaystyle -1/2} and 1 / 2 {\displaystyle 1/2} .



    This is an example of the nonuniqueness of solutions. The solution maximizing the von Neumann entropy is given by a = 0 {\displaystyle a=0} . We can think of this as a mixture (not superposition) between the states ( | 0 ⟩ + | 1 ⟩ ) / 2 {\displaystyle \left(\left|0\right\rangle +\left|1\right\rangle \right)/{\sqrt {2}}} and ( | 0 ⟩ − | 1 ⟩ ) / 2 {\displaystyle \left(\left|0\right\rangle -\left|1\right\rangle \right)/{\sqrt {2}}} .

    This leads to an interesting interpretation that if the qubit starts off with a value of 0, it will end up with a value of 1, and vice versa, but this should not be problematic according to Deutsch because the qubit ends up in a different parallel universe in the many worlds interpretation.

    Later researchers have noted that if his prescription turned out to be right, computers in the vicinity of a time machine can solve PSPACE-complete problems.[3]
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    Default Re: What is Time?

    For me, "time" is a duration or measure of lapse or intervals between two cyclical points or conditions in a process. Some define it as continuous, and some multi streams co-existing to infinity allowing one to "jump" there with one's mind.

    Note I say cyclical, as I think it is not a linear straight line or sequential vertical line, but a cycle or multiple events co-existing simultaenously. One which we can experience when we focus our attention and intention on it. For even if we imagine it, we are creating it (a thought) in realtime now.

    Afterall, the past could be argued as a mental construct in the mind like the future - also a mental construct, whereby the present is the physical experience of the now in the present moment.

    Can we "travel" to the times of the romans - Yes, if you use your imagination to manifest an experience at that part of the cycle or imagine living in a floating city in the sky in the future. to imagine both these things, you "technically" are creating them now in present time by focusing your attention and intention to "go there" now
    I wonder if we can use "quantum tunnelling" to break down the physical barriers we tend to put there in our reality and transcend them without limitation of our 3D recording devices to confirm our limited assumptions.

    Remember at one time, it was thought that no-one could run a mile in 4 minutes, then within 2 weeks, another 6 people achieved it. Remote viewing can transcend "time" and "space" to give accurate information in the present moment of an experience not in the same location. Will our limited understanding of time and mortality change in the not too distant future?

    So perhaps, time could be perceived as a wave of energy that is directed and focused into a space/time event or construct that is manifested into a particle existence which we tend to measure with our limited 3D recording devices of other cyclical paths of higher universal existences - the sun, the planets etc

    Time, I had a coffee

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    Lightbulb Re: What is Time?

    Am well aware of all kinds of new age type wisdom discussing (the mystery of) time ... most boils down that on a Multidimensional Soul level you are beyond the limits of time.

    But I always use specific things that relates to the practical perceptions of time:
    • 01. Do you want cold coffee/tea or warm/hot coffee/tea? ... Both can be experiences in T I M E ... as almost everything seems to be about timing ... and your relationship with "timing" has to do with how much are you in tuned to time ... to exceed your normal "5 sense abilities" your 6th sense is beyond the limits of time!
    • 02. Do you want fresh just made bread smelling wonderful? or do you want old bread with all kinds of molds/fungus?
    • 03. Do you want old fish that smells or fresh fish (both are 100% related to what we call time!)
    • 04. Do you see a seed of an apple (tree) or do you see the potential to give you 100s of new apples over time! ...
    • 05. When you see snow in the winter all over the place... do assume it will be always like that? ... Or do KNOW it will change due to what we call tangible effects of time!
    • 06. When you see a baby of ANY creature on earth ... do you see it as "fixed"? or do you know it will change over time to something else!
    • 07. When you need to go to the toilet and some one else has taken the toilet both perceptions are real, one is in a big hurry the other does not.
    And I can go on and on and on and on and on what practical perceptions are about how we experience time!

    Our Soul can see it all at once like watching a movie ... and the movie projector is deciding what the focus is ... the film is linear the projector does not have to be thus beyond the limits of the projected screens we focus on.
    • Anyone who claims "time does not exist" ... I will give that person cold coffee, rotten fish, bread with molds/fungus, no longer than 1 second attention to your stories etc. etc. Time can be a gift, a blessing or a curse depending what you want.
    So now you see the paradox of practical down to earth "time wisdoms" not discussed in most new age type "time" discussions.

    Last but not least: without time, crystals can not be formed!

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    Massively complex question. My basic perception of time is that it's an energy, perhaps even a force, which has (potentially) an infinite number of dimensions of its own. Confined (as we are) to a dense 'solidified' dimension of space, we are also confined to a dense, solidified dimension of time - in which we perceive it as fixed, linear. But it really isn't, not above and beyond in the higher spheres. There, time doesn't exist at all, just as physical space doesn't.
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    Lightbulb Re: What is Time?

    Imagine if you see someone for the first time and it turned out to be your love of your life that has huge consequences on so many levels in a positive uplifting way ... but the moment you see him or her for the first time you may feel like a "Déjà vu" not because you met her of him "in a past life" (reincarnation wise) >>> but you sense (receive) multi-dimensional vibes coming from the future you to the now!
    • So how you feel in the future about that new person can be so strong you can actually pick it up in the now ... thus speeding up the process of the inevitable
    I have had this exact feeling with Iris (my twin soul) who I first met in 2011.

    With me it was very complicated to deal with that as I was in a deep depression gaining weight being 127 Kg (280 Pounds) Height: 1.88 Meter (6,17 Feet) ... then when I met her again in 2012 she wanted to work with me ... forcing myself to lose weight before anything else ... and I did ... eventually I lost 39 Kg (86 Pounds) total in 2013 and running 5 Km (3.1 Miles) three times a week and walking almost every day 1 to 2 hours! ... Plus changing my eating habits drastically.

    But to receive insights/feelings from my "future me" can also be very very confrontational even if it is a positive one ... why? ... Because you know you are not there yet ... and you have to get constructive angry at yourself first, to break old (self-destructive) patterns of behavior.



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    • I said similar things long before I watched this fascination video ... always nice to find people on that level of awareness.
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    Wow.

    That is a lot of replies.

    First -- a thank you to Bill for opening the subject up for discussion. I would still like to hear more, though, about how your mind moves around the question : what is time?

    And, thank you, to everyone, for the warm welcome. As well as for all your thoughtful replies. Our minds all spin uniquely, this creates torque. ( torque is good ).

    This stands out to me : ( from Johnnycomelately )

    "I have theory that time is kind of like a sandbag that was thrown in our trunk, slowing us down enough that we may learn order."

    It is a fascinating statement, quite brilliant really in its simplicity and effect.

    Contemplating the idea of time I often come to considering it as a force ( lag being a king of force ), <--but it seems just off from correct --> it seems to be more basically a differential. But what is that differential? What I can come up with in my mind, is the differential between "being" and "the experience of being". I mean, this in itself is the first "movement", right? the fundamental spark that lit up this whole dimensional existence. As a meditator who moves regularly in toward the state of pure presence, at times accompanied by kumbhaka ( breath cessation ), I experience "the difference" between the sensation of ordinary time and that of non-ordinary time <-- which I experience as a state of radiance. This does lend me some insight, but I have yet to see into what I aim to understand. - which, in part, may be the original and discrete components which construct the experience of time; not just 3D time, all time, and time itself. Has anyone ever tried to see into this before?
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    Quote Last but not least: without time crystals can not be formed!

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    Now you are just toying with me, hahahahaha..

    I understand you do not know yet why this is so appropriate to throw out there, but I will show you - at just the right moment.


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    Default Re: What is Time?

    What if time is a law of this dimension whos purpose is to allow us to experience things in a particular manner, which has a direct & fundamental bearing on the nature of our consciousness & experienceality.



    Not sure if I just invented a word there

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    Default Re: What is Time?

    Well, a new member: welcome to this unique community and from your question I see Bill and his team have selected very appropriately!
    Time, what is time...heck you ask the big question!
    I am a massive fan of a 20th Century physicist/philosopher and engineer by the name of Arthur M Young, he died in 1995, during his life time he managed to make the Helicopter actually work for us, he did not invent the concept of a Helicopter (Da Vinci made drawings of such a machine) but nobody could make one that could be flown usefully before Arthur Young spent 3 decades solving the problem.
    Anyway, Arthur Young dealt with Relativity, and the nature of our Cosmos-and he has a lot to say about the nature of time.
    This short video gives you a taste of some of his ideas, but a mere wisp, you might find it interesting, I strongly recommend looking further into this man's ideas, just a suggestion.


    And: Here Arthur describes 'Photons' as existing outside of time, and the spiritual quality of 'light', intense ideas indeed!


    I don't claim to know exactly what time "is" but I think Arthur Young gives us some potent directions to consider.

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