Moonborn: The Magic of Time.
THE ADVENTURE – Re-connecting to the concept of time, creating new ways of interacting with it and interpreting its meaning.
With THE ADVENTURE I’m inviting you on a journey of mystic exploration, in words from my soul to yours, to nourish your mystic mind and heart. Today I am sharing a transmission about the magic of time with you, and how we you can shape your concept of time anew.
It’s wild that it is already October.
I don’t know where September went, let alone this year so far. So much has shifted. And yet so little has happened, it feels. Like dancing through a paradox, I feel into time. Trying to grasp it, make sense of it.
It feels like a perfect moment to (re-)share this piece from my Mystic Collective writings that used to live only inside of the membership, and that I am now taking out from behind the veil and into my public Substack world.
Day after day, moment to moment we exist within it: Time is a ruler of our lives in so many ways, yet rarely we sit back and contemplate what it actually means, let alone what our relationship with it really is.
And, as it always is with mystical enquiries, we probably won’t find an all-encompassing answer to those questions. Rather, we go on magical, exploratory hike into the territory of the meaning of time – not hoping to return with the ultimate truth, but with a little more ease, a little more inspiration and a little more insight into our personal relationship with the mysterious concept of time.
There are a million ways that can take you into the topic of time – from the definitions we find in physics, to spiritual ideas about it all. But let’s start in our everyday lives, where we encounter time every single day: the way we speak about it.
To a large degree, our language is responsible for how we experience time.
Just think about it: how often do we refer to losing time, finding time, saving time, or gaining time? As if it was a resource, like money, we talk about time as if it was a tangible thing.
The idea that time could be “saved”, and our endless attempts to do so, are not actually very long-standing ways of dealing with it. Only for the past 100-150 years or so, this concept has solidified in our culture.
The way we speak about it nowadays completely covers up the reality of what time actually is. If we don’t treat it like an object, we talk about it as if it was something with an agenda that acts on its own behalf, like when we say that time waits for no one, or that time heals all wounds. Or we speak about time describing it as a process that somehow occurs parallel to our own experience: time is passing, while we live our lives.
And somehow we switch back and forth between these different perspectives on time as if they were all interchangeable. What they all suggest though is that there is time, and there is us. We don’t tend to see ourselves as beings that inhibit time, or that time is part of the nature of life on Earth, inherent to our very existence on this planet right now. Could this be the “right” way of looking at time?
What if time is nothing but a human invention?
What if time only exists because we observe it and describe it – but without our measuring it, it simple isn’t “real”? Because in the end, in very simple terms, time as we use it could be described as nothing more than a comparison of an event in relation to a different event.
The idea of time being separated into the past, present and future is another concept that we have learned to use – even though what actually exists are not three different entities of time, but our mind’s projections of what was, our experience of what is, and our expectation of what will be. Somehow, time as we understand it only comes to live in our perception, and in the way we have learned to think about it.
No matter how we interact with time, what we actually interact with is a model.
It’s a system that is not natural, but a creation of our species. The system we follow in the Western world is linear. We learn that time “starts” in the past, races through the present moment, and continues into the future. Time that has passed is forever lost, time that is yet to come can be made better by working hard for its improvement in the now.
When we follow a linear time model, it seems like it makes sense to rush. When time is racing forwards, so are we. It gives us the illusion that we could “outrun” other people on the racing track of time, because it leads to the assumption that the faster you do more stuff, the more you will have achieved in the future in comparison to everyone else who is racing. And not only that: you could even outrun time itself, because when you get all your work done now, you can take a breather tomorrow, while time continues to race past, until you need to pick it all back up to not fall behind.
What a stressful model this is! Isn’t it wild to think that all of these ways of interacting with time are nothing but ideas put into practice, but not the reality?
For thousands of years most humans followed a circular model of time.
Naturally, when time comes back, in circles and spirals, the whole concept of time heading towards some kind of “goal” somewhere in the future is unimaginable, and the idea of rushing to get ahead of time would be a simply insane idea.
Now think of what happens in a culture where linear time is seen as the “reality”, and not only that, but the idea that there is nothing before and after death prevails: suddenly it is all about winning a race, trying to get as much good stuff done as quickly as possible, before time runs out and life is over for all eternity.
Many of us in the Western world have grown up without any spiritual framework in place that considers what was before, and what is after our physical existence on this Earth. I, for example, grew up being taught that life is inherently meaningless and random, that you get born by chance, have some years to try and make the most of life, and then you die, and that’s that.
It is no wonder that this setup is leading to a whole array of issues, personally and collectively. It’s not surprising that so much effort is put into making things faster, more efficient, more productive, when time is understood as such a scarce resource that needs to be saved.
I wonder, how would we act differently, if we felt and understood time as circular? Wouldn’t humanity act a lot more responsibly, knowing that the past is not forever gone, but that it will actually circle back and meet us again?
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