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In 1905, Albert Einstein published his Special Theory of Relativity and shattered all the principle concepts of the Newtonian world view. According to relativity theory, space is not three-dimensional, and time is not a separate entity. Both are intimately connected and form a four-dimensional continuum, "space-time." Thus, we can never talk about space without time, and vice versa. Furthermore, there is not universal flow of time; i.e. time is not linear, nor is it absolute. Time is relative. That is, two observers will order events differently in time if they move with different veolocities relative to the observed events. Therefore, all measurements involving space and time lose their absolute significance. Both time and space become merely elements to describe phenomena. According to Einstein's theory of relativity, in certain conditions two observers can even see two events in reverse time; i.e., for observer 1, event A wil occur before event B, while for observer 2, event B will occur before event A. Time and space are so basic to our descriptions of natural phenomena and ouselves that their modification entails a modification of the whole framework that we use to describe nature and ourselves. We have not yet integrated this part of Einstein's relativity into our personal lives. For example, when we get a psychic flash of a friend in trouble, say about to fall down the stairs, we check the time and call the person as soon as we can to see if she is all right. We also want to know if such a thing happened in order to validate our insight. We call, and she has had no such experience. We conclude that it was our imagination playing tricks on us, and we invalidate our experience. This is Newtonian thinking. We must see that we are experiencing a phenomenon that cannot be explained by Newtonian mechanics to validate our super-sensory experience. In other words, what we saw was a real experience. Since time is not linear, it may have already occurred. It may occur at the time we see it, and it may occur in the future. It may even be a probable occurrence that never manifests itself. Just because it didn't happen at the time we tried to correlate it, by no means proves that our insight about the possibility was wrong. If, however, within our insight about our friend, we also saw a calendar and a clock with Newtonian time on it, our insight would be such as to include that information about the space-time continuum of the event. It would be easier to validate in Newtonian physical reality. It is time to stop invalidating experience that lies outside our Newtonian way of thinking and broaden our framework of reality. We all have had experiences of time speeding up or of losing track of time. If we become proficient in observing our moods, we can see that our personal time varies with the mood we are in and with the experiences we are having. For example, we see that time is relative when we experience a very long, frightening period just before our car crashes or barely misses another, oncoming car. This time, mearsured by a clock, is a few seconds; however, to us, time appears to have slowed down. Experienced tmie is not measurable by a clock because a clock is a Newtonian device designed to measure the linear time defineed by Newtonian mechanics. Our experience exists outside the Newtonian system. Many times, we have experienced meeting someone after several years separation; it is as if we had just seen them yesterday. In regressional therapy, many people have experienced childhood events as if they were occurring in the present. We also find our memory has ordered events in a different sequence from someone else who has also experienced those events. (Try comparing childhood memories with your siblings.) The Native American culture, which didn't have clocks to create linear time, divided time into two aspects: the now and all other time. The Australian aborigines also have two kinds of time: the passing time and the Great Time. What occurs in the Great Time has sequence, but it cannot be dated. Lawrence Le Shan, from his experience testing clairvoyants, has defined two times: the regular linear time and Clairvoyant Time. Clairvoyant Time is the quality of time experienced by clairvoyants when they are using their gifts. it is similar to the Great Time. What occurs has sequence but can only be seen from the point of view of being or experiencing that sequential flow. As soon as the clairvoyant actively tries to interfere with the sequence of events she is witnessing, she is immediately thrown back into linear time and will no longer be witnessing events outside the normal here-and-now framework. She must then refocus her attention to Clairvoyant Time. The rules that govern such movement from one time frame to another are not well understood. Most clairvoyants will be led to "read" a particular time frame of a person's life or past life according to the needs of the person. Some clairvoyants can simply focus on whatever time frame is requested. Einstein's space-time continuum states that the apparent linearity of events depends on the observer. We are all too ready to accept past lives as literal physical lives that have happened in the past in a physical setting like this one. Our past lives may be happening right now in a different space-time continuum. Many of us have experienced "past lives" and feel their effects as if they were a short time ago. But we rarely speak of how our future lives are affecting the one we are experiencing right here and now. As we live our life NOW, it becomes more likely that we are rewriting our personal history, both past and future. Another important consequence of Einstein's relativity is the realization that matter and energy are interchangeable. Mass is nothing but a form of energy. Matter is simply slowed down or crystallized energy. Our bodies are energy. |
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