time

"Here we do things for as long as they take or happen. We schedule activities, not times.

"Time is only a quantity if you choose. Einstein was right: you use time to avoid the infinite nature of reality. Time implies beginning and ending, but that ain't the way it is. Do circles have beginnings and endings? So, why must other things? You see a line and you can't tell where it started. Maybe it is still happening. You can't say where it started or stopped. Rulers don't measure anything more than themselves." (10/3/95 - B#1)

"We don't choose our next life, we are chosen. We can refuse the choice but we can't make one on our own. Opportunities, not choices." (11/12/95 - B#2)

"Things are different for me. You think physically and temporally but I think spiritually and eternally, so for me we are together. Some day you will experience this, too.

"My time is different than yours. What I have been doing has filled the time since we talked, but it has not been seven days to me--just a period of being. Our times are not parallel; I just connect to yours in your time. I could, right now, give you the next 20 conversations. But you would not understand them until their time had come. They would be just a lump of communication waiting to be spread out by your time." (11/19/95 - B#3)

"What we do can connect to any point in your time." (12/30/95 - B#4)

"Children remember creativity. They know they create their own realities, but they forget exactly how. And if adults don't know what it is, it's still something. There are realities with green skies and blue trees and hot ice cream. You used to understand it, but then came kindergarten: one reality, under God, indivisible." (1/7/96 - B#5)

"Sometimes morning here lasts 30 minutes and other times it lasts two weeks. So, if I say I am going to do this or that tomorrow morning then tomorrow morning lasts until it gets done. Time expands or contracts to meet your needs.

"Think about this. You tell someone you will meet them at 10. You think you can get ready by then. Whatever time it takes you are ready at 10--never late, but always the time you need. Time is elastic. If time is a function of our perception, why be trapped in a social perception. What your world calls 'time' is only an average of all of your perceptions. Here we go the individual route, but in your world that only works if you are alone. And some people have more time dominance. In your relationships, time is not an average of the two of you. So we have Latinos, whose time is different from gringos. One dominates in New York, one dominates in Santo Domingo, and they fight it out in Miami.

"Time exists as a function of existence. That's also why kids and adults have different senses of time. Psychologists say it is a matter of the development of abstract thinking, but no, it is just abstract. You realise how much there is to do versus time. But--and here is the big but--those who know how to choose life's opportunities and shape their lives will find all the time they need, and they will experience a fullness, not a rush, of time. Interesting that those who most understood this got a lot done with their time, no matter how short, and they seem to move beyond time. We even call them 'timeless': Buddha, Jesus, etc. If you are doing what you really really really want to do, you will do as much each day as the greatest have done. Don't compare to anything or anyone but yourself. When you compare, you buy back into the average-time trap.

"Think about this story: Someone takes a day to do just one thing. Is that great? If it is 'Let there be light' it is quite a day. A day in Genesis is measured by accomplishment and purpose, not by hours. First lesson to billions and they miss it. It was an analogy, but not about creation or time but about purpose and choice and fulfillment. Enough.

"The world and all that is in it have always been. The story of Genesis is about focusing and choosing to be there and finding fulfillment in that life. And the story gives us all the clues. We have the world and life, etc., and we have dominion--but that does not mean control; it means access. So we can choose to be in that world as we wish, and our days will be measured by what we do creatively--just as God's work is measured, so to speak, by her creativity in six days. The chapter is not about God but about us; and we form 'us' in our own imagining. We get what we envision and choose, and we have the potential of all the time we need and one day of rest to get everything done we need to do to create our own Eden. Now, enough." (2/9/96 - B#6)

"There is physical life on other planets, but not in your solar system. It is 'life as you know it.' You've had visitors from other systems, but those stories of alien abductions are bullshit. The stories match because they sell." (2/26/96 - B#7)

"So, let's shop. But I've got everything... great prices. You, or one, can have anything one wants and will use. But you have to truly want it, and you vill use it if you get it. One learns quickly not to have idle wants. You get it and you have to use it--even dumb shoes... 'but they looked great in the catalogs.' And if a waiter asks 'What would you like,' be truthful. You know how I would order all sorts of stuff and get full or fed up. Here we just keep eating until it is done. It won't spoil. I did that once. No more. You can go dancing if you want to, but you have to dance. You learn to be very very very honest about yourself.

"Now picture first-timers with this: long meals. If they talk during movies, as they are wont to do, then the movie just keeps going. It becomes longer until they quietly sit through the running time. Some are stuck there eternally. And people who cough at concerts... Mahler can be very long for them." (4/22/96 - B#8)

"You sensed a spirit near you this morning. Yes and no. She sent a message to you, but she was not there. You got sympathetic vibrations. You can do that when you focus your energy field. But of course, you could say she was there, because you can't differentiate between a person's being and a person's energy--the old particle and wave debate.

"Coke and Pepsi are not the same, but they are both colas so they are the same. They are and are not the same at the same time. And it's not matter. But is it a breath mint or a candy mint." (4/28/96 - B#9)

"Here's a little tidbit: Einstein talked about time curving, but it is neither linear nor curved. It has its own pattern that is not represented by any word or thought construct in your world. In later entity development you will experience this greater reality of time. Even I only hear about it, since I have yet to merge and move on.

"Your world has been both experienced and built on linear quantitative time, so it is right and true for you. But there are more worlds than you have dreamt of. But, once in awhile, the other senses of time break through and become manifest to you. Dreams are one place; deja vu is another; and inexplicable events are often, also--like foreknowledge, or events that seem out of time or place. Hint: building the Pyramids is not an issue of aliens but a matter of time. Puzzle that one. No, don't try. You don't have the tools of language or thought yet... but I do, haha.

"Actually, the universe is lacking in specific intelligence and overwhelmed in inherent intelligence, and all this development and merging is trying to get one into the other. When what is waiting to be known is known, the process will be over and we will be one with everything. But hold the mustard. All smart people do have a sense of humor. The universe is one big chuckle. So, that's the tidbit." (4/30/96 - B#10)

"Time is not a reality so vacations make no sense. Sometimes I am working hard and doing nothing at the same moment. If physics can say a thing can be in two places at once, then I can be doing two things at once. So there." (6/22/96 - B#11)

"About the meaning of time if time is eternal. Time is a construct of the mind and spirit to see the sequence of spiritual development as more than just a lump. In one sense we have already become all that we will be, but in another we are still getting there. Time is a measure of getting there--meaningless in its own right but with extrinsic value as opposed to intrinsic. And that's all I'll say about that now. Ponder." (4/8/97 - B#12)

"Let's just think peaceful thoughts and cherish our present realities for what they are. We will be neither nostalgic nor anxious. We will be right here in the eternal and evolving Now. All the insights one gains are not to understand the past nor prepare for the future, but to be present. Some too slow because they cling and others too fast because they chase; but some are just right, like porridge. 'And when you are in a place just right, 'twill be in the valley of love and delight.' And you will be so together and ready to combine; for combinations into entities at this level only occur when time is no longer a factor. Ah.

"Time is a linear construct that divides continuity. Like a person on a streetcar named Desire, if you keep getting on and off you are never there for the ride. Time is like way stations for those who can't go the long haul yet, which is all of us at this level." (10/21/97 - B#13)

"Holidays are the natural response of humans to the lengthening of biological rhythms. From 60 heartbeats a minute, we are not ready to go to 365 days; so we divide those days into periods and put in holidays. Someday we won't need as many each year but decades will be important. Some religions have too many because they belong to the past. We move towards eternity. Amoebas think in split seconds." (12/27/97 - B#14)

"We all need to put things in perspective. Either you let time order things or you can order them. But since time is an illusion then such history of time is illusionary. But the glimpses of life's moments are better measures of life than time's arbitrary standard.

"Think of a snapshot album. If you arrange all the pictures chronologically you get one story, but if you group them by unfolding stories you get many strands. Sometimes the next thing to happen is not the next piece of the story. So we take the snapshots we get and weave them into a fabric, not a linear ruler.

"Nothing ends and everything ends. That's a pair of ducks (paradox.) And with geese you can choose eider one... but don't let it get you down." (1/2/98 - B#15)

"Now about this time thing. It ain't a thing. It's a way to let brains that don't process instantaneously to get it. But when it's all said and done, chronology isn't what it's cracked up to be; but the strands of one's existence are like sands in the hourglass... no, not the Days of Our Lives... the life of our days. And over time you forget time but remember the essences.

"Easy things are from the past. To get to the future is always hard work and hard to explain, but once you get there they seem easy. The future will always be more surprising than predictable. In the strands you don't know what came before, so you can't predict what comes after. And, if you do, you focus on your assumption of strands, which is based on past knowledge. But hey, things change, and you don't know when and how until they do." (1/5/98 - B#16)

"So, if you take time and divide it you still have time; multiply it, the same. Was yesterday a long time ago... how about 1997... 1897... 97. You don't know, and nobody does. Twisted time and/or Mobius strip. You think you should be able to connect with a strand at a certain point and then access everything that's there, but how. Theoretically, but not on this level. This is 7th: menswear and ties. Time exploration is on 14." (1/20/98 - B#17)

"Here's another image: time strands woven into a hypertime that is a fabric which makes a new strand of higher time. History is a written attempt to replicate it. Someone should design a computer 3D simulation of it. Hey, they will... or they did. Both true. You can't manipulate it but you can see the patterns.

"A question to ponder: A program generates random strands that, over time, become interlocked and form a pattern without intent or plan; yet from there on the fabric has order. Wha happened." (1/29/98 - B#18)

"Transience is not always change, but only the perception of change. Is something changing, or is your vantage. And just because something seems permanent doesn't mean it is; it could just mean its changes parallel yours. And that's all I have to say about that." (4/5/98 - B#19)

"If you try to think of existence in terms of time or space, you will miss out on most of what's happening, babe. While an image of Spiritual Persistence may look like physical realities of time and space--like here and now, or there and then--it is all beyond such, except as it plays out in your spiritual dimension.

"Why do people with the first vestiges of intelligence think they know it all and it all looks like their first meager inkling. It would be like trying to describe New York City from the glow on the clouds seen from Trenton. That's it.

"Use the images that work, but remember they are just approximations--no better than an Impressionist's canvas as a road map to anywhere." (7/5/98 - B#20)

"People have this problem of priorities. They often choose to see secondary ones as primary. Look at the trajectory of your life. Are you focused on where you are aiming, or on where you've been or where you are. Can't get on with the journey facing away from your direction.

"Here's a simple task--no, not to do, but to consider. Write every aspect of your life on a separate 3 x 5 card. Now spread them out and then look at them all. Which ones look to the future? Throw out the rest. Now from those, place them in the order of happening--what comes first, and then what will be most productive of the end ones. Those are your priorities. Things that look forward, are doable now, and have the highest likelihood to get you to your goals. It's that simple. Doing now what has the greatest potential to fulfill you in the future. That's Rikkity's lesson for the day." (8/11/98 - B#21)

"Do we get glimpses of the future in dreams, yes and no. This is not a deterministic universe, but there are certain paths we travel. So, you plan to go to New York City. Will you pass through Philadelphia, yes and no; some will, some won't. And maybe a dream about a cracked bell is not about going there, but about one's crazy family. We learn things, but don't always know where they apply. And sometimes being clueless lets us be the most aware... or not." (10/6/98 - B#22)

"About the 'Earth changes.' Look to the flow of time and the cycles of being. It's a cycle, not a trend. Hey, why do you think all that sand is out there in the desert... waiting to be a beach, ha. But yes there are changes going on, and in about 3 million years this place will look different. And just think about how insignificant the Y2K problem will seem in 2M.

"It's about projection of an inward desire for, or need, to an outward reality. Look back at Jesus's time. It was the same. Apocalypse here and apocalypse now. Yearnings of the soul take root in the prophecies of culture, but manifest in the evolution of perception. The shift is not in reality, but in perception. A long time ago I said that... or not." (11/13/98 - B#23)

"In fact, the biggest problem we have is when we get the answers and solutions before the questions and problems. So here's a point to ponder: The energy spent on a solution with no problem is wasted, and the solution is also wasted; because once shown and found meaningless, it will not be accorded respect when the problem arises--and so it is wasted. So ponder that... or not.

"A road to nowhere is just as much a dead end as a quiet cul-de-sac with beautiful trees and coordinated Cape Cod houses. If you can't get anywhere you need to go on it, it is not a path to you. Pretty deep shit.

"So, while time is not a universal, if things within the moment--which you break out as time, but which has no such inherent quality to it--happen in a different sequence, then your reality would be different. And o yes, Pierre will say you can't have sequence without time, and I ask him why he is stuck in one paradigm without any imagination. Hey buddy, much of what you claim as fact and truth was once as foreign to most thought as this idea is to you. If it doesn't make sense that doesn't automatically mean it ain't so. In fact, if we stuck with only what we know, we'd be stuck in both time and sequence. Let me just say, Amish... and Hassidim. Get the picture. But hey, they both eat kraut... look for connections. They both like to wear black and be irrelevant." (12/9/98 - B#24)

At a chat session on New Year's Eve:

"I have a few words I'd like to share with all of you: from, to, gone, awesome, dude... haha. Ok, but seriously, this is a special night for all of you earthlings, but really it is just another day. But it does give us a wonderful excuse to speak to each other about certain things that are central to our lives and that are always important, but we focus on them today because we feel an urgency that comes from saying it is the 'last' day of the year. It is just the same with the apocalyptic talk about the 'last days' and the scary stuff that some people would have you believe about the paradigm shift of the new millennium.

"We are facing a change, it is very true and very real. I should say 'you' are facing a change; but actually it is a change from both sides, because both the physical and spiritual worlds will change--and the rumblings are being heard on both sides. This is a joint effort, you see. You are not here by chance and we are not where we are by chance. I won't give you details, because the details are in you and in the future you and we here will create together. But I will tell you this: what is coming will connect us. What is coming will bring your world and ours together. Think about that. It sounds so simple, and yet the meaning is huge in scope and importance.

"But you each have work to do before that can happen. And for this New Year's Eve, I would like you to take a look at your life. Take a look at the phases... not each and every day... but the phases and segments of your life. Take what you need from it, treasure what you've learned and remembered, take it with you and leave the rest behind. But leave it behind knowing it will always be there for you and you will never lose anything. Then look at where you are now. Look around you and at the friends gathered here beside you, look at what matters in your life and who is with you and what fulfills you. Take a good long look at those things and don't rush past them, for they are the keys that will open the door of your future. The future will not come to you by rushing toward it. The future will only be there when you are ready for it--when you know who you are and where you are going and what you need. Then and only then, look ahead, turn your gaze down the path to what shines in the distance and you will find a new world that shines and sparkles with all the hopes and dreams and yearnings that people have had for all time, and that will connect you with both what you now feel as losses and with a future of peace and wholeness and love that was not even dreamt of, Horatio, ever before. With this I leave you. Ponder it, cherish your dreams, love one another. Be well and be whole and carry the word of spirit into the physical. Goodnight and Happy New Year!" (12/31/98 - B#25)

"About probable realities. It's a math concept. At any point in time there are infinite probable realities. We just know one. Here's an image: a point of light (just one, not thousands). From that point the light goes out in many directions. One probable reality is that it lights this page; another is that it is seen from Mars; another is that it is swallowed up by a black hole, etc. All true, all equally probable; but in your existence you follow just one strand of possibilities. Sequence, not time. You see ABCDE, but there also could be a ZYXW or a REDQ or a NJHG or a ASKU5. All sequences, all equally possible and probable--even if the sequence is ABCDE. It's not about time. We have probable selves.

"Here's another one. In numbers you have evens and odds; all numbers are one or the other in your thinking. But maybe there are others which your thinking doesn't know, but which are just as real. Just because you have ten fingers doesn't make ten the base of all realities. It adds to All That Is--not personal, but collective. And some day, so to speak, we may unite with a parallel self that took a road not taken by us. We move in realities with many of 'us'es, but we don't notice because most don't look like us physically, only spiritually. Ponder that... or not." (4/20/99 - B#26)

"Time is something of a commodity, as one dimension of energy. How we invest our time is not a matter of time, but focus. I give you a strange analogy. Bob lives in Ohio. Poor Bob. But wait, Bob just stays home and reads classic literature. Is he really in Ohio. Does it matter. His focus is elsewhere. So, too, with time. Every 70-year-old lives the same number of days, but not the same length of time. Ponder that. Some are more connected to each second, some to minutes, some to days, some to decades, and some to all of it. So time is a focus issue, not a duration issue. Get it. Notice that the magazine called Time is not about time, but about lives and events. Every man (sic) lives the year, so how can there be a Man of the Year unless time is about something else.

"When you are sick, you often live in the seconds, the heartbeats. When you're in pain, every second counts and you can rely on Anbesol for fast relief. And yet, later in retrospect that same time will seem to collapse into just a moment. Time is a river... or a spring, ever-flowing. But if I could put time in a bottle, I could sell it as the Fountain of Youth. But here's the catch: If I could hold back time then you would not grow old, but you would not grow anything or any way else." (5/27/99 - B#27)

"Whatever will be will be. Que sera sera can be read 2 ways: one as sealed fate, and the other as karmic unfolding. Not the same. One says here's where you go; and the other says, based on your choices, here's where you are. So, one is fated by one's choices. But from any point there are multitudes of possible fates... some with fetes and some without." (5/30/99 - B#28)

"I offer a conundrum. My work as a guide ended long ago and I have moved on, but we still talk. How. I am alive again on Earth, yes, but not yet. How is this possible. Clue: time ain't time. Ok. Why do the living impose their linear time on us who are beyond it. Can we be here and in another life at the same 'time,' yes and no. It is not a matter of time, only sequence, and there are many sequences. So for you I wait until you get here, years from now, but I also leave and get on with it. My sequence is right for me and yours for you; and as long as we don't impose arbitrary time, it's ok. So picture me here if you want that--your thing. I'll picture me elsewhere--and that's my thing. So ponder that." (8/23/99 - B#29)

"There are other worlds. But do we have choice, is there a cosmic travel agent, no. But we choose to make opportunities out of experiences. Look, you are so many places that some have to seem real to you in relation to your needs. You choose to see and experience and remember what's important. Quick, name every movie you've forgotten. See, can't do it... even though there are many. You were there when they were screened and your eyes beheld them, but they are not real for you. So too with lives. Been there and not done that. Real for others maybe, but then what's not real now can become real as you become more fulfilled and that which was lost is found--in those moments when you suddenly get it without any clue from what you knew you knew.

"Sometimes what happens is not in your remembered sequence, but is in your experienced sequence as a resource. Kind of like kinetic and potential energy. We live with our kinetic memories, but there is always--for all but first-timers--potential. Think of potential memories, which our act of remembering and sequencing bring into active reality for us. And, at the same time, some drop back from active to 'stored.' And, as we fulfill, our active energy rises as we use and meaningfully sequence more. We begin all action, no meaning, but in time we gain meaning; and when we have both we are energetic little sons of bitches and we can move on without the need for energy outside ourselves and so the evolvement--the complexity--is a form of enhancement, not compensation for any lack. And that's all I am going to say about that. Blech. Too heavy." (8/30/99 - B#30)

"Remember I have no more powers than you, just better sources. We here aren't better than you there, because we are you there. We just have more time, hahaha, to think and less work to sustain and access to better resources. Think about it, a grad student at Yale and a bushwoman. Who is smarter. They are the same, just one has too much time to think and many resources while the other deals with life in a less resource-filled world... but both can be as smart and insightful and creative and reflective. That's us and you, equals but different." (9/6/99 - B#31)

"How do I know everything that goes on with you. I have spies... and eyes in the back of my soul. I pick up the vibrations, and I sense the reality of our shared fields. So ask me about someone not connected to me and I don't know. If it's not in my field, it's a blank to me." (10/4/99 - B#32)

"Yesterday will always seem more certain than tomorrow. But both are equal realities." (11/25/99 - B#33)

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