I don’t believe in time.

I mean I don’t believe in the linear concept of time as a tangible thing. But rather, I hold that what we call time is really a means of measuring changes that occur in a vibrating world.

Seconds, minutes, and hours are measurements of that change. Think of this with me. If nothing ever moved, if nothing every changed, there would be no way to measure time. What we are measuring is change that occurs due to the vibrations of CCM atoms. I think a second is classified as 9, 192,000,00 vibrations of a CCM atom. So, then, technically, time is not really a thing, it’s just the terminology we use to define change and help us organize life in the corporeal world.

When people say that time is running out what they’re really saying is that they don’t trust the changes they want to happen will fast enough.

In recent years, research into neuroscience, shows us that our brains do not actually experience time so much as they construct it. Your past isn’t stored like a movie you can replay, or a file you can access. According to Karl Pribram, neurophysiologist who challenged the idea that memories are stored in specific localized brain regions, the brain encodes and retrieves memories through patterns of electrical oscillations that resemble the way a hologram stores information. This is not linear and measurable, but rather it’s distributed across networks and just like a holograph needs light to be directed at the right angle to produce and image, a memory is produced when the “light” is at the right angle.

Each time you remember an event, your brain reconstructs it, and do you know what it fills in the gaps with? If you said, your own imagination, you’re right. That means that our memories are a lot like our dreams and our past is a collection of ever-evolving stories. Hmmm…this explains why the stories my dad told about his youth grew a little with each telling.

And the future? Um, that’s a prediction your brain makes based on memory and patterns from your past, or what you imagine to have been your past. So, in reality, I guess you could say that there is no past and there is no future. There is only–now. No matter “when” you are, it’s now. We can’t go to the future because when we get there, it’s now, and if it were possible and we could go to the past, well, when we got there, it’d be now.

Whenever we say we don’t have enough time what we’re really saying is that we’re between memories and predictions and not living in the present. I just recalled a scene in the original Star Wars trilogy on Dagobah when Yoda gently calls Luke back from everywhen that he is not. He says, “Always in motion is the future.” He says that Luke is looking ahead, looking behind but never where he is, never in the living moment where the Force can be felt. And this reminds of two things Jesus spoke of: 1. Don’t spend your time worrying about tomorrow and 2. Whoever takes hold of the plow and looks back is not ready for the Kingdom of Heaven or the realm of the divine. In other words, stop worrying about and rushing toward tomorrow and don’t hang onto the past. If you want to know God, the Source of all that is, then be here–now. Present. That’s where the gift of life is really at.

The only place you can ever act on anything is now. The more you fear you won’t have enough time, the more you risk losing NOW, which is the place your life is happening. And the more time you spend, pining away with regret, shame, or longing over the past, the more you miss out on the NOW that’s your life. Abraham Lincoln said that it was not the number of days that we have that counts, it was what we do in the days we are given.

When we live rushed and stressed, we are living by the laws of scarcity rather than the principles of a divine kingdom.

Thank you to my friend, Joyce, who recommended the Holographic Universe to me. It resonated before I completed the first chapter! Some books do that!

Taking My Time by Becker, Ashton and Dente