Lived in the past? How about the future? You only need a pen and paper to find out! Just bear with the reading first:
Well, I have come across a very interesting theory, the time-space continuum. I'll share two aspects of this concept:
we may have already experienced life in the future (god help us!)
time (and therefore our lives) are actually circular like a ring, rather than seen as a timeline.
Let me explain the timeline theory first. A timeline of our life is usually drawn by marking a dot on the line where we are at the present moment, then everything behind that dot would be our past, and anything after would be our future. However, this is apparently wrong. According to the time-space continuum, time and therefore our lives go round in a circle. This may sound rather weird, but bear in mind that we used to think the World was square!
To clarify, I'll explain the bit about us already having experienced life in the future, you'll always find you have. OK, so we've established that time is meant to go round and round never stopping. (don't worry if you can't get your head round that yet, it doesn't matter at all.) Feel free to get a pen and paper for this!...
1. Draw a typical timeline of your life and put a dot at the very beginning of the line representing where you where born. Label this born Then put another dot where you are at this moment in time (for the sake of this example say the middle.) Label this now . Then put a dot right at the end representing where you would die. Label it die. Normally we would agree that anything behind your now dot is the past, anything in front, the future. Obviously the future extends from where you are now until your death. Label the 'past' and 'future' on your timeline. You could use arrows to show where the past and future 'finish'. (This would be pointing to the very ends of your timeline.)
Ok. The theory says time never stops; just goes round and round in a circle like a ring or bracelet, so lets turn this finite timeline into an infinite one, one that never stops.
2 To do this make a semi-circle out of the timeline you've just drawn by linking together the 'past' (born) and' future' (die) line. Done it? Can you see that the line never stops (even though it's not going round in a perfect circle)
Right. Here comes the interesting bit. Look at the dot where you are now. Follow the line to the end of the original 'future,' or die dot...now keep going following round the semi circle until you arrive back at the 'present 'dot. You will see that you will go through the future until you come back to being born again, therefore experiencing a past life before your present one.YOU HAVE ALREADY PASSED THROUGH THE FUTURE BEFORE BEING BORN AGAIN! Due to the circular nature of time, you have experienced the future before being born as who you are now!
Fascinating heh? This concept also works for the concept that the lives we are living now is actually in our 'past' too.
Hope those instructions were alright. Tell me what you think...
RE: You may have experienced life in the future: interactive exercise
hello Azalia
I have just made myself go cross-eyed doing the drawing in the air as I don't have pen and paper to hand..does the diagram look like a protractor?
I find this idea of past/future lives fascinating.
One of my favourite teachers is Sanaya Roman and in one of her seminars we did a meditation to visit a future life, using the 'Will to Unify'
I was fascinated to discover that I was captain of a starfleet on an intergalactic peace mission. It felt as real as the self I once met who was/is a 16th century alchemist.
The weirdist of all though, was doing a shamanic journey when I was in Peru a few years ago. The focus of the shamanic journey was to meet another self who lived in that place, and I met a 'past' self who was journeying to meet a future self (me in the lifetime)
very Alice down the rabbit hole
in light
tigress
RE: You may have experienced life in the future: interactive exercise
Yes, it should look like a protractor!
Of course, the idea isn't that you can find out whether you have experienced a life in the future, because according to the theory everyone will have done! Because time is a man-made concept, time is part of a much bigger 'whole' that we can't concieve if we don't look at the totality of everything.
RE: You may have experienced life in the future: interactive exercise
Wow that is facinating stuff Azalia, i was told the other day that when we see images of spirits that they could be from our future also , sounds as though that is connected to what you were talking about.
RE: You may have experienced life in the future: interactive exercise
Hi there Peeps[sm=wave.gif]
Reading this did ring true with me so let me give u a little insight of my own
Think of an onion and all the layers it has the more u take of the more u reveal and shed light upon. Be it past lives and aspects of yourself or be it what u have experienced in future aspects. See we do not only exist on this plain of existence but on many others.
I have brought the teacher aspect of me in shedding this info with you then i bring forward the pupil in listening and learning from u.
The more we understand the more we grow
Love
Dragon