Beyond Time and Space
This is the second in series of posts to ponder some ideas and concepts that I have made reference to some earlier writings. The language may be new to some of you.
Beyond Time and Space
Quantum physics explains to us that time and space, as we perceive them, are not real but a matter of perception. We are forced to abandon the concepts of space and time when we seek to explain the fact that in laboratories in the USA one particle can appear in more than one place at the same moment. In one experiment a particle appeared in 3000 places simultaneously. We need to let go of the concepts of space and time when we need to explain why, if we alter the state of one particle, that another particle with which it seems to have a “relationship” is affected simultaneously thousands of miles away.
David Bohm, one of Einstein’s students believes that all matter – including our bodies and all that we know –are actually, at some level, one united field – what he calls the “implicate order” or “zero state field”. In this field, there is no time or space. All is one and all is potential. All objects large and small exist in this state together until they manifest in the “explicate order” that we experience in time, space and separation.
The concept supports the truth of that there is no you and me. All is one energy – one consciousness. We all constitute one united field of energy and consciousness that appears as separate beings and objects.
So, if we believe that we are indeed connected through a collective unconscious, a morphogenetic field, a united causal body or a quantum zero-point field or one united universal consciousness, it is obvious that we affect each other with every thought, word and action.
The obvious question is, how do we affect each other and how is our personal and common reality created?
Creating reality through interpretation and projection
We create our subjective reality by the way in which we interpret behaviors, situations and events. Unfortunately, most often we are not perceiving what is there, but actually perceiving what we have been programmed to believe is there. Our belief system works as a filter that subjectively and selectively interprets whatever is perceived in ways that corroborate what we already believe and ignores what we do not.
For example, if we believe that others will reject us and do not love us, we will interpret their suggestions or other actions as a form of rejection and lack of love for us even when that is simply not reality. We have all been surprised to discover that people have misinterpreted our actions, believing that we had motives and feelings that we never had.
We do the same. We project onto persons and situations motives and dangers that simply are not there. When we do so, we experience fear, pain, bitterness, creating unnecessary unhappiness for ourselves and others.
Conflicting Belief Systems and Memories
We could subdivide our beliefs into the following categories.
1. Emotionally Charged Impressions – These are not so much beliefs as “emotionally charged impressions” that are imprinted on the mind during traumatic experiences. The mind then identifies this particular stimulus with an emotionally charged feeling, and when we think of it, we feel fear and other emotions. This kind of “belief” has a strong “emotional charge” but is not based on observations and facts, but rather on one or two intense experiences, which are not representative of reality.
2. Mistaken Childhood Conclusions – These are mistaken beliefs about reality in which we perceive ourselves as weak, wrong, unlovable and to blame for just about everything that happens around us such as our parents’ anger, absence, unhappiness, indifference, divorce, illness, and even their death. We falsely interpret that we are unworthy or unable and that others will always behave towards us in ways that we experienced in childhood.
These first two categories are usually repressed in the subconscious mind because of the pain and confusion they produce. We suppress them so that we can focus and function in our daily lives.
Although these “beliefs” are repressed so that we do not feel the unpleasant negative emotional energy charge associated with them, they are activated whenever we come into contact with or think of a specific event or experience. They generate fear, emotional withdrawal and often aggressive behavior. They also create psychosomatic illnesses. They control our reactions to events, situations and persons. Most importantly, they attract the realities we encounter.
Because of their repression and subsequent isolation from our conscious mind, these first two belief systems do not evolve as we do. They remain in their original state regardless of our evolving logic, reasoning, new experiences and spiritual faith. Unless we engage in inner psychological or spiritual work, they receive no new data.
3. Our Evolving Conscious Belief System – This is our conscious belief system which, as it processes new data, re-evaluates its perceptions of reality seeking to make the adjustments necessary to understand the truths behind the phenomena we observe.
This conscious belief system is evolving in a small number of people. Many have stopped processing new data and thus have remained with the same conscious belief system for many years and will leave their bodies with it.
This belief system understands that we are safe, secure, good, worthy and capable. It also realizes that we are not in danger from people, heights, cars, insects, dogs, cats, elevators, airplanes etc. The facts available to it cause it to realize that its fears are unfounded. It also realizes that our self-worth has nothing to do with what others say, think or do.
We often have simultaneous beliefs, which are working at different levels creating conflicting emotions and reactions to events and situations. We can simultaneously feel love, peace, hurt and anger because our various beliefs are creating different internal realities.
4 Our Spiritual Intuitive Faith – These beliefs are usually based on intuition or faith rather than proof. We feel that what we believe is true. In addition to being affected by others’ spiritual beliefs, we also experience our own inner awakenings or revelations in which we just “know” that something is true. This divine inspiration can occur only when the mind is purified of the previous three types of mental content, all of which are limited by memory.
…Love and Light, Christina
