What’s the meaning and purpose of a calendar? Why do we have one, what would life on Earth be like without it and something, uh….I don’t remember….I will when the questions get answered.

 C= The Committee ST = the substitute teacher and Erik if he shows up

ST:       Our most revered – or is it Most Reverend? – Committee (that sounded really “churchy” didn’t it?) we’re at New Year’s Eve’s Eve on the Gregorian calendar and wish to know about them and the tracking of time by use and development.

Erik:     Pretty fucking technical, man.

ST:       I knew you were here, did you just park the car?

Erik:     It ain’t so bad now that I’ve cruised around town in it a few thousand times.

ST:       It’s red, that makes ALL the difference. A real Ferrari and a real Ducati are red for a reason. Wait a minute, this is supposed to be about calendars, not colors. (Erik’s talking about the illustration in yesterday’s post.)

Erik:     Color your calendar, the theme for 2013!

ST:       What color (oh, excuse me….we’ll use British spelling, thanks for the reminder…) what colour should 2013 be?

Erik:     Green.

ST:       Because?

Erik:     Growth, new things sprouting.

ST:       So, Erik, you got your Committee home boys there with you?

Erik:     (to The Committee) You dawgs down for some stuff here?

ST:       (face palm)

Erik:     Whassa matta, yo? You uptight ‘n shit?

ST:       (two hands face palm) Yes, Erik, even I am for some things.

Erik:     (radio announcer voice) “The Erik Nightclub welcomes you to the Amateur Comedy Night! Welcome everyone! Now on stage to greet you and to introduce the next act, club proprietor himself, Erik the Man!

ST:       Pretty good, grease the gears with laughs, I’m impressed, and……no!! I’m not putting that down. You said that just to bother me.

Erik:     (censored)

ST:       As I was saying, esteemed Committee, why do we have calendars? Has humanity always had them, even in prior, largely forgotten civilizations?

C:         In reverse, yes, yes and you have them to provide for rhythmic review, you might say periodic review of life.

ST:       Are they a complete human invention or has there been influence from off our Earth?

C:         The choice and measurement and use, human, The concept, from Heaven as you would say.

ST:       I try to imagine life on Earth where no calendars exist.

C:         Your Earth has many examples of civilizations without them and many of you can remember these, past life regression and hypnosis can show them.

ST:       How does that past life regression work?

C:         It is not different from what you have chosen to call channeling; it is the same process and a person more able to receive and interpret the information, the words and images of the place and time, speaks to you of what is shown.

ST:       The popular calendar in current civilizations uses a dozen moon revolutions around Earth to mark a year, a “moonth” or a month, and that’s one Earth revolution around the sun. In Latin languages, the word is like that for a table, does that mean the moon returns to its place?

C:         Yes, and the daylight darkness cycle marks the days; because the moon revolutions do not match up to Earth revolutions, your months are of different lengths.

ST:       Can you describe life without a calendar?

C:         Coordination of activities would require it and one would be developed.

ST:       Is there a better calendar or a worse one than what we now use?

C:         No, the function to provide coordination among humans is the purpose and this it serves.

ST:       There’s no calendar for animals or trees or…anything else but humans, so what about beings from other solar systems?

C:         There are well developed methods of coordination but they are not coordinated to a central star of a planetary rotation. The navigation methods used before electricity are a basic form of how location is used, what you call time.

ST:       This you have all said many times, that time is location.

C:         In deed and fact; the time you measure is an illusion and a reality simultaneously. The cycle of light and darkness and bodily rhythms arranged about these patterns are real, yes, however the constraints upon your physical existence are what create the perception of time. Depart your body and time as you measure it and mark it, is suspended and we do say, ceases its existence.

ST:       So what are the purposes of birthdays, anniversaries, graduation dates, new years and so forth?

C:         These are markers of civilization and existence and serve this purpose well, for your visit to Earth is a project and these moments upon your calendar which you fix, serve to remind all involved of the pace and progress which are the purpose of your presence.

ST:       Do such checkpoints exist in our true home, where we exist off of Earth?

C:         Yes, certainly, however the fixing of a location of origin and position are what are used. There is not a sequence, or pattern or a line. Your tomorrow follows your yesterday, which precedes today. There is no side course; time marches forward always, does it not? Imagine time marching to the side, or up; then after some movement in that lateral or horizontal direction, you might choose to return to the course you previously followed. From your Earth view of this time, you would think of this as a return to original or prior course of travel, yet in reality, what you see as a horizontal or vertical shift is another horizontal or vertical shift that returns to a previous position.  The angles of these shifts can be infinitely small or large, and as each angle is smaller and each segment shorter until the next shift is made, the course becomes circular. Thus our descriptions of movement as the following of a curve. You who have studied calculus can envision.

ST:       Why are we never supplied with specific dates for events?

C:         Specific days for events are of residual importance and are known after-the-fact. Allow us an example; is the shape and place of a stain from spilled liquid able to be seen, measured and understood? Its location marked, mapped and sized? Certainly and this is important for what or how? It is residual data and of insignificance to the event that caused it, and is known when completed.

This is the meaning and purpose of a date when a significant event “takes place” it is who and what that matter, not when. Your notion of “when” is the intersection of participants removed from their circular course of location and artificially placed upon a line, in sequence.

An example is your computer or television screen; it traces a line from one corner of a visible rectangle to the opposite corner, and returns to redraw, with variations in colour to compose the image. It is a line, redrawn at such speed your human eye does not capture the lines but rather the effect, the image. Curiously the image resembles the source location; have you looked upon a live camera image of a scene you also see simultaneously? To stand and observe a video camera as it records, is an example. The screen image is a flat and a poor approximation yet represents with accuracy what is seen with the human eye.

As we gaze upon you we see as you see the event with your eyes, and what you see of your Earth, when compared to our view of your presence, is similarly less dynamic and flat, by its relativity. As you dream, you return and see as you have always seen since your origin. Your decision to leave your body each rotation of Earth in contemplated in your life plan and so you return to awaken. When an event of trauma or disease might cause a cessation of bodily function and your essence steps away – this you have called a near death experience – you return to see the world and the universe as it is and as it can be seen. The sensation is the same as looking at a golf tournament through only the screen of a video camera to then suddenly pull  your eyes away and gaze upon the scene without assistance.

This effect provides a large obstacle to your return and many souls indeed choose it not, to not return; others do come back as the life plan, life course and interactions and purposes are reviewed. Your life plan’s exit points provide just such review, at certain locations you will cross. The time required and the moment of occurrence are relevant only to an Earth placement; in your true home, these can occupy a vast or minuscule segment of what is your time. These moments – among others – operate in a similar way to a calendar birthday or anniversary, to mark progress and provide a point and take stock of what is had.

ST:       That’s quite a bookful, thank you. If I understood well, this means a calendar as we use is important but serves only the use we give it.

C:         Yes.

ST:       Erik, you know all this stuff, don’t you?

Erik:     (chewing on a very full mouth of…something, and mumbling his answer) Yeah. Everybody does.

ST:       That was as deep as a floor tile.

C:         The end of this phase in your Earth’s rotation about the central system star is another conjunction and completion of a cycle, with little significance beyond your Earth. Alignments of planets in your system are much more meaningful on Earth and the alignments within your galaxy, significant to that much higher a degree. These you choose to ignore and so you may, as you live where you are.

ST:       As we celebrate a new year and the end of a former, we should not attach too much significance?

C:         No, however you should them enjoy and that you shall.

ST:       Committee thank you, and Happy New Year!

C:         We wish all here an interesting year 2013, much awaits you all this rotation! Be well.