As regular readers know, Elisa has been otherwise occupied with family matters so let us all wish her a productive and positive day off today.

Once again the substitute teacher steps in with input from a Higher Committee and presents the lesson plan for the day. As always, we invite Erik to be…Erik. Let’s see what’s up with him on this subject. His contribution hasn’t been given as of the typing of these words. Your humble substitute is as eager to hear from him as anybody; the Committee is always positive and interesting; Erik’s all that plus entertaining!

ST:   We’ve discussed the issue of time several times on this blog; on earth and in the higher vibrations of where our energetic beings exist without a physical body. The concept is interesting to many and a challenge to comprehend. Can this be explained in a different way?

C:      Yes. Time is entirely a human Earth invention; a concept created by, for and of humanity. The concept derives from light and dark cycles of planetary rotation, subdivided or added up.

ST:      What happens to the passage of time we sense, after leaving the Earthly plane and returning to our Heaven our home?

C:         The experiences become like what on Earth might be called files; the order of which can be reshuffled and rearranged. Each period of being awake and conscious is what would amount to a file of experiences. Several day and night cycles can pass and become one file if a person does not sleep. As you know, this is uncommon. Many separate files will cover an experience where there are multiple days, or what you call weeks, months and years. These are arranged in a matrix like format so several experiences with events of common days can be viewed separately or examined in conjunction with one another.

ST:       How do we go back in time?

C:         There is no forward, so there is no backward and no time travel.

ST:       How are experiences arranged in “Heaven” where you all are?

C:         In a circular manner, using spheres, globes, circles, rings and ellipses.

ST:       Why do we have the concept of time on Earth?

C:         It provides the Earth ability to review and to plan.

ST:       Why is this important?

C:         Your life’s plan has a number of events which require some be completed before others are begun. They must intersect precisely with many other events and people. The matrix of our existence here, with infinite depth, width and height, is simply stretched, squeezed and reshaped to place these experience files in a certain order, to be opened, populated with details – the incidents, outcomes, images, interactions and all of the pieces of memories – and then refilled with this invaluable information.

ST:       Why do we start out physically small and then grow, age and pass away?

C:         This process is planned as part of the life experience; many beings in the universe occupy a dense-type body or enclosure like yours but with different chemistry, as you would call it – and will remain in it for what would be a much longer period by comparison to yours on Earth. It is simply by design and convention.

ST:       Why do disease, injury and sickness occur?

C:         Mostly by your design; the process of termination – where this physical shell deteriorates in function – provides valuable opportunity to explore the feelings, emotions and experience of finality. This finality is a “rock solid” illusion, to use a phrase popular in Earth communication. Note that rock solid does not exist, as rocks are no more solid than air but for your current level of vibrations. The perception that loss of body functions and eventually the body itself is bad provides insight into appreciation that has worth not able to be measured, so broad it is.

ST:       What about tragic accidents?

C:         Often abrupt loss of life is not for the departed; who suffer not at all. Its purpose is for the witnesses, all parties having agreed in advance. Accidents do occur, certainly, but they are far less common than believed.

ST:       Why can’t we simply ask that these injuries, deaths, diseases and sickness be eliminated?

C:         Then you would not be human, would you? Why then would you go to Earth?

ST:       Do we worry insufficiently or excessively as humans on Earth?

C:     It varies by society; the ones considered “advanced” by virtue of mechanical devices, automation and use of technology have developed this tendency in recent times, by Earth measurement of it. Others less so; fear of accidents can be counterproductive. There are religious ideas that attribute bad events to a God-ordained action and take what’s termed on Earth to be a fatalistic approach to life. This is simply a passing recognition of a life’s plan agreed before reincarnation. Other societies and faiths discount this aspect or dismiss it entirely.

ST:    Okay, so returning to our subject of time, what can we understand about it that isn’t recognized?

C:         What’s considered time by energetic beings such as us involves distance and movement and as can also be understood on Earth, this movement can be reversed. It is always possible to return to a place and moment and reverse the travel and so the “time” taken. As a being on Earth cannot reverse the rotation of the planet, as long as a human remains upon its surface, the human perceives time as a concept of forward progress, to use your earth language words. The true nature of your soul is not this way.

ST:       How will time be seen once we pass over to the energetic being of our true nature?

C:         You will not see it; you will observe once again, when looking at Earth, how others see it and you will be able to recall the emotion of the perception of its elapse. This understanding of a permanent view of what is really a temporary respite has value of unlimited scope; it provides a perspective worth very much and admired. Your willingness to experience Earth and its unique concept of time are one of the great, bountiful benefits of having a life upon it. To have lived but just one life on Earth and had just this experience of how and what a human sees as time is as worthwhile an endeavor as any a soul can undertake.

ST:       Erik, as usual, you’re quiet and require prompting. Say something.

Erik:     Not much to add, these committee guys are doing a great job here.

ST:       Jump in when the urge to cut in line overwhelms you, all right?

Erik:     Standing ready….

ST:     Why does time seem to drag or go so fast when we are having fun or going through something tedious?

C:         This is your true nature poking through the façade of Earth time and giving you a visit home, to remember what it is like when you are your energetic self of Heaven, free of the heavy body you occupy. Just like dream experiences, which seem so real and then wither away after waking up, those dreams are more real than your waking moments but the intentional illusion of Earth’s existence reverses the reality. When you are enjoying a visit, adventure, conversation or anything that you like and time seems to have flown by, this is your mind returning to its default state of existence, temporarily liberated from the constructs of the Earth and humanity’s perception and the training of fellow incarnated souls.

Erik:     That’s right, right on target. So much of what happens is seen through what’s taught by parents and teachers and just adults. Often it isn’t like that but when we always hear the same thing from before we can remember, it sinks in and sticks. If your parents always mentioned the afterlife, you wouldn’t scoff at the idea and it would be obvious to you. So we humans see time the way we’re shown, with clocks and watches and all that stuff.

C:         Our young Erik has identified the great source of this; humanity’s desire to match up and coordinate. Measurement of time allows specific moments to be identified and then used as a common starting point. This is good however it has caused the loss of a timeless, ageless aspect of many things that would otherwise have it. Art as expressed in manufactured objects – your automobiles are an example – are deemed passé, to use another Earthly popular term. Simply because perception of time says another one should be issued to maintain demand and consumption. Desire for a newer item that appears this way and so reinforces an image of replacement causes a scheduled dis-appreciation of artful creation. This might otherwise be desired for a longer “time” but for the measurement and perception of time. From this notion arises your term “timeless”. In Heaven of your true existence, all creation is timeless and permanently appreciated. There is no obsolescence.

ST:       What advice do you have for humanity as it approaches its shift, its departure from the current and entry into a new age, as far as time perception is involved?

C:         Time will seem to accelerate and calendar days as they pass will give a feeling of a quicker pace – often much quicker – than humans remembered the same number of days feeling like they once took. The effect is intentional and provided to lessen burdens on the fearful, and bring fruition of the newer age to faster practice. Things will not be happening faster or slower, that never happens, they happen as sequenced. The feel and sensation will cause a greater eagerness in many people to look forward and embrace the next steps.

ST:       Will perception of time be altered once humans and Earth rhythms operate in the vibrations of a fifth dimension?

C:         Yes and no; time as measured by clocks will be the same as now with a few small adjustments; the Earth’s axis of rotation will wobble and cause erratic timing by current standards. This alone will not be perceived. The higher dimensionality will provide far better comprehension of humanity and the universe; the role of work, employment and production will be radically altered and the need for what is understood as “efficient use of time” will nearly disappear. The idea that so much action will need to be crammed into a time segment will not be contemplated; time will not be seen as finite and something into which activity must be fit, and the more the better. Activity will not be judged by time rather completeness and appreciation for outcome – quality, thoroughness, insight, enjoyment, beauty and fitness of purpose – will be ranked far above “time” used.

Erik:     The sun’ll rise and set; the day will be cut up in to 24 like now but nobody’s gonna be hung up on how many hours something took, just for that.

ST:       Will punctuality be set aside?

Erik:     No way man, it’ll get better ‘cause people will understand how enjoyable group things are and will be eager to get started. They’ll want to be early. Lateness just means subconsciously reluctant.

C:         Yes, this is true, eagerness produces promptness. This concept is permanent and unrelated to time on Earth. Any popular activity in “Heaven” will draw many participants before necessary; the desire to begin is strong. Lateness as you see it we call lower interest. Early birds as you say we call the most interested.

ST:       What good Earth example can you give about time and its meaning?

Erik:     Kids; do parents love children less or more as they grow older? Do parents look at a photo at age 5 and then age 15 and feel more affection or less? This is what’s here.

C:         This example is illustrative and we thank you Erik. Yes, indeed, we do not see you and your life as timed; you are born and then return and pass through many phases. You are just as well adored, admired, loved and awaited through them all, just as human parents and children see one another. Time does not have effect on this.

ST:       Last words on time, our esteemed committee?

C:         When you feel the cool night breeze, and enjoy the moon in the sky above, you will be able to hold the moment until you want something different. You will have the choice. You will be able to set the change in light, air, smell and all things around you. When a moment in one is pleasant; you can remain and resume your pace when you want or make it different. Contact by others will not shorten what you want; you can have the place you prefer until you prefer to change it or something comes to change it with you, and you can go back as you like. This is what time is, the absence of the need to be someplace. You will be in the place you want.

ST:       We thank you, and ask if this nickname “committee” is agreeable?

C:         Yes, as we understand humans interpret this word, we are amused by it. Do use it.