#5. Spirituality -non linear time,reincarnation and past trauma
revised 22 Sept 2011
Non linear time.
Eckhart Toll and others maintain everything is in the "Now"
Well I think "Now" implies time and is a bit self defeating -I prefer:
Everything is "This".
I have said before
"Put the past in a cup and show it to me!"
All of one's memories of the past exist in one's mind.
The fact that one sees one's slippers under the bed where you left them yesterday is no proof.
It's all smoke and mirrors.
How do I and others justify that time doesn't exist -when it clearly isn't true? lol
There are at least two points of view here.
We all are familiar with the time line - China invaded Poland and started World War 2 and Mona Lisa painted herself smiling -this is History :)) ...and your mother phoned and said if you do that again she won't invite you to another cheese and wine.
So linear time does exist.
But only when viewed from our point of view as people running around , catching buses and paying the bills. Beings living as separate identities,separate from the Whole -oneness.
I mean living as 'not oneness' the time line and linear time ,tick-tock, is very real.
Kindly consider God's viewpoint.
She (lol) sees Everything.
An Infinite Being is able to do this.
Everything that has happened,everything that is happening and everything that will happen.
And probably:
Everything that could have happened,it is possible to be happening,and could happen.
But God is seeing ALL of this, right now.
That's what the 'infinite' in Infinite Being means.
All the possible chess moves are played out and visible to the Infinite Awareness.
The trouble is we are part of God/Infinite Awareness/the Universal Mind/The Tao/The Big Cheese.
And we have an infinite potential.
And we have access to the data.
Some call it The Akashic record.
So from this expanded viewpoint , from out higher selves or looking deeply into our subconscious minds that connects to all the other subconscious minds (whatever) ...time and linear time goes a bit wrong.
"The future? Been there - got the T shirt!"
"The past? I should go there and buy the Sex Pistols T shirt!"
There's a film called "Sliding Doors" it follows two time lines. One where the woman catches the train and another where she just misses it.
Sooo, if you fancy reincarnation ; at what point on all these possible time lines will you reincarnate?
But just sticking with our known history and our time line -one could reincarnate anywhere along it.
Tell me it isn't possible!
There's a lot of science fiction about time travel and the conclusion seems to be if you go back and change the time line all hell breaks loose. You kill some one's grandfather and poof -they disappear!!!
It's a belief system and has power from my hypothesis: "Spirit is the law and that's the only law there is."
If you believe in these dangers of time travel then pray no one does it or you may make yourself disappear!
But fear not -having watched your body and all the history of it vanish without a trace you probably will remember what happened and be somewhat bemused.
I suspect leaving a (dead) body is a very enlightening experience and frees one of a lot of limited thinking.
So now we can say 'time doesn't exist' cant we?
It depends how you look at it.
But time does exist, so I prefer to restate it thus:
All possibilities,all possible times, all possible outcomes are available to view.
Past trauma.
Most people have got something mildly catastrophic lurking in the past.
A bad childhood. A horrifying incident as an adult. A misdeed that haunts them with guilt and regret.
These things are no joke and can ruin some one's enjoyment of an otherwise perfectly groovy life.
NLP- Neuro Linguistic Programming is amazing stuff and I wouldn't like to define it.
But I have watched about 20 hours of Dr Richard Bandler's stuff on Youtube and on DVD and I have read some of Dr Paula McKenna's books - a man who has described Dr Bandler as his mentor.
I would dare to summarise one part of it by saying they encourage a person to take control of the pictures of the past and pictures of imagined scenarios that they have in their minds and adjust them to be less traumatic.
Fear of spiders or flying -no problem - they can sort that in about 20 minutes.
Severe past trauma can take longer. But they can fix it.
I tend to agree with Dr Bandler - I think 20 minutes of NLP could save an individual $100,000 in psychiatric fees.
My big epiphany from NLP was:
"I am in complete control of my mind. I made it -I control it."
If you believe you are not - God help you!
As an aside, Dr Bandler is alarmingly violent to those that offer him a 'hypnotic suggestion'.
"You are seriously ill"
"You will never..."
Some meditation techniques set you up first with such a hypnotic suggestion:
"We are trying to tame the ramblings of the mind -the incessant mind chatter"
Eeeek!!!
NLP,
And hypnotism.
And belief systems.
Bandler, you are a martial arts expert, be 'assisted' to the nearest hospital.
And watch out for the predictions of some medical doctors -you could make yourself seriously ill.
In fact any suggestion made to you that doesn't offer complete mental and physical health is a lie.
Neither will I tolerate the suggestion of increasing infirmity with old age !
Nope -that's my business.
The point from earlier is that the past trauma, the troubling part of the past, (which sort of doesn't exist) is just sitting there as picture in one's mind. Where else is it?
From NLP we can make these pictures black and white , or smaller ,or play the Benny Hill show (funny) music in the background -stuff like that to take the sting out of them.
But with the new view of the past -that it's a flighty thing and somewhat insubstantial:
Why not change your past?
Something occured a while ago that should really trouble me. You had to be there but it messed me up for a couple of years. The whole incident exists in my mind as a video,a movie.
But I created it as "not my past"
It doesn't matter that eye witnesses are living today -it wasn't me!
Tell me I cannot do this?
Consider : I had a dream, a day dream about a complete stranger who got beaten by his father.
How upset are you about this? It doesn't bother you at all! Certainly not as much as if it happened to you. This is the idea.
Whether you can rewrite your past convincingly is up to you.
But the more I think about my traumatic incident - it just doesn't seem to fit now. I really wouldn't have done that - It would have been totally out of character -that's just not me.
Knowing what we know about spirituality,God , the universe and everything.
I say again:
Tell me I cannot do this!
What I have actually done is to change my viewpoint of my past.
Other viewpoints can be adopted to reduce horrific trauma in general.
Imagine yourself as your higher self compassionately viewing your life.
See yourself from the view of a friend -would you encourage your friend to have this guilt or dwell so badly upon the incident?
The view of a dead relative - how would they want you to continue with your life ..."It's not important -look forward" etc
See your whole life like you're watching a movie -
"Ooo, here comes the nasty bit . Ouch! That's gotta hurt!!!" -and there is lovely coke and popcorn -is the popcorn too salty? I think it usually is.
In fact a few years ago I decided that I had enough access to my 'past lifes' that I needed to have a good look at a lot of them . It still feel anyone can do this -just sit quietly and see what pops up. But some spiritual practitioners and belief systems tell us this is a very traumatic thing to do. And again I would repeat that one's mind is a dangerous as you give it that power. The memory of a tiger is not a tiger.
So I spent ages recalling life after life in this physical world and some from before that.It got pretty boring -there is only so much crying and pain and twin sun sunsets one can look at !!!
After many days it was "Oh yeah, all my children are dead -yawn" which may be a bit unreal but perhaps you could try a horror movie marathon sometime ,or 24 hours of non stop romance movies.
I can assure you I got pretty bored with a lot of it -but some of it was and is totally amazing :))
I discovered a bunch of memories in there that were not mine - a bunch of pictures that I had taken from another person to ease their suffering. (this was a long, long time ago in a galaxy far, far away)
And a funny thing happened.
1. I noticed that the pain I felt was mine -even though this wasn't my time line and
2. That as soon as I realised these were not my pictures all the whole thing de-traumatised(?) and became just a movie.
3. AND..and...if I side stepped owner ship of all MY pictures and time line thus (it wasn't me).
ALL the pain emotion and 'crippling' decisions and everything all VANISHED.
My whole time line became a very long movie.
Gone was all the grief and whatever - poof - and phew...
I felt like a great weight had been released and all that stuff (crap) had finally been dumped.
I had changed my viewpoint to - 'it wasn't me"
For people that think this is a downright lie and something I have typed for dramatic effect I can honestly report these memories as as clear in my mind as the delightful lunch I have just enjoyed in a charmingly secluded village in Essex. Perhaps both are in my imagination especially as the past seems currently only available as memory -as I have said. The fact that the amicable waitress could be interviewed to confirm my feast ,when suspicious past lives rarely (!) can be authenticated has no bearing - it just proves that my memory is accurate ...lol.
The same could be said for some solitary activity -did it really happen?
Besides -this argument is the limited world of deductive rational thought.
What do you feel ?
Am I telling you what is true for me?
Advanced students (lol) should be able to feel my mind - we are all connected remember?
Re past trauma :-
Incessantly creating the horror of the past is a self betrayal.
Self blame is a betrayal of self also.
Guilt is a betrayal of self.
Regret is a betrayal of self.
PATIENT Doctor, Doctor. It hurts when I do this.
DOCTOR Stop doing that!
So here's some methods to reduce past trauma:
- one realises the trauma is troubling only as memory
- one accepts that this memory is one's own manufacture
- then one disassociates oneself from it by changing the character of the memories (and uses ALL the methodology of NLP)
- and one can change one's viewpoint of it.
- and one can examine associated beliefs, concepts and expectations...
...For a past trauma that is severe or fails to dissolve, one must feel one's way into other concepts one holds on the subject:-
"This 'should' upset me - others have been upset with incidents"
" My [religious leader] says I should be guilty"
"It won't go away - I can't get it out of my mind"
"No matter what I read or think or help I get - this will always be there -it's not going away"
Self sabotaging beliefs like these can screw you up -but the good news is they are your creation - you can stop doing that!!!
By the way : if your Religion, that is True, tells you to suffer and you believe that, you are screwed also -until you dismantle the "God is punishing me" or "Life is suffering"crap.
You're destroying yourself - no one else an do it!
Don't forget all your beliefs are "true" - you see them in the world and experience them yourself.
Imagine your belief as changing your world ,which I have argued they do - if you start now to believe 'Bananas Run The World' this will become more and more real to you and evidence and experience over a period of time will manifest !!!
If I find a concept that seems innately "true" I ask myself:
'Is this a belief?'
The 'body-mind' is in the habit of looking for evidence and drawing conclusions - but we are looking from a different perspective namely :
First came the belief, then the evidence, experience and perception of it as 'true' and then the judgment in the mind, the deductive conclusion - 'this is true, this is the way things are'.
A traumatising belief could be as simple as:
"This incident upsets me"
I am regarding these beliefs,the expectation of the future as things. Things that we are making now, in present time. It's like me making a cup of very hot tea ,walking around with it and complaining that the handle is burning my fingers!
Why not ..er... put it down - stop making the errant bothersome belief?
If I were to argue that the handle has always burnt my fingers and will continue to do so especially as I am making another cup of hot tea as we speak -you might think me crazy !
"I get flashbacks of the incident -thoughts that won't go away - it's always in my face"
Is this a belief?
...Is this a belief?
......Is this a belief?
.........Is this another hot cup of tea?
...and there's plenty of people that have been through similar incidents and are not still traumatised.
The mind, your mind is under your control. You made it - it's yours.
If you think you didn't make your mind, or someone or something (advertising?) is controlling your mind, or you don't feel in control of your mind or worse 'your mind is dangerous' -God help you.
If so, change your beliefs and concepts you hold about your mind- your expectancy of your mind's function ; and rather rapidly!
An examination of our beliefs shows that the belief came first then the 'deductive reasoning' !
To think endlessly is often to chew around one's beliefs.
When Aston-Martins "are the best cars in the world" what's the point of finding more evidence to support the belief, by thinking?........[this true btw ....lol]
So don't think -just feel!
I had a feel for my potential as a creator.
I had a feel of linear time and non-linear time.
I felt myself as Infinite with a load of beliefs layered on top of that.
Limiting beliefs perhaps that make me a person from the Infinite source.
But the Infinite is still there !
And my beliefs are just things !
Here endeth the 5th lesson.
Love always,
Paloma Porta
1st September 2011
