As I mentioned at the start, a timeless universe is extremely difficult to grasp because we have not guided our thoughts towards infinite thinking. It’s only by following this thread of (infinite) thinking that we grasp the meaning of infinity. It is relatively easy to throw your arms up in exasperation point to the clock on the wall and say, “Yeah, but I was late for work today.” Comprehension requires effort. Our physically present purpose is to create and comprehend. It requires mental effort. If we are not up for the task, just like a high school flunky, we will repeat the class.
Understanding that time is a socially contrived concept and not a scientific accuracy matters when it comes to employing the power of thought. The universe holds all matter and space now as it did in the beginning. What you want exists now, did exist and will exist. The universe is not expanding into pre-existing space like shrapnel from a bomb. All the space the universe has ever held has been in the universe since the beginning. So too have you.
Scientific explanations often cannot account for much of our experiences because our thoughts change over time manipulating our physical environment. It is the changes in our mind purged into reality that we perceive, yet cannot quite explain when we look externally for origins. If we looked inwardly, much would be explained. When we do look inward we discover that all that changes are due to our thoughts and beliefs.
So why does it matter if there is no such thing as time or linear progression? You might think who cares! Well, if you can do away with linear concepts squeezing your mind tightly around quantum leaps, you will realize that you are not bound by linear results; meaning you do not have to gradually increase your standard of living, health, or welfare you can jump to whatever suits you. You are abundant now. No lapse must occur. You as an abundant person exist now. You need to change your inspection point to connect with this moment of you. It is only because you believe a lapse must occur that you delay leaping. You wait for a series of translated thoughts to form perceivable motion first before you allow yourself to connect with the ideal you. The further we hold our ideals from us, in terms of the amount of perceivable motion we think needs to occur, the longer our ideals take to reach us.
It is exactly because of our beliefs in time and progress that we get cuffed to the current moment. If we harbored no concept of time and no concept of progression, then our thoughts could astonish us with their power of now. The only reason we cannot pull our desires towards us immediately is because our belief in time and progression restrain us. We will not easily let go of what we perceive presently.
What you think is available to you and the time you think it needs to take to reach you is governed by your beliefs; beliefs in time, progression, what is possible, probably, and realistic. What you think matters in terms of what you get. How quickly do you think you could have a million dollars, get rich or lose weight? What you think determines what you perceive. Consider the “time” it took the following successes to occur.
Speculative fever of the 1990’s dot.com craze cranked out overnight millionaires in droves. The provost of Boston University quit his job to become a day trader from his den and made close to $1 million in profits, at least on paper, in barely a week. The CEO of one of the nations’ largest and most prestigious management consulting firms, Anderson Consulting (now Accenture Ltd.), resigned to become the chairman of a dot.com start-up in the grocery delivery business, and made $123 million in stock options profits almost instantly.
Eventually the dot.com bubble burst leaving as many busts as triumphs but the point is, it can take virtually no time to make a million dollars. When we tie the concept of time passage to amounts of money gained, we prevent immediate successes from coming our way because our eyes are set on the long term opportunities. We completely miss the short term acquisitions.
Consider this question. How long do you think it would take you to make $56 million? A year or more? A decade? If you are Gary Dahl and the year is 1975, it takes precisely 6 months. While his fortune amounted to roughly $15 million in 1975, in today’s standards it would be estimated at $56 million. Did Gary Dahl invest in the right stock? Hit the lottery? Was he in the right place at the right time? Not at all. He had an idea, an almost laughable idea. He invented the Pet Rock. Five million people as it turned out were interested in buying Dahl’s Pet Rock making him a multi-millionaire virtually overnight.
It does not take time. It does not take a smart invention. You do not need to solve a problem or be at the right place at the right time. Results do not need to be caressed with time. You need only to act upon your constructive thoughts.
Overcome space and all you have is here. Overcome time and all you have is now~Richard Bach, “Johnathan Livingston Seagull”
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