Depending on where I am at in my meditation cycle, I sometimes experience the weird phenomenon of time being a little smooshy. This weird feeling that right beside me is a totally different but entirely the same me having a parallel experience.
We all are superimposed into time. We exist now, but we also exist then and in the future. This is the power of the mind, and our emotional life. The power of the deep stuff that is swirling around in the past and bubbling up in the present. We are overlays of time, and time is only as real as our relationship to it. When we fully embody emotional memories of the past we bring the past to present. We are then seeing in a blurry double exposure, where we have neither a clear view of the past, nor of the present – but we exist momentarily in both spaces at once.
We blend these experiences together and make sense of them – we have agreed to rationalize and think about time in a linear way. However, when you start to move along the meditation path of insight, and things beyond our agreements on reality begin to open, these weird experiences pop through.
Small glimpses into our double exposure life, our inability to see clearly when clouded with emotional hitchhikers from the past and future.
So my friendly reminder to you – is to experiment with holding time separate – then and now – one in each hand. When you feel anger arise note “then” or “now” depending on it’s origin. Gently train yourself to see clearly, and learn to be a time traveler. This can help heal old wounds without doing damaging the present.
the Good Heretic 