The River Of Time

Chaos Theory, a beautiful science, tries to instill in us that the perfect shapes of Euclidean geometry like straight lines, circles, cones, cylinders, are only human imagination, and do not manifest in nature. They are just references we use to measure our surroundings.

In fact, you can't even draw these shapes if you tried. No machine can ever produce a straight line, since drawing a line would entail giving it a thickness, and a thickness means it's not a 'line'. Further, every machine, no matter how refined, always deviates from its design trajectory.

So the drawn line will have a varying thickness, as well as deviations from the mathematical formula for a line, so, whatever it is... the drawn line is not a 'straight line'.

So if neither man made machines, nor nature produce straight lines, or straight anything - if we apply this concept to 'time' as we think it is ---

----then time flowing at a constant speed, in a 'straight line', progressing neatly from one year to the next -- this might not be true.

Time might be twisted, discontinuous, broken, looping, zig-zagged etc.

And if indeed 'time' has the above mentioned bizarre nature, it only means that the flow of events may not be a neat linear chronology that follows cause and effect.

i.e. the dream perspective... that mystics keep talking about.

Whatever this universe is, it's not what we are traditionally trained to think it is.

I have pondered parallel lives often...and I feel that in case the flow of time is not a 'straight line', and it doesn't look like it is, then there is no reason why time can't flow in parallel streams. That can converge, diverge. Converge again.

Perhaps time can be likened to a river. Has a flow but only if you are in it or observing it from close range. And like a river, consists of meanders, multiple streams, creeks, brooks, rivulets...






Recommended:Is Time a Straight Line

The Extended Mind: Recent Experimental Evidence

By Rupert Sheldrake.

Sheldrake cuts Richard Dawkins down to size 1:27:00 onwards. Worth checking out.

Doom Boom Gloom

Many stories of human endeavour upon deeper investigation reveal the following qualities:

1. Entrapment and suffering.
2. Catch-22.
3. Impending deluge, death.

The mind's conclusions are often much more severe than what actually unfolds.

"Learn to look without analysis, conclusions". Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Even the 3 points mentioned above are nothing more than a perspective. Situations are as they are. It's our mental projections into the future that judge these situations.

Anything, if looked at through the 'Mental Lens' of the future, or past, is at the risk of appearing morbid or negative.

Dealing With Stress

The only cause of stress is too much thought activity...

These stress relieving videos are based on the 'Golden Ratio', a number (1.61803399) that has fascinated philosophers/mathematicians for almost 2500 years.

The 'Golden Ratio' has fascinated mathematicians/philosophers/architects for almost 2500 years. Pythagoras and Euclid, astronomer Johannes Kepler, Oxford physicist Roger Penrose, to name a few.





And some more.....










And this Eckhart Tolle video explains how to pull attention from the mind, into the body.

As attention is pulled into the body, thoughts slow down.

It rejuvinates.



"Not Reacting To Content", when combined with the above exercise, would be very powerful.