#9 Time is of the essence.
The role of time amongst the separation to our place within, amongst, a part of the One Living System.
As we move into the foundations and ethos of the One Living System. We encounter two very important pieces of creation - Time and Space. Both of these fall into that which we have been disconnected from, and with very good reason.
With time and space on our side - we become.
Time holds a very important place in capturing us from our place amongst nature, towards the colonialistic ways of governed life. To remove time, change the concept of time and alter our connection to time, allows coercion, strengthens separation and openly encourages obedience.
Time is of the essence.
This term is most often used when things need to be done urgently, or when we are running out of time, and it's true on both counts when talking about life and living systems now. We need action now and indeed are running out of time. I am also referring to time as being of 'essence', as a part of the elements of creation and this is where we are removed from her truth.
As with the other elements in life, time is used in creation, that allows the fullness of life to be expressed. It requires patience at the same time as urgency, with both of these needed within one lifetime as much as existing over many lifetimes.
It feels so abstract in coming to terms with time, that only one moment exists, yet that it exists continuously over centuries. In speaking about the Living System, that knows no other time than that of Life herself through the sun, the moon and all evolution, we collide with man made time.
Time, as the linear concept that man created, has not only contracted its potential but used it to generate separation.
Rather than being a creative force, time has become a removing force.
It’s important to acknowledge the power of time. Time and space together are in and of all things allowing creation to form and become. In manipulating the two - humanity - has found a way in which to drive a wedge into the heart of our truth, in order to deliver a mirage of who we are. So far removed from our essence, it has stolen us from our roots.
A great place for a short powerful poem .. Times Claw.
The manipulation of time has allowed humancentric frames to take hold. It allows capitalism to mean something, it grants permission to a rise in consumerism and the corporate world, all of which divides us from our place amongst and within the boundaries of Nature.
In man's quest for control ‘over and above’ others (being any other form of existence), one of the essential steps is to remove connections and ties to the things to which we (those to be ruled) belong, and they (those seeking to control) cannot govern.
Let's remind ourselves of a few highlights that are the foundations of time itself;
You can't make time
You can't earn time
You can't store it or keep it
You can't erase or change it
You can't buy it!
This is universal about time. There is no ‘more’ or ‘less’ time, there is only time itself. There is no course that can alter time nor turn it back. We cannot manipulate time as its truth, we can pretend to make room and space by altering time in man's tinkering with the clock, but this does not alter time itself. There is no more of it to be found anywhere making ‘the now’, the only moment to exist.
Despite years of programming through language and governance, we are encouraged to ‘find time’, to ‘make time’, to ‘take time’, to ‘make time work for you’, all phrases used to push us towards achieving at the same time as belittling our capacity to do any of these as they are just not possible. We cannot do any of them. Time is not a pliable force of life, for it is life's own breath and heartbeat that holds time.
We are coerced to believe:
That time is a straight line
That it doesn't move
That it has a beginning and an ending relevant to this lifetime
That it begins and ends through birth and death in this lifetime only.
Time as a purely linear construct removes us from living. This form of thinking creates fear. It sees us thinking there is only one lifetime for us to become and urges us to be selfish to our needs at the expense of all else in order to reach our goals.
Fear drives this, anxiety exacerbates it.
This form of thinking actively allows fear to be a surging pulse in our life. We see one beginning and an ultimate end. That life is simply a date between birth and death, the extension of which contorts us into the deeper fear that there is no time outside of living amongst the throng to achieve and succeed and so we must rush to live before we die. Time cannot be wasted (the voice of fear) to indulge in anything other than the success of our own dreams and desires. Such fear that prevents us from truly living, that prevents us from understanding the depth of life, that prevents us from thriving amongst life, that prevents us from our natural place of caretaking amongst life.
Linear time contracts time and it contracts us, both of which cost us …
... it means we are pulled into the idea of man made time, time as human creation that is closed for us to expand outside of man's required design
... it means we have a fear of death so strong that it plays on our anxieties and impedes our ability to fully live, aiding the growing mental health crisis.
Time isn't linear. The human-made notion that pulls it into a singular form takes away its fullness and its truth and removes us from life itself. Whilst man's capacity to have, hold and utilise time is undoubtedly required, we do so through the mind. In truth time is of our (es)senses, as is the form of creation, how we use time and gather it to our evolution is as a part of allowing it to be as it is in one moment.
To be freed from our caged time, we step into the expression of time as its circular existence. Circular time is not new. It has long been lived through our philosophers, astrologers, Elders, ancients, Indigenous and traditional cultures. Seeing time in this way means life IS and it continues to flow.
Circular time means it is more than one line, it is multiple lines, it is multiple timelines, it is multiple lifetimes, it is multiple expressions, it is infinite.
It isn’t revealed as a moving hand around a clock, rather as mother/father from which e pluribus unum - out of one comes many- (not a motto to be held by a country in order to govern but a statement of life itself to which we exist from)
Circular time at its heart knows itself as endless, as eternal, as the existence of life that allows a fluidity to our becoming.
The importance of understanding circular time is both about reconnection and renewal. Life (in all its forms) runs as one rhythm through a spontaneous and responsive universal circular timing. Circular time - holds no beginning and no end - it is a continual flow of energy in life form and therefore allows all life to be as one - without separation - as a continuous form. This allows life to endure as its own existence. The existence of circular time allows for the essence of life to exist in multiple forms on multiple levels for eternity in its natural form. In reconnecting to this honoured timing we allow renewal to our becoming.
Time is known only to that which time is creating. In truth it is known only to time itself.
At no point are we observing time, we are experiencing time. We experience time in many ways through our senses - we do not have an experience until we enter the experience - which calls our senses to step in. All things have form and are taking place without us experiencing it, we do not know it is occurring until we sense it, there is form without our perception, this is one of the aspects of time. That it is occurring at all times amongst all people at once, yet we encounter only the pieces of time as we experience. (We cannot study the world, we only study the way we experience it - but that doesn't mean what we don't experience does not exist without our experience or perception.) Which is the concept of time, it is happening without us having to experience it, yet our senses draw us to it through our experiences of it. This is how we know time, by what we have experienced amongst it.
Controlling time means we are controlled as to how we can move and function. As our experiences are controlled through our senses, the control of how we experience life controls how we experience time. To obtain some rhythm over how we function is the thinking and very essence of western European identity and requires time to proceed in a linear fashion so control can begin to form. Western political ideas of civilisation begins with space restriction (colonialism and wars are examples of this) - never space consideration - and governing time helps to separate and restrict us from space. That we need a concept of time to govern and meet the needs of man does not mean it ought to be the framework applied to all of life, indeed her Living System requires us to allow rather than expect, and asks that we step outside of this framework in order to meet her once again.
Those who have brainwashed us with their concept of time demand that it is not efficient to slow down. There is ‘no time’ to slow down, so all means are created and used, to stay on time. Medication. Fast foods. Fast cars. Online shopping. All the consequences of fast time. Bounded time. Our return to the Living System, to the subtle timing of life, is a return to deep time. The slow steady allowing of life and its will and way, its circular, continuous, subtle sinews over the span of lifetimes.
The lesson of time is one of life's greatest that reveals life is not a singular identity, it relies on every experience of it to continue it. This means, every living sentience has value in the growth of life through the experiences of time, no one could experience all of life, as so many expressions are happening at once, and so the many are required to allow the fullness of time and life to be known. It requires a team (a village) to know life.
The wholeness we are born with is knowing, trusting and incorporating the village of life through which we become. The seed that grows does not seek to know the balance around it; just whether it is enough for it to become, the soil nourishing that seed does not know the seed's name; just what it’s asking of life to be its greatest self and in that, should the seed belong, it will grow.
We are not just interconnected we are interdependent and require the time, the wisdom, and intelligence of all else (as the village) in order for us to become, therefore a lifetime should not be spent knowing all things for you alone to become, rather knowing how you allow all things so that you can become amongst the terrain.
We are of lifetimes of becoming.
Take time from your day, to breathe into all the time you have had, and all that you will form before you. Know that it isn’t yours alone, know it belongs to us all as one, and know that the true time for us to make change never ends - but always begins in the now - and now is definitely the time to return to our place amongst Life’s Sacred Living System and build our new Earth amongst it.
