Changing your mind about time – part 1. The Master Teacher, God’s Country Place, 1990

Time. Okay, let’s look at one thing real clearly and emphatically. No matter what you’re doing in regard to this awakening, that involves time because you invented it. Perception is time. The distance between events.

Now, here’s the problem. Real simple. Jesus says, “You invented time but you do strange things with it.” Your space is time and I’ll start right out at the top of this.  The space is the distance between events or observed events within the nomenclature of the imaging of the perceptual mind.  Okay?

We must observe texture, would be a good word, in the relationship of our ideas in order to expand our perceptual association to the congruency of image reality. We, the teachings of a meditative notation are to, and we’ll use the vernacular; to bring you into the now.  Now is there anyone here that doesn’t understand or that whose perceptual mind will not see that now is the only time there is?   That really isn’t hard to do.  When you project thoughts, okay, from your mind into the future you are still making an admission that you are here and that you are now.  You may cover that with the notations of linear time or as Jesus would say, in The Course, or we would teach sequential time. Okay? The distance between your associate thoughts in regard to the construction of you, of your mind, within that framework. Okay? The question would never be whether you do this or not because existence obviously is based on associate thought. Okay?

Without getting into the notation that you project form from you.  Okay? Which is nothing but thought.  Isn’t it?  Thought of what? A different time.  Okay? A tree, a house, a bird, a human being. A thought of what?  Different time. And hold a distance between your past and future thoughts.  Okay? Well, this is what perceptual thought is and there isn’t going to be any real disagreement with this.  The immediate problem that occurs is once you have the form and there’s no question that you have the form and you can’t get away from having the form.  Okay?

You are faced with the dilemma of the texture or the quality of associate thoughts between the image association of the consciousnesses who are actually and have established themselves independent of each other and how they attempt to bring together the creative notations of the reality of the now.

Now, since this obviously involves perceptual thought and I’m perceptually thinking about it, it would be increasingly obvious that the only manner in which you would change the texture of thinking, okay, would be by a transformation of your mind.  You’re not going to do it any other way.  It doesn’t make any difference how many thoughts you would be together.  Okay? Jesus has a couple sentences in The Course. Says levels do not communicate.  He has already, he’s made no laws for levels of consciousness.  So what?  Okay? The only level of consciousness there really could ever be is the one that you are at, at this moment.  Okay?

You literally invent, okay, through the manufacturing; through the association of ideas contained within you, time.  There isn’t any question that you did. Isn’t that amazing? You can see very plainly that you can do that.  Time then is what?  Only in your mind.  Individually, in associate thoughts.

What you’re saying then or what I’m teaching is that I can take that image, okay, and bring it together in a higher degree of texture association. A wider range of space within the whole framework of space-time thought.  Yes. Yeah.  I’m telling you that your mind is capable of doing this. Absolutely.  How would it not be?  It does it all the time.  But it only does it for the moment that it brings the sequentiality of its associations of ideas into the single frame.

Now, in The Course Jesus will say if you keep a distance between your past and your future in continual sequential thoughts you’re really no thing.  Obviously.  You can see very plainly that if you’re just thought, and that thought is gone, you just keep replacing it with another thought.  And you sequence it within a framework of, to a real degree, of your association memories with yourself. This is the I-Ching. This would be what you just call the akashic record. You got this?  Your genetic association with probability.  Isn’t it?  Since you’re sitting somewhere within the whole framework of spacetime.  What a strange thing to do though.  

You, you actually, you, individually, take these ideas that are in your mind, construct a reality, literally.  Okay, in association with the form and give it meaning. My whole teaching from a new range of consciousness, this is master Jesus again, is I must tell you that it has no meaning.  Not because it does not have meaning to you; in fact, it establishes your meaning.  But, because it’s not real. You see? It simply is gone.  It’s gone away.  No matter how many times you would bring that up within the framework of your previous association.  You, if you remember it and it’s gone, you simply live within that framework of association. I’m telling you, you can change your past by changing your mind.  If you change your past by remembering you’ll change your future.  This has to be done within your mind.  Doesn’t it?  Everybody got this? 

Why you, you don’t have to use this in a religious sense.  I’d love to take the the religious vernacular out of what I teach.  You will not get this from the idea of mind association without involving time. You can’t.  

To be continued…