Anu - Contemplations on the Edge of Existence

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Anu - Contemplations on the Edge of Existence

Things That Go Bump in the Night

Ghosts, goblins, ufo's, sea monsters, mermaids, demons, devils, fairies, giants, and dragons. Unexplained and unexplainable happenings are reported in all places at all times. We can develop understanding of basic forms in these events. We will regard some events as superstitious. Why should we entertain ourselves with mysteries?

We ignore them at our peril. We close our eyes because we recognize the quality of astral intent. But is that the cause of our fear? The cause may be the fragility of our reasoning ability. The other times we explain as faulty perception.

All of these events relate to simple time displacement. Gaps in reality are those points of arising which are the unmeasured edge of everything we regard as reality. The whole edifice is elaborate but somewhat clumsy, easily toppled, and eagerly replaced.

Scientific explanations are usually the same old horses taken out for a run after a time in the barn. They recycle. Meanwhile, our experience of reality tends to support the theory presently in vogue, except for the resistance at the edge. All things that are not in existence, while the present thing exists, build up time resistance at the point of arising.

Since the point of arising is always present, the focus of our attention is what matters. If you look at the edge you will see the edge. It may seem chaotic, until you begin to sense order and intelligence.

When does the edge experience become considered normal reality? As we begin to discriminate form from formlessness, what was previously a mystery or fantasy, what was in the realm of past and future, has form in the present moment.

It could be argued that UFO experience is no longer at the edge of potential because the majority of people, if asked, may respond that they are believers. However, numbers don't matter. What matters is that people perceive these things as outside normal reality, as mysteries.

What, for example, is electricity? When it existed at the edge of our awareness it was a metaphysical force, healing power. It was etheric energy, God's gift of the life force. We forgot these mysteries of electricity when we came to "know" about electricity, when electricity became part of the known, explained reality. We stopped looking with the open eyes of childhood and began looking with the focusing, filtering eye of the adult who knows things.

To rediscover the potential at the edge is a healing experience. Here in the openness is the healing. Whatever cleverness we have applied to our study of the edge is minuscule in comparison to the limitlessness of the potential. We can't hope to grasp reality. It will crumble in our hands. Alternatives will besiege it. Resistance will eat it away. No matter how hard we try, we can't put infinity in a bag and get it to act predictably.

Quantum Foam

Space is filled with miniature worm holes. A black hole is on one side of the worm hole and a white hole is on the other side. Electrons are black holes with intelligence. Black holes that are moving backward in time are white holes. Demagnetized, they become polarized to represent the moment of the arrival of destiny, the destination of the polarities' inherent collective will. This latent ability, or potential, exists in all dimensions simultaneously, extraneous to the development of quantum mechanical intelligence at the source of the dichotomy.

If you peer at the edge, the forces of covalence converge on the retina of your eye and you perceive a focus that matches a pattern preconceived in your mind. Such is the nature of matter that we must agree collectively on two levels, both within and without.

The collective intent must predominate. When the majority perceive a matter to be, that perception becomes a thing of force to rule the unfolding of the universe. When the community imparts great emotional charge to a matter, as with disease or addiction, it is difficult for an individual to operate with differing perception.

However, time is like a sandwich. The moment exists between two agreed upon abstractions called past and future. We assume that these projections expand the moment in a logical, linear way. We imagine that we are living on a line. Fortunately, this is incorrect. The universe expands in all directions from my point of understanding.

All collective agreement in perception operates as statistical probability. Exceptions must also exist. No system can be closed, although all systems may strive for closure.

At the edge of all existence is a zone of interference. If you peer along the edge, you may glimpse arising of alternate realities. We may develop and nourish this perception through prayer, sacrifice, and other means of focusing intent.

All perceptions are habit forming in that they tend to expand through time, and contract through time. Tie yourself to that portion of the collective will that supports your perception of reality to nurture and support your reality.

The collective will requires no particular number of believers to support a perception. Generally, more people is more support. At some point, however, saturation occurs and an oddity is released. The release of oddities encourages crystallization of the collective perception, erosion, and eventual dissolution. The perceived edge of reality becomes the focal point of a new way of perceiving.

The potential energy at the edge includes all that we deny to enforce our temporary reality perceptions. At the edge of existence of any thing-event we can perceive the mutual arising of infinite potential, expanding geometrically through time. Eventually, the resisting force of the potential overcomes the dominating force of the collective will.

Any thing-event, as a construction of potential, is a hologram of the universe that created it. It is the universe, in a particular way. Being the universe in a particular way, place and time, a thing-event must include the potential for all other ways, spaces, and times. This suggests the point of view of hyperspacetime, multidimensional reality that includes thought and emotion as motivations for perception.

It is possible to change the past. The past is only an agreement. Of course, to change one thing is to change everything. However, only the agreement about perception changes. The forms are timeless. We may turn evil to good from another perspective, not by denying the original event, but by releasing the proper antidote at the proper time. The antidote arises within the condition. You can find the antidote for any condition as an oddity arising at the edge.

A thing-event exists before its birth as an impending wave and after its death as a retreating wave. The system is not closed at the ends. Birth is the moment when the collective intent achieves saturation. All births are oddities. The birth of one thing-event occurs at the saturation point of another to which it is related causally.

The death of a thing-event in one universe is the arising of a thing-event in another universe. Birth and death are connections in a chain. Death also releases all repressed or denied potential. The entire universe is modified by a death or birth.

Within a lifetime there is a point of saturation when the maximum expansion of life force occurs. At this point, an infinity of possibilities exists from which the individual may choose. This may be like a second birth, if the individual so chooses. What he wills is born somewhere, and his experience of life is forever altered.

We cross the point of saturation whenever we perceive it. The universe is infinitely malleable in our experience of its reality. The present moment is the birth of the future and the death of the past.

We can't measure the present moment. The universe exists in multidimensional reality like a sneeze in another multidimensional universe. Alone in the cosmos, an individual can't exist for a moment, if a moment is all there is. Only a multitude of infinities can support the mutual arising of moments.

Our sense of time is a unifying ingredient of our culture. Nothing exists in the present moment. We can only verify the existence of things with measurement, observation and analysis. This takes time. By the time we observe a moment, the moment is gone. We have only memories. The universe unfolds like a flower. The memory of each moment is like a single petal.

The Dimensions of Time

There is no alternate reality to this one you are now experiencing. This is everything that ever was or will be, with a bow on it, if you can find it. Good luck! It's the rainbow and the pot of gold story. Nothing really changes except in volume. Studies of time reveal constant relative reality within an ever-changing, ongoing condition of being. Time doesn't move. Space moves. The movement through space of the earth and the sun creates time. Matter is in motion. Energy is motion in matter.

Dreaming is what we do best. We dream questions and then we dream answers to the questions. If necessary we extend our dreams to encompass a whole universe, and then we become a whole universe in our imagining and we imagine that we are gods.

"Now" is not a reality worth concerning yourself about, since concern is an impingement on the present by the past. Whatever the past is, it doesn't exist. Nothing exists except the present. Most of what we think of as real is not part of the present. It's either past or future, both of which are not real. Everything is here, now, with you always, unchanging, unceasing. What we have in the past is conjecture and agreement.

The future is made of fear and desire. The future is a way to overcome fear of the darkness. We wrestle the power of darkness in our dreams. The darkness is our ignorance of ourselves. What we hide from ourselves about ourselves is our darkness. To be what we are in this tiny focused way of being requires forgetting who we are. We are what we are and we are also what we are not.

The ever-changing focus of perception provided by our fast ride around the galaxy is causing us to lose sight of the eternal ever-present reality of all that is. The universe is not spinning. We are spinning.

Habit of Centuries

There is no habit of reconciliation recognized by any formally constructed organization. Reconciliation is a habit of natural, spontaneous people. Organizations tend by their very nature to be insider driven. Small, informal cliques form around one or more outstanding characters, who then become the focus for the development of an increasingly rigid hierarchical structure.

Rigid structures reinforce unnatural tendencies through the use of passive persuasion. Membership in the organization requires agreement with the rules of the structure. Dissent may result in banishment to the camp of the "others". All such thinking is binary.

The gods play games with humans as humans play games with humans. Take a hint from the binary condition of things. The gods are the archetypes. They live within the stolen energy of their host's body. It is an ancient game, old programming.

Yet, we are free to choose. The choice is very easy for some, impossible for others. There is nothing fair about it. Some win and some lose. To play the games of the archetypes is to lose. To not play the games of the archetypes is to lose.

There is no way out of this dilemma. There is no solution, but one. Note that solution. "One." Obviously that doesn't make any sense, but neither does this age-old game of the archetypes. Who are they, anyway?

The archetypes are not what you think they are. They are not part of the larger person that you are. They are the experience of the small person. The small person is not in control. So who is in control? The small person is being controlled by his programming, default programming. In the absence of an intelligent being to operate the system, we default to basic programming. Basic programming is the ancient game of the gods.

It's not pleasant to think of yourself as a small person being directed by abstract entities toward unknown destinies. On the other hand, it would seem that the small person is part of all of us, as the big person is. Life seems to require attention to both.

The End of the World

It's inevitable! It's coming soon! Watch for it in your daily newspaper! There's no hope of salvation. It's been too late for a long time. Haven't you noticed that the times are changing very quickly?

So, now the past is new again. The dead have been reanimated for another round of fear and oppression. When we look to the past with sentiment in our eyes, we may be seeing a distorted, unreal picture.

It wasn't great then. It isn't great now. One thing that seems not to change is the requisite change inherent in every thing-event, be it good, bad or indifferent. If we look to the past we will see good and bad changing into something else that is also good and bad.

It makes little sense to consider that the present time is the end, or beginning of anything important. If change is a constant in the universe of thing-events, then every moment is a beginning and an end. How do you say where a circle begins?

We travel endlessly on this linear road. It never begins and it never ends. We never begin and we never end. There is no hope in this. Linear thinking is this kind of thinking. Draw a line from yourself, through your goals, to your destinations, and beyond. Keep drawing that line in your imagination until it goes all around the universe and bangs against the back of your head.

We're on a trip to nowhere. It will take us forever to get there, so there's no need to hurry. Relax, you have forever. You might consider your fate to be the plight of the hapless traveler stuck on the wrong train. Once on, there's no way off until the train stops. Sit and worry, hapless traveler. It's possible that all trains are wrong trains. It could be that you should have stayed at home. Never mind, you're here now. There's no good in imagining yourself on some other train, going some other place, as if you ever really knew where you were going. Enjoy the scenery.

Hope for the Future

There is no hope for the future if you consider the future to be something that grows out of the past. The past is not a reality. If you consider the future as growing from the present, then the future becomes manageable. There is no need to fear what you can influence.

Is it the future we fear, or the depth of the present, or the dreams of the past? All of this becomes a dilemma of thought processes gone amuck. This is soap opera thinking at its finest. There is no cause for alarm now, or ever.

Rest in the arms of Love and Truth and never worry again. The world of confusion fades into the distance, until it becomes a thing observed to involve others, like television. Most of life is a soap opera, simulated reality. We make it up as we go along. It's no wonder we can't understand each other.

There is something we all have in common. There is someone we all are. There is one source, one tree for all the leaves. There is a common experience throughout the world. It is the opposite of anything exclusive. It is as free as the sunshine and as impartial.

Ritual is unnecessary. Sacrifice is wasteful. Morality is nice, but so what. Passion is conquered, as by the wave of a wand. Evil is undone like a bad dream. Don't join a church, whatever that is. Be a church. Be a temple, whatever that means to you, not what it means to anyone else.

You must be who you are. It's the easiest thing in the world to do, but it seems that the world is sometimes pushing and pulling, bending and demanding. Let it be. It makes no difference. You are who you are in the beginning and the end. Your God will find you and you will find your God in your way, another unique creation in the universe of ongoing creation.

There is nothing important for a tiny, insignificant speck of cosmic dust to accomplish today. If you feel that the universe needs you to do something you may be underestimating the size of the universe and your own relative importance. It may be that humans exist for no other reason than to provide God with a way to relax and have some entertainment.

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New Times Digest

Present configurations of energy do not include preoccupation with unnecessary details, such as the timing of events or the realization of all inclusive boundaries to thought. There are no boundaries to your thought except as energy boundaries, limits to the amount and type of usable energy.

If you consider all the implications inherent in any situation, you will exhaust yourself. There is no need to labor to acquire what you want. All that is necessary is to lift the load of the objective quantification. Then the whole may come into focus.

There is no time like the present time for doing this kind of work. There is no hold on the imagination for this work. We ignore or accept things according to their utility in this moment. There is no judging necessary as all decisions are made by default within the integrated moment.

If you lose conscious control of the dream you have not lost consciousness. We can't lose consciousness. The old awareness levels fix the energy in particular configurations that are habitual. These patterns exist at birth and are also learned in the first years of life.

The pattern for the successful completion of the energy transition is already inherent in the energy design at birth. There is nothing to add. It's a matter of waiting for the right moment to unfold the consequences of eons of soul and energy work.

There is no cause for alarm if the activities of the energy body are not what the awareness intelligence thinks they should be. During an energy transition nothing makes sense to the awareness intelligence. This is because the default programming is deleted for the duration of the change while a new focus of awareness is located and fixed.

The position of the focus of awareness determines the outcome of any situation regarding energy use and transfer. The regular transfer of energy occurs at a rapid rate at all times of the day and night. There are no pauses in the process of transforming energy. Energy is all of one kind, but varies in form and subtlety.

Animal energy is not the same as plant energy. The energy of the animal kingdom is red and full of transmuted fire, as wood fire. The fire of the vegetable kingdom is golden, easily transmuted to rose, green and red. The human body transmutes animal energy into a green energy that limits the movement of the assemblage point in normal life.

The aura of the animal eater exhibits flashes of green encased in bronze or red capsules of exploding energy. The fireworks display can be impressive, but the loss of energy is staggering. The green color associated with meat eating is the result of intoxication by a variety of foreign substances, each of which represents an energy level midway between the frequencies of organic and inorganic life.

Movement of the assemblage point midway between the shoulder blades results in immediate improvement in the ability to breathe freely. Moving the energy focus now located at the solar plexus to an area just above its present location, by a subtle shift in thinking, results in immediate and long lasting benefit to the heart and solar plexus energies. You may facilitate this subtle shift by concentrating on the depth of the color blue in the sky. You will experience a renewal of energy and purpose. Do this whenever you feel oppressed.

Subtle shifts like these are the stock and trade of the average necromancer, mystic, prestidigitator, illusionist, spiritualist, and psychic. These are honorable professions, for the most part. These shifts are much more valuable than the extended, long range visions of the old sorcerers, visions that took them to the moon.

Grand activities are traps set for us by the inorganic realm. Avoid them. There's no good reason to accept the gifts of the inorganic realm beyond what is necessary to sustain life and do what you need to do. For these purposes, the minor magic of daily energy maintenance is necessary. Energy transfers are orchestrated by the energy bodies involved and need not concern the awareness intelligence.

Changing Times

There is no time like the present for healing the past. We may heal the ravages of the past within the relative safety of the present. Bad dreaming persists. Destructive assemblage points are available to all because a few were foolish enough to travel there. The collective awareness of different realms of thought continues to grow.

Many people would argue that this development of knowledge is antithetical to what is good, of God, the natural truths of our being. It may be that all knowledge is a trap, a giving and a taking from the inorganic realms. We should be cautious, listen to the advice of previous travelers, and remember that it is the individual who must choose. You cannot escape from the choices made by your intent. You cannot escape from the responsibilities of those choices.

Many people think that they can go for a joy ride on the energy of the universe. They forget the truth of who they are. No one exists in isolation. What we consider to be our intelligence is a particular focus of awareness, a trick of association. To experience the awareness of any group one must enter into a sympathetic state of mind and intend to think in this manner. The most powerful focal centers draw dreamers to their mass, a reflection of the numbers of people who are supporting this state of awareness. Large groups sharing a common platform of awareness exert the strongest gravitational effect on the awareness of individuals.

All groups support individual change toward the norm for that group. The norm is the collectively agreed upon target around which a society is organized. Although no one follows the rules consistently, the rules remain as a focus of agreement.

The ethical structure is the genius within the fabric of a society. Naturally you may expect the fabric to wear thin after a length of time. Although the fabric of society changes, the essence, or genius, seldom changes. The outer trappings of faith change when they no longer contain the expression of the genius, the focal point of the awareness. There may be a time of transition when some would think the whole structure is falling down. What falls down is what is rotten.

The truth that exists at the center of focus of a spiritual community serves the community. The community doesn't serve it. The community doesn't create it, perpetuate it, glorify it, improve it, or affect it in any way. It doesn't matter how many people are breaking the rules. The rules exist.

The immediate consequence of breaking the central rules of an awareness collective is exclusion, denial, a sense of aloneness, confusion. The rules define the purest focus of the awareness. To deny the validity of the rules is to deny the validity of the awareness. Hence the awareness becomes less accessible.

There is no way to escape the validity of an awareness focus except to come into the influence of a different awareness focus. Most social change is change in the exterior, less important rules. A change in the fundamental focus of awareness is revolutionary and seldom accomplished.

The Nature of Reality and the Reality of Nature

Perception of reality moves in a circular direction as motivated by emotional charges. Emotional energy organizes the fixation point of awareness. The commonalty of our experience rests upon a rock of similarity at the center of perception. The genius point of awareness is the center of our being. Thus we influence each other in the movement of assemblage points. Although that influence is secondary to the intent of the individual, there is no conflict.

There is no way to experience pain or pleasure by yourself. We share all of our emotional experience. Like fish, we can't claim any particular water. All of your pain and pleasure come from others in the same way that we catch colds from each other. We share all experience, with all beings in our world.

As we transmute emotional energy we affect others. When I cure my own cold I am protecting others who would otherwise be infected through me. Someone who wades through a swamp of negativity wins a victory of survival for all of us. That particular swamp will never be the same.

If you feel a little sadness in your life from time to time you should rejoice. Each time is a new opportunity to transmute negativity, to heal yourself and others. Fear of negativity is the same as fear of life itself. There is nothing more important to do than this transmuting. There can be no healing without it. We have no choice but to take responsibility for others if we wish to act in our own best interests. There is no heaven like this heaven, when we awaken to the possibilities. They are endless.

We transmute energy as easily as we change our socks, as easily as we swim in water, as easily as we take our chances on anything. There is no need to wonder about the efficacy of needed changes in the marketplace of life. There is no need to wonder about the times of trouble or the times of good vibrations. The present moment contains the seeds of all the future moments. Therefor, no future moment can be entirely dissimilar, or entirely the same.

The circumstances of the present moment condition the unfolding of the future. Moments unfold in space and time like flowers. First one layer unfolds. Then the next layer unfolds.

The future moment will be a reflection of the vibrations of the present moment, extended through the law of natural response. All states of being must respond to changes in other states of being that occur within their frequency range. There is open communication between all beings within the predetermined settings common to all experience.

There are no secrets in energy transmission. There is no chance of mistaken communication. All exchange of energy is instantaneous, efficient, all encompassing. We are limited in understanding. What we don't understand, we feel.

Openness to unfamiliar experiences requires courage. Courage is a necessary quality in all transactions with the unknown. Without courage, the unfolding process of life becomes an enclosing process. The enclosing process leads to death.

Fear No Thing

There is no choice of vision. All choices are made a priori from the point of awakening. Awakening is the organic necessity of evolutionary growth, a reflection of the growth of the soul. It doesn't indicate an advanced, or evolved soul. Extraordinary power may be available to any individual on demand, the demand is not that of the individual, but of that force that transcends individual initiative.

There is a force in the universe that transcends individual thought beyond imagining. To connect with this force requires that you persevere in an attitude of excellence. However, it is not the attitude of excellence that causes the transformation of intellect and character. The life force orchestrates the transformation for purposes beyond our comprehension. The life force is the result of a steady stream of emanations from the cosmic source. The life force answers to no individual, though it serves the needs of individuals.

An adept must maintain an attitude of moral excellence. The reasoning is clear to the experienced adept. The alternative is insanity. Moral behavior doesn't get you to heaven, but it can protect you from hell. The hell of insanity is the logical consequence of inappropriate energy use.

A morally excellent attitude is any attitude that is conducive to long range thinking. It is inclusive, farsighted, and inspired by conditions of being that exist outside the individual, in relationships within the greater cosmos. Moral attitudes arise through the exercise of reason within a healthy mind. No one can be persuaded.

There are no boundaries to thinking. There are no boundaries to the astral realm. The astral realm, as the weft to the warp of the causal realm, provides the colors, the enthusiasm, the pleasures, the secrets, the solutions, the problems, the hopes, and the dreams. These are not imaginings. These things are true, persisting realities. Exterior conditions of living change. The realities of the astral realm are eternal.

The astral realm affects the causal realm like a dance of light across an endless vista. As the sun, the source of our light, moves across the sky, our perception changes. I see the same tree in the moonlight that I saw in the sunlight, though it looks different. The sun, the moon and the tree stay the same. The quality of the light determines what I see.

The astral realm is the dimension of time. Time plays across the lifeless body of the causal realm to create material space. Life arises in our perception as it arises in the gleam of time, the dream of time.

Time is not an illusion. Without the dream of time there is no life to dead space. The life in the moment is the continuous stream of moments. The experience of time is a reflection of the persistence of movement of awareness.

When you are dreaming, your focus of attention moves from object to object in the dream. As you look at one thing, the thing you looked at before is lost to view. Each object that captures your attention transports you to a different way of being, a different experience. Each way of being is like a separate universe.

When you focus your attention on anything for a long time, time is defined by the rhythmic pulsing of the thing that you are studying. Your experience of time is conditioned by where you are looking.

Weaving

Watch for the moment to unfold. This moment, now, while you read this word is gone. It was replaced by this moment, which is now replaced by this moment. This is an impossible way to think. Also, it hurts to try to imagine the moment as an object.

Language would serve us better if the moment were a verb instead of a noun. We can't observe a moment. The process of momenting can be observed, recorded and contemplated. Observing, recording and contemplating are like momenting in that they are processes. Although they occur within the momenting process, they occur simultaneously. They are separate from the process of momenting in that they are reflections of individual intent.

However, the word is a noun, not a verb. There is no process of momenting. We're stuck with a linear expression because we stick to linear perception. We can't escape linear limitation by drawing an abstraction into an abstract line. We imagine that time is linear, but that doesn't make it linear.

We have no holistic terminology that will describe that which is not an object. Our language is divisive. We use words to divide the world of our perceptions into manageable clumps. Is light a particle or a wave? Is it both or neither?

Male and female aren't opposites. Together they form the sexual matrix of the human experience. Yin and yang are like warp and weft. You can't observe the warp or weft apart from the weaving. Maleness is perpendicular to femaleness, a relationship of ninety degrees.

We can observe sexuality as a matrix of maleness and femaleness in any individual. Different combinations of male and female qualities weave differing matrices. Each individual expresses a unique matrix.

If we adjust our normal thinking style ninety degrees we can acknowledge the interdependence of yin and yang. We can't have one without the other. There's no yang without yin. There's no yin without yang.

Where is up? Up and down aren't places. Up/down is a particular relationship. The two poles of the magnet are just a relationship. The iron is the thing in space and time. How many moments are there between now and then? What's the difference between justice and injustice? How far is there from here? What separates us and them?

The space and time that separates these polarities must be an infinity to a being with a large mass to move around. If you were intelligence without mass, could you move at the speed of light? What would time mean to you? What would space mean to you?

Heartbeat

There are two infinities connected at every point in space and time through a worm hole. Scalar energy spirals through 720 degree orbits connecting that which exists and that which does not exist in every moment and point. Physical manifestations exist through time because they pulse in and out of existence. Physical manifestations are harmonic frequencies.

Mass and velocity are inversely related. At maximum velocity of instantaneous travel, scalar energy has no mass, and no form. It permeates all space at once. At minimum velocity, it is the abstract center of a black hole the mass of the entire physical universe. At velocities between these two abstract end points, scalar energy waves form all matter and energy.

All that we see of things is within the physical world's 360 degrees. As we see things change through time we are seeing the other 360 degrees in operation.

We also blink in and out of physical existence, minds moving through 720 degrees within each moment. We are each of us, two intertwined beings. Scalar energy moving between two universes weaves the cloth of space/time.

As space beings we see ourselves as objects changing through time, in a world of objects caught in relentless change. As time beings we are eternal. Different times exist as different objects exist in the physical world. Space flows through the world of time as time flows through the world of space.

Our awareness is normally focused in the material realm. We regard the other 360 degrees to be unconscious, or subconscious. We forget ourselves in the other 360 degrees. Asleep and dreaming, our awareness is focused within the non material 360 degrees. There, we forget that we are physical beings.

In the dream time, spatial imagery flows by us and through us in a steady stream, just as we experience time when we are awake. Places in our dreams are times. We may go to a time and observe it in the flow of space.

Every day, we move our awareness from one dimension to the other and back. Our dream activities direct the flow of the daytime. Our daytime activities direct the flow of the dream time. Our awareness is at any time in one or the other dimension. The shifting of awareness involves the elaborate procedure of going to sleep or waking from sleep.