13 Days till Launch: Time Warp

It’s 5:00 a.m. and I’ve been awake for three hours. Not typical for me, but then again, not entirely out-of-the-ordinary.  Sometimes I just can’t turn my brain off and sleep eludes me.  After imploring any and all relaxation techniques that have previously worked, but for some reason today prove futile, I decided to stop fighting the urge to stay snuggled under the fleece sheets, and staggered to find my computer at the kitchen table where I left it late last night.  Or was that today then?  It feels like I’m in different world at this time of the morning.  Must be a time warp thing, sort of an out-of-body experience—I even see blindingly white lights, apparently which come with such cosmic events.  Somehow I bring myself to adjust the brightness icon on my Mac and realize I’m still here.

I’m not a physicist but I believe time-travel is a real phenomenon.  It must be the thing on my brain that won’t turn off because as I read over the first paragraph of this blog post, I have an eerie feeling what I’ve written has already happened.  It’s different than déjà vu—more like I’m stuck somewhere I’d rather not be, or perhaps I don’t really belong.  And I have this longing to be back in bed, with my body wrapped around my husband.  Why can’t I bring myself to get there?

It’s even weirder if I analyze this from a literary perspective.  Consider the connections between the words and phrases I’ve typed thus far:  awake, hours, out-of-the-ordinary, sleep, eludes, relaxation, past, stop, stay, night, today, different world, time, morning, time warp, out-of-body experience, cosmic, time-travel, phenomenon, already happened, déjà vu, stuck somewhere, body.  I had no conscious intention of making these word associations.  These are the words that were in my brain—or said another way, where my brain was.  A person is not his or her brain but is the brain where he or she is? If our brain goes to a particular place (i.e. we dream, daydream, or imagination we are there), then once we figure out how to get the rest of our body to that same place, will we actually be there?  Could this be the definition of time travel? 

Quantum physicists agree time travel is possible and define it similarly.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/16/is-time-travel-real_n_1429953.html Science has proven that our subconscious brain cannot distinguish between real and imaginary.  Spiritual practitioners of varied disciplines have explored the plausibility of the body’s ability to dematerialize and then manifest itself in another location, time or realm.  Paramahansa Yogananda has experienced this on more than one occasion. (“Autobiography of a Yogi”) Current-day parlance such as “creative and mental visualization techniques” describes such methods as the means of achieving health, vitality, and abundance.  

I believe them all.  Here is the simple reason why: After living on this planet for a mere half-century, I still know very little in comparison to my brain’s capacity to know and understand more.  This much I do know: In order to truly learn and gain knowledge and wisdom, we must be willing to consider that whatever the conscious mind deems impossible, may actually be possible.  Stated in the reverse, that which the subconscious mind can conceive is a complete and entire possibility.  And I dare say, a probability! 

The finite simply cannot conceive the infinite.  The human brain will not allow it, though the brain likely has the capacity to do so.  Only not here.  Not now.  Not with our limited five senses in this three-dimensional world.  When man begins to think he knows more than the Power by which all life and light is created and maintained, he thwarts his ability to truly understand that which is yet unknown to man.  This of course refers to the spiritual application, but also to our human physical ability to do so.

It’s difficult to explain the irony of being here one second and gone the next, when in any given second our brain is usually firing and misfiring ten zillion (or so) thoughts, ideas, and functions within that second.  If our heart stops beating for more than a relatively few seconds, or perhaps minutes, our body dies.  However, in those rare moments when our brain stops thinking, but we are still completely awake and conscious, our body remains wherever it is at that moment.  Yet we feel we are only observing life without words to define it.  It is as if everything literally stops.  There is no motion.  You can’t feel yourself breathe.  You have no thoughts.  But you awkwardly try to comprehend it.  You try to stretch your brain—again without thinking any words—in an attempt to understand.  Suddenly you feel like you might disappear into a wormhole, or a warp or wedge in time.  Then you have this strange understanding that you exist.  But you have no words to explain it.  Right before the words come back to your brain, you shake your head vigorously, so your brain can start the process of thinking again.  This is the body’s build-in coping mechanism to protect the brain from going mad when it isn’t yet capable of receiving more knowledge of the infinite nature of our existence.

This understanding of infinite existence is the point at which there is no time.  Everything just is.  There are no boundaries.  And for that moment, you are in an endless dimension.  You may find yourself thinking: If only my whole body could squeeze through that warp!  Still, the finite mind cannot comprehend it or find the words to describe it.  We call it “time travel”, and we explore all our understanding and resources to supposedly discover (un-cover) something that already exists.  Although we cannot explain it, see it, put words to it, or experience it in a way others will accept or understand, this does not mean it is impossible or that it doesn’t exist.  Furthermore, the fact that our intellect has capacities far beyond its current ability to process knowledge or understanding, suggests that time travel—and other unexplainable phenomenon—does exist.  Otherwise, we are indeed ignorant and naïve.