Transcending Time

Change and the rate of change occur in time and with time, modulating different effects upon different substances.Time is both the catalyst and the field. It does not change; yet change occurs in its presence.

After a snowfall, the snow on the ground melts. An iron tool left out in the elements will rust. The rocks in the river become smooth.

Of course, we say that the heat melts the snow, the oxidation causes rust, and the force of the river makes the pebbles smooth. But there is always another co-factor - time present.

The snow does not immediately melt, it takes time. The tool will not rust without sufficient time. And the rocks in the river may take 30 years to become smooth.

Time is the presence that is always with us -which must be present for any action or change to take place.

Now do you see why the physicists talk of the time-space continuum? There is no space where time does not exist. If you could travel in a rocket ship to the deepest darkest place in the galaxy, time would be there for you. It would also be there for the seat in your rocket ship that would gradually show wear as you sat in it all the time.

Time is always there. So it is not true that space is a vacuum because time is there. Of course an object floating there would not appear to change if no stray particles hit it. But that does not mean that time is not there, because it is time that makes space possible.

You cannot travel from one place to another without elapsed time, no matter how fast you move.

But let's not overlook the obvious implications of time by just talking about a hypothetical place in outer space.

Here is one important implication. It is "now" everywhere. As you read this sentence, you know what time it is. It is now. Across the universe at the other side of the Milky Way Galaxy, it is also now.

If it is always now, why don't things stay the same, since it takes time or anything to change? If we exist in the eternal now, why not just stay the same live forever?

The answer is that time is like a wind, a force--even as gravity is a force. It sustains us but does not stop the pre ordained growth or decay of each person's, element's, and object's given identity.

Sooner or later, we all look for anti aging cream, arch supports, or some herb that might restore us to a more youthful body. The Conquistadors looked for the fountain of youth. Faust sought to become young again.

We know that there was a Tree of Life in the Garden of Eden, the fruit of which would permit a person to live forever. But somehow committing the sin of seeking knowledge got the human race banished from Paradise and from the presence of the Tree of Life, thus condemning us to die.

Could it be that we are committing the same sin today--seeking knowledge to know ourselves as gods--thereby preventing us from re-finding the Tree of Life?

Getting back to the subject of why can't we live forever in the eternal now--I will conjecture that if you could live in the eternal now minus the presence of time--you could live forever. Truly eternal life must involve some sort of time transcendence.

Perhaps you can also see that as you now exist, this is not possible because you are subject to time.

However, doesn't the fact that you can conceive of the eternal now, and you experience a sense of awe when you realize the possibility and potentiality of living forever, prove that part of you resonates with such a possibility?

Let us now look at another interesting experience we all have to draw attention to the co existence of time and timelessness.

Parents look at their grown adult child and they see the same person they knew when he or she was little. The adult child is taller and older, but something remains the same. They loved their child then and they love him or her now--and it is the same person they love.

Something, a core intrinsic part of the human, remains the same.

Here is another example-- have you ever encountered an old friend you haven't seen for a long time? Although you can't help but notice how they have aged, you also easily pick up where you left off--as if no time had passed between you. A few minutes of catching up, and it's like you two had never parted.

Have you ever known someone who passed away--but somehow you just can't accept that they are gone? You still almost expect to see them. Part of you just can't accept that they are no longer around.

Does this not say something about our intuitive sense that humans have something about them that is or is supposed to be unchanging and eternal?

So you see, we do resonate with the idea of the eternal, the unchanging, the unending. We see that change and decay are part of our existence--as we now are--but there is something about change and decay that seems odd or unnatural.

We sense deep down that we are supposed to remain our true self, and that that self is supposed to (or was supposed to) endure and not die.

Could it be that we are seeing what we have fallen to in the light of what we once were? Hence, the idea of living forever does not seen alien to us at all, but growing old and dying does.

Let me summarize. We live in time present, bathed and sustained in the time wind. This eternal now, where it is always now, is the only time/space we have in which to live and move and have our being. In this ever moving present, we observe change, growth and decay.

Because it is always now, the changes we see are not due to some theoretical or abstract movement from one calendar day to the next, or one calendar year to the next.

The changes occur in the the medium of the time wind in which we are bathed. The changes and the rate of change have to do with the nature of the matter or being, as well as the effects of surrounding elements and conditions in the present. Time remains the same, but different effects ensue depending on our identity and interactions.

In order to find eternal life, we must find the secret to time transcendence. And this would also mean that our nature would have to be changed. The nature we inherit is very much subject to decay, which becomes obvious no sooner than we reach adulthood and very obvious as we reach our sixth or seventh decade.

If our bodies are birthed in time, subject to time, and are by nature subject to change, the transcendence of time to live eternally must have to do with the inner person, the core identity and intrinsic self, I spoke of earlier. It must be that self that may transcend time.

If we identify with the earth, the body, and the passions of the flesh, then we are adapting to and accommodating the death centered legacy that awaits the animal man.

If we identify with the Eternal One, our Creator-- Who lives in the Timeless eternal realm, and who gave us the eternal core of identity which we love in our children no matter their age, and which we sense deep down was meant to live on and not die--we become subject to Him.

When our inner person becomes subject to Him--in love and willing obedience--He then nurtures and sustains the soul child which is destined to know Him and come to Him.

Can you see that if a person is destined to know God that part of him or her cannot perish?

In the timeless realm, there is no death, no decay, no darkness, no sin. To be compatible, to be made compatible to know God and abide in His Presence, means that we must become deathless, changeless, and sinless.

That is why Christ is the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Him. Christ is the One who conquered sin and death. He is the One Who sits at the right hand of God. And it is Christ Who leads and paves the way for those destined to become the children of God. He prepares them so that one day they may step across the boundary between the spiritual and the material.

The material comes from the spiritual. The physical realm comes from the metaphysical realm. The spiritual realm precedes the material creation.

Material creation rolls on and cannot go back to the beginning. But the child of God can return to the Beginning, the Creator Who was and is and ever will be.


Therefore, your are to be perfect, as your Heavenly Father is perfect. (Matthew 5:48)

We shall see Him as He is because we will be like Him. (1 John 3:2 )

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