WHATEVER TIME IS, IT IS NOT!

Since time can not be seen or sensed, does it have a meaning? Shall we unravel the real meaning of linear time? We know our lives are based on a clock, that controls our entire time spent on Mother Earth. History describes many clocks and calendars to help explain the definition of the word time. The question is: can we trust these past records as a truth, since all history was written by those who rule the land?

Linear time is referred to as a physical reality in western culture. It does not matter what you think, feel or do, linear time moves horizontally just as a conveyer belt moves toward a dead end, being filled with blocked space, extending from our past to the present as we experience life through the limited laws of cause and effect.

Linear time is the most obvious illusionary reality of truth on Mother Earth. It seems a twenty-four hour clock rules our lives. The days go one after another, the sun rises and night follows, breaking down to one day, the day by day, month by month, year after year, stealing hours out of our life. I ask you: If the clock states 12:59 then immediately goes to 1:00. What happened to that one minute of each hour of the day? Add this up weekly, monthly and yearly. How many hours have you lost out of each year of your life?

Linear time is fixed and cannot go beyond its boundaries; therefore it will stop your growth and block the inner Source of your wisdom. When we advance our mind and spirit beyond these limitations and expand and accept the multiple expressions of the many dimensions of time, will we know freedom? But underneath all this thinking process, lies a profound ignorance of our natural cycles. We know our planet rotates in a clockwise manner in the solar system. Why not use this motion to align ourselves with the natural rhythms of Mother Nature's clock and return to the simple cycles of her natural laws?

Shall we explore more about the idea of time? Is it a line or a circle? Could it be a physical or a psychological evolution, or could it be a forced separation from Mother Earth's and her children's real time? What about the abuse of linear time? Could time be a collective moment of cause and effect, bringing chaos without order into our lives? Shall we go back through history and find a variety of many different answers?

Linear time is a series of transactions and dissatisfaction as we pass through the laws of cause and affect which is determined by our past emotional influences, creating pressure and anxiety. You must recognize the stress you have in your daily life. These effects can place us in a controlled situation, scattering our thoughts, destroying our ethics and work abilities. This frustration infringes upon our creativity, making us feel helpless and out of control. Look at your imposed daily schedule: Meeting deadlines, protecting and providing for all the needs of your family, building a career or just finding time to be alone and think. Take a moment to detach from this upheaval in your emotional body. Go to a place in nature that once made you feel calm and peaceful. Focus on that place as you create a positive flow of intensified energy to finish the task at hand. Whatever time is, or not, motion creates changes. The energy of any life force exists within matter, guided by dense or flowing energy according to your belief system and survival instincts.

We can conquer this overwhelming moment of stress by breaking down linear time. Cyclical (Circular) time makes each day different within the great cycle of time. As humans, we are connected to the heart beat and the natural rhythm's of Mother Earth, the Sun, the cycle of our moon and the planets in our solar system. Check out the Farmer's Almanac. It will refresh your memory of the weather and the seasons that our ancestors once embraced.

Our yearly calendar has been questioned for thousands of years, yet the major issues have never been resolved. Shall we study a few calendars? It was Pope Gregory XIII, who found errors in the Julian calendar and created the Gregorian calendar in 1582. It too, holds many errors yet rules the world. Thirty days have September, April, June and November. All the rest have 31, except February which is 28 days, until leap year adds a day to create 29 days. We also must remember we have 97 leap years within every four hundred years. Why do we continue to follow the 364.2425 Gregorian solar calendar which affects and delays our seasonal changes?

Shall we look closer? It was around 3000 BC, when the Babylonians observed the heavens and created the system to describe the zodiac positions of the planets, giving us a 12 month-thirty day calendar. This calendar was known to be chaotic. They also created a lunar calendar, starting with the first visible crescent moon around 500 BC.

In 1000BC, the Egyptians created a star calendar using 43 constellations to make a solar calendar which created a 30 day, 12 month year. Linear time is also found in the oldest of scripts written by the Hebrews, Iranians, Romans and Greeks. There is also a rectilinear time which was developed by Aristotle and by the Judeo-Christian Doctrine City.

The Mayans comprehension of time, which proved to be vast and sophisticated, used the placement of the stars, seasons and yearly cycles. They have seventeen different calendars which were charted accurately over a span of ten million years. One such calendar is the Tzolk'in (short count). It is based on the cycles of the Pleiades. Another is the calendar of the long count and it is related to the equinoxes. Their civil calendar consists of 18 months of twenty days each, adding 5 extra days for mourning and prayer, making a total year of 365 days per year.

In the Pre-Columbian era, time was perceived as Cyclical (Circular) and mythical, by the old Indian ways of the Mayan and Aztec cultures. It was the Aztecs who made use of a calendar carved in a huge circular stone, the sun stone, which is still maintained as an attraction at the Anthropological Museum in Mexico.

Another concept of Cyclical (Circular) patterns is the Dharmic, Hinduism, and Buddhism, also known as the medicine wheel and the wheel of life, an endless cycle of birth and death seeking liberation, expressing the idea of an endless cycle of existence and wisdom.

Long ago, before the Indian was colonized, the oldest of all races, held little interest in linear time. the Elders would repeat their stories to connect the present with the past. It seems Cyclical (Circular) time returns to the origin of the past where all things begin and bring them into the present. The Indigenous people believed life was motion and used their consciousness to go beyond a normal thought process. Our ancestors followed the ways of the land, the seasons, the weather, the stars and the Galaxy, often questioning whether our Universe was Cyclical (Circular).

We knew the power of the birth and death was the cycle of time. We were born to die and return to the Spirit world. Born from life to life with a purpose to fulfill each time we returned to Mother Earth, all the while preparing a better way for our children's, children. Cyclical (Circular) time is limitless, allowing us to seek beyond time and find an inner guidance to the unknown. Change is in the concept of the mind's thought process. Circular time opens our inner resources to the flow of life by knowing nature and the movement of the sky clock such as: The placement of the stars, constellations and the Milky Way Galaxy, along with our applied intuitional knowledge which helps us guide our lives and predict the future. Why not fill ourselves with our multidimensional universal knowledge and integrate it with the accumulative knowledge from within?

We have a saying, about the stress levels of linear time. Take command of your destiny and venture into your life with joy and clear intent. Two things I do know: 1. Time keeps everything from happening all at once! 2. The best way to use your time in this life is to create a great future for yourself.

LIFE'S PURPOSE

Forth from planet to planet
You have gone and you will go.
Space is vast, but we must span it
For life's purpose is to KNOW.
Earth retains you but a minute;
Make the best of what lies in it.
Light the pathway where you are.
There is nothing worth the doing
That will leave regret or ruin,
As you speed from star to star.
You are part of the beginning,
You are parcel of today;
When Creator set his worlds a spinning
You were flung upon your way
When this system falls to pieces,
When this pulsing epoch ceases
When the “is” becomes the “was”,
You will live, for you will enter
In the Great Creative Center,
In the ALL-enduring Cause!

All My Relations
Mahinto

NOTE: My Grandmother taught me how to make my first clock. She directed me to place a tall stick in the ground and follow the length of the shadows on the earth as the sun moved across the sky. The zenith of this clock is noon. Try it, my Grandmother won't mind. This is how I made my first clock. I still follow the shadow world.

You might be interested in another Indian clock. Here you will find a special pattern to make one for yourself. When you give up on yourself from overwork, frustration or stress, and can't sleep, SIT DOWN, RELAX AND GET ON INDIAN TIME with a round tuit.

From SHA TONGA'S DESK

Hello my dear friends,

Yesterday my 16-year-old, ten-pound best friend, Jake the philosopher, went to puppy heaven. It was a quick death without suffering. I will miss my long time Bud. I know in time, he will come to visit with me.

Jake, the lion-hearted was one year old when we met, and the first dog who ever liked me. We shared quality time together running and playing pranks on the humans. When Jake and I chased each other around the yard, he would take huge leaps to keep up with me, almost like he was airborne. I also shared my food and water dish with Jake, but no other animal could ever try to cross these boundaries, as I would definitely attack.

Jake and I would always attend the Mommie's classes. He was a gentleman and would greet the students at the door. Once they were seated, he would go to each one to see if they had brought him a treat. Jake constantly had a smile on his face and was definitely a woman's man. His favorite was Joy Siddiqi. He would climb in her lap and sit at attention upright on his butt, eventually curling up to take a nap.

Kindhearted Jake was a problem solver. He always attended private sessions. He would sit on the sofa close to the client with his paw on their leg, seemingly to understand their problems.

Once he ran away from home, but the mailman found him and delivered him back with the mail. Jake received many Emails, but the time he liked most was when he received over 100 emails, voting for his paws to remain in the wet cement around the vision quest pit. He won. They are still there, never to be removed.

I know Jake will be long remembered by everyone he ever met.

Sha Tonga

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