“If I could save time in a bottle…”

Jim Croce – Song: Time In A Bottle

Card messages in the Illuminated position:

+Episode

+Eternal, now, period, season, presence, attention, existence

1. ‘Time flies when you are having fun.’ But it seems to crawl when you are doing something you resist. Get into whatever you are doing knowing that it is part of the time of your life. Find a way to enjoy it!
2. Time is of the essence. Pay attention to how it unfolds.
3. Best to live in the present moment for future will be here in no time. Use today to shape tomorrow.
4. Live in the Now. Can you understand that nothing you do is wrong! God is the only judge!
5. Let your time be filled by experience rather than expectation. Life is something to be present with not planned for, outlined or compared with requirements. These are all helpful for a project, but not for a living person in the midst of events.
6. The Time-Space continuum suggests that how far you travel you must pass time doing it. You might not be able to control the length but you can decide your attitude to the journey. Is it exhilarating, boring, or excruciating? That’s up to you!
7. Are you scheduling well, or at all? It is so vital to make certain to plan for self-time. No kidding. It is too easy to get caught up in should’s and obligations we forget the one to ourselves. Make it a priority.
8. There a three parts of reality: Past, Present and Future. You can only life one at a time. But if you remember the past, make changes in the present, you will most likely arrive at the future you were working towards: or better!

Card messages in the Shadow position:

– Duration

–Increments, chronology, languish,

1. Make your time count for something.
2. Stop wasting your time! While you are killing time, it is doing to same to you in return.
3. Have you felt over committed of your time? Clear you calendar for at least the rest of the day. Shy of that, take a moment to get back into your body.
4. If you are impatient with time, you might hurry right past a golden opportunity. If you are spending time well, you will be reaping extras that you could not have predicted. Focus as much on the journey as touching base on the destination.
5. “It is common to hear people say repeatedly say “I’ll be with you real quick.” Or in “just a sec(ond).” It makes us wonder how hurried they must feel? But also, how distortedly unrealistic their assessment of time is because, it always takes longer than they say it should. Take a breath! One thing at a time.
6. The Chief Feature of Impatience (Card 34) is the most wrapped up in, and warped, with time. Yes both. While they want you to hurry-up they are equally as likely to delay or postpone because they have mis-estimated how long/short something actually takes to complete. Thus Impatient people never feel there is enough time but they sure want you to move faster.
7. Sometimes the ramifications of the past come to roost in the present. What looked like a win or loss then could reverse itself. Don’t be too quick to think of anything as ‘final’, time has a way of changing perspective.

Quotes signifying this pole

• “Time (and tide) wait for no man.” – Most often attributed to Geoffrey Chaucer
• “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” – Douglas Adams – Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
• “Failure to plan is a plan to fail.” – Popular aphorism about ignoring your future trajectory. 
• “People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.” Edmund Burke in Revolution in France

Relevance in the Michael Teaching

Is time an illusion? If so, it is a very persistent one. At the very least, it is an intellectual concept facilitating our ordering and comparison of events.  The metrics of time as measured in seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, seasons, years, decades, centuries, millennia, etc. in their own right share a dimension of human perception we call a moment.

The Michael Teaching(MT) shares with many of the “new age” or spiritual teachings that time does not exist per’se in absolute. Yet it is the way your order your lives and notice how processes act upon you: like again and decay. Einstein mathematical General Theory of Relativity suggests that time is relative to gravity. Without time our existence here on earth would lack a sense of progress. Only with the idea of advancement do we have language available to us to sort and contrast the multiplicity of inputs we receive from our environment.

Being young or feeling old each are references to the passing of stages in our lives and perceptual reactions to those states.

The most strident points about time that the Mt asserts are twofold: 1) Living from the hurts of the past robs you of the attention and focus in the present and thus most likely causes you to transfer patterns from previous times or wounds, into the current moment. In both cases, you miss an opportunity for a new meaning or a new experience. However, learning from

Cultural Meaning

For the scientist, time is the fourth dimension. As real and usable as its other spatial compatriots of height, width, and depth.

Session, event, period, season, career, aging, lifetime, are all subjective measures of time. They exist because we frame a set of experiences with common factors within their borders. It is a Other psychological ordering of events that allow us a series of events and progression which assist us in understanding distance as well as space.

Sociologist George Santayana famously prognosticated, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Another variation is “Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” In both cases he speaks about the carryover (of lack thereof) of lessons experiencing in a previous time, or by previous persons, whose conditions are present once again. Even without the warnings of a philosopher we are struck by the connection to the recurrence of patterns in human life: individually and globally. Only knowledge accrued from them and used to consider the present can or will prevent similar mistakes being engaged in.