Question: Could you explain how to induce, accelerate or slow down time? Is it possible at all?
Answer from the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2023 Easter Webinar.
Well, what is time? It depends all on how you define time.
That is a bigger topic than I want to go into in depth here, but the reality is that time is a construct of the mind. It is partly based on the illusion of separation, partly based on the linear mind.
You can say, as many people believe, many spiritual people believe, that when you are born, you have a certain, what we have called your natural lifespan. Which means that you might live until you are 70 and then you will die. But we have also explained that if you are abusing the free will of other people, committing certain actions, then you can actually speed up time in the sense that you will die sooner. And if you are sincerely seeking to transcend yourself and overcome your patterns, you can slow down time so you will live longer. In a sense, you might say that as a spiritual student you are partially able to slow down time in the sense that you might be able to stay in embodiment longer than your body’s natural lifespan. But at the same time, you are also speeding up time so that you will reach higher levels of consciousness faster than you otherwise would if you were not following a spiritual path.
In terms of actually slowing down time, you may think I have not addressed your question, but that is because the consciousness of separation and the linear mind are projecting that time has an objective reality—that there is some objective existence of time. But this is not the case, it is a subjective experience produced by the mind. It just so happens that on planet earth, the vast majority of the people in embodiment on earth have accepted the same vision of time: They think it is an external thing, they think it is linear—it can only progress in one direction and it must constantly be progressing. If you are in a state of deep meditation, if your Conscious You steps outside of your outer mind and experiencing pure awareness, then time actually stops for you. You also know that sometimes you feel like time is moving slowly: “When is the work day going to be over?” Other times you look back and think: “Boy, how could so much happen in just one day?” On the spiritual path, it is common that you look back 10, 20, 30 years ago, whenever you started the spiritual path, and you feel like you have gone through so many changes, so much growth, that it feels like several lifetimes have gone by. Walking the spiritual path is the best way to slow down/speed up time.
But you can, of course, if you feel this is important for you, you can contemplate the mystery of time, look at the teachings we have given on this, and you can free yourself, or at least start to free yourself from this linear mindset. If you consider what science tells you: It tells you that there is space. It tells you that the earth is rotating around itself. It is orbiting the sun. This is what most people consider. You know that when you are on the surface of the earth, you are moving through space very rapidly, because as the earth is rotating, you are moving, your body is moving through space, and as the earth is orbiting the sun, you are moving in another way through space. Really, if you look at your body in terms of absolute space, you are following a spiral, as the earth rotates and moves around the sun. But what not many people have contemplated is that the Solar System is moving throughout space. Because the Solar System is moving relative to other solar systems, moving relative to the entire galaxy, and the galaxy is moving relative to other galaxies in this great cosmic dance. If you actually could say: “Here is an absolute space, and now I am tracing the trajectory of my body through this space”, it would be a very complicated spiral-form pattern. This could actually be described mathematically. Mathematicians have discovered the basic equation needed, they just have not applied it.
What I am saying here is that time is a function of space and movement. The movement through space is what gives the illusion of time. And you can contemplate this. You can contemplate the need to free your mind from the linear mind’s obsessive-compulsive need to see everything in terms of a linear movement: time can only go in one direction, time must move all the time, and cause and effect and so forth. And you can come to realize that the earth or yourself, you are moving through space. But it is a very complex movement, it is not a linear movement, it is not one straight line. You are moving in this very complex cosmic dance that I have called the interdependent originations, and we have also called it the River of Life. And as you contemplate this, you can come to a point where you begin to experience it. And then you will experience that time ceases to be important. Time is not.
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