The River of Time

Is our experience of ‘Time’ an illusion?

The experience of time in our physical world is very real. Before you know it a month has gone by. But...are our minds controlled by TIME?
When this article was written it was the end of April 2007 for you the reader, but for my characters who represent the Jaarsma clan; Ingrid, Trevor, Richard, Liesbeth, Yolanda, Annelies and Tieneke, it’s different. For Ingrid, her first journal 'My Love We Are Going Home' took place in 2004. Her forthcoming second edition; The Awakening Clan was April 2008.

Richard’s second edition takes place from July 2008 in The Astral Explorer and The Cosmic traveler end up with the closing of December 2008 into 2009. Annelies in her journal Vanishing Worlds, her story starts well into the year 2009. Have I shifted in Time? No, of course not, but my mind can project into any time.

Because we are such experts at creating a world externally, and believing it to be real, nobody can really indicate and pinpoint when the moment of our intent has an effect on our present reality; but we do know that it has to do with our 'belief' in the illusion of time. If we could, or would, practice being in the NOW moment all day, and stay there, our observation mode would kick in. So what are our obstacles?


The obstacle or trap is our very own mind. Let’s contemplate that. A mind expanded by a new idea can never return to its former state, so that when we think of what might lie ahead, and add feelings, imagery and visions to our — let’s call it day dreaming – are we then busy creating our future? Some say yes, some don't believe in that possibility. Since my topic is immortality, it's my intent to give that idea my whole focus.

I have chosen to 'change my believe to a knowing' that we are co-creators who are evolving at a fast rate. Yes, even today with all the misery and corruption, humanity is evolving.
Thoughts of death produce death. Thoughts of Eternal Life can produce physical immortality and body mastery. The body is Energy materialized by thought; not passive thinking, but active thinking; thought in motion. Our physical body and emotional body have been built up by millions of thoughts in action. To be a master, we now have to catch our thoughts and change them into the kinds of action that produce the results we intend...
But...if we stay in our data storing mind, our lower mind, our linear thinking mode that merely
edits what we perceive, or expect to see what we remember we have seen as clear straight-forward information, and we have difficulty accepting that our everyday reality is merely an endless oasis of potential possibilities that we (unconsciously) have manifested for ourselves, and...we feel helpless and do nothing. We are then trapped in the illusion of TIME.

What can we do, you may ask? How can we as individuals make a difference when it comes to TIME?
We need to see, hear, feel and touch the world around us with just one thought in mind. We are co-creators in the making. We have incarnated in this physical world in order to evolve our physical body towards a higher, faster and lighter frequency. Some call that reaching enlightenment, we use the word ascension for the same goal. Ascension is passage through the veil that divides our dimensions. Ascension means that we can consciously perceive our worlds from two perspective realities. The
Linear, or the Spatial Way
simultaneously I explore that idea in great detail through Annelies’ Journal, Vanishing Worlds.

Shifting from perceiving this physical third dimension of duality towards a higher energy realm where all is united, is her aim. Most of humanities perceptions are that with death a person leaves the planet without choice. With ascension, people choose to leave when the opening of light is offered to them. It's already offered, we just have to wake up to that opportunity! We have to connect our left and right thinking mode. We need to be able to observe two realities at the same time, and be able to interact simultaneously!
If people choose not to ascend because of their fears or attachments, they automatically choose death. It’s that simple.

POWAH assured me that in our time people of the Earth are now being activated to their higher calling. A new light is emerging as never before seen on Earth, not even in ancient times. Only when each individual mental and emotional being has outgrown its attachment to physical existence and learnt the lessons of detachment and unconditional love, can we move on. People who are too distracted by technology, entertainments, or monetary rewards of our modern world will not be ready to ascend, because they will not hear the inner voice calling for personal change in preparation for transition. Those who hear about ascension and apply themselves to personal growth have the opportunity to make a choice.

Many are preparing for ascension as they ‘awaken’ and undergo personal change. As we surrender attachment to people, places and things, beliefs and agendas, books and bibles, theories and opinions, judgments and addictions, religions and sciences and everything else that we all cling to, we can leave. When we are ready to release our ties to the Earth, to let go of believing that we are restricted by TIME, we can shift. While planet Earth passes through her birth pangs into a different location in the Universe, men and women everywhere will rise to their true hu-man potential. This is the time when we are called to return to our home.

When the moment of ascension arrives, which is different for each person, we need to be awake! POWAH explained that we will be offered a doorway or opening of light. A sudden awareness of how we interact with everything energy wise; how the atoms and molecules that makes up our body blends with the space around us. This sudden awareness that we are at one with the whole world, and the creatures in it, who are all part of the same magnificent field of shimmering energy. That awakening moment will reach us like a tidal wave. That will be our moment of choice; to stay with the world we know with its security and attractions, addictions and attachments --- or step into the void of the unknown.

In Annelies' journey Vanishing Worlds I've been guided to write my visionary concepts about this shift into what we call, a higher dimension, knowing that the opportunity to choose will only last for a few moments. Wavering or hesitation or a thought of fear and the door will recede and vanish. It requires an ability to follow the irresistible pull of the heart despite the defiant resistance of the head.

Every being will receive the same opportunity of awakening, ascension and immortality regardless of who they are or what they have become. All it requires is to embody as many soul qualities as possible. They have the power to 'upgrade' all our miscreated thought patterns and exchange our thinking with uplifting ideas and visions about our unlimited possibilities! The more soul energy we can draw within ourselves, the more chance we have to follow the call of our heart. The more awake we are the more we will be able to recognise the moment of truth. There is no judgment in the Universe, only our 'belief' that Time is for real — which keeps us attached to the Earth plane.
'Time' must be seen as a tool, a platform or a program that rules the human game. When we have enough of playing the game, we can step away from it for good!

So...Is our experience of ‘Time’ A GAME?

Time’ seems like a data stored journey on a raft that is thrown into a river. At birth we get onto this raft... For some it is a journey on a tidal wave, for some many obstacles are in the way. Many fall off into a whirlpool while hanging on to the raft. Some souls drown and have to wait for another opportunity to get onto the raft. Having established that idea, what then is Time?
Could ‘Time’ be like a circle string of beads without a beginning or end?  Could it be that our past is also our future? Could it be that there is no such thing as Time?

Straight lines and circles.
Does the riddle of time change when we explore Linear and spatial thinking? To me Linear-thinking means that there’s always a beginning and an end to everything but when we think in circles this concept does not apply.

We all know that any thought that is powerful enough will become reality or that our future is created by a past memory that influences our behaviour now. In terms of the string of beads theory that there is no past or future, it starts to make sense that only the present is of value.
Only eternal creations are divine, jewellery poem reads.

The very word eternal means forever or infinite. I know that as a spiritual being I am a divine and eternal being but since our world measures everything in terms of time, I have often wondered why our soul incarnates part of itself as a human form. Was it in order to experience what it was like to live in a world of duality?

I know that many experience, through mind-drawing techniques, a new way of perceiving, because their experiences of how they previously felt about something has changed. Through their own creative thinking skills the wholeness of our 3rd dimension comes to life. This is the beginning of circular thinking. Through learning to see holistically (circular) we can start to see our divine eternal self.

Our dreams don’t seem to be limited by time.
If we are living in a holographic world could there perhaps be many different layers of realities occupying the same space? As in our dream world, time is irrelevant. Could angels and fairies be just as real as we think we are? When do we know the difference between what we imagine we see or experience and what we fantasies? When we wake up we know the difference between our dream world and our waking moments, but what about futuristic dreams?

There seems to be a very fine line between the two states of consciousness of imagining and fantasizing. Our dream world seems to take information from both realities and string them together.

I feel it has to do with our physical personality world, which operates in a linear mode, and the world of our higher intuitive self, which operates in an unlimited world that seems like a spatial world. The world of our personality is analytical and flat. Everything we observe is solid and expresses linear-time. Our left-brain thinking mode is the most dominant. Like a computer, it retrieves data from our memory bank and projects it mentally out there. The world of our higher self is universal. It sees and observes the wholeness of our holographic world. It’s during our dream time that this world is experienced, but the moment we wake up our linear thinking mode takes control and tries to analyse our dream world in a linear way. It cannot conceive holistically, so it creates symbols that stand for ideas. I know that both thinking modes must have value but only if we use them in balance.

How do we start thinking in a state of balance?

When I was creating the Art-analogue Symbolism mind-drawing, I realized how much my awareness escalated when I discovered how my mind could translate my feelings and ideas on to paper in shapes, lines, colour and symbols instead of words. I realized that I was teaching my brain to think in circles. Because I have drawing skills, my mindscape drawings became illustrative fantasy drawings. But this art form did not inspire me to develop it into a creative hobby or even to become a visionary artist. This time around my desire to become aware, or to reach full consciousness made me search for a new art form. I needed to understand why our mind stores and translates a physical experience in a linear way through our 5 senses but when we go within, and listen to our feelings we seem to access our spatial thinking mode. If our soul has incarnated in order to translate every physical experience that we have stored in our cellular memory files, called our akashic records, then we must wake up from our linear slumber and awaken our spatial thinking mode.

Are we trapped on this raft on the River-of-Time?

As a personality I know that when I wake up my physical body could be dead before the day is out but, I also know that I can learn to understand my body and that that body is just a vehicle, a spacecraft, or a raft that rides on a River-of-Time. Many physical activities distract our focus as to why we were born, why are we on this raft and where are we heading for. Others call us to get off our own raft and join their voyage. We are attracted to some people we meet on our journey, which can make us ignore our inner guidance, but we still join them, only to discover that their journey is not ours.


Time is now speeding up and the raft gets more difficult to navigate because of the baggage we have collected on the way.

We experience that everything that comes into existence as we go with the flow, also passes away. This means that everything that is traveling on this ‘River-of-Time’ is perishable. We are locked into an illusion of Time. But…If we start to question why we are on this River-of-Time, could that mean that some of us have chosen to journey beyond ‘Time’ in order to fully awaken while experiencing this physical linear reality?

We are all immortal spiritual beings searching for a way to bring the enormous library of our soul knowledge into a physical expression, thereby ultimately becoming fully awake while having a human experience. Does that mean becoming physically immortal?

Gosh no! I do not mean that I now want to experience that I can live forever in this physical body. I want to find out if we could heighten our vibrations to such an extent that we can fully perceive the many multidimensional worlds and journey wherever we aspire to and travel to many other universes while having full control over our physical cellular/molecular structure in order to keep it in top condition. There would be no more illness, no more pain, no more aging! Could Star-Trek be a projection of our future…or are those memories from our past? Are they not journeying in the River of Time?

The Qualities of Time

While waiting in the jam-packed Los Angeles airport I experienced a graphic vision of the four qualities of time, namely Clock time, (which is linear) Automatic time (where things run in the background) which feels like a mental activity that is both linear and spatial. Or having-time, (where Time seems to expand, or where there is No-time) For a split second I had tumbled into a foreign world where there was no form, only seas of colours moving in many directions. When everything was back to what I perceived as being normal, that split second seemed like a timeless moment.
 
It had made such an impression on me that for the rest of the journey I pondered in awe. The time it took to arrive in Auckland seemed very short. Had I, even after the experience, entered into a different time zone during the flight?

What would it be like to experience full consciousness?

While writing the last chapter of my first futuristic novel: My Love We Are Going Home, during 1999 POWAH, Ingrid’s spiritual guide reveals the following statement:

“Humanity and the Earth will soon move into a higher consciousness time zone where only universal intelligence will operate. In this new world there will only be one language in use, the Language of Light. Humanity’s Soul-energy can clear away all the programming that is kept alive by personality entities if so desired. The ascension process can only start when soul consciousness alters the speed of humanity’s biological molecular structure to enable it to embody more of itself.”

What does the Language of Light look like?  

It was then that I knew what my job would be. It was to bring into our consciousness the understanding of The Language of Light. It’s a communication medium that would look like geometric or pictorial symbols. They are like keys that can unlock frequency particles, which are locked in a frozen state within our cellular/ molecular DNA/RNA codes. During my mind drawing techniques the rational mind is challenged into a circular way of thinking. It was a breakthrough for me to find that we can access our hidden thought patterns (that have turned platonic solid shapes into crystalline codes in our DNA, forming physical matter through our feeling nature) through mind-drawing techniques. It is our fragmented, ignorant thoughts that make our body age, fall ill and decay.

Like the HTML codes that represent each element on a web page that we see on our computer screen, our daily thoughts create a vibrational language that is used by the elemental beings. They in turn change our thought-forms into holographic images. That is their job. That was the service they choose to give! These holographic images became the world we perceive around us. We call this ‘reality’
What was not foreseen was that we (spiritual beings having a human experience) would consciously fall into complete amnesia!

In my drawing courses the aim is to change programmed thought patterns into ideographic symbols that stand for values like forgiveness, unconditional love, prosperity and on and on in order to transform them. This in turn will be embodied through the 7 physical chakras in order to speed up our vibration.

Is our ‘Time’ speeding up?  

At present I feel more in control of my river raft. Now and then I throw off more baggage I have no more need for and I meet others in the River-of-Time who follow the same journey as me. We help each other with obstacles while staying in full control of our own raft. The River-of-Time now becomes like the breath. My body feels younger because I now am the observer of my life's experience. Time becomes timeless, so I can feel a passion for life. I pass many whirlpools but it is in those difficult moments, as I maneuver my raft into the strong current, that I can feel the love force of All that Is merging its creation through the acceleration in Time, into timelesness.

No human being can ever truly understand the concept of ‘Time’ by reason, but in the core of my being I know that we are all part of a total utter single Presence of the love force off All That Is. There is nothing separate from this oneness. The River-of-Time analogy, like the Time Piece Jewellery is a reminder that we are all powerful spiritual beings that can bring about a new vision of reality by thought alone. Is that reality an illusion? It is up to you!

Namasté