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I want to talk about time

And maybe just a little bit more, at the end I will have a titillating little treat for you, :^). On my main site, I said that for most of my life, I’ve been more a Carl Sagan sort of guy than any sort of religionist. This is true. I was raised in the Lutheran religion, you can read about that on my site, but was never really able to buy what they were selling. My first “contact” with Carl Sagan was with his book “Contact”, then the movie starring Jodie Foster, which I recommend to anyone and everyone. The only argument I have with it, well, there are two, first, I preferred the book, but Carl wrote the screenplay so I just assume he approved the changes and am okay with them, second, is how fearful everyone was, well almost everyone, of that first contact from another sentient species. This has been one of my gripes about the whole sci-fi genre forever, though, in truth, my only sci-fi reading has been all of Robert Heinlein and all of Isaac Asimov, so often, that I have their books practically committed to memory. And their ideas ingrained into my everyday life, indeed into my soul. What I liked about their work, well, besides the prescience with which they wrote, was that they didn’t assume visitors to this planet would automatically have hostile intentions. And the rest of this world seems to. Which is, to me, just silly. With hundreds of billions of stars in this galaxy alone and an infinite number of galaxies, beings capable of traveling such distances would go find a world that was already occupied and putz with the residents? I mean, gawd, what on “earth” for? There are an infinite number of habitable planets out there, why not pick one of them if colonies are what you are looking for? Why pick one where you would have to fight to take it, or at least exterminate the sentient species inhabiting it? That is just stoopid. And I assume any species capable of developing a way to move light years across space just traveling, would not be stoopid. So, this whole ufo’s are out to get us thing is just plain silly, in my opinion. And in Carl’s too.

Because of that novel, I read his other books, none of which are fiction and found fascinating the way his mind worked, his logic, his approach to life, and to love. I found that same approach in the works of Robert and Isaac. And I found, as I said, prescience. Much of what they wrote about is going to come to pass. Yes, I am a prophet, giggle, named gene. But as I gaze into my inner world, I see a time coming where we will one day spread to the stars. This one is NOT going to last forever you know, and sometime before it becomes a red giant and consumes this little ball of air and water, we will have to have been long gone, or we will be long gone. Simple as that. What Robert and Isaac wrote about with such flair and love is possible. And, inevitable, I think. Robert I sometimes take issue with, he was a bit violent in his approach to others, more than I liked, but that indomitable independent spirit, I completely understand. Isaac’s work is just plain wonderful, there is nothing about it to dislike. Wonderful, liberating literature. Stranger in a Strange Land, Robert’s best know book, marked a turning point for him. And though I loved those that followed, I grew increasingly disenchanted with the way he had his characters treat each other. They did so with a sort of cavalier friendly insulting manner that I find incredibly insensitive. I don’t like it when people insult each other and pretend it is okay because they are friends, to me that is veiled cruelty and enormously disrespectful. And I don’t like it. Which is MY truth, you are entitled to your own. Just not expressed to me. That is about the only rule I have here, and I WILL enforce it, civility rules this blog. Humor is fine, just gentle humor is preferred. Still, Roberts later works got so close to the real truth of who we are and what we can become, what I think we will ultimately become. His Time Enough For Love is a blueprint for an advanced society in many ways. He foreshadowed that in Stranger. His books were ultimately about relationships, so were Isaac’s, in slightly different ways, but what Isaac foresaw as the future of this galaxy is, I think, what will ultimately come to pass. We will populate it, the way we have the earth, hopefully with a little more elan and a lot less bloodshed, but we will spread our wings and fly into the future. Ultimately I don’t think we’ll have a choice but to reach for the stars. Even with all that, I think my favorite book of Robert’s is the Moon is a Harsh Mistress, I cry at the ending of that one every time. Isaac’s books don’t bring me to tears, well, there IS one, but we’ll leave that for another time, his are always about hope. And we humans need hope to live, to live comfortably. The alternative is fear and we don’t do well in that state, none of us do. I’m reading in our past now about how the Christian religion developed, well one of the things I’m reading is about that, and that too came about because of the intense need we humans have for hope in our lives.

Okay, so I’ve wandered a bit, I do that. But it should be okay with you, or you wouldn’t be here, if you are here at all, and that isn’t the point of this either. Who needs or wants to find this will. That part doesn’t concern me, I have another agenda here in talking to anyone who drops by this way. Which one day, two years maybe, I’ll talk about. Until then, though, I want to come back to time. Carl made physics understandable in a way no other had for me, not a math major here, that isn’t an accident either, had I been meant to be I would be, but where I was born and schooled, precluded that, and since there are no such things as coincidence, I believe the reason was that I needed to develop other skills, other interests, and so I have. Carl referenced a book by Stephen Hawking, A Brief Moment in Time, an incredible book, an incredible man. Stephen took me deeper into physics than Carl but did so in a way that made perfect sense to me. I actually “got” it. He explained Einstein’s theory of time, which I am not going to do here, giggle, and you are welcome. Then, I came to Conversations With God, book 2. God has a theory of time too, not surprisingly, and it too made perfect sense to me. This is what I am going to talk about here tonight.

First though, from book 1, if you’ve done your reading, giggle, and even if you haven’t, God explains that reincarnation is a “given”. No soul is EVER forced to do such a thing, descend from where we come from, to the relative universe, but that those who choose to, have every opportunity to be it all, poet, pauper, pirate and king. It is as He calls it a grand collaboration. And it makes perfect sense. One can’t help but wonder, given an infinite number of souls, and a finite, perhaps, universe, even with time as a relative construction, how it could be possible that all could have every opportunity to experience all that life has to offer. Even here on this one small planet, with 6 billion people, it is possible to have 6 billion separate and unique experiences each of which we call a life time. Now multiply that over the course of recorded history and you quickly see that one world isn’t quite enough for everyone to have every chance to do everything. And we have only had 6 billion of us here for a relatively short period, so just where have the rest of His children been and what have they been doing? Well, to really get that, you need to accept that this is not the only populated planet in the universe. I don’t really have a problem with that. With the nearest star being 4.2 light years away, that would be 5.8 trillion miles away. And it isn’t habitable. Those sorts of distances, makes the likelihood of watching their tv stations just a bit on the high side. So, point being, there are a LOT of places in the universe, that we, God’s children, could be having experiences similar to what we are having here on earth. Plenty of room in which to play every sort of game in other words. But still how does that fit into time.

God explains in book 2, beginning on page 28, “…”Time is not a continuum. It is an element of relativity that exists vertically, not horizontally. Don’t think of it as a “left to right” thing – a so-called time line that runs from birth to death for each individual, and FROM some finite point TO some finite point for the universe. “Time” is an up and down thing! Think of it as a spindle, representing the Eternal Moment of Now. Now picture leafs of paper on the spindle, on atop the other. These are the elements of time. Each element separate and distinct, yet each existing simultaneously with the other. All of the paper on the spindle at once! As much as there will ever be – as much as there ever was… There is only One Moment – THIS moment – the Eternal Moment of Now. It is RIGHT now that everything is happening – and I am glorified. There is no waiting for the glory of God. I made it this way because I JUST COULDN’T WAIT! I was so HAPPY to Be Who I Am that I just couldn’t wait to make that manifest in My reality. So BOOM, here it is – right here, right now – ALL OF IT! There is no Beginning to this, and there is no End. It – the All of Everything – just IS. WITHIN THE ISNESS is where your experience – and your greatest secret – lies. You can move within the Isness to any “time” or “place” you choose.

And that is the source of our freedom, the source of our ability to have it all, see it all, be it all and do it all. Each of us with the same opportunity to experience every sort of life we wish as we experience here in relativity that which we cannot experience at home, being less than we really are. Home is the place where love is all there is. Again, someone will ask, why would anyone leave such a place for this? And the answer to that question remains the same. If all you know is perfect love, how do you know that you know that? Until and unless you experience something which is not that. Which is why we come here at all. To experience that which we are not in order to love even more that which we really are. Having this experience, these experiences, and the memory of them, makes home even sweeter than it was before we left. We are in a way playing a game here, a game of discovery, a game that teaches us who we are by allowing us to experience who we are not. And that it all happens at once, on that spindle, makes perfect, logical sense to me. Besides, my creator and I share a foible, giggle, I can’t wait either. Never could. Boom, all at once, has always been my preference too, then spend an eternity exploring the all at my leisure. Which, I guess, is what I am doing here tonight, in this place, on this planet and in this lifetime. It is my first and last trip in this way. Yes, that is odd sounding, I know, given what I’ve just said, but it is true too. And I said that earlier as well, no soul is ever forced to do anything against its will. I am sure, there are those, who have yet to take this escalator down into the relative universe, who know of what this is, what it can be, only from what we who have, tell them when we return home. Interesting to think about, huh? It took me some time to really feel the truth of this spindle idea though I KNEW it the moment I first read it. And it fits like a glove to Einstein’s theory of relativity and Stephen Hawkings explanation of time in A Brief Moment. Ahh. I love it when a plan comes together, giggle. There’s a lot more to say about this and say it I will as I come back to book 2, I intend to spend most of my time, to begin with book 1, because it lays the foundation for book 2 so perfectly, indeed for life itself, that it bears focusing on first. So this will be my last foray into book 2 for a bit, but I did promise a bit of titillation for you here at the end, didn’t I?  I had forgotten this part completely about book 2 and I as I skimmed through it again and found this, I remembered the section.  My first reading of it was that it was out of place, sort of, but then I thought, what part of life here could be out of place for God?  I had been sort of locked into the time theory and the plan God lays out at the end of the book for a way to build this earth into a real civilization that I forgot the part in the middle where he talks about the law of attraction, giggle.  And a good “law” it is.  It is one of those things that draw us to one another, and a part of the life experience that is as wonderful, glorious, really as any other, more so in some ways as it re-connects us to each other in a union of souls that is perfectly wonderful for souls here to remember our union.

It really begins on page 82 of book 2, with Neale’s assertion that: “There are those who say that the only legitimate purpose of human sexuality is procreation.” To which God, replies, “Rubbish.” Now you are just going to have to go get book 2 and read this yourself, giggle, but I warn you the first time I read this section which goes on through the end of page 86, I was on a public bus, and I managed to get just a little, umm, flushed, as I read it. Neale describes it on the top of page 87 as, “That is the most beautiful description of human sexuality I have ever heard.” I agree with him. God knew what he was doing when he came up with this whole idea of sexuality, let me tell, and He knows how to explain what it is at its utter best. Beautiful, compelling, heart wrenching, and HOT. He tells the story of Tom and Mary and how they become Tomary in the flesh. That flesh does not have to be of opposite genders, this is not about that, this is about how we humans find each other, are attracted to each other, and what we in our very best moments can do with that. Some of you will have experienced this already. I hope you have an infinite number of additional experiences as rich and rewarding. Some of you will have not, it is my fondest wish that you do, and that you too, have an infinite number of experiences as rich and rewarding. This IS what physical, emotional and spiritual connection in the flesh means. IS, at its best. Might it always be so for you. much love, :^) gene