Time
Some would hold that the universe, the supra-universe, or the
set of all possible universes, produced all possible combinations
of rules and constants, and only those which produced life and
human consciousness survived. A kind of super-evolution --
evolution of possible universes. I don"t completely deny that. It
is called the theory of Multiple Parallel Universes, and you
know what? In fact, I also buy that, as a subset of the daily
operation of our real universe in time.
That is, strange as it may seem, where no human perception,
observation, or consciousness comes into play, there is (is
under-scored) in fact no one absolute state of the real world, but
a fog of various possibilities. Such as, if you look back at the
Devonian swamp, can you say this tree fell here, or over there,
or did it fall at that moment, or a few years earlier or later? You
simply can"t say, and you can never know, and in fact there is
no definite reality or real state of affairs. All possible scenes
were coexisting. It doesn"t matter. You can paint the picture
how you like. However, if you were to go and look at it,
suddenly one reality or real state of affairs would crystallize,
and all the other options would simply vanish, and had never
existed. That seems a weird nature of reality, but unfortunately
it is the true reality, as has been confirmed more and more in
experiments with fundamental particles. It is a fundamental
principle of quantum mechanics. But, even though it seems
strange for Newtonian physics, in fact, it corresponds quite
nicely with our experiential reality, our existential reality.
Namely, you don"t know what is exactly going on in the next
room, or what you were doing at 2:37 pm on this same day one
year ago. Of course, you could get a photo, or you might have
kept a detailed diary, but, already, that is focusing your energy
on the event, which fixates it. What"s more, as you and I know,
how do you find out what is going on in a woman"s mind? (I
refer to women in their sense as superior beings, not in a male
chauvinist sense) If you ask her, she will answer you in a
mysterious, coy, or ambiguous way.
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What shall we say?
I"ll clarify my theory on time. First simply, then in more detail.
The point is, how God operates the universe, or works in the
universe. Remember God always has the purpose to make the
universe a liveable place for humankind, so that God can dwell
with man, and at the same time man can grow to perfection by
fulfilling his portion of responsibility.
See how, in the Principle, the explanation on 7Time* and the
7Three Stages of Growth* is intimately connected with 7Human
Responsibility*.
We might think of the world in three dimensions. That is
reasonable; it corresponds to the visual world. Where are the
7past* and the 7future*? You could even say they don"t exist;
they are a myth or an imagination or a memory. We live in the
present. What we call the past and the future are actually our
hopes and our memories, but not something tangible which we
can visit. So much for a 3-dimensional universe. This concept
doesn"t really make us happy.
The 4-dimensional, Newtonian, mechanistic, materialistic
universe also makes sense. You know there is space and time.
All things, events, and phenomena are within space and time.
Causality is also within space and time. This is the prevailing
view of scientists for the last 300 years or more.
Again, my own revelation has certainly called for a new view of
the dimensionality of the universe right from the beginning. I
was told right up front that the universe consists of at least 9 or
10 dimensions.
So, where are space and time? Can we freely travel back and
forth? No. There are progressive limitations. Forwards along
the direction of motion is simple, just make effort and keep
going. Lateral motion, still within the horizontal plane, you just
turn one way or the other. Then vertical motion is already
problematic -- you have to make effort through the gravitational
gradient. But motion through time is even more difficult. We
can"t change the direction of our travel through time. We can"t
freely visit the past and future with our physical bodies. We are
locked in, as it seems.
But, as we say, our spirit is free to travel. We can go back to the
past or forward to the future in our mind. So we have to look
more closely what is the structure of the dimensions of time and
space in which we live.
There are two worlds or realms: the physical world, and the
spiritual world. The physical world has 4 dimensions, plus the
sung-sang dimension, which is associated with the physical
world, but out of its plane, or vertical to it. Same with the
spiritual world -- there is also time and space in the spiritual
world (though they are more flexible), and likewise a sung-sang
dimension in the spiritual world.
Then can we freely travel back (with our spirits) to visit the
past, and check out what we were doing, or what somebody
was doing on a certain day, or further back, to get a 7photo
snapshot* of that Devonian swamp, or even the moment after
the Big Bang?
The answer to that is a definitive no. For several reasons: (1) It
is a misconception about the dimension of time that you just go
back to some point on a time line and there is a whole world
with all the events and people still going on there. What do we
have of that? Rather, just a memory, or a record, or a
reconstructed picture, or an imagination, or a dramatized
version, of that event. (2) What is recorded in spirit world?
Actually, not so much all the little motions of all the leaves on
the trees and all the people walking on the street, but, rather the
important things -- central events, providential or crucial events
or deeds are really recorded and focussed upon. Things that
affect or relate to a person"s spiritual or heartistic state, things
that change history, great heartistic victories, or miserable
disappointments that bring regret and sorrow to God and man.
(3) What is recorded in spirit world? Not so much the physical
motions or locations, but rather the heartistic and spiritual
aspects. So, if you want to travel back to meet someone, you
meet their spirit, and you encounter the things of the spirit. You
may ask their testimony, or their reflection, but their heartistic
quality is immediately obvious. (4) The fourth reason is that
there is a fog of uncertainty. In other words, you don"t really
know what happened, because those things and those people
and places, in the physical sense, simply are no more.
So, time is somewhat of a constructed dimension. We have
different scales. Our mind operates on a type of short-term
memory, in which you still hear the words or still see the scene
reverberating or flashing before your eyes, but only for a couple
seconds. Then there is actual memory, of things you saw and
did, and that only lasts a lifetime. Then there is 7living memory*
-- someone you can meet was there. That is fading fast, as there
are now no more survivors of the Civil War period, for
example. Then there are accounts, like historical records,
documents, letters. Those are of different qualities: videos, tape
recordings, photos, writings, Bible books, clay tablets, folk
tales or legends, and they deteriorate in different ways. You see
the importance of recording, and also the element of centrality --
you wouldn"t record everything, but selectively what is
interesting and important. Then there are records like artifacts,
tree rings, footprints, bones, fossils, meteorites, etc., from
which you can reconstruct what must have been. That is still
very good, because it is direct physical evidence -- that rock
7was there*. Finally, there is inference or induction. You can
figure out by analogy or induction what must have been, for
example, reasoning back to the Flood or the Big Bang. It is
rather conjectural, but, as principles and evidence is unearthed,
you can increase the accuracy of this type of knowledge.
The bottom line is: you can"t go back there, and you cannot be
absolutely sure what was there, and if you go into spiritual
world, you will realize that those physical details aren"t that
important, but more the heart is what remains eternally. So we
have to in a sense accept this reality of time, and try our best to
live a valuable life, and keep good records for the sake of
posterity.
What about the future? The same principle holds -- the
uncertainty principle. You can determine with great
determination for the sake of some future event. That
determination becomes the subjective reality. In this sense,
Father, who is the subject of the universe and the subject of
history, is the one who is making the future. He is also giving
meaning to the past. It is this determination, in line with God"s
Will and Heart, which is subjective.
But, basically, we can"t know accurately what will be, and there
is an increasing fog the further forward you try to go or predict.
There are several points or principles in regard to this
uncertainty of time, both backwards and forwards: (1) Waves
or cycles. Some waves or cycles are extremely regular. You can
predict astronomical events like eclipses many thousands of
years in both directions. Sunspots are in 11-year cycles.
Weather can be predicted in yearly cycles, but you never know
if it will rain on a certain day. You can predict that a few days in
advance, but even then with some uncertainty. (2) The cycles
and waves have modalities. They go up and down or round and
round, so you won"t know exactly where they will be, even
though you know the wavelength or period of the cycle
approximately.
So, you see, we are getting close to the Heisenberg uncertainty
principle, on a large scale of daily reality. It is based on
wavelengths and probability.
Our daily reality, our experiential or existential reality, is quite
like that. Quantum mechanics seems strange to Newtonian
physicists, but not to housewives. We all know about, and live
in, such a world. You don"t know exactly what was, and what
will be, or what is going on over there. You can go there, or
you can focus a telecope on it, but then you are excluding your
other possibilities, and also you are even risking interfering
with the situation. Have you ever watched someone out the
window, and then they turned around because they felt
someone watching them?
Now, how does God operate or influence things in this world?
(1) Based on providential centrality of purpose. If something is
not important, He doesn"t interfere. (2) In negotiation with
Satan or the ownership of certain domains, God also has to pay
indemnity to make certain moves. So, the importance of
indemnity conditions by providential central people. (3)
According to strength of will, faith, love. Then the very atoms
themselves are coaxed to move in a certain way, and of course
spiritual world also perks up. (4) By computer. God uses a
rule-of-thumb method, because, even for Him, it is not certain
how the particles will move, but He can basically or generally
predict, with some accuracy. (5) Particles and atoms, like
people, have their own free will, or 5 percent portion of
freedom. Otherwise they follow strict principles, but in that
margin of uncertainty, God or anyone in the spiritual ownership
position can move them. (6) Reverse information from central
events. In other words, a big event sends back particles or
waves in time from the future to the present, as warnings or
indicators of something coming. Spiritually sensitive people can
pick up on these. (7) The reverse nature of determination
according to God"s Providence. Namely, the future ideal in
God"s mind is determining the present course of events in order
to bring about that desired end goal. (8) Multiple parallel
universes. This is the one. God"s computer is good, but cannot
completely predict, because of free will of particles and beings.
But, based on certain central events, God can use the universe
itself as His computer, let it run, see the outcome, and work
back to the desired conditions. This works based on the
principle of Multiple Parallel Universes. It means that not only
one reality but many potential versions of reality are unfolding,
on various scales or wavelengths, simultaneously, with no clear
certainty about which one is the actual reality. That is, until
human consciousness, perception, and observation intervene.
That instantaneously freezes one option, and the others
immediately cancel out. So God also uses this, when there is
uncertainty or flexibility, and allows all the outcomes to play
out, and only the Principle or desired outcome will be favored
by God. The other ones are nullified, and that reality becomes
the real one. Multiple Parallel Universes is indeed happening,
especially on a subatomic scale, but it is not quite as significant
or major as it might at first appear to be. Basically, it means,
you don"t know for sure what is happening, nor what will
happen, but God can work in that area.
Mike, that is my basic theory of time, certainly not all of it, nor
very well explained, but I wanted to get this off to you in
answer to your question.
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