Chronos Incarcerous - (Imprisoned by Time)
There’s a certain magic to the time that you live in. It defines your thoughts, your ideals, your principles and your relationships.
Have you ever wondered who you would be if you were born 100 years ago, without the access and understanding that we have today? What about if you were born 100 years from now, with the increased knowledge and abilities that we will have by then?
When you start to understand time, you really start to understand that we are its prisoner, as well as it’s beneficiary.
And sometimes you’ll find people who are stuck at a certain moment in time, somewhere deep in their past. Usually because of a tragic or highly emotional event that they have been unable to exist beyond, they seem to circle over and over, never coming into the time that is their own, until someone finds a way to set them free, so that they can join ‘now’ again.
Do you know anyone like that – maybe very personally?
I’ll share with you that there’s a part of me still imprisoned in the past. How do I know this… because in the quiet moments of my day, when my awareness wanders, I find myself having conversations in my head with a person with whom I will never be at peace.
Instead of being able to focus forwards, I am dragged back into the past, over and over, trying to explain reasons to someone who will never understand why I did what I did.
Thankfully, over time, those ‘imagined conversations’ are become fewer, but they still happen.
Yet in examining that person, I realize that they too are a prisoner of their time. Had they been born later, or even now, I think they would have turned out quite differently, given access to a kinder understanding, to a more compassionate world.
They are as much a prisoner of their time, as I am of mine.
So I try to see that person as just their consciousness, not their expression of that consciousness in a temporal frame. It’s hard to do, but sometimes I manage it, and it brings peace to my heart.
Because all of us are shaped by the events, attitudes and experiences that have accompanied our mortal journey.
The time we are in is as much a place as our location, with its own hills and valleys, it’s own ocean and mountains. When you start to see time in all its dimensionality, and you see how it affects people, you begin to understand that who they are is a complex equation of ‘when’ they are, as much as what has happened to them and the choices they have made.
And are still making, and yet will make.
So today, I invite you to see the people around you not just for who they are, but when they are, and try to see the goodness and divinity of the timeless consciousness that is trapped in time, along with you.
Because when you can see beyond now, the future and the past, you arrive at a timeless forever, seeing everyone, including yourself, for who you really are.
And then you will know wonder.
— Dr. Alan Barnes
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