The Free Radical

I had barely stepped out of the truck when I heard “Please leave the heavy philosophy at the truck.” Who said that? It was difficult to identify the voice, though it was strong and clear. I looked around… to no avail… just me and the trees.

On the short drive to where my walk always begins I had indeed been pondering a bit of a philosophical conundrum. It was just something I’d heard recently in a video talk given by some Pleiadian dude. He’d said many fascinating things, but the one which really stuck in my head– mostly because I didn’t get it– was “Things indeed move… just not in time.”

I’ve always known that time isn’t what we typically think it is… or perhaps that it is exactly what we think it is. Here, the Forest jumped in to aid my musings.

“Thinking, of a linear type, is always time bound. Awareness, however, is not.”

“Isn’t awareness just another kind of thinking?” I asked, not really sure whether I believed that or not.

“Perhaps it can be viewed as such, but awareness is not linear; it is… geometric.”

“Okay…” I replied with some reluctance. “Can you elaborate on that? Maybe offer an example?”

“Let us consider the phenomenon of aging. Biological aging is intimately tied to linear thought. You have experienced many unpleasant things during your lifetime. You have also had the experience of regarding these unpleasant episodes as necessary to a larger purpose– your growth. Is it not so?”

“Yes,” I answered, not really understanding yet where this was going. “It seems that every time I go through something difficult, it later reveals itself to have been necessary and ultimately positive because of the eventual result… as you said, growth.”

“Yes, it has happened that way so many times that you expect it to be so.” I nodded. “Your awareness encompasses a whole segment of time which includes both the difficulty and its resolution. You don’t know specifically how the difficulty will be resolved, but you are certain that it will be resolved– favourably. This awareness lifts your thinking out of time.

“Someone’s thinking, who is more time bound, will get locked into the difficult part. They are convinced that it is their thinking which will resolve the difficulty; they need to figure out the “how” of it. They will obsess on the problem, locking themselves into the linear experience… wondering/worrying whether the problem can even be solved at all. Thinking cannot arrive at the solution, but awareness already knows that the solution exists and trusts that it will reveal itself… all in good time.

“As you remain in awareness– the big picture– your “problems” will not age you. On the contrary, they will spur you to new growth.”

Whoa! This was some heavy philosophy indeed. For now I was happy to “leave it at the truck” and get on my way. But the Forest had one more thing to say:

“These forest messages cannot penetrate your thinking… but they flow unimpeded into your awareness…”

And with that, I was off…