There’s Something Strange About Time

There’s Something Strange About Time

Time – seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries. Time seems fairly simple to us humans. It moves in a forward manner, one tick of the clock at a time. It keeps going in that manner throughout all of eternity. Right? Well I’m not so sure about that. There is something strange about time. I don’t think anyone has really figured it out yet. There is more to this tick-tock character than we are able to perceive.

Einstein Sez

According to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, time actually slows down or speeds up depending on how fast something is moving. Nothing can move faster than the speed of light. Space and time are interconnected. By extension of this theory, a second of time is not always a second. It can be faster or it can be slower. In his writings, Einstein stated “People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion”.

Your Brain Is A Fickle Thing

Your brain, the so-called paragon of logical thinking, is as fickle as the latest trends in fashion. At one time or another, probably everyone has experienced the variability of time perception. Using a purely “Mr. Spock” type of logic, all humans should experience one minute of time the same way each and every time. It should never change. It does change however.

When you are engaged in something that you hate doing, time slows down to a crawl. Every five minutes you look at your watch and think “Is this thing broken or what”? Your brain’s perception of how time moves is causing these minutes to seem like hours. Conversely, when you are engaged in something that you enjoy doing, time moves by like a thoroughbred coming down the home stretch in the Kentucky Derby. Hours then seem like minutes. Logically, the minutes for each activity consist of the same sixty seconds. Your brain’s perception however senses time differently in each situation.

So what does this mean? It means that whatever your “now” is, whatever your “present” is, becomes all that is. The past exists only as stored memory in your brain. It is not a place in the time-space continuum that you can go to. The future is only a universe of multiple possibilities based on your actions as a result of your stored memories and your present thoughts, words, actions, feelings and beliefs.

Time Is Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock……….Not

In his famous book, The Unreality of Time, early twentieth century Cambridge philosopher, J.M. McTaggert proposed that time was unreal because our descriptions of time are either contradictory, circular or insufficient.

In current times, in his book The Order of Time, theoretical physicist Carlo Ravelli has stated that time is merely an illusion. He contends that Isaac Newton’s image of a universal ticking clock is invalid due to humankind’s inability to perceive all the microscopic details of the physical world.

Abhijit Naskar, author of Love, God and Neurons, puts forth the following about time – “Time is basically an illusion created by the mind to aid in our sense of temporal presence in the vast ocean of space. Without the neurons to create a virtual perception of the past and the future based on all of our experiences, there is no existence of the past and the future. All there is , is the present”.

So Two Muons Are Sitting At A Bar

Pursuant to the study of cosmic-ray phenomena, scientists have discovered elementary particles called muons. Muons, produced as a result of cosmic-ray showers, disintegrate spontaneously. The muon’s average existence lasts for approximately two microseconds. That is equivalent to two millionths of a second. At that point, its existence is over.

In the vast eternal scheme of things, you and I are muons, but with an eternal spirit in the image of the Most High. A human’s existence on planet earth is but a few microseconds when looked at in the context of infinite eternity. Your life, my life, all lives flash by and are then gone. Pooof. Yet we blindly putter around at this and that for most of it. We make the choice of our use of time. Then we have to live with our choice.

The book of Matthew states that wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to death. The way of life is experienced by the few who enter via the strait gate and the narrow way. Every day is a new lifetime. A precious gift to express the Most High. Treat each day as such. You will experience fulfillment that you never dreamed was possible.

So two muons are sitting at a bar nursing their mugs of craft beer and nibbling on sourdough pretzels. One says to the other, “You know, we really should get going. We got a lotta stuff to do”. The other muon says, Chill bro’, we got plenty of time”. He looks at his watch then continues, “We still got a full millionth of a second before we disintegrate”. Then turning to the bartender, says, “Another round over here Joe”.

Ultimate Day Trading

In the world of creating monetary profits from trading, there has evolved the practice of day trading. This involves the buying and selling of stocks, commodities and currencies in a very short time period. It is the opposite of the buy and hold approach. Usually the buy and sell takes place the same day. Sometimes it is all consummated within an hour’s time. The goal of the day trader is to make a multitude of trades and make a small profit on each one.

The word ultimate is defined as “the best achievable of its kind”. Forget about stocks, commodities and currencies. In order to hit the true jackpot in life you must engage in “ultimate day trading”. Ultimate day trading involves taking that twenty-fours hours of life placed into your trading account each day and investing it with the utmost wisdom.

You are here in this physical world to be a physical expression of Divine Mind. You were instilled with free will to choose. This free will explains the vast multitude of “traders” who crash and burn. Have you loved? Productively used your intelligence? Expressed truth? Abundance? Power? Compassion? Peace? Imagination? Joy? All of which are derivatives from love. Or have you chosen errors of belief resulting in the expression of qualities of a dark nature? Both are there for the taking. The choice is always yours. The results of your choices are always yours. How you spend your time brings about the circumstances that you experience in this lifetime.

Time Was Created To Measure Your Life

When you step on a scale, you measure your body weight. When you use a ruler, you measure the length of something. Time measures the fruitfulness of your lifetime. Every hour of time measures your thoughts, words, actions, feelings, beliefs. Time gives you a reference point. If everything on this plane of existence happened all at once, your brain could not handle it.

The bottom line is this: what the fuck do you really want to manifest in your life?! Whatever it is, stop procrastinating and wasting your time on stuff that does not do anything to make it happen. The construct of time is without a doubt the most precious commodity you will ever have. Spend it with wisdom. Use it in faith. Understand this – the very substance of your existence depends on it.

Believe. Receive.

Want Something?……….Go Take A Bath

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You want to improve your reality. I want to improve my reality. All God’s children want to improve their reality. One course of action on your part that can add power to any manifesting technique or techniques is for you to take a daily bath…..a gratitude bath that is. Start with your body, gratitude for everything that is working right with it. Then move to everything else, anything else, your shelter, means of transportation, food, water, electric power, your toothbrush, whatever. Spend a good ten minutes a day bathing yourself in gratitude. It raises your energy vibration which in turn raises your personal power to manifest. Plus, it feels good.

You may say “yeah, yeah, yeah, I’ve heard that bs before. Count your blessings and all that crap.” Well, if you work past an initial negative response on your part, you will discover, to your delight, that an earnest feeling of thankfulness for whatever it is that you do have, will yield you concrete benefit, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Gratitude will, in turn, attract something else for you to be grateful for and so on. Think of it as a sort of nuclear chain reaction.

You may ask about those that are suffering, in pain, infirm, homeless, grieving, etc. How can you be thankful when bad things happen? That is a very valid point. You would have to have a divine perspective to know precise reasons why the world has so much negative stuff going on and why the innocent suffer. I hate suffering anywhere. Nevertheless, the power of gratitude is a universal law. It is immutable and eternal whether we subscibe to it or not.

Regarding gratitude from those that have suffered misfortune, two things come to mind…..Helen Keller and Sachsenhausen. Helen Keller, one of the most amazing human beings of the twentieth century, at the age of nineteen months became blind, deaf and without the ability to speak as a result of illness. Can’t see…Can’t hear…Can’t talk. You are only a kid. Not a good combination. Without going into the full life story of Helen Keller, she became known worldwide as an author, lecturer (yes, she taught herself to speak) and advocate for the blind and downtrodden. Helen Keller herself once gave the following statement, ” I thank God for my handicaps, for through them I found my true self, my life’s work and my God”.

The second thing that comes to mind is an anecdote related by a Holocaust survivor of the dreaded Sachsenhausen nazi concentration camp. An inmate was observed praying. Another inmate asked him afterward as to what he was praying about. The first inmate said he was giving thanks to God. Dumbfounded, the second inmate exclaimed what the hell could he possibly be thanking God for in this “God-forsaken hellhole.” The first inmate calmly explained that he was thanking God that he did not become like his tormentors.

What did he mean? Even though Jews were being starved, brutalized and murdered at the hands of the Germans, the nazi thugs had not taken away his inner self. He found thankfulness in knowing that he still retained his humanity inside and was in fact, the one who was truly free while his deparaved captors were the ones actually enslaved in darkness. Even in such horrific circumstances, he found gratitude that the brutal surroundings did not succeed in taking away who he was inside as a human being.

Go take a bath.

What is The Manifest Cookbook?

How to Receive

What You Really Want in Your Life

Instead of the Stuff

You Have Been Getting

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What is The Manifest Cookbook all about?

More importantly, how can it be of any benefit to you?

To cut right to the chase, this blog is meant to help you “cook up” your own reality — whatever it might be that you want your life to be.

Question: How do I intend to help you create a life reality that you actually enjoy living?

Answer: By giving you practical “recipes” (techniques of manifesting) that you can use in order to create whatever reality you want. It may sound like fantasy but I can assure you 100 per cent from personal experience, as well as the experience of countless others, that it is not fantasy. It is stone cold real.

The Purpose Of This Blog

What is the purpose of this blog? In other words, what’s my angle here? Upon reflection of the years of my life, I feel that I could have accomplished more than I did. Thus, in the short time that I have left here, it is my hope that the information imparted in this blog will help to make someone’s life better.

If you personally doubt that your thoughts, your words, your purposeful activities, your feelings, your beliefs affect your reality, then this blog will be of no benefit to you. Fear and doubt are poisons. They will sadly have you spinning your wheels every time.

This blog is in existence so that you can be informed of things that you can actually do…..on your own…..to make your life what you want it to be. You may have heard about the concept of manifesting your reality and thought to yourself, “Yeah that’s all well and fine but what can I actually do, that I am able to do, to make it happen in my life?” That is where The Manifest Cookbook comes in.

A Cookbook For Success

A cookbook is a collection of methods of making a food creation. Take the example of creating (manifesting) a great cake on your own. Now imagine if a chef told you to go mix some eggs and sugar and flour and spices and butter and baking powder and flavorings in a container. Then this same chef told you to put it in an oven, turn the oven on and you will have a cake. Pretty ridiculous right?! Obviously, unless you have a practical recipe, the cake would not turn out the way you want it. You need to know which ingredients to use, how much of each ingredient to use, how to mix the ingredients, what type of container to put the ingredients in before putting them in the oven, what temperature to set the oven for and how long to bake the ingredients at that temperature. You need to know more than the fact that you can do it. It is necessary to know specifically what you are to do, that you are able to do, in order to make the cake successfully. That is where the recipe shows you the way.

The basis of this blog – The Manifest Cookbook – is to provide you with practical recipes (techniques) to assist you in creating whatever reality you want for your life. You really do have that power but it is totally up to you to use it.