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by Thaddeus Golas, 1972
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CHAPTER SEVENTime And VibrationsWe can vary our experience of time by
changing our vibrations, just as we alter our perception of the rest of the
physical universe. Our concepts, feelings, and limited relations have
beginnings and endings in time, but we do not. On the space level, when we
are completely expanded, the time is always now. When you look at a lake, there is no water in your mind. Put another
way, the awareness of a hard object has no hardness in it. The awareness of
confusion is not confused. The awareness of insanity is not insane. The
awareness of the passage of time takes no time, there is no time in it. We "measure" time by the compulsive repetition of
interactions on the mass level. And the more expanded our consciousness, the
less compulsion we are involved in. Our subjective awareness of time is often
at variance with the clock. Many of us by now are familiar with distortions of time when high on
marijuana, and of course the stronger psychedelics go to greater extremes.
How does this happen? A brief guess at the sources of the time experience is
highly worth while, because it suggests how practical it is to look to your
own vibration level before reacting to what you think is an external reality. Think of perception as a kind of radar: your wave goes out and
bounces back from an object. Needless to say, the facts are more complex than
this illustration, but it's close enough to serve. Let's say someone is shaking a table and a cup is starting to slide
off. If your perceptual vibrations are very slow, your waves will give you
one message about where the cup is when it starts falling, another flash when
it is halfway to the floor, and another when it hits. But if you are
vibrating quickly, you will get many messages as the cup starts to fall,
telling you the direction it is going, and you will feel as though you have
plenty of time to reach over and catch it if you want to. Note carefully that when your vibrations are slow, events seem to
happen fast, and you will feel that events are happening too fast for you to
control them. And you may therefore feel impelled to try that much harder to
exercise control. You may try to establish habits of orderly behavior, and
you may resent disorderly people. This is one origin of the power trip. You
may try to get away from disturbing events by moving to the country, or turn
off your consciousness with hard drugs or liquor. But the faster you are vibrating and the more messages you get back
from your environment, the slower events will appear to be happening, and the
more you will feel you are in control. The more you love, the faster you
vibrate, then the less need you feel to control anything, and you are not
fearful of change and variety. You experience everything deeper and slower
and more lovingly. The higher the ratio of expansion to contraction in yourself, the
more expanded and loving you are, the faster you vibrate. The secondary reality is useful in the sense that it will always give
you a clear picture of your vibration level. If the world looks beautiful and
safe, you are vibrating fast; if it looks gloomy, dull, or frightening, then
you are vibrating slow, and you need to love yourself for vibrating too slow. Inside yourself or outside, you never have to change what you see,
only the way you see it. It is useless to try to escape any difficulty by
contracting your consciousness. You will have to climb back up any hill you
roll down, you will have to do it sooner or later, in this lifetime or
another, because our true nature is beyond time. Never pull your attention away from a scene impulsively because it
looks ugly, unpleasant, or painful. Make a conscious decision, the words are enough, to love yourself for
seeing it as revolting. If possible, keep your attention on it until it turns
beautiful, or at least until you are indifferent to it. You don't have to go looking for bad scenes to test yourself, or
remind yourself of all that is wrong in the world, but once a scene manifests
itself in your presence, become as fully aware of it as you can. Staying with it is important. You may hide in your room or leave the
city, but you as an entity will still be stuck on a low vibration
level of denial if you pull away suddenly. It will seem like the strangest of
coincidences when, having withdrawn your attention sharply from one
unpleasant scene, you keep running into others like it. That will baffle you,
and keep happening until you come to an unpleasantness you can tolerate or
love, and your vibrations go up. Look at it, love it, and then get away! It's all right to
channel your attention to what is pleasant for you. What else is freedom for?
And as long as there is free will, there are always going to be some beings
creating vibrations you do not like, no matter what level you are on. The
point is to take your leave in a way that doesn't hang you up. After a few experiences with loving weird events, you will be tuned
in enough to get early warning when someone is likely to rip you off or
otherwise stir up bad vibrations, (when the cup is starting to fall, so to
speak,) and you will be able to make the right moves before it gets too
involved. Don't feel that it is "unspiritual" to perceive unwholesome
possibilities in other people: it isn't paranoia if the object of your fear
is real. It's just carelessness karma if you ignore early warnings. Keep your
mind open and unresisting to any possibility: that's what gives you the
information to keep evil from manifesting in your life. Pay attention, here and
now. It's all right to say No. No matter what others are doing, you are the only one who is
responsible for what happens to you. There is nothing in the external event
that in the least way determines your feelings and experiences: your life is
entirely governed by your vibrations, what they tell you and how you respond. The slower your vibrations, the more unpleasant your life: you will
contend with more conflict, mass, and pain. Events will happen too fast for
control, yet time will seem interminable because you can see no way out. But when you raise your vibration level, you can neatly sidestep
collisions, both psychic and physical, and quite literally change the world
for the better. Love is the strongest magic of all. When you learn to love
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