The British have always understood that time is a man-made
concept. We are reminded of this twice every year when
Daylight Saving Time results in the clocks being changed in
the UK to gain or lose an hour.
This idea was first proposed by Benjamin Franklin in 1784,
but the British adopted the practice in 1916. It was
appropriate for the British to do this because the
Greenwich Meridian, which marks the starting point of every
time zone in the world, is in England.
How does this changing of the clocks benefit the people in
the UK? Good question. For the first week after the
changes people feel like they have jet lag, and they miss
appointments and flights. Then everything settles down for
six months, after which the same thing happens again. When
you live in the UK, it is quite spooky to wake up on the
day after the clocks have changed, and everything
electronic - the TV, car radio, the VCR, reflects a time
that differs exactly one hour from the time on a wrist
watch that needs to be set manually - as if some techno
geek ghost wandered around during the night and fiddled
with all the electronic stuff to get it all sorted before
we wake up.
This British mastery of time dates much further back than
1916.
During the seventeenth century a British bishop concluded
that the world was created on 22nd October 4000 BC, at six
in the evening.
However, Dr John Lightfoot of Cambridge University
disagreed and calculated in 1644 that God created the earth
on Sunday 23 October 4004 BC at midnight in the Garden of
Eden (this was 9am London time, before daylight Savings
Time was introduced). The implication is that time already
existed more than 6 000 years ago, even before the earth
was created. Then when was time created?
Of course this date of 23 October 4004 BC was calculated on
the Julian calendar which made the year too short, and by
1752 the calendar was 11 days out. The British solution
was to adopt the Gregorian calendar. As a result 2
September 1752 was followed by the next day, dated 14
September 1752, and the problem was solved with typical
British efficiency - a rarity nowadays.
To continue this mastery of time, British Telecom has
already announced that time travel will be invented from
2051 onwards. How do they know this? I have no idea.
Watch this timeframe . . .
We have always manipulated time to suit us, without even
being aware of it. Albert Einstein made us aware of this
when he gave his famous explanation of the theory of
relativity. When you sit on a hot stove, two seconds can
feel like to minutes. However, when you are in the company
of your loved one, two minutes can feel like two seconds.
Do we create time?
It is quite amusing to see people on a commuter train that
is delayed on the way to work. Most people take it in
their stride, but there are the workaholics that get so
irate that they would happily leave the train and run down
the tracks to get to work. Why? And when they get so
upset, they do this to themselves. The job will not go
anywhere. Their health will eventually give in, and they
will still not understand that their bodies reflect the
state of their souls. They will still be the slaves of
this manmade concept called time.
There is an old Arab proverb: Man fears time, but time
fears the pyramids. The pyramids are the only ancient
wonders that can still be seen and measured, because they
are older than time. They existed before we had any idea
of measuring time as precisely as we do today.
The inspiration for the pyramids originates from the same
Source that provided us with time, and the ancient cultures
were aware of this. They used sundials to have a broad
indication of time, but they also knew how to relax and go
into a meditative state. They understood that connecting
with the Source of time was more important than time itself.
Someone asked me an intriguing question the other day.
When the end of the world comes, the people in Australia
will have 24 hours notice. What will they do? Where will
they go? Any ideas? As far as I am concerned, we
experience the end of the world every day - that is, the
end of the world as we know it.
If we can believe the doomsday prophets (those people that
still have sugar and tinned food stored from the previous
catastrophe that never happened), the world will end in
December 2012. This is based on the Mayan calendar.
The Maya civilisation inhabited a region encompassing
southern Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Apparently they
flourished between the third and tenth centuries AD, but by
1200 AD their society had collapsed. During the late 18th
century explorers came across plazas, monoliths, temples
and pyramids, each decorated with pictures and hieroglyphs,
in the Guatemalan rainforest.
The ancient Maya had been keeping historical records, using
a script which mixed ideographic and phonetic elements.
Some of their writing still exists on stone monuments that
record their calendric and astronomical knowledge.
The Maya identified four different Ages. The First Age
began with the creation of the Earth, which contained
vegetation and living beings. These beings did not please
the gods and were wiped out. In the Second and Third Ages
the gods created humans of mud and later of wood. These
humans also failed to please and were wiped out. We are
currently in the Fourth and Final Age, the age of the
modern, fully functional human. In the Mayan calendar this
Age finishes on December 21, 2012.
This is not just any date, and the translation from the
hieroglyphs could not really be wrong. At sunrise on
December 21, 2012 for the first time in 26,000 years the
Sun will rise to conjunct the intersection of the Milky Way
and the plane of the ecliptic. This will form a cosmic
cross which is considered to be an embodiment of the Sacred
Tree, also known as the Tree of Life, which is represented
in most of the spiritual traditions of the world.
There are people that believe this alignment with the heart
of the galaxy in 2012 will open a channel for cosmic energy
to flow through the earth, cleansing it and its
inhabitants, and raise all of us to a higher level of
vibration.
We have some options here. The first is to start buying
and storing tinned food (and if you do not live in
Australia, you have adequate notice). The second is to
understand that we are all energy, and that our vibrations
have been rising for a while now, and this will only
intensify over the coming years. If you enjoy this blog,
you are probably already part of this movement of
consciousness that will just get stronger over the next
four years.
Have a good time!
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interpretations of everyday life.
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