Saturday, June 10, 2006
henri bergson's time
it is so easy to get caught up in 'linear, scientific' time.
we are awakened by alarm clocks, and begin our day rushing around getting ready in order to be at work on 'time'.
then, we plan our day, oftentime by the hour, if not the half or quarter hour.
meetings, tasks, appointments, all are appointed their 'time'.
but this 'linear, scientific' time, which is measured by our clocks, has littile to do with TIME.
'linear, scientific' time is measured as if it is a ray shot from a raygun and travels in a straight arrow...from a beginning to an end.
but step outside our clocks for just a moment, and it is judged that at first, our earth moves in an elliptical orbit around our sun, rendering TIME something that is not straight as an arrow at all, and relative to orbit around our sun is elliptical.
so TIME is curved, and just like anything that is curved, can flow.
so this TIME flows...unmeasured by the sun's position in the sky, or by a clock...not by minutes or hours.
we all have experienced this flow TIME. you can go to work on your car, and the time flies by (it's actually flowing). you can be at work and get into a groove with the tasks at hand, and where has the TIME gone? it's already time for lunch!
when experiencing this flow of TIME, a window opens up to a faculty all humans contain. not intelligence, but intuition.
when experiencing TIME as flow, our intuition is brought to the fore and we can have a heightened experience of the spiritual.
for in the flow of TIME, as opposed to the straight arrow flight of scientific time, is where one can experience the Divine, the Mythical, the Mystical, other realms represented by fairy tale and story.
when experiencing TIME in this way, everything seems to feel like everything is going to be just fine. when we think of our loved ones, living or dead, we know they are safe and deeply happy.
how many times, when you were worried about something as a child, did your mother exhorte you to 'get busy doing something'.
you fought the urge at first, preferring the worry state to movement, but if your mother persisted, then you indeed did 'get busy doing something'.
and what happened? you experienced the flow of TIME. as a matter of fact, more often than not, your mother had to pull you away from this magical realm to tell you it was time for dinner!
how did things seem when you stepped outside scientific time and stepped into the flowing river of TIME?
like all was right with the world.
you forgot what you were worrying about.
our mothers tell us, and we find later in life they are right.
when going through a hard time, we are admonished that 'this too shall pass', and that things will get better.
and sure enough, the things do pass (flow) and things then get better.
and the best way to spend our scientific time is to step outside it like our mothers taught us and into the flow of TIME.
get busy doing something, and all of a sudden, everything is okay.
so there is time and there is TIME.
one is scientific and makes us age and worry that we won't keep up with it, and is linear and shoots like an arrow from a starting point to and end, where we are caught in the middle.
but then there is TIME...where there is no beginning, no end, just flow, where we can let our spirits experience something beyond the existential....something significant.
I wish you the best of TIMEs!
as a postscript, i offer the following insights...
in time, we do something.
in TIME we do SOMETHING.
time can be heard by the ticking of the clock.
TIME can be heard by the rushing flow of the wind.
in time, only the individual can experience his minutes and hours.
in TIME, we partake in the same flow that all sentient beings have ever, do, and will partake.
so time is particular, relative to the individual,
while TIME is general, and absolute to the multitude.
lastly,
time, which is measurable, passes away,
while
TIME, which is immesurable, endures.
it is so easy to get caught up in 'linear, scientific' time.
we are awakened by alarm clocks, and begin our day rushing around getting ready in order to be at work on 'time'.
then, we plan our day, oftentime by the hour, if not the half or quarter hour.
meetings, tasks, appointments, all are appointed their 'time'.
but this 'linear, scientific' time, which is measured by our clocks, has littile to do with TIME.
'linear, scientific' time is measured as if it is a ray shot from a raygun and travels in a straight arrow...from a beginning to an end.
but step outside our clocks for just a moment, and it is judged that at first, our earth moves in an elliptical orbit around our sun, rendering TIME something that is not straight as an arrow at all, and relative to orbit around our sun is elliptical.
so TIME is curved, and just like anything that is curved, can flow.
so this TIME flows...unmeasured by the sun's position in the sky, or by a clock...not by minutes or hours.
we all have experienced this flow TIME. you can go to work on your car, and the time flies by (it's actually flowing). you can be at work and get into a groove with the tasks at hand, and where has the TIME gone? it's already time for lunch!
when experiencing this flow of TIME, a window opens up to a faculty all humans contain. not intelligence, but intuition.
when experiencing TIME as flow, our intuition is brought to the fore and we can have a heightened experience of the spiritual.
for in the flow of TIME, as opposed to the straight arrow flight of scientific time, is where one can experience the Divine, the Mythical, the Mystical, other realms represented by fairy tale and story.
when experiencing TIME in this way, everything seems to feel like everything is going to be just fine. when we think of our loved ones, living or dead, we know they are safe and deeply happy.
how many times, when you were worried about something as a child, did your mother exhorte you to 'get busy doing something'.
you fought the urge at first, preferring the worry state to movement, but if your mother persisted, then you indeed did 'get busy doing something'.
and what happened? you experienced the flow of TIME. as a matter of fact, more often than not, your mother had to pull you away from this magical realm to tell you it was time for dinner!
how did things seem when you stepped outside scientific time and stepped into the flowing river of TIME?
like all was right with the world.
you forgot what you were worrying about.
our mothers tell us, and we find later in life they are right.
when going through a hard time, we are admonished that 'this too shall pass', and that things will get better.
and sure enough, the things do pass (flow) and things then get better.
and the best way to spend our scientific time is to step outside it like our mothers taught us and into the flow of TIME.
get busy doing something, and all of a sudden, everything is okay.
so there is time and there is TIME.
one is scientific and makes us age and worry that we won't keep up with it, and is linear and shoots like an arrow from a starting point to and end, where we are caught in the middle.
but then there is TIME...where there is no beginning, no end, just flow, where we can let our spirits experience something beyond the existential....something significant.
I wish you the best of TIMEs!
as a postscript, i offer the following insights...
in time, we do something.
in TIME we do SOMETHING.
time can be heard by the ticking of the clock.
TIME can be heard by the rushing flow of the wind.
in time, only the individual can experience his minutes and hours.
in TIME, we partake in the same flow that all sentient beings have ever, do, and will partake.
so time is particular, relative to the individual,
while TIME is general, and absolute to the multitude.
lastly,
time, which is measurable, passes away,
while
TIME, which is immesurable, endures.
