The Way Toward Health: January 13, 1984 Time and Dementia

January 13, 1984

Apropos of our discussion concerning time.

The nature of universal creativity is so remarkable that its true reaches are literally beyond most understanding.  The implications are staggering – so that the affair is almost impossible to explain.

The past, and every moment of the past, are being constantly changed from the operation point of the present.  In your terms, the present becomes the past, which is again changed at every conceivable point from the latest-present.  Yet through all of this immense, continuous creation, there is always a personal sense of continuity: You never really lose your way in the distance between one moment and the next.

In somewhat of the same fashion the objects about you are constantly in motion, as you know.  The atoms and molecules are forever moving, and in a way the electrons are the directors of that motion.

Your focus is so precisely and finely tuned that despite all of that activity, objects appear solid.  Now objects are also events, and perhaps that is the easiest way to understand them.  They are highly dependent upon your own subjective focus.  Let that focus falter for a briefest amount of time, and the whole house of cards would come tumbling down, so to speak.

Remember that you are also objects, and also events, and as physical bodies your organs are composed of atoms and molecules whose motion, again, is directed by the electrons.

The electrons themselves have their own subjective lives.  They are also subjective events, therefore, so there is always a correlation between those electrons in your bodies and those in the objects you see about you.  Nevertheless again, subjective continuity itself never falters, in that it is always a part of the world that it perceives, so that you and the world create each other, in those terms.

When you change the past from each point of the latest-present, you are also changing events at the most microscopic levels.  Your intent has also an electronic reality, therefore.  It is almost as if your thoughts punched the keys of some massive computer, for your thoughts do indeed have a force.  Even as sentences are composed of words, there is no end to the number of sentences that can be spoken – so “time” is composed of an endless variety of electronic languages that can “speak” a million worlds instead of words.

Now I may or may not return, according to those rhythms of which I speak, but know that I am “present” and approachable.

Aside: An Example of Dementia

Dates are but designations applied to the days.

Mankind lived without such designations for a much longer period that he has used them.  Animals, without such designations, still know their position on the planet itself, and they are aware of the tides and the movement of the earth and planets.

Karina (another patient at the hospital) has that same kind of orientation.  At this point in her life, she has actually refused to concentrate upon languages, which would tend to tie her more tightly to the details of the world.  She does “return to the past”, remaking it more to her liking.  Her latest-present is beginning to show signs of a deterioration.  She wants a turning-off point from which to construct other realities, so it is not so much that the latest-present is deteriorating as much as the fact that she is purposely letting her attention wander, and allowing the latest-presents to diminish in strength and vitality.  She will of course construct a new form from which to operate.