Space and time,

Sometimes the obvious is invisible

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This first chapter is not a theory.

It is simply looking again at what we see
when we look around at our "here/now moment of existence" with a new eye.

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A new look at time

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When we see everything around us with the added depths of time-lines
we can see the  "roots of existence"  and  "a cosmology for a peaceful planet".

Here is a seed for a new humanity as we realize the interrelated nature of existance.

Our here/now point of perception, of seeing, of being
is a point of present time, the center of a convergent field of light images, sounds, etc.

What we see right now as our world, comes to our "eye and ear" through space and time, as light images and sound and presence.
The moon we see is a light image, Everything we see is a light image.
The world that we each see before us is the composit of light images that shine into our eye.

It is what we see.

(notice the dynamics of our perception)
We are receivers. We are each a here/now (present time) point of perception,
a focal point  of the convergent omni-centric universe

(check it out)

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intro

In order to see time as a dimension of existance
we need to move from static to time-span based concepts ,
move from three dimensions up to the temporal depths of four dimensions.

When we see time as a 4th dimension (a time to be)
a context of existence, it changes everything in some interesting ways.
Seeing the added depth of the fourth dimension (time/space) reveals a parallel reality
that is obvious, right in front of us, but is almost invisible without being pointed out.

So, what is it to see another dimension?
When the circle becomes a sphere and the chess board becomes a matrix;
when the objects  of this world are understood as  events. . . . .in morph and motion,.
a window opens, and another dimension is winking.

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introducing a

Cosmology for a peaceful planet

through

A new look at time

We start where we are,  in  our here/now moment of awareness
and notice what is happening when we see or hear.

 ~ notice the dynamics of perception ~ here we go . . . .

We look out into space.
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Looking out into the cosmos, we find that our perceptions are not instantaneous.
Our experiences, of the world around us, come to us as waves of information and energy (sound and light images)
traveling through space and time to become our experience of now.

Because of data travel time, everything we see now  "in this our present time"
is the light image of "an event that is past" in relation to this instant.

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observe 

These pictures represent the "seeing of ancient events" in our here/now sky.

These light images arrive here in our present time sky as waves of information and energy,
having traveled through space/time at the speed of light for many many years.

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Now let us bring our attention to an image that originates closer in space,
in a more recent, relative past time.

The face of the sun that we see, here and now, in our sky
was a "present time configuration on the sun" eight minutes ago.
(The data travel time, at the speed of light, from the sun to the earth is about eight minutes)
The speed of light is constant at 186,000 miles a second
If the sun winked at us, we would not see the wink for eight minutes.

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, Even event/objects that we perceive as very close
require some "data travel time" to reach our here/now point of perception.
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The light images that we see as our present moment flow through time, on a journey
(from the "present time, point of origination"
to a later
"present time, point of perception)

Even though at close distance, the "data travel time" of what we see is so very very tiny,
this small travel time gap reveals, and is part of a universal, convergent space/time pattern
that focuses on each observer's point of here/now presence, here/now perception.

see below - the convergent light images =  then the inner display

see the relationship

The inner experience, sees the outer convergent data"
(experienced as our flowing present moment)

And we experience it all
(this convergent information and energy)
as a holographic "virtual reality that is totally within us".

As we gaze out into the sky,
the clouds that we see there are light images that have traveled to us through time.
They are incoming data that we have processed as quickly as a mirror within ourself ".
The experience of what we see is within us. Our experience of "seeing a tree" is within us,

It seems like it's all out there. It is both.

Our inner world puts it all together to be seen as our present time,
But our world all around us comes to us from all directions, flowing to us like a river of light,
Every eye of awareness is the center of a light speed cosmic convergence,  a total cosmic convergence,
reaching from our now space all the way back to the beginning of time.

The image progression we see as the world around us goes back, back, back in time,
as we gaze further and further into the distances of the cosmos.

This progressive, space/time pattern is the world we see in front of our nose.

Looking out from close to far, we see the end of our nose, then a tree, then a cloud, then the moon, then a star,.
The world we see before us reaches further and further away into space, further and further back into time,
to the original divergence, to the beginning.
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Where ever we are the light images and sounds that are "our experience of now" -
converge upon us at the speed of light
and at the speed of sound.
from all directions,

Because a point of here/now  awareness is a point of perception,
a convergent pattern emerges from the cosmic randomness
and this convergent pattern is pictured as "a light cone" by modern science.

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Let's look at this "double cone below"
illustrating the dynamics of the convergent pattern,
that flows together (becoming the observers present moment).

and then diverging into future possibilities

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Einstein-Minkowski  space/time = the light cone

Syracuse University has a very nice web page
describing the evolution of our "scientific understanding of time" and the present moment .
(this illustration is from that site)
Rob Salgadol's the light cone.
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divergence into future

The "past light cone", (the bottom cone) -

shows the convergence of "data/energy/images"

through time, from the past,  to the observers point of present time.

Each person's present time is an individual flowing here/now point of convergence.

See how the Observer is a point between the convergent past and the divergent future.

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Notice the apex of the light cone, the observer's point of here now awareness is the present moment.

A present moment is a temporal context of existence (a time to be).

The present moment is a unique convergence/configuration to each observer.
a flowing point of convergence in an omni-centric reality.

The observer, (ourselves) are always here and now
(simply being, dancing as the apex of our light cone).


Each moment the observer (each of us) is a here/now point of universal convergence.
The moon shines in all directions but one moon beam shines in my eye (part of my personal convergence pattern)

The dynamics of the light cone point to all the incoming energy etc
that can arrive here at just the right time (considering the distance, at light speed)
to be part of our whatever present moment.

Be aware that the cone-shape of the light cone
 does not depict the shape of the actual data/energy implosion,
which flows to us from all  directions, like an imploding sphere of light images

to be what we see, as we see the world around us.

The light cone pictures our relationship
to the converging energy of the cosmos.

The convergent past is the substructure of the present,

The light cone points to all the convergent energy that has the correct data travel time and distance to arrive all at once, simultaneously,
to be what we see and hear as the present world around us, coming from all directions (left, right. front, back, up, down....)
out of the relative past into present awareness, into our perception, to be the world we see now around us, within us.

The convergent energy of our moment arrives as

concentric, imploding spheres of simultaneity.

arriving at the apex of the light cone

which is our here/now awareness

The convergent flow of data is a continuum, but within the continuum
we can see spherical zones of data that will arive at the center simultaneously,  because
all points on the surface of an imploding sphere have the same "data travel time" to the center, to the point of perception.

Any arbitrary radius from a from a central point describes a sphere.
Any incoming energies coming to the same focal point, having the same distance and the same speed
will arrive at the center simultaneously, as an imploding sphere.

We are always at the center of our ,experience.
Just being here as awareness, as a cosmic focal point,
forms dynamic, spherical, geometrical relationships with the incomings  radiance. 

Imagine  Radiance shining out in all directions like a star-burst "from a central point".
See an expanding sphere.

Imagine a Radiance shining to us from all directions "
See an imploding sphere. All the points of an imploding sphere reach the center together, simultaneously 

Each of our moments is a simultaneous arrival of our context and of ourselves.
The data of our moment is a simultaneous arrival "here in our now"
of a universal sub-set that is defined by the light cone.

although we may not see them,
billions of galaxies, each having each billions of stars, send to each of us a beam of light and presence.
We need time lapse photography and a space telescope to see many of them.

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Each point of present time awareness is a convergence, an overlay of converging light images.
~a universal subset ~
the flowing substructure of the here/now moment.

I look out my winddow from my desk.

My window is here in my moment. I see a big moon out there. It is in my moment. I see a star - it is in my moment.

It is a progressive overlay so that at every moment there is a total universal arrival.  

As the spherical wave, which is a
 light image overlay, implodes toward the observer
it compiles or integrates into itself the (convergent spherical data/energy) of events
as they happen in the observer's more recent past (closer and closer to the perception).

Or, as a data wave of ancient times and great distance implodes towards a point of present perception
it converges, becomes smaller and closer. It gathers the more recent inward flowing streams.

As the convergent wave moves toward the center, it coincides with progressively closer events-
The radiance that comes from futher away coincides with closer events.

ex. As a moon beam crosses a mountianon its way to my eye, the

mountian sends me a simultianeous mountian-beam.

When the imploding sphere of light images arrives at the point of perception, at any instant of time,
it has swept the universe before it like a snow ball rolling down a hill
it gathers the events of more recent past time.
The convergent wave "becomes more dense"
as it approaches the center.

A universal composite convergence always encapsulates the flowing point of now,
which is our here/now awareness.

Where ever we look out from in the cosmos (the universe)
we are at the center of a total universal spherical convergence, of a pattern that reaches
from the distant beginning of time to the now apex of our light cone.

It is amazing to me that we are each
the center of a cosmic focus, surfing the wave of now
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The cosmic bulls-eye and the Quantum field ?

Now if we follow the cosmic data convergence to its focal point (to the apex of the light cone - to the eye of the observer),
we come to a place where the imploding sphere surrounds the point of present space/time like a cosmic envelope of past time.

We can visualize a "data/energy envelope" (a tiny, tiny converging sphere)
of universal data that closes upon (envelops) each space/time point of present.
This envelopment of the point of present by a total space/time convergence forms
a kind of "coherent data matrix" (a holographic substructure for the present moment (time/space).
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The holographic idea in this process is that each small piece of a hologram contains the whole image.
Similarly each "point of present" at the center of these "convergent data wave mandalas"
is enveloped, at all times by the "wholeness of the cosmos" (by the whole picture).
Within this model the entire cosmos is focused upon each and every "point in space time".
The pattern is woven in such a way that every space/time point is the center of the convergent universe.
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Each "point of present space/time" is like the tip of an iceberg.
Only this non-dimensional point penetrates into present time.
The iceberg itself is the pattern of the converging data of the cosmos,
though it surrounds the point of present, it lies beneath the waters of the past.
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divergence
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The convergent aspect of this model is only half of the circle.
The energy that converges towards us "starts as divergence" from its point of origin.
As we participate in the receiving aspect of the pattern (data converges towards us),
the radiance of our own presences  is also diverging from us,
"to be convergent to the rest of the cosmos".
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It diverges to become convergent to all who see it,
and to all who don't see it; it still converges on them as energy and presence.

  So to complete the cycle, each individual "point of present" radiates their own presence
as a divergent expanding sphere of radiant data
(to become part of the convergent field towards all that is other).

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from any here/now point of observation. We are each a cosmic center.
We are each always a center of a cosmic star burst expansion.
We are each also a center of the convergent cosmos.
a cosmic vortex between past and future.

a field of existence

We are holy, wholeness, holographic.

The patterns of existence are completely interwoven

infinite diversity, total oneness

The cosmos is a beautiful, magic work of art.

Every thing makes everything

Context and content have a parent child relationship as to how things come forth.
When the dust-devil pops into existence, we can see in our mind's eye where its roots are:
 in the sun's energy and earth's spin, in rising air and swirling dust, etc. - -
Its roots are in the emerging, converging, universal context.

We are all cells, members, of a cosmic body. Competition is dysfunction.

Excellence comes from loving what we do.

We are not opposing pawns on the chess board,
more like two toes on the same foot,

We are born into "a certain way of seeing things" (a 3d consciousness) that sees without the depths of time,
We see only the surface, see only the leaves and not the vine,
hence we naturally learn to live with separation as reality.

4d vision is a deeper reality, total inter relatedness

Oneness expresses itself as interwoven individuality'

Seeing separation as the nature of nature is like seeing with mono vision, (missing dimensions).

In our 3d static reality, perception seems instantaneous,
and everything in our present field of awareness seems simultaneous
Before relativity, present time was thought to be universal, the same, simultaneous for everyone.
Now we see that present time is the observers here/now point of awareness.

Our oneness and our individuality fulfill each other

It is a reality to be amazed at, it is a reality to explore.

To think of every one as ourself in a greater oneness is functional programing.
to care for all is functional programing

This cosmic inter-woveness (seen as the nature of existence)
is also described in Modern quantum Physics,  in Eastern Spiritual traditions,
by Christian mystics,  by the Indian Medicine Wheel, etc..

When we look for the truth within these visions of reality,
They dove-tail and give each other depth.

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(from Ken Wilbers book - No Boundary):

The whole world of classical boundaries (separate particles) shattered and fell before the likes of
Einstein, Schroedinger, Eddington, deBroglie, Bohr, and Heisenberg.

Classical physicist had developed laws that govern separate things,
only to discover that separate things don't exist.

In short, the quantum physicists discovered, that at atomic levels
 reality could no longer be viewed as a complex of distinct things and boundaries.
Rather, what were once thought to be bounded "things" turned out to be interwoven aspects of each other.
For some strange reason, every thing and event in the universe seemed to be interconnected
with every other thing and event in the universe. The world, the real territory,
begins to look "not like a collection of billiard balls", but more like a single,
giant universal field which Whitehead called
"the seamless garment of the universe'.

I am reminded that Christ wore, wears a seamless garment, the cosmos.

As you can see, so do we.

In Mahayana Buddhism,
the universe is likened to a vast net of jewels, and "the reflections of all are contained in each".
They put it, "all in one and one in all".

The present day view of elementary particles states in ordinary language,
that each particle consists of all the other particles, each of which
is in the same way and at the same time all other particles together.

Buddhism is a clear insight into the fourth dimensional understanding of reality.

It sees the oneness, the interwoveness and hidden unities, the oneness with infinite diversity

It is seeing the nature of nature, what is before us.
Fourth dimensional  depths of wholeness, like agape love,
dissolve the illusions of separation.

references:

. Ken Wilber's "No Boundary"

Thich Nhat Haanh's "The Heart of Understanding"
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"The Tao of Physics"
which points out the "parallels of knowledge"
we find between modern  physics and the ancient eastern mystics.

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When we look for the cosmic Christ:
Christ looks back as the human face of the infinite.
and the Cosmos appears as the Mystical body of Christ.

Agape-Love steps forth as the only functional reality

(for in Love were created all things in heaven and on earth
everything visible and everything invisible) Col 1:16

Love God first as the source, love all that is other as our self.
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We are already members of the one body,
- Waking up as a cell in a cosmic body we need no written law'
We need no medium of exchange. Look at your own body.
No part needs to be paid. Each part has a part to play
This is the mystical kingdom where diversity
 becomes one and one becomes diversity.
Awareness becomes compassion
awakens the cosmic body.

diversity is wonderful and
polarity is the cosmic loom of the complimentary - sweet, very sweet
but without a memory or awareness of the cosmic oneness, and of the love,
it will seems that the hand has no arm, the toe has no foot.
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The matrix out my window shimmers with life, with color and depth and spirit

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