Reality, Parallel Universes and Shifting Time-lines

Change of Paradigm.

Our understanding of science is such that we are entering a new paradigm. The old is an understanding of existing in a physical 3D universe where over time, atoms move around, and consciousness somehow develops. The new, alternative view is one where our consciousness constantly shifts between parallel realities that have no time but exist as a moment, an instant. The rapid change between them, happening thousands of times per second, creates the sensation we recognise as time.

This shift in understanding has been happing for a considerable number of years. James Jeans wrote in The Mysterious Universe (1930): “the universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter… we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.”

This new view is counter-intuitive. Understanding is a challenge because we are inside, a part of the system we are considering, so we can not rely on our perception as objective. How, intellect aside, can a fish understand it is in water?

We can compare this change to our view of the Earth changing from a flat world to a globe. The change in understanding does not mean a change in reality, only how we experience it.

While efforts to shift reality through meditation and presence have not produced a profound experience, an apparent change in circumstances. I feel better having adopted these new beliefs, even if I do not understand why.

Known Science

Let us consider some postulates or assumptions that science tells us are true.

There are infinite parallel universes, also known as the multiverse. The idea first proposed in Ancient Greece has, as we would expect, evolved in recent years. However, development has been slow because it is not apparent to our five senses.

Erwin Schrödinger gave a lecture in 1952 where he said “that when his equations seemed to describe several different histories, these were “not alternatives, but all really happen simultaneously“. This is restating the principles of the thought experiment that has become known as “Schrödinger’s Cat”, first proposed in 1935.

Everything is NOW. It is challenging to believe time is not as we understand it or, as some say, is an illusion because it is an integral part of the human experience. It is so fundamental that the grammatical structure of language typically divides it into three parts: past, present and future. Even the word “now” implies a past and future because language evolves to reflect our perception and experience.

American author and spiritual teacher Frederick Lenz (1950-1998) wrote: “There is no future. There is only now, a continuous now. We have become so wrapped up in the past and the future that we don’t see the continuous now. There is no future.”

Consciousness is fundamental. However complete a theory or model of the world is, if there are phenomena, observable facts or events that do not fit into that model, humanity is driven to investigate. Science has had considerable success in explaining just about everything through what has become known as reductionism. In this process, everything is broken down into smaller parts. We identify what has been called the substrate, the framework or substance on which they exist and grow. In biology, it is the material on or from which an organism lives or obtains nourishment. Likewise, a silicon wafer is used to manufacture integrated circuits in computing. We can also do this for knowledge and the sciences. In doing so, it adds to our understanding. In 1839, Auguste Comte, was the first to do it. He started with the most fundamental and independent science (mathematics). He ended with the most encompassing science, sociology, the one entirely dependent on all the other sciences. All sciences (astronomy, physics, chemistry, biology etc.) can be ranked. However, we had insufficient understanding to include the knowledge of consciousness in this structure.

The Double Slit Experiment, first performed in the early 1800s, demonstrated consciousness’s relevance. Richard Feynman described a version of the experiment: “We choose to examine a phenomenon which is impossible, absolutely impossible, to explain in any classical way, and which has in it the heart of quantum mechanics. In reality, it contains the only mystery.” The most popular explanation is the Copenhagen Interpretation, which says “nothing is real until it is observed, or measured.” However, Copenhagen says nothing about what exactly constitutes an observation. John von Neumann broke this silence and suggested that observation is the action of a conscious mind. It’s an idea also put forward by Max Planck, the founder of quantum theory, who said in 1931, “I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness”.

In the modern age of computerisation and the internet, we have previously unavailable tools to aid the investigation. Recently, numerous studies have been testing consciousness concerning the double-slit experiment. Dean Radin tells of a period of “about 30 years (1959-1987) that there wasn’t just one lab, but 68 different investigators reporting this and 152 publications, not just one experiment but almost 600.”

Shifting Time-lines

In his video LFET #4: Space-time, time-lines and parallel realities, Michal Petr Recka tells how understanding these key concepts can enable us to transform our life experience. We know that there are multiple universes, and everything is now. So consider each NOW moment as a separate universe. Our consciousness shifts thousands of times per second from one universe to the next, creating the illusion of time and motion. Which universe we move to is determined by the frequency of our consciousness.

In his video, he uses a 2D graphic. Consider each NOW moment of your life laid out in sequence in a horizontal line, like the frames in a video or movie might be. The vertical frames (possible single moments) can be arranged according to The Hawkins Scale of Consciousness. Consider for a moment everything is possible. Only some of the possible NOW moments (past and future) are relevant to us in this experience. Of all these possible moments, only some are probable. Our choices very much determine them, that is, which are likely.

We know from science that the past and future do not actually exist. Everything happens in an eternal NOW. By rapidly shifting our conscious focus from one NOW moment, one time frame to the next, we create a tree of possible frames, a time-line. The idea is that we have a memory of frames previous to NOW. However, we are learning that we can cut and change the previous NOW moments, just like we edit a movie. To do this, we must stop identifying with the particular past we consider our personal story and choose another. While everything is possible, what is probable depends very much on our beliefs. Something close to our previous story may be easier to believe, but is it the best choice. It is worth remembering the choice is ours, and we have control.

Being in alignment with who you really are and not with hurt and fear, Michal calls shifting to a more positive range of frames “Healing Here and Now”. From this new place, you can create a more empowering and supportive past for the person you choose to be.

As we might expect, the future is a similar process. If we envisage the person we wish to be in the future, we can start being that person now. This new way of being is one of conscious creation, using the information available to us. It is distinct from being on autopilot, reacting to what happens.

Evidence of This Happening

We often see evidence of shifts or changes happening in our time-lines. But instead of accepting the transition, or even the possibility, we dismiss it as a crazy coincidence or memory lapse. We refuse to recognise it because we do not believe it is possible.

People frequently have different recollections of things that happened in the past. But, perhaps I do remember something differently from my partner because I did have a different experience. This type of occurrence is common enough to be documented and is called The Mandela Effect. It is where different people have an alternative memory of the past. It is not just a few, but many and documented, suggesting there may be something to it.

Difficulties of Controlling The Shift

I suggest this is difficult to control for several reasons. Firstly, we experience a “pull from the familiar”. It is much easier to experience a current NOW close to what it (NOW) was a moment ago. For example, if I was in bed a moment ago, how could I be working at my desk now? A common saying is, “the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t”.

Secondly, relationships are central to the human experience. We do not create our world and our experience independently. Instead, people we know, family, friends and acquaintances impact our experience. How we do it may remain a mystery, but it is clear that whom we spend time with and interact with impacts our experience. We are social beings and have multiple relationships through which we co-create our world, and the people in our lives give us reason to remember things in a particular way.

Thirdly, what you truly believe makes a difference. How often have you heard you can do anything you set your mind to? But how many people think they can change their physical reality, especially by just having the right thoughts.

Another way of expressing this is what is fundamental is NOW and our choices for now: the person we are and the experience we wish to have. When we invoke a memory, we recreate it as an event that has contributed to this current moment. Those memories we choose not to remember still exist, but their significance fades because we do not select them.

Similarly, what and how we think about the future, influences the future that unfolds before us.

Multiple Sources

There have been many sources, over the years that support this different view of the cosmos. Consider the following quotes.

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Your perspective is always limited by how much you know. Expand your knowledge and you will transform your mind.” – Bruce H. Lipton

“We see our beliefs as truths, and not as ideas that we can change.” – Joe Dispenza.

“I was exhilarated by the new realisation that I could change the character of my life by changing my beliefs. I was instantly energised because I realised that there was a science-based path that would take me from my job as a perennial “victim” to my new position as “co-creator” of my destiny.” – Bruce H. Lipton

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein, 23 June 1945 interview, The New York Times.

“Spend time, contemplating who you want to be. The mere process of contemplating who you want to be, begins to change your brain.” – Joe Dispenza

“The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.” – Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not what you don’t want.” Napoleon Hill (1883-1970)

“The best way to predict your future is to create it, not from the known but from the unknown. What thoughts do you want to fire and wire in your brain?” – Joe Dispenza

“Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species. We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !” – Bruce H. Lipton

“Judgement is often based upon previous experience. Your idea about a thing derives from a prior idea about that thing. Your prior idea results from still a prior idea – and that idea from another and so forth, like building blocks.” – Conversations With God, by Neale Donald Walsch