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This months theme – the illusion of time
I often wonder what happens to our limiting beliefs and imbalanced energies when we die. Traditions such as Hinduism and Buddhism talk of karma, the idea that unresolved wounds and unloving actions need to be made right in a future life. My shamanic tradition talks of houcha – heavy energy that stays with the light body after death and unfurls onto a new physical body in a future life.
This makes sense to me, to a point, but I do believe that these descriptions are designed to work within our core human belief of time being linear – Tuesday follows Monday, one lifetime follows another. The problem is I don’t believe it actually works that way.
My understanding is that time only exists on the earth plane to give us parameters to live within. In spirit, time does not exist, there is only the eternal moment of now. So, how does the idea of karma work from a spiritual viewpoint if time itself is an illusion? How can unresolved energies pass on to our ‘next life’ if our ‘next life’ is happening at the same time as this one?
I journeyed to the mythic for a perspective on this and was shown a series of dominoes lined up in a row, with the first one toppling into the next and so on. I was told that this was the illusion of linear time from our human perspective. Each domino represented an incarnation of that soul.
I was then shown a circle of dominoes each attached loosely to each other through threads of energy. When one domino wobbled, the others all took the strain, shifting positions to allow the circle as a whole to absorb the energy and remain upright.
The process continued for as long as the wound remained. When the issue cleared, that wider support was no longer needed and the entire soul rose in vibration.
This feels like a closer representation of true reality. A ripple in the field, perhaps a trauma or a fear, affects that soul’s physical and light body, but also every other aspect of that soul, across all incarnations. This happens immediately, in that single moment, the only moment we have.
This is not just about managing challenges. It works the other way too. Every thread of love, gratitude, compassion, joy, wisdom, service, truth etc ripples through the field too, so every positive experience helps hold the space for other incarnated parts of the soul.
Can you see the beauty in this? Can you also see how it gives us permission not to have to make sense of every thing that happens to us, every little struggle? Yes, we may feel heavy emotions, and there may be known reasons for that, but they may also simply be the ripples we feel from the struggles of another part of our soul needing our love in that moment.
This is not an invitation to martyr ourselves or sacrifice what we have when we are doing well – if we truly are connected to love then there is no cost in sharing it. It is, after all, a state of being not an action.
In the bigger picture, beyond our individual soul journey, we belong to a fractal Universe, which we could interpret as meaning that the same laws and structures apply to the whole as to the individual parts. Alongside the journey of the individual soul is the journey of the soul group, set in the same circular format, where perhaps a group of 12 souls nurture each other with whatever love they can access in that moment.
As we widen our perspective, connections expand until, finally, we meet the framework of life itself, within which all creation sits. We then know Source – Goddess / God.
How does that feel to look at life in those terms? Does it feel comforting to feel that the wider family of your soul and other souls is always there, helping and being helped?
I like the model because it allows me to surrender more, to accept that some of my current challenges may have originated from my ‘past’ or ‘future’ self, but equally that some of the support I feel may be from other aspects of me stepping up when I need them the most, or even other aspects of my soul group. A true family, a true community of souls.
With love
Andrew