What is time?
QUESTION: Masters, I really don’t get this whole issue of time. I can understand time here in third dimensional earth but how can it work in spirit. How can souls incarnate in the past without affecting the future, how can souls incarnate in the future which hasn’t happened yet. You need to put this in simple terms that a dunce such as me can understand. Many thanks for all your wonderful work! ~David, UK
ANSWER: Time, as you understand it, is a concept relevant only in the third dimension. There is nothing comparable in the spirit world. Everything in the spirit world exists at the same time – it just depends on where the soul places its focus.
Think of a compact disc on which you have recorded everything that has happened to you on Earth, with a track for each major event. You can participate in any of those occurrences by specifying a track and placing your focus upon that record. You can visit age 16, then hop back to year 2, then hit 45, 32, or the present day. Reliving these events does not change what happened but might give you a better or different understanding of what you learned during that time.
To see how this looks, you must believe that you create your own reality with an illusion in which to study a particular human characteristic. Since it is something that is unique to your creation, revisiting an earlier time does not change what occurred, but you can interact with it differently, thereby changing the illusion that is yours.
The future is also the product of your creation, so your intention brings it into existence, providing the illusion you need to study the lesson you desire. In the spirit world you are even able to be in more than one place at a time, engaging in multiple incidents.
The human mind has difficulty comprehending the reality of what we have just said (if it even can). Your only experience with time is the living of your daily life, so that is what you project outside into the nonphysical world.
The closest you can achieve to an understanding of this while still in your human body is to undergo hypnosis or extremely deep meditation, which frees you from this dimension and allows you to explore your soul’s past and future from your current lifetime.