Before I leave this section another thought has come to mind in connection with those fairy tales. I don\u2019t understand Einstein\u2019s theories but I have been told that he suggested that if you faster than the speed of light, time slows down, so you don\u2019t age as fast as those you left behind on earth.<\/p>\n
Now there is an important point I want to make, and perhaps I should have made it at the beginning of this talk instead of at the end.<\/p>\n
When I was researching my Egyptian novels I came across the concepts of \u2018Everlasting\u2019 and \u2018eternity\u2019 set over against each other. When I was young I had always associated them together, believing that they were the same thing. For instance in a Grimm brothers story I read about a diamond mountain in Pomerania which was two miles high. Every 1000 years a little bird came and sharpened its beak on it. When the diamond mountain is worn away, the story said, this would indicate that the first second of eternity had been passed.<\/p>\n
In Irish myth I read that the Otherworld was remarkably like our own \u2013 but better.<\/p>\n
\nAt the doorway to the east,
<\/i>Three trees of brilliant crystal,
<\/i>Whence a gentle flock of birds calls
<\/i>To the children of the royal fort.<\/i><\/p>\nA tree at the doorway to the court,
<\/i>Fair its harmony;
<\/i>A tree of silver before the setting sun,
<\/i>Its brightness like that of gold.<\/i><\/p>\nThree score trees there
<\/i>Whose crowns are meetings that do not meet.
<\/i>Each tree bears ripe fruit,
<\/i>For three hundred men.
<\/i>There is in the sid a well
<\/i>With three fifties of brightly coloured mantles,
<\/i>A pin of radiant gold
<\/i>In the corner of each mantle.<\/i><\/p>\n[Early Irish Myths and Sagas<\/i>. Gantz. Penguin Books]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Even in the Bible I read a description of the otherworld using images from this and implying in both cases that That is just an extension of This.<\/p>\n
Book of Revelations, Chapter 4:<\/p>\n
\nAfter this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, \u201cCome up hither, and I will show thee things which must be hereafter.\u201d<\/p>\n
And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne.<\/p>\n
And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine-stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, I sight like unto an emerald.<\/p>\n
And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting clothed in white raiment: and they had on their heads crowns of gold.<\/p>\n
And out the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.<\/p>\n
And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.<\/p>\n
And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
In this century T.S.Eliot\u2019s poem Little Gidding comes to mind.<\/p>\n
\nWe shall not cease from exploration
<\/i>And the end of all our exploring
<\/i>Will be to arrive where we started
<\/i>And know the place for the first time.
<\/i>Through the unknown, remembered fate
<\/i>When the last of earth left to discover
<\/i>Is that which was the beginning;
<\/i>At the source of the longest river
<\/i>The voice of the hidden waterfall
<\/i>And the children in the apple-tree
<\/i>Not known, because not looked for
<\/i>But heard, half-heard, in the stillness
<\/i>Between two waves of the sea.
<\/i>Quick now, here, now, always \u2013
<\/i>A condition of complete simplicity
<\/i>(Costing not less than everything)
<\/i>And all shall be well and
<\/i>All manner of thing shall be well
<\/i>When the tongues of flame are in-folded
<\/i>Into the crowned knot of fire
<\/i>And the fire and the rose are one.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/i><\/p>\n
When my husband died I avoided asking him for help because I feared it would impede his progress in the Otherworld \u2013 might take him away from doing something else more important. And then I got a message \u2018loud and clear\u2019 reminding me that in the Otherworld there is neither time nor space. He does not have to come from somewhere else to attend to me \u2013 because he is \u2018here\u2019.<\/p>\n
Because we call it the Otherworld we think it is like this one \u2013 only insubstantial. It is totally, unimaginably different. For the first time I understood how God could be aware of every sparrow that fell. \u2018He\u2019 wasn\u2019t somewhere else looking on as we would from a height surveying a landscape. The sparrow is \u2018in\u2019 Eternity with Him.<\/p>\n
And we, if we were not seduced by others into confusing \u2018Everlasting\u2019 and \u2018Eternity\u2019, would know that we, as eternal spiritual beings, are \u2018in\u2019 Eternity even now, while we are simultaneously but only temporarily \u2018in\u2019 time because we have material bodies as well as our spiritual being.<\/p>\n
If we had champagne this evening I would ask you to raise you glasses in a toast to the magnificence of the present moment, through which all the strands of multi-dimensional time are threaded!<\/p>\n
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 1
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 2
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 3
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 4
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 5
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 6
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 7
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 8
Multi-Dimensional Time: Part 9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Before I leave this section another thought has come to mind in connection with those fairy tales. I don\u2019t understand Einstein\u2019s theories but I have been told that he suggested that if you faster than the speed of light, time slows down, so you don\u2019t age as fast as those you left behind on earth. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[26,34,35,36,37],"class_list":{"0":"post-300","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-articles","7":"tag-article","8":"tag-multi-dimensional","9":"tag-speech","10":"tag-talk","11":"tag-time"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moyracaldecott.co.uk\/wdp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}