Reality #2

Going back to the perspectives on reality the movie Star Trek presents us with, ‘reality’ is something a lot more flexible than what we might perceive it to be.

In our ‘real’ world, reality is set in an arena that is defined by time and space. And in this definition, time is seen as chronological, ensuring that events take place one after another, rather than all at once.

Research has shown that this is not necessarily how time functions in space; or in our reality for that matter! When we travel at great speeds, for instance in a drag car race, time seems to slow down. The line of thought a drag car racer can complete in the 3.something seconds of the race, is beyond impossible to recount after the race, when the person is interviewed.

Something similar occurs in space where time is concerned.

This opens the door to a perspective that says: maybe it isn’t reality that has so many different shapes and/or forms; maybe it is time that is so flexible that how we perceive time dictates how we see reality. Or which reality we see...

In the Star trek movie, when the Older Spock and the Younger Spock meet, two alternate realities are happening in the same arena ~ in the same place at the same time. And each version of Spock intends to live their own life from there, leaving the possibility to meet again ‘in the future’.

In the reality we are presented with at this point in the movie the place part of the arena of reality is fixed ~ both Spocks are in the same place. The time part of the arena is where past and future meet; where both alternate realities are folded into one: reality.

Here is where, at least to me, the whole concept becomes mind-boggling.

Because if time is so flexible that past and future can meet at the same place; being part of the same reality ~ then could it be true that all time is in one moment? (Certainly gives a different perspective to ‘being in the moment’)

Yet, if all time is in one moment, the only thing that defines the arena for reality to exist in is place. And in this place, in this moment, all physical, expanded, alternate and parallel realities are happening at once as part of one REALITY.

In this REALITY, we can meet our alter egos, interact with them, learn from them... This means that in this scenario of REALITY, we can change our lives and our experiences mid-stream as at any point in the experience we can chose a different alternate reality to follow.

It is a concept that says that when we are truly living ‘in the moment’, all realities become one REALITY that we can shape and mold the way we desire it to be...

Wow!

First published in May, 2009