As human beings the understanding we have of time is inaccurate. People often perceive time as something to be filled, something that we must occupy using our entire attention, rather than a guide on our journey. Now that concepts such as 2012 and the collapse of time are becoming more well-known some of the responses they attract are negative because the end of time is perceived by some as the end of everything else.

Time and synchronicity go hand in hand. Objective time as we know it is just an active observation of the synchronicities ever-present in the world. Subjective time, on the other hand, is the process of learning each one of us undergoes.

To put this in simpler terms: if I am afraid of something, and I overcome this fear, then I progress to a new state of being. However if I wait another 20 years and then face up to this fear I will still progress to this new level of understanding but 20 years later. Therefore our understanding is not ruled by time. It is ruled by choice — our choice to expand our consciousness, or to continue inventing concepts such as time to keep ourselves occupied in a state of being that never progresses.

The reason most people are afraid of losing time is that this would cause them to destroy their comforting illusion that true progress is not required. Once we allow time to rule consciousness we become hypnotised by and it governs, forms, and controls our world. The true healing we experience comes from knowing that we are not products of our past but timeless beings capable of boundless experience.

As I wrote earlier, objective time is just a collection of synchronicities. Our need to force ourselves into appointments, memories of tasks, and scheduled measuring systems causes us to meet the deadlines of this concept called objective time – but not feel satiated or in-sync within as a result. Our lives become out-of-sync and subservient to a superficial and global synchronous control mechanism.

Learning in The Moment

If objective time was a reflection of our true nature people would never be late for appointments, would never complain about time-oriented tasks, and would not feel like time is ruling their decisions. It is essential for us as human beings to wake up from the illusion that the structure known as time has a real level of control over us. It is you and I that invest in it, that occupy ourselves with it, that run around it – it is not time that comes and chases after us.

There is however a natural synchronicity, a natural progression, that exists beneath the superficial idea of time we have. I believe that this is the progression that will remain when the superficial concept of time collapses.

The best example to describe this natural progression is when we feel drawn to a particular person, or feel the need to go to a certain place, or are inclined to wait for an extra 5 minutes even when someone we were meeting is already half an hour late.

These hunches about how events will pan out give us a much more intuitive level of connectedness to ourselves and each other – one that is more reliable than an objective measure of time could ever be.