Freedom from time | Wall Street Financier: Notes from High Altitude©

If I were to conduct a survey among my readers on which is their single most-prized, more endearing and the most satisfying thing they are after my gut tells me that freedom will be their answer. Of course, freedom comes in many ways; there is freedom of action, financial freedom, freedom of choice of a life partner where you choose not just the partner, but the length of the partnership. That makes one chuckle: getting married for 3 years, right ? How would you like them apples ? What about freedom from the mind ? Freedom from time (hey, time rules over the rich and the poor alike !)

I was watching an Eckart Tolle video last night where he says that to get out of over-thinking one must have the spiritual rigor to come out of perception as opposed to thinking. And of course mindfulness. Not following the thought. But I want to go beyond that.

“Only like can know like. So to know God we must become like God. To do this, Hermes advises us to imagine ourselves at all places at all time, to see ourselves as still in the womb and yet already dead.”
The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs

It seems that God (if there is one) does something spectacular, he takes time out of the equation. (he also takes the space out, but I’m not going to dwell on that). I wrote about memory and time earlier (see also here).

Q: Max, what happens when we die ?
A: Same thing that happened to you when you were born.
Me

If you want to be like the Big G (God, not gangster here…or maybe ?!) you must constantly recreate yourself. Come out of your own ashes.

Memory plays a funny game. It goes back and forth, back and forth on that line… Timeline that is… But it is only from what it says, is the beginning. So Buddhists have designed this visualization exercise a long time ago, where you see yourself on your deathbed, and work your way backward from there.