Time’s movement is you remembering — the unconscious being made conscious.

Your fear determines the speed time unfolds.

In the jigsaw analogy of ‘the one’ becoming ‘the many,’ as embodiments of infinite consciousness, we are each a unique jigsaw piece (your embodiment) while still containing the whole painting (your spirit). This is expressed in linear time as an evolving path from your jigsaw piece of individuality to the whole painting/completed jigsaw (which would spiritually be expressed as ‘the return to source’). We are each a route through ever-changing experiences of consciousness, and we are free to take infinite detours.

We each contain a map home because we each contain home.

The more you connect through love with this world, the more connected you feel and know the jigsaw pieces surrounding you. However, unlike with a physical jigsaw, there is no limit to how many pieces can surround a single piece. For example, to meet your life partner later in life is not to bring a new jigsaw piece into your surroundings. It is to become conscious of a jigsaw piece that has always been there.

Through the connection of love, you come to know, see, feel, and comprehend the painting/jigsaw pieces surrounding you. Connecting with spirit allows for a wider view of the big picture from above. To know the creator within you is to see your life from a wider, more inclusive perspective (which is equally to say, ‘to see your life without fear’).

You contain both the view from the ground (your mortal self) and the view from above (your spirit).

When we are born, we take our intention and express it as the unfolding journey of a human life that unfolds over time. What we think of as the passing of time (our human life in a physical body in a world within time and space) can also be thought of as the accumulation of perceptual experience. This is akin to the idea that we are all living in a virtual reality (or we are watching an advanced form of movie).

This is like the idea of ‘The Matrix,’ except the realization would be that we have no physical body (because physicality is a perceptual illusion). So, rather than taking the red pill and waking up in a strange pod, we would discover we are eternal consciousness waking from a dream.

You are a non-physical state of consciousness using a powerful process to perceptually feed yourself the complete linear time, physical matter, emotional, and mental perceptual experience of being human.

You are dreaming your human life.

Imagine you are your spirit watching a time-space movie where you are experiencing yourself as the embodied protagonist. You aren’t making any choices as the perceptual illusion plays like a movie, but the experience makes you feel like you are making choices. The idea we are living in virtual reality is not meant to be taken as a literal description/‘the truth,’ but I want to unpack it to highlight how a human life experienced through the unfolding of linear time is like someone progressively remembering a movie from beginning to end.

Each day of your life is you remembering the next day (as written in the film script). This demonstrates how the primary effect of linear time, when experienced by eternal, infinite consciousness, is created by forgetting something (by throwing a veil of forgetting over it) and then progressively remembering it (by pulling back that veil).

The unfolding of linear time is the unconscious being made conscious.

This is how the process works. It describes the mechanism within consciousness that creates time and space. To know your spirit is to know that:

1. You wrote the movie script that is your life.
2. You made yourself unconscious of it/forget it.
3. You are now remembering that script as if you are living it.

You are the architect of your life. In the next minute, you will remember what you created the next minute to be. Time moving forward is you remembering. If you could stop remembering, time would appear to stop moving. The arrow of time is the movement of the veil of forgetting being pulled back. It is the unconscious being made conscious.

• You are remembering the dream in your heart.
• You are remembering a life that you wrote.
• You are acting in a play you have staged.
• You are the creator of all you experience.

This idea of the unconscious becoming conscious is at the heart of many spiritual belief systems. It is also expressed as ‘making the unknown known.’

This model sees our spirit as being aware at the level of the collective consciousness of humanity, with us choosing to adopt a common pattern of forgetting that creates the experience of the human self. This blueprint is then overlaid with an individual pattern of forgetting that gives us each a unique perspective/experience/reality.

We are each relatively unconscious and are on a personal journey of remembering that we are our spirit … we are the collective … we are the whole.

Our spirit can see things from all sides because it houses all perspectives. Our embodied self sees things from a specific perspective (created by our blueprint/unconsciousness).

• Your spirit can see the perceptually fragmented jigsaw of human embodiment coming together from above.
• You are on the ground and can only see what immediately surrounds you.

We connect with the pieces in the jigsaw that surround us through love. The more we love and accept another jigsaw piece, the more we know that piece’s perspective and the more we can emulate its perspective in addition to our own.

• To widen your perspective is to extend your consciousness of the whole painting.
• To widen your perspective is to be more like your spirit.
• To widen your human perspective is to integrate your spirit’s perspective.

When you start your human journey, you can only see the jigsaw pieces that immediately surround you clearly. As you come to know them, your perception encompasses them, and you add much of what they see to what you see. This is a description of awakening to the parts of the collective that you are most connected to. You wrote this for yourself because you wanted to experience these relationships.

Although it may seem overly poetic to some, the realization here is that the pulling back of the veil of forgetting is accelerated by love. Love is the joy of feeling attracted/pulled/drawn/welcomed/embraced. To remember ‘what you are’ is to love what you are … it is to accept who you are … it is to embrace what you are.

• You cannot remember what you will not accept.
• You cannot keep repressing what you are willing to love.

The resistive force we use to create the illusion of perceptual barriers is fear (which is non-acceptance/rejection). We resist what we fear, including memories of painful experiences. We resist letting the past in when we fear the feelings it holds. We resist letting in the future in just the same way. To be in fear is to resist life by applying your brakes.

• Your fear determines the speed time unfolds.
• Your ability to love without fear determines the unfolding of time.

You fall on a scale of loving this world to fearing this world … of loving yourself to fearing yourself. Where you fall on this scale determines the speed at which the movie you wrote is playing. In this analogy, you cannot change the events of the movie (as it is prewritten), but you can resist it and slow down how quickly it plays, or you can love/accept it and make it play quicker.

• Love and fear are the accelerator and brake for reality unfolding.
• Love yourself and this world to stop fearing being who you are.
• Be who you are to complete the movie.

I can tell you with complete certainty that in the movie that is your sequence of human lives, you will learn to fully be/embody yourself. The movie is all about your journey to love and embrace all that you are. That is how your movie ends, and you can’t change that ending. All you can do is delay it. But there is no reason to delay it because, even when you are finished, you will be free to start again.

• Do not be afraid of what you have written for yourself to experience.
• Do not fear the unfolding of your life.
• Do not fear embracing this experience.

Love and thank the author of your life because it is you and you wrote the script of your life with love. If you can’t see that yet, it is only because you have not finished reading the script yet. when you finish it and put it down, you will know yourself as the author and understand why every word is as it is. You would not change a thing. It cannot be any other way because when you put down the script, you will be stood back in the timeless perspective that wrote it.

There is nothing to fear because you do not need to fear yourself. Fall forward into time. Fall forward into remembering what you have written. Fall forward into your life and let whatever is going to catch you, catch you. Fall forward into life, and let what you have written embrace you. You have written a fantastic movie. You wrote it with great love, passion, and wisdom. There is nothing for you to fear. Your spirit loves you. This life is a gift … a prize … a reward. Do not resist the unfolding of your life, but do use the time you have to enjoy it.

Savor yourself.

Save yourself by savoring yourself.

You are the only person who can fully savor what you are.

Savor yourself.

You are the savorer that you seek.

You are the savior that you seek.

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