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Subtle Energies and Uncharted Realms of the Mind A Two-Worlds Model for Consciousness: Step-Time and Slope-Time
Step-Time and Slope-Time To orient the audience to the idea of a slope-time world, Abraham began his presentation with a brief history of Western cosmology. The cosmological worldview that most modern Westerners assume is "true" is the one that Isaac Newton imagined in the 17th century. This is the deterministic world with which most grade school children are familiar, where apples fall from trees due to the gravitational pull exerted by the earth’s heavy mass and time runs like an arrow extending from the determined past into the unknowable future. What Abraham emphasized about our common Western worldview is the fact that its primary hidden assumption is that time is discrete, meaning that the past is determined and cannot change while the future is undetermined and unknowable. Furthermore, Abraham noted that the assumption of discrete time is so imbedded in the modern, Western, scientific worldview that the data from psi research and subtle energies work are ignored by most scientists, because they challenge this very notion of discrete and linear time. So, how do we explain the phenomena of psi and subtle energies, if they transcend the laws of the step-time world? Enter the slope-time world. In contrast to step-time, slope-time is characterized by an extended-now moment, in which the present moment extends itself into the past and the future. In slope-time, human consciousness can influence the past and know the future because in some sense they are connected to each other—the present moment extends into them. Thus, in slope-time, precognition of the future is not a violation of the laws of physics but just a part of the normal rules of that world. Interaction Between Worlds Having explained the basic nature of the step-time and slope-time worlds, Abraham offered that psi phenomena are events in which the two worlds interact and meet each other. The instantaneous-now moment of our common step-time world can meet the extended now of the slope-time world. As Abraham put it, "precognitions are communications from the early part of the moving window of the slope-time world to the knife-edge of the step-time world. And psychokineses into the past are communications from the sharp present of the step-time world into the latter part of the window into the slope-time world." Abraham mentioned that the way the two worlds are able to meet and pass information from one to the other is by way of resonance, meaning a shared vibratory frequency. For example, someone who is able to see into the future (precognition) is resonating with that future moment in the slope-time world. That is, a resonance occurs between the person’s individual mental field and the animus mundi (or guardian angel) – as neighboring phenomena in slope-time, resulting in a conscious perception. Pattern Recognition Being a historian of science and math, Abraham also spent some time discussing the contemporary shift from traditional science to the emerging science base on chaos theory. Starting with the discovery of electromagnetism in the 19th century, Abraham pointed out that the mathematics that explain electromagnetism was discovered just in time for James Maxwell to make his breakthrough in the 1860s. Ironically, Abraham also pointed out that what we call the electromagnetic "field" does not really exist. The "field" is actually just a mathematical construction, as is the case for the gravitational field and nuclear field as well. What mathematics enables us to do is to recognize and describe space-time patterns in the universe. Once we describe them we have a tendency to think they are real, when instead they are just patterns. The shift Abraham sees happening in science today is that these dynamic patterns are now being described in an entirely different way. Often called chaos theory or complexity theory, this new branch of mathematics is inherently dynamic. It involves bifurcations and chaos in complex dynamical systems. From his perspective as a pioneer in the mathematics of chaos theory, Abraham said that what is exciting is that we are now undergoing a quantum leap in our ability to recognize patterns. Response In response to Abraham’s presentation, Barbara Brennen compared Abraham’s model to her own observations of the layers in the human energy field. She noted that when she brings her conscious awareness to a particular level in the human energy field, then that level itself becomes much more coherent and clear. She believes this is similar to the resonance that Abraham described as being central to the transfer of information between the step-time and slope-time worlds. When human consciousness is able to resonate at a particular frequency, then the transfer of information from the past or future can occur. Likewise, Brennen also noted that her healing work involves creating harmony in a person’s field by facilitating resonance between the individual chakras in someone’s body. Russell Targ noted that Abraham’s model was comparable to string theory in that both models imply that there is always a path of zero distance between any two points in the step-time world. This comparison lead to a brief concluding discussion of the nature of toroids, which are donut shaped energy forms that appear at many places and levels in the natural world. The point that Abraham made, and Brennen concurred, was that the doughnut toroid seems to be a natural geometric shape of the universe, which serves as a template for the physical forms that evolve everywhere.
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