Linear Time Meditation
Assume your favoured meditation posture. Perform some slow and deep breathing for a while to calm your nervous system.
Close your eyes and feel yourself centred in the Now. Resolve to give yourself as much time as you need for this practice, ignoring worldly or mundane time for its duration.
Start to visualise Time as a landscape around you, with events in the past stretching out to your left, and events in the future stretching out to your right.
Events that happened just before you started the practice will be closest to you on your left, while actions you will perform just after it will be closest to you on your right.
Start to move back through events on your left, going further and further back into your past. Focus on important events in your life, good and bad, while not getting too involved in any one experience.
Perform the same practice moving to the right, into the future. In this case focus on events that you believe are likely to happen, while recognising that in this movement to the right you cannot know all that will happen in the way you could remember past events moving to the left.
Return to the centre (Now) and visualise a Sun high in the sky above this temporal landscape, illuminating all these events so that you can see them all at once, in one golden moment, outside Time, in Eternity.
Understand that from a higher perspective you encompass all that you experienced in the past, and all you will experience in the future. Integrating this idea into your daily life will help lift you out of the narrow I of the moment, into a higher and broader view of your Life as a whole.
"To arrive at the completion of the Great Work is to pass out of the limitations of Time into the Freedom of Eternity, where Past and Present and Future meet in a timeless Now." - Paul Foster Case.
See also:
“Time above Space”
“Living Time and the Integration of the Life”
