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7 Soul Searching Questions To Ask Before You Start a New Relationship

If you’re single then chances are you are doing all you can to manifest that special someone in your life. But as well as practicing Quantum Creating techniques, there are questions everyone who is single and searching should ask themselves before the next person comes along. Knowing the answers not only clears the space for them to manifest, but also enables you to be clear on your needs – and your intentions.

1: Do I actually want to be in a relationship right now? Do you want a committed relationship or are you just looking for some no-strings attached fun? There’s nothing wrong if it’s the latter – but you have to be up front about it. It’s all too easy to meet someone, enjoy their company and then suddenly you’re seeing them exclusively. Know what you want and make sure the other person is on the same page.

2: What is it I need from a partner? Think back to what your past relationships gave you. Love? Emotional support? Companionship? Soul growth? If you want a relationship for other reasons – say financial support or just because you don’t want to be alone, you need to drop those items off your agenda. A relationship is about two people becoming more than they could be as individuals – about learning through love – not about convenience or neediness.

3: Am I ready to welcome love into my life? In other words – do you think you deserve to be loved? Do you love yourself? Are you happy with yourself? Do you think you’re thin enough, smart enough, funny enough or successful enough right now to attract the kind of person you want? None of these things make you unlovable, we are all lovable exactly as we are. If you’ve answered ‘no’ to any of these, then you might need to develop healthy self-love before attempting to get into a healthy relationship.

4: What are the top three qualities I need in a partner? Honesty? Kindness? Willingness to communicate? A sense of humour? Think about what the most important qualities are to you and avoid superficial characteristics like looks and money, and then look for those qualities in each potential mate you meet.

5: Am I ready to date again? Are you over your last relationship? Carrying a torch or harbouring unresolved feelings for an ex will only sabotage your new relationship. Make sure you have drawn a line under the past before moving into the future. And if you’re not yet over your ex don’t give in to pressure from well-meaning friends who tell you to ‘get back on the horse’. You’ll only fall off again!

6: How is this person enhancing my life? The right person should bring out the best in us. If you don’t feel happier, stronger and confident about yourself in the relationship then they may not be right for you. Ask if the person enhances your life and if the answer is no, don’t be afraid to move on.

7: Why am I dating this person? Perhaps the hardest question we need to ask ourselves, but the one we need to be ruthlessly honest with ourselves about. Are you dating them because you are interested in them and see a potential for a real connection or are you seeing them just because you are lonely/bored/all your friends are married and you’re the last one who’s single/your job sucks – the list can go on and on. If you are seeing someone for any other reason than you think they might be able to offer true love in the long term, being with them will prevent you from finding the person with whom you can truly connect.

We live in the 21st Century and there are many sorts of relationships which can give us soul growth and joy.The important thing to remember is that if you stumble over one of these questions, you should love yourself enough to take the time to get the right answers. Use your psychic ability and trust your intuition. Don’t be afraid to risk loneliness in the short term rather than settle for something that’s not the real thing!

Weekly Astrology Video With Michele Knight 18th March 2013

The big Astrology news of the week – Spring is here! Sun, Mars and Venus are in perky Aries! Mercury is going direct! Happy days! Our energy is given a boost so get prepared to make the most of an optimistic week!

Be your own psychic – Find love through lucid dreaming

What do you need to do to find love? Just ask your soul the next time you have a lucid dream…

Your dreams become lucid when you ‘wake up’ or become conscious enough to realise that you are dreaming. It sounds like a contradiction, being awake and asleep at the same time, but there are different levels of consciousness and, with practice and awareness, it’s possible to shift between these different planes of existence.

If you have ever experienced a lucid dream, you’ll know what an exhilarating spiritual experience it can be. Ironically, it’s not a dreamlike feeling at all – in fact it feels as ‘real’ as at any other time you are conscious during the day.

Say hello to your soul

When you become lucid in your dream you are in the wonderful position of being able to control what you are dreaming about. You are able to look in to the world of your dreaming, unconscious mind, and can meet and talk with your higher, unconscious self – a part of your soul that is usually hidden and protected beneath layers of your own unconscious shell.

Imagine what secrets you can mine from the part of you that mysteriously controls so much of your behaviour and attitudes. You will be able to understand your unconscious blocks or past-life fears, get invaluable insight into why you have been finding certain situations so tough, and discover the secrets of your own personality.

Dream training

It is possible to train your mind to get lucid. One of the easiest way to do this is to draw capital ’D’ for ‘dreaming’ on the back of your hand. Every time you see the ‘D’ you should say to yourself “Am I awake or am I dreaming?” Do this every time you see the ‘D’ and make a point of really considering the answer (this is an important part of the training).

Most of the time, of course, you will be awake; doing the ironing, brushing your hair, biting your nails. But after a few days of seeing the ‘D’ it will become an ordinary part of your day, and therefore, just as the other ordinary things such as your office or people you see every day, the ‘D’ will soon pop up in your dreams. The difference is that when you see the ‘D’ in your dream, you will be so used to asking yourself, “Am I awake or am I dreaming?”, that you’ll finally be able to say – “yes! I am dreaming!” And that’s the trigger, the key to opening another world.

Keeping it up

Another method to help you get lucid is the ‘arm up’ way. When you are feeling sleepy, keep your arm listed up into the air for as long as you can. This is to remind you that you don’t want to go entirely conscious… you want to keep part of your mind awake. Every time you forget what you are trying to do your arm will drop and remind you. The effort of keeping it in the air will grow intolerable after a while but hopefully it will have enabled you to stay awake enough to find yourself in a lucid dream.

Exploring your dreamworld

When you find yourself conscious in another plane of existence you experience freedom from physical, emotional, and mental entanglements – perhaps for the first time ever.

It’s harder to control things in a lucid dream than you may think. This is because the experience of becoming aware inside dream is so incredibly exciting that the first few times it happens you’ll probably forget why you wanted to have one in the first place. The dreamworld environment is so distracting, with limitless possibilities and avenues to explore, that whatever you’ve been having problems with in your waking, conscious world will seem unimportant, like they happened in another far away, world.

Your new environment will take up your full attention, and whatever your imagination is capable of creating will lure you inside its magical vortex. Sometimes what you experience can be so intense and thrilling that it will wake you up.

But with time and experimentation, you’ll get better at hanging on to your lucidity. This is why it’s important to at least attempt to stick to what your original plan was – to find out about your love life!

Ask yourself about love

Once you are in control of your dream, ask yourself, or another entity in your dream “Where will I find love?” -and see what happens. Ask to be shown the face of your soulmate, or quiz your unconscious self on what action you need to take, or what you need change to meet this special person. The answers may astonish you, and you may be shown too much information at once, or to get carried away by one small beautiful tangent until you have forgotten what you were doing there in the first place. Because the landscape of your imagination is such a changeable, reflective, alluring, river of thought, emotion and images, It’s all too easy to get swept away and lose control of the dream and slip into unconsciousness again. So the trick is to try to stay calm and focused, and remember what you came to find out!

On waking

If you are lucky enough to have woken up directly from a lucid dream you probably won’t need much help in remembering what happened. It should still be crystal clear in your mind because you didn’t waken very far from your current level of consciousness.

Write down or record what happened so that you can dwell on it now that you are fully awake. Were any of your questions answered? Do you recognise any faces you saw? What advice did you receive about your situation? What will you ask next time? Is there something you need to do, or change? How do you feel about what happened? Write down any significant emotions and thoughts to work on for your next meeting with your higher self.

Teasing fragments

If you slipped back into unconsciousness after your lucid dream it might be harder to remember what happened because you have transpired different levels of consciousness since it occurred. But if you know you were lucid for even a part of your dream you should be able to recover the memory.

It’s important to write or record any fragments you have immediately, or else they will sink down the plughole of your mind to be forgotten forever! If you just have bits and pieces focus on one tiny part that you remember, think about what sounds, colours or words you heard, any smells, images, messages or feelings that you have been left with. This should be enough to tease out enough memory to link to another part of the lucid dream, then another.

If you asked specific questions in your dream you can usually link back into the memory by asking the same questions, and see if that sparks anything too.

Back in the real world

While you’re in the act of recalling your lucid dream you’re probably not quite back in the here and now. The solid, waking world of ordinary consciousness operates in a different level to the one you had just occupied, so it’s a good idea to get up, have a cup of tea, and continue with normal life, just so you feel grounded.

The next time

The beautiful thing about practicing lucid dreaming is that you have a chance to swim in its spiritual waters every time you go to sleep. It’s not something you can do too much – and you can’t stray into areas you’re not supposed to visit, because your higher self protects you at all times.

The more energy you spend on lucid dreaming the better you will become at mastering its secrets. You will discover how to perfect and evolve your waking, conscious self, while immersing yourself in the boundless possibilities of your own soul.

Be Your Own Psychic – Bibliomancy

 

Your favourite books are part of who you are which is why they can also be used to shed light on any problem

The books you love console you when you are lonely, inspire you when you’re bored, teach you when you need to understand and have an enormous influence on who you are and what you believe. That’s why books you’ve loved are incredibly hard to throw away, even if you haven’t read them for years.

No two people reading the same book will have an identical experience because by reading you created an entirely personal relationship with those words in your own mind. Whether they’re fact or fiction, the ideas, stories, truths and magical worlds they created in your imagination are uniquely yours.

Loved books will have changed the way you think, made you examine your own depths and encourage you to think in new ways.  That’s what makes them such a useful part of your spiritual repertoire.

Bibliomancy

Bibliomancy was a popular method of divination used in the Middle Ages, where a book, usually the Bible, was opened at random to provide some spiritual insight. Hundreds of years ago there clearly wasn’t as much choice when it came to books, so the Bible was the obvious choice. But of course with books now freely available on any subject you have a much greater treasure trove to plunder. Any book can be used in divination, but you will probably feel a deeper connection with the ones that have had the greatest influence on you.

Books as transformative tools

To soak up the real mystical power of books, just take a walk through any old library. You can feel the heady weight of thousands of years’ worth of knowledge in the air; the thoughts, longings and musings of the dead and the living, all begging to be re-discovered.

To prime yourself for a spot of bibliomancy, run your fingers along any interesting bookshelf and see what calls to you. The titles of the books themselves often mirror how you are feeling, or describe a situation you have been dealing with. Art and picture books, or books filled with illustrations or cartoons can be just as revealing – and at times very amusing!

A new chapter

Before you look for the right book, think about what kind of question you want to ask. If you are seeking answers to resolve a relationship or love conundrum, choosing a book of poems, philosophy or a beautifully written novel may be a better fit than A Century of Welding.  But that’s not to say non-obvious choices won’t contain the wisdom you’re looking for. Use whichever book feels right. If a book falls at your feet, or appears in an unusual place, it is a coincidence that should not be overlooked. If a book calls to you – use it – you will be surprised. Words taken out of their larger context could trigger something deeper than you imagine is possible.

1. Select your book

If you want to use bibliomancy to find out more about someone you know, who has loaned you a book – or whose book you now own – use it! It has already been psychically imprinted with that person’s personality, so makes it the natural choice.

If the book you wish to use was obvious straight away it is also a good choice, because on a deeper level, you already know it will work well.

But if you have no idea which book to use, take a look at your bookshelf, or gather a few favourites together. If you are asking a love or relationship question, choose a book that feels more connected with your emotions that the rest. And if you really can’t choose, close your eyes and just pick one, that’s a sure-fire way to let your higher self guide your hand to the right place.

2. Calm your mind

Sit with your chosen book and close your eyes for a while. Try to keep your mind open and clear without dwelling too much on the emotions of the question you need help in answering. You’re aiming for a state of calm expectation.

3. Ask your question
When you feel that you’re in a good place, emotionally and spiritually, ask your question out loud, or in your mind, if you prefer. Take a few seconds, allowing your question to be heard and absorbed. Then pick up the book.

4. Find your spot

Close your eyes and let your fingers wander through the book’s pages, touching the paper anywhere you like. At some point you will feel the ‘right’ place to stop. Place your finger on the spot you are drawn to. If you feel there’s more than one area of the book you want to explore, you can repeat the exercise after looking at the passage you were first attracted to.

5. Read

Read from where you finger is resting, for a paragraph or a passage, or to the end of the page. If you land right at the bottom of the page look either side of the page where you finger is resting.

6. Apply the wisdom

At first the words may bear no relation to the question you have asked. But give it some time. Repeat the passage, or write it down – your higher mind has chosen these words to help you in some way and you will eventually understand why.

What do the words you are reading have to tell you about your situation? Do they offer any guidance or inspiration? If you read the words to someone else how would they react? Do you have any emotional connection with what you have just read? Did it make you happy, angry, confused? It might help to read it aloud or to read the entire passage of text to help shed light on your question.

If you need more clarity, try it again from the start by picking a book that seems to fit your question, then merge your answer with the last passage. Eventually you will be able to see what the words are trying to get through to you.

Your One Step Visualisation for Manifesting Love!

If you’re looking for love there’s a simple way to heart-start your search and draw that special someone to you quicker than you may have dreamed possible. Many techniques for manifesting love rely on you making a list of the qualities you want in a potential partner. That’s fine and there’s no arguing with the fact it’s a necessary step as when we become clear about what it is we need in a partner then we’re not only one step close to manifesting them but we’ll also recognise them when they do turn up! However, where many of these systems fall down is that they fail to take into consideration that YOU are a key part of the manifestation process. In fact, you’re almost totally ignored. This simple technique focuses on YOU and how you look, think and feel when you meet this person – so by getting in touch with that you can start to send out the energy and create the circumstances that will bring them into your life.

Ready to begin? Set some time aside when you won’t be disturbed and as with any visualisation technique, turn off your phone. If you like you can light some candles or play some relaxing music but this isn’t necessary. Get comfortable – you can sit or even lay down, whatever is most comfortable for you. Close your eyes and relax. Concentrate on your breathing. Now, I want you to imagine you are walking down a street. Where are you? What time of day is it? What time of year? Is anyone with you? What are your wearing? Notice your appearance if you can. Perhaps you can see your reflection in a shop window. Is your hair or make up different to how it is usually? Are you sauntering or going somewhere with a purpose? Is it a weekday or a weekend? Are you somewhere familiar or somewhere you’ve never been before? Take note of all the impressions you’re receiving because they are important.

Now, I want you to really get in touch with how you are feeling. Hopefully in this meditation you are already feeling pretty good but I want you to feel that wonderful sense of tingling anticipation we all get when we know that something special is about to happen. If you haven’t already accessed it think back to a time in your life when you felt like that and infuse your visualisation with this. Now, look again at where you are. Your future love is about to appear. Visualise the two of you making eye contact and again, concentrate on how this makes you feel. Allow them to start the conversation. What do they say? How do you respond. Again, stay with how you are feeling and also your impressions of them while watching their reactions.

Feel free to ask your ‘virtual’ lover if they have any information for you. This can be anything from what you need to do to connect with them in this reality to questions about the actual person you will meet.  Remember, this is all information about your future relationship that is being channelled by your higher self and even if the actual person who manifests may look or be different, your higher self is showing you a representation of them on some spiritual and emotional level so don’t discount or disregard what you are being shown or told. You can end the visualisation at any time. Afterwards, you may want to write down details such as what you were wearing, how you looked and where you were. If you looked or dressed differently it’s now time to change your image to mirror that aspect of yourself. Remember, when we make changes we attract something (or someone!) different. Above all, practice recreating how you felt in the visualisation as this is the key to manifesting your new love. When you change your energy vibration you can’t fail to draw its equivalent to you. So, open your mind and your heart and take this one-step visualisation towards manifesting love.

Weekly Astrology Video With Michele Knight 11th March 2013

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6 steps to transform unrequited love into real realtionships

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What are you getting out of it?

Usually when you do something you do it for a good reason – even if it doesn’t end up with the result you want. It’s like over-eating… you know it’s not good for you but it gives you comfort and enjoyment and is probably related to an unconscious fear on a soul level.

So what good is your crush doing you? You want a connection … and if you can’t have it, for whatever reason, that means you’re free to have glorious fantasies about how incredible it would feel to know that person on an intimate level. Fantasy naturally never lives up to reality – it is fantasy’s job not to!

But if you are feeling lonely, bored, unappreciated or unloved, fantasy, at least temporarily, soothes your pain. Fantasy satisfies your need for love, acceptance and sexual excitement, and provides something even more important – hope.

Gotta love hope!

It’s the hope that’s keeping you going, and hope is always a beautiful, worthwhile emotion. It certainly feels preferable to living with the stark reality that he or she cannot return your love. Even though logically you know the relationship can’t go anywhere, the hope you feel in your heart is real and true – and it is going to cure you. You are going to direct the optimistic emotions of your unrequited crush into helping you find someone who can return all your desires and longings

The yearning

It’s the human condition to yearn for a connection with another that’s so transcendent that real life pales in comparison. In your fantasy you can explore the imagined shared heights of emotion and ecstasy that are so overwhelming they create a real, physical response in you. The instinct to merge in this powerful, spiritual union is so compelling… and yet in real life it can be an elusive, feeling occurrence – even in truly happy relationships.

The person you meet in your mind is probably nothing like the real person anyway, but a concoction of your own romantic longings and spiritual desire to merge with something greater than yourself.

The differences between the boundless possibilities of your imagination and what you have been given to work with on this Earth are often very difficult to reconcile. But this does not mean you have to give up on your dreams!

Getting real

To snap you out of your glorious daydream and put all that wonderful hopeful energy into something that’s actually going to get you what you want, you’re going to need the following things:

Two large pieces of paper and a pen

A photo or image of your unrequited love

A daffodil (or any spring flower)

One white candle

String

Step1: setting the scene

Make sure you won’t be disturbed for an hour or so and find a peaceful place. Settle your mind, try not to dwell too long on any negatives or positives and let your thoughts drift by.

Place your unrequited love’s picture in the centre of one piece of paper, and the daffodil in the other. The flower symbolises the energy of spring, of the power to give birth to bright new ideas. Write ‘hope’ on the paper with the flower. Light the candle, which represents your optimism to be able to channel your energies into manifesting something more fulfilling.

Step 2: wallow in it

Explore you fantasies about your unrequited person – your longings, what it is about them that is so special? What feelings so they inspire in you? Why are they so beautiful? What do you want from them? What are your hopes for the future with this person? Write anything that comes to mind around their picture.

Step 3: words and feelings

Look at the words you have written down and transfer any that are not specific to your crush; for example general ideas such as: love, security, happiness, acknowledgement and write them on the hope paper. Think of any qualities not embodied by your unrequited love that would be desirable in a future partner and write them on the hope sheet. Add any words, colours or doodles that feel hopeful, optimistic and true.

Step 4: cheerio old fantasy

Fold your unrequited love’s paper into as small a package as possible and tie it with string. While you are doing this thank your unrequited person for the wonderful daydreams. Thank them for making you aware of what you need and are missing in your life. Understand in your heart that hope is not lost but that you are channelling that optimism into creating new love. It is time to re-direct all that longing and want into finding someone who can return your needs. Now tell your unrequited love that it is time to go.

Step 5: hello new love

Fold your Hope parcel down to as small as it will go and tie it with string. While you are doing this, ask the Universe to see you and acknowledge that you are taking positive steps to create new love in your life.  Think of the words and emotions written on the hope paper and ask for these to be returned to you. Know that what you are creating is much more positive than dwelling in a situation where you never get what you want.

Step 6: continuation

Place the unrequited parcel in the sink and wash it in water from the tap, imagining the unrequited love’s hold on you pouring down the sink. Then take the soggy parcel to a compost heap, or bury it somewhere you won’t encounter it again.

Place your hope parcel somewhere out of sight of other people, but where you will know of its presence every day. Every time you pass by it, ask for the things you need… ask for love, intimacy, passion, understanding, excitement, contentment, security… whatever your un-fulfilled longings are.

Hope springs eternal

Soon the pain of your unrequited love will lessen. This is because you are claiming your hopes and longings as conscious, controllable energies rather than empty fantasies. Any time you feel tempted to lose yourself in those old patterns, remember you invented this person to represent the things you need or are missing in your life, and that they are separate to those longings. If it helps, think of them on the compost heap! Then remember the positive energies used to create your parcel of hope.

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How to love fearlessly

The Course in Miracles tells us that there are only two emotions in the Universe – love and fear.  Over and over again, when people are struggling with problems related to love, it really does seem to me that fear is at the bottom of it all.  Fear that we are unlovable, fear that there isn’t enough to go around, fear that we are going to lose someone we love, or, if a relationship has ended, fear that they won’t come back and that if they don’t we will never go on to love or be loved again.

Just for a moment stop and think how your life would be if you never again felt one moment of fear.

Energetically, Love and fear can’t be in the same space.  Fear makes us clingy and insecure.  From a conscious creator perspective, fear sets up a crazy vibration where we can push ourselves towards creating something which is the absolute opposite of our desire.

So how can we love fearlessly?

1/Trust the universe and remember that what is for you cannot pass you by.  We are fated to have some experiences in our lives, but how we respond to whatever happens creates our destiny and it’s more powerful if you put your focus on creating your destiny rather than trying to analyse what might or might not be fate!  A problem I often see is that two people meet, they might have a relationship but then one person moves on and then the other person is left devastated, especially if they hang on to the idea that they’ve blown their one chance for love and happiness.  Really, it’s very simple.  If you meet someone and they don’t want to be with you, they might have been right for that moment or that experience, but they weren’t the one for you to create a long lasting relationship with!  Rather than plunging into a downward spiral of trying desperately to get someone back, which pushes them away even further, what we really need to do at such times and all along in fact is stay true to ourselves, love ourselves and be clear about the kind of love we want to draw in.  The easy way to differentiate between what’s for you and what isn’t is that with the right person you still have your ups and downs but overall you feel centred and stay true to yourself and your own life path.  If you start to feel crazy, desperate and addicted in the sense that you feel you can’t live without them and all of the other areas of your life start to suffer through being around them, either you’ve got some work to do, they’ve got some work to do or your relationship needs transforming for it to be the right long term one for you!

2/If you meet someone you feel is really special and find that you are driving you or even both of you crazy by constantly questioning them or what they are up to, know that you have absolutely nothing to lose by trusting yourself and them.  We all have to learn to discern between our instincts that are alerting us to someone being up to something that is harmful to us and the kind of paranoia that comes from insecurity that makes us want to cling to people so that they can’t breathe.  That in itself is a huge area, but in a nutshell, if you run the same patterns with everyone you’ve been involved with, it’s likely that you need to take a deeper look at why you might be feeling as you do.  If you find yourself behaving in a way that you just don’t recognise – checking their texts or cross examining them about where they’ve been or who they’ve been with – and they are giving you plenty of clues that they aren’t being honest with you, then it might be them.

3/Stalk your thoughts.  The Toltecs were an ancient race with a rich body of shamanic wisdom.  Toltec wisdom tells us that stalking our thoughts is one of the ways that we can bring about our spiritual growth.  To do that, we have to start by understanding that our thoughts are often shadows of the world rather than clear representations of the world.  Being able to take a detached view of what we think alerts us to those times where we are veering towards the kind of thoughts that actually slow us down from creating what we want.  Thoughts like, ‘No one could ever love me’,  or the ones that run along the lines of ‘If they don’t want me/leave me my life is over/I can never be happy’ need to be confronted and replaced with the truth – that we are already complete as we are, that we are already loved and that we are powerful creators. No one person gets to determine our destiny.

4/Remember the truth.  You are unique, extraordinary, amazing and lovable just as you are.  You are a part of the whole, made from love and here to express your true essence.

5/If you’re single, know that love arrives in ways you least expect it.  Every love story has to start somewhere and every single person who has every fallen in love didn’t know when they woke up on the morning that it happened that they were going to meet someone in just a few hours time.  Knowing that you just don’t know when it will be your moment is a far better vibrational thought that the conviction that it will never happen for you!

6/Over the next few weeks, you can work with affirmations or mantras.  I personally love ‘what is for me cannot pass me by’ – it’s one of my go-to mantras that puts me back in a state of knowing that all is right in my universe even when the surface looks frantic and frazzled as it can do in my busy life! Or, if it feels better for you, you can simply say, ‘I am a unique shard of the divine and love flows effortlessly through me’.

Loads of love,

Michele x

A version of this article first appeared in Spirit and Destiny Magazine.

Faster Than the Speed of Thought: How We Exist Outside of Time

We’ve talked about how we create our own reality and how time is something we’ve invented ‘to stop everything happening at once’ to paraphrase American scientist John Wheeler. Theories such as the holographic universe point to our consciousness existing outside of our own bodies as part of a universal consciousness – in other words, a benign version of The Matrix. Now, in an intriguing series of experiments, scientists appear to have uncovered evidence that what we consider our consciousness, does in fact exist outside of time – or perhaps more accurately, what we consider time to be.

Our brains create our own version of reality but what this really means is that we are actually living outside of time! The fact we think we live in the present, that the past is gone and the future is yet to happen is in fact an illusion. Einstein told us that ‘past, present and future exist simultaneously’ and these new experiments appear to show that this genius was once again, correct. Think about it. Information reaches us at different speeds. Let’s say you see a flash of lightning. By the time you register that flash it is actually in the past but you think it is in the present. Another example is a ‘live’ television broadcast. There is actually a lag between what is happening ‘live’ and you watching it on TV of about a minute. This allows channels to censor it if necessary. Our experience of ‘reality’ works in exactly the same way. There is a lag between what is actually happening and what our brain tells us is happening. In other words, what you think of as happening may never have actually happened.

Scientists found evidence of this in a series of experiments called the ‘flash-lag’ illusion where a screen displays a rotating disc with an arrow on it and a spot of light flashes every time the spinning arrow conjuncts it. Yet, this isn’t what we see, The flash lags behind, apparently occurring after the arrow has passed. Then David Eagleman of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and Terrence Sejnowski of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California took this experiment one step further. They started the arrow and moved it after the flash but participants perceived its movement in whatever direction it went in before the flash actually happened! How could they predict which way it would go if tit didn’t actually start until after the flash? The answer to this paradox appears to be that what we perceive to occur at a certain time is influenced by what happens next – in other words we are observing the present from the future!

We go through life on the basis that we exist in the present yet it would seem that at the very moment you are reading this you are in fact ‘out of time’. Not only that the implications just go on and on. Not only do you not inhabit the present moment, the ‘you’ you think is inhabiting it doesn’t exist there either!

Science, spirituality and consciousness studies appear to be converging but the exciting message for us all is that we are all far more than we ever dreamed possible and part of an inter-connected creation that exists forever – outside of time.