Day 11 - Thoughts About Time And A Past Life Memory - Hot Springs Walking Tour Of Northern Japan
Day 11 - Thoughts About Time And A Past Life Memory - Hot Springs Walking Tour Of Northern Japan
You have a lot of time to think when you are walking all day.
Today, I was thinking about time.
Time moves so slowly when we are walking through the landscape.
I get a sense of timelessness, as if I were walking for ages, if not for centuries.
Time, is not a real, objective thing.
This is actually quite a scientific statement.
The concept of time has been debated for centuries: whether time is something that exists independently of us (objective and real), or whether it’s a human construct, a way we describe change, motion, and memory (subjective and emergent).
In physics, Einstein’s relativity theory had already challenged the old idea of time as an absolute “flow.”
Instead, it’s woven into space as part of spacetime, and what you experience as “now,” depends on your motion and gravity.
In other words, There is NO universal “clock” ticking somewhere or everywhere in the same way.
Time, as we count it now, did not start with the birth of Jesus Christ, nor as the Thai people count if, from the ascension of the Buddha.
In philosophy, thinkers like Kant and Bergson went further:
Kant argued that time and space are forms of perception, part of how our mind organizes experience.
Bergson saw time as something that is lived and felt, a duration, and not something that exists “out there.”
Modern physics is also split.
Some theories (like the block universe view) say all moments, past, present, and future, exist at the same time in equal measure, meaning that time doesn’t “flow” chronologically.
Others (like quantum gravity or the “emergent time” idea) suggest time might not be fundamental at all, but arise from deeper timeless laws.
Time is a collective human creation.
You agreed to come to experience time when you chose to incarnate here, and ultimately your goal is to overcome time.
You are NOT a seventy or eighty year old person.
Nothing of the body you had when you were one year, or ten years old is now with you.
Only your memories remain.
Your body is constantly renewing itself.
Old cells die and new cells now form your physical body.
You have a completely new body every seven years.
The question is, why do people look old, if they have a seven year old body?
Our appearance as older people is a result of the collective power of wrong beliefs and ideas.
Allow me to explain by giving you a personal example.
Yesterday, as we were walking, I had a very old memory of a past life come over me.
In it, I was a British woman, very frail, bed ridden and old, yet I was only in my early sixties.
I was dying, not of a disease, but of old age.
Many people have asked me why I walk pilgrimages.
I always answer that we do it to stay strong, sharp, and self reliant, but the truth is that we have this inner urge to roam the world.
Maybe I have this hidden in past life memories of being weak, or sick or injured and unable to roam on foot.
In any case, how was I once dying of old age in my sixties, when I now feel so strong and capable and just starting my life, in my sixties, in this incarnation?
My body today functions better than it did at any time in my life.
I am in perfect health, I have no medical issues and lots of energy and strength.
My eyesight has improved significantly since I started doing macro diving, looking for tiny creatures that are only a few millimeters long in the vast sea.
Part of the human enlightenment process involves the knowledge that you are a creator.
You are god, and you are never separated from God, even though you are in a three dimensional reality.
The third dimension was never meant to be a limited dimension.
It is a dimension of free will, and you can choose to remember your true identity. You are free to choose what you want to experience in form.
You came from Heaven, from God, from Source, and just because you imagine yourself to be just a human being, you cannot really be separated from your true identity.
You still think of yourself as separate from God.
You may believe that God created you at some point 60, 70 or 100 years ago, and that He is outside of you, doing things separately from you.
But the truth is that you Are God! You are doing the creating.
You are the center of your universe.
Because you create your reality, you get to choose what will come next.
Experiencing Heaven on earth is a realistic goal.
It is not an impossible goal.
It is an available reality.
You think of yourself as a body of a certain age, preferences and personality.
Your muscles, heart, lungs, etc. are inside of you.
But this is not all that makes you who you are.
There are other unseen forces that are also inside you.
You have humor, wisdom, courage, talent, intelligence, creativity, resilience and joy, and all are energetic forces that cannot be seen or touched, yet they can be so powerful and creative.
You are pure source energy.
We ate a delicious breakfast at our elegant Onsen hotel Grandmer Sankaisou.
Today we wanted to continue our walk north, and return to our hotel in the afternoon.
Because there are almost no trains stopping in these rural stations, we decided to walk backwards,
That meant that we will take the only available morning train to the most northern destinations, and then walk backwards to our hotel.
We took the hotel shuttle bus to the train station.
The shuttle bus driver, just before he was scheduled to leave, played the harmonica for us, thanking us for staying at the hotel, then driving us to the station and bowing many times.
It was a charming way to start the day.
We took the train to Goshogawara station, then walked 23 km along the main car road.
It was noisy, so we put on our earbuds and listened to some books.
We took with us a thermos of hot tea and snacks, so after two hours of walking, we took a detour to drink and rest at the Kizukuri train station.
The train station has an enlarged Jumon-era clay statue at the entrance.
Because we did not have the time to take a bus to see the actual archaeological Jumon era site, we were content to see the clay statue.
I didn’t want to return to the main car road.
Instead, we walked through the rice fields and villages, which zigzagged and made the path longer, but it was worth it, because it was quieter and much more pleasant.
The small villages were lined with houses in varying conditions, ranging from some falling apart to some in very good shape.
Many of the houses had beautiful gardens with many flowers and apple trees, persimmon trees and even a couple of quince trees, all loaded with fruit.
We also saw quite a few small flatbed trucks carrying crates of just-picked apples or persimmons on the road.
After another two hours of walking, we took a brief rest in a park that had a bench, ate the onigiris (rice balls) that we had bought that morning.
Then we continued our walk through many inter-connected villages and old houses.
We returned to our hotel by 4:00 pm, way before sunset which in this season occurs at 5:15 pm.
We sat in the lounge and had some drinks from the unlimited free drink buffet.
The soak in the private onsen room was really lovely, but Jules got overheated and a bit sweaty afterwards.
He assured me that nothing was wrong with him, that it was only a momentary overheating that had already passed.
Tonight we skipped the buffet dinner and instead ate snacks in the lounge and drank fresh apple juice and then ate fresh fruit in the room.
We enjoyed our walk today, because the small villages that we passed through all had some interesting buildings or gardens to photograph.
With love and friendship,
Tali
Walked today -23 km.
Total walked to date - 179 km.
