Timeless World Options

From what I gather time is meaningless in the astral realm. I was wondering then if you can spend what would seem like 50 years in the astral plane and come back to the physical plane a few minutes after you left your body.

Imagine what you could achieve if you could do that. Instead of spending your whole life reading and learning in the physical world you could learn the same information in the astral realm but only spend seconds in the physical world.

Is my theory on time in the astral realm way off?

Greetings Xochipilli,

You are thought provoking machine…

It seems you are right that time is meaningless in the astral world… in fact, I would say that time can’t exist in the astral world. This is because the past, present, and possibilities for the future are all intertwined in the astral. It is like an omnipresent web of thoughtforms that include the collective present alongside collective memories (past) and collective anticipations (future). Furthermore, time is a human construct to understand physical motion. I don’t see any way of spending 50 years in the astral since there is no way of measuring this …. There is no astral sun around which the astral world rotates.

My thoughts are that when people say that time is distorted in the astral they are referring to the experience in retrospect (i.e. it seemed like I was there for an hour but I only was in meditation for 20 minutes). This is likely a result of the amount of information that is gathered by the conscious mind during the astral experience. Depending on how much information is retained you make a retrospective estimate of the amount of time it would take in the physical world to acquire the same amount of information. .

This post has been edited by Faustopheles: Dec 7 2006, 07:33 PM