(01-25-2017, 02:12 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: [ -> ]If I recall correctly the place you go after dying is in time/space.
Yes, but it might be almost better to think of it like atmospheric density. No atmosphere = pure time. Dense atmosphere = space.
So you have: (space) <================>(time). So depending on the density of the atmosphere you exist somewhere on that line (so in metaphor, you might end up in the troposphere, mesosphere, or thermosphere, or even in the vacuum of space itself. You might even stay by the atmosphere right next to the ground (e.g. earthbound spirit).
So the more oriented you are towards the space side, the more
tangible (involving form) it will be, and the more oriented you are towards the time side, the more intangible (lacking in form) it will be.
(01-25-2017, 02:12 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: [ -> ]Does even subjective time exist there? Like if I count 1, 2, 3 I am experiencing an amount of time passing to count those numbers.
Yes, you would experience the amount of subjective time it takes to count those numbers. Just don't think the "time" you experience doing that has to equal somebody elses' "time" to do that.
(01-25-2017, 02:12 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: [ -> ]But from what I recall of the Ra material, time doesn't exist there. Or maybe time is infinite there.
If time didn't really exist there, then wouldn't every being be at the same level of spiritual advancement?
Time becomes greater the more you lean towards the nonphysical realm. That means you have more of it. For example, you are in a life threatening experience, and your soul can perceive the trauma and chaos about to unfold and gets ready to hit the eject button on the body because its like "i'm outta here". It begins to withdraw away from space into time. You perceive this in the physical as "time slowing down" (a very common reaction to life threatening events). You see, there is now *more* time to deal with space. If you withdraw completely into the realm of time, it would seem to stop, because time becomes infinite. You can then move through time at will.
But in a sense, you are right that we are all equally developed, because there is a version of you at every stage of development. But its a bit like a book club we are all participating in. Everybody has the book, but not everybody reads the book at the same pace. You still have to move through the book in a linear fashion, but the amount of time it takes you, personally, to read it start to finish, lies squarely in the provenance of your personal self, and as you read that book (at whatever speed that you naturally do that), the events of the novel will unfold with your exact speed and ability to personally take it in.
(01-25-2017, 02:12 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: [ -> ]Couldn't you stay there a short time and just progress through densities, since it would take no time at all?
Again, to continue the book analogy: there is a test on the book when you are done reading it (or in the case of a book club, perhaps an in depth discussion about the finer nuances of the story), so even though the book is being read in "no time", you still have to absorb all the contents of the book. So lets say the span of the events in the book equals "1 million years". That 1 million years is a fiction. The time frame is part of the story. You, the reader of the story, exist in "no time", the eternal present, but you still have to pass through that million years of "pretend time", because remember, you have to discuss the book at the end of the class. So read it in one night, or 2 months, the end result is precisely the same as far as the universal present is concerned.
(01-25-2017, 02:12 PM)IndigoGeminiWolf Wrote: [ -> ]I remember reading that all time is simultaneous there. So everything happens at once. This could even mean that as soon as you die, you've already reunited with Creator. That reality/potential exists.
If all time is simultaneous, you should be able to learn an infinite amount of knowledge all at once. But maybe the soul only has certain capacity.
The book is completely written, all the pages, and the story written on those pages is simultaneously existing. But you still have to absorb the contents, and however amount of subjective time that equals is unique to you, as a soul.