The mysterious nature of time

[Confused]

anyone else read the Flow book? (The Psychology of Optimal Experience)

it was one of the first books which explained the fluid nature of time to me; how experientially it is person's relationship to an experience which dictates how fast/slow it goes. Or even timeless it goes.

It is often heard of in terms of physical exploits, like footballers and gymnasts. To me, it seems to be the intense grounding in the present moment, which eradicates the feeling of the flow of time, or timelessness.

Pleasure and pain both have these properties to a great extent, with pain being even more grounding. Wonder why pure negativity will not allow any prospering of positivity, but the opposite is not always true?!

71.14 Questioner: You have made the statement that pure negativity acts as a gravity well pulling all into it. I was wondering first if pure positivity has precisely the same effect? Could you answer that please?

Ra: I am Ra. This is incorrect. Positivity has a much weaker effect due to the strong element of recognition of free will in any positivity approaching purity. Thus although the negatively oriented entity may find it difficult to polarize negatively in the midst of such resounding harmony it will not find it impossible.

Upon the other hand, the negative polarization is one which does not accept the concept of the free will of other-selves. Thusly in a social complex whose negativity approaches purity the pull upon other-selves is constant. A positively oriented entity in such a situation would desire for other-selves to have their free will and thusly would find itself removed from its ability to exercise its own free will, for the free will of negatively oriented entities is bent upon conquest.