The Mental State of Super Absorption
During a conversation with an acquaintance I had mentioned that when I paint I am aware of a fairly accurate time passage. However, when I write, an hour of writing can feel like anywhere from fifteen to thirty minutes and on any topic, usually nonfiction. I told her of an occasion where after awaking in the morning and with a cup of coffee, no breakfast yet, I went to the computer and began writing. At around noon, I thought I should get some lunch given that I hadn’t had breakfast. In fact, I had not gotten up from my desk for any reason since first beginning to write that morning, not to get a glass of water, use the bathroom, nothing. I was shocked when I saw on the kitchen clock that it was nearly 5:00pm. After I arrived home following our conversation I pondered as to why this happens.
When I paint I always listen to music or an audio book, a lecture or a talk online. I’m lucky that while painting, although my work is very technical and realistic, my mind allows for this. Otherwise I’d be quite bored as I work and not nearly so productive. At any rate, while painting, most of the time I do not need to be intensely focused on my work.
A 36″ X 36″ oil painting by Leslie Taylor titled “Joie de Vivre”
Music and other audio products’ contents are consistently forward in time and with many maintaining tempos, albeit with halts in between (as in the endings and beginnings of a new song, or the next chapter in an audio book, or brief silences in a talk or music for emphasis, etc.). The tempos are sometimes vague and often changing but yet, for periods of time, a repetitive tempo is generally present. With those audible temporal frequencies we probably are maintaining an awareness of clock time passage subconsciously, if not consciously.
However, when I write, and the same is true with reading, I do not listen to music or other recordings. Although, as I write I occasionally say or spell the words out loud. The writing and talking, spoken internally (ongoing) or occasionally audibly, is halting at times with contemplative pauses, referring to source materials along with constant backtracking for editorial corrections or to include additional information. It is far from consistently temporally forward in its construction. In general, and more so if the material is engaging, a writer could experience mentally, far less than standard clock time passage.
As I have mentioned a couple of times in my previous essays, I knew a woman who had a photographic memory. Once she had read a book you could read aloud to her any randomly chosen sentence anywhere in the book and she could tell you on what page and where in the exact paragraph the sentence appeared. She said that reading for an hour felt like fifteen minutes to her. She would be so focused on the written material that she was unaware of the passage of time. Yet, the literature as she read it (though not necessarily as the narrative was written) would not be consistently halting or going back and forth in time as when writing a piece. She told me that she felt as if she was in a hypnotic state while reading – a state of intense relaxed concentration or super absorption. I do not have exceptional recall of what I read or write but I do experience surprising synchronistic events associated with this website and my other website www.miraclesforall.com where I write of my own and others’ synchronicities and other miraculous events.
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With TV, particularly sporting events, other shows and movies, the scenes conveyed in bright lights thrust the viewers all over the place – throughout the featured buildings, playing fields, towns, the planet and so on. Yet they are perceived by the viewer in a forward time direction, as we assume all time flows, though the scenarios may jump all over space-time showing not just changing locations but also past, present and future events. During talk shows, for example, typical space-time passage is maintained (excluding during commercial breaks). Fear is intentionally used to engross viewers. And because of these relative, based on the various scenarios’ space-time passages, the viewer, though entirely stationary on the chair or couch, may experience a slightly altered passage of time. They certainly experience the emotions, stress, fear and all too infrequently any peace or joy conveyed in the narrative.
Hostile music and violent computer games, many of which are specifically and intentionally directed toward the young, have very detrimental effects. I never view porn, it does not interest me at all. A woman I met told me that she had viewed pornography that was unbelievably disgusting adding that regrettably, she cannot now ‘unsee’ it. Children have access to this sickening mind-body garbage and the effects on them are physiological as well as psychological. It’s amazing how reckless we are about subjecting ourselves and our children to these and other self-destructive so-called forms of entertainment.
So, if one is reading active, emotionally engaging literature covering large spans of space-time, is that different from watching similar content on an illuminated screen? Logically we can assume that the latter has a greater impact given the additional lighting and sound effects. As well, though illegal, but often still present in TV programming is subliminal messaging – messages shown on screen too fast to be consciously perceived visually yet proven to be persuasive. TV and other illuminated screen programming can undoubtedly be and frequently is hypnotic thus mentally and behaviorally manipulative.
Other common time expansion experiences occur during emergencies giving the individuals involved the time necessary to make life saving choices. Persons will even claim that during a life threatening emergency, such as a potentially serious or deadly car accident, they felt not only that time expanded but that they felt quite calm as they observed the circumstances and this enabled them to make the appropriate life saving choices as they maneuvered the car.
Many great athletes will claim that time slows down for them when they achieve some of their greatest athletic performances. Some claim that they can even intentionally slip into a time expanded state during moments of intense focus and absorption. Amateur athletes report of these performance enhancing states in their lives too.
Note: Below is a link to a video titled “What is Time” with Steve Taylor that elaborates on these and other space-time transcendent experiences that is well worth watching.
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Hypnosis is often used to sell or in other ways manipulate behavior.
Hypnosis is defined as a human condition involving focused attention, reduced peripheral awareness, and an enhanced capacity to respond to suggestion.
I responded to a postcard I received in the mail for a $25 check-up of my hot water heater. I called the company and when the plumber came over he discovered that I needed a new hot water heater part and with installation that would cost me $400. Following the work, when he came inside to process my credit card and we were seated at my dining table, he began talking to me about a water softener. He went on about the need for water softeners where I live and soon I was agreeing to having a $2,400 water softener system installed in my garage. After installation and payment, I wondered why I agreed to any of it. I didn’t then and still don’t want the water softener. Later I recalled that as he spoke his eyes, which were large, were focused on mine and he spoke in a soft melodic cadence. He said among other things, “Leslie, you need to take care of your home.” As I reviewed the events in my mind, I concluded that I had been hypnotized into buying the company’s products and services.
Years ago a physician friend of mine told me of an experience where he, along with several other physicians gathered in an assembly room, had experienced a demonstration of hypnosis by being told by the hypnotist to, while seated in their chairs, hold their pens straight out before them. Then as the pens grew heavier or hot (I don’t recall the specific suggestion) most of them released the pens dropping them onto the floor. My friend did not succumb to the suggestion but said he could hear pens dropping throughout the room. Doctors and medical administrators often meet with sales representatives from drug, medical devices and diagnostic machine manufacturers. Think about this. What might medical clinicians and other health care personnel be hypnotized, along with various other enticements, into buying and what to recommend to patients because, as they are told, “Doctor you need to take care of your patients.
After the water heater installation I looked up online hypnotic sales techniques and discovered that there are many books, recordings and psychologists that will teach sales persons how to hypnotize individuals into buying their products and services. They all claim it is quite ethical of course. Television programs are filled with pharmaceutical, to say nothing of unhealthy food, advertisements and TV is hypnotic.
Why time passes more quickly to the elderly.
It is well known that for the elderly time passes very quickly compared to the younger generations’ experience of time passage. There’s so much more on the minds of the young than the elderly. When the young are in school or college they need to be keenly aware of time: when and where to be, what assignments are due when, final exams, other scholastic events such as recess, athletic activities, graduations and so on. The same is true for most adults at work, they are quite aware of and under pressure due to deadlines, production, sales demands and so much more. Then they have bills to pay on time and family and social demands and those schedules to adhere to. Time takes so much longer for them to pass than for the elderly that have far less of these responsibilities and thus a far lesser need for constant attention to space-time.
Note: It is more accurate to include space when considering time, thus space-time passage. They are like two sides of the same coin – one side only exists because of the other which only exists because of the other. More on that later.
As well, generally the young move about far more over most twenty-four hour time periods than the elderly. The elderly, If they’re still reasonably healthy and mobile, during a twenty-four hour space-time frame they’ve probably physically covered but one fifth of the amount of space than when they were young or a currently young individual does. The elderly’s experience of an hour’s space-time passage has contracted relative to standard clock time passage. This complicates things when looking for a predictable pattern among the varied space-time experiences. One other thing we notice is that as we age we experience a shortened span of attention – the ability to stay focused. But, the elderly do not have the inclination (as do small children) or need for their attention to move from one thing to the next over the days, weeks, months and years nearly as much as the young or the middle aged adult whose attention may actually be, due to their far more demanding lifestyles, less focused over the same space-time passages than the elderly.
There are articles based on a few studies of the sense of faster time passage when returning from a trip by car than on the way to the destination. This is a very common experience. One hypothesis was that because of the travelers’ attention to many things, such as arrival time, directions and unfamiliar landscape on the way to the destination results in a sensation of greater time passage than when returning – the then more familiar route, landscape and perhaps lesser concerns regarding home arrival time. But this was proven to not be the case when the trip to the destination and back home were varied yet of the same distances, and clocked time, to get there and back home. Yet, the sense of shorter time passage on the way home was still experienced by the travelers.
Note: See article [link below] titled “Why Does It Take Longer to Go There Than to Come Back”
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Airplanes and Bicycles
The fast travelling commercial plane flying at a constant speed (nothing exerting a force on it – inertia in physics parlance) to the passengers feels like it is hardly moving at all other than during acceleration: at takeoff, ascent or descent and landing, changes in direction or during turbulents (changes in velocity over time is referred to as acceleration). Whereas a bicyclist on the ground below experiences far greater acceleration over space-time than a sedentary passenger in a plane due to heightened physical sensations, more changes in velocity, the rapid visual changes in their immediate environment and the need for constant alertness to these changes for safety reasons. Therefore it seems likely that the bicyclist would experience slower space-time passage than the passenger sitting and largely sedentary, mostly looking straight ahead, during flight time on a plane. The visual experiences for passengers in a plane often are like those seated in their living room watching TV or at their workspace staring at a computer screen.
Studies suggest that cyclists tend to live longer than the general population. For instance, a study comparing Tour de France cyclists to the general population found that the cyclists lived an average of 81.5 years, compared to 73.5 years for the general population, indicating a 17% increase in longevity. Another study found that casual cyclists had a 23% better chance of avoiding premature death and a significantly reduced risk of cardiovascular illness. These findings support the idea that cycling, even at moderate intensity, can contribute to a longer lifespan. However, it’s important to note that while cycling is beneficial, it is also found that intense exercises can sometimes suppress the immune system. Therefore, the key seems to be consistency and moderation rather than extreme intensity in cycling or any exercise regime.
For those with a window seat on the plane the landscape below passes by far more slowly than to the bicyclist. As well, to a stationary observer on the ground the plane in the sky seems to be moving so slowly it seems unbelievable, given the weight of the plane and cargo, that it flies at all. Both observers, seated inside and looking out the window or on the ground looking up at the plane flying high overhead, are experiencing the objects of their visual focus within a far broader context – either hundreds of square miles of landscape if on the plane looking down or, if on the ground looking up, the vast sky above. One wonders what the experience of space-time passage is to an eagle.
A 36″ X 48″ oil painting by L:eslie Taylor titled “Soaring”
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Space Travelers and Special and General Relativity
Consider what changes an astronaut sees out his spacecraft’s window. In particular relative to what on Earth denotes a solar day – the rising of the Sun every 24 four hours. The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth at a speed of roughly 17,150 miles per hour, which is about 5 miles per second. In 24 hours, the ISS orbits Earth 16 times. Thus, in the span of a single Earth day, the astronauts aboard the ISS witness 16 sunrises, or solar days.
Long durations in space are hard on the body. Space station astronauts often experience bone, muscle loss and blood volume, vision impairments, facial swelling, shifts in brain structure, immune dysfunction, while also experiencing increased arrhythmias among other issues largely, though not entirely, due to microgravity. According to the applied physiologist Rachael Seidler who studies spaceflight’s effects on the brain, the difference in health impacts between nine months and eight days in space “would be pretty dramatic,” However, even within the first few days, astronauts can experience disorientation, space motion sickness, and a loss of sense of direction making even basic tasks difficult.
Note: See article [link below] about two International Space Station astronauts returning to Earth in March 2025 after being stuck in the ISS for nine months.
General relativity, formulated after special relativity, expanded on these ideas by incorporating gravity into the theory. It describes gravity as the curvature, or warping, of space-time caused by mass and energy. This curvature surrounding massive astronomical objects affects the path of other objects, light (known as the gravitational lensing effect) and the flow of time leading to gravitational time dilation, where time passes more slowly in stronger gravitational fields. So, this further complicates things: the space traveler, largely unaffected by the Earth’s gravitational field, is moving faster thus time dilation and therefore aging more slowly than the earthbound twin. Yet given the Earth’s gravitational field slows the flow of space-time.
Albert Einstein developed the theory of general relativity based on the equivalence principle, which posits that a freely falling non-rotating system is equivalent to an inertial system without a gravitational field. For example, if you’re inside a falling box, or elevator, you wouldn’t feel your weight anymore as if gravity didn’t exist. Astronauts undergo training in a free-falling airplane, often referred to as the “Vomit Comet,” to simulate the microgravity conditions of space. This training involves riding in specially modified aircraft that perform parabolic flights, creating brief periods of weightlessness.
A 24″ X 24″ oil painting by Leslie Taylor. Originally I titled this “The Equivalence Principal” then changed the title to “The Universal Elixir“
This also complicates the famous Twin Paradox description of special relativity (though It is not actually a paradox in the sense of a logical contradiction). It is a natural consequence of special relativity, as explained by Einstein in 1911. It is a thought experiment involving twins where one twin, an astronaut, travels at relativistic speeds (near the speed of light) and returns to find the other twin has aged more. It is the time dilation effect due to the traveling twin’s high-speed motion relative to the earthbound twin that causes the discrepancy in their ages. The traveling twin’s clock runs slower compared to the earthbound twin’s clock during the trip, resulting in the traveling twin aging less.
At 95% of the speed of light, the time dilation factor is approximately 3.12, meaning that for every year experienced by the space traveler, about 3.12 years pass for a stationary observer. However, realistically, the adverse health effects of the microgravity on a space traveler would not at all seem as though the traveling twin aged more slowly than the earthbound twin. And again, time passes more slowly in a gravitational field though those time dilation affects, would likely be miniscule compared to traveling at relativistic, near ‘c’ speeds.
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Subatomic Particles’ Space-time Passage
Here on Earth, an atomic clock in a plane going from San Francisco to New York, space-time has been measured to go more slowly than space-time on a stationary atomic clock on the ground. The difference however is miniscule. In October 1971, physicist Joseph Hafele and astronomer Richard Keating flew cesium-beam atomic clocks, initially synchronized with the atomic clocks at the US Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. – two trips around the world, one eastward and one westward with each circuit taking around three days. After each flight, they compared the time on the clocks in the aircraft to the time on the clock at the Observatory. Their experimental data agreed within error to the predicted effects of time dilation, or expansion. The effects were quite small since the planes were flying nowhere near the speed of light. When they compared their clocks with the clock at the Observatory in Washington D.C., they had gained about 0.15 microseconds (or 0.00000015 of a second) of a lifespan compared to the ground based clock and inhabitants, in D.C.
There have been subsequent time dilation experiments since the Hafele and Keating experiments in 1971. For example, the experiment conducted by Bailey et al. in 1977, which involved measuring the lifespan of muons (an elementary particle similar to an electron) sent around a loop in the CERN muon ring. CERN operates a complex of particle accelerators, including the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). This experiment confirmed both time dilation at relativistic near ‘c’ speeds and the theoretical Twin Paradox.
Additionally, in 2014, physicists conducted an experiment using lithium ions (charged particles of the element lithium) traveling at 0.338c (0.338 of the speed of light) in a particle accelerator to demonstrate time dilation. They measured the time interval between the excitation of electrons (causing the electrons to jump to a higher orbital surrounding the lithium nucleus, thus higher energy state, then back down to the lower orbital, the ground state) both when the lithium ions were moving and at rest. The experiment found that the excited electron states’ intervals were longer for moving lithium ions compared to those at rest as measured by a stationary observer in the laboratory, consistent with time dilation predictions.
Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity fundamentally changed our understanding of time. According to special relativity, time is not absolute but relative to the observer’s frame of reference. This means that the rate at which time passes depends on both the observer’s speed and gravitational field. When an object is in motion, it experiences time dilation, meaning that time appears to move more slowly relative to a stationary observer. Special relativity does not say that all motion is relative but that the laws of physics are the same, not relative, for all observers in any inertial frame of reference. The exception is that the speed of light in a vacuum (not in a gas or fluid for example) is constant for all observers, regardless of their relative motion or the motion of the light source, a flashlight for example. Whereas if you throw a ball in a moving train, the measured speed of that ball as observed by a stationary observer on the ground is faster due to the moving train. Not the light emitted from the flash light though. Light always travels at ‘c’ (186,000 miles per second or approximately 300,000 kilometers per second) as observed, in this example, by both the individual on the train and the stationary observer outside. This is a bit confusing though given that the atmosphere is a gas.
We are told that the theory of relativity has been further confirmed through numerous experiments and observations. For instance, the Global Positioning System (GPS) must account for relativistic effects to function accurately, as satellites experience time dilation due to their high speed and lower gravitational effects compared to the gravitational field at Earth’s surface. These satellites travel at speeds, (relative to the rotating Earth as a whole) of roughly 8,699 miles per hour which is 4.05 miles per second, or 14,000 kilometers per hour which is about 3.9 kilometers per second. There are instruments’ activities on and within the satellites such as radar systems that generate pulses of radio waves to create images or deduce characteristics of Earth’s surfaces.
Note: Link to video titled “GPS and Relativity” describing these effects below.
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The Infinite and Eternal
While on the topic of quantitative analysis of miniscule particles and durations of space-time that scientists focus on, and taking into consideration that which is considered large or small in size, distance or timespan is relative to the observer’s frame of reference, we learn that at all scales, from the quantum to the cosmic, there are an infinite amount of things, parts and processes. There’s no limit to creation from any observer’s point of view, or the observer’s themselves coming into being from their ancestry, to a fertilized egg to a full grown human pondering these things.
Just contemplate how your car came into being and operates. We have to factor in the garage where you keep it when not driving and how it came into being (the car is not just floating in the air), the roads from which the car arrived there and how they came into being. All the mined and forged geological material elements involved, the production factories, marketing and distribution networks and transportation involved, all the labor, the relevant human expertise and how that evolved over the course of human history to say nothing of all the economic activities and resources. And the individuals themselves, their physical parts and functions (including their approximately 30 trillion cells of 200 different types and each cell’s numerous parts and processes), as well these individuals’ ancestry and how they came into being. There’s no quantitative finality to anything no matter what you look at. Even if you had an extraordinarily advanced and sophisticated computer to count it all up one has to then factor all that was involved in it’s coming into being.
Cosmologists do have an end to these calculations, a finite start time for all of creation in the universe which they refer to as the hypothetical (and it is hypothetical) big bang though without any known source for that. They also consider that there are many universes, which there may very well be, yet we’re without empirically based plausible explanations or theories about where they came from.
We experience this infinite and eternal creation everywhere always. Infinite can apply to an infinity of anything, such as numbers, or activities, spacelike distances or objects. Eternal, on the other hand, is more specifically related to time, suggesting a state of existence that has no beginning or end. So, if you’re coming into existence, the very origins of all that is you, has no specific quantitative beginning, then it has no quantitative end either (beginnings and endings meaning space-time lengths). Your source, your coming into existence, is infinite and eternal. But that doesn’t make sense because what is infinite and eternal doesn’t suddenly come into existence. Instead, your source, the source of everything everywhere, consisting of an infinity of appearances and circumstances, is, always was and always will be.
As a teenager, one of my favorite quotes was, “You can’t understand infinity by counting the sum of its parts.” If there is an infinity of spatial distances, areas and time frames (an infinity of time is eternity) and an infinity of things spread out over infinite time, or eternity, then space-time doesn’t exist and everything everywhere past, present and future, is here now. My great-great-grandfather is present here and now as me (if there’s no space-time then there is no separation), one with me and always will be.
My great-great-grandfather Littleton Robbins Bishop Jr. (1824 – 1910)
The reason time exists is that it measures the activity of something material, a force or an event on or relative to other things as perceived from the observer’s position. Time tells us how far away something is by how long the thing takes to get from a designated position to a destination moving at a known speed. This includes the knowledge, or awareness, of things and events off at vast distances in space thus time. For example, as viewed from a satellite telescope, cosmologists and astronomers inform us of the existence of far away, ancient red-shifted galaxies. Red-shifted, meaning that their light has stretched toward the red longer visible electromagnetic wavelengths (blue light has shorter wavelengths) during its journey over space-time and over the course of the expansion of the universe to get to the observer here on Earth, or satellite telescopes to be specific. Although, ground-based telescopes can observe ancient galaxies, they face challenges due to atmospheric interference.
The redshifted light from these galaxies has traveled over vast distances and time spans. Therefore, what they view is the galaxies as they were billions of years ago, not as they are and have since evolved over space-time, if we could somehow see (and identify them as the same galaxies) from right up close positions. Theoretically they could be looking at the Milky Way as it was billions of years ago.
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Supernatural Abilities and Experiences
In precognition or remote viewing (both of which have been proven) the perceiving of past, present or future events are not limited to physical space-time perceptions. They are apprehended in the present intuitively, in visions usually just before falling asleep or after awakening or during dream states. Dreams about future events are one of the more commonly reported psychic experiences. Teleportation is the sudden unexplainable presence of objects also by-passing causality and space-time limitations. Telepathic communications, not just between humans, are not at all uncommon. Sudden miraculous healings are known to occur with some verified by medical professionals and documented. Synchronicities are very common. They are described as coincidental events that are meaningfully related but do not seem to be causally connected and are, like most other supernatural events, considered evidence of a connection between the mind and matter. Over the past forty or so decades and due to the internet we have many reported near death experiences and largely due to modern medical resuscitation technologies.
What is a lifetime? Based on what we have learned from near death experiencers is it but a flash with the whole of an individual’s life experience happening all at once within the context of eternity. Consider what many legitimate (not fabricated) near death experiencers tell us about their life reviews. That they re-experienced the whole of their earthly life including the feelings and other effects they had on others and seemingly all at once, without any linear, temporal sequence. In that transcendent heavenly realm, to be with another or others or experience anything was but a thought away, including the return to their physical body. Another common NDE experience is that their seeing is all around, not linearly focused, and communications between them and others are telepathic, not verbal. (As an aside, perhaps exercising all around awareness is of value). They report that everything is vibrantly alive, describe the unearthly radiant beauty everywhere and that the love they felt was inexplicably greater than any love they experienced on Earth. They found themselves in a spaceless, timeless, thus eternal state of existence and say that it was a more real environment than their earthly life – their true home as many refer to it.
So how can our eternal Self that we, all else and everyone everywhere always, regardless of our innumerable appearances and circumstances, be, express Itself, evolve and create intentionally and favorably rather than not? Rather than through timely laborious, draining if not outright painful and destructive processes – and some do like and inflict pain and suffering on their Self, that which they perceive as others, insanely believing it is necessary for the other’s learning, evolution or their own survival even. How can we instead effortlessly and joyfully create, otherwise referred to as miracles? And as has already been clearly pointed out, miracles do happen on Earth as it is in Heaven.
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The biggest lie ever told is that suffering is necessary for learning.
Love is necessary for learning. Love collapses separation, thus wholly knowing another and all as one. God is Love – there is no separation between God and all of creation. God is all knowing and there is nothing God cannot do. Surprisingly, those most regarded as spiritually wise, most parents, military leaders and our system of justice are all proponents of the belief that to learn life’s lessons or to teach the offending other a lesson, suffering is necessary. Do we assume that God is punitive and stands over us prior to an incarnation saying. “This is going to hurt me more than it will you” or something else equally as ridiculous? Added to that we generally believe that our gain must require another’s loss. The necessity for suffering and loss are so ingrained in our beliefs that we even inflict suffering on ourselves – thus everyone for no one is separate from all others. Exercising our free will, we revel in suffering in all sorts of terrible ways in our various forms of entertainment, much of which is hypnotic or contains subliminal messaging targeting our subconscious. All this madness is why this earthly state is a relatively low state of evolutionary development.
Suffering is the result of ignorance and insanity given the infinite and eternal nature of life, as has already been clearly explained, and the abundance of evidence that miracles are a fact of life. Yet, if suffering is experienced, and we all experience suffering and regularly, then by all means we must learn from it. Near death experiencers tell us that what they learned from their experience is that love, in small and great works alike, is what matters above all things and that during their experience they were immersed in love, guided and instructed by a loving, non-judgmental being. Love is the Teacher, not suffering.
Here are a few suggestions: Regularly familiarize yourself with the valid, reported in books, lectures, talks etc. miraculous experiences of others. Soon after you experience a synchronicity or any other other transcending space-time experience, write it down. That’s what inspired me to create this and my other Miracles For All website: www.miraclesforall.com. Read spiritual, or if you prefer religious, literature that keeps reminding you of what is most important in life – Love, God. Personally, I experience far more synchronicities and sometimes other miraculous events when I read spiritual works, and these experiences are joyful. As well, when you go to bed at night, ask for answers to your questions and concerns while you sleep, then be quiet, open to listening and learning without specific expectations of outcome. If you are quiet, you’ll fall asleep. You may or may not wake up with an answer, as in a new and correct insight or solution, but it could come at another time, like just when you need it. You will want to be open to communications from higher sources while awake too, of course.
In my previous essay titled The intelligence of Plants and Why a Brain is not Necessary I provided a link to an article titled The Robustness of the Mind Body Interface by Karina Koffman Ph.D. and Michael Levin, Ph.D. It describes cases of hydrocephalus (cerebral spinal fluid in place of areas where brain tissue normally is), those of savants that have severely defective brains and other cases of those with defective brains yet these individuals function normally or, as in the case of savants, in some specific ways quite superior to normal. What this undoubtedly brings into consideration is the non physical aspects of our being, what some refer to as the soul or spirit, and its ability to function in a body despite having a severely defective brain [link below].
What this all tells us is that consciousness, but perhaps more correctly understood as our eternal spirit or soul, is primary. And our not realizing this results in a reduced or semi conscious state in contrast to an enlightened or awakened state. People speak of miraculous savings or healings – demonstrating our true eternal soul’s mastery over our perceived temporal physical experience. Like in a lucid dream when you realize you are dreaming and can do remarkable things like fly, and you do. Our eternal soul is one with God and although miracles often occur spontaneously, without prayer for example, to pray for, or attribute and give thanks to God for miracles is quite sensible, a very good idea in fact.
One thing I have noticed during supernatural events in my life, was my certainty about the information I received (as in telepathy, precognition, precognitive dreams, etc.) and on a few occasions where my well being was quite threatened, I just seemed to know that I was and would be perfectly fine and I naturally did just the right thing that made it so. Like the neurosurgeon Dr. Eben Alexander who experienced an extraordinary NDE and subsequent miraculous healing, repeatedly reminds us, “You have nothing to worry about, all is well.”
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By Leslie Taylor on May 12, 2025
I can be contacted at: miraclesforallwebsite@gmail.com
LINKS
Video – What is Time an interview with Steve Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiilwV6IWlM
Article – The Robustness of the Mind Body Interface by Karina Koffman Ph.D. and Michael Levin, Ph.D. (takes awhile to upload): https://osf.io/preprints/osf/fqm7r_v1
Article – Why Does It Take Longer to Go There than to Come Back: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/talking-apes/202005/why-does-it-take-longer-to-go-there-than-to-come-back
Article – The Health of the Two Astronauts Stuck in Space for Nine Months: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/astronauts-stuck-space-return-health
Video – describing the health of astronauts after a long time in space: https://youtu.be/qvY7hYbTwaU
Video – Quick and easy video explanation of time dilation in planes and the twin paradox: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfg_AI2olrs
Video – The 1971 video of the Hafele and Keating time dilation experiment: https://youtu.be/gdRmCqylsME
Video – GPS and Relativity / How Time Dilation Affects GPS Accuracy: