Outside of Time and Space

The manifest world, the world of time and space, is increasingly being understood in the context of quantum mechanics as a holographic phenomenon in the mind, which connects very well with philosophical insights going all the way back to Advaita Vedanta. The Scientific American asked on the cover of the August 2003 issue, Are You a Hologram? That  article was one of the best, most compact discussions I've seen in recent years to help understand the holographic nature of our worldly experience. It quickly becomes understandable how, as Einstein apparently has also stated that time is merely a perception problem, as is space. Among other things he said: "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." Within the philosophical framework of A Course in Miracles, it becomes clear how everything of time, and space, or as it says "distance, time and form," (limited dimensions), is merely an expression of the separation, which is not truth, but perception. God is not denied by perception, but he is blotted out of memory out of fear, which fear results as night follows day from seriously entertaining the "tiny, mad idea," which is the thought of separation.

Death is the thought that you are separate from your Creator. It is the belief conditions change, emotions alternate because of causes you cannot control, you did not make, and you can never change. It is the fixed belief ideas can leave their source, and take on qualities the source does not contain, becoming different from their own origin, apart from it in kind as well as distance, time and form. (ACIM:W-167.4)

These concepts are the necessary bridge to understand how "Jesus" could speak to us 2000 years ago in the Thomas Gospel, and other source materials, and today in A Course in Miracles, or within, as the Voice or Guide, who helps us finding our way home. Our experience of him in that sense, is part of finding our way inside past the ego thoughts which keep us rooted in the world, and into that inner space where our connection to spirit still exists, and we can learn step by step, to take our guidance from an inner source, past the noise of the "monkey mind," which is the domain of the ego.

Thus Dr. Helen Schucman was able to "hear" the voice of Jesus in her dictation experience of A Course In Miracles, which was not the same historical person as the Jesus of history, but which was the same symbol of Love, operating in the mind, which she identified as Jesus, as she was able to "hear" the Course as an expression of that Love from outside of time and space, in which the figure of Jesus, as a symbol provided her with the sense of comfort about where that message was coming from. Had she been a Hindu, she would have thought she was hearing Krishna, or had she been a Buddhist, she would have thought she was hearing the Buddha, or Quan Yin, etc. Since she operated in a western, Judaeo-Christian context, she heard it as the voice of "Jesus." Same difference. The more interesting thing is that careful study would support the notion of the inner consistency between the material in the Thomas gospel, and the tenets of A Course In Miracles, as documented in the work of Gary Renard. It is this latter experience of a connection between now and then, which gave me the name of my book, Closing the Circle.