The Nature of the Mind, Energy, and Time: An Exploration of Time Travel
Imagine a grandfather clock. Picture it in your mind. The pendulum swings back and forth. The hands click, counting away the minutes. As you watch, you notice the pendulum slowing down. The hands stop moving. Time stops. Then the hands creep counter- clockwise. Time is in reverse. The minutes, hours, days roll back.
Human beings have the creative capability to form images in their minds. We can use our imaginations to “see” images or pictures in our minds. How can we see the pictures? How can you see the grandfather clock in your mind while reading these words?
People have the ability to create images in their mind’s eye, but what is the mind? The brain is a physical muscle found within a person’s cranium, but the mind is the abstract entity that allows for reason, language, and memory. Although we understand the meaning of these capabilities, defining the Mind is a challenge for the ages. How can we truly “know” or understand something that is intangible? These questions are formulating in my mind. The grandfather clock chimes; the midnight toll is ringing in my mind. I can think of the words, hear the chimes, see the clock in my mind. But I don’t see it. The brain is tangible, but the Mind exists outside of matter.
The grandfather clock is an object created to confine Time, but Time is a construct that exists outside of matter. We can create clocks to understand how much light is left in the day, we can watch the minutes tick away, but you cannot see Time. Humans created a mechanism to count the hours of light during a day and the number of days it takes for the Earth to circle the sun, but time exists only through the logic manifested in our minds. Time (or the lack thereof) existed before we gave it a name and will continue to exist long after we are gone. Time is infinite, omnipresent; it cannot be created or killed. Time is eternal - meaning at any moment, at any time, on different planes of existence, each moment or memory you have lived is happening on a different plane, a different universe, a different time.
Energy is also eternal. Energy is what moves the sun’s rays, helps the trees grow, and allows us the ability to reason, to discuss, and to remember. Energy is a part of everything - is everything. If Energy begat the concept of Time, then Energy would have created the Big Bang, which marks the moment we began counting our own existence. Conversely, it is possible Time was waiting for Energy to burst, therefore Energy and Time are eternal, and equal. And our Mind understands these concepts because it also exists outside of matter, therefore it is bound by the same laws of Time and Energy; meaning, our Mind is also eternal.
Our mind has the ability to imagine a grandfather clock or any other image we wish to conjure, including memories. Memories are moments in the past, existing outside of matter and time. Because our Mind is made of Energy, and Time exists on infinite planes, we can focus all of our energy to a particular moment in time and recall it in our mind’s eye. Our Mind, Time, and Energy all exist outside of matter, therefore, if we envision a moment in Time, picture it clearly, focus all of our Energy on it, our Mind and Energy will travel to that moment. If a moment can exist in our Mind, and Time is infinite, and Energy is what allows for everything to move forward or back, then time travel is possible.