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The Mystery of Time and How to Master It for Self Development [O
ccult Lecture] Manley P. Hall
By: patrick jane Date: September 17, 2021, 9:06 pm
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The Mystery of Time and How to Master It for Self Development
[Occult Lecture]
The Mystery of Time and How to Master It for Self Development by
Manly P. Hall
1 hour 20 minutes
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By: patrick jane Date: December 2, 2021, 9:42 pm
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Nikola Tesla Rediscovery of Free Energy - ROBERT SEPEHR
Alternative forms of advanced mathematics have been found etched
on Babylonian clay tablets dating back over 3,000 years. This
non-linear holistic view of math was also revered by none other
than inventor and engineer Nikola Tesla, who once stated that,
“If you knew the magnificence of the three, six and nine, you
would have a key to the universe.”
36 minutes
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Robert Sepehr is an author, producer and anthropologist
specializing in linguistics, archeology, and paleobiology. A
harsh critic of the out-of-Africa theory, Sepehr puts forth
alternative diffusionist arguments involving advanced
antediluvian civilizations, occult secret societies, ancient
mythology, alchemy and astrotheology.
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Re: The Mystery of Time and How to Master It for Self Developmen
t [Occult Lecture] Manley P. Hall
By: patrick jane Date: January 2, 2022, 12:08 am
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There’s No Such Thing as Time Management
Maybe productivity doesn’t matter to God in the frantic ways
I’ve imagined.
I used to be a lifetime reader of time management books. After
the world shut down in March 2020, I got out of my pajamas to
meet the challenge of an open schedule. I believed every article
telling me that this was the propitious moment for cleaning out
my closets, for organizing my pantry, for culling my photos.
And early in the pandemic, I loved my newly organized garage; I
was glad to have tackled the towers of paperwork I usually
avoided. Productivity is, of course, a modern source of
existential consolation. A good day is the day you get things
done.
But this new year, I won’t be hunting for a better planner. Nor
will I be searching for the best new productivity app. For the
first time, I will suffer no illusions this January that a new
technique or a better consumer product will help tame the wild
beast of time.
Time management is illusory. Though time might be money, as
Benjamin Franklin famously said, we cannot grow our portfolio.
Sure, we can try to maximize the yield of the minutes, but as
the pandemic continues to teach us, tomorrow is never
guaranteed. Rather, we must steward our attention.
Despite all my renewed productivity efforts early in the
pandemic, I never managed to silence the beating bass of my
anxious heart. I had plenty of time, productive time—and still
suffered time-anxiety.
As a Christian, I know time matters to God, but I’m beginning to
think it matters less to him in the frantic ways I’ve imagined.
It’s certainly true we’ve only recently conceived of time as
measurable and instrumental, as something to be used or wasted,
saved or spent. But even before the invention of the clock—in
the medieval monastery—human beings have long been time-anxious
creatures.
As David Rooney writes in About Time, a few years after the
first sundial was installed in Rome in 263 B.C., a character in
a play exclaimed, “The gods damn that man who first discovered
the hours, and—yes, who first set up a sundial here, who’s
smashed the day into bits for poor me!”
Time management can’t solve the crisis of mortality, this
foreboding sense that the days and the years prove short. To be
sure, I’ve developed some helpful skills from the many time
management books I’ve read: planning ahead, breaking down larger
projects into smaller tasks, ruthlessly eliminating the
nonessential. But as Melissa Gregg argues in Counterproductive,
it’s probably also true that I could have read one good time
management book, given how few new ideas have been proposed
since the early 20th century.
What seems far more important than disciplines of time
management are disciplines of attention management. The minutes
are not ours to multiply. We receive them as a gift. What we can
do, however, is cultivate the ability to inhabit those minutes
with attention, or undiluted unfragmented presence. Simone Weil
noticed the gains of attention in her spiritual life, when she
began repeating the Lord’s prayer in Greek every day. Whenever
her attention wandered, she started over again. “It was during
one of these recitations that … Christ himself came down and
took possession of me.”
Many have noted we live in an attentional economy, which is to
say that what is most valuable today are the seconds, the
minutes we linger online—time that is sold to someone for
profit. When Facebook went public in 2012, for example, they did
not have a clearly articulated plan for generating revenue, but
they knew that they owned the world’s time.
Matthew Crawford notes in The World Beyond Your Head that one
challenge in modern life is that our attention is not always
ours to direct. We sit in an airport, stand in the line at the
grocery, browse the daily headlines—and someone is there to
blare their aggressively loud bullhorn, begging us to buy,
subscribe, believe. Attention is a contested resource, and like
a city without walls, it will be overrun unless we build walls
and post sentries and fortify it against attack.
The conditions today make it hard to attend, especially with a
smartphone buzzing in our pocket. But just as time-anxiety is
old, so too is the fight for attention. It was attention the
apostle Paul admonished the Philippians to cultivate:
“[W]hatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just,
whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable,
if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of
praise, think about these things” (Phil. 4:8, ESV, emphasis
added).
Paul was saying: Your attention is valuable. Develop it for the
good. When Paul instructed the Corinthians to “take every
thought captive” (2 Cor 10:5), I don’t think Paul believed that
attention was merely a rational faculty. I think he was more
broadly gesturing toward the moral exercise of attention of
loving the good and habituating ourselves toward it: “What you
have learned and received and heard and seen in me—practice
these things” (Phil 4:9).
Crawford argues that attention requires submission, which seems
like a peculiarly Christian understanding. He knows the word is
jarring, given that autonomy is often considered the highest
good in modern life. Attention requires “submission to things
that have their own intractable ways,” he writes, “whether the
thing be a musical instrument, a garden, or the building of a
bridge.” For Crawford, attention is never self-enclosed. It is
not self-gaze. It is a form of devotion to the other. Attention
requires not simply that we look up (from our phones) but that
we look out—beyond ourselves.
I’ve become more interested in projects today that are
preoccupied with the cultivation of attention—books like Justin
Whitmel Earley’s The Common Rule, which our church small group
is reading together. Earley’s book isn’t devoted to the
management of time. Instead, it suggests regular rhythms—in
time—that call us into submission to our Creator, the one to
whom all time belongs: daily habits like kneeling prayer and
digital ascetism and weekly habits like Sabbath and fasting.
This framework—of habits and a governing rule of life—is
monastic. It’s an attention project. It’s not simply an
individual exercise, however; it’s a communal one. Which begs
the question of what churches can do to help their congregants
cultivate the faculty of attention. In my own church context,
I’d love for us to become less reliant on phones for operational
business on Sunday mornings, making it possible, especially for
those involved, to leave them at home, or at least silenced and
effectively ignored. I’d love to see us corporately endeavor to
think more carefully about our digital habits and practices
throughout the week—because attention seems like an analog
skill.
I think attention is what Brother Lawrence learned to practice
in the monastery kitchen, as he washed plates. He didn’t concern
himself with time and its elapsing, but rather considered that
all time was valuable insofar as it was inhabited with devoted
attention:
The time of business does not with me differ from the time of
prayer; and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while
several persons are at the same time calling for different
things, I possess God in as great tranquility as if I were upon
my knees at the blessed sacrament.
Time management marketing preys on existential dread: that life
is short, that we are mortal. Its tips and tricks might help us
manage some of the unwieldly aspects of contemporary life and
work, but it will not teach us how to, as Brother Lawrence said,
“do all things for the love of God.” For that, we will need
practice in attention.
Jen Pollock Michel is a writer, podcast host, and speaker based
in Toronto. She’s the author of four books and is working on a
fifth: In Good Time: 8 Habits for Reimagining Productivity,
Resisting Hurry, and Practicing Peace (Baker Books, 2022).
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Re: The Mystery of Time and How to Master It for Self Developmen
t [Occult Lecture] Manley P. Hall
By: patrick jane Date: July 31, 2022, 6:56 pm
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Does the Past Still Exist?
Albert Einstein taught us that space and time belong together to
a common entity: space-time. This means that time becomes a
dimension, similar to space, and has profound consequences for
the nature of time. Most importantly it leads to what has been
called the block universe, a universe in which all moments of
time exist the same way together. The future, the present, and
the past are the same, it is just our perception that suggests
otherwise.
16 minutes
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