Before, I always used to look at all those pre-cusory events as simple "signs", indications in the road of something approaching ahead.  But the more I think about it the more it seems to be that certain moments spread out across time in both directions.  In my case it is more often that not observable in emotions and feelings - which fits as I am very much a person that runs on feelings rather than logic. 

In fact using the word signs reminds me of the movie "Signs"...that showed each event or situation in Mel Gibsons characters life as signs, linked to a key moment later in his life.  So sorta saying that all these things happen for a reason.  Yet an additional layar to that would be that the key moment in his life was so momentous that it sent waves out in both directions across time, which were observable as moments of sycronicity, strange occurances and glitches, pre-monitions, in fact they can appear in far too many forms to count.

Even a few months ago I would have been a bit unsure as to whether reality really has this sort of nature.  But the more I think about it the more I realise that I have experienced this sort of thing again and again.  And not only me; other people have posted similar stories at NR, even if phrased in a different context.

Thanks for sharing your story kinsei!

In fact, that "wake up" event was one of those Focal Points you're talking about, and I thought about it in similar terms as it was happening... the evening that I was getting the Cosmic Anvil, I had this palatable sense of inevitability about that event happening, and I remember consciously thinking thoughts like "so many things in my life have been building up to my reaching This One Moment, Right Now".

Actually let me lay out a bit more detail about that event, just so you can let me know if it sounds like the kind of thing you're talking about.  My "wake up" (and I won't go into too much detail about what that means, since I know many of you here know that moment and how ineffable it is) happened outside in a field in the middle of nowhere Oregon during the summer of '04.  It was there that everything changed, rooted in a pivotal moment (it could have been 5 seconds or 5 hours; time disappeared) where I briefly understood everything what my life was really about and I saw the Big Picture, and that's when I had thoughts like the one mentioned above, that so much of my past was foreshadowing that singular event, infact some of those foreshadowing precursors were extremely significant events in their own right...

A big example was that back when I was a teenager, there was one night alone in my room when things had finally gotten so rock-bottom that I was seriously contemplating committing suicide.  I was very, very close to actually doing it, to the point that I sat there quietly in my bedroom, with a large blade on the floor in front of me, and I stared at it figuring what my next move was going to be, if I was actually going to go through with it, all kinds of heavy duty thoughts that I simulaneously thought might be my last thoughts at all, etc.

And then, as I was right at the verge of making a decision, a voice came into my head that I recognized as mine, but not at all in the same manner as I knew my normal voice to be.  I can now safely identify it as my higher self, but at the time I had no concept of anything like that, I just knew it was different, and most notably very kind and coming from a place of complete peace; it's the peace that made me pay attention to it.  And what it told me was this:

Okay, so you've finally reached that point where you're ready to do it.  You are prepared to take your own life, which means you're facing your fear of dying and defying it, as you're ready to kill yourself.  But before you do, consider this: if dying is the worst consequence of anything you can or will do on this earth, and you're no longer afraid of it, then is there any need any more to be afraid of what brought you to this point?  Why not keep going with that newfound lack of fear and see what happens?  It may be quite a bit different than before.  And hey, if in the end you decide you're still done with all of this and want to throw it all away and move on to the next realm, you can still do it, nobody's stopping you, but why not do it in a more interesting way like bringing that knife in front of you out into the wilderness in Oregon, not as an instrument of your death but as a tool for your survival, and see what happens.  Sure you may die out there in that wilderness, but it's no worse than dying here, and at least you'd be doing it out in perfect nature rather than up here alone in a bedroom.

And so I put the knife away, vowing to myself that if I ever reached that point of suicide again, that I wouldn't do it, rather I would run away and travel to the woods in Oregon (I lived in Virginia at the time, so this would have been a big trek) to live in the middle of nowhere and let nature take its course with me.

Fast forward back to that summer in '04; I had long since forgotten about that suicidal period, and had never really made the connection that I was now living in the PNW, that I was spending a weekend... in Oregon... in the woods.  And just before that Cosmic Anvil evening, I was at a definite "lost" point in my life, in that "is this all there is?" stage where I knew there was more but I had nowhere to go and no idea how my life was to proceed and so on... so I had really let all my previous attachments start to fall apart before this happened, which I understood afterwards was a necessary precursor to it happening in the first place.

When I thought things like "everything was building up to this moment", that suicidal evening was one of those moments, like I now understood that even back then, I knew that eventually I would be prepared to give everything up and be in those woods so I could receive the beginning of the next stage of my spiritual evolution.

And there were so many other events like that which I finally understood at that moment, like echoes of that critical point rippling out from there in both directions in time, so many significant things spanning decades in linear time but all centered around that moment of realization.

Ever since then I got greater appreciation for my intuition and that voice of my higher self and I now trust it completely as I am 100 percent certain my higher self knows exactly what it's doing, because if something can work out so perfectly across a time period that long, then there's absolutely no need whatsoever to fear what my future holds, because I now understand that all is in perfect order.

As far as theories go Marcus (based on the premise that the situation I just described fits into what you're talking about it; if it's not then let me know), the only one I've come up with is that it's not really like we're breaking essential linear time or anything, but rather that time was never really linear in the first place; all temporal points are just as interconnected as spacial points are, and their perceived separation is just an illusion of the default mode of consciousness at this level of existence.  So as we become more aware and go beyond that default level of consciousness and move our vibration higher, just as our awareness begins to more continuously see and understand spatial connectivities, so also does it begin to intuitively understand temporal connectivities.  Those connections were always there, and they're happening constantly on all different kinds of levels of significance, but how much we notice them and translate them as "focal points" is proportionate to our level of vibration (and corresponding spiritual investment).

I just wanted to clarify that I am not saying that I believe emotional involvement or intent causes the syncronicity etc. but rather that a high level of awareness of your emotional and mental states / responces allows you to observe such syncronicities

You got it! The more you are aware the more you observe, therefore the more your being/self/whatever it is is involved with the meaning as well as the "cause and effect" of events, the more syncronistic events can become. Emotion and intent can also be used to increase awareness.

Marcus wrote:

Each of those “events"  or “feelings" is what I am referring to as a “Focal Point", and it is entirely possible with enough discernment and awareness, to piece together these Focal Points and then know what is going to happen before it happens.  There is a bit of a twist though because with awareness you can alter the outcome of what is building.  Maybe that is the nature of freewill though (becoming somewhat paradoxical – but from what little I understand of Quantum Theory would resolve that – or indeed switching between timelines) – I don’t know and it all bears a lot more consideration, and to be honest I haven’t thought about it in a lot of detail because it is only recently I have begun to understand this whole thing.

So I am hoping others here can relate or have some knowledge or theories about this.

You're describing quantum superposition on a macro scale; a particle can be anywhere or anywhen, with different degrees of probability, with the final position determined by the observer. In my experience your emotional involvement or intent doesn't "cause" the syncronicity; it just happens in a way that has meaning (fits the observation). Love those non-local effects!:)

Hadn't thought of it like that - I don't know much about quantum sciences - but from what you say it does seem to fit.

I just wanted to clarify that I am not saying that I believe emotional involvement or intent causes the syncronicity etc. but rather that a high level of awareness of your emotional and mental states / responces allows you to observe such syncronicities.

What in the..............?!?!

I reckon she posted in the wrong thread...

Each of those “events"  or “feelings" is what I am referring to as a “Focal Point", and it is entirely possible with enough discernment and awareness, to piece together these Focal Points and then know what is going to happen before it happens.  There is a bit of a twist though because with awareness you can alter the outcome of what is building.  Maybe that is the nature of freewill though (becoming somewhat paradoxical – but from what little I understand of Quantum Theory would resolve that – or indeed switching between timelines) – I don’t know and it all bears a lot more consideration, and to be honest I haven’t thought about it in a lot of detail because it is only recently I have begun to understand this whole thing.

So I am hoping others here can relate or have some knowledge or theories about this.

You're describing quantum superposition on a macro scale; a particle can be anywhere or anywhen, with different degrees of probability, with the final position determined by the observer. In my experience your emotional involvement or intent doesn't "cause" the syncronicity; it just happens in a way that has meaning (fits the observation). Love those non-local effects!:)

I think I get the gist of what you're trying to say.   Synchronicities, deja vus, having "number sightings" that repeatedly pop up in our lives in far-fetched and unbelievable ways, etc. would fit in here.  For me, I've determined that these phenomenon are outside of time, and they can often times leave me with a surreal feeling, wondering "Did that really just happen????" 

Two days ago I updated the synchronicities section on my website, adding in my own personal  experiences taken from my log book, and I realized just how outside of time they really are.    http://in2worlds.net/synchronicities      We're wired to view things linearly,  A leads to B leads to C, cause and effect, as you noted.  And yet, with the case of some of the synchronicities noted in my link, it clearly was not "cause and effect," but rather, "effect and cause." For some of those synchs to have happened, something had to work "backwards" in time to arrange circumstances.  It does spook me out a bit, because it causes a feeling of.....I don't know.  Being a clueless puppet who doesn't understand the mechanizations of my own reality.   

Some of us seem to be in an "in-between" stage right now, where we've gained enough awareness to note "the mechanizations behind the curtain," but are still severely limited in capability to understand or fully experience it.  We're not completely asleep at the wheel, yet, being that we're still 3D, we're a far cry from reaching the level of those beings - most likely our own selves in the future - who are causing these strange phenomenon to manifest around us.   It's a frustrating stage, being aware enough to see "stuff" but not far enough along to understand what's happening, thus, creating that spooky ooogedy boogedy feeling. 

You posted as I was writing my post.  That is exactly what I am getting at!

I have experienced sychronicties, number sightings and all the rest of it for quite a long whilst now (I mean with awareness as that occur - when I think back over my life I realise there were so many more that I was too asleep to notice at the time).  What I have only just realised in trying to piece together just what is going on is there as you say - it all seems to be outside of time.  It's very hard to get my head around it all   It's like those times when you try and think of a word that's on the tip of your tounge, but not matter how you try it just won't come.

You can sort of "see" it - yet can't really make it all out...

So yes, many times the feelings can be like the nostalgic feeling brought on my smelling something, expect it works in reverse.  You see, hear, think something and intuitively know that it is connected to something yet to happen.

A cliché is when you think of someone and then they phone you.

It is almost as though we are on a massive tapestry, and sometimes we get to see part of an individual thread and then know that it is linked somehow to a grander picture.  A better analogy is like a jigsaw puzzle.  You find a piece that is sky coloured, and you know that it is part of something yet to be revealed - then later you find a piece that forms part of the ground...and you find more pieces you get an image forming in your mind of the overall picture.  Eventually as you go along you intuitively know what the missing pieces will look like and can determine what will happen next; or what happened prior to all the pieces being scattered.

It's very hard to explain, but if you can take that analogy and then apply it to time, our reality and our presence within it then you should start to get an idea of what I am trying to convey.

Part of it is deduction and logical reasoning.  Another part is intuition and higher awareness which allows to perceive that there is a puzzle unfolding.  You see part K and weeks later find part E; there is nothing to link these pieces other than experience, discernment and awareness - yet already you become open to looking and feeling for more.

So in part it is about how we can perceive things.  Many years ago, I would drive past a very shabby and run down road in our town – I was a far more judgemental person back then – yet got a “feeling"  about living down there, a sense of familiarity with the place.  But living in such a location was something I would never dream off.

Years before that whilst I was still at school, I had a lot of difficulty with a particular person there, who was very aggressive towards me.  At that age I didn’t know how to handle it so was always left with a feeling of fear and intimidation.

Jumping forward to more recent years – I went in a shop near that shabby road, and whilst in there I got that same sense of intimidation.   There was absolutely no reason for this as it was a totally average corner shop (7/11).

A few years after that, my fiancée (now my wife) thought about buying a house.  Circumstances were that we had to move pretty fast and the only available place at such notice, and within our price range was down that shabby road!!

So we moved, in.  We were there a few months and I made regular use of that nearby shop – the same one I once stopped in some years earlier.  Yet all the while I would get this constant sense of intimidation from it.

Then one night I went there, and inside bumped into that guy from school.  He recognised me and had that same predatory look in his eyes.  He moved towards me, and I saw his pupils were dilated – he was high.  The short of it was that he threatened me for money, and when I didn’t comply he wanted me to go outside (I know where that would have led!)  In the end the situation was dissolved without any harm – (the goon was drugged and easily distracted! )  I smile now but at the time it was frightening!

Afterwards, I remembered how on each of the aforementioned times in those locations I had gotten very strong feelings from those places.  Feelings that I now know were focused on that very moment.

There have been many theories over the years – a lot of which I have read at NR, that could account of this.  And it is only one of many such instances.  Yet without doubt there was something that was entirely non-linear about the whole thing; even though from start to finish it covered years (over a decade).

As many times as I have experienced this sort of thing (not all as negative as that one thankfully) it is only recently that I have started to grasp the nature of what I feel has been happening.

Each of those “events"  or “feelings" is what I am referring to as a “Focal Point", and it is entirely possible with enough discernment and awareness, to piece together these Focal Points and then know what is going to happen before it happens.  There is a bit of a twist though because with awareness you can alter the outcome of what is building.  Maybe that is the nature of freewill though (becoming somewhat paradoxical – but from what little I understand of Quantum Theory would resolve that – or indeed switching between timelines) – I don’t know and it all bears a lot more consideration, and to be honest I haven’t thought about it in a lot of detail because it is only recently I have begun to understand this whole thing.

So I am hoping others here can relate or have some knowledge or theories about this.

Two days ago I updated the synchronicities section on my website, adding in my own personal  experiences taken from my log book, and I realized just how outside of time they really are.    http://in2worlds.net/synchronicities      We're wired to view things linearly,  A leads to B leads to C, cause and effect, as you noted.  And yet, with the case of some of the synchronicities noted in my link, it clearly was not "cause and effect," but rather, "effect and cause." For some of those synchs to have happened, something had to work "backwards" in time to arrange circumstances.  It does spook me out a bit, because it causes a feeling of.....I don't know.  Being a clueless puppet who doesn't understand the mechanizations of my own reality.   

Some of us seem to be in an "in-between" stage right now, where we've gained enough awareness to note "the mechanizations behind the curtain," but are still severely limited in capability to understand or fully experience it.  We're not completely asleep at the wheel, yet, being that we're still 3D, we're a far cry from reaching the level of those beings - most likely our own selves in the future - who are causing these strange phenomenon to manifest around us.   It's a frustrating stage, being aware enough to see "stuff" but not far enough along to understand what's happening, thus, creating that spooky ooogedy boogedy feeling. 

This is by no means a new topic, and there are many related subjects posted on these forums.  It is also a part of how people like Goro Adachi see what they see.

I got the urge to create a list to try and sort the subject out in my mind a bit, as the experience and realisation of all this is still fairly new to me.  Whilst I have been aware of non-linear time / events for quite a while, I hadn’t realised that I had actually been experiencing it.  And I have a feeling that most people will be experiencing this sort on thing of a fairly regular basis, it just goes right over our heads unless we are aware enough of what is happening.

This is by no means an exhaustive list, so it will be great if people can add more stuff to it.  Also it would be neat if people could relate some of their experiences in this (although that can be difficult due to the nature of the subject).

I would like to look into this a lot more so adding any further information to this subject, including links, books, articles would be really helpful.

Indications of non-linear events:

“¢    Reality is non-linear

“¢    Events are not always “cause and effect", but the effect can precede the cause.

“¢    There are ways of perceiving non-linear reality, but it requires interpreting our physical senses through a clear state of awareness.  Where an individual acting from an unconscious mind will perceive a strange event, or “coincidence" , an awakened mind that is aware of its own sensations and consciousness will feel and perceive the indications of something interconnected.  For the moment, as I have no other term, I will call these “Focal Points".

“¢    Focal points can enter our perception of awareness; these moments or events are linked or will give clues to events yet to take place, or even give indications that something has occurred that our normal physical senses have not picked up on.

“¢    Focal points can occur in a non-linear order.  Instead of the traditional worldview, i.e. a followed by b followed by c, Focal Points can occur as v, followed by r, followed by a, followed by z.

“¢    There are many types of Focal Points, a few of them are as follows:
.       o    Premonitions of the future
.       o    A current Point invoking instant realisation of a past Focal Point.
.       o    Insertions from individual Higher Awareness
.       o    Insertions from other entities
.       o    Momentarily perceiving the underlying structure of reality.

“¢    These are some of the many indications of Focal Points:
.       o    The sensation of being lifted out of the moment, as your attention is focused onto something you would not normally notice; often something non-physical such as a feeling, thought, or memory.
.       o    The sensation of the world falling away as you are rooted entirely into the moment; your awareness totally focused on some seemingly insignificant physical event.
.       o    A thought arriving in your mind without any prompting or external stimuli.  This can also be attributed to any number of other factors, so extreme caution and awareness is required.
.       o    Witnessing or experiencing something significant, that doesn’t appear to have an immediate cause.
.       o    Perceiving a link between seemingly unrelated circumstances.

“¢    Non-linear experiences are notoriously difficult to explain to anyone else.  This is largely due to the fact that language doesn’t really accommodate for relating such experiences and concepts.  In addition difficulty arises from the fact that we have been conditioned to a linear way of life.