Non-linear experiences

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...

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.

Marcus, while I'm not sure I can contribute much "new" to the discussion, I thought at least I would post as an affirmation that I also believe I know what you're getting at (and yes, it is hard to convey).  I've had this same kind of thing happen to me on various scales of spiritual/emotional significance, probably all my life but I've mostly been conscious of them since I first "woke up" a couple years ago.

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).