Time is racing past us. We believe that it always runs from the past into the future. But this is an illusion. When we are sitting in a standing train and a train is passing the siding, we often have the impression that it is we who are moving; that our train is moving. We are always in the present, moving very slowly, bound by space and time. The flow of information always flows from potentiality into reality. Potentiality is the future, the potential of our universe. Our existing universe, space-time, is the past. The present is the gate, the transition from the future to the past. This expands space-time, the past, and we have the feeling of being driven into the future. But we'll never get there. We always stay in the present. It is our consciousness process, our IPO, whose action gives us the feeling of time. If this process slows down, less information is processed, less past is created, and time slows down as well. When our IPO comes to a halt, the future, present, and past flow into each other, time stands still. We experience all past and all future in an extended present. Past, present, and future are one. This is eternity.
Our ego is only a transitory product in space-time, i.e. it is local, bound to space and time. By overcoming our ego, we overcome space-time and experience non-locality. Non-local means that something is not in a certain place within our space-time, but is space- and timeless, i.e. it exists everywhere and at any time. Non-locality is a characteristic of the transition to the supramental level. For example, we receive signals from other people or events across all temporal and spatial boundaries. Here we have access to all information, to all facts ever generated. We can encounter past places, deceased people. We discover Long-forgotten memories in which we can see the smallest details. All past, all facts are stored here, as well as potential information, future possibilities. So, omniscience does not mean factual knowledge, anything that can be read in books or Wikipedia, but rather a kind of inner knowledge, a universal understanding. A knowledge, an understanding, which we do not attain within space-time and therefore cannot communicate.
There are no permanent conditions. The higher states of consciousness require a lot of energy, so we can only stay there for a very short time. These moments are probably extremely short, but they seem longer to us. This is possibly related to the time dilation described by Albert Einstein. During meditation, we increase our energy, we absorb the released energy of the slower IPO, and the time dilation (from the Latin dilatare, "to stretch", "to postpone") causes all the internal processes of a physical system to seem to run more slowly the closer one gets to light energy. Once we reach the light energy, time stands still. A tiny moment, too short to be experienced in space-time, becomes a timeless sensation for the meditator. However, we must, whether we like it or not, return to the lower energy states of consciousness. Awakening is not a fixed endpoint. Just as we awaken from sleep and yet always fall back to sleep, we must also return to our local life in space-time after the meditative awakening. When our consciousness returns to our reality, it changes, so to speak, from the infinite information of the supramental level to the small, finite memory of a USB flash drive, which we represent with our body in space-time. That's why it's rather difficult for consciousness to return, it doesn't like to return. A small part of the experiences we bring back from our trip is stored on our USB flash drive and remains as a memory.
We can live on as awakened people and pass on our experiences, our images. However, we are more likely to meet with rejection in our Western culture because these images do not fit into the limited materialistic world view. Since we only have the visual language to describe what we have experienced, we have problems putting what we perceive into words and all those who are not awake have problems understanding what is described. Those who know, understand, they do not need to be described. Those who do not know do not understand, it is impossible to describe it to them. I think the supramental level is the next stage of evolution, the next level of consciousness. On the higher levels of consciousness, the right action arises automatically. There, man does not need commandments and prohibitions. He acts from an inner insight that shows him the right way. Humanity has reached the shores of this plane. We are in the process of networking our outside world via the Internet and connecting to the large shared knowledge stores, the clouds. We move from individual knowledge to global knowledge. The networking of our inner world and the connection to the "cosmic cloud" is still to come. In this way, we move from subjective consciousness via a global to cosmic consciousness. We are already in contact with this plane. But we almost always are unconsciously and only have access to a small part of it, our "personal user area". We stand in front of the gate and don't see it. Some have been exploring this transition for a long time, and more and more are starting to do so. Man will populate this plane because that is where his home is. But then it is no longer the person who is stranded on the shores. The person behind the gate is no longer the same as the person in front of the gate.
Our first marathon is usually the most difficult one. Just as for a marathon, we can also train the transition to the supramental level. Many, especially the runners among us, will find a marathon much easier, but for the experienced meditators, it may seem different. In a marathon, you can check by distance and time whether you have reached the finish on time and whether you can call yourself a finisher. The marathon is a run in the outside world. Meditation, on the other hand is a run in the inner world. There are no objective measuring instruments here. The transition from our outer to our inner world, which takes place during meditation, is expressed in an EEG as a transition from the so-called beta brainwaves into the range of alpha and theta waves and in deep meditation even beyond that. Brain scans, for example using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), a nuclear spin procedure, can be used to prove that regular meditation enlarges and changes the brain. But the experiences on the mental level cannot be reproduced on the physical level. On our inner course, there are no objective finishers, there are always only subjective finishers. In meditation we cannot measure the result, we can only experience it. Hints for such an experience were given in the contribution of transition. But those who have this experience do not need these clues. If we stand before the gate, we'll recognize it. No knowledge, no insights and no experiences in life are as certain, as unambiguous, as immovable as the gate. When we see it, we will recognize it, we will remember. It's the same place we started from, it's pure consciousness, it’s the conscious death, it`s our home. We awake, we come home.
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