Strange Time Warps
Strange Time Warps
Stuart Wilde
At my house in Australia in March 2001 I did a workshop for eighteen people. It was the usual Stuie Wilde gig that goes on all day and all night. Lectures, sumptuous meals, dancing, laughing and teachings and so on…
Above the vast lounge area was a tiled area for dancing and music. At about one o’clock one night I decided to lay on the stone tiles and have short nap. I’d been up of twenty-four hours at that point. I woke at 3 a.m. and there were a few people in the large sitting room by the fire and I started to tell a funny story about a wedding and a nervous groom that wasn’t considered very bright.
People were laughing and gradually the numbers around the fire grew to about a dozen. I keep on talking, standing all the while and from time-to-time I’d break for a few minutes to get a coffee and then dawn came up without any of us really realizing it.
After what I thought was about three hours the cook in the house came to ask me if he could serve the meal for the guests. I told him to go ahead. I was keen on another cup of coffee and bit of breakfast and I was sure the guests were hungry as well. He looked at me puzzled and said “Breakfast? No. I’m just about to serve dinner”. It was 6p.m at night. I’d been telling the story for fifteen hours and none of us noticed the time go past. Time warps create missing time, we sometime call it fat-time.
At another gig in Dorset, England I erected a Mongolian yurt in the field, and one afternoon I begged the guest’s permission to have a twenty-minute staff meeting in the tent. It was 4 p.m. in the afternoon. We all went in and sat in a circle and I talked for less than ten minutes about seminar logistics and one person ask a short question that I answered and we sat in silence for a few minute and then I told a short story, and again the seminar cook came in to ask if she could serve the meal, it was 7 p.m. dinner time. We thought we’d been in the tent twenty minutes or so. Two hours and forty minutes had gone missing.
The next day a friend came to the house and I couldn’t see him then I was too busy so I asked him to spend twenty-minutes in the tent meditating to pass the time until I was ready. He came out four hours later thinking he’d only been in there a short while. He was shocked. He also went into missing time.
These time lapses are so interesting, they always seem to happen when I’m story telling. Stephen Hawking the physicist says time is an illusion, it doesn’t really exist, and in the Aluna Mirror World that we see when we mediate there is a distinct impression of an eternal now.
Maybe the missing time incidents are just when the illusion is suspended for some reason.
© Stuart Wilde 2009 http://www.StuartWildeBlog.com
(The Quickening by Stuart Wilde published by Hay House)
Stuart Wilde (born September 24, 1946) is a British writer. Best known for his works on metaphysics and consciousness, he is also a lecturer, essayist, humorist, lyricist, and music producer.
He is the author of twenty books including the popular series The Taos Quintet: Miracles, The Force, Affirmations, The Quickening, and The Trick to Money is Having Some. His quirky and humorous style has won him a loyal readership over the years. His spiritual self-help books have sold in their millions. They are published in fifteen languages and in English by Hay House Inc.
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