During the mid 60s as a physics undergraduate, ideas about the form of the Universe and the nature of our lives began to materialise in my mind. Over the years, these ideas grew and developed, both in maturity and conviction, but they lacked direction and focus.

 

It was not until the 70s when I begun studying the works of Dr Arthur Janov on his pioneering work in primal therapy and regression, that I was able to crystallise my own disconnected thoughts about ourselves and what life may well have been like when we were babies.

 

In his books, Janov describes the effects of the liberation of Primal Pain in his patients, which is truly extraordinary. Patients return to their early childhood and relive the pain and suffering they went through. The therapy is curative, the scream being the vehicle for eradicating and espousing the psychic and physical pain that besets some of us, though not everyone. It is a feeling therapy. For it to work however, there must also be the accompanying connection with real events.

 

Primal regression and integration allow the patient to go beyond the pains of early childhood and enter a world we can only guess at. I would imagine it’s that ‘once in a lifetime journey down the old familiar world, but which we have all long forgotten.  I refer to our struggle to get out of our mother’s womb. Before that lies the conception. But the conception of what, I ask myself; just a sperm and an ovary?

 

In the early part of the 20th century, the Russian philosopher Ouspensky, claimed by many to be one of the greatest thinkers of that century, wrote Tertium Organum – the 3rd canon or principle of thought. In it, he describes the form of the Universe – the world as it really is, and which he reveals in much greater detail in his New Model of the Universe. His message is profound indeed, and the sum total of his output describes an all embracing philosophy of life and truth.

 

Ouspensky never heard of primal therapy, and I can only imagine that he may have been one of those rare individuals who was born without the burden of primal pain. How else could he have known what he knew?

 

According to Ouspensky, our moments of birth and death are one and the same thing. To those in the know, life becomes eternal. Primal regression and integration may provide living proof since, through it, we may be able to relive the previous life which is the same life we are living now, only separated by something that for the moment I will refer to as the 3rd dimension of time.

 

Not a reincarnation you understand, rather an incarnation. A glimpse into the future via the back door – i.e. a return to the past and beyond where time and space are one and indivisible. I was born 3rd March 1946, but I will not actually die. Rather, on a day sometime in the future, say when I am 100 years old in the year 2046, I will be reborn, and be back once again in 3rd March 1946 to the same parents and I will live the same life over again.

 

But each time it could be slightly different due to a quantum mechanically defined cosmic uncertainty principle, and the power on the part of each of us to perhaps do things slightly differently, if only we had the will and the knowledge.

 

An understanding of the nature of space-time as described by Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity, and the work of other physicists and cosmologists, help us to formulate the hypothesis, and from this, the difficult to deny conclusion, that the past has not ceased to exist; astoundingly, it is still there (where it always was, it never ever went away did it?) By extrapolation, we can deduce that the future, too, already exists, i.e. the physical manifestation exists and the time it exists in is always there – time never disappears, but we have not got there yet. It’s our consciousness that propels us in the forward direction, and gives us the illusion of an irreversible movement into the future unknown.

 

But when you think about it, it is only the present that is truly unreal, for it never stays with us but for a fleeting moment. And where (or should I say when) did the present go to all of a sudden? One moment it is there, and the next moment, it is replaced by the next moment in time. Does the present moment in time actually have a finite duration?

 

And even more curiously, time must have more than 1 dimension, because a different present would inevitably lead to a change in the future. So time includes the possibility of alternative futures, but only within the confines of the cosmic uncertainty principle, which provides a degree of free will, and only within the context of that which is possible and, just as importantly, doesn’t conflict with the known laws of physics and common sense.

 

The solidity of matter is illusory, as is our perception of space, time and motion. The humble hydrogen atom is virtually a vacuum, consisting of a central proton 10-13 cm across with the orbiting electron creating a virtual sphere 10-8 cm in diameter.  Earth rotates on its axis at 1000 mph, it orbits the sun at 66,000 mph, whilst the solar system forms part of the Milky Way that is orbiting very slowly around a central black hole at about 220 miles per second.

 

Thus we never enter the same space more than once, even though we appear to tread the same ground over and over again. In reality, we are moving through space at an incredibly fast rate, but we can never sense this, because to do so would violate our sense of proportion and reality, and betray the logic we have grown up with, and then we could not survive.

 

So nature plays cunning tricks on our sense of well being in order to provide us with the means to live life. But it is an illusion nevertheless.

 

And of course, atoms and their constituents live in a different world to us. They do not occupy space, only time, but not our time. They are points of zero dimension. It takes an infinite number of atoms to make a 1 dimensional line – which cannot exist by itself – except in the conceptual world of mathematics.

 

Likewise, the jump from a line to a 2-dimensional plane is infinite, as is the jump from a plane to a 3-dimensional volume.

 

So, the jump between dimensions is infinite. How to make sense of such an outrageous dislocation of logic.

 

We humans experience a sensation of time and space that is commensurate with our place in the Universe. But at the cosmic level, where space is as big as you can get, so time seems to get bigger and bigger.

 

There is a life line fusing all the moments of our life. It is timeless and lives in a world all its own. It provides the link between the spiritual universe and our earthly bodies. It is our consciousness which is the unbroken, continuous thread that holds all the moments of our life together from conception through to death. At the moment of death, our consciousness opens a psychic gate and rejoins itself at our birth.

 

And if, at this moment, you are in the arms of the woman of your dreams, and you are joined in sexual and spiritual bliss, you will gaze into her eyes, and you will drift into sleep and go to Heaven, for you will already be in Heaven. And when you awake as a little baby, and you are in the arms of your mummy, you will look into her eyes and you will see into her soul, and you will know that everything that I have spoken is the truth.

 

For eternity can only be for those who die in the arms of their one and only, for ever and ever, and hope to die.

 

Lonely people have no life in them and they die. They just fade into the nether world of ghouls and demons, and of lost souls.

 

If there is indeed a link between primal regression and Ouspensky’s view of the world as we don’t know it, the conclusion is that, if I am born on 3rd March 1946 and I die at the age of 100 for example, and in this year 1994 I am now 48 years old, then 50 years ago, I was 98 years old, if you get my drift.

 

At the age of 98, I would have had 98 years of experience, plus knowledge of developments that are yet to occur between the years 1994 to 2046. If our consciousness does indeed provide the continuous unbroken link unifying and solidifying all the discrete separate intervals of our lives, the question is: can consciousness select or lock into memory banks and, by devious and quaint means, transmit that information to some other time in the future or the past?

 

Of course, we cannot know that, because primal pain at the early childhood level locks this knowledge out of our present consciousness and is consequently forever out of our reach.

 

But with the experience of primal pain and regression and the supposed eradication of primal pain, the psychic and primal gates are opened and with it the ability for information from another time, i.e. our own future – nobody else’s, to pass into our present conscious mind, since life is circular and curved but only for those in the know, and we don’t know it yet.