Seven Keys to Overcoming the Crisis - Key 7, Find Your Eternal Place in Time

Key 7: Find Your Eternal Place in Time

Every day and every minute, our consciousness moves forward in time. With it move the places through which that consciousness travels. Thus, the three dimensions of space and the fourth dimension of time constitute our personal prison, one from which we can never escape. No matter how far we travel—even to the farthest reaches of the universe—we always travel inside the tunnel formed by those four dimensions.

The Egyptians understood this concept well and depicted it in their tombs. For example, the lids of sarcophagi were adorned with stars to represent the sky. The ground was represented by the symbol of the earth. The four sons of Horus, or the four dimensions, were depicted as surrounding and simultaneously inside the sarcophagus in which we live. We live in a sarcophagus, buried alive in the four dimensions.

This is a somewhat pessimistic view, but...

But this is also our sarcophagus of hope. The ancient Egyptians gave it a hieroglyphic name similar to the one they used to describe an egg because the sarcophagus was the place where bird souls were incubated. Curiously, to incubate means to remain inside a cube.

An Egyptian teacher explained that in this life, we are all pregnant. We have a little bird child inside us. We are the parents of ourselves—of that new being that matures little by little and begins to flap its wings tentatively. Therefore, we are responsible for the life of this little being. It is still small, but it will spread its wings and fly very high outside the sarcophagus that is ourselves. Thus, as both sarcophagi and birds, we grow until we leave the nest.

... To transcend time and space—to rise from the sarcophagus—we must nurture our inner child. We must work tirelessly in the present moment, fulfilling our duties and obligations, because this effort will empower our inner child. We must work tirelessly day after day for all the inner children, so that hundreds, thousands, millions of them can leave their sarcophagi.

"I have emerged from the waters of the river. After making an offering of incense, I continued on my way through the acacias of the Nile to become a child."

"O sweet lord of the two lands, who dwells in abundance among the lapis lazuli, keep the children in their nests so that they may reach you." 

[Egyptian Boof of the Dead]

Finding our place in time means settling into it and living joyfully in the present with hope.

Joyfully celebrate the day.

So that they may bring sweet fragrances and essences,

bouquets of lotuses for your limbs

and for the breast of your beloved,

who abides in your heart, sitting by your side.

Let them play music for you.

Rejoice and leave all cares behind

until the day comes when we retire

to the land that loves silence.

        [Love Poetry from Ancient Egypt]