We believe time to be an external force carrying us forward. A current that sweeps us helplessly along, like leaves carried on a stream. But only the awareness that remembers and imagines creates the continuity that we call “time.” Time is woven by our consciousness.
Every thought of “before” or “after,” every recollection or anticipation, is a loop of energy spiraling through our field. The speed and texture of those spirals determine the rhythm of our life. This is why time feels faster in stress and slower in peace. We are literally changing the density of time through the frequency of our consciousness.
Memory and imagination are time’s twin threads. Memory stitches the past into presence. Imagination reaches forward to sculpt the future. The two meet in the now, where perception collapses infinite potential into the illusion of sequence. Without memory, the past dissolves. Without imagination, the future vanishes. To control memory and imagination is to control time.
When our awareness is fragmented, time is broken. When we live in fear or regret, time tightens. And so we suffer from fragmented time. Compressed time. Broken threads. Tangled loops. Blocked Timelines. Disconnected moments. Time reflects our state of being. It mirrors our coherence or our division.
If time is consciousness woven into experience, then to heal time we must heal the distortions in consciousness itself. The field of time is wounded because our awareness is scattered across unfinished stories, unresolved emotions, and collective illusions. To heal time is to gather the scattered threads of Self and return them to wholeness. It is to reopen the channels of possibility. We are not a victim of time’s current. We are the current itself.
Imagine your Timelines as a vast, luminous textile. Each breath is a thread. Each thought, a color. When we focus our attention, breathe consciously, forgive fully, act with love, the weave clears. Patterns align and we heal time. And as time heals, it expands. Moments stretch. Serendipities multiply. The world becomes responsive.
As we rest in Presence, time becomes whole once again.
The Arrow of Time
Long before the modern world imagined time as a line — past → present → future — the ancients told different stories. To the Norse, time was a living organism called Yggdrasil, the world tree. Its roots coiled into shadow and its branches glittered into heaven. To the Greeks, life was a textile spun by the Moirai, each strand interwoven with countless others. To the Hindu mystics, time was cyclical. The great wheel of Kala turned endlessly, grinding empires to dust and raising them again. And to the Andean Quechua, time and space were one word, pacha. Pacha was a seamless continuum of overlapping realities.
In these ancient visions, time was a tree, a wheel, a loom. It was living. Breathing. Responsive. It remembered.
Our civilization worships the arrow of time because it gives comfort. A sense of progress and a promise of control. We believe, “If the past caused the present, then the present will cause the future.” This belief soothes the mind but enslaves the soul. It flattens the multidimensional into a one-way street, reducing eternity to a list.
But time doesn’t move. Only our awareness does. Our awareness moves through arrangements of frequency, and creates the illusion of continuity. What we call destiny is actually resonance. It’s the convergence of frequencies matching our state of being.
Paths of Time
Physicists speak of particles entangled across vast distances. Waves collapsing into form when observed. Quantum superpositions where many outcomes coexist until one is chosen. The language is dry, but beneath it lies the same wonder. We inhabit a sea of parallel streams.
I know you have felt this. That sudden déjà vu. The sense you have lived this moment before. The uncanny pull of a choice you cannot explain or a dream that bleeds into waking life, guiding your steps. These are the brushings of other streams against our own. Timelines overlap, blend, and recede like waves lapping on a shore.
When we choose differently, turn left instead of right, speak instead of remaining silent, we leap onto a neighboring branch. We jump to another Timeline. If unconscious navigation keeps us afloat, yet lost, then lucidity is the golden thread. Like Ariadne’s thread in the labyrinth, lucidity allows us to walk deliberately instead of blindly. Lucidity is conscious awareness that is aware of being aware.
The Norse sagas say that the hero who listens to the whisper of the Norns can alter fate. The Greeks said that those who courted the gods with devotion might have their destinies rewoven. And in Taoist stories, sages learned to step sideways into hidden worlds by aligning their breath and intent.
We too have this power. Every moment is a crossroads. Ludicity redirects the flow of consciousness towards higher streams.
We must pause when we sense the inner music. The inner music is the inaudible shimmer beneath ordinary sound. It’s the whisper of Timelines dancing with each other. It rises within the senses, announcing that a crossing is near. We must listen when something in us says, “This is a crossroads.” The mind will analyze, bargain, and weigh. It will plead for logic and safety. But the inner music is a quiet oracle between worlds. It speaks only truth.
The Path of Heart
In the Teachings of Don Juan, Carlos Castaneda’s mentor speaks of the Path of Heart, the only path worth walking. If we find ourselves at a crossroads, we must always choose the Path of Heart. He says we will know it because every step upon it makes us feel alive. The light glimmers differently. Time slows and the ordinary becomes holy.
Many years ago, I stood at one such crossroads. I was at the Greyhound station in San Antonio, Texas. A place of departures and thresholds. A Timeline Nodal point. I had left my boyfriend, my home and the old version of myself behind. I was headed west, to an ashram in California. To discipline, meditation, purification. The plan was clear, the choice rational.
Then I looked up, and the universe rearranged itself.
There he was. The young man I had just left behind. He wasn’t supposed to be there. San Antonio wasn’t our city, nor was it his route. He had no way of knowing I’d be there. I had told no one. He was bound for Mexico, seeking solace in the rhythm of Pacific waves, hoping to forget the ache of our breakup. Yet somehow, impossibly, the threads of our Timelines converged at that precise station, at that precise hour.
He saw me and smiled, part disbelief, part destiny. “Come with me,” he said.
In that suspended moment, I felt the pull of two Timelines. One path led to solitude and renunciation. The ashram, the west, the dream of ascension through withdrawal. The other led to love, wild, uncertain, and luminous. The kind that demanded my whole being.
My mind said, Go to California. My heart said, Be with him.
And then came the unmistakable inner music, somewhere distant and yet near. It was the sound of the Radiant Unknown aligning. It said: This way. So I followed the Path of Heart.
That boy became my husband. The love of my life. The father of our child. We built a life that no other choice could have given me. One woven with laughter, depth, storms, and grace. Looking back now, I see that no other path existed for me. The version of myself who boarded the California bus would have learned silence and discipline, perhaps. But not love’s alchemy. Not the sacred art of building a life intertwined with another soul. Our meeting was convergence, a divine choreography of Timelines folding into harmony.
My mother made a similar choice many years ago, when she left Texas with me as a baby and flew across the ocean to live in England. Yes, she needed to escape the grief of her mother’s suicide and the presence of my violent father, that much was clear. But, beneath the urgency of survival, was something less rational and yet more sacred. There was a call. England was a Knowing inside her that bypassed reason. The land itself seemed to sing to her through the ether. Through dreams, through whispers, through signs only she could read. This was why she named me “Pippa”, a quintessentially English name, although we had no clear connection to England.
She left behind everything familiar. Her sisters, her family, her community, the slow drawl of southern heat, the scent of mesquite after rain. She stepped into grey skies and cobblestone streets, damp cottages and ancient stones. She traded vast horizons for the intimacy of hedgerows. Yet she felt, somehow, that she had come home to something her soul already knew. England received her gently, as if she were not a foreigner at all.
Because of that choice, I became something in-between. Both American and English, two worlds stitched through the same skin. I carry the secrets of both lands. The bold, expansive yearning of the New World and the deep, ancestral hush of the Old. In me, the two voices converse. The restless pioneer and the ancient mystic.
When I reflect on my mother’s crossing, I see how her journey mirrored the choices of our countless ancestors who once set sail for the Americas, leaving their European homelands behind. They too followed the Path of Heart, though it might have looked like desperation, ambition, or divine madness. They felt the same invisible tug pulling them across oceans.
As I write this, I remember the story of one of my matriarchal ancestors. She was a widow named Mother Mc Ashan. She travelled all the way from West Virginia to Texas in a chuck wagon with her ten kids. Whether driven by desperation, greed, fear or foolishness, I cannot know. But she was surely following the Path of Heart.
The Path of Heart is rarely practical. It often defies explanation, and mocks caution. It dismantles the illusion of control. Yet it is the only path that leads to wholeness. My mother jumped Timelines, as so many of our ancestors did before her. To follow the Path of Heart is to trust that the unknown will always rise to meet you, just as England rose to meet her.
When the heart leads, reality rearranges itself to meet our frequency. To follow the Path of Heart is to trust that frequency. It’s to know that the heart is our most accurate compass through Timelines. The inner music is heard when we’re in resonance. The world glows when we are aligned. The mind may protest, but the heart is the true navigator and knows the way. The heart promises aliveness, not safety. It promises truth. And when we follow it, we step into our Golden Timeline- the Timeline written in the ink of our soul long before birth.
Final words
Time needs healing because we do. The distortions we experience in time are the symptoms of our unhealed energy. To heal time is to gather back the scattered fragments of ourselves. It’s to integrate what we’ve avoided, and to allow our perception to flow again. When we heal, time softens. It becomes luminous, circular, and kind.
When we feel trapped, it is because we have mistaken the loop for eternity. Time is not one thing but many. And the good news is, we are not trapped within it. Time is made from our very consciousness. Therefore, we are its master.
Exercise: Listening for the Inner Music
Sit quietly. Let the breath become your metronome. Be in this moment. Feel how your awareness, like a beam of light, stretches backward into memory and forward into imagination. Visualize these as threads, one extending behind you, one before you.
Now draw both into your heart.
The past forgives itself. The future opens. The present widens.
Listen. Beneath all sound, there is an inaudible pulse. This is our soul’s resonance with the Radiant Unknown. This is the sound of time being healed.
A new chapter of Straw into Gold, How to Heal Time will be published monthly in 2026. As it is published, the Table of Contents will be updated with its link.
Table of Contents
Chapter One - Why Time Needs Healing
Chapter Two - Healing Past and Future
Chapter Three - Timeline Loops
Chapter Four - Healing Timeline Loops
Chapter Five - Collective Timeline Loops
Chapter Six - Blocked Timelines
Chapter Seven - Mirror Effects
Chapter Eight - Broken Timelines
Chapter Nine - Busyness and other Temporal Distortions
Chapter Ten - Living in Healed Time
Your life story is very interesting, Pippa. I can understand why you feel the presence of different timelines. I didn't think that I could relate at all, with me still stuck in the same room to which I was brought as a baby. But then I remembered there were two major turning points in my life that put me on a different path, what you would call a timeline. I could have had a safe career and marriage(?), but instead quit that life at 18, for college. I could have got my degree and had a musical career, but quit that too, for spirituality. Thanks for reminding me that I am taking higher paths/timelines!
Oh Pippa, your words never disappoint. This chapter and the stories shared served as the perfect read to curl up with on this frigid winter evening. So much love and appreciation for your soul!💚
-Judey