3.15 The succession of these changes in that entity is the cause of its modification.

I love having a thirst for knowledge and I am a huge science nerd, as long as it does not involve too much math. The bigger the mystery, the more I want to dig my curiosity in to it and try to understand it. While material science uses eternal equipment to bring phenomena into out perspective, yoga, uses out perspective to bring an existing idea into our realization. Pivoting back to the nature of time and the rocks I routinely encountered on my trips ino Sedona, we start to explore how our minds perceive time according to Yoga.

My favorite explanation was given by the great guru Paramahansa Yogananda. He sais that life is nothing more than a movie screen where our consciousness perceives a series of pictures in consecutive order. We react emotionally to the movie depending on how our brains are wired to accept the stimulus. This wiring is a result of past experiences that become emotionally imprinted in our subconscious mind during out lifetime or previous lifetimes. Vedic Astrology is the study of the subconscious mind and how these imprinted pattern will come to fruition in linear time. So, going back to this example, think of the subconscious mind as a reel of film wound up in our head. We can only see what is on the reel of film when it’s unwound and put in front of a light and presented to our eyes. The pictures on the screen evoke an emotional reaction, which then prompts us to act. The passage of time is basically each frame going in sequence.

The unique aspect of consciousness is that we can go back in time and view a frame in our memory. When scientists speak of time travel, we think of machines that will take us back to a particular point in time, yet we can roll the time real back in our minds. In a sense, we are already capable of time travel. Now, with modern technology recording everything, we can go back many years and see an event and form our own reaction to it.