What Does “There’s No Time in the Spirit World” Mean? An Explanation.

Let’s say you have a major fight with your older sibling when you’re around 6 or 7 years of age.

Let’s say, for whatever reason, you never got over that moment: it stuck with you. And over the years this particular memory remained relatively intact within. Not only that, but what you felt about it still remains very present: being hurt, perhaps a sense of unfairness, perhaps resentment, or another. Feelings, emotions, whatever they were, remained tied to the memory and never subsided. You might not be always ruminating about the moment which for the most part will be out of your mind; but when you happen to recall it, you still feel the same charge and impact more or less unchanged.

If a particular situation — whatever its nature and importance, for whatever reason — mattered to you but never received closure, you may very well be 80+ years of age and still look back at it almost as if things “happened yesterday”.

This does not imply every dissatisfaction in life is equally important. Even so, things like this do happen: certain moments or situations have a weight we might find ourselves carrying inside for a long time. Especially things that were (or felt) important, emotionally or spiritually if you will, but that weren’t acknowledged by others.

One of the reasons why things can get stuck on you for a long time like this, and stay virtually unchanged no matter how long as passed, is that linear or clock time in a spiritual sense is meaningless.

Because the situation given in the example above never received any closure, it did not advance for you. The time in the clock moved, but “spiritual time” didn’t.

Linear Time vs Spiritual Time

Linear (clock) time on the physical plane functions by its inexorable rules.

Seconds and minutes will keep following each other, one after the next. Astronomical bodies will circle each other in space like clockwork based in the laws of physics. We can predict exactly when the sun will rise over the horizon tomorrow, and expect it to happen flawlessly. Physically speaking, linear or clock time is a thing that advances mechanically i.e. “no matter what”.

But the time of a spiritual nature is a different thing.

For spiritual/abstract awareness, and up in the spiritual realms if you will, there’s still a kind of time: spiritual time we could call it. It’s the movement pertaining to the processing, growth, and transformation taking place within — rather than externally or physically. In other words, it measures the movement that is spiritual in nature.

This form of time does not pass inexorably. Rather, it shifts and moves according only to the processing your awareness derives from experiences, memories, feelings, reflection, etc. Spiritual time pertains mostly to the things that truly matter to you. What’s important; what resolves inner matters; what releases burdens; what solves spiritual riddles; what produces spiritual growth. Or otherwise anything that serves a spiritual purpose or produces spiritual movement of some kind.

This is why, in part, time seems to fly by when you’re having fun while it may crawl to a standstill when you’re forced to give attention to things you wouldn’t otherwise want to. Because in the former you’re experiencing spiritual movement/resonance, while in the latter you’re not, producing the subjective experience of things not moving, staying in place.

Very generally speaking, if something is pleasurable, aligns with your truth, is meaningful, or was otherwise benign in some way, we’ll generally say you moved forward. In the sense you’ve learned something new, you changed/evolved, or otherwise you resonated in some way with the situation, moment, or experience. Especially if that situation flowed peacefully onto a moment of closure. Even if you experienced the loss of a good thing, this is when you can look back at it fondly without having been left stuck there.

Conversely, if you went through a negative situation that brought pain, anger, frustration, powerlessness, fear, and so on; and especially if you felt the situation ended at a loss for you, against your will, and/or where you weren’t given validation, supported, embraced, approved, etc — often pain/trauma results not from the event itself but from the context surrounding it — that “point” in your consciousness might retain its stance, virtually indefinitely. This is how you might keep certain long-term memories from a very long time ago as if they happened the day before. Because for you spiritually the situation has not moved..

The Physical Can Influence the Metaphysical

Further, to say that in the spirit world “there is no time” is a bit of a misnomer.

The more correct assessment would be that the further away (or higher) in vibration/awareness you are and pull away from the material plane, the less relevant linear time becomes and the more spiritual time is left in its wake, and vice-versa.

Your perception of (linear) time is subjective. Meaning, even while being a “mechanical” attribute of the material plane, the direct experience of it is bound to the perspective of the individual observer. While this characteristic is somewhat subtle to notice, you may see it in the little things described above, such as in passing faster when experiencing enjoyment and more slowly in other circumstances, or moving slower when you’re a child and faster when you’re an adult, for example. While some of the factors involved can be accounted and understood under scientific scrutiny, at the end of the day the experience of time isn’t absolute but rather subjective.

Now, if you were to suddenly transpose yourself in vibration to a Density higher than ours, say to the Fourth Density or 4D, you’d still find yourself still in a physical world, but you’d also notice some of the aforementioned subtle things now gained greater preponderance. Namely, the perception of physical time being subjective would be more evident; and in your personal experience that perception could even become more malleable and fluid, more context and perspective-dependent, and perhaps even manageable to some extent.

This to say that the existence and perception of time aren’t like a yes-or-no toggle, where on the physical plane “there is time” and on the other realms time doesn’t exist at all. Instead it works more of a spectrum: the closer in vibration one is from the material plane, the stronger the relevancy/weight/affectation of linear time becomes; conversely, the further away one in awareness/vibration from the physical plane, that relevancy gradually fades relative to the observer’s direct perception/experience, leaving the more ultimately true spiritual time in its wake.

Any reality and plane of existence that’s in close relation with, or in proximity to, the physical plane can still be more or less impacted by linear time; the time of the physical plane can still be involved and affect things of an otherwise metaphysical nature. For example, this is why the periods of “rest” between incarnations can still, from our perspective, involve the resource of… time.

Therefore, the rules and limitations of the material plane can still be involved and might still apply, to an extent, to metaphysical matters that are close to it. It is only on extremely high planes of existence – 6D or 7D to be precise – and at levels of awareness coming very close to Source/God Itself, that one’s perception can get closer to the state where time doesn’t exist i.e. where your perception is only that of Infinity, or the infinite present moment if you will. Even if that will always be the ultimate truth “beneath the hood”.