The relationship between time and memory has always fascinated me. What comes to mind is the experience of one with amnesia… who remembers nothing of who they are and/or their life and its meaning/purpose/value. In that single moment of realization presents the opportunity to redefine the quality of their life. Meandering through all of that is the power of language, not only to reflect what we perceive but to shape and define that which we hold as perceivable… and accessible as a quality of Life.
Arrival is a movie that I still (after many passes) thoroughly enjoy. Every time, I notice something different… and I notice differently. Perhaps now, as our global ‘reality’ unfolds, is as good a time as any to consider that perhaps, there are other realities/truths that we can offer ourselves in shaping individual and collective future(s).
Enjoy!
Good Gaia, how did I ever miss seeing this movie?!? It looks amazing. Thanks for bringing this (and soooo many other things) to my awareness, Louise. Netflix…I’m on it!!
Hi Louise,
Thank you for bringing this movie to my awareness. Jacob and I finally watched it this weekend, and I have to say that it sparked wonders within me and a wonderful conversation with him about time/space/culture/reality. We actually also watched another movie that sparked an interesting conversation: K-Pax. Have you seen it? Always intriguing to question what we perceive as “real”.
In my own life, I have noticed that, although I live in the moment, past and future are the same. It isn’t that past is more real than the future — both are equally real, both have already happened, and the now is me living my life, allowing the events to unfold. With each choice I make, I believe I alter both the future AND the past. It isn’t this linear way of viewing time, I don’t know if it’s circular, either, but I know it’s intertwined and interconnected and absolutely not linear. With our language and culture the way that it is, this is incredibly difficult for me to put into words that might make sense — I know you get it, and I don’t know if many others do. It’s hard to explain, for example, that I feel in my body I have lived many lifetimes before –and I have been connected to another human, whose essence represents that of Jacob; it has always been so (past, present, future, beyond).
Because I feel I have been around a few times, death seems like a grand illusion. I already know that THAT is going “home”. Just as coming home on this earthly plain is connecting to Self/Soul/Spirit, going home for spirit is connecting to the larger of consciousness that always IS. There is nothing scary about that — it is a passing, like any other.
Which then, brings me to the choice I have made to have a child in a world I believe is increasingly inhospitable for humanity. Many question–how could I? They can accept that through ignorance one can bring a child into this world, but not through conscious choice. Given what I believe, how could I make this choice? And the answer, for me, is quite simple –I choose to live my life, with each unfolding moment exactly as it is. In order to fully live, we must experience all the polarities as they are–and make choices that align with that which we discover ourselves to be in each unfolding moment. In my life, I simply could not have made a different choice –it had already happened that I would be a mother to this Soul I get to call my gift, my sun, my son. Life will unfold exactly as it should; all I have to do is trust the process that I create, for myself. It isn’t always easy…and, it is exactly the way it is meant to be.