4 Ways Time Travel Can Help as a Tool for Coping and Longing
After being a mom of three kids, I’ve come to know that two and 3-year-olds, if loved well, still stand on their side of a thin veil in some other happy or advanced dimension. Here they live in their unconscious “higher knowing” before fully crossing over to this side and into the mundane inevitability of getting the snot trained out of “what they remember and deserve” (no matter how groovy the parents).
It is at this point with toddlers we witness and experience extreme tantrums and rebellion — the struggle to keep what is precious and rightly theirs.
But the Earth plane has other ideas.
Playing in my mother’s jewelry box is one of my oldest and fondest memories. I think my mom enjoyed participating because she’d readily open her small mahogany treasure chest and let me go at it while my brother and sister were at school. I’d usually choose the same thing first: a stunning rhinestone-encrusted necklace with one large beveled black stone in the front, followed by a series of smaller and smaller versions of the same leading back to the clasp.
But the unusual thing was this: I didn’t put this heavy piece around my neck. Instead, I’d hold it to my head so that the large stone sat on my forehead — the spot we’ve all come to know as the third eye. It felt good there — soothing and centering. It gave me the status I was weirdly familiar with — balanced, calm, peaceful, and powerful — ageless and timeless.
Because the circle of jewels was too big to sit perfectly, I had my mom bobby pin the back bit into my hair and let the ends hang down in renaissance fashion. Being quite good with her own hair, she was enthusiastic to accommodate and seemed pleased with this take on beauty. She was used to me insisting that this was a headdress or crown, not a necklace, and as goddesses and queens, why weren’t we all wearing these adornments every single day? I was slightly chagrined about the loss of this self-identifying ritual but was happy she indulged me often and collaborated to set the world right and the record straight. Deep down, I knew she knew I was spot-on. I could see the hiraeth in her.
Hiraeth
Hiraeth (here-writhe and roll the r sound in the middle) is a Welsh word that is tricky to describe because no English word expresses the entirety of it.
However, it is generally thought of as a feeling of homesickness, nostalgia, wanting, and longing for something lost — perhaps a time period, a feeling, a place or person that is beyond this realm, a sense of missing something distant and irretrievable; or a yearning for something that is not the same as one remembers.
Hiraeth can be something you cannot return to, no longer exists, or perhaps never did.
Most often, hiraeth indicates a separation by time or space, even a place that never existed, so it can only be accessed by your imagination. One suggestion is that hiraeth is a longing to be where your “spirit” lives.
My spirit at three years old was clear in its claim of where it lived: a time and place where females were treated like royalty instead of a thing or group of things to be managed. But, soon enough, society would cause me to forget where my spirit lived, leaving me with only the sense of longing for something I don’t actually remember and can’t specifically identify.
I believe my mother had hiraeth for a status she always expected but never attained. She missed her childhood home, which I think held a bit of the story behind her expectations. However, she also understood that even if we moved there, her family farm was gone, and the area had changed. Still, that’s where her spirit lived for as long as I knew her.
Hiraeth takes on many forms. I see hiraeth living in young women who always imagined carrying a child and being a mother but find themselves with fertility challenges. Other folks have always thought they’d have a mate and a family, but the situation has not materialized. And perhaps the most heartbreaking form of hiraeth is the loss of a child.
Respect for the Welsh
It is essential to respect the origin of the term hiraeth. It is deeply steeped in the longing of the Cymry (Welsh) people for their culture as it was before it was taken over by the Saxons and renamed Wales, meaning “foreigner,” even though the Cymry were the original inhabitants of the land. As a culture, they have a deep longing for times long ago when their people lived in harmony with their gorgeous surroundings without invasion.
Indigenous societies, refugees, or other displaced or colonized groups worldwide can relate and most likely have their own terms in their original language for this concept.
Yet, this word for a type of “longing” that has no English translation speaks to something deep within most people of most cultures in some way.
Can the Load Be Lightened?
Yearning for something we cannot or will not have is a heavy burden. Can the load be lightened? Are there ways to reduce the suffering? How can one heal and continue to move forward with joy and peace as life unfolds?
It might sound ludicrous, but one way is to try time travel.
Is time travel possible in our reality, and if so, how can it be achieved?
The existence of time travel is still a matter of debate, but it depends on your definition. Many “thought leaders” believe time travel is now possible through mind methods — and tangible forms will emerge in the not-too-distant future when science and technology catch up with the human vision of it.
Here are four ways time travel can help now and could work in the future:
1. Using the Mind:
- Some experts in quantum field teachings talk about and provide exercises for bending or manipulating space and time.
- Hypnosis, metaphysics, psychology, lucid dreaming, or a combination of similar practices might provide the techniques needed. Dr. Joe Vitale, teacher, psychologist, and author of over 70 books, provides his method HERE.
2. Using Substances:
- Managed and dose-controlled psychedelic therapy.
3. Using Machinery:
- One possibility involves using a quantum computer — an incredibly complex machine that uses principles similar to quantum mechanics to instantly perform operations on large data sets. If harnessed correctly, such a device could allow users to visit different historical points or explore other parallel universes.
4. Using Galactic Science and the Universe
- Alternatively, advanced physics may allow us to use wormholes — incredibly tiny tunnels between distant galaxies or universes — to cross distances instantaneously. In theory, this would enable us to journey forward or backward in time and step into alternate realities!
Questions
Q1. What are some of the benefits of time travel?
Time travel has always been a popular topic for fiction and movies, but what are the real-world benefits of time travel?
There are a few potential benefits to take advantage of:
- Time travel could be used to revisit past successes or failures in business, school, relationships, and health. Looking at successes or failures can help you learn from mistakes, improve your strategy in future endeavors, and better prepare for future opportunities.
- Another potential benefit of time travel would be to use it to relive fond memories. For example, one may want to experience their childhood again one last time before dying, especially if they have a terminal illness.
- Still, other possible applications of time travel include genetic research, learning different languages, or even altering history to avoid tragedy.
Q2. Why do we long for the past or future?
There’s something strangely alluring about returning to a past or future moment that we loved. We long for it because it feels like we are reconnecting with a part of ourselves that is still good and powerful. That’s why nostalgia is such an important emotion — it helps us remember our happy moments and reminds us that there is hope for the future.
Q3. Why do people long for another place?
There’s something abstract and magnetic about the desire to find a new place to call home. It is as if our longing reflects some more profound need or regret within us. For some, this urge is so strong that they are compelled to move even when there’s no compelling reason to do so. Are we attempting to escape from ourselves? Is the grass greener on the other side? Or is there something else at play? These moves may be stepping stones toward our authentic selves.
Whatever the case may be, longing for a different location to live has been explored by artists, writers, and philosophers for centuries. And research has shown that these desires can positively affect an individual’s well-being.
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Conclusion
Our life can be full of losses, even during the best of times. From loved ones to objects and places that hold significant meaning, a layer of yearning often lives amongst the complexities of our day-to-day emotions.
For me, the biggest thing I have hiraeth for has morphed into my Purpose — not as rebellion but as a peaceful claiming of truth. These days when costuming, as a representative of past or future female-honoring societies, I continue to wear crowns, elaborate headdresses, or jewels on my forehead to time travel “that way of life” to the present — to make it real in the here and now.
And if I had known as a younger adult, what I know now about the feelings hiraeth causes, I would have figured out a way to get my mom back to her ancestral land despite the changes the area had gone through. The air and dirt would have smelled like home, which may have been enough.
Or, if she were alive today, perhaps I could get her to try mental time traveling to achieve the same results to relieve her longing and suffering.
SMM.12.9.22
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