What is Cyclical Time?

What Is Cyclical Time? Time as a Spiritual Concept

What is cyclical time? Have you ever considered that time may not move in a linear direction, but rather in a cyclical flow?  Could the past not have fully happened yet, and the future already be experienced?

Honestly, it took me a long time to be convinced of this understanding of cyclical time. I am still trying to comprehend and integrate it. Because time is one of the most fundamental structures we have been taught since childhood. Clocks, calendars, ages… all are based on the assumption that time moves along a straight line.

In recent years, however, we have begun to feel not only that time is passing, but that it is accelerating. It’s not that days are getting shorter; it’s as if we can no longer keep up with them. In this fast-moving flow, a subtle sense of being late begins to emerge within us. Things that feel incomplete before they even begin, moments that seem to fade before they are lived… Has time accelerated, or has our perception of time changed?

What if time is not what we think it is? Perhaps the concept of cyclical time is an approach that could completely transform how we perceive time.

Is Time Travel Real?

Is time travel possible? Can we return to happy moments? Or relive those moments when we said, “If only I had another chance, I would act differently”?

What about the future?

Is it possible to go into the future? Could we receive a sign from our future self, get support, or ask for guidance?

For a long time, these questions were merely intellectual curiosities for me. Until I began working with Reiki.

How Reiki Changes the Perception of Time

After I started working with Reiki, I noticed a significant shift in my perception of time. It was during this period that my understanding of cyclical time began. Memories from the past began to surface more frequently. At first, I simply observed them, like scenes from a movie.

Then I allowed myself to feel the emotions within those memories. At some point, I realized I was beginning to communicate with my past self. Those moments were no longer just “the past.” They felt alive, as if they were happening in the present.

This led me to think: perhaps time is not just a line, but a field of experience that consciousness can access.

Is Time a State of Consciousness?

In spiritual teachings, time is often not seen as an absolute reality, but as a way consciousness experiences reality. In other words, time is not something external that flows independently, but rather a way consciousness organizes experience.

From this perspective, what we call “time passing” is actually the way our awareness shifts from one experience to another.

Past, present, and future… perhaps they all exist simultaneously, and we are simply focusing on one of them through our awareness. At this point, the concept of cyclical time gains a deeper meaning.

Perhaps the reason we feel rushed is not time itself. The constant urge to catch up, the feeling of being in an invisible race, losing our own rhythm by comparing ourselves to others… Time is not speeding up; we are speeding ourselves up. And this often narrows our consciousness.

Pleiadian Perspective on Time

One of the spiritual teachings that influenced me most on this topic is the Pleiadian perspective.

In spiritual sources, Pleiadians are described as highly conscious beings from the Pleiades star cluster. In their understanding, time is not linear, but a flow perceived according to the frequency of consciousness. This perspective offers a powerful way to understand cyclical time.

According to these teachings, time does not exist; everything exists simultaneously. Past and future are simply experiences at different frequencies of consciousness.

This view explains time travel not as a physical movement, but as a shift in consciousness frequency.

In this sense, cyclical time becomes a key concept in understanding this perspective.

Is Time Travel Possible Through Consciousness?

According to Pleiadian teachings, time travel is not about moving through time with a machine. It is about shifting consciousness to another frequency.

What does this mean?

Connecting emotionally or energetically with a past moment, or intuitively sensing a future possibility… all of these may be expressions of time travel on a conscious level.

From this perspective, Reiki, meditation, and awareness practices become powerful tools that transform the perception of time.

Is the Future Destiny or Potential?

From a spiritual perspective, the future is not a fixed destiny. It is one of the possible reflections of our current state of consciousness.

This is why it may be possible to connect with our future self and receive inspiration from it. What we are actually connecting with is our own potential.

What Does It Mean to Work with Time?

Working with time does not mean erasing the past or fixing the future. It means transforming our relationship with time. This is where cyclical time offers a deeper framework for understanding time.

Making peace with the past, being present, and setting conscious intentions for the future… all of these are ways of developing a conscious relationship with time. From the perspective of cyclical time, this relationship is seen as an interconnected experience where past, present, and future are not separate, but intertwined.

Growing Older or Maturing?

This brings me to a question I often ask myself: does maturity really come with time? We often assume that as years pass, we become more understanding, more inclusive, more open.

But I have come to see an important distinction: aging and maturing are not the same.

Time certainly accumulates experience. We encounter more situations, more people, more events. But this alone does not guarantee growth. We all know people who have aged without changing their perspective, just as we know young individuals who carry deep awareness and wisdom.

What I realized is this: time does not create growth. It only creates space. What grows within that space depends on how consciousness engages with experience.

You can think of it this way: time is like soil, experiences are like rain, but consciousness is the seed. Not every seed grows just because there is soil and rain. Growth happens where experience truly takes root within us.

This is why when I look back at my past self and feel “more evolved,” it is not because time has passed, but because I can now hold those experiences from a wider perspective. My past self was not lacking; they were doing the best they could with the awareness they had. My present self can now approach those moments with more compassion and understanding.

Time does not create evolution; it creates the space for evolution to occur. We do not mature simply because time passes, but because our experiences find meaning within us.

From this perspective, there is no hierarchy between past, present, and future. They are simply different fields of experience. Maturity is not about moving along a timeline, but about the deepening of consciousness.

The Dance of Time and Consciousness

Perhaps time is not as rigid, fixed, or one-directional as we think. Perhaps it is a dynamic field shaped by consciousness.

Through Reiki and spiritual practices, I have learned that instead of fighting time, we can collaborate with it. We do not need to erase the past or control the future. When we transform our relationship with time, we can both make peace with the past and set conscious intentions for the future.

Perhaps urgency is not a problem of time, but of consciousness. When we slow down, time expands again. Maybe we are not late; maybe this is the first time we are truly here.

And perhaps real time travel begins exactly here: the moment we expand our consciousness.