Time

What Is Time? Time as a Spiritual Concept

What is time? Have you ever considered that time may not move in a linear way, but rather in a circular one? Could it be that the past has not yet happened, and the future has already been lived?

Honestly, it took me a long time to embrace this understanding of time. I am still trying to fully understand and integrate it. Time is one of the most fundamental concepts we are taught from childhood. Clocks, calendars, age… all of them are based on the assumption that time flows along a straight line.

In recent years, however, many of us have begun to feel that time is not only passing, but accelerating. It’s not that days are getting shorter; it feels as though we can no longer keep up with them. In this constant rush, a hard-to-describe sense of being late arises within us. Things feel incomplete before they even begin, moments seem to be consumed before they are fully lived. Has time sped up, or has our perception of time changed?

But what if time is not what we think it is?

Is Time Travel Real?

Is time travel possible? Can we return to happy moments? Can we relive those times when we say, “If only I had another chance, I would do things differently”?

And what about the future?

Is it possible to move forward in time? Can we receive a sign, support, or guidance from our future selves?

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

How Reiki Changed My Perception of Time

After I started working with Reiki, I noticed a clear shift in my perception of time. Memories from the past began to surface more frequently. At first, I simply observed them, as if watching scenes from a film.

Later, I allowed myself to feel the emotions within those memories. At some point, I realized that I had begun speaking to my past self. Those moments were no longer just “the past.” They felt alive, as if they were happening right now.

These experiences led me to reflect on something important. Perhaps time is not merely a line, but a field of experience that consciousness can access.

Is Time a Level of Consciousness?

In spiritual teachings, time is often described not as an absolute reality, but as a way consciousness experiences existence. In this view, time is not something flowing independently outside of us, but rather the way consciousness divides experience into segments.

From this perspective, what we call “the passage of time” is actually the movement of our attention from one experience to another.

Past, present, and future may all exist simultaneously, and we simply focus on one of them through our consciousness.

Perhaps the reason we feel rushed has nothing to do with time itself. Constantly trying to keep up, living as if we are part of an invisible race, comparing our lives to others and losing our own rhythm… time is not speeding up; we are. And this acceleration often narrows our awareness.

The Pleiadian Understanding of Time

One of the spiritual perspectives that has influenced me most on this subject is the Pleiadian understanding of time.

In spiritual sources, Pleiadians are described as highly conscious beings originating from the Pleiades star cluster. In their teachings, time is not linear, but perceived according to the frequency of consciousness.

According to these teachings, time does not exist in the way we understand it. Everything exists, and everything happens simultaneously. The past and the future are experiences occurring at different frequencies of consciousness.

This perspective reframes time travel not as physical movement, but as a shift in consciousness frequency.

Is Time Travel Possible Through Consciousness?

According to Pleiadian teachings, time travel is not about using a machine to move into the past or the future. Time travel becomes possible when consciousness shifts to another frequency.

What does this mean?

Emotionally or energetically connecting with a moment from the past, intuitively sensing a future potential… these may all be expressions of time travel at the level of consciousness.

From this point of view, Reiki, meditation, and awareness practices become powerful tools for transforming our perception of time.

Is the Future Fate or Potential?

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

This is why connecting with our future selves and receiving inspiration from them may be possible. What we are truly 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.

Making peace with the past, staying present, and placing conscious intentions into the future are all ways of building a conscious relationship with time.

Aging 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, and gain a broader perspective on life.

Yet there is an important distinction here. Aging and maturing are not the same thing.

Time certainly accumulates experiences. We live more, meet more people, and encounter a wider range of situations. But this alone does not guarantee maturity. We all know people whose perspective has not changed despite the passing of years, just as we know young individuals who carry deep awareness and inner wisdom.

What I have come to understand is this: Time does not create maturity. Time simply creates space. What grows within that space depends on how consciousness engages with experience.

We can think of it this way. Time is like soil. Experiences are like rain. But consciousness is the seed. Not every seed sprouts simply 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 today and feel more evolved, it is not because time has passed. It is because I can now hold those experiences with greater compassion, understanding, and spaciousness. My past self was not lacking. She was doing the best she could with the awareness she had at that moment. Today, I can meet her with more kindness and depth.

Time does not create evolution; it creates the space in which evolution can occur. We do not mature because time passes, but because our experiences find their place within us.

With this perspective, there is no hierarchy between past, present, and future. There are only different fields of experience. Maturity becomes less about moving along a timeline and more about the deepening of consciousness.

The Dance of Time and Consciousness

Perhaps time is not the rigid, unchanging, one-directional structure we imagine it to be. Perhaps it is a flexible field of experience shaped together with consciousness.

Reiki and spiritual practices have taught me that rather than 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 place more conscious intentions into what lies ahead.

Haste may not be a problem of time, but of consciousness. When we are able to pause, time expands again. Perhaps we are not late at all. Perhaps this is the first time we are truly here.

And perhaps true time travel begins exactly there, in the moment we expand our consciousness.