GOD
BEYOND TIME
J .H. Reyner
The author of this book was a well-known scientist and writer who has
sought for many years to develop a practical understanding of the phenomenon
of time. He suggests that this can only be achieved by relating theoretical
ideas to individual experience, and the first part of the book is concerned
with an examination of the mechanism from which the awareness of time
is derived.
This is itself an absorbing study, for it becomes clear that our awareness
of the Universe is the result of interpretations by a very limited range
of senses of a much larger, but unmanifest, domain. The author shows how
the brain acts as the interpreter of the impressions which it receives
in accordance pre-established codes laid down by experience. These become
entirely automatic, but the possibility exists of providing fresh codes
which can produce much more meaningful translations. The true meaning
of illusion and consciousness are discussed, followed by an examination
of the nature of vibrations, which are shown to be the basic means of
communication but, being variations in time, do not exist as such in the
real world. In the second part of the book, these ideas are correlated
to develop a pattern of the Universe as a real but unmanifest entity,
which the author suggests is the Eternal and unchanging Deity, manifest
at different levels by the transit of cosmic consciousnesses. It is shown
how, at the level of the phenomenal world––i.e. the world
evident to the senses––time is an essential constituent, but
that at higher levels of consciousness, for which man is equipped, entirely
different relationships exist in which time becomes the servant and not
the master.