As you go through your daily life, have you ever noticed a reoccurring image, pattern or number? Some people, like me, see the number 11:11 (sometimes 111, or variations thereof) at often ridiculous frequency. Some may chock it up to the brain just doing it’s own thing. Admittedly, our brains are evolutionarily crafted pattern-recognizers. So it does make sense that if we see and then pay attention to a particular pattern (regardless of it’s relevance to survival) then the mind/brain system keys into it and increases sensitivity awareness, thus making it more likely that we will notice said pattern in the future. The more these neural pathways are exercised then it makes sense that we will activate those stimulus/response functions again and again.

But I did say that my awareness of 11:11 began to seem ‘ridiculous’. Initially I saw it on digital clocks since that was the most obvious and common place for that number sequence to occur. Then it was happening in what seemed way more than then random events, especially when I compared it to any other number sequence that I would see on a clock. I mean, it is kind of cool, being super-symmetrical and all. But after a while that number was showing up elsewhere: plane tickets, movie seat assignments, hotel rooms… eleven-eleven (or it’s variant one-eleven). We know that the function of seeing an object and consciously recognizing it as discrete from it’s background (field) is a primary function of the so-called left brain. But the right brain is working almost a hundred times as hard in paying attention to the field and doing the heavy lifting of collating and filtering information that may or may not be useful -though as far as the right brain is concerned, it’s all useful. Could the right brain be participating as a super-power in pulling environmental data into awareness?, even for seemingly trivial phenomena as apparently ‘random’ number sequences?

This is where we begin to tip-toe into the world of woo… for instance, how could the right brain know that the information you were looking for was going to be on page 111, or that a life-changing event would happen on January eleventh? At some point we have to abandon mere statistical probability and brush shoulders with the likes of Jung. The collective unconscious has gone from fringe idea to theory, and now a science used in nudging and coaxing the drift of billions of minds that are feverishly participating in our toddler-stage Internet. It is also vogue to speak in terms of ‘the observer determining the results of an experiment simply through the act of observing’. In the world of woo we need grapple with the idea that our minds are indeed powerful enough to manifest phenomena ‘out of thin air’, or so it may seem.

For the initiated, it is quite obvious that time is not a constant. It is a fluid, inseparably enfolded into the skein of the substrate field where apparent things continuously arise and pass away. Further the discrete perception of an ‘I’ persistently manifesting locally and sequentially is an illusion, for not only is the true ‘I’ more of an ‘us’, but also that us is smeared out across multiple dimensions of both time and space…. space and time. From this perspective we exist as much in the future as in a now -and for the followers of this peculiar philosophy our future selves can communicate with and even direct the discrete self we are experiencing, the notional/functional self in a relative now. 11:11 is a wake-up alarm we have set for ourselves in the future, an impulse that is running backward in the timescape. It is a message in a timebottle that we tossed into the great ocean of the ever-becoming with the prayer that we awaken swiftly and with resolve. How does that feel to you? Do you love yourself enough to tenderly write a love letter to your past self and send it off to the pre-post office? Wake up!