Time can be measured in any number of units and the intervals can be assigned arbitrarily or by some logic (i.e., Logos)…. both linearly, and cyclicly.  Cycles of time, repeated rounds  of measured intervals, is best represented by the change in seasons.  Although time might appear to be linear,  just as empty space appears to be solid,  we really measure time in cycles. A year is a cycle….A decade is a cycle, as is a century, an age, a millenium…..A minute is a cycle, an hour is a cycle….time goes round and round in cycles. Time recycles.

And cycle, as one might see, is kin to circle; so, time is a circle – except for the linear perception of time which makes the circle into a spiral – 22 is further along the linear path than 21, even though, after one year, you’ve returned to the very same season, in the very same month, on the very same date…. one year later -  you have passed through 4 seasons worth, 12 months worth, of personal experience – and that makes all the difference. It may be the same season, the same month, the same place, but it’s not the same….it’s a year later.

It appears we are moving towards a future, away from a  past……movement through measured intervals of days, weeks, months, years, decades…, in a linear fashion…which, though actually cyclical,  can be viewed more as a spiral motion, round and round in circles and, at the same time, moving along what appears to be a linear path – able to look back down at where we were, and project up front where we hope to be…..

You don’t have to agree with this; just consider what if….

There is a  structure to our psyche-socio development; there are 7 phases, stages, arenas….classrooms…

What if….consciousness manifests and develops itself through experiences in 7 Classrooms-each classroom with 7 Grade Levels and each grade level having 7 Lessons. Whether it is personal consciousness or national consciousness, or solar consciousness, there is a process of ongoing metriculation into the next grades, and the next classrooms, over time.

Time becomes an element to consider; how long are the seven lessons  of the seven grades  in the seven classrooms…..That information is somewhat dependent on Time Consciousness. Personal time consciousness operates within the days to decades framework. But, national consciousness can operate within decades to centuries, and solar consciousness ages to eons.

What if…..our solar consciousnes has just entered 4th Grade in the 5th Classroom, and our national consciousness is about to leave fourth grade and enter 5th Grade,  in the 2nd Classroom – different curriculums for sure, although there are 7 Themes which permeate developmental stages at whatever level it is operating…..

Our personal consciousness is so colored by the national consciousness (and the solar consciousness) that developmental themes at the personal level, to be rightly understood, must include the context of national consciousness.

National Time Consciousness is a calendar kind of thing…..What year is it? According to who?

So, let’s say it’s the year 2012. As a national entity, the age is “20″ and there remains 89 years as a twenty year old. Then a birthday, and then the national consciousness matures from a twenty year old to a twenty one year old in 2101.

Let’s say it’s the year 4056….The national identity is that of a 40 year old, with 45 more years until the forty year old becomes a 41 year old…

Just as a person changes, matures, grows, develops, adjusts, compensates, creates….from when they were 20 years old to when they are 40 years old, so too national identity, national consciousness, was born…grows, develops…..decays, and dies. Through 7 Grades of 7 Classrooms.

Let’s focus on this year: 2009,  a few months from 2010. One year difference. A lot can happen in one year, from the personal consciousness point of view; but, not much happens from the solar consciousness point of view. Some significant developments can occur within the national psyche during a year, but most of the real national changes happen over several years, and decades.

Your an adolescent. No matter how old you are personally, nationally, you, as an integral member of a society that claims itself to be in the year 2009, have a national age, which fits within the schema of psyche-socio developmental stages.  As an integral part of  socio-national  consciousness, you (the national self you, not the personal self you), were born 20 years (centuries) ago; you’re a twenty year old. Everybody in the nation is a 20 year-old. Anybody who says “this is the year 2009″ is an adolescent, from the national self consciousness perspective.  Adolescence.

Well, actually, the twenty year old is in that nebulous dangerous mind altering period, stage, phase, classroom of decaying adolescence and the emergence of early adulthood, the blossoming of which, from the national consciousness point of view,  will take many hundreds of years….if it does not fall ill or die in some invasion,   or become  poisoned or plauged….and morphed into distortions or even the antithesis of its original Logos.