Clockmaker

When you first enter, the Clockmaker says,

"What we think of as clock time is only a small part of your time experience. Your body runs on biological time cycles. You are also familiar with time flying when you're having fun, time crawling when you're bored, and even time standing still in moments of shock or wonderment.

"Let us now consider what it would be like, if we had all the time in the world to play with. (chuckles) Actually, we do. And learning to use time in many different ways is one of our greatest untapped potentials.

"To begin our play with time, let's try an exercise in which your new skill at Inner Imagery can help you to experience as much in a few minutes as might normally take an hour, a day, or even longer. If you want to learn how to travel in time, you must use your magic to turn the hands of this great clock to the hour of twelve o'clock. And then you will be off to learn how to master time."

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Inside the clock, in front of the hourglass, the clockmaker's voice says, 

"When we think in images, our brain seems to need less time to reach a conclusion, relive an event, or rehearse a skill than it does when we think in the ordinary way. Let me show you what I mean. Think of a place where you'd like to take a wonderful journey, or revisit a place you have traveled to in the past, and we will explore this in images.

"Now, let's say that you have one minute of clock time to visit this place in your imagination. In that minute, you will close your eyes and experience as many scenes or events or thought pictures related to this journey as you can. Close your eyes, and allow the one minute to begin now."

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 When the minute is finished, and the hourglass is empty, he says,

"Times up! Subjectively speaking, how much time seems to have gone by? Some of you may feel that it was hours, or months, or even years. Others might say that the interval seemed timeless.

"Even if you experienced the time as only a minute or less, how many different images did you see? In the world of Subjective Time, internal time can be experienced to fill up the record of many hours. You can encounter faces and places all over the globe. The Great Wall of China, or a beach in the Antilles. Any event you ever, or never, experienced."

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When you have successfully completed the Event, he says,

"Once you gain access to the varieties of time, you can rehearse and improve skills quickly and have all the time you need for what you wish to do. Most importantly, you will discover time to be a friend, and not an enemy.

"Hope you had fun! Oh, and if you see Sophia, tell her that her atomic clock is almost ready." (Bang)