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The Still Point in the Waves of Time
Rev. Kat Carroll
Few of us truly understand what time is. We imagine the hands of a clock or a straight line stretching from past to present to future.
Others picture nested gears turning in cycles, where a smaller movement drives a larger one, endlessly repeating events across time and space. Ecclesiastes reminds us, “Whatever is has already been, and what will be has been before.
”Spanish Philosopher, George Santayana said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” If cycles are repeating, we should be reviewing our history much closer.
Astrology follows this same logic — patterns return, alignments repeat, and history appears to echo itself.
This idea is often associated with the concept of the Eternal Return — the notion that time and events may unfold in recurring cycles. Philosophers, theologians, and cosmologists across centuries have debated whether history truly repeats or whether cyclical time is simply a way of making sense of patterns we observe. Some traditions interpret recurring cycles through the lens of karma; a natural law of moral causation in which actions generate consequences, not as punishment, but as opportunities for balance and growth. There is no single answer, only interpretation and ongoing inquiry.
But what if time is neither a straight line nor a repeating loop?
What if it’s a frequency. (I’ll bet you didn’t see that coming!)
Imagine a sine wave — rising, falling, crossing through the still point, and rising again. The motion never stops.
What we call a “moment” is simply a coordinate along that moving curve. When we freeze it, like a photograph; we assign meaning to that snapshot.
If we capture the crest, we call it success, or victory.
If we capture the trough, we call it hardship or collapse.
If we catch it at the zero crossing, we call it calm, or uncertainty. Some may say it’s were love resides — in that stillness, like the space where all possibility waits for the slightest catalyst.
But the wave itself never stops moving.
Before an event crystallizes into history, it exists as movement, as probability within the wave. Our choices influence how that wave breaks. What defines the meaning of an event depends on where we stand when we take that snapshot. Perspective shapes experience.
From inside a downturn, chaos can feel permanent. It can feel like collapse. But in wave dynamics, descent is not an ending. It is phase. And phase always changes.
The zero station, that still point between the rise and fall. It’s not stagnation, it’s transition. It is where direction reverses. In breathing, it is the pause between breaths. In the heartbeat, it is the quiet space between pulses. While we live in this body, oscillation is life. The highs and lows make it dynamic, interesting, and at times also challenging.
“Negative” is not the opposite of good. It is simply the other half of a frequency. In thermodynamics, we even speak of negentropy — the movement from disorder toward greater coherence. In electronics, without polarity, no current flows. Without contrast, there is no growth.
Energy moves through oscillation. Waves are how the universe carries information.
So, perhaps human development is not a straight climb upward, nor a doomed repetition of mistakes, but an oscillation rising through time like a spiral — revisiting themes at different levels of awareness.
If future events exist as probability within the wave, then where we place our attention matters. In Reality Transurfing, Vadim Zeland suggests that attention amplifies particular life “tracks.” The more emotional energy we feed into fear or negativity, the more those patterns seem to recur.
By shifting attention toward desired outcomes, not by denying reality, but by refusing to let negativity dominate our inner state… we change our experience of the wave. Modern psychology offers a parallel through cognitive reappraisal, or reframing. Research shows that when we consciously reinterpret a situation—asking, “What evidence supports this fear?” or “Is there another possible outcome?”— we reduce anxiety and improve decision-making. The external event may not change immediately, but our response does.
Energy flows where attention goes
In wave terms, attention is the volume knob. Whatever we focus on grows louder in our experience. Interpretation is where we believe we are on the wave — at the bottom, at the rise, or crossing into something new. We may not stop every storm, but we influence how the wave is ridden.
Our role, then, is not to deny the trough nor cling to the peak.
It is to recognize where we are not just riding waves, but perhaps contributing to the frequency of the wave itself.
Are we focusing downward into chaos, amplifying it as if it defines reality? Or are we holding awareness of the next rise, visualizing coherence, preparing to cross the still point with intention?
Perspective does not erase hardship. It reframes it. And reframing changes experience.
Mindful Reaction is key: your emotional response shapes your reality more than the event itself. By consciously choosing calm, constructive reactions, you create a feedback loop that reduces negativity and strengthens resilience. As the Washington Post notes, “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” Your thoughts are the brush; your reality is the canvas—paint wisely.
Adjust Your Frequency
The pause, whether in meditation or in the unfolding of world events, may be the very moment when possibility is greatest. In that stillness, we can imagine the world as we wish it to be. Each of us is a “charge” within the larger field. We influence the tone, the amplitude, the resonance.
We may not control the entire wave, but we can influence how we move with it. And we don’t have to move through it alone. Waves converge. Frequencies entrain. When we hold steady, it’s easier to rise—together.
The trough is not destiny.
It is phase.
And phases always change.
When the waters rise too high, reach for one another. The wave is moving — and together, we can rise with it.
I hope you enjoy the song I found for this article.
Resources to Explore:
Karma: Three Ways to Balance It
Four Steps to Turn Any Situation Around and Create a New Reality
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