Music & The Timeline Split

Lately, I've been watching and reading some stuff about the Timeline Split. This is not a new concept to me, I've been aware of it to some extent since SoulJahm days, but never have I felt it more distinctly in my own experience like I have in this period (September-October 2025). For those who are unfamiliar with the concept, it is commonly talked about in spiritual communities online. I am not part of any spiritual community myself but I take a look at what various teachers and teachings say at different times in order to understand my own experiences. The Timeline Split is basically a way of saying humanity has reached a point where the differences between us are now so vast that it has become almost impossible for us all to remain unified in one world as we had taken for granted until recent times. So humans will more and more gravitate towards whichever timeline their core beliefs and actions represent. Some say it is more than a two-way split and we will veer off into multiple timelines but for the purposes of this I'll stick to the most common, simple two-way split. Basically, it is a choice between an Organic timeline which is all about being natural - reconnecting with our own innate natural abilities, many which have been dormant or obscured for a long time, eating natural foods, living with natural bodies, living more in harmony with the Earth itself - and a Synthetic timeline which will be increasingly dominated by technology and authoritarianism - A.I., robotics, synthetic lab created food, transhuman bodies, strict government control at the expense of personal freedom.

If you'd talked to me about this 15 years ago, I'd have said this sounds like a flaky New Age concept, one which is actually divisive rather than empowering. My understanding was there were conscious people and unconscious people. The unconscious people were the masses dominating life on this one, shared planet and the conscious were the small minority trying to wake the unconscious up to their true nature. That has not been my own direct experience of life for quite some time and as often happens in the awakening process, not only does your current understanding of reality get called into question but the past often get re-evaluated.

I would say my first ever experience of separate timelines was in my late teens when I was still going out to pubs with my friends. I have spoken elsewhere about a strange aloneness that descended on my when I was 15 and still at school, the first distinct time I felt somehow separate and different from my friends. A few years after this, and after the "mystery virus" I experienced during my first job, I increasingly noticed that when I went out with my friends to the pub each week, they seemed more and more distant from me. We'd be standing at the bus-stop waiting to go into town and then on the bus but it felt to me as if I was somehow invisible to them. We were sharing the same physical space but when I went to say something they wouldn't hear, barely respond or would talk over me to each other. Towards the end I didn't bother saying much because what was the point? At that time I knew nothing of spirituality so I took it personally. I could see from a normal perspective our lives were going in different directions - they were into modern culture and I was feeling increasingly repulsed by it and more drawn to previous eras where I recognised more beauty, more freedom and a more natural way of living.

Around 2008/9 I wrote the song "Borders", which ended up being recorded acoustically as a SoulJahm track on the 'Live!' album. It has the line "High or low into division we go". The song just came out stream-of-consciousness as many of mine do, so I didn't deliberately put that in as a reference to the Timeline Split, although looking at it now, I'm sure that's exactly what it points to.

From 2007 onwards it felt like my old life was falling apart and something new was arising but I still didn't interpret this as a timeline split. I understood this was a normal progression of awakening and how it had always been for everyone who awakens, stretching way back in time. It was really once I was in continental Europe as SoulJahm that Kate and I began to notice people more frequently behaving odd around us. Communication began to breakdown. People would pop up, say stuff to you, then disappear again. There was a strong synchronistic flow to our life in Europe to begin with but halfway through that flow was getting disrupted and it was becoming increasingly difficult to sustain anything. We seemed to be the only constant, unwavering presence while everyone and everything around us was fluctuating. One day people would seemingly be in tune with us and the next day they may suddenly withdraw their support. Even when we were together in person with people it would increasingly feel like we were in different worlds.

So that is how I experienced the 'timeline split' and it has only intensified as the years have gone on. A few years back it was extremely common for people to come into my space briefly, interact with me in some way, then disappear without warning. After a while I realised it is a frequency thing. If their dominant frequency is lower than mine then any time they rise up into a higher frequency they 'appear' in my reality but as they are pulled back down to their core frequency they disappear suddenly. This would be experienced in everyday reality as someone perhaps getting into an online conversation with me and then halfway through abandoning the conversation without telling me why or someone coming up to me while I was busking and telling me they love the Music I make and putting some kind of offer to me and then never hearing from them again. It's easy not to take this personally when things are flowing for you but when you are trying to build and improve your life situation it is difficult not to feel let down again and again by people. You feel it both ways and both are valid to some extent.

When I go on a rant, seemingly complaining about something or sounding negative about aspects of this world, there is more behind it than meets the eye. For instance, I can simultaneously feel frustrated and disappointed at the way things currently are in the world (because I have to live and experience it) and very much express my discontent yet at the same time have a deeper sense that all is well. That this falling apart is very much necessary to make way for something new and more beautiful but that it's certainly not always pleasant to live through it.

"Brand New Start" from the album 'End Of The Strangers', released in 2019, explores this theme.

In these times I am noticing the split even more distinctly. Suddenly people who felt reliable and stable to you - whether that's family, close friends or long-time spiritual figures - are now no longer resonating. At the same time a feeling of moving more strongly and certainly in your own direction. So many of the spiritual and conspiracy commentators I see are getting more and more drawn to politics which is increasingly repelling me. I'm finding Creativity and Music is becoming even stronger and more important. It is the world I want to inhabit. To fill my world and whoever is in it with as much beauty as I can is becoming increasingly important. It always has but now there is even more urgency to it. Most of my exchanges and disagreement with people over the years has been related to this. As I see it, if you celebrate beauty and beautiful things then evil, dysfunction and disharmony cannot take root and exist in such a world. Who can be bothered to fight wars and endlessly be in conflict with others when they are enjoying life because it feels beautiful? And I'm not talking about the fake beauty that Instagram influencers promote. Taking endless selfies in all the exotic locations you visit has nothing to do with what I'm talking of.

This split is showing up in Music now in a bigger way than ever. Just recently I got an email from Bandcamp informing me they are updating their payment service from Paypal to Stripe in 2026. I went to set it up and then Stripe asked me to submit my passport and a photo for comparison along with other documentation to prove who I am (something I've had to do on other sites). Only this time I noticed they wanted you to tick a box giving them consent to store biometric data and this change coming so soon after the attempted introduction of Digital ID in the UK, amongst other things going on around the world, raised a red flag for me. I have been a supporter of Bandcamp over streaming services for a long time as I felt of all the platforms it gave musicians the best way to get paid properly for their work. I have never had much luck there despite this and now I feel blessed for this because I will almost certainly be leaving it once they move to Stripe.

As I said above, two things can be true at once. Although I sometimes bemoan the lack of support I receive for what I do, I have long suspected that perhaps I am blessed not to have a huge following on social media or lots of sales on places like Bandcamp because as this split becomes more obvious it's looking like much of the internet will be the domain of the Synthetic timeline and will increasingly not be able to stay in my vibration or me in it's vibration. I feel increasingly those of us on the Organic timeline will start from scratch in real physical life and will use computers and the internet less and less.

One of the key elements that repels me from computers is the screen. There is something about the technology of a computer screen or phone that I find off. The way it drains your energy. I know some have spoken about them being portals to lower 4D realities and so on and there may be something in that. Current computer screen technology seems to suck your energy in a way that prior technologies didn't. As a musician, I notice it because when I worked with cassette portastudios in the late 90s they never tired me out. When I work with computers to record my songs it can feel draining being near the screen and having to use your eyes as much as your ears. Even as I write this I feel it, as an irritation, like I want to hurry up and get off here. The current computer screen is not a place I enjoy being, it is simply a necessity. I am not at all against technology and I think what computers can do is incredible and I feel lucky to be able to make the productions I can musically due to working with them. I can do something else with 4-track cassette, which can be beautiful, but it has it's limitations, so realising my songs fully is not always possible in that realm. My feeling is that in the Organic timeline we will develop a new kind of computer that is much more harmonious and pleasant for the human body to be working with. It won't feel so aggressive on the body, hurting your eyes, giving you brain fog, etc.

In the meantime, things will become more physical and basic again for a while but much more enjoyable. Concerts and playing music will be much more in harmony with nature, more spontaneous, not so reliant on fancy technology. CDs and cassettes may have a revival in a DIY way and be the main way of sharing music, coming away from the digital realm. Of course, for another couple of years or so, we will still continue to use platforms like YouTube, Bandcamp and Spotify, but I feel increasingly more things will happen in person and there is nothing the authorities will be able to do to stop that because they will be existing more and more on the lower Synthetic timeline so they literally won't see us any longer. We will inhabit different parts of the Earth and I can see this already happening. I find myself less and less going into the city centre because it looks so dystopian and trashy, even in comparison to 2019. That doesn't mean I stay only in my area like the 15 minute city plans. That is part of the Synthetic timeline. Those of us on the Organic timeline will still travel and explore but we will explore places that will become repellent to those on the Synthetic timeline in the same way as we are repelled by the places they inhabit. Their laws and rules won't affect us because as I said, we will become increasingly invisible to them. By that, I mean we will still inhabit the same physical space, so we may walk past each other but they will not notice us. As I explained at the beginning of this post that has already been happening for many years now in my own experience and it will only intensify and become more extreme now.

There is a sadness to all of this because we have little choice but to part with certain things and people who have been familiar to us for a long time but there seems no other way. The gulf between those who want to take humanity into more control and technology and those who long to return to a naturalness and freedom is so vast that it seems Consciousness or Life has to do this in order for the human species to survive. It's not really about spirituality, it's about how courageous or cowardly you are. Settling for safety, familiarity and predictability will inevitably take you onto the Synthetic timeline while being courageous to go into unknown territory, where spontaneity and freedom thrive will take you onto the Organic timeline.

"So I Idren, I Sistren, Which way will we choose? We better hurry, oh hurry, oh hurry, woah now, cos we got no time to lose" - Survival, Bob Marley