Only prisoners can serve time.

So, where is this prison? What is it that keeps us from our intelligence?

Memorial residues are maintained on the astral plane. One curious (well more like obvious) aspect of the astral plane is that time has no flow there. Memories are "stuck" there which is one of the reasons why you can always recall a memory, exactly as it happened. That we choose to embellish on some of our thought-provoking memories is just more of the same poison that keeps us from living in the moment.

The will is the power that resides within us and that allows us to give rein and to permit the transformation of the vibration into concrete realizations. The power of the will is visceral in nature and it is intimately linked with our emotional centres. Those emotional centres generate the majority of our feelings and those feelings colour and impregnate our experience. The force contained within these impulses is the heart of our essence. It is that essence that provides the motive force behind our will.

It is this will that evades us when we allow it to stray too far from our center. We "astralize" our creative potential by constantly forcing it to refer to our past memories. Only the ego and it's continuous referencing of the rational intellect to find it's "place" in a given sequence of events, is to blame. Without this pernicious and insidious interference, we would be able to immediately access all aspects of our person and therefore respond adequately and precisely to the situation at hand.

Getting stuck or being unable to respond or to act appropriately at any time is just that. We have given over our control of time (the present) and have placed our will in thrall to the memorial residues that contaminate our existence. These are the bars and the locks that prevent us from having access to each and every aspect of our beings.