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If you try to get your hands on TIME, you will notice that it will always slip through your fingers. You are sure time is there, but you can't get hold of it....because it isn't there at all.

 

As finite creatures, with death hovering just out of our sight, the true nature of time haunts all our endeavors. As we live, we seem to move through a succession of Nows,"  and the question is, what are they?  Each Now is an arrangement of everything in the universe. "We have the strong impression that things have definite positions relative to each other. I aim to abstract away everything we cannot see (directly or indirectly) and simply keep this idea of many different things coexisting at once. There are simply the Nows, nothing more, nothing less."

 

Time is in essence a grand illusion that has taken us hostage,  held our consciousness, and conditioned our reality to believe in it, thus we then become enslaved by the illusion and suffer the karma associated with it. For many people, it is absurd to believe that time is an illusion, for it appears to be reflected everywhere and appears to exist as a fundamental, intrinsic, and unchangeable condition of this dimension. Thus we appear to be trapped within it and there seems no mechanism for transcending time. We sense an "arrow" or direction of time, and even of causation because our minds add a "subjective ingredient" to reality. Time is sold to us as a precious commodity, something real and tangible. We’ve been raised with this idea that we live along some invisible line from birth to death and that it holds some kind of invaluable currency that we must spend wisely. Like a ruler or other measuring device, the clock and calendar are tools to gauge our position relative to other things and each other. 

 

Time can be helpful, allowing us to arrange our affairs,  but we’ve become slaves to it. Why is time controversial? Because it feels real, always there, inexorably moving forward. Time has flown, and runs like a river. Time always advances in its direction. Time has an order, one thing after another. Time has a duration, a quantifiable period between events. Time has a privileged presence, only now is real. Time seems to be the universal background through which all events proceed, such that order can be sequenced and durations measured.

 

The very fabric of the Universe is conscious, and your higher consciousness is a thread of this universal consciousness with its own focal point of awareness.  We are apertures that the universe perceives and experiences through.

 

In the Singularity of Source, there is no time – only an Infinitely Conscious Presence of Being that exists in all forms and all spaces at once. Just as we imagine the physical dimension of the Cosmos to create in our mind a conceptual image of a universe, so we imagine the physical and psychological dimension of time to create in our mind a conceptual image of events constantly occurring within that universe, and more importantly to create the illusion that our thoughts are the consequent experiences we undergo, formed and dissolved consecutively. 

 

We think that we perceive time and space outside ourselves and that we are just limited creatures who exist for a very short period within a vast duration of time and who occupy a very small part of the vast expanse of space. This perception, however, is just an illusion, because like every other perception, we experience the perception of time and space only within ourselves, in our mind or consciousness. 

 

The essence of relativity is that there is no absolute time, no absolute space. Everything is relative. When we try to discuss time in the context of the universe, we need the simple idea that we isolate part of the universe and call it our clock, and time evolution is only about the relationship between some parts of the universe and that thing we call our clock. 

 

According to Quantum Theory if we take two particles, A and B (photons or electrons for example),  pair them, and then separate them and position them on either side of the planet, after stimulating particle A, particle B will react without any perceivable time delay. In other words, both particles act at the same moment in time regardless of distance. So our concept of time as thought of as a linear passage of events is wide of the mark, and in fact, there is no mark. Our experience of linear time is a perceptual illusion created by consciousness.  So is "space."  Closely related to the idea of time is the notion of "linear causality" — the idea that A causes B, which then causes C.  The apparent causal relationship between events is also just a purely perceptual illusion, even though a very convincing one. 

 

We hear very often that "time is precious" but what we should perceive as precious is not time itself, but the one point that is beyond time. The Now.

 

 

Paola Luciani Fulbright