One of the most influential physicists to have ever lived, Albert Einstein, shared this view, writing, "People like us who believe in physics know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion." In other words, time is an illusion.
@poetsrear2 жыл бұрын
“I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot get behind consciousness. Everything that we talk about, everything that we regard as existing, postulates consciousness.” ― Max Planck, physics nobelist & originator of quantum theory
@awesomezion Жыл бұрын
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@erawanpencil8 ай бұрын
@@poetsrear Einstein said the only reason he chose to settle at Princeton was so he could have the opportunity to work with Kurt Gödel. There's a story that an astrophysicist was excited to meet Gödel there at a dinner and eager to impress him with the latest discovery from an observatory. After listening to the astronomer's elaborate explanation, Gödel merely replied: 'I don't believe in empirical science... I only believe in a priori truths.'
@paulmetdebbie4472 жыл бұрын
The mind creates a compelling illusion when noticing the alternation that appears in itself between thinking and stillness. From the frequency of this alternation it derives a sensation of duration, we call time. On realizing that thinking and stillness are one, the mind stops and time vanishes. This too is liberation. (Paul Jordaans)
@niyaziozturk39672 жыл бұрын
You are saying, thinking that "I exist" is the same as "I don't exist". Stillness can't be the thinking! That is playing with words!
@raycosmic90192 жыл бұрын
Time is a semi-arbitrary conceptualized measure of the duration of an experienced event and the change from one experience to another and is thus, a function of memory. Time speeds up and slows down in relation to feeling better or worse. Memory = past Perception = present Imagination = future Mind = electro Heart = magnetic Will = current When the intuitive Insight of the Mind inspires the aspiration of the Heart, their union generates the power of the Will to take corresponding action toward fulfillment of the Heart's aspiration, to experience completion of Joy in form. Every perception is to some extent memory. Every memory is to some extent imagination. Thus, what we experience is our narrative of what happened. Narratives that empower us are preferable. Is it a limit or a creative guideline? No wrong answer, only different experiences and outcomes; but what a difference! Every choice we make generates a corresponding timeline of experience. Each moment of the day is 'both' the fruit of yesterday 'and' the seed of tomorrow. Better choices = Better experiences. Whatever we can learn from any experience, however traumatic it might be, is thereby benefiting us, even if in spite of itself. Thus it is written that Christ learned from the things he suffered. Existentially, our only real choice is between unconscious compulsive reaction leading to authoritarian centralization of power, involuntary coercion and the fruits of tyranny, or conscious creative response leading to decentralization of power, voluntary collaboration and the fruits of Liberty. Power = Clarity = Agreement = Collective Synergy = Cosmic Support (synchronicities, serendipities). Creative Intelligence is omnipresent. We are all It, to an unknowable/inexhaustible extent, as the facets of a Diamond are 'both' distinct from each other 'and' the Diamond itself. Love is the recognition of our shared Being. Being For is inherently more sustainable than being against. Love = For(ce). May the For(ce) be with you! Namaste'.
@harpapmac2 жыл бұрын
Imagination it is not future and future is not imagination.. future is memory also because what you imagine is coming from what you already know and have seen and experienced..
@raycosmic90192 жыл бұрын
@@harpapmac nothing new is created or invented from memory, only from imagination envisioning a possible future.
@harpapmac2 жыл бұрын
@@raycosmic9019 i disagree because to create something new is impossible, everything already exist we just make something "new" by connecting if i may say something we already know.. if we discover something new we may not knew it but it was there all the time we just didn't know.. Krishnamurti says it better
@raycosmic90192 жыл бұрын
@@harpapmac krishnamurti confessed to being addicted to the limelight. Every perception is to some extent memory. Every memory is to some extent imagination. If memory was all, there would be no imagination. We could only experience what we already experienced. There would be no possibility of a change for the better, whereas in Reality change is always either for the better or for the worse. Every choice we make generates a corresponding timeline of experience. Each moment of the day is 'both' the fruit of yesterday 'and' the seed of tomorrow. Choice determines the difference. Is it a limit or a creative guideline? No wrong answer, only different outcomes - but what a difference!
@Bexatronica12 жыл бұрын
"It" is always here and now: "here" is omnipresent, and "now" is timeless and eternal
@vintage_violet2 жыл бұрын
When people have premonitions or Deja Vu it seems like these experiences are glimpses of how awareness exists outside of time (ie nullifying the beliefs about time). It feels like a type of time travel but it's really just an effect of the Now always being all there is (maybe all nows happening at once?).
@janetsontilt2 жыл бұрын
We are always grounded in the Beingness that we are💕
@sola26252 жыл бұрын
I AM (is) always HERE, NOW.
@siewkonsum72912 жыл бұрын
There are many documented incidents, the few minutes before their loved ones ie parents, passed away, the time clock in the hospice room, or their watch they are wearing - stopped, they noticed it! The time stops! Very strange!
@solarhoney2 жыл бұрын
Yes. Time stops for the person passing away. I have also seen this same phenomenon of the watches and clocks all stopping.
@jorgetfreitas31672 жыл бұрын
Ultimately, the mind will never die, because it's just a manifestation from consciousness creativity and consciousness never disappear or die... Thank you dear friend, brother and Master Rupert for your deep inspiration.
@paulmetdebbie4472 жыл бұрын
Sweet nonsense. Be clear about this. All manifestations come and go. Consciousness also comes and goes. They all come and go in Awareness which is the constant sub stratum and source. The mind is an illusory function of the brain that consists in a self comfirming loop of thoughts and feelings that feed its own illusion. When seen through in liberstion, it is known that it really never existed, like a fata morgana.
@usefulrandom1855 Жыл бұрын
I agree, although I think the ego will, the stories we tell ourselves and each other will go as we are nothing but awareness at our core. I get that time is an illusion to some extent but is needed for our lives. I struggle with why it takes me two hours(as measured by a clock sure) to drive to London though. Why would my mind create that artificial space between where I am now and where London is?
@DhammaFriends2 жыл бұрын
The past and future are just mental imagines that we have thoughts about. There really is only the now. Time can be a tool for us to relate with other people-schedules, meetings, and such. But it is just that, don't let it become a burden... "I feel guilty because I didn't make the meeting on time", "I regret not sleeping for eight hours."
@thomaserickson5682 жыл бұрын
"I wasted my life reading KZbin comments..."
@DhammaFriends2 жыл бұрын
@@thomaserickson568 hahahaha exactly the point
@user-bu9nb8wr6e2 жыл бұрын
It's really simple time is only change caused by movement at the quantum level. That in turn causes change at the cosmic level. No change, no movement, no time.
@mindfulkayaker77372 жыл бұрын
Even science recognizes after the works of Einstein that time and space are relative I would like to add that anything that is relative is in relation of something that is absolute and this is awareness
@lgude2 жыл бұрын
If I had been in the questioner's position I would have had to answer that I had experienced time because I have experienced 'time consciousness' in the sense Edmund Husserl described it in the The Phenomenology of internal Time Consciousness. Since Husserl's Phenomenological reduction was intended to direct our attention to the phenomena of awareness and I have employed it as a meditative practice, I have to say that I have been able to more fully engage the experience of a meditation chime as as it arises, is present and decays. Husserl argues that we have a double time consciousness, I will say that the more one pays this kind of attention to the passage of time - the more uncanny it gets. So I am very much open to the idea that time in some sense does not exist. I agree that we cannot visit the past or the future and we remain in the present. Yet I also have experienced that sometimes humans, including myself, experience visions of the past and future which is probably not what is meant here as evidence of the existence of time. My sense is that we can travel in time precisely because the past and the future are also present to us in the now.
@ZpointG2 жыл бұрын
Maybe you are"traveling" from thought to thought.
@manapeace2 жыл бұрын
During a car triple rollover many years ago time stopped and I was able to move my locus point of observation anywhere in time/space within the bubble of that accident, much like walking around a 3D hologram that you can play forward and backwards in time. I observed in advance that we’d roll 3 times, and land upright and we did. I could temporarily see and explore the timeline I was in. Other than these near death / out-of-body sort of experiences, I agree with Rupert that time cannot be observed… from the point of view residing within a human body.
@SnakeAndTurtleQigong2 жыл бұрын
“Like a good scientist.” So true! Thank you! 💙☯️🙏
@dextercool2 жыл бұрын
Beautifully-woven response with a tip of the hat to Mr. Tolle-nice!
@bst8572 жыл бұрын
I understand what he is saying and I have long known about it, but I can't help but be sceptical. Sometimes we think we know things, we think they're obvious, and only later we realise, we were wrong. So I am very careful with saying, "this is how it is". The issue I can see is, that the "now" being eternal hinges on the idea that awareness is unchanging/static. But we don't actually know that. We don't really know what it is, we're out of our depth, totally. History is filled with this kind of behaviour, of jumping to conclusions. What I find a bit disagreeable with Rupert is that, well meaning or not, he is leading people to his own conclusions, he asks questions that are encapsulated in assumptions, which when encapsulated in that way, can only really have one answer - and by the person answering it themselves, gives it the illusion of truth to the answers. But the questions may not actually be valid.
@moiseechen2 жыл бұрын
I am so skeptical that i’ve planted sunflower seeds and a garden anyways. Appears more fruitful path.
@nicholasstephens41682 жыл бұрын
I agree with you. In many of the videos I’ve watched he tries to guide the questioner to come to their own conclusion (his conclusion) and they often fail to do so.
@andore86392 жыл бұрын
@@nicholasstephens4168 He’s guiding people towards the timeless, the timeless is not his conclusion nor is it his idea. People have trouble arriving there because that’s an unknown place for them.
@nicholasstephens41682 жыл бұрын
@@andore8639 I hope that’s the case because the idea really comforts me.
@solarhoney2 жыл бұрын
Instead of going ever deeper into trying to understand all this through thoughts and concepts and discussion , or trying to prove anyone wrong - perhaps a short, practical, sure and safe alternative could be for each one of us to explore through personal self-enquiry and experience : " To whom are all these thoughts, ideas and concepts appearing ? in other words - to ask oneself " Who Am I" , or, "What Am I" and then to pay close attention to what happens immediately one asks this - in that split second before the mind brings up the habitual response to such a question. And to keep on doing so without attempting to answer it in words. This consistent, focused self enquiry which strictly eschews all verbalisation and inference results in experiencing reality. All discussion or conceptualisation appears then a clumsy approximation of knowledge or understanding. Just sharing my experience and not a generalised binding on anyone. 🙏
@robertcarleo68462 жыл бұрын
I see that one can't directly observe time as an extended value or even a short interval directly because experience is a singular event occurring now, but one can experience and observe motion, change, decay; birth, development and death. One sees and hears change everywhere. One sees change in everything if one looks and listens closely. It is a repeating comparison of the present experience to what has just passed away. This experience can be directly recorded visually and by audio recordings. These recordings can be replayed and observed again showing the same intervals of change. The same intervals of measured time or space. Why is this not a direct indication of time and space? I guess my question is why does this simple direct demonstration not show that both time and space are part of the natural universe.
@kevinmai29472 жыл бұрын
They exist, but not as concretely as we believe to be. They are measurements, like the grid marks on an X-Y graph. But those grid marks don’t really exist in reality. Even if they help us measure things. They are only conventionally real. In the deepest reality, there is only here and now, which is the same thing. It can give birth to the illusion of time and space through the medium of thought and perception. Edit: same thing with the illusion of self. Yes the self exist, but not concretely as regular pple believe it. This false belief is the cause of many sufferings and psychological stress.
@andore86392 жыл бұрын
You trace a line on sand, sand changes form, all change is happening in the now, you look at the sand and say that you traced a line in the past, you saying that you traced a line in the past happens in the now, I’m writing this comment in the now, if I re-read my comment I’m re-reading it in the now, there is no place called past, past only exists as a concept in the mind, watching this video of Rupert is taking place in the now.
@niyaziozturk39672 жыл бұрын
If you have a thought that you had a thought, that is proof of time exists right? I think the speaker is mumbo jumbo sh..t
@jdok10002 жыл бұрын
As a humorous (and imperfect) analogy: are you familiar with start trek’s holodecks? The visitor to the holodeck is basically in a confined room the entire time, moving within a very limited space. BUT the computer program allows the visitor to travel great distances, climb mountains, see many cultures, travel back in time etc. The computer generated effect is verrrrry real to the mind of the visitor. However, in actual reality, they never left the small room and are moving within a claustrophobically small space. I’m assuming this is what Rupert Spira is explaining about space and time in our “reality”. We actually exist only as a singularity of a sort, but our minds create a whole artificial reality…which feels extremely real.
@niyaziozturk39672 жыл бұрын
Time is a measurement of motion references. What can we call a motion? Can we just let's say having a thought and having another thought that we just had thought is a motion? It is a motion, therefore time exists. Of course, you can't go back and forth from now, otherwise, you would get lost, and you would not exist. You can only observe now and be in now. but, in "now" your observation can measure the distant thought or motion references and can count the references from then to now, and that is time. I am a freaking.. genius ! no, not!
@publicartcritic79932 жыл бұрын
Rupert is so calm. I need some of that
@jgarciajr822 жыл бұрын
Awareness is inherently meaningful.❤️🙏
@peacenlove65022 жыл бұрын
NOW is Awareness ? Wow !
@bs51672 жыл бұрын
I am this. And I love you all. 🙏🏼
@tonynes35772 жыл бұрын
We may not be able to go there, but I think it's important to think of the past. I think it is important to think of the past and the future so we can avoid certain situations, or mistakes that we made. And to think of the future we can imagine our life better. Anyway, that's just one point. I totally listen to you and value everything you say 😂!
@Mark.Allen11112 жыл бұрын
If we imagine our life to be better are we destroying the now? What could be better than now?
@pattyronco4217 Жыл бұрын
Yes it is important(fun)to think just don’t let that cover up that which is within you, love.❤️
@Larcey2 жыл бұрын
Beautiful. So clear. Thank you!
@kathrynphillips37102 жыл бұрын
no " time" simply awareness 💗🙏💗
@johnrondeau92222 жыл бұрын
Or no awareness at all
@solarhoney2 жыл бұрын
Precisely. And then one step more : Who is it or what is it that becomes aware of Awareness ? Or is it like the eyes which look and see all that is there - but the eye can never see itself !?! 🙏
@rezaasgharzadeh80152 жыл бұрын
The past and future are just our attention on two FORMS of the NOW .
@allysonedwards47922 жыл бұрын
5:38 🤯 THIS!!!
@mayamachine2 жыл бұрын
Watching clouds and seasons pass is my experience of time, I do experience time.
@ZpointG2 жыл бұрын
You are experiencing movement. Movement is real. Time is merely the conceptual "shadow" of movement.
@omgsolikevalleygirl2 жыл бұрын
the opposite is the case: time and space are *nothing but* an experience.
@smlanka4u2 жыл бұрын
Interesting. Citta/Mind arise, exist, and vanish within a mind moment. We experience only one moment between two hidden moments.
@temmuz91382 жыл бұрын
Time can be experienced as the darkness from which everything arises
@dvd8410302 жыл бұрын
Amazing explanation! Thank you :)
@NewNow4u2 жыл бұрын
Lol!! I love this, makes me laughs because I realize all the "importance" one puts on idea's/thoughts that are really only phantoms. :-)
@PaulOutdoors2 жыл бұрын
The time is now 👍😊
@nbenda2 жыл бұрын
Does it mean, when we experience "timelessness" in meditation, we were just not thinking?
@arnordavisson94892 жыл бұрын
That there is a present moment makes no sense to me. Seems the future is constantly turned into the past as we travel through space-time and existence is just a brief memory. Instant memories only seem to create opportunities of what the future will possibly bring next as neurons just created the illusion of the now (in the recent past) Yet I so hope this is not the case… just a thought…
@tubeyou67944 ай бұрын
obviously , yes. we experience SPACE and MOVEMENT. we conclude that time has passed, since we have memory of past events. but in reality, we cant experience TIME.
@person-zg5mr2 жыл бұрын
We can believe in the idea that time exists at the moment when humans made huge buildings, But if we were talking about the universe without being separated from it, there would be no time for it really, it just exists
@markimel49472 жыл бұрын
Space and time are just abstractions of the mind.
@rezaasgharzadeh80152 жыл бұрын
Science is a model of the separate self . That's why it works in OUR reality . At least to some extent. As the separate self moves back to its source the model will also change. Then we may travel to the moon for holidaying!
@stolib6772 жыл бұрын
Instead of time. Can we think of autonomy then remove all things that are not autonomous to gain a better understanding of “autonomy”. If you’re left with a system of thought. Well you might think of it as Spatial awareness. 😇 Pi anyone?
@Markus-ei8dk2 жыл бұрын
Just as no object has ever been experienced.
@rutaskaitopasakas77142 жыл бұрын
What about events that happened yesterday and we have results as evidence of time?
@ZpointG2 жыл бұрын
Do you have evidence that the events happened in Time?
@johnatkinson74792 жыл бұрын
Why is there a sense of continuation and correlation with time in the waking state but not in the dream state..my dreams are different every night with no apparent order between events, yet in the waking state there seems to be a clear continuing of my life from day to day which is my reality..why is this so in infinite awareness?
@paulmetdebbie4472 жыл бұрын
Because in deep sleep there are no thoughts. The sensation of time is derived from the alternstion between thoughts and stillness in the mind. No mind, no time. In Dreams however there are thoughts of the mind and a sensation of time. Mostly distorted because the brain functions differently in Dreams.
@therichieconway2 жыл бұрын
How do discussions like this further society or science outside of being mind games? This recording shows what happened in the past. It's definitely not happening now, proving that there is a past, and if there is a past, there is a future. It's not a mere illusion because it all happened, is not still happening, and won't happen again in the exact way. To say time is an illusion because we don't see it directly would mean that we couldn't believe anything that we only see indirectly- gravity is an illusion, black holes are an illusion, etc. This is one of those conversations that make you feel smart, but just waste your brain power.
@Anti79Hero2 жыл бұрын
My head is falling off
@tryadifferentone3542 жыл бұрын
The medium of imagination
@billgeoghegan6112 Жыл бұрын
So simple and penetrating. Thank you!
@ZpointG2 жыл бұрын
So...there's no time. Only thoughts of time..
@T_from_U2 жыл бұрын
i like her voice
@paulkeogh7077 Жыл бұрын
Rupert, I wonder whether an NDE represents an example of “someone” stepping out of the “here and now” and experiencing the dimensionless and timeless presence?
How long is forever ? Well ….it’s no time at all !
@cleopatrajones70962 жыл бұрын
If there is no time, how do we agree on future time? For instance, my friend and I decide to meet tomorrow at 8. I understand there is no time but there is also time that we can both agree to meet at certain space and location sometime in the future and find each other there.
@kolarz21282 жыл бұрын
When you together actually meet - When it is, in future or now?
@cleopatrajones70962 жыл бұрын
@@kolarz2128 yeah unfortunately that’s not my question. After some pondering, I think it’s because we share one mind
@kolarz21282 жыл бұрын
@@cleopatrajones7096 it is your question :) you both imagine future now which allow you to meet but it all happens now.
@cleopatrajones70962 жыл бұрын
@@kolarz2128 These are simplistic answers. There is a future. And there is a past. If it were in my imagination, how is it that my friend and I can agree to meet if it’s all in my head?
@kolarz21282 жыл бұрын
@@cleopatrajones7096 lets say we have to meet at 9:30 and it is 9:24. How do we know where we have to be and at what time? Because we can assume how long of clock time it takes to go to some place so that clock time will show up 9:30 but it all is created by our mind. Nonetheless every second of it takes place in the now. 😆 it all takes place not only in your mind but in your friends mind as well, but it all depends on agreeable clock time created for all of humans by a human mind, without it we would not be able to function in this world at all, but it is not a proof of existing future. :) Experience is always now, you cant experience future, all the change happens in the now. Every step you are taking to be at the place of meeting is taking place now, you can only watch how in now clock time is changing. Please say it is clear for you ;D
@sarahabdalwhab2712 Жыл бұрын
Oh .. give us how to experinece the stars without the time and space dimention definition pleaaaase
@FilmBrittАй бұрын
How can there be a seeming movement, (for example) on the watch, if there is no time for movements?
@herbertcrappell83092 жыл бұрын
🙏❤️
@shawnpalmer67152 жыл бұрын
i ask others- when did the past end and the future begin - no answer
@ZpointG2 жыл бұрын
Try asking when did the present begin...and when does it end.
@shawnpalmer67152 жыл бұрын
@@ZpointG that is more to the point
@Fandys662 жыл бұрын
What if (analogy): Time as master joined with space as mistress and consciousness was born.. "That" consciousness that shapes and experiences everything, precisely through matter?🤔 And why?? For the love... of the beauty of life We are That Consciousness !! Eternal children.. I am sorry for my English
@nadantagaming22762 жыл бұрын
Time is music.
@ItachiUchiha-xk1fr2 жыл бұрын
👽👽👽👽
@nickagunter2 жыл бұрын
Wait until you realize that you've never experienced silence
@krebsrobin26382 жыл бұрын
Does in this case a place exist, if nobody is there?
@HialeahUnico2 жыл бұрын
❤🙏☯️
@LucaS-fj2vh2 жыл бұрын
💞🙏🌺
@Ivuspp2 жыл бұрын
So Kant was right
@heekyungkim81472 жыл бұрын
All i know is after 40…. Time flys.
@ianmiller51262 жыл бұрын
Look up the works of ken wheeler ( theoria apophasis).does not follow the status quo of main stream science.
@janenjoki78222 жыл бұрын
Time is a human construct no doubt, consciousness is indeed fundamental but really is not monistic in nature. The idea that there only exists universal consciousness is false and not provable for all we are ever aware of is our own personal experience. A plurality of minds is what reality constitutes with the greatest being the God of the Judeo-Christian tradition who is a personal being. I strongly disagree with mystical Christianity. It doesn't take seriously the claims of the bible, it chooses the bits it needs to support it's metaphysics and ignores it's more fundamental claims
@ZpointG2 жыл бұрын
Mind is not Consciousness. You pretend to deny a monistic reality yet you seem to adhere to monotheism.(?) You pretend there is not a "One Consciousness" yet you seem to ascribe to a "One God"(?) Conflicted much?
@janenjoki78222 жыл бұрын
@@ZpointG you speak as though monism and monotheism are interchangeable terms, of which they aren't. There exists God the uncreated infinite and many other created minds that are not reducible and are not God
@nickagunter2 жыл бұрын
He gets a lot of things right and a lot of things wrong. To deny the existence of the universe is erroneous. You are denying an aspect of consciousness as unreal, when in reality there is nothing except consciousness.
@erickgarcia64942 жыл бұрын
ngl he looks like george bush
@ginaparker4312 жыл бұрын
💰😁💸 #@LL# my 💲 says you'll be: AwArE of being aWaRe