The Only Now There Is

Examines beliefs around memory, time, space and perception.
From the seven day retreat at Garrison, June 2016. For access to the full recording see link: non-duality.rupertspira.com/li...
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[@Atheros541]

That metaphor about our life story being like pages in a book is mind-blowing! All pages are present in the now, but we can only read them one page at a time given our mind’s limited capacity. This is somehow liberating to me, in that I often find myself trying to hold onto memories, sometimes inducing a panic that I’ve forgotten something. But how reassuring to know that they’re all still there in earlier pages. There is nothing you need to hold onto. As a side note, this also explains how one reviews a life story after they die.. it’s all still there

[@1234567890azdan]

Rupert is the best communicator of nonduality I've ever heard. What a gift.

[@JonasAnandaKristiansson]

Yes. Mooji as well

[@omni6409]

It is truly amazing how he manages to explain such a complex spiritual topic the way he does.

[@luiz.sentinela]

"Now is not a moment in time and here is not a place in space."

[@pallabdatta6926]

"I" am always the NOW, "I" am always STILL, ""I" am always in SILENCE. My WAKING, DREAMING and SLEEPING states are always taking me to silence, stillness and now, "I" always stay in a place deeper and deeper than "THOUGHTS".

[@TigerDragonStorm]

Time, the most influential narrative that both religion and science use to "prove" their take on reality confirming their stand as apparent holders of ultimate truth and authority. But take time away and what's left? Pure reality, aka consciousness unfolding itself as experiences. 🙏🏾

[@jameelisaac1265]

Facts

[@dr.susheelkhemariya8966]

Wahwah AhaAha wonderful Chamatkaric Vishmaypurna wonderful DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude RUPERSIRA dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad

[@whomohw]

What a. Great insight ❤

[@Misslotusification]

It's the activity of thought and perception hat make eternity look like time and infinity look like space.

[@consuelocaporalisoares1497]

Just a fantastic way to explain the true reality of our experience! Thank you so much, Rupert. But the challenge is to deconstruct our conditioned mind...

[@peyahh]

Bless you Rupert!

[@olivebell2920]

🙏 Your answers are so eloquent that I actually experience the listening/ hearing/understanding as one with the words that are coming from you!! It’s like I’m standing in the moccasin of the speaker!!!

[@Johnny_Zoom]

Amazing Rupert

[@yashshah5903]

Wow beautiful ❤️

[@lnbartstudio2713]

Wonderful pointing to the creative and simultaneously limited power of mind.

[@johnnymontoya5529]

Love Rupert. Please let him know he change my way to see an understand myself. 1000 thanks Ruper.

[@matthewking7874]

awesome teachings & wisdom

[@dr.susheelkhemariya8966]

Wahwah AhaAha wonderful dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad thanksgretitude dhanyabad dhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad Ruperspira DhanyabadDhanyabadDhanyabad

[@XOXO-mb2vh]

There's always memory. Even as an infant. Even in the womb. Memory from both creators.

[@bradstephan7886]

Excellent.

[@hugomendez5625]

i love this

[@glynemartin]

_The Physical Brain & Nervous System _*_Limits_*_ what we are capable of directly Observing. Memory & Experiences _*_Shape_*_ our Perception._ Newborn babies simply observe...they don't perceive...yet...Perception *follows* Observation. Observation is the real & true State of Learning...Perception interrupts and twists incoming data, this is why if one wants to *properly learn* about a newly discovered specie of creature, one visits its local area to OBSERVE the creature... *not Perceive* the creature. There *IS* a memory and an experiential component that most definitely shapes Perception. Perception is not a Still, Open and Learning State of Mind like Observation is... Rupert's parsing of the concepts of Time and Space however is ....simply & utterly BRILLIANT.

[@lukesanthony]

Wow rupert is so poignant, incredible!

[@zendavie7032]

Could you please put your books on Audible as audiobooks, narrated by you. I would love that, thanks.

[@astralsurfer937]

Davie The Space oh yes, I would surely like that.

[@zendavie7032]

astral surfer I’m not a big fan of reading, I just live listening go other people read books

[@ZENderista]

That was so powerful. Become aware of how your mind distorts Reality. Your mind isn't the guide on this trip.

[@gireeshneroth7127]

Infinite now and passing now are two sides of the same existence. Passing now has relevance to illusions.

[@davidsweeney111]

I like the novel idea, we know the pages of our past but why cant we access the pages of our future, in particular the day of our death?

[@sierrahawk3264]

Present Flower.

[@marekdrzewiecki3780]

My opinion; Space and time are attributes of an objects - inner or outer. There is no subjective time without an object.

[@DietrichLasa]

A questionalble conclusion would be to think that the exact novel is complete and present (5:42 onward) on a level that the mind can't access. We cannot accurately postulate that the illusion is already complete in timelessness since timelessness is real - it doesn't come or go. Illusion (the novel - the story) happens when timelessness releases or expresses its potential as a streaming of dream activity that includes the appearing of time. In nondual seeing, the timeless is all there is. The appearing of time is seen as well but as an illusion. It is seen that time is not. It is seen that it desperately tries to appear to be. Time, together with the appearing novel, is only taken for real by minds that are conditioned and blinded by the exact same dream activity.

[@curiosity_saved_the_cat]

Here and now is also everywhere and always. This can only be experienced by pure awareness. To the intellect this is an irreconcilable contradiction. Probably the same is true for the location (identification) of "I".

[@openrealm]

curiosity saved the cat Yes, I guess you're right that it is always now at every possible location, if that's also part of what you meant. I'm curious as to why one's awareness doesn't begin to more and more be simultaneously aware of more than one location at once the more this direct observation begins to take hold. I mean, I'm aware that you're reading this on a flat screen wherever you are, and I'm also aware of the space that is two inches in the air in front of your screen, perhaps a phone, but it seems that more direct observation should be available. Does this make sense?

[@curiosity_saved_the_cat]

Open Realm Ultimately the idea that awareness is divided into different units of awareness being aware of different locations might be an illusion to begin with. Just like when a cloth with many small holes in it covering a lightbulb, might give the impression there are many lights shining through, when in fact it's the same light shining through many holes. So ones awareness is in fact simultaneously aware of all locations. However, more or less in the same way your left eye is unaware of what your right eye is seeing, you are unaware of what I am seeing - still we are one all-seeing 'individual' (the same way your eyes and you are indistinguishable). From the perspective that you and I are different individuals we have to rely on empathy and other forms of prediction to become aware of another perspective. You're aware of your prediction of what my screen looks like and the fact that there's air in front of it, since it's unlikely that I'm watching on a crt monitor underwater. Not of my actual screen, I would say. Maybe in the future it's possible to see another perspective through means of telepathy or astral projection as we become more evolved, perhaps some already have this skill.

[@openrealm]

curiosity saved the cat Yes, I've been thinking about your comment the last two days, and have been coming to know this same perspective you describe. About telepathy, that's absolutely a real and true thing, and I really think we're somehow on the verge of that opening up. I'm sure you've had the experience, whether or not you've labeled it as such. Have a look at the short 3 minute San Francisco video in case you're interested in an example, as I have been fortunate enough to film that sort of thing at least a dozen times these past few years. Actually unfortunate perhaps, because it has since made my life astoundingly difficult and has been very painful in an intangible way that's hard to describe.

[@shanebowers2800]

I experience the past present and future every night when I go to wake Then I always fall back asleep every damn morning and ruin it smh

[@popitzikaliou7]

❤

[@marekdrzewiecki3780]

My opinion; Thoughts are inner seeing. Infants and animals do not think in symbols (or less then adults or humans) but they see inner space.

[@openrealm]

Marek Drzewiecki Yes, I've become convinced that knowing a thought "inside" and knowing a tree "out there," for instance, is the same thing, just with different sets of experiential qualities and attributes, just as every possible thing, when focused upon, is unique and has it's own set of characteristics different from all other objects focused upon.

[@ebbie4235]

Ah so wonderful to listen but I hv a problem to grasp the now. can some one help me plz. I understand everything happens in now but there is gap between now today and now then. i.e. My childhood happened in now but it is not happening in present now, at present my adulthood is happening, i will die in now at certain point but in present now I am not dying . Where I m stuck ! Pl help. Thank you.

[@haunteddeandollsuk]

it strange seeing doctor spira in a t t-shirt 😮 he always wear long sleeve

[@romankorber7705]

How does this understanding change the life ?

[@musicisthelanguageofthecos8266]

Is it not important that you have never been born and that you will never cease to exist?Does not that erase the fear of death and all fears of your own disappearence?Does not that knowledge bring you closer to your true nature and in turn brings peace within you.If you start experiencing the fundamental nature of this knowledge countless benefits will appear incessantly!

[@chimenerf]

Isnt it so. That only if you are very depressed. You seek for this theory, god, whatever it is called. Seekers are the only ones not happy.

[@chimenerf]

I dont know how to express myself. But the common word people, never ever know this non duality . Or am i wrong

[@ItachiUchiha-xk1fr]

💟💟💓

[@rafiaaziz592]

Breakfast this morning is definitely a memory which is also happening in the now that is understandable but does the book analogy means that everything is literally happening in the now? I mean parallel? What science refers to parallel universe? I heard a few enlightened beings like osho confirming it. He once said he can literally transfer from perception to another perception be his childhood past lives etc. Hope to get answer for this

[@olivebell2920]

rafia aziz I think this might be similar to the experience of dying at which point some NDEs have reported seeing their entire life flash before them. The mind does not have the capacity to understand this. I think something else sees that, not our minds.

[@rafiaaziz592]

Olive Bell yes i think you are right. It is not the mind that sees. That is the key. Actually such questions come up from the mind and every enlightened being says that mind can never understand the answer. Probably such things are to be experienced instead of being understood

[@michaelp245]

If you could actually experience a past live would not that also be now?

[@FilmBritt]

How can it be movement if there is no time for it to be?

[@hurrycane9165]

Stannis Baratheon after awakening

[@Misslotusification]

Eckhart Tolle

[@mentalpositions596]

The now is not in time i see that its ever present or eternal now, that is with no beginning or end. Does that mean that when body is gone i awarness will continue just as ever but maybe more integrated with the whole? And also will i remember anything or is that an imprint in the body?

[@100popsongs]

But did the novel exist before she was born? No. If you skip over the creation of the novel you could say all its events are present in the same moment, but how is the novel (which was not written all at once) not itself a product of time?

[@jugganaut26]

I think I understand all of this but have one objection, about the novel metaphor. Does that not imply our “future” is already written?

[@zendog8592]

A newborn infant does have memory, memories are stored within every cell of our body, part of DNA the fabric of physical being. A turtle hatches, unconscious memory stored in cells, takes its tiny feet scuttling towards the ocean to apparent safety, no thinking involved. Unconscious thought is directing 90% of all actions. The ego, believes it is directing the traffic/thoughts of our life in the now. Perception without ( thought “ego”) is possible, babies operate that way until habit memories stored as unconscious seeds are watered by parents and society's habits, over riding our true nature. The Buddha called the infants view of life "as happening by itself", or "things in themselves".

[@waynejanke3784]

(In reference to infant Q/A) When - now Where - here now here - nowhere Nowhere - no where Now here - here now ‘Nowhere Man - the Beatles’ He's a real nowhere man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody Doesn't have a point of view Knows not where he's going to Isn't he a bit like you and me? Nowhere man please listen You don't know what you're missing Nowhere man, the world is at your command…….

[@mirrorimage5423]

What does it matter if all events are a line of consecutives or a stack of series, when one comes home after this talk and feels the need to piss but is unable to?

[@jamesthomas1244]

Place your hands in warm water.

[@jconrad8585]

Why can't you piss?

[@jesuisravi]

first, before you fool with liberation from spiritual ignorance, you have to heal your pisser.

[@mirrorimage5423]

First, everybody ,with or without mental and/or physical defilements ,can fool with everything. Furthermore, your comment affirms, although indirectly, the point I wanted to make. I appreciate it.

[@jconrad8585]

What you fail to realize is that knowing how reality works allows one to control it. Liberation is something far beyond that.

[@harrybellingham98]

'us 85 eccentrics interested in non-duality' yep damn right

[@christinemiller230]

I get all experiences are in the now. But then how do we end up sharing that with others? Example..I talk to my Dad about a childhood memory, and he also recalls the same memory ?

[@TheOtherSun]

Even if an "other" appears to recall a past memory that "you" had, would that memory be separate from the "past memory that is being recalled"?

[@christinemiller230]

TheOtherSun 😊

[@mentalpositions596]

Both you and your dad were present and aware of the memory when you experienced it thats why you can recall it.

[@Madoc_EU]

There is a deep misunderstanding of the concept of time underlying to this. Saying that time exists does not mean that the past is something you can go to. Spira committed a strawman fallacy there. Time is a concept that helps make sense of understanding what happens. When you experience things for a while, you cannot help but notice that not everything is random. Events happen with certain regularities. And more than that: The better you understand those regularities, the more you can make use of them, and the more this helps you being successful with pretty much anything that you can try to achieve. You will notice that when apples fall from trees, you usually first see the apple attached to the tree, then it is slightly below the tree, and ever faster it approaches the ground. Finally, the apple hits the ground, rolls around, and finally stops moving. Without a concept of time, this would be impossible to describe. And our model of reality, and by extension the whole body of natural sciences, is full of such observations and descriptions. Think of medicine. How would you describe the results of a clinical trial without the concept of time? You could not describe what happened after some of the patients took the drug, because there would be no "after". If forced to describe the results of such a study with only the concept of "now" and nothing else, it would simply be impossible. When no studies can be described, they cannot be acknowledged or rejected, and nothing can be learned from them. Therefore, most of our medical drugs would not exist, which would have costed billions of human lives. Even when Spira asks his rhetorical questions that begin like "Can you find ...", he uses the concept of time. Because finding is a process, where first you have not found something, then you are doing something specific, and then there comes a state where you have found it. Many of Spira's statements and questions make use of the concept of time in such a way. So Spira is making his life easier in a way, by ignoring a simple concept that raises very inconvenient, complex questions. He simply chooses to pretend it does not exist. And it truly gets more complex than that: When things move at very high speeds, or are subject to a big gravitational force, time can stretch. This has been proven. GPS satellites need to take this effect into account regularly and correct their internal clocks. If they would not do that, GPS would become more and more unreliable already after a short time. Relativity is a factor there, and the effects of it are as close to you as your mobile phone. This shows that time is much more substantial. It is not just a concept, but there is something in actual reality that it corresponds to. Even if that is not immediately visible, or a place that you can go to. But we know that there are things that one can do which influence the passage of time. Time can pass at different speeds in different places. But of course, this does not influence our direct experience. For the matter of what we experience, time is important as a concept, independent from the question if it physically exists or not. It helps us structure observations, make predictions, and continue existing more successfully. When Spira went to this event where this video was recorded, he did not come 1 month late or 2 days early. He came roughly at the same time as the others. How could he do that, if the concept of time does not exist? Right now, he is not at this place where the video shows him. How can that be, when everything is just now?

[@Stratton218]

Matthias J. Déjà he wasn’t arguing against the existence of the concept of time. He actually alluded to that in the beginning of the vid. He was arguing about whether or not it was real in and of itself and its relationship to consciousness. I think he said it best when he explained that Time seems to exist only from the limited perceptual ability of our finite minds.

[@akindelekayode6108]

If you listen to the message properly you would find out that he put what you are saying into perspective by discribing that what seems as time are events unfolding in the face of awareness these events are continuous illusions but only seems to be real but only awareness "the eternal observer" is real the only thing that exists.

[@johnhannon8034]

If breakfast this morning is experienced now, then how come I’m now hungry?

[@musicisthelanguageofthecos8266]

Since the mind has divided eternity into numerous segments you have been accustomed to act accordingly.

[@noelryan8360]

That sounds very like moojiji asking the question

[@robinaguenkel7534]

👍🇩🇪

[@medwaca]

But what if we leave earth and go very far and then come back with big speed, the time passed wouldnt be the same for.the traveler and for.people on this world? Or if we could travel faster then light we wold time travel? I saw those stuff on movies and that indicates time... or like big and strong gravity can evan disturb time... like black holes and stuff... ????

[@ReeseEForbes]

That is reception - not perception. Time is linear going in only one direction. It is silly to say "go there" to the past. Obfuscation

[@QED_]

It's not scientifically established that time goes in only one direction. You should look at recent physics about that . . .

[@johannadiabone1055]

my experience takes place NOW. THE SAME NOW . no past no future, etenally present. jajajaja all beliefs falling down and down and down..... jajajajaja

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

This is an invitation to see a theory on the nature of time! In this theory we have an emergent uncertain future continuously coming into existence relative to the spontaneous absorption and emission of photon energy. Within such a process the wave particle duality of light and matter in the form of electrons is forming a blank canvas that we can interact with forming the possible into the actual! The future is unfolding with each photon electron coupling or dipole moment relative to the atoms of the periodic table and the individual wavelengths of the electromagnetic spectrum. As part of a universal process of energy exchange that forms the ever changing world of our everyday life the ‘past’ has gone forever. At the smallest scale of this process the ‘past’ is represented by anti-matter annihilation with the symmetry between matter and anti-matter representing the symmetry between the future and the past as the future unfolds photon by photon. In such a theory the mathematics of quantum mechanics represents the physics of ‘time’ with the classical physics of Newton representing processes over a period of time, as in Newton’s differential equations. In my videos I explain how this process is relative to temperature and the phase changes of matter.

[@evaw551]

An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory mind loves speculations and imagination. Magic is, nothing ever happened.

[@shaneashby5890]

An artist theory on the physics of 'Time' as a physical process. Quantum Atom Theory - Before trying to figure out the nature of the universe. Wouldn't it make more sense, to find out the nature of the one who perceives it? Because all phenomena happen in awareness. So can you please tell me what that's made out of?

[@anllpp]

Would that be the now and only now Artist

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

The two are one in many ways we have electrical activity relative to the structure of the brain forming chemical changes or reactions. Chemical energy is stored in the bonds that hold the atoms together. When the bonds form and break we have the continuous exchange of photon energy with the future unfolding relative to the electrical activity and the structure of the brain. Conscious awareness is formed by this electrical potential that is always in ‘the moment of now’ in the centre of its own reference frame. It is this personalization of the brain being in ‘the moment of now’ in the centre of its own frame of reference that gives us the concept of ‘mind’ with each one of us having our own unique personal view of the Universe and the uncertainty of life. Consciousness is always in the forefront of creation or the creative process therefore each individual is able to look back in time in all directions from their frame of reference at the beauty of the stars. It is a common believeth that we live and die over a period of time, but in this theory the atoms of the periodic table form their own space time as part of a universal process of continuous creation. The flow of Time as a process of continuous energy exchange and our consciousness as a continuous stream of unbroken ever-changing flow of ideas, feelings! dreams! hopes! perceptions! and emotions are interlinked. There is one physical process that could explain this and that is, if the Universe is based on a universal process of spherical symmetry forming and breaking relative to the atoms of the periodic table. Such a process would naturally form entropy or disorganization with the potential for ever greater symmetry formation that we see in the diversity of life and in modern electronics. The prime example of this is photon energy cascading down from the Sun forming greater degrees of freedom for entropy or disorganization and also greater degrees of freedom for the complexity and diversity of plant life.

[@Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time]

Each one of us is in the moment of now in the centre of our own reference frame with our own personal view of the Universe. The future is unfolding relative to the energy and momentum of our actions. Therefore we see and feel the future coming out of the moment of now rather than the past. Nothing highlights this more than the fact that each one of us can look back in time in every direction at the beauty of the stars. In this theory the future is unfolding relative to the eye and hand of the beholder.

[@Workdove]

Why does he wear a watch if it is always now....? Does he actually believe his own words?

[@ziikzaaak]

Workdove, to see what time it is now?

[@zorangelev2117]

This video is recorded 2016 and you watch it now... 🤔

[@ziikzaaak]

Zoran Gelev, is that bad?

[@zorangelev2117]

ziikzaaak no, but topic of this video is that time does not exist

[@ziikzaaak]

Zoran Gelev, time does exist (as a concept) - Rupert just points out that it's not possible to time travel ;)

[@irenemackay3627]

I usually really enjoy RS but listening to him today really shocked me. He claims that animals don't remember or think! What a lot of .........is this? How does that statement fit into his philosophy and what are his observation skills when it comes to non-human beings? Very strange!!! How very sad!

[@Kalashnikovshot]

❤