Time Is an Illusion

Is time an illusion? And if so, why can our knowledge of the past seem so real? And are our memories of the past not evidence that time exists?
Rupert says there are two things about your own experience that are undeniably true: One, you have no experience of time. We can think about the past, but thinking about the past is not evidence of the past. To find evidence we have to go there and experience it.
Two, your knowledge of time is correlated with thought and the presumption that time causes thought is a presumption that cannot be substantiated in experience. Experience shows that the arrow of causation actually goes the other way - thinking creates the appearance of time.
I'm not trying to convince you that time doesn't exist. I'm showing you two facts of experience that suggests that time is not what we think it is. Consider deeply your experience of time, the past and the future, with reference to these two facts and be open as you ponder it. See where this consideration takes you and don't draw conclusions to soon.
And don't be too quick to say memory is evidence of the past. There are other possible interpretations of memory.
*This video is taken from one of Rupert's in-person retreats at Garrison Institute - 10 to 17 October, 2021. To view and book for upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:
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Timestamps:
0:00 Is Time An Illusion?
0:54 Rupert’s Dream Analogy
2:40 Are Memories Proof Of The Past?
3:10 Does The Past Exist?
4:27 Do We Experience Time?
5:43 Can We Prove Time Exists?
6:09 Do Thoughts Create Time?
7:29 Can You Experience The Past?
8:29 Facts About Time
9:26 Time Is Not What We Think It Is
10:06 Does Memory Create Time?
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[@kennethmalafy503]

Time is hilarious. It never existed! We all have just been chilling in the now, creating this "past" and "future" inside our heads then pretended they were real and took it seriously! Meanwhile, the only thing that ever existed was this moment , now, stretched through all eternity. Yet most people aren't even experiencing it because they are so in their head. You can't make this stuff up........

[@onreact]

Yeah, time is a man made metric and relatively new invention. Until the industrial revolution most people did not even measure time. The only clocks were on Churches and people only noticed once it was time for Sunday mass. Then to make sure trains would be manageable time zones etc. were created.

[@mnetzer6777]

So why do I and everyone I know keep feeling and looking older if "time never existed"? It never existed? What? Where are all my older relatives if "time" didn't take them?

[@Johnny_Zoom]

@@mnetzer6777because people and animals etc age but that has nothing to do with time. We are aging in the now.

[@mnetzer6777]

@@Johnny_Zoom Makes sense. Thanks for the feedback

[@davidwright9318]

Exactly …My thoughts too.We live in the eternal now…I first started thinking about this reading Be Here Now by Ram Dass in the early 70’s.

[@joshc7865]

The only experience we’ve ever had was always in the now, it was never in a “past”. So true

[@user-zl5pu2cr5r]

hmm just because there is alway only one picture in a movie that one experiences, does it mean the movie does not exist? Does it mean when we remember the past pictures of the movie it is not proof that the movie exists snd went through a process of being seen and the process needs to be happening in time? Look at her, her body is the evidence of time. So no matter what she experienced or not, she herself looks to herself and to all of us like time was passing for her. Even if she would meditate and focus on the now, all of us would see her body getting older. Isn‘t this evidence of time passing?

[@joshc7865]

@@user-zl5pu2cr5r hmmm with what you’ve said you seem really early with understanding non duality, Rupert is good from a philosophical point and understanding, if you come from a materialistic background or religious and need more of a scientific understanding I would recommend looking into bernardo kastrup

[@joshc7865]

@LifesInsight I see you have come across this on KZbin video and it goes against your beliefs on reality, you’ve also seen my comment and decided to engage with me to validate your own beliefs on reality are correct. I would recommend looking further into non duality, engaging someone in the comments section here isn’t going to validate your beliefs on reality, it will just further confuse you. If you come from a scientific background, I highly recommend looking into Bernardo Kastrup. But there are many teaching on non duality, you need to really do the work and explore it without bias. Like I said, you won’t get the answer you are looking for by engaging people in the comments section of KZbin, all the best my friend 👍🏻

[@user-zl5pu2cr5r]

@@joshc7865 I feel that ego can be also very spiritual. Meaning: „ I know duality, I have done the work, I went through a process of understanding. Now my little ignorant children you need to do the work until you come to the same understanding and conclusions as I.“ This is how many confused people sound like. I have meditated for 10 years 4-5h per day. Read all kinds of spiritual books, power of now and so on. Had some sorr of NDE. And can say: Time is physical and part of reality, since reality is based on movement, space and cyclical movement. Experience is also trying to show you time passing, but the senses can only sense in the now and you are always now so consciousness is in the eternal Now. Which is different from „No time“! time exists and we can experience it now but also remember to see that things have happened. Confusing experience with reality is the issue. Many spiritual gurus point to the fact that there is only the Now. But I would rather say: Your experience can only be in the now. But still time in our physical world exists. What is time? Time & Space are the basis of existence of the physical reality. But consciousness is timeless this is something one can come to. Still tomorrow you need to pay your taxes :) so trying to live with the concept of no time in this reality will make your tax collector very angry :)

[@onreact]

@@user-zl5pu2cr5r The movie exists. Just because you categorize it as past does not mean it ceases existing. You view one moment at a "time" but the whole is still on the DVD or streaming server of the universe. Your body has a limited amount of energy so it ages but even aging depends on circumstances. You can lead a life that will make you appear younger than your contemporaries. All you see is evidence of the body being used up. When she meditates all the day and embraces the flow she may live in the body 80 years and still look well in shape while she could sit all day, stress, drink alcohol and eat fast food and then she would age much faster or even die early

[@lancejones4636]

It's interesting that in deep sleep, our perception of time collapses... same goes for comas and surgery under anesthesia. Without thinking, we feel that no time has passed.

[@davidalbro2009]

@@halcyon2864 But, importantly, there is no time at all, not just no notion of time. Time has no objective reality.

[@graememcgregor8407]

I disagree. I can tell if I have slept a long or short time. And I have NEVER had the experience of closing my eyes, immediately opening them and finding I have slept for say 12 hours. We don't have the same track of time in our sleep, but clock time still exists in our sleep.

[@Aed-Adlan]

Time doesn't exist... Demons do. Spirits do. The soul does. God does. All of them NOT objective or physical but all of them exists EVEN DUE that (realize the importance of EVEN DUE, it's an Absolute)... How can it be? ... How can it not be? The atheist-materialist who denies the spiritual reality and ofc everyone who experiences it (by going after experience itself, saying its in the brain or some shit...) On my brother... All of them are my girlfriends... no exception.

[@Aed-Adlan]

@@halcyon2864 i don't watch anything... only the top comments and replies directly to me, this shit is fun to me... Now I have to go and perfectly Realize that the soul, which is in me, alone matters... and see everything else as the secondary falsehood that it is... God-Consciousness is King. ----- Fuck Satan, all devils, all demons, all dark-spirits (over 20 attacks, 2 MAJOR murder attempts AND 20 failure attacks, 2 major murder failure attempts - you are all my girlfriends ;) :)) I go crazy with these baby clowns... God is Great. "I'm always ready for war when the demons attack, hell yea, believe that." - Juice WRLD

[@Aed-Adlan]

​​​​​@@halcyon2864don't care about how I write, i don't... the one writing this will die... The ego, the WHOLE human personality, the WHOLE human interaction business, your body... all of that is FALSEHOOD, doesn't matter or mean anything at all... This is everything the human is crying about, his false self and how his false self relates with other false selfs lol Only the Soul, and God, matters. Only. Fuck all egos, literally fuck them... With the Realization of the soul... Let the ego be uncared about, unmattered about. TOTALLY Take away all your caring about the ego, to the death! DON'T CARE ABOUT YOUR EGO OR OTHERS EGO.... The soul, think about it alone, ignore the ego fully... Fuck The Ego ... Only the Soul is immortal... only the Soul is Real! Awaken and realize the Soul! And put the ego to zero 0 you don't matter.

[@danj9339]

The one and only time I took lsd, the one thing that stuck with me was the slowing of the experience of time. It seems that our brains or minds are tuned into time at a certain pace. It was amazing to me that the experience of time passing could be altered in such a way. This was years ago and it still sticks with me.

[@LoveLeigh313]

I want to try it one day but I’m way too scared 🤣

[@lorz2385]

Man i bad two bad trips, one a year ago, then a second time about three months ago; in them two times i experienced time in a way i still can't quietly well explain. Literally *“time didn't exist”* I was only experiencing the eternal now. After the effect of the drug passed i was trying to tell everyone what i experienced and i couldn't put it into words. Eternity is real!

[@shawnsayers4581]

I went on a single trip in my younger years with an unknown psychedelic and although I had a good time, at one point I kept getting stuck in time loops, id look up at a sober friend, wait to ask a question, ask it, he'd answer, and the I would be back st the beginning of looking up to him, to ask the question, and it happened several times. I asked him how many times id asked, and he always said once. The next morning, and sober lol, I asked again how many times I had asked the question and he told me only once. There were a few other moments like that, that night, and ill never understand what that was. I can remember it like im in that garage asking right now and it's been about 15 years. I agree that there is no real way to explain or put into words what that experience is.

[@McIntoshYoga]

The thought that time only exists while thinking is mind blowing.

[@user-nv8nd6gt8v]

Rupert spira got all of his understanding of consciousness when he was having discussions with Jiddu krishnamurti and reading advait vedant philosophy of Hinduism. Its good now that he is propagating it.🙏🕉

[@iMilhouse]

I wondered this as I notice similarities with Krishnamurti’s discussions :)

[@brendanlea3605]

He himself said that his breakthrough came later through sitting with Francis Lucille, who introduced him to the direct path.

[@user-nv8nd6gt8v]

@@brendanlea3605 francis lucille himself says that he follows advait vedanta (nondual) philosophy. Do your reading🙏

[@brendanlea3605]

@user-nv8nd6gt8v sounds like you got out of the wrong side of the bed. Chill out man

[@user-nv8nd6gt8v]

@@brendanlea3605 please Google francis lucille advait philosophy. You will get the answer. No need to debate here.

[@TheAmbamatamantrasvideos]

All that exists is the Knowing of it, knowing is timeless. Its now.

[@marajade893]

“And all our memories were dreams. And all our tragedies just scenes performed a thousand times before. So many paths have led to now.”

[@AmineElBour279]

"Eternity isn't endless time, but no time" Eckhart Tolle

[@machoboyrandyandsavage3439]

This is something I always attempt to explore with my clients. A client the other day was discussing the difficult times he’s recently had with his now ex-parter as a result of her cheating which has visibly destroyed him. I asked him simply if any of that actually exists which I could see got his brain really working and after a short period witnessed the change in his posture as the realisation took effect.

[@timjonesvideos]

I wonder if we descend into time because it holds some kind of experiential & learning potential for the soul, then we seemingly get lost in the intricacy of time and space, but that's all ultimately part of the cosmic game & waking up to who we really are too!

[@DrunkenBoatCaptain]

Ultimately there is no 'because'. Any more than a crocodile 'causes' its crocodileness.

[@Oimsi100]

I doubt that reality has any need for apahrent learning:-)

[@davidalbro2009]

Yes, precisely, and many teaching reflect this! We came her for the experience of process. Mind creates the experience of process.

[@Aed-Adlan]

Everything is an illusion, except my soul. Eveything shall perish, but not the soul. The humans cannot see it even due they see my whole body in front of them, nor do they see the soul in my entire interaction with them... It is not the ego or the personality nor is it the one writing this. One memory hold the glory of my soul... Do whatever you want with me and judge me in which ever way you want... Soul.

[@thewayfarer1571]

@@Aed-AdlanHow many souls are there? If there is more than one then assumedly they could move towards or away from one another. That’s the conundrum isn’t it? Where the concept of time is born? If there is no time then there must only be one soul as far as I can see.

[@JCB333of]

IMHO, the "ego" thinks; the "being" rests peacefully in awareness. The ego loves pontificating, analyzing, and trying to understand. The being doesn't do any of those things. So, time is created by the ego, and is entirely manmade. (My 2¢.)

[@onreact]

Yes, time is just a way to measure distances. Just like we measure space in meters, we measure time in minutes. Yet everything exists at once. Just because you traverse space from a to b does not mean the place you arrive at only exists when you get there.

[@sandstorm6605]

This is definitely a difficult one for me as well. Then, if it is the case, one begins to wonder about the implications of such a thing. Then my mind ties itself into a pretzel and I realize I should probably just go do something else with my now before I give myself an aneurism.

[@davidmickles5012]

It's ok to step away from such ideas, the nature of reality can be puzzling at times. There is a story HH the Dalai Lama used to tell about one of his students when HHDL gave him a teaching on "emptiness." In Buddhism "emptiness" is the teaching that there is no independent "self" rather, all things are constructed of everything OTHER than a self. The student heard this teaching and began to shake in a state of panic! HHDL then realized he maybe should NOT have taught that student about emptiness at that moment because he was not ready for such a teaching. "Emptiness" is supposed to be medicine, supposed to free you from suffering. But that medicine is not always called for in every case or in every moment, you have to be ready. "Enlightenment" (so called) is freeing, blissful, radiant, compassionate, joyful... But getting there for most of us is a gradual process. If we go too fast, or are not ready, it CAN (at times) be a frightening or terrifying experience, or just bewildering. Little steps are good🙏

[@jameseverett4976]

This video is a recording of a past lecture. So here is proof of a past, just as our conception holds it. We can record movement and sound, and later watch it, showing us that those events happened.

[@davidmickles5012]

@@jameseverett4976 When so called "past events" happened, did they happen as a "past event" or did they happen as a "now experience?" In your actual present experience, does the past exist other than your present experience? When we look at videos or photos, are we looking at the past or are we looking at the present? Our minds or thoughts tell us we are looking at the past, but actually what we are looking at is the present with an idea of, or thoughts that are telling us "I am looking at the past." In fact, even those thoughts do not actually exist in the present because by the time that you construct them they are no longer in your actual experience - they are themselves just thoughts, aka "mental constructs" which are not presently existing. There was a study I read about recently where neuroscientists looked a human memory and found that when we are remembering past events we are actually repeatedly reconstructing our own present thoughts as a representation of what we imagine the past to be. In other words, we are not actually "recalling the past" but are reconstructing our present thoughts in order to create a thought/memory of what we believe to be "the past." This they said is why "memory" becomes more and more subjective (arbitrary) and less objective (precise) over time - because we are constantly reconstructing the elements of the "memory" over and over again with additional things being added or subtracted each time we recall it. Last point.. What is it that still exists, that endures continuously, that has never changed, that you can never deny as a reality, that is still "here" even though everything "other" than this thing is no more, no longer existing? The present. Now, you could say "Well that proves time exists" and in a way it does... IN OUR MIND (thoughts). But REALITY (experience) only exists in or as the present. I believe that is what non-dualists mean by "time is an illusion."

[@sandstorm6605]

@@jameseverett4976 But it’s always now when we watch it. The same could be said of dinosaur bones or war memorabilia or even time capsules. The moment it’s viewed is always the current moment. Even if such a thing has a date written on it. We can’t truly say that any of it has taken place in the past, because we’re experiencing it now.

[@hermit27417]

This is why the expression "The past, the present and future are all happening at once. It's just the "Now" anything else is redundant and a creation of this matrix

[@nsbd90now]

I find it almost overwhelming to realize that our ("separate self") experience of space-time as a flow and movement is actually an illusion and reality is really one whole static thing, so to speak. I just love how well Rupert Spira describes and articulates the subtle nuances of the human experience of reality.

[@adventurousandrew4442]

This would mean that we are a child, an adult, and an elder, all this just now. Does that mean our life is just a dream too? And who is the dreamer? I think the human brain is not capable of understanding this, at least mine not.

[@funnydadstuff]

I assume consciousness is the dreamer. And we are all the actors on the stage of consciousness.

[@adventurousandrew4442]

​@@funnydadstuff Very well said, this makes sense.

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

I woke up in the middle of the night last night as I often do (to tinkle lol) and meditated, couldn't fall asleep, and epiphanies kept coming. Trying to remember them all. I knew that what I wrote here is channeled, & that the epiphanies are given to me also. It's my spiritual team, but I'm not usually aware who they're from specifically. But last night I was told that the messages about time & about the 4th dimension are from Albert Einstein. Which awes me, but it makes perfect sense. Who better to give us this information but the great genius who posited spacetime? This is a continuation of his famous breakthrough discovery. Other epiphanies from last night: Time is a function or property or feature of the 4th dimension. Time is contained in the 4th dimension, as are other properties. Time can be manipulated, we can play with it when we go into the 4th dimension & operate from there. I realized how I was able to slow down time. I had practiced the game of pong, & worked at slowing down the puck, by intention. It began working. It was just a game, but the day I needed time to slow down, I guess I just unconsciously tapped into what I had been doing in the pong game. These things worked because they were just personal things, & small & insignificant in the scheme of things, I wasn't setting some huge goal. How was I able to slow down time? The answer came last night: The 4th dimension is what we can call elastic. Time can be stretched. In the 4th dimension, we can also ho back & forth in time. I really don't know even a tiny fraction of what's in the 4th dimension. I'm trying to find out if anyone else on earth does, scientists or guru's, or anyone. Also, there are many dimensions, maybe dozens or hundreds, no idea the number. But art in different forms is a dimension, as is aesthetics. Love is referred to as a high frequency vibration as well as a high level emotion. But it is also a dimension. Knowing this makes sense especially for me. My father sometimes took me to lunch, & one day we met in a very bright restaurant with windows for walls. As soon as my father saw me enter, he stood up in the aisle, put his hands on his hips, & beamed at me. He enveloped me, bathed me, in love. It was so beautiful & powerful, everything fell away, disappeared, & we were in another realm. I now realize we entered a different dimension, that of love. Being aware of entering & being in a higher dimension, does not in fact take us out of lower dimensions, though it can, I believe, when we vibrate high enough.

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

I just noticed that "Spira" & "spirit" have their first 4 letters in common. As they say, there are no coincidences. 😊😊❤❤❤

[@mattschmidt8298]

spir-, root. -spir- comes from Latin, where it has the meaning "breathe; have a longing for. '' This meaning is found in such words as: aspire, conspire, expire, inspire, perspire, respiration, respiratory, respire, spiracle, spirit, transpire.

[@backyardbuddha4067]

Time may not exist but man oh man PATIENCE certainly does :) great example of compassion

[@pursuitofspirit]

Beautiful explanation.

[@levlevin182]

Did we suffer @ one time in the past? I don't know about you but, I did. However, time changed when in a moment of time I became conscious of not only my awareness but that of my loved ones suffering. The journey takes time & has many paths. On this Christmas holiday I wish you all a happy union with all life. Thanks Ruppert!

[@onreact]

You did suffer when it was the present. You only categorize it as past because you suffer no more. You perceive time as linear just because your attention span is too short to view the present all at once. Your mind would be overloaded otherwise with too many impressions. As you learn to keep the mind silent and don't create suffering anymore you have more attention span to perceive the eternal now. Then you enter the flow of the universe.

[@MountainHacker]

You “really” did have pain, and thoughts make it suffering, but it’s not “true” NOW. Unless you rehearse those suffering thoughts.

[@unseekingseeker1359]

Another great video, Rupert! 👍🏼 The dream analogy is quite relevant to explain how time moves at different speeds as perceived or experienced. Also deja vu tells us that time is not linear, sequential, in any case. If it was, we could never have ‘seen’ beforehand what we know as being something we have already experienced. So, time is an illusion.

[@alfreddifeo9642]

Thanks for the sharing truth. 🎯♥😶🙏

[@Oimsi100]

Some great pointers, as always. Instead of trying to understand Rupert, try just to follow and explore in your own experience. It is possible that way that reality will become clear and the need to understand or ability to doubt will be superseded.

[@Johnny_Zoom]

Thank you Rupert Merry Christmas!

[@Chrisallengallery]

Time is just entropy or the direction of entropy. We are always in the present.

[@outthinkersubliminalfacts]

It's also an identifier, label or measurement. My name isn't materially me myself. My shadow under the sun may tell me time of the day.

[@Chrisallengallery]

@@outthinkersubliminalfacts Time, as in minutes/hours/days is just a subdivision of the movement of the planets. The measurement of time is arbitrary. The arrow of time is entropy caused by probability. It is not impossible for a smashed glass to jump back onto a table in one piece. It is just highly improbable. You would see it as time going backwards but there is no time, just probabilities.

[@mnetzer6777]

You're all full of shit. Unfortunately time is real and will take our human bodies from this place called Earth. You were a baby once, now you're not, that's not time? WTF is it?

[@lfm3585]

I've never had a dream that took 3 weeks, the time in the dream pretty accurately corresponds to the time in waking state. People having dreams where weeks are passing by?

[@infiniteawareness4770]

I was just saying the same thing to myself

[@mnetzer6777]

Yes, Ive had dreams that much more than the 7 or 8 hours I was asleep took place for sure.

[@AaronGoeglein]

Right? Who the fuck is having 3-week dreams?

[@SuperNashum]

I dream every night. Sometimes it’s like a movie. Very exciting. And in my dream I can arrive to one place, feel that I spent a few days there or a week and to come back to where I departed from. It’s often related to a vacation with a period of 5-7 days.

[@bparcej6233]

Time is a human construct based on observation of our solar system. It helped to plan according to day/ night, patterns of seasons….observing patterns of the past enabled planning for the future.

[@sharad460]

Fantastic point thinking about past is not past you must have experiential evidence,have any body have left Now and experienced the past or future.

[@ExplorerAUDIO]

Everything changes.....that's the thing I can't wrap my head around. When there is no time, why are we getting older?

[@shuvalassaf]

I thought about that question too, and my conclusion is that the finite mind ages as a result of perception. But the infinite awareness is just now.

[@Odemwigie.]

Because reality never existed , it an illusion of thought , even time is thought which lead to pain and suffering to some people , which is also thought. Duel less on thought and feel better.

[@shuvalassaf]

@@Odemwigie. Reality as we know it, is just a headset. Spacetime is not fundamental.

[@vs23060]

True, I feel sometimes time doesn't exist when i am in flow state but the moment i think that i am in flow State time again comes into action. It can be experienced and not just stated as fact

[@cosmicapecustomsoundfonts7493]

Amazing

[@Mysticalmountain]

What time is I think that the references that some of these spiritual teachers try to convey these aspects of consciousness that are illusion that there is no fundamental reality to understanding the depth of what humans consider as time. I mean any spiritual teacher, can say that time is an allusion. And yet there’s so much more about even this aspect of our consciousness that in the structure of our mental and psychological societies that we don’t even have an actual cognitive idea of how powerful time really is. And just simply say it’s an allusion. I feel like that’s where I am losing, any connection with the spiritual teachers because nobody is challenging them and they’re not challenging themselves coming up with just simple answers of a mist of information. There is no depth of knowledge.

[@andrewheaney6858]

@@usr909 It’s totally amazing that man has now the time and inclination to go down the rabbit hole of consciousness, time and our very abstract existence, that said though there are a whole lot of people who live in ignorant bliss because it’s doesn’t seem to be on their radar , they simply just “are” !

[@msmd3295]

Time isn’t normally part of dreaming. In case you haven’t noticed there is no “real” sense of time passing and one reason is the brain isn’t interested because dreams are just an attempt on the part of the brain to process certain symbols of events already experienced. You may have a dream of cross county travel but it is unlikely your brain is going to assign any specific timeframe. Some aspects of “time” are a natural consequence of living in a material universe. Because “cause < effect relationships exist that means there is at least “past-time” or history. And the fact that the material universe is constantly changing that change represent the reality of “future-time”. We may not know in advance how the universe may change but change is certain. Thus future-time is guaranteed.

[@thebeardedseeker5633]

This is giving me a brain cramp. Is he saying that there is only a succession of nows?

[@maria_lara111]

Wow so well explained! I finally learned something 🎉🎉🎉

[@everready800]

Lol you did still have your past experiences.

[@LauriPoldre]

This is brilliant!

[@velsen232459]

People live in the past. Seeing your own feet takes a few nanoseconds for the light from your feet to reach your eyes and then another few milliseconds for your brain to process this image before you are aware of it. The sun is about 150 million kilometers from Earth. So it takes the sunlight 150,000,000 / 300,000 = 500 seconds to reach us, that is 8 minutes and 20 seconds. So we see the sun as it looked just over 8 minutes ago.

[@mannutdutd]

I disagree, the sun didn’t look that way 8 mins ago, the light hitting your eye and being registered by the brain and you becoming aware of it is the moment it looks like anything. With no eyes there is nothing that looks like anything. With no ears there is no sounds. Your eyes invoke the light of the sun. The softness of your hand invokes the hardness of your phone

[@McIntoshYoga]

Good point Amego.

[@LisahTali]

We get memories within dreams of the context we're in, so we have the sense of continuation and journey. Memories can construct themselves and shift and change in infinitesimally small amount of time.

[@lareposada6306]

How are processes exlpained? They development of a baby. A tree producung fruits. A perdón growing from baby to adult...

[@TerratenienteFox]

Time is just a way to measure those events. As a concept it is real for us but it does not exist as something more than that. I think the confusion arises because we see changes and use the concept we know of time (seconds, minutes,hours, days, years, etc.) to explain those changes. But it is the result of the limited and divisive nature of the human mind. We need to divide events in order to make sense of them.But for the Reality in wich all this appears wich is eternal and does not have those limitations (that what he calls Consciousness) nothing of this is real not time and also no space. just appearances. But as long as we thing reality is only what we perceive in the awake state we will not get this. And thats why he uses the analogy of the dream. For Reality we are in a dream.

[@lareposada6306]

Thank You.

[@annemurphy8074]

I had 2 NDE's and there was no time. Everything was simultaneous, NOW. It was clear time was a mind activity.

[@FredericZolnet]

I understand what he is pointing to, but what I can't solve is, how can we use language? Language is built on 'past' experience and learning.

[@TheNathanChronicles]

The problem is Rupert doesn’t provide an alternative way of explaining the fact that we as conscious beings have memory. Or the fact that we have evidence of beings going from small and frail and growing up into adults. What do you call the space between the points of maturity in humans for example?

[@lance8803]

Wow…. I just had a thought. A.I. will put all the philosophy greats thoughts and teachings together to create our best teachings

[@user-hh5wr5in3h]

Vedanta says time is non-dual “Advaita” not different from non-dual Brahman. Time is unchanging. It just appears as changing time due to Maya or “ignorance”. Ultimate Truth Brahman is revealed in Vedanta in great depth.

[@toribellum]

As Neville said, time is just “the vehicle to experience change.” Otherwise our individual perspectives of life would experience everything all at once-essentially the being who we are in the background of all that we are. The one consciousness.

[@organaut]

Reading some of the comments , time is a good example of how seeing above our programming and conditioning can be difficult. We’re taught that number 2 has a higher qualification than number one , 3 more than that and so on. That creates a set pattern called “time” in the mind as it’s drilled into us by school and society. There maybe even some tribes deep in the jungle where all they need is the rising and setting of the sun to function and clocks would probably be meaningless to them. Likewise , even though internationally we are in agreement of the same symbols for numbers and there ordering, I believe there are some small inhabited islands that use different symbols to the numbers we know. They would be indecipherable to us and we would probably loose our sense of movement in time after a while. I once did an experiment where I took all my clocks away for a few days, Even the first timeless day was very interesting, and scary. After a few days I was sick and it felt like something in my head had snapped . After that I was free of the movement feeling and the clock became just a useful tool for me but no longer a master.

[@davidalbro2009]

Time is a perception of change and process. Our biggest natural impetus for the perception of time is changes in light. This is why the Bible said God set the sun to govern the day and the moon to govern the night. The Bible wasn't saying that the sun somehow looks over the day and the moon the night, but rather the sun creates the experience of a day and the moon (and stars) the experience of night. The sun and moon change very steadily in our experience thus providing a solid framework to built our illusory reality upon.

[@organaut]

Oh yes, absolutely. The sun and moon act as big “stage lighting”@@davidalbro2009

[@sven888]

Time is not an illusion; time is relative. Wish he would understand the reason of relativity.... ✝♥😌

[@user-zl5pu2cr5r]

hmm just because there is alway only one picture in a movie that one experiences, does it mean the movie does not exist? Does it mean when we remember the past pictures of the movie it is not proof that the movie exists snd went through a process of being seen and the process needs to be happening in time? Look at her, her body is the evidence of time. So no matter what she experienced or not, she herself looks to herself and to all of us like time was passing for her. Even if she would meditate and focus on the now, all of us would see her body getting older. Isn‘t this evidence of time passing?

[@BLSFL_HAZE]

Both the remembrance of earlier moments and the anticipation of later moments (along with the conceptual projection of temporal units like seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, etc, giving the impression of an increasing distance between the present and earlier moments, and a decreasing distance between the present and later moments) make the constant change of the present SEEM to be a movement "from" earlier moments "to" later moments. In this way, remembrance and anticipation make the present SEEM to be a "movement through time". However, as both earlier and later moments (and the steadily increasing/decreasing distance between them and the present) are not actually anywhere to be found beyond the finite mind, the present moment cannot actually be a movement from earlier moments to later moments through time. This apparent movement is nothing more than the illusion of time. Change itself is logically beginningless and endless, and is therefore timelessly present.

[@uhhdudeuhhwhatsup]

The problem is, the inward comprehension of this matter cannot be shown to you by another. What she’s really asking him is: “can you try and show me how i can understand this?” But the truth of this matter cannot be given to you by another. It’s radically subjective.

[@francesca7142]

This is the first time I've understood anything he said about dreams. They are not my thing; I understand that I have them, but I never remember them. So I don't find them interesting. But time as an illusion was intriguing and I had a bit of insight. Thanks again.

[@queenshanalee]

Extremely profound information. Time is made up all we have is now there's no past or future just the present.

[@AuntyHoney]

Never not Now 💜

[@invertedmirrorimageimi9480]

tIMe, a non-linear expression of being, is a construct for the observer to quantify the distance between a (T) thought and its (E) expression in physical reality... you are the I am, IM stuck in the middle... as you raise your vibratory frequency you decrease the perceived distance between a thought (T) and it's manifested Expression (E) .... the closer the observer relates I am to fulfillment transcending desire the space between fades to nothing

[@deborahhebblethwaite1865]

I have never experienced time in my dreams. Only continual changes of the scene and people happen. I do not think in the dream dimension I can keep it stable, only when I am lucid dreaming🇨🇦

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

I can accept that time is an illusion. But that doesn't really tell me enough. I know that "understand" is a dirty word in the spiritual community lol, so I'll use another term. I really want to grasp or "get" what time actually is, as precisely as possible. I want to know exactly as precisely as possible what it is. If it's an illusion, who made up the illusion and why. Since time is a property or attribute or feature or characteristic that is served up to us when we enter the 3D, and we are required to go along with it, I'd really like to know as much as possible about how the whole thing works. I have this strong deja vu feeling about the subject of time, like there's something there that I'm really trying to see, and it feels like I'm almost seeing it, like it's info that's staring at me, beckoning yet it's hidden. It's haunting. I had a period in my life for a few weeks when I was able to slow down time, as a game. But one day I had to use it in order to get to work on time. I was running very late. No way I was going to be on time, a half hour drive and I had only 5 minutes. Well, I made it to work with 2 minutes to spare! How?? The only way I can explain it was that I slowed down time. By intention, because I sure didn't do anything else. Nor could I have, we can't slow down time by doing, nothing known to humans to slow it down, but apparently the 3D obeys the soul? When the soul takes over. After the miracle of my getting to work on time impossibly, I freaked 😜. It scared me, and I said, whoa! I can't be doing that! And of course when we decide we can't do something, it's a self fulfilling prophecy. But I'd sure love to hear other views on this experience, though since it's not something most people have experienced, I'm not sure anyone can shed light on it. I know, however, it's something we are all capable of, it's an innate ability of the soul. That's why I was able to somehow tap into it. But I suspect that asking other people to interpret it is like asking the blind to lead the blind 😆. Still, I'm hopeful.

[@carolinebielby5924]

Want to know what the other interpretations of memory are i get that if we dont think time doesn't exist might it exist but we are not aware of it because we haven't got the thought process so confusing 🤔

[@MsThirtythree]

I’m watching a video that Rupert made 2 months ago. The fact that I’m watching it now doesn’t alter that. It’s always now - tomorrow will be experienced as now just as yesterday can only be remembered now. I’m thinking now about people who died 50 years ago, doesn’t mean they’re living now. What about fossils, the remains of creatures who may have existed before humankind came into existence? That the starlight we see tonight could have come from a star that has not existed for millions of years? I cannot see how saying we can only experience now is relevant.

[@ifyougrewupinbrightsgrove4840]

You are experiencing all of those examples, now.

[@worldclassish]

It's simplified if you think of life as a recording and time is the rate at which we perceive or experience it. So the creation of time allows the illusion of here and now.

[@onreact]

Your first insight is true. Your second one is not. The here and now is the only thing that is not an illusion.

[@Hugh9]

Don't confuse the thinking of the relative mind in time with the silence of the absolute mind in no time recognising both mind's unity.

[@Chingfordassociates]

I appreciate the importance of the 'now' but what about working memory as a prerequisite of understanding anything including language? The statement 'time is an illusion' can only be understood in time. 'Now' coud perhaps contain a single (incomprehensible) phoneme or basic sound unit but a working memory would be needed to connect more than one phoneme to another to understand anything at word/sentence level.

[@chelseafisher6881]

Time is an illusion… lunchtime doubly so. - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

[@user-bk5xc5xv2i]

This man has well read Pascal !

[@netdatabiz]

Time is uncomputable constant. Created by perception.

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

Interestingly, we can perceive, even visually, without using our senses. For example, we use our eyes to see. & when we close them, we see a blank screen or field or plane, whatever we choose to call it. It may be black, or other colors, perhaps even patterns. We can choose to impose on it whatever we wish to imagine, & it can be very real & it's wonderful & necessary to conscious manifesting. But here's an experience I once had. I was at home alone, and lying down on a sofa. Several feet across the room a gas burning fireplace was blazing. I closed my eyes, and to my amazement, the view of the room began to emerge, like a fade in in a movie. But I wasn't seeing an image of the room, I saw the actual room in the present moment. I saw the flickering of the fireplace, all the details of the room, I was actually seeing the room. I opened my eyes & saw the same exact view. I closed & opened my eyes several times in succession, rapidly, slowly, tried it so many ways, but saw the same thing each time and continuously. The only difference was that the view was a shade lighter, brighter when my eyes were open than when they were closed. After a while I grew bored with it, my only thought was that my eyelids no longer worked, & how it might become problematic when trying to fall asleep lol. Later I realized what a big blessing it would be to blind people if this ability were encouraged & developed in them.

[@moralebooster8437]

Your comment reminds me of a book I'm reading called The Object Stares Back. I bet you'd like it if you haven't already read it.

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

@@moralebooster8437 Thank you. I will check it out! ❤️ ❤️

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

@@moralebooster8437 Thank you. I will check it out! ❤️ ❤️

[@eldritchzero]

Time is an illusion "Posted 55 minutes ago"

[@TheAmbamatamantrasvideos]

Haha, see its illusion? Its posted 60 minuten ago now..and 'tomorrow '.. next week....all illusion..

[@Oimsi100]

Very good 😂

[@miles6875]

😂

[@allinthemind2006]

I feel more than i think so when he says go to the past I feel like im there. Yes the past exists for me right now as i recall it. Just as real as now

[@abyz564]

Above: "I'm not trying to convince you time doesn't exist". In the video at 5:43: "it doesn't really exist". Which is it?

[@1FREDARMSTRONG]

okay, here is another perspective: the forces at work in the cosmos, appear to create phenomena that exist in varying intervals of experience or existence. that is to say, varying life forms and energies, have varying life spans. all of them being aspects of the "animating" forces(s) of the cosmos. the human being is just another phenomena. some how, though, we have developed the ability to be "Self Aware", which acts as another form of "feedback" or homeostatic mechanism, which is capable of bringing about recognition and development of its energies. from this position of experience, the human being can transcend the corporal/temporal and engage what we might call the Eternal. so the body is a corporal/temporal experience, and Self Awareness of the pervasive forces a "doorway" to the "Eternal". the concerns for the developments of spiritual practices is to assist you in your finding this inner domain, before our limited life span concludes the potentiality/possibility of this development. the idea of "Eternal Reoccurrence" is understood in some Eastern perspectives, which suggest you may have more than one chance to "catch the wave", but they also suggest that each time you are brought back around or come back into existence, and you do not make the effort to become "transcendent," your potential to develop becomes weaker, until finally you loose the possibility of developing altogether. add to that, the practice of "Voodo", or the ability of the "light body"(the higher energies of the "self") to be corrupted, you get the notion of how people can "return" or be born with birth defects. this is what some traditions suggest. on another level of interval, the history of our planet suggest the potential for dynamic environmental change is part of the experience(as seen of billions of years). we really don' t know the extent of this type of interval and what is has allowed for. maybe it will exists as long as the planet exist, or maybe, its all just a passing phases, which means, our chances for spiritual development might not be "Eternal". perhaps some perspective here, but not to be competing with potentials and practices of Self Awareness, or the ULTIMATE HOMEOSTATIC MECHANSIM. every culture tells the story to the best of their ability to be "Self Aware.," and un-corrupted. when i make it to the "other side", i''ll send you a post card. (ha ha )

[@moonglow6639]

This video didn't last 10 minutes and 28 seconds, because there is no time. :)

[@Oimsi100]

A crazy paradox.

[@Oimsi100]

How magnificent

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

The other question I have is regarding the idea that we can't experience the past. But how can we explain that we can re-experience past events? True, we can't actually go back in the current views of the past. However, in the first place, a time machine has long been imagined by humans. Perhaps most notably by H.G. Wells. And there have been movies and television shows that have had people going into the past and/or the future somehow. Of course at this point it's fantasy, as is the mechanics that brought it about. But as they say, the science fiction of the past is the science fact of the future. And since the 3D realm of solid matter is actually just congealed energy waiting to be converted back to energy, we can ultimately go into any time, place, dimension, right? Also, reality is an illusion, right? Time, location, matter are all ultimately illusion, so when we can realize more clearly what it all actually is, we can work with it, or rather play with it. Quantum physics is a big key, but it is still in its infancy, so little has as yet been discovered about it. And here's another aspect I wonder about. We have the ability to experience what we want. We each have our own unique experience of everything already, so we can tailor our experiences even further by focusing. As an actress, I was trained in the Stanislavsky technique, in which are taught to put ourselves into the circumstances, the life of the character, based on the playwright's directions and text. Our prime instruction is the great "as if", we think & behave as if we are living in that time and place. We can put or project ourselves into that time and place by consideration. In fact, we can sometimes hear about actors who were so successful in this endeavor that they had trouble coming back into the present moment and life. So we can put ourselves into another time and place. We can call that madness or delusion, but then IMO we must ask whether it is the person who imagines and brings their imagined world into being who is delusional, and isn't that what manifestation is? Or is it those whose reality is mired in the matrix who are delusional? And finally, what about our memories? Not as mere recollections, but we can re-experience, essentially relive, things that we have lived and experienced in the past, including previous incarnations. Yes, we cannot physically go back in time, but we can de facto return experientially, and those memories coming back to life experientially can be even more vivid than the present moment. Although de facto it seems what happens is that we somehow return to the moments in the past, and those very real moments are again the present moment, we are reliving, re-experiencing that moment as the present moment. I have had experiences in which I closed my eyes, or even kept them open, and I was singing or acting or just relaxing, and a very real experience from a previous incarnation flooded over me, I saw around me what I was seeing and feeling that was in that past life. I was essentially back in that time experientially. So IMO though we can say there is no linear time, it's a thought, an illusion, we can return temporarily to the past experientially when we are immersed in a multisensory return to another present moment. OMG I just frigging got it! Huge thanks to my spiritual team! It is said that time is the 4th dimension. So when I return to the past experientially, I'm not moving linearly. I'm moving dimensionally, I'm going into the 4th dimension, which is not past or future. Now I just have to fund out all I can about the 4th dimension, and how we move, shift, dimensionally. It seems to me that not much is really known about the 4th dimension. We know the 3rd dimension pretty intimately. And we experience the 5th dimension at times. For example, I am not in contact currently with my twin flame, but when we spoke by phone, I always experienced him in the 5th dimension. We also are often in the 5th dimension during sleep. But it's the 4th dimension that holds the key to our relationship with what we call time. The more I continue on my spiritual journey, the deeper I go, and the more my spiritual team prompts me to write. And what I write is channeled by my spiritual team, I swear. I couldn't make up any of this. This information is given to me, for my enlightenment by my spiritual team. This is a huge epiphany. So for me, the 4th dimension has today stopped being merely a concept. It is now very real to me, because I have now been linked to it experientially. I'm now excited to find out as much as I can about the 4th dimension. And I would love any input/info about it. ❤️ ❤️

[@periel]

What about a tree that starts as a sapling and grows to a giant? Did it not take “time” for the tree to grow?

[@Bobsbigbuoy]

The issue is if something occurred Now, in the “past”, then why that is not simultaneously occurring in the present “Now.” That is where the experiential example is irrelevant. This cannot be explained. Bravo to Rupert for the attempt! It simply cannot be done using the VR headset we have on.

[@santoast3018]

Comparing our senses and how we perceive the world to wearing a VR headset oversimplifies things. Sure, we might not be able to see everything around us (like how bees can see ultraviolet light and we can’t), but humans are pretty clever. We’ve invented all sorts of tools and tech to help us see and understand way beyond our natural abilities. Saying we’re stuck in some VR version of reality doesn’t give us enough credit. We’re always pushing the boundaries of what we can know and understand about the universe and our place in it.

[@shanejohnson1034]

All we have is the eternal now; the infinite now. Conventional teaching leads preconceived ideas that limit us, even possibly limits our lifespans.

[@sapien6230]

When I listen to music it occasionally seems to speed up or slow down slightly. This could be evidence that time is not fundamentally real.🤔

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

This website talks about taking a 3rd dimensional cube & extruding it out in a perpendicular direction, that's the 4th dimension. I have been at times the last few days experiencing something I had to idea how to describe. It's like things in my head shifted. Space from further back in my head moved forward, & things from the ftont of my head moved back. There was then a lot more space & total clarity. & I felt literally a new dimension opened up in that space. I actually saw the inside of my head, & there was a lot more space, & it expanded & extended out further than before. I literally saw & experienced more dimensions in there. It's exactly accurate that the space was extruded out, projected out. It was an incredible feeling & experience. It was surreal, different from anything I've felt or experienced before yet more real than real, than anything I've felt or experienced before. It only lasts a few minutes at a time, so far anyway. This 4th dimensional experience is so vividly & actually multidimensional, when my state of awareness returns to the mundane, my awareness of the space in my head is very limited in dimension by comparison. When I'm experiencing the 4th dimension, everything in my head opens up, I'm seeing a room in there with objects and lots of space & dimension. Normally, when I see things in my head or mind or imagination, everything in there looks 3-dimensional or fewer, kinda flat. But when the 4th dimension opens up in there, everything is transformed to be fully multidimensional. Now I'm experiencing my tension headache as I often do these days. When I experience the shift into the 4th dimension, my headache disappears instantly, & everything comes into crystal clear focus. I'm so grateful I experienced this epiphany tonight because now I understand what my experience is, the shift into the 4th dimension. Also, this website talks about superimposition. I have previously mentioned that years ago, when I first invoked, if that's the right word, or invited, Archangel Michael, he came to me while I was asleep. I was looking in a mirror, and Archangel Michael superimposed his head on mine, and he merged with me. We were still separste beings but united. I saw my face underneath, & his radiant face over mine. The whole room became bright and luminous. He had strawberry blond hair about shoulder length or so. IMO he had me stand in front of a mirror for his visitation so that I could see what happening, his face over mine and our merging. He transformed me, though his transformation of me is not yet complete. I feel his presence always, & he will complete my transformation when I'm fully ready. I believe angels don't actually have genders but I refer to him as male because that's how he's generally depicted.

[@andrewheaney6858]

What a brilliant handle this man has on the time delusion!

[@MassiveLib]

There must be time for it to be an illusion

[@duytdl]

At the end of the universe, God is like "HAHA FOoled ya bitches! Time was just a magic trick!"

[@millie7637]

Have you ever experienced a three weeks dream in a few minutes/hours? For me, no. But I understand what you are saying.

[@supernaturalabilitiessiddh8027]

Time is not an illusion; it is linear in this temporal, sequential, physical realm. Reality/consciousness is multi-dimensional, therefore, we experience the flow of time differently. in the astral, mental, and Akashic realms. That doesn't mean time is an illusion.

[@onreact]

Time is just a metric. Just like we measure space with meters we measure time with minutes. The space already exists. It's just our perception from a particular perspective that creates a space between a and b. In reality it's all there. From outer space (think the ISS) you see it all at once. It's the same with time. The now exists all at once so it's eternity. Yet we have a very tiny attention span, only milliseconds and thus a limited perspective. Meditation allows you to stretch the attention span so that you can experience the now for minutes or hours without distractions. As an infinite being you could see all of now at once though. Just like you see a train passing from afar - the longer your attention span is the more you see of now. Yet most of us just sit in the train (of thought) and thus we witness only the blurry landscape passing at high speed outside the window. Thus you have to slow down and sit still to experience the now instead of being busy, rushing around and trying to "catch up".

[@a64738]

Time is movement, you can argue that movement and EVERYTHING is an illusion ...

[@user-md9sv3yw7l]

❤❤❤

[@user-ck6ly4st3v]

Each higher dimension builds on to, adds on to, each lower dimension. We must be in 0th dimension first, then enter 2nd dimension, then 3rd, then 4th & so on. We sometimes have popped into 5th dimension inadvertently, when we are not yet in 4th dimension. This is because the 4th dimension is the bridge between the physical & the spiritual realms. The first 3 dimensions are the physical world, & the 5th dimensions & up are the spiritual realms. Sort of like Dante & others describing the realms of heaven & earth & lower realms. We must eventually be able to inhabit the 4th dimension in order to move into the higher realms. Great artists such as DaVinci & Mozart were mostly in the 4th dimension. That is why their works are timeless, eternal, & imbued with the spiritual. It's not only because their works are of such high quality that they draw us in, but because they are imbued with a life of their own. & in the 4th dimension, we not only know time, but we master it, we control it, we can do what we want with it, as regards our personal worlds. Entire genius complete musical works were channeled to Mozart, fully orchestrated. DaVinci invented airplanes & so many other things, he left behind so many writings & mathematical calculations of his inventions & discoveries. They came from the 4th dimension & possibly from also accessing even higher dimensions. In actuality, we are all in all dimensions at all times & simultaneously. We're just not aware of them or of being in them. They are occluded, obscured from us, we have on blindfolds. So we see only the first 3 dimensions, because that's how we've been conditioned, or more precisely, that's what we've agreed is the total of what exists, the physical world. It's the expression, seeing is believing. People believe what they can perceive with their physical senses, nothing else. This is also part of why conscious manifesting seems so difficult: in order to manifest what we want, we must believe before we can physically perceive what we want.

[@bryancox3946]

Lunchtime doubly so.

[@mikuchu4488]

Thank you! I only opened the video to make sure someone had this covered. 👍

[@bryancox3946]

@@mikuchu4488 And thank YOU for making sure. We galactic hitchhikers are a dedicated bunch.

[@dragster9070]

Even if it is true that time is an illusion and there is only an eternal "now", how is it functional for my daily life if i give up that said illusion?

[@HibouRondo]

Lunch time, doubly so. (Douglas Adams)

[@hugothales4902]

Let me propose a different view. Past, present and future exist. Only the present can by most of us be manifested by our localised consciousness. We may have a chance to overcome this headset limitation and time travel.

[@onreact]

Past and future exist as concepts in your mind. The present also exists as this moment now. Our local consciousness is just too limited to view the whole eternal now beyond milliseconds usually.

[@SacredSilence95]

I don't think almost anyone has dreams that feel 3 weeks long. Also in only 1 "real life" minute?? It is maybe possible that the man dreams very differently from other people and he is not aware of it

[@keithchung2501]

The metric system of 'time' is valid only so long as it's applied in human-centric world. The concept of time is rendered useless outside of the solar system from the objective vantage point because time is derived from and based on the equilibrium state of the centrifugal, centripetal, and gravitation force of the solar system. I know this is somewhat mouthful, but I can't express it in any other way in the simplest terms as possible.

[@JosephKuka-vb6nz]

Like a lot of things we anguish over its not important.

[@danielpanizza]

Ok, we can only ever live in the now, that's very clear to me. But before and after exist even if stop thinking. It's impossible to conceive "material" life, which is essentially change (a succession of events based on causation), without the concept of time. An ant instinctively accumulates food based on the (implicit) premise that after the accumulation the food will prove useful. In other words: life doesn't exist, but without time and causation nothing works. Without time, life as we know it ceases to exist. So the thinking that conceives time must be not just human - without human ants would keep storing food to prepare for winter - but superhuman; it must be some sort of universal thinking.

[@WildSatsang]

the eternal now 💜🙏

[@haunteddeandollsuk]

time is real , memories of your past example . it’s interesting though as you can picture certain stuff of the past, until a time machine is created we won’t be able to go back lol, only memory is in the brain but only parts of it are stored why is that ? for example if you are 50 years old you might be able to remember certain things from when you was 25 years old but not everything that happened in that year

[@coc862]

MIND cannot come to existance without time and space.. spirit is using mind to have all Types of EXPERIENCES, LIGHT AND DARKNESS,, GOODNESS N BADNESS, TOGETHER

[@Krod4321]

Time is not created by thought. Even if you had no language you would age. Time may be an illusion as all of reality may be, bit on this appearance Time exists with or without thoughts.

[@mko-ai]

Consciousness collapses in on itself and is constantly spinning in and out of a singularity that is the present. This geometry is like a horn torus, with the lower horn being the past, the upper horn being the future, and the outter shell being the universe/world/repository of held beliefs, that is generated by the lower horn, and flows back up to create the upper horn. Reality really is all "you', except we are conditioned to only identify with and experience the singularity where the horns meet, or the present.

[@outthinkersubliminalfacts]

Time isn't an illusion; it's a subjective construct attached to or derived from objective reality. This's my definition for time ( @ Copyright 2000 M. Gelle): the subjective use of celestial bodies' cycles (sun, moon, earth etc), devices like watches & units - in order to label or measure the chronological changes in nature, that due to entropy continually progress only forward - collectively for the past, present and the future.

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Let me also define what consciousness is since it's baffling and creates a lot of buzz, ( Copyright @2023 M. Gelle ): Consciousness is a universal input and output processes of quantum wave functions (fields), part awareness (thoughts) and part detected by our senses while being interpreted as perceptions in the brain.