Time is a measuring system, something that is used to sequence events.
I thought to start with the basics and explain what we call time and space-time.
I am fascinated with time! The main reason is because I have an extremely good memory so a myriad of events have been stored in my memory and when I remember a certain event it is situated in a timeless moment. Time serves the human mind.
This idea of timescape occurred to me some time ago when I realised that time only exists when we give our attention to a certain moment, so in other words easily shapeable.
I guess everybody experiences often how some moments seem very long and other days similar moments shorter.
I agree with astrophysicist Adam Frank who said: "The experience of time throughout history is an invention, it is neither god-given nor physics-given. It is a social construct that is built by a particular culture for political, economic or religious reasons."
The best quotes and definitions I found are on this article:
"The distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent. Time is not all what it seems. It does not flow in one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past." "To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wold flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour..."
Albert Einstein
"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wold flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour..."
William Blake
"The future torments us, the past holds us back, this is why the present escapes us"
Gustave Flaubert
The space-time continuum can be perceived as being a canvas upon which the life of the universe is drawn. It is, therefore, without limits and without end, universal and eternal. Lets get philosophical for a moment.
From our psychophysical bodies, we are beings evolving in this multidimensional universe, where space and time represent only one facet.
Our state of consciousness usually situates itself within these limitations. We identify ourselves as an entity traveling on this canvas unrelentingly without possibility of return. But, we can also access a higher state of awakening where the focal point of our conscience is no longer located in this continuum, but outside or even better, everywhere and always at the same time. We can then become aware of the fact that neither space nor time really exist.
A conscious being can, from the place that s/he is, know from where s/he came as well as where s/he is going. The place where s/he is, is only the result of the traversed space and the space yet to be traversed. It contains within itself all space. But, this non-dimensional point between two spaces is nothing other than a vacuum, an illusion; paradox and reality. Space has no real existence.
In the same way, if the future exists at the same time as the past, then a connected conscience can know both at the same time. If the present guarantees the future and is a consequence of the past, then the present contains within itself all eternity. But the present moment is only a temporal non-dimensional point; paradox and reality. Time has no real existence.
To leave this four-dimensional canvas, to find freedom, it is enough for us to perceive universality in a non-dimensional point and eternity in one timeless moment. The point and the moment, indeed, do not exist separately but contain within them the totality of the universe which, we know it, is made of an infinity of points and moments; paradox and reality.
How can we do this?
By contracting space and by slowing time, not by physical maneuvers, but quite simply by a movement of our conscience. Reducing space to a point and time to an instant in such a way that both are perceived not from the inside of this continuum, as we usually do, but from the outside, or better still everywhere and always at the same time.
There are in existence several modalities for reducing space-time which are simple and easily accessed which, for most people, appear inefficient.
- Music
- Meditation
- Meditation
- Audiovisual entertainment
- Love
- Perception of silence and emptiness
"There, where you are is where the entrance is found."
Kabir
"Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day."
Polish proverb
"Time and space are modes by which we think and not the conditions in which we live."
Albert Einstein
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