Nearly three years ago, the safe life I had built for myself had begun to unravel. You can say that certainly is what has happened.
I understand now why so many choose not to question the purpose of their life. It shatters your perception of what was and what is to be until you eventually realize neither of those exist, and there only exists what is.
Every passing moment is the only moment that ever was and that will ever be. It is one unbroken moment, in all directions at once.
This is not a comfortable place to be. It is liberating, but it is endless. It is peaceful, and it is solitary. It is to experience the infinite from a finite existence, and realize the infinite in our finite existence. It cannot be truly described in words, and only approximation and analogy will describe the experience of it.
It truly must be directly experienced to be understood.
Time travel is not an impossible science fiction fairytale. We do it, and have been taught to do it, constantly. When we think of the past or future, we are literally traveling in time. Consciousness has no boundary in time or space. It is the mind that gives shape to thoughts, and the mind is bound by time.
Time and gravity are one. Gravity is the propagation medium for light, and therefore, of time. Timelines exist in the space of gravity, and thoughts exist in the world of time. Thoughts can be placed at precise locations on timelines. Direction of time is inconsequential.
We direct our thoughts and program them to be fixated on a point in a different timeline, which then alters our present by directing our attention away from the now. It colors the present with the brush of the past or the future, invariably altering the outcome through the effect of gravity.
When we focus on a thought from a different timeline, the gravity of that point pulls us in our present existence and now towards it, altering our experience of the now.
If we choose to stay in the now, we begin to notice how nearly everyone around is not really there. They are elsewhere, their thoughts focused on points in different timelines. Even as they interact with one another, they are not there. They only interact within the scope of their timelines with each other. They seek only to create a replica of a past moment or a future moment they previously imagined experiencing. Their consciousness has been usurped by the illusion of time. If allowed, consciousness can be trapped in this time illusion forever.
“How can you say time is an illusion?” you may be thinking. “I was born, I age, I get old, then eventually, I die. How can you say this is an illusion? I see it happening.”
This world is bound by time. Our consciousness is not. Because you have the inherent ability to think of a past time or imagine a future which has not yet happened, you inherently have the quality of timelessness. It is your birthright. It is this world which is bound by time, not our consciousness. We only become bound by time when we choose to fixate our thoughts on it and believe that it is real.
All the anxieties, all the worries, all the fears, are all bound to time. We worry and fear about a future which we do not like, not realizing by fearing, we are drawing ourselves directly towards that which we do not desire. Or, we stress and strife about a past experience and worry about repeating it, unaware that focusing on avoiding repetition of the past draws ourselves directly towards that unwanted experience.
It is by choosing to stay only in the now that we eliminate anxiety, worry, and fear. The paradox is that one cannot choose to stay in the now via the mechanism of thought, because thought is bound to time.
Thought exists only in time and to serve the function of time. The function of time is useful in many ways, but it is not useful for remaining in the now, as merely thinking of time pulls your consciousness away from the now.
The only way to remain in the now is through observation. View the body, feelings, and thoughts as gauges of your condition, but only observe them. See them as barometers of your physical existence, but recognize that they are not you. Your mind, your feelings, your body, is not you. These things are simply the time-bound worldly costume your infinite consciousness is wearing. Why? In order to experience time.
Timelessness wants to experience time, and time wants to experience timelessness. This is the result of the duality inherent in the time-bound world in which we live. Light and dark. Timelessness and time. Yet light does not need dark to exist, and timelessness does not need time to exist.
Dark needs light in order to exist, and time needs timelessness to exist. In a way, you can think that dark consumes light, and time consumes timelessness. Conversely, light corrupts dark, and timelessness corrupts time. Both light and timelessness expose that their counterpart simply cannot exist in their presence. They are not opposites, but different versions of the same thing that exist in the same space, where only one can function at a time, because there is only one Infinite Now.
Everything around us exists in a world of time. Everything is designed to pull our thoughts towards a certain timeline. Everything happens to us because of our choice to participate with it. This is why no matter what happens, we must be responsible for ourselves, because we chose to be there by virtue of choosing to exist in that space at that time, instead of any other space at that time.
We only ever make one choice: to exist within time, or to exist within timelessness. All the different decisions we make daily are all reducible only to this one choice. We just make the same choice over and over again. Which choice we make determines the experience of our consciousness. Within time, the inherent experience is worry, anxiety, and fear. Within timelessness, the inherent experience is peace, joy, and love.
Will you allow your consciousness to become identified only with what exists within time, or will you allow your consciousness to express its true nature of timelessness?
Perhaps timelessness wanted to experience time in order to experience timelessness from time’s perspective, to show time a glimpse of All That Is. To free it. To free time from itself.
Will you choose a worried, fearful existence within time? Or, will you choose a peaceful, loving existence within timelessness? Will you choose to observe time as it really is: the propagation medium of thought? Or, will you choose to bind your infinite consciousness into a box of time and limit its experience?
We came all this way, from a space beyond time. Are time limits really all you want for your life’s experience?