Posted by Casey Jones
– When you think of time, what associates in your mind? Most of us associate time with what time we need to set our alarm for, when we need to be at work, when a certain show comes on television or when the kids need to be dropped off and picked up from school, etc. We recall memories in memory of time reference, a reference of measurement, like a calendar. Thinking about the future possibilities is an exercise in imagination and intuition, trying to make sense of our desires and worries. Naturally with these dynamics at play in our lives, we can easily get caught up in the notion that time is an actual thing. In all reality, the only moment existing is this moment right now. This moment will never be in the future and never return except as a memory.
The Human Brain and consciousness cannot digest the whole of this experience in one thought or awareness. That would be like someone trying to eat a whole apple without chewing it, it would be ridiculous to try and is beyond humanly possible. In order to get the whole apple down the mind and consciousness have to take bites and chew in order to get the complexity of the experience and be able to swallow it and digest. As a matter of cutting up, chewing and digesting foods instead of trying to eat them whole, we must do the same thing in understanding and navigating this experience.
We as different cultures in this experience, have come up with different ways of weighing and measuring things in order to communicate a certain outcome clearly amongst people. There is different forms of measuring that have been agreed upon depending on where you live at on the earth. That being said, it leads into the entire point I am making about how the idea of how time is a man made construct and the only actual reality is this moment. Time is like a measuring tape, it was created by man as a measuring tool so that people can meet at a certain time for something or record something in a structured way that they can use it as a reference when going back into what has happened.
As for a measuring tape, which in the same instance was created with us agreeing here in the west on the inch method as opposed to the centimeter method of measurement, which is used in the much of the world. In order for the clock or “time” to be of any substance and a tool we can use, we all have to agree on what it means to meet at 12:00pm somewhere. In this way, we create a harmony in our communication and our wishes by all agreeing on when 12:00pm is by using the same method of measurement. If half the population didn’t agree with the same clock, half the population would have to learn each others way of recording the moment to moment flow and use conversions to translate to the others way of measuring. An example would be in the case of centimeters to inch conversion. We have a measuring tape in order for me to call to a worker of mine and say, I need a 24 inch by 12 inch board cut. In this communication we can agree upon the measurement tool we are using and I will get the exact measured board cut I expected in inches. If the worker used centimeters when I was speaking in inches, the board would be the wrong size.
Time could seem different because of the perceived singularity, but the polarity is that even though through a measuring process time seems like a real thing, the polarity says there is no such thing as time. The Now is the only moment there ever could be. Time as we see it on a clock does not exist and it is a measurement tool that stops working if it does not have a battery to keep pace or is poorly made. We are a static existence that is always moving, changing and becoming something else. Whether thoughts, molecules, energy, it all changes continuously. Nothing is solid and stationary. Only beliefs can create the illusion that anything is solid and stationary. Lack of perception could be an issue when getting this point. The illusion of time can easily be excepted because we go through cycles of light and dark and traditions of counting the day according to our birth entry with a calendar. As well, we have a continuously moving mind which seeks to view things as it moves. It may be hard to chew on and swallow but objectively what I have said is 100% true. The future, the past is all in the imagination. Time does not exist in the framework of NOW, the Zero point, where we are in this experience, now.
What use is this understanding you ask? In my point of view, this takes a lot of stress off my mind as I am now grounded to the reality that life is Moment to Moment, I can put my focus here. Yes, I do use a clock to operate in a society which utilizes this measuring/record tool to be able to communicate specific ordinance of events. With the understanding of what time really is, if we eliminated the clock and lived moment to moment, the majority of agrarian society would not exist in its current hard pressed high stressed form. Instead of a high stress fast paced environment, life would flow on a more natural rhythm obviously producing a higher vibrational experience.
May you experience timelessness within you, may you be happy, Peaceful and free.