Above time

Question from the Internet:

“Do you believe that time can only move in one direction, from the past to the future? Why or why not?”

As long as we perceive time, reality through our narrow, egocentric, subjective viewpoint, consciousness, the coordinates of time, space, and motion remain linear, with their vector pointing towards the next expected, hoped-for pleasure and away from actual or feared pain. This is how we sense time, according to our constant, self-centered “pleasure/pain” calculations.

This does not mean we do not revisit the past. If our present is painful, intolerable and the future does not attract us, we try to immerse into our past searching for positive, pleasant memories that can sustain us against the darkness of the present and the future. This is why more and more people desperately search in their memory bank in our generation, try to relive, reanimate the past — or escape to mind-numbing substances, activities so they would not need to face the intolerable present and the frightening future.

This is especially so when we are in quarantine from the pandemic and the usual mind-numbing activities, the 24/7 rat race is not readily available.

On the other hand, we can rise above the subjective, egocentric sense of time, if we escape our own, introverted, self-serving bubbles through caring for, serving others. We can practice, perfect such a life-form to such an extent that we stop sensing time or physical space whatsoever. We can practically, mutually pull each other out of our limited and misguided personal bubbles to perceive reality as it is!

Instead, we start sensing a purposeful, cause and effect process we are part of, developing towards a final, most optimal state from a well-defined, necessary original state.

The greater resolution we can see that process, the more we understand the whole picture, the more ability we gain to encompass the whole cause and effect chain, and instead of experiencing it step by step we can encompass it in its totality, visiting, sampling, tasting, experiencing different states, many of them at the same time, comparing them to each other like particles in a quantum system without any of the egocentric, subjective limitations of time, space and motion.

Our Human purpose in this life is to acquire such a completely different, qualitatively much higher consciousness, perception.