“we are literally timeless beings”
The separation between past, present and future
has only the meaning of an illusion, albeit a tenacious one.
Albert Einstein
“Time … past and future, is what the false mind-made self, the ego, lives on, and time is in your mind. It isn’t something that has an objective existence ‘out there.’ It is a mind-structure needed for sensory perception, indispensable for practical purposes, but the greatest hindrance to knowing yourself. Time is the horizontal dimension of life, the surface layer of reality. Then there is the vertical dimension of depth, accessible to you only through the portal of the present moment.”[i]
“To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment. It represents the most profound transformation of consciousness that you can imagine.”[ii]
Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity revealed that as we go faster time slows down. If we could reach the speed of light, time would stop. Peter Russell, author of The Global Brain says: “The same reasoning also shows that space contracts as you go faster and becomes zero at the speed of light. So, from the viewpoint of a light beam, the universe is spaceless and timeless.”[iii]
Insight # 23 comes to us from Sir Peter Russell (b. 1946), a British scientist who was able to synthesize the scientific and the mystical which helps us shift from a self-destructive worldview (Paradigm-B) to a life-enhancing worldview (Paradigm-A). He is from the Non-dualism (Oneness) school.
“It’s simply that we are literally timeless beings. We have the illusion of existing in space and time, but that’s only true for our bodies. Our consciousness, our true self, our inner nature, does not exist in space and time.”[iv]
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Additional Reading:
- Time, Science & Philosophy: The Failure of Reason in the Human Community, Chapter 3
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[i] Tolle, Eckhart. A New Earth. New York: Dutton, 2005, pp. 206-207.
[ii] Tolle, Eckhart. The Power of Now. Novato, California: New World Library, 1999, p. 59.
[iii] Juline, Kathy. “The White Hole in Time.” Science of Mind. February 1993, p. 42.
[iv] Ibid., p. 41.
