Eternal Now
Last month of 2023.
So far, I have travelled in time, on time, and through time.
I long for more moments of being out of time.
In time, life is happening “to” me. I am acquiescing to tie my identity to the relentless cyclical process of seconds, minutes, hours, days, years, and more. Horology is the god: I am inside the rigidity of the clock. Consciousness is egocentric: everything that happens around me is productive, constantly ticking, and irreversible. To travel inside time is to embrace the physiological instinct of following a sequential numeral system that cannot be defied; otherwise, success grounded in survival will become ever more elusive.
On time, life is happening “by” me. I do not fully immerse myself in the iterative process of measuring my life in numbers. I still move forward in a linear past, present, and future; however, I get things done alongside graceful movement of seasons. The clock is just on my head, not in it. I am with a community where there is no strangling pressure to improve in the nick of time. Consciousness is ethnocentric: I work with the system to receive what I have intentionally planned for a group I chose to identify myself with. To travel on time is to recognize the anthropomorphic instinct of collaborating with fellows who cannot be unloved. The journey is strengthened and blessed by camaraderie.
Through time, life is happening “for” me. I use the concept of the clock to understand the difference between a second and a moment. Temporal continuity enlightens temporal opportunity. Instead of viewing the past as a series of events that has already passed, it is redefined to a collection of memories that can be revisited in the present to entertain future possibilities. Consciousness is postmodern. To travel through time is to realize the integral reality of being a part of everyone, everything, everywhere, and all the time. Life is timely: it is always in accordance with the right, appropriate, and opportune moment for the highest good of everyone involved. Whatever happens – good or bad – it is a gift or a lesson.
Nonetheless, while travelling through time, I soon realized that my view of what has passed is still directly correlated to my perception of what is to come. History is inevitably projected to the future based on patterns.
If I think history is repeating itself, my idea of the future is that I will be stuck in a time loop.
If I think history is in a spiral movement, my idea of the future will be cyclical. Déjà vu can hunt me because it “seems” like I have already experienced it.
If I think history is painful, my idea of the future will be bleak.
If I think history is destiny, then my idea of the future will be predetermined.
To travel from the past to the present to the future means to operate from trends. It cannot be helped: what has been will be - in some way, shape, or form.
When travelling in, on, and through linear time, it is hard to move on from the past. There is a subconscious survival instinct to avoid the unfortunate past to manifest again in the future. If in the past, I lost my wallet in a crowded street while travelling, I cannot help but think of a future where it can happen again in a place filled with tourists. While this human instinct is helpful for survival, the capacity to imagine positively might be permanently affected.
Out of time, life is happening “as” me brought by the past, present, and future that are all existing at once simultaneously. It does not operate in a linear manner. Eternity is the living reality: there is no beginning and end. There is a spirit of interconnectedness where “now” is everlasting. Consciousness is quantum: I am not just a part of a temporal system: I “am” it. My identity is no one, nothing, nowhere, and no time. To travel out of time means that I am not in a familiar past that makes a future very predictable. I dance in the unknown where all possibilities can exist.
With no cognitive biases, I can explore absurd, impossible, and ridiculous visionings that can provide direction to my eternal now. I am not letting the familiar past to automatically create a defeatist mentality: history shall not be under the guise of tomorrow.
There is no future. There are futures that exist out of time.
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