Time is an Illusion
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Welcome to Awareness for Everyone, an exploration of Conscious Reality Creation, and living the best lives we can for ourselves. I am MJ Blehart, writer, blogger, editor, and 21st century philosopher. Episode 47 – Time is an Illusion
I Can Prove That Time is an Illusion
How can I make this claim? Short answer – Daylight Savings Time. There is, of course, far more to it than that.
It feels very, very real. You have clocks and calendars in your head. Appointments are set at a specific time. Birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and the like are instances where time is set and fixed.
Would you believe that it truly is an illusion? Time, as we note it, mark, and follow it, is totally artificial?
Does the whole world practice Daylight Savings Time (DST)? No.
This concept is based on made-up notions. For example, who decided what that which we call one second of time is? A mathematician in the 17th century. We know people lived long, long before the 1640s. They lived without this “knowledge.”
Natural markers
There are two clear, very specific, real, natural mechanisms that mark the passage of time in any way. The sun and the moon.
The sun marks the days. It rises and sets, even when you cannot see it behind clouds or fog. You know that it is light and that tells you that it is day.
The position of the sun can tell you where in the day you are. As it moves across the sky, east to west, you know from its position if you are early in the day, at its midpoint, or late in the day.
When the sun sets you get the moon. As the moon phases, that tells you a broader cycle of time that the sunlit days pass between. We have come to call them months, but more than that they can also indicate the passage of time between seasons.
Other natural phenomena are indicative of the time of the change of seasons. Heat and sunlight of summer; colorful leaves of fall; cold and snows of winter; the rain and bloom of spring.
Awareness and the illusion of time
When you practice mindfulness, time as you know it tends to become even more clearly illusionary. Why? Because mindfulness puts you in the here-and-now.
Mindfulness and the awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and actions is a thing of the present. It is a practice wholly in the now.
Apart from the naturally occurring markers of time that are the sun, moon, and seasons, the now is the only REAL time that isn’t an illusion.
When you start seeing time as we know it for the illusion that it is, you will see that you can make more of who you are right now – or whenever you choose to do so.
Closing:
Thank you for listening to Awareness for Everyone, a discussion of Conscious Reality Creation and living the best lives we can for ourselves. I want to thank Fe Mahoney, the artist who created my amazing cover art. If you would like to commission work from her, contact her at veinsofink2017@gmail.com. If you have questions or comments you can contact me via Facebook at blehartmj, on Twitter at mjblehart, or e mail me at author@mjblehart.com. Please take a moment to check out my blog, The Ramblings of the Titanium Don, at titaniumdon.com, as well as my articles on Medium.com as MJ Blehart. Thank you, and I hope you are discovering how awareness for everyone really is something that you can practice to improve your life.
