It's now o'clock and as I awake to coffee and this video I sit for a spell afterwards hashing out a deeper seeing of this idea...forgive the stream of consciousness as I move into it. So, looks like though we are in time, we are not OF time. If I see the present moment as the sense-making bridge between a historical past and project a likewise historical future I miss not only the point, but cannot hone in on what the present moment even is. Yet, there is an obvious sense-knowing that what is real only happens now. Thought (which is the past) chews on the idea but can't muster enough medulla oblongata power to swallow. Okay, so not thoughts venue. 'Meanwhile' the living present exclaims 'Behold, I make all things new". The is-ness beckons conscious contact with living reality (which I suspect is us) in order to be seen. Consciousness moves (without going anywhere) through the frames of film to unfold the story which exists whole all at once. I listen to a song from beginning to end to appreciate its wholeness and though the act seems to take place in time it does not. The scent of paradox hangs heavy with this one.
Great. Thanks, I appreciate your reflecting on this--I think you said it well, at least from my perspective. The 'moment' of insight for me was the dog idea 'I walk the dog' which takes a timeable amount of space to say. The saying is a symbol for an idea--with or without a dog or even an intention of walking one. The idea has no dimensions in time or space at all. So there is the symbol--then I get the leash, dog, route etc... now this is a 'model' of that symbol. It takes 'time' to build the model, yet again, the model is an abstraction--'walking the dog' can have many routes or variations, even meeting 'other models' along the way, creating all these confluences---none of them really 'existing' in time. They use time to unfold, but all those models (walks, interactions, weather systems) can exist/do exist as forms beyond the need for time. So I am here--like a model of a 'me' that does not 'require' time. As said in the video, I am fully formed and the 'time-bound' life I express is only a 'model' of me--a possible expression of me, given all the other intersections with other models of weather, hormones, diet, people etc...In any case, it has given me an anchor to live-in a timeless sense in the NOW moment which is critical for forgiveness, miracles, etc..in the Course. Thanks for your attention!
