– updated October, 2026
Our brain insists we’re somebody in a world governed by time and space. Yet when we challenge this, the universe is revealed as a perpetual present without a fixed location. To undo our mistaken belief in time and space, we pretend to be someone in a specific place, hoping for something in the future. Because pretending is not real, this practice undoes our belief in time and space.
From Duality Hack #2.3 in Alexius’ Duality Hacks.
Our experiences are a construct from nothing
The brain claims to process our experiences based on information it receives through our senses. This portrays us as beings in a world governed by time and space. Yet scientific insight reveals that our world is composed entirely of empty space.
Thus, all our experiences – whether awake or dreaming – are a grand illusion, nothing but the brain’s construction of something from nothing. It’s comparable to a dream in which we seem to be someone navigating an external world, though everything happens in our brain while we remain in bed.
Science has recently observed a point in the universe so distant that, from this vantage point, the universeappears to be beginning now. This suggests that whatwe perceive as the past can be seen as the present.
Even so, Alexius continues writing as if we’re somebody within an external world defined by time and space. He does this not because he believes it, but to question the brain’s premise and test its claims from within that framework.
There’s no past or future, only a perpetual present. Yet we wish for a future that holds something better. So we ask the brain to produce experiences in linear time, hoping to secure something better later. But as our expectations go unmet, all we get is disappointment.
Everything happens simultaneously
First, imagine that the Sun has consciousness, or that powerful space cameras are observing the Earth. Because light takes eight minutes to travel between the Earth and the Sun, what the Sun sees at this very moment is what we saw eight minutes ago.
Next, imagine a star so distant that its light takes so long to reach Earth that the star witnesses our birth right now. Then, envision a point so distant that, from there, your mother’s death is witnessed right now. Imagine another point even farther away. Here, her birth is witnessed at this very moment.
Finally, imagine a point much farther out. From there, the birth of the Earth is seen now. This suggests that, from the universe’s perspective, all events happen at once, beyond time and space
As Einstein stated, all times coexist – past, present, and future. Likewise, all points in space coexist (The Nature of Time – An Interdisciplinary Approach from Physics, Philosophy, Religion to Art). Therefore, because there is nothing but one perpetual present, linear time is an illusion – and so are reincarnation and future improvement. [Photo: Alexius]
Everything happens simultaneously
First, imagine that the Sun has consciousness, or that powerful space cameras are observing the Earth. Because light takes eight minutes to travel between Earth and the Sun, what the Sun sees at this very moment is what we saw eight minutes ago.
Next, imagine a star so distant that its light takes so long to reach Earth that witnesses our birth right now. Then, envision a point so distant that, from there, your mother’s death is witnessed right now. Imagine another point even farther away. Here, her birth is witnessed at this very moment.
Finally, imagine a point much farther out. From there, the birth of the Earth is seen now. This suggests that, from the universe’s perspective, all events happen at once, beyond time and space.
When you hope for a better future, you reinforce the idea that time divides reality into separate moments. Yet this separation exists only in thought. Thankfully, this thought construction can be easily undone: pretend to hope, and you act as if you wish for something to improve, without genuinely believing it. In other words, because pretending is not real, the idea of linear time fades away. [Photo: Alexius]
What we pretend is not genuine
Television illustrates how everything happens at once in one place. Each TV channel broadcasts different content simultaneously: one might air science fiction, another history, and another a documentary. However, the brain wants us to seem limited by time and space, so it compels us to watch one channel at a time, even though they all play concurrently – just as everything in the universe happens simultaneously.
Unfortunately, because we hope for a better future, it’s easy for the brain to sustain the illusion of a world confined by time and space as real. Fortunately, if we merely pretend to hope for something to happen in the future, we do not confirm the belief in time and space, because our pretence is not genuine.
There’s no before or after, and thus no reincarnation. This notion is intended to make linear time appear infinite.
However, remember that everything is a process when we appear to be in a world of linear time. Thus, it may seem to take time to undo the belief in it. But there is no hurry. Time is an illusion.
Science says that after the Big Bang, all elements quickly organised into a super-pattern. If this pattern had been perfected, it would have stagnated. But because there were a few gaps, it expanded into what we perceive as the universe. Yet when something expands, it must also contract. And as everything co-occurs, the universe is not ’there’. Thus, seeing it is make-believe. [Photo: Alexius]
APPENDAGE: Oneness turns down time as it only goes forward
Oneness explores the possibility of time through a big bang, projecting it forward in a linear way. But in linear time, there is no return to the same state. For instance, if ice cubes melt in water, there is no way to recover them, since forming the water into the exact ice cubes is impossible. Likewise, the light emitted by a bulb or the sun only goes forward. It never returns.
Going forward and backwards occur simultaneously in Oneness, sustaining the reality of Oneness: one perpetual present. Hence, because Oneness is formless and thus endless, anything that does not sustain Oneness does not exist. Consequently, Oneness discards time because it moves forward without simultaneously moving backwards.
Yet some feel drawn to linear time because it seems to enable progress. Thus, they carry on the cancelled adventure by composing follow-up stories about a world moving forward in time. However, the future loses its ominous edge when they realise that, no matter how much time moves forward, it moves the same amount backwards at the same time. So ‘moving forward’ in time becomes something they pretend to do instead. It’s a harmless pretence, a pleasant illusion, because one is never what one pretends to be.
Oneness, being one perpetual present, dismisses the idea of a future. Hence, since the collapse of linear time is happening now, a world defined by time and space has never existed. [Photo: Alexius]
That said, Oneness doesn’t consist of differing parts, so the above about investigating or fantasising about linear time is a metaphor. Still, within this metaphor, the moment a world of linear time is visualised, Oneness instantly dismisses it as unreal. However, the afterimages of this moment are used to construct stories in an interactive movie in cyberspace, extending the cancelled adventure of linear time.
In a world defined by time and space, we cling to the after-images of our visualisation of linear time. We try to make sense of the disintegrated pieces of honeycombed memories, filling the gaps with concepts of love, god, socialism, or other lofty theories, so the fragments seem meaningful and coherent.
Pretending to be in these after-images is just like watching a magic show. Over time, it feels entertaining until you look more closely and realise that moving forward is an endless quest that leads nowhere. Then you undo the illusion of time by pretending to hope for tomorrow, because you pretend is unreal. Consequently, you’re not in linear time but in a perpetual present. However, as mentioned, when you appear in a universe where time moves forward, you experience it as a process.
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