Pretending to hope frees you from time

Our experiences are a construct from nothing 

The brain, in its claim to create our experiences from the information it receives from our sensory system, is the central player in making us believe in a world defined by time and space outside us. However, insight from science reveals that the world is essentially empty space, perceived as something definable by time and space. 

This paradox challenges the traditional belief that the brain processes information from our sensory system about a dimensional world outside us progressing in linear time. Instead, it is a fantasy in the brain, akin to a dream where you seem to be moving in a world defined by time and space, although not going anywhere, as everything is happening within the brain.

Even so, we continue as if we are in a world outside us defined by time and space so that we can challenge the brain’s allegation on its premise. We start by imagining that the sun has consciousness or special equipment that allows it to observe the Earth. Since it takes eight minutes for the light to travel from the Earth to the sun, at this very moment, it sees what we did eight minutes ago. Next, we imagine a star in the universe so far from the Earth that the light takes so long to travel from the Earth to the star that it watches our birth now.

Then, we imagine points further away in the universe from where they now experience our mother and grandmother’s birth. When we go further, the universe’s birth happens now. Ergo, from the universe’s perspective, everything co-occurs, regardless of time and space.

Pretending to hope for something to come sets you free

Hoping for something specific in the future upholds the belief in a world defined by time and space. In contrast, if you pretend to hope for something specific in the future, you do not confirm the belief in time and space because what you pretend is not genuine. However, be aware that in a world of linear time, everything is a process. So, it may seem to take time to undo the belief in it. No worries, you are not in a hurry. Time is an illusion.

Oneness turns down linear time when it only goes forward

Oneness explores the possibility of time with a big bang, projecting time forward linearly. However, there is no going back to the same in linear time. For example, if ice cubes melt in water, you cannot extract and make them into the same cubes. And the light radiating from a bulb or the sun only goes forward. It never returns.

In oneness, it is only possible to move forward by moving backwards simultaneously. It has to be one movement to remain one perpetual present. Therefore, since that is not the case in linear time, oneness discards time when it moves forward without going backwards. 

Some are drawn to the allure of linear time, believing they can progress and evolve. Hence, they continue the cancelled adventure by crafting follow-up stories of a world moving forward in time. However, when one realises that all events co-occur, the future loses its ominous edge. Then, the act of  ‘moving forward’ becomes a harmless pretence, as one is never where one pretends to be.

Oneness is formless, so it dismisses more than one

That said, oneness does not consist of differing parts. So, the above about investigating or fantasising about linear time is a metaphor. Still, in the context of this metaphor, a world of linear time is instantly dismissed as unreal the moment it is visualised. Yet, the afterimages of this moment are used to construct an interactive movie in cyberspace, extending the cancelled adventure of linear time.

Pretending to be in these afterimages is like watching a magic show. Thus, progressing in time feels entertaining until you look closer and realise that moving forward is an endless quest leading nowhere. So, you pretend to hope for tomorrow to undo the illusion of time, as what you pretend is unreal. Consequently, you are not in linear time but one perpetual present. However, as mentioned, that is a process that occurs when you appear in a world with time moving forward.

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