The only constant is change. Plato said time is the moving image of eternity. Pretty heady stuff and one of those sayings that is both so profound and kind of puzzling. Eternity is eternal. It’s kind of strange that has to be pointed out and that by corollary to this, time is a byproduct of change as in motion. Because we perceive things on the move and in constant flux we can then pin different events down onto a timeline and then insist on the unassailability of said timeline. The problem is you can’t stop time or back it up. Our trajectory is always forward. Heck we don’t even live in the present. Once you realize you are in the present it is already the past. It’s pretty absurd right? What have you learned about things that are absurd and seem to contradict their own validity? Well I know I’ve learned that it in all likelihood means the concept is false. Time is helpful for sure but at its root it doesn’t really exist. What exists is eternity. Time is a construct within no time that is measured by motion. It’s the old story about the cat on the other side of the fence and we can only see the head so that’s all that exists right? Then the cat slinks out from behind the fence revealing the body and then the tail. It always existed as the complete cat but we didn’t see it until it was revealed to us through perception thus helping us realize the idea that our senses are helping to fool us, give us a sense of time, and keep this game afoot. In other words everything exists in the here and now and as the energy crests and wanes it reveals what is. And what is? The totality of all and you are in it.
Picture omnipotence where you could see and perceive it all. 360 degree vision and some kind of Dolby sound that captures completely what is going on. Nothing would be able to trick your senses or perception and therefore they'd be no measurement of time. Instead everything would be happening now and unfolding as an event.
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