So I was watching some reality TV with @Sonyaxx last night, one of my favourite past times as I get to observe and comment on the various aspects of the human condition playing out
Anyway there was a brilliant shot of the full moon showing the many craters that pretty much cover it’s whole surface. This got me contemplating on the nature of time and no longer interested in the ‘human’ drama playing out haha.
I just googled this and each square kilometre patch of the moon only gets hit by an object the size of a ping pong ball or larger roughly once per every thousand years or so. So looking at the many craters it dawned on me just what an enormous length of time the moon has been here to collect them all.
And yet has any time actually passed as in then and now? Because the moon has only ever been here now, where this moment is happening. When those asteroids hit millions of years ago it was also this moment, it happened now as time does not move in actuality. I realised what Richard referred to when he said that this moment has no duration as in now and then, it takes no interval at all to arrive.
So this “enormous length of time” equally took no interval to happen, it has always been this moment even those millions of years ago. So I realise there is 3 ways in which time is experienced, there is psychological time (past/present/future) as experienced by ‘me’, there is the domesticated human time which is the relative measure of objects moving through space, and then there is actual time which has no duration.
There is something very freeing in the experience of actual time, in experiencing the fact that this moment has no duration, everything that happens, happens now. Any attempt at inserting an interval is to remove oneself from this moment, to segregate A an B and then compare them according to an external measure, then to call the relative movement of A vs B actual time is a mistake - for ‘me’ to live inside this creation is to be locked out of actual time.
It seems the freeing aspect of actual time is the fact that this body is locked securely in it, as it is always this moment it is impossible to be anywhere but here now. As it is always this moment there is no distance at all which needs to be bridged between now and then. That distance exists only in ‘my’ reality and it is a painful distance.
As ‘I’ am locked out of time ‘I’ have to resort to various coping mechanisms in order to continue bridging that gap, when no gap exists there is no longer a need for any of these.