Out of time experience
Posted Under: philosophy, physics, psychology, spirituality
You have heard of OBE (out of body experience) now discover Out of time experience (OTE).
Unless we are having a mystical experience we are never one hundred percent present (living in the present moment). We are always living in the past or the future. Depending on our mood we may be nostalgic and reminiscing good times past and dreaming of the good coming times in the future.
Or if we feel bad we could be remembering all the bad times, failures, rejections, betrayals and so on and dreading the same type of events in the future.
The fact is that the only time which actually exists is the present eternal moment. All other times are illusions. The past is never the way we remember it. Remember we were never there. We were not present then. We were having and OTE (out of time experience) even then either living in the past or the future.
So our memories are in themselves distortions (we never remember one hundred percent correctly – we distort, delete and generalize) of distortions. We see the past and future through the distorted lens of today (but not this moment as we are in an OTE).
So it is OTEs within OTEs within OTEs. No wonder we live in the Plato’s cave where the illusory shadows and echoes pass for reality.
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As I was writing the above sentence I remembered that the word illusion comes from the Latin root of Ludere which means to play. This is the same idea as maya in Sanskrit which also means to play. It is those shadows on the wall.
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