Separation

If passing time is an illusion, what else might be? I am beginning to believe that several key components of our identity are constructed primarily by illusion. Perhaps the most essential is our sense of separateness. When our consciousness collapses a choice from the level of infinite potentiality that causes an event to actualize, it creates the brain first as the subject and everything else as object, hence the subject/object split that characterizes the fundamental nature of our awareness.
This is the way it is. As such, we perceive our world as a subject, observing and participating with our environment that is objective or separate from us. But this separateness is an illusion, in that what we are perceiving as a subject/object split is essentially a unity that has been separated by our consciousness, sliced off from the unity of everythingness in the vastness of all potential and made actual by our choice to collapse it from all other potentialities, according to the probability equation formed by predictable mechanical realities, primarily conditioning.

The ego that identifies with this being that is separate from everything else, especially other people, is based upon this conditioning.

There is a more comprehensive ego, however, wiht which we can identify that allows us to be aware or ourselves as connected with all other beings and even other objects. LSD was useful making this level of awareness available to some of us, though the ingestion of such a powerful drug requires situational specifications that enhance the safety of the ingestee.

The awareness of the ego of which I speak has been refereed to a the quantum self, and when one identifies with this more comprehensive element of self identity, one can become aware of oneself as connectd, not separate from ones total environment, both other living beings, and objects...that it, with everything.

Understanding this, it gives great credence to the golden rule, do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Naturally that would be correct and beneficial behavior if we are all essentially one being.
George

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In my new novel, Brave New Texas, one of the key ideas is that the leading characters all have to modify their fundamental concepts of time in order to resolve their conflicts. I have studied "time" for most of my life, much of my book learning on the subject has come from the teachings of Gurjieff and Ouspenski and, most notably, Maurice Nicol. Nicol's book, Living Time, is the most clear, innovative, and understandable book on a comprehensive and relevant understanding of time that I have come in contact with. Of course, the only way to really "get it" is to experiment with one's own mind and practice thinking about time in alternative, creative ways.
One of Einstein's main suggestions to creative thinking and problem solving was to create mind experiments. By this method, problems are thought of, and solutions are hypothesized entirely within the realm of thought. Later, after reliable information has been gathered, sometimes actual physical experiments can be developed that follow regular scientific method.

Here is a practice exercise for today. Try to imagine that every moment is eternal. Try to imagine yourself living in a multidimensional realm in which time is not flowing in a linear direction, but rather that time is itself a multidimensional world in which you pass through all points simultaneously, but are only immediately, consciously aware of the present "moment".

The implications of each moment existing, already and always, gives a very powerful dose of significance to one's life all the 'time'. Truly understanding these implications and progressing int he practice of understanding time in this way makes crime, greed, corruption, cruelty and many other negative human behaviors obsolete.

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