Thanks Lenny. It reminds me of this
from David Hawkins that I was typing out for a
friend: " ...the illusion of
'rising and falling away' disappears as does the illusion of time. The ego
experiences the sequence of the focus of perception which then is ascribed to
time or change or being in the 'now'. There is no Reality such as
'now'.
"Perception is linear, local, and limited to a
fixed point of view or experiencing: therefore, from a single point of
observation, there seems to be a 'here' or a 'there', a 'this' or a 'that', a
'past' or a 'future', a 'now' or a 'then', and space with dimensions and time
elapses. It is important to note that 'elapse' connotes duration as well
as starting and stopping points, which are obviously arbitrary.
"If one could imagine what it must be like to
be omnipresent, the observer would then be simultaneously witnessing from
every minute position in the Totality. Every point of observation would
therefore be experiences as 'here'. It can be quickly seen that 'here'
would then quickly become 'everywhere' and the thought of 'now' would
disappear into infinity. Therefore, omniscience is the consciousness of
the entire totality equally in which the world would be no particular
place. Nothing would be changing, nothing would be happening, and there
would be no dimension, duration, beginning, or ending.
"To make the understanding more
profound realize that the 'everywhere present, simultaneous observer'
actually is all that is observing. There is neither subject nor object;
consequently, the presence is completely self-knowing because it is all that
exists as the Totality of Manifestation."
David Hawkins I Reality and
Subjectivity p.48
