Who Needs Time?
Throughout history, mankind has depended on marking the course of time. Earliest man looked up at the sun to get an idea of how far along the day was. (Refer to www.clockswallclocks.com/page/1130588 for the history of time telling devices.) Archaeologists have uncovered pyramids and elaborate structures from the long-gone past that the charted the phases of the moon, the four seasons, etc. But what the heck is time?
It is a man-made construct. At the sub-atomic level of creation, everything is happening at once. Unobserved electrons have no time relationship at all. One must "observe" such a particle in order to impose a quality such as time limitations or measurable qualities. So, if our fundamental underpinning is timeless, why is mankind so preoccupied with measuring increments of time?
We all are aware of how time appears to move slowly, and at other times, incredibly fast. This is because of what we are doing at the time. "A watched pot never boils" because we are waiting and waiting while we watch it. So time appears to drag because we are focused on it. Under other circumstances, such as competing in some timed contest, the last second appears to fly. This is the relative nature of time.
Man cannot avoid thinking about the past or the future. Some manage to stay in the present, but spend all the day watching time. Our predisposition toward thinking of the past (or the future) creates a relativistic condition. Man relates one moment to the prior or next moment, creating the perception that "time" has passed. One perceives that they are looking from the present to sometime in the past. In between, it is believed time has elapsed. Time is essentially created by the observer that links their mind to the past event, even though thinking of it has only taken a few seconds or minutes today. For example, someone's father passed away 10 years ago. When the son or daughter thinks back on it, they float through an impression of 10 years passing, but today, the thought only took a few seconds.
With regard to thinking of the future, the same condition is created. One who is thinking of the future (instead of today), is creating a relative reference of time toward something they wish would happen, or may be scheduled to happen, in the coming hours, weeks, months, or years. Our need to "manage" what is happening is why time was created.
Underneath it all, particles are blissfully being created and uncreated and recreated, all in the moment. Great masters throughout time can put themselves into deep meditative states in which time does not exist... they are in tune with the timeless essence of creation.
And, going from looking at the sun, to sundials, to elaborate early mechanized clocks, to today's atomic clocks (www.clockswallclocks.com/page/1187043) which maintain accuracy to within one second, time is still what it was... something created in man's mind. No matter how closely we monitor time, it really doesn't exist.
About the Author
The author has practiced meditation for almost 40 years and has degrees in geology and naturology. She has written both fiction and non-fiction extensively.
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