Consciousness without Time

Written by Mathew Naismith

We have a habit in relating everything to time because anything that isn’t of time couldn’t exist & even if it did how would we comprehend such things as it would be way past our conscious understanding.  Actually because of this fixation/habit about time we are unable to comprehend anything not influenced by time, having a belief that nothing can exist without time is stopping us becoming aware of anything not of time which includes consciousness itself as opposed to human consciousness. I should state here that I believe human consciousness is dominated by time however on the other hand consciousness itself isn’t. This brings us to the ego, the ego is of time but again the ego isn’t of consciousness itself & this is the consciousness I’m going to talk about in this post, consciousness itself or God if you prefer.  

First let’s look at the ego, the ego can’t exist without time as there is no past or future & the ego needs time to create a functional archetype to build upon but for this to happen time is needed so the ego is unable to exist without there being time to create such archetype.  Picture there being no time, there is no past to dwell on & no future to aspire to, there would be no point to collect wealth of any kind nor would there be any point in dwelling on the misgivings of the past & this is why  functional egoist archetype can’t be created without time. What happens then to the human self without this egoist archetype therefore time, does the human self then cease to exist?  No not really because we already have a functional archetype mainly because if there is no time how & when would a functional egoist archetype have been created because to be created we need time to give a starting point of origin? This functional egoist archetype like with everything has always existed but how could a functional egoist archetype exist without time? Time has also always existed as well because if consciousness itself isn’t of time how did it create anything from a starting point without time?

This seems perplexing, on one hand we have time that is needed to create everything as nothing can be created without time & on the other hand we have consciousness itself which isn’t of time & can’t create anything without time.  So is this saying consciousness itself (God) didn’t create anything, time did? No because time is but a tool that consciousness itself used to create, time is a part of consciousness as of everything is, it’s one source not two even though any consciousness influenced by time is of a different consciousness to consciousness itself.  It seems different because it’s only a part of what consciousness is itself like one person being different to another, no matter what the difference seems to be we are still of one consciousness.  

This is actually saying time is only a part of what consciousness itself is however because of our fixation to time we are unable to comprehend anything not of time, we are in fact experiencing very little of what consciousness is.  So how do we experience more of consciousness itself?  Stop thinking of time itself & that everything that exists has to be of time but how can anything exist without time? Time has always existed but under the influence of consciousness itself which isn’t influenced itself by time therefore everything has always existed.  What most of us want to do is experience more of consciousness itself & become aware of consciousness itself not being of time, there is no past or future only the now.

The freedom we get when we truly believe there I no time in pure consciousness is quite exhilarating, freedom from all our vices of time however at the same time realising time has always existed it’s just pure consciousness itself isn’t influenced by time.  There is another thing not to do is make yourself believe everything of the ego & time are an illusion, this is judgement for starters & should be avoided.  Just realise time exists but is only a part of what consciousness is itself. Sit within your quietness realising we don’t have to be influenced by time if we don’t want to, there is no time in pure consciousness & eventually you will have some quite vivid insights & will experience other experiences brought on by truly believing pure consciences isn’t dictated/influenced to by time .