Life and death: Time perspective

"I am already dead, as much as I am not yet born. Time doesn't exist here."

Does this quote resonate with you? Does it even make sense?

As one progresses along the spiritual path, this is something that stands out as an important realisation, or epiphany, to encounter. It isn't something that makes much sense from a physical perspective but makes complete sense when experienced.

Maybe you're reading it and nodding along, maybe you're reading it and scratching your head. It's worth keeping a look out for this sort of experience as you go along your spiritual journey.

So, what does it mean?

When you begin to really understand the universe, your place in it and how it fundamentally works you can ascertain that time is indeed a man made construct that seeks to encapsulate movement. We drift from here to there, from now to the next now, from one moment to another. It feels linear, it feels reliable and it feels real.

However, the truth of the matter is that as much as we feel this sense of moving from one thing to the next it is simply an illusion. By experiencing the spiritual world and higher dimensions we can come to realise this. It might be simple and easy to just disavow time but this isn't really the point, time is a helpful illusion. Moreover it seems beneficial to accept that time is an illusion but continue to live with it, much like many deeper truths.

So, once you learn experientially that time is an illusion and you are an eternal being, and couple it with the notion of a quantum and inseparable universe, suddenly the quote may begin to make sense.

You are both alive on a human level and 'dead' on a human level all at the same time. You are both that which existed before you were born as a human and that which exists after you die as a human.

In essence, this quote and this article are designed to highlight the importance of understanding the fundamental nature of the universe from a perspective that can encompass much more than our typical, day-to-day, experience and mindset.