What is the Reality of Time and Space?

And that is the beautiful contemplation: that even time and space are clearly emotional within my being. Within what time does being come and go, you see? And what is this time thing anyway? What is this time thing? Because I talk about this example very often where my children were going to school; I said bye to them at 7:30, and then I went back to sleep. I had a dream of a full lifetime. In that lifetime, it was so funny that I was getting late to a particular event by 30 minutes or something like that. I lived a full life, and it was not a life in some impossible world or something—a full life. Just before I woke up, which was at eight o'clock, I had lived a full life. God's sense of humor is that He made me be very clear about this because in that dream, that 30 minutes felt really wrong because I was getting late. So, in the dream, I lived a full lifetime in this world's 30 minutes. What is then the reality of time? And what is that time in which this time comes and goes?

It's a little bit like walking into a movie. You know, you've just been brought into the movie here. It could be a 20th-century movie, and then you're in the 20th century; your attention is in 20th-century time. Movie is a very good metaphor, but I feel like a comic book is very good, you see, because the frames are all there. Do you visit and make time move based on how your attention flows? And the time your attention can flow experiences wheels even that. So, it's a bit more like that, I would say. Yes, it's just like from now to now to now, you see? What has changed? This is the frames on the comic book, isn't it? It's on the screen. So, what makes that change apparent to you? It is your attention, your perception. What you perceive in the light of your being.

How is it that if something appears as an image, we call that the past and we say that is memory or something that has happened? Maybe that is all the future and we're going at a very rapid reaction to the future. It's all real absurd. Even physicists—what is the main thing about relativity? Moving at the speed of light into the next moment. The main thing, E=mc², was a smaller part of that same theory. But we are moving at the speed of light into the next moment in time. But if we are moving already in some way in the X, Y, or Z axis, then our rate of going into the next moment slows by that much. This is physics; we're not at the Yoga Vasistha yet! If you're moving at a particular speed, your rate at which you're going into the next moment in time slows down by that much. So, if you're moving at the speed of light, you don't move in time, you see?

So, what is it basically saying? That if it is a location that you get to, basically your speed of getting to it depends on how fast you're already moving, you see? That means that time is not really different from space; it's just measured differently in our human perception. So, if space then is already there, as long as we can presume that things are there, it's not a different conversation altogether. What is the traditional idea? The traditional idea is the next moment arrives, all right, you see? It's created now. That would be true if this was not true: that the time that I take to reach the next moment may vary based on my existing speed, you see? So, if I'm already moving at the speed of light—I'm on a spaceship, some super invention has happened—then I'm not moving forward in time, you see? Oh, it's more like a place that I get to. And if I'm already moving at the speed of light, then I'm not getting to that place, you see? Isn't it? Because if I was slower, then I would get to that particular location in time. So, it's more like a location in time that I get to based on my current speed.

We're just talking in terms of what even science is telling us, right? So, if that's a place that I get to, depending on my speed, I should be able to get to it earlier or later. And therefore, it's just like a spatial thing. Depending on the speed at which I'm climbing the stairs, I can get to it. If I'm climbing really fast, then I'll get to it really slowly; if I'm climbing it really slowly, I'll get to it really fast. Then suppose that we were talking at unimaginable speeds, much more than the speed of light and all of that, and we go back into the past—as the past can be achieved in that way—then what is this so-called arrow of time? It goes only in one direction. And the point is, how far back into the past can I go? Can I go 100 moments behind? If we're all going 100 times the speed of light or going really, really, really slow, then where would I end up? There's like moments before the next moment. What is that spectrum?