The ever-changing NOW...

[East Sun]

In reality, there is only NOW. All our lives at any moment there was the present now.

Forget the clock for "now." Think of day and night, dark and light, constantly revolving as the world turns. It's so reliable over eons of time.
And for every person at all times there was only now.

And when we die it will be now. When we are gone people will live in their now.

I expect that in the existence after we physically die everything will be totally different.

People who have NDE (near--death experiences) have a slightly different tale to tell. It may be different for everyone.

The constantly changing (in one sense)

and never changing (in another sense). Now.

Some people may never think about now at all,
and others think about it all the time.

For me in recent years I think about it all the time. (maybe because I'm retired now and actually have time to think.)

[East Sun]

Is it not important to you that there is only NOW. Always, all the time.

When I really think about it, it could not be any other way, unless we in the
future, with the help of some advanced space alien, could go back a few hours
or days and relive enough time to change something you were not happy about.

Maybe you could live forever by going back to your youth and doing something
different every day for ever or as long as you wanted.

Well, eventually you would get so bored you might want to die and go on to another
dimention after your death. Again I realize that maybe things are not so bad after all.

[thepainterdoug]

EAST SUN/ I think on this often. i was part of an Art Gallery in NYC years ago called, "The time is always now".
I think some scientists did an experiment with people living underground, no light except when they controlled it , no clocks, tv, radio or any outside influence to gauge time.
sleep when tired, wake and work when not.
In my mind, the only way to mark time would be your own heartbeat, pulse, and such.
I think no one slept to a pattern that we seem to live by. But so many variables would also be different

before you can say NOW , its in the past, before you can anticipate whats coming, its here. yet here is already gone. lol

i find the most pleasurable of things is the on the way, the its almost here, the sweet anticipation of whats to come, The game coming on this afternoon. The presents under the tree, . and so on

[rgray222]

I think that is one of the reasons most of us love dogs. They love unconditionally and they certainly do not live in the past or the future. They live in the now and the now is always wonderful for them as long as they have a loving human. Good grief, after writing this I am going to have to search out Lily, she is sleeping in the house somewhere and let her know that I love her.

[Mike Gorman]

Cute little dawg you have there Rgray, this reminds me of the Aldous Huxley novel 'Island' where 'here and now, here and now' is a refrain given at all times, for us humans time is an ever burning fuse, but I don't actually think time exists in the way we describe it - while it is the 4th dimension of Einsteinian 'space-time' and forever moves at a margin, each moment has a beginning-middle-end and is repeated, I think we exist in a continuous present: it is only organic life that places this larger beginning-middle-end on it. We all experience time very differently in dreams.

[East Sun]

I may not be around (except in a reincarnated state) when we do finally communicate with beings from distant galaxies. We would have a lot of
questions for them about their experiences of time as they can travel (I believe) almost immediately to places light years away.

If they go away for many years, when they come back, how much time has elapsed here? Have the people here aged?

In Irish mythology there is a story of Osien(sp) being taken by a female Alien? Or something? across the ocean and comming back much later
to find that a long time had passed. He did not recognise anyone. but when he put a foot to the ground he became very old.

Maybe Mythologies are from a very distant past not having a historical connection to the present and were real at that time.

Space travelers might know.

[East Sun]

Some people say, "It's just Myth, does not mean anything." But the myth was not made up, being in different cultures aound the world.
There has to be something to them. May be too long ago or too obscure to really make connections to the meanings that may be hidden
in myth stories.

When I was very young I read about myth by older writers. People like Paudric(sp) Colum and later books by Joseph Camplell.

Myth is mystical but by intuition I seem to have learned in my subconscious mind that there was sumething real about the
stories, like they were written as if they had a long-ago reality. It's all so vague to me now.

There may have been forms of life way back here on Earth that we know nothing about. And we came/were brought here and
evolved over a long period of time.

We may evolve in the future to become space travelers roaming galaxies and we may, through reincarnations be part of that
experience. Through reincarnations nothing is impossible. After many lives we might be able to return to this time and see
what we were like and see our selves as we are now.

That would be fun!