Why Does the Past Feel Different from the Future in Timelessness?

"If all time is happening now, why do past and future experiences have such different qualities? Rupert says: ‘Imagine a novel, and you’re a character in the novel . . . Imagine that all the words merge into one black dot. The entire content of the novel is contained in that black dot. But you can’t read the novel, because your perceiving faculties are not sufficiently fine to penetrate the darkness of this dot . . . For your mind to access the contents of that point, you need to expand it and spread it out . . . You find yourself roughly in the middle of the novel, when half of it is the past and the other half of it’s the future. That’s just the way your mind can organise the content, but the past and the future don’t really exist . . . Think of the future not as a means of acquiring happiness, but a means of expressing the happiness you feel now.’"

From event 07 May, 2025 Webinar – Wednesday, 7 May

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