Living Now: The Collapse of Time and the Timeless

Time is timelessness made manifest as being, neither existing nor not existing. Time and space are constructs that allow the perception of duration and form in the Dream—life’s flow. What we call time is simply the perception of change, or impermanence. When mind is at one with the flow of impermanence, there is, paradoxically, an experience of stillness, or a dropping away of time. When mind is in resistance to the moment, identified with a “me” who demands life appear in a certain way, time/being may be experienced as an enemy to defeat or something to cling to.

However, living from the deepest dimension of our Being, space, time and the timeless collapse into now. Now is neither a split second in time, which could always be divisible, nor an eternity imagined as endless duration in time. When we are totally present now, beyond ideas, we are living awake, no longer identified with past memories or future expectations. The eternal is time-less, yet appears as this very moment--fresh, mysterious, alive, and free of “me;” for when time and the timeless collapse into now, so do subject and object.

Dualistic ideas of Absolute and relative disappear into something unnamable yet vibrant, dynamic, and fully functioning as Whole. In awakening out of identification with a time-bound body/mind, time can be seen as vertical rather than horizontal in the sense that everything that has ever happened or could happen is present in the inexhaustible, eternal potential of Now.

Through dialogue and meditative inquiry, we will explore the freshness of Now as it is perceived rather than conceived. The invitation will be to awaken to the reality that being, time and timelessness are actually undivided, and to explore how living now pertains to living whole-heartedly and without separation. www.dorothyhunt.org.

Dancing on the Edge of Time

When the first group of Homo Sapiens Sapiens sat around a campfire in East Africa and began to practice their newly acquired speech, they told stories. Over time these stories broke into four different kinds: Personal Stories, which gave individuals their ontological identity; History, which was the tribe’s effort at fashioning a group identity; Cosmology, which were their efforts at explaining the universe in which they found themselves; and Theology, which was the record of their relationships with the gods. But these roads have often wandered in the wasteland: Personal Stories became the justification for greed and narcissism; History became propaganda; Cosmology disintegrated into materialistic scientism; and Theology became the breeding ground of fundamentalist sectarian religions. It’s time to recover the true purpose of story-telling: to see the individual as a nexus in the web of life; to view history as the teleological imprint of a future that beckons us; to reinstate awe as the primary tool of scientific enquiry; and to drill down deeply into the wells of religion until we find the mystical water-table that feeds all of them. So, in my presentation, I will cover five points: firstly, I will briefly trace the evolution of spirituality and suggest where it is headed; secondly, I will quickly look at the development of our self-image as a species; thirdly, I will examine the notion of “Trickle Down Thinking” in our economic policies, in our technologies and in our major religions; fourthly, I will look at some great bifurcation points in evolutionary history and predict what the next one may be; and, finally, I will look at what a suitable charter might be that will prepare us for cosmic citizenship; citizenship which is the reward for impregnating that All-Source-Filled Void with the intentionality of a unity consciousness.

Radical Love -Living the Future Now

Many of us think the future is the period of time still to come. Yet, when this future arrives, it is always now, never later. Many times, we succeed in a relationship, professional life goal, or a terrific plan for our company, yet our inner life may still feel as it did when we began. So what is the future? Much of the time, we plan and dream of something new that will happen later or we do our best to keep the good feeling that we have today and guard it tenaciously. Radical Love‚Äôs promise is to bring clear access to a new future here right now‚ no waiting. Our experiential presentation will invite you to live a new future based on the skills of sharing your direct experience of pure listening, pure speaking and free choice.