Is time infinite (and what of Eternity)?

[Bring4th_Austin]

Eternity appears to be outside of time. The everpresent NOW.

This is what I feel too. One of my favorite quotes from Mr. Joseph Campbell:

"Eternity isn't some later time. Eternity isn't even a long time. Eternity has nothing to do with time. Eternity is that dimension of here and now that all thinking in temporal terms cuts off out. This is it! And if you don't get it here, you won't get it anywhere. And the experience of eternity right here and now is the function of life."

Does our awareness last for eternity, and will we always be spiritually progressing?

I think that the aspect of consciousness that we access when we have moments of realization of eternity is an awareness that will "last for eternity." Any awareness that is attached to anything within the context of time would be superfluous to this ever-present awareness from which all things arise and fall, from which all awareness arises and falls. It seems to be the harvest of many of the Eastern traditions that this eternal awareness persists through infinity. Will we always be spiritually progressing? Ra said that their teachers have impressed upon them that "all consciousness periodically coalesces and again begins," so I'd wager a bet that the Creator will continue to experience itself, and in that will be what we, here in this present 3rd density, might call spiritually progressing.