Are You Not All Things

[anagogy]

The way I see time is this way. I see the now as an evolution of the past and the future as the present before we have evolved to that point. But the future will be essentially different once we get there. So the nowness is just the conglomeration of all the time periods. It's the nexus point. And each of us is the nexus point of all infinite reality. Just from different angles.

But the "now" you are referring to, is not the "now" that I am referring to.  (or maybe it is, and I'm just confused by all our meta-talk)  The "now" I refer to includes the "now" that *was* (from your perspective) the now that *is* and the now that *will be*.

Past, present, and future are all just different slices of the NOW I'm talking about.  In that "now", all possibilities are present and actualized.  We identify with small parts of that and POOF, you have got yourself a "soul", with a unique vantage point on life, the universe, and everything in it.  With a seeming "history", "present", and "future".

That is what I mean by it being changeless.  Infinity is already there.  It isn't growing, shrinking, or anything like that.  It's just there, unchanging, but it contains experiences of change within it.

I like to think of it as: the omniscience of God.  God knows all.  Not just what is, but what could be, and God knows those possibilities so perfectly exquisitely that there is absolutely no difference between that knowingness and the reality actually existing.  So everything exists.  Because God knows it all. Every little permutation.  God knows exactly what its like to *be you*, and you confuse that knowingness as your existence as an independent reality.

It's kinda a freaky thought isn't it?