gonna do a 'buttinski' here...

"""if time = NOW
what does NOW = ? surely not an illusion"""
hmm....interesting.
my first say...is no. the NOW can be illusion...depends on what consciousness we view life through....human or soul . if one is deep into human mind... more than likely illusion is what it see life thru. if one sees life or interprets life thru soul, then life is not an illusion.
Now=past present future....all bundled up together in the NOW. all happening at once...at this moment. the human mind....cannot possibly wrap its tentacles around this....nope, cannot happen. yet.....soul can.
soul like that of god...does not see time. it is not a part of its thinking process or its being.
human mind is finite...soul is infinite......
we are now 'going thru a rabbit hole' here.....something the human mind cannot comprehend.....
if we meditate and become close to god again.....we jump into the whole....hole....
when we are whole....we will begin to understand all this quantum leap, time, physics stuff.....
one will start to understand all those 'important questions' of life.....
life...is what we need .....it is put before us to remember god again or become part of the whole again....
when we become closer to god.....illusion fades....
illusion...is not 'bad'. it is merely a state of mind......like ignorance. yet...the way people use those words ( thru illusion), makes them seem like 'bad' things....when they are not.
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