The Here And Now

The now moment is not a genuine aspect of time. It is pure illusion. Time is always a bidirectional movement—forever coming and going—constantly moving toward the future while receding into the past. What we call "now" is a perversion of reflective experience that involves an almost instantaneous and indiscernible psychological projection of the immediate past onto the locally moving future. This means that we don't consciously experience what we call a present moment because all of our temporal experiences are automatically filtered through the past, which is static by virtue of having already occurred. What results from transferring the immediate past to the local future is the illusion of the present and static now. What, then, is movement? Why do we see everything around us in the process of change? Movement and change are the now moment trying to catch up to itself, as it were. Unfortunately, it's always too late to the party, no matter how hard it tries.

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