Time isn’t real. It’s an illusion crafted by the living, a fleeting measurement that spirits transcend as they dance beyond the boundaries of seconds, centuries, and everything in between. To immortals, time is something that simply does not exist because it does not affect their reality. They can simply drift and exist as far and as long as they want. Time is something that only becomes real from the perspective of mortal beings because they have a fleeting experience and need to measure this experience. There is more to this conversation than just measuring how long one will live, there is also an understanding of how the universe works and how the mind perceives the universe around it. This can even be confirmed in many ways when we think of the living versus the dead and their interaction with time itself.

To understand how time is not real you have to understand that there are beings in this universe that are immortal and have no pre-determined end. There is something to be highlighted here because for all the belief and faith people may have in higher beings and the agreement in naming them higher beings, they still seem to attribute very mortal features to them and fail to grasp how different these beings truly are. This is due to most people only being able to perceive what their minds can grasp and since their grasp on the scale of the universe is miniscule, their understanding of these beings also seems to be miniscule. Think of higher beings that are not incarnated living beings, they are bodies of energy. These bodies of energy can just exist, forever, uninterrupted. There is no aging, there is no distance too far, there is no time too long. They can just go and be there. Some would say this is something that is exclusive to God and for the most part, we would agree. The difference is the understanding that God is not just a single energy, it is also the sum of all energy. To clarify, the source of energy is an energy itself but it is also all energy combined. With that understanding, now ask yourself. Have you ever seen electricity and thought “Nah this is old electricity, I want newer electricity?” Nobody gives the attribute of age to electricity because it is an energy and it does not experience time. One can attribute pulses, speeds of travel etc. to electricity and those are measured by someone that is incarnate and therefore mortal because mortals experience and measure these things.

Mortals measure everything, it is part of our mortality to always question and seek to understand our mortality as well as everything around us. To the extent that we have even become arrogant in our belief that everything revolves around us. We can observe these patterns on a smaller scale with smaller subgroups of mortals that have commonalities and believing that because they have these commonalities everyone else may have them. They simply cannot see outside of themselves. For example, a group of truckers can be robbed and from their experience can believe that every other car on the road is being driven by thieves. From their perspective, every other car is thieves. It cannot be helped, they cannot be reasoned with because this is simply their experience and they are unable to see beyond it. The same is true with mortals measuring time. We cannot see beyond the measurement of time because this is our experience and in our arrogance, we believe this to be the experience of everything else. To that end, we even believe time to be a universal thing that everything is held to. Spirits, for example, are not mortals. They are bodies of energy, they do not experience time, they do not age, they do not have a measurement for their own mortality because they are not mortals. So then what exactly is time? It is a measurement between moments that gives us an understanding of how much of our mortality has been lost to arrive from one moment to another.

So then if spirits do not experience time, why do they speak about time when they speak to us? Because they understand that in our current state as mortals, we cannot see beyond our own mortality and we cannot understand what it means to not have time. Their measurements of time are simply guesses as to what we experience as measurements of time. Their measurements are based on the passing of events, not the measurement of the loss of mortality. Think of everything you know as a flip book, they know all the pages and can guess what you experience as time between this page and that page. This is often why spirits give us times or timeframes and they may not be precisely accurate and we lose faith in their word. The spirits are absolutely correct, they are not wrong. Their understanding of our experience of time is what is wrong, or more correctly we should say our incessant need to measure mortality is what is wrong in the grander scheme of the universe. Not only is this measurement something that is flawed but our understanding of it is flawed and because it is, our perception of the universe around us is too. For example, we believe that when we move our arm, time has passed and our has moved. This is not what spirits see happening at all.

Our mind interprets the universe around us constantly. It does a lot of things that makes us believe certain things are this or that way for the sake of our understanding the universe around us, even when the things it is doing are obviously wrong. Like how our brain tells us that bigger objects are closer and smaller objects are further. So in films we can place shorter actors closer to the camera and taller actors further back, giving us this perception that they are the same height because our brains tell us this is true. One of the things our mortal brains tell us is that we are a solid being that only exists here and now. That is to say that there is no other versions of ourselves but the one we perceive. Yet spirits will tell you that there are many versions of us in many different realities and our mind shifts perspective between them constantly. What we believe to be our arm moving and time passing, is our brain shifting between the different versions of us that all exist in unison. The time that passed is how long we believed it to take our arm to move but it was actually how long we flipped the channel of different versions of ourselves and each version had that arm a little bit moved from the other. Once again, like a flip book.

We can confirm that spirits do not experience time by their inability to give precise time measurements but still being able to give precise descriptions of what will happen. We can confirm that the living only experience time as a measurement because we cannot do anything with it other than measure the passing of it but still being unable to describe in precise detail what will come to pass. We can confirm spirits see our lives as flip books by their ability to know the what but not the when. So they see the living as a series of memories of a life that has come and gone. We commonly call them the dead but they commonly call us the dead. Who is really the ones that are not living? The ones that cannot see beyond their mortality and only experience the universe from a limited perspective according to their measurements or the ones who are infinite and have no need to measure the infinite?

As an added bonus, we can even discuss the subject of timeline jumping because that is in essence what our minds are doing. Think of them as the camera that views and records the live event but that camera shifts from one movie set to another to create a picture. This is a jump in the timeline. These jumps happen involuntarily and are mostly just part of how our minds operate but they can be forced too. One can be experiencing a timeline that brings them grief and can force themselves into another timeline that releases them from this grief. This is where spiritual rituals come in to play. The tools of the universe and the immortals. The breaking away from the miniscule perception of our own mortality into a perception of the universe itself and the empowerment that comes with this. Rituals can force a mind to jump to an alternate view of a person for favorable conditions. Think of this as the explanation behind the placebo effect. The mind can be shifted, even when it is knowing that it is being shifted.