My reflections lead me to the hypothesis that time doesn’t objectively exist, but is merely a subjective phenomenon of how our consciousness reflects the observed world. We operate with concepts such as:
– the past (that which is in memory),
– the present (what we directly see),
– the future – this is the flow of events manifested in what we call the present. The past is what we no longer see, the future is what we have yet to see. But this vector is only determined by the direction we assign to cause-and-effect relationships – either forward or backward. Yet even this connection and sequence is defined by our perception, so even when observing the world through instruments, we can’t change anything. Perhaps we live in an objective world, but consciousness is a prisoner of perception. The way we see things determines how we exercise our will and act. And this has nothing to do with what surrounds us. The beginnings and ends of events are as arbitrary as what we observe on the surface of objects. If we’re able to transcend the boundaries of perception, we can see a more complex topology of reality, and therefore act in ways that seem unthinkable. But people won’t associate the consequences with us, because the cause-and-effect relationships exist on different planes. The problem, however, is that changing perception and developing the ability to act are two different things. Therefore, even when we see something, we are incapable of influencing or interpreting it, and thus we don’t believe in what is revealed to us. And revelations, for the most part, appear to us as soap bubbles of illusion. Not because they are such, but because we lack the strength to accept what is being revealed to us.