Time and space are two of the most difficult concepts to understand. The reason I find them so elusive is because I am considering them from a perspective built on assumptions I cannot validate — the demiselfist perspective.
In the demiselfist perspective I accept that I am a person among other equivalent beings called people, all more or less having the same experience as me. I assume also that time and space are external to and binding upon me; that they exist independent of me, and I am subject to them.
Let me remember the first principle: the most potent truth is that which I can directly and instantly validate myself. Truth can only be measured in terms of its potency, above all else; the degree to which I experience it. This means I do not need any other person, group, or being to explain it to me in the same way the author does not require anyone else to tell him how his characters feel or what they believe. Why is my presence the de facto standard of my omniscience? Because my presence is the most potent thing I know, so it would make sense that I am central to the most potent of all truths.
In demiself, I believe that I am one of many characters in a story written by someone else. In omniself, I understand that I myself am the author of this story, and I created time, space, and all the creatures within it. Does the author ask his characters what happens in the story? No one else can tell me what time and space are because I manifested them.
In demiself, I cannot actually directly validate any of these suppositions about other people, time, and space. All I can validate is that I am always present in this moment. My moment and my presence, from my direct experience, are one and the same. People are inconsistent features of my moment; sometimes they are here, and sometimes they are not. But regardless of whether they are here or not, I always am. Time and space are slightly different in that they abstract concepts.
So what is missing? Why do I struggle to understand time and space? It is simple. Time and space are both constructs of my secondself and thirdself. Constructs of my awakening moment. I can imagine time in secondself, and I can experience space in my thirdself. They are integral to my awakening experience, without question. There is no sense in denying that. But the missing element is my desire. I remember that it is my desire that causes me to move within secondself and thirdself. It is my desire which compels me to physically move from one physical space to another. In thirdself, space is a product of my desire. In secondself, it is my desire for comfort, pleasure, or satiation which similarly lies at the root of all my secondself movement.
So from my actual perspective, I only manifest space when I desire something within it. And similarly, I only manifest time when I desire something within it. What might I desire in either? In space I desire to leave my bed when I awaken. I desire to take my dog for a walk and travel to and fro. In time I desire certain possessions or experiences I do not presently possess, in an imagined future, and I flow toward those by making changes in my moment.
Time and space are artifacts of my desire, and nothing more. If I end my desire, I will end space and time. As long as I desire features and experiences in space and time, I will experience them. It is that simple.
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