Ken Wilber and Time

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Ken Wilber, who is not on the list but gets quoted anyway, said:

>The great and rare mystics of the past (from Buddha

>to Christ, from al-Hallaj to Lady Tsogal, from Hui-neng to Hildegard) were,

>in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours.

> In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the

>past. They are figures of the future. In their spirituality, they did not

>tap into yesterday, they tapped into tomorrow. In their profound awareness,

>we do not see the setting sun, but the new dawn. They absolutely did not

>inherit the past, they inherited the future.

 

 

 

What Wilber says is profound! ,As I looked further into the words

past/present/future instead of saying ''now'', I understood when he said,

"They absolutely did not inherit the past, they inherited the future." And

'' they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the

future."

 

In the present moment where time does not exist, one could not inherit the

past as we understand the past to be -- the memories, knowledge, and

experience of body and time, because they never occurred. Time does not

exist, so our experiences and such could not happen in this present moment.

The saints and mystics, as well as all of us, are not figures of the past, as

we know ourselves to be. The only thing the past would bring to the present

moment, is remembrance of who we are -- the beginning, the end, the first,

the last, the alpha, the omega. This past, the past we so long forgot,

became our present inheritance, received in the Now.

 

In this present moment, the future as we know it or don't know it, does not

exist at all either.... nor has it ever occurred. It cannot, as when in the

present, all time ceases to exist. The beginning and the end is now.

("The end is here! The end is here!" the doomsdayer shouts is lost in the

Now -- seeing no future exists -- without also seeing, "The beginning is

here! The beginning is here!")

 

In this moment of realization, the future, which never existed prior because

it cannot/does not exist in the Now, was inherited into the present moment,

creating an eternal future.

 

Eternally yours,

xxxtg