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[saidevo]

I would like to subscribe to the following theory on time, since
it is scientific, logical and spiritual -- all rolled into one.

1. Time is an illusion: not a reality, not a dimension.
2. Time is an illusion, born out of changes in space.
3. Time as an illusion, is cyclical, not linear.
4. Time as an illusion, is infinite, like space.
5. Measurement of time is a conditional break of infinite time.

I have the following reasons for subscibing to this theory:

1. Time is an illusion: not a reality, not a dimension.
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Firstly, time is an illusion, a mostly visual perception.

Close your eyes, switch off all lights, and sit down in a dark room.
Try to relax and still your mind. Just watch the thoughts flow by,
do not participate in them. Stay on in this position as long as
you can.--Now, what impression do you get of time or time passing?

You are sleeping. Deep sleep, no dreams. Do you feel time?
You are sleeping, there are dreams. You sense passing of time
in the dream events, but is that perception just not visual?

How does a blind man perceive time and its passing? He knows about
time, because he is conditioned into it, but how would he sense it?
What reference does he have as to events and the gaps between them?
His world may be mostly aural, but I dare say he still thinks
pictorially, because human thinking is mostly pictorial in nature,
and this man is blind only physically.

How do the animals, birds and other creatures perceive time?
The patterns of their behaviour sure do indicate sensing time,
but how do they do it, if it is not visual?

Secondly, time is not a dimension.

The idea of time as the fourth dimension is a favourite pick
of science fiction, and possibly started with H.G. Wells' novel
"The Time Machine."

Space has three dimensions according to Science.
Spiritually, however, space has n-dimensions.

Time has a dimension when measured: linear in local measurement,
cyclic in universal. But time as a dimension is an illusion because
of the illusions of the past, present and the future. As some of
the replies in this thread indicate, there is no question of any
time travel, only space travel.

2. Time is an illusion, born out of changes in space.
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Time, as we commonly know it, is the duration or interval between
two events. Where do these events happen? In space, inner or outer.

An event or happening, basically changes something in space.
A change occurs at molecular, atomic, sub-atomic or energy levels
with every passing event. We cannot think of time as separate from
space. The term lightyear affirms this fact.

Whereas space is real, time is not, as it is only a form of
measurement between two successive manifestations of space.

3. Time as an illusion, is cyclical, not linear.
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The very measurement of time is cyclical. The passage of time from
the future through the present to the past appears linear, but time
as such, whether measured in solar years, or some other scale is
cyclical. Nature shows that time is cyclical: sunset follows
sunrise, night follows the day, and the seasons repeat every year.

Further, the concept that space manifests as forms that are
created and dissolved back to space makes time to be cyclical.

4. Time as an illusion, is infinite, like space.
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Did not the time start when the universe was born? Will not time
end when the universe is ultimately dissolved? Where will it end
when the universe is dissolved? It will end into the inifite space
that ever remains as the primordial, unmanifested space.

5. Measurement of time is a conditional break of infinite time.
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The measurement of solar time in year, month and days and further
down is just a conditional break (Khanda kala in Hinduism) of the
infinite time (Kala in Hinduism). Because it is cyclic in nature,
we have the illusion of a continuous flow of time.

Regards,
saidevo