How You Create Time and Space in Your Own Mind
In this talk on how your mind creates time and space Rupert Spira discusses how memory creates time and how space is a consequence of universal consciousness localising itself in the form of each of our finite minds.
He explains that space-time is not inherent in the fabric of reality - it is a mental construct. We think that time creates our memories but it's the other way around - memory creates time. Our individual minds forget things in time and his sense that there are numerous forgotten events creates the sense of time.
Now imagine that universal consciousness goes through a similar process of forgetting - not with events but with objects. So, instead of universal consciousness experiencing all objects simultaneously, it localizes its view and only experiences a small group of objects. Where is it going to house all the other objects that it is not aware of? In space.
In other words, time and space is as a result of the localizing of infinite consciousness in the form of each of our minds.
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Timestamps:
0:00 How Your Mind Creates Time And Space
0:27 What Is Time?
1:04 Memory Creates Time
1:26 What Is Space?
2:26 How Your Mind Creates Space
3:25 What Is Spacetime?
3:43 Space-Time Is Not Fundamental
4:40 The Nature Of Reality
5:33 Reality Has No Dimensions
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"if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" If all you have is a mind, everything looks like spacetime.
@Oneness4one
Жыл бұрын
Fortunately, we are far more than our mind comprehends
Wonderful 🤍
Rupert is explaining with his peculiar way of reason the most difficult concept in Advaita Vedanta which is the concept of “Malla” or how the non dimensional absolute expresses itself in the form of dimensional universe.
Wow, Rupert always expresses the inexpressible so well! We are very lucky to have him sharing this knowledge ❤! 🙏 thank you
It's like Bernardo Kastrup's "dashboard" analogy: the material world, space-time, is how we conceptualize the universe. So we can work with it and in it.
Rupert explains reality and consciousness in ways that are much easier to understand than from other spiritual leaders.
Here is a poem I wrote for you Rupert. I love you Dear Rupert, You came to us At a time In which we were spiritually licking our lips. Just reaching and searching for the taste of the Feast we had worked eons to prepare. Setting down our forks, knives, spoons, cups, saucers, and Tongs, You helped us see, our Feast we had already consumed. Now, we can enjoy dessert together, as one family. Longing gone, groping dead,; we thank you for taking away our menu and giving us the "I" Instead.
@JennyRSTeam
Жыл бұрын
Beautiful, thank you. With love, Rupert's team
Thank you, Rupert, for sharing your abundant insights into the nature of "reality." I whole-heartedly agree (through direct experience) with what you're sharing. The "world," in fact, appears quite different now...according to inner change and re-cognition of the Truth of my Being. Blessings. 🙏🏻
wow wow wow.....Rupert has expanded his consciousness to universal awareness and hand crafted / painted this reality for us.. some of this can only be experienced and not expressed..indeed human language is the biggest limitation to spiritual growth
@JennyRSTeam
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for your comment. With love, Rupert's team
How amazing this IS!! ❤ This explanation blows my mind, leaving the naked being exposed for at least a moment. Nevertheless, the seed has been planted. Thank you Rupert 🙏
Genius explanation
Profound !
i just love it how words come to the mind of the form called "Rupert" and bring a taste of itself with it. It is as if the origin of the words underlay the words, without being disturbed or changed by any filter met upon by a finite mind. They point directly to what cannot be expressed through words on a intellecutally understood level, so that realisation can be.
What a beautiful explanation of spacetime !
Rupert is so amazing
Good god. I'm blown away by this.
Such clarity
Brilliant!
That is the best explanation I've heard about time/space. I've heard physicists and other people attempt to define it in a way that's easy to understand, but couldn't.
@JennyRSTeam
Жыл бұрын
Yes, indeed. With love, Rupert's team
Muchísimas gracias!!!❤🙏😊
Beautifully explained
Excellent…
Very well spoken. The audience was extremely quiet ❤😊
So people with dementia who are unable to retain their memories, time has virtually vanished. Yet, the consciousness/awareness is still enclosed and perhaps remains below thought. Like when someone takes a drug or drinks alcohol they sink below thought? Is that what is going on with dementia patients?
@NhatMaisq1wg
9 ай бұрын
Have been wondering the same thing. Also like, the “self” is literally just memory. A collection of memories. When people with dementia lose their memory they also forget who they are.
Did you see the orb or light next to Rupert at 4:04 ❤😮 you can see it drops down on the left by his head then flickers down and gets brighter as it drops by his left arm and fades out.
@JennyRSTeam
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for advising. It could be many things. indeed. With love, Rupert's team
Beautiful metaphor, I am very curious about how you acquired this knowledge, teacher. Hope we all have the ability to do that.🙏
@84sahi
Жыл бұрын
Some oc these teachings are given by infinite consiousness itself as rupert the characters surrenders its ego and become that Infinite. And then from there infinite takes over rupers body and mind to share these . Some these knowledge cannot be given by human if you think about it. I feel rupert is a reincarnation of a great soul who has the divine power
@renko9067
Жыл бұрын
The Direct Path meditation.
@angelfire1987
Жыл бұрын
@@84sahi Rupert himself would probably disagree with you. He has nothing that you don't have already. Same goes for all the other teachers.
@stephenl9463
Жыл бұрын
@@angelfire1987you are right. That is if you accept the premise that the illusory separate self does not exist, As it would follow then that the entity known as Rupert does not exist. In other words, there would be no separate Rupert to have such knowledge. The operative belief then is the so-called ‘illusory separate self’. Neo-Advaita Vedantists want you to take this on faith, and ask you to appeal to your experience. However, if there is no separate self then there is no experience for a separate self to have. Welcome to circular logic. 😊
@fayezh.689
Жыл бұрын
@@stephenl9463 it's not a coincidence that the zen enso is a circle :)
He’s done it again.
Am going to have to listen to this a third time!... I have nearly understood! 😂
You could see space as being everywhere so it is not moving, it stops at no surface, everything is open to this space and permeated with it. Time is movement a wave through the stillness of space. One space one movement. "'Everything'", is appearing and disapperaing in space via the movement of time.
Infinity is Reality.
Eternal NowHere is beyond SpaceTime forever. Swami SriDattaDev SatChitAnanda
@JennyRSTeam
Жыл бұрын
Yes. With love, Rupert's team
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The ringing noise between pauses made me think of aliens in space 😂
My belief here is that we create reality in the moment through beliefs, perception, and choices. Your metaphor about the orange colored glasses fits nicely here for me. But I have a hard time with this when I try to include memory in the mix. I can understand that I create the event I remember in this moment but what is it in me that holds the notion of the memory? For example, I can remember being in a grocery store with my father and being so small that I couldn't peer over the counter. I can remember the perspective of my child's view of this. But what is it that tells me this happened at all? And why is it that each time I remember this, it's the same? One drawback I see is attempting to figure out the mind by using the mind; figuring out thought by thinking. HAHA! Yet there's always that impulse, that drive to know and understand.
Rupert my friend i have a problem, why things change, ? they pass from a state a to state b, if there is no time? for instantance with are getting older. i am confused , but a trully believe that time ans space are a construction of finite mind. Thanks so much !
😂 love the fancy glass
Audiences stonned !😮
@Knaeben
Жыл бұрын
You don't have to be stoned.
so should one throw away all fotos and souvenirs?
👏👏👏🎯❤️🙏
True
Rupert says at 4:01 that “spacetime is not inherent in the fabric of reality. It is a mental construction.” ‘Spacetime’ is a concept of theoretical physics. ‘What is reality? (Or inherent in the fabric of reality) is a philosophical question addressed in metaphysics. The demarcation line between the two disciplines is clear. Was the line crossed in Rupert’s statements and is it justifiable?
Our ultimate container is Pure Existence!
Literally I was trying to describe this to someone before I even saw this video this is what resonated and it felt like to me.
So that's why my head is so big
@glennjohnson6629
Жыл бұрын
😂🏆
Time is an idea happening now based on a memory happening now.
What will happen if there is no time? If time were stopped, zero seconds would be passing and thus the speed of light would be zero. In order for us to live without time, we would have to be traveling infinitely fast. Which would be possible if we have a body essentially made of light.
@JennyRSTeam
Жыл бұрын
We appreciate your participation. With love, Rupert's team
@Amanda__R
Жыл бұрын
Glad we could help.
I'm just back from the cinema, seen The Flash. I was looking for Dr Strange and Doctor Who. I know they are out there somewhere.
@angelfire1987
Жыл бұрын
How was Flash? Watching it next Saturday
@TatsumakiSenpuuKyaku
Жыл бұрын
@@angelfire1987Trippy....Really enjoyed it.😊
At the moment i feel my realisation was an egoic state as my thoughts got my attention back. I try to convince myself that iam not reflecting what iam doing when iam in a state of no thought because iam feeling good and there is no reason to reflect as iam having my experiences and hopefully learn from my "mistakes". Now iam a little confused if my state was real or just my ego telling myself you are awake... Anyone can relate?
@Auraspure
Жыл бұрын
@Peter T ouh good one, thx ❤️
I was just wearing my orange tinted glasses for my laser for the first time in a very long time and stumbled on this video. Its strange how things work.
My guy is tripping me tf out 😂
I love Rupert but he should ask Donald Hoffman. I have orange tinted sun glasses. When I look toward the mountains when I have them on, the snow is white. Why? Because my brain knows snow is white. It makes the adjustment. The mind creates our present experience mostly from memory, not from the input of our senses.
Hola ¡ al canvi constant de tot cap el lloc d'origen en podem dir temps
What is meant by Space-time?
@IAn0nI
Жыл бұрын
@yhjo521 the people who created the concept clearly meant more than "a story".
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If there was no time, how could we live in the present moment given that a moment is a very brief period of time. If there was no space how coud we move ?
@Ganeden999
Жыл бұрын
Did I ask you about dreams ? Nope
@Ganeden999
Жыл бұрын
I was rude and angry hum. Anyway if you consider dreams your reality it's OK with me, it's just not mine.
@lancejones4636
Жыл бұрын
@@Ganeden999 Renko doesn't consider his/her dreams a reality. S/he's explaining that from the perspective of the dreamed character it's all real... when in fact it's all in the mind of the dreamer. And this metaphor could easily apply to your own "reality", from which you'll wake up some day.
@WhiteWolf29
Жыл бұрын
@@Ganeden999 I think he means that in dreams there is no time and space although it feels like there are. And that being pure awareness is similar to being in a dream state.
@WhiteWolf29
Жыл бұрын
@@lancejones4636 Some day, I suppose when we're dead or after something like the Rapture maybe😲
Check out the Donald Hoffman stuff on this subject. Its hard to describe anything as 'beyond' or 'outside of' because that language expects dimensions. In the bible John 14:2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? - this is like trying to explain Quantim physics to lay people. It's symbolic. The rooms are formless dimensionless realms.
If the clock changes from 10:01 to 10:02 whether I am paying attention to it or not, then how is time a figment of our imagination?
@drany6707
Жыл бұрын
Whenever you look at the clock it is the present moment, or now. At no point will you look at the clock and find yourself in the past or in the future.
@bethanienaylor
Жыл бұрын
@@drany6707 so at 12:02, when I think back to when it was 12:01, that thinking is just a figment of my imagination... correct?
@drany6707
Жыл бұрын
@@bethanienaylor Yes its just a memory, and even the looking at that memory is happening now. You can only be looking at a memory in the present moment.
@bethanienaylor
Жыл бұрын
@@drany6707 I would say that time is actually change, physical objects both great and small moving through space. Would you say that movement and change is actually an illusion?
@drany6707
Жыл бұрын
@@bethanienaylor You could call them illusions because they aren't what they may appear to be. An object is your own awareness, in you rather than outside. All you know of an object is your very awareness of it. It's not at a distance away from you. All we know is our own consciousness.
flux of the space / time continuum is real, time lapse film recording, demonstrates the momentum of flow of universal physics,
Time is the result of sheer mental hoarding.
Just accept that you are: " two in one", living in a sub-reality for a reason. You have a body and a mind in order to manifest yourself, whatever you call it in words, it is not relevant. Manifest the soul ( if you like ) and influence your very personal memory imprint. You have a body and a mind for that purpose, enjoy! If you prefer to live without your body, just leave it, nobody stops you.
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So objects spawn in for a local observer, just like in video games
I get that thought creates time. But how can we say that consciousness is always present even during deep sleep or anytime we are unconscious or not alive. Awareness as far as we can tell only happens during the waking and alive state. There is zero evidence that "non-local" awareness or consciousness is present at all during non-awake or unconscious states. I challenge anyone to prove to me that awareness/consciousness is present if there is no conscious awake or living entity to be aware of it. We can easily infer a model and say it, but were is the evidence? Anyone?
@andrewmacklem
Жыл бұрын
Ken Wilber in his book One Taste, shares his experience on a retreat of witnessing himself go back to his cabin, lay down, enter sleep then dreaming then dreamless sleep.
@JennyRSTeam
Жыл бұрын
We appreciate this. With love, Rupert's team
Space and time are how reality appears when viewed through the lens of a finite mind. Write that down.
You don't say !!!!!!!!!!
Hey, move faster (like the speed of light) and you can forget about time/space 😅😅😅
Don't agree with this. Time is not a container created in your mind, and certainly not just for forgotten memories (why draw that distinction between forgotten and remembered?). Time is a mental concept that results from tracking motion through space. Sun through the sky, hands on a clock, your heart beating - all rhythmic movements. Stop all movement (i.e. freeze everything in place) and time becomes "frozen" and effectively meaningless as well.
@FdR88
2 ай бұрын
There is no movement, nothing moves, there is no space where you can move, the universe is static, it is an illusion of our mind, we never experience what we call there, it is always here, which is not a point in space.
Time/space are the wheels on a chariot of an experiential process. No local time/space memory, no time. The product does not manifest the Producer. The Producer precedes, and informs the product. No Producer, no movie.
Since space does not exist, movement does not exist either, nothing moves is an illusion, because only here exists and it is not a place in space either.
All the holoverse is waves. Dimension means diameter magnitude.
don't believe consciousness...it makes up everything 😂
I gotta call BS on this one.
@my3rs307
Жыл бұрын
Why
@Meditation409
Жыл бұрын
Really? Explain more. I'd love to hear your view on why your calling Bullshit on this? Just a head up though....your reply if you choose to reply will be posted across the internet
@keena1487
Жыл бұрын
But how are they forgotten events if they are memories? Doesn’t that mean they’re remembered?
You're struggling to make audience understand.
@SusanSoCal1
2 ай бұрын
Don't group everyone into your level. Comments show most people understood just fine. Given your grammatical error, it is probably your English struggle that is the issue. You do not speak for us.
time is a man made product it doesn’t exist , you can picture space in your mind ,but to physical see space you need. rocket ship lol 🚀