The real time right now is zero. This is going to just kind of wreck your mind a little bit, so hang on for the ride. But the true time is zero. You're in the middle of eternity. Past, future, these are ideas that happen now.
Numbers on a clock are completely relative to the planet we're on, a time system we're on, a decimal system we're on. And as soon as you zoom out or even zoom in, it doesn't even make any sense anymore. We're in the middle of eternity. You have eternal life right now.
Every time I look at a clock and I see whatever time it says, I also know it's still zero. The time never actually changes. The numbers go round and round and round, but they go nowhere. I know — this is just like, oh, this is too big of an idea to even handle comfortably. But it helps ground me in the time is now. And the time is also now. And while seconds and minutes and hours go round and round on clocks, they proceed nowhere. And a few light years from here, the time on Earth doesn't even make any sense. The clocks, the hours, the days, the weeks, the months, the years — it doesn't even matter.
Measuring life in heartbeats instead of time
In fact, you can measure people's lives in heartbeats. Different species often tend to have the same length of heartbeats to their life. The species that have faster heartbeats tend to live about the same length of heartbeats rather than time. It's as if the faster your heart goes, the more your perception of time seems to slow down.
I was on the tennis court the other day, and my heart must have been beating pretty fast, because it seemed like time was going very slow. Every shot, I had time to calculate where the ball was going. I could decide. I could feel exactly where my feet were placed. But then I go to bed at night, and eight hours just slips by while I'm sleeping. Or I have my kids over, and they're playing video games, and five hours just flies by. Like, where did half my kid's childhood go?
But I remember, fundamentally, the time hasn't moved since I was born. The time won't actually be different when I pass, because time only makes sense in relation to relativity.
Time only makes sense in relation to relativity
If you look at, for example, if there's only one ball in space, there is no space, there is no ball, there's no object. Because you literally need to have a second perspective just to see the one. So time in a — we are all one kind of consciousness — doesn't even make sense.
All is now, all is love, also means all is zero. Everything is nothing. God is either everything or nothing.
And if you want to stop feeling so impatient, like you're racing around all the time, remember, you're not going anywhere. The time fundamentally is the same as it was when you were born. It'll be the same time when you pass. And basically nothing will have happened in between. And when you move on to somewhere else, it'll be the same there. And again and again.
Trying to comprehend infinity
In fact, there's no idea that tortures me more, that triggers more fear, and that I have a bigger opportunity to grow on than being able to comprehend infinity. Just thinking about infinity makes me want to scream. It's so big. It's like getting dunked in the ocean and trying to hold on to some of the water. But you're just dunked in it. You're all around it. You can barely even sense it because you're immersed in it. It's all around, but you can't really get a hold of any particular part of it, because you're just immersed in it.
Then I think sometimes, is this planet a soul prison? If I want to get out of here, well, I'm kind of comfortable in my prison cell, because this environment is familiar. And you start thinking about things like, there's no time. Time is just literally a mental creation.
The sun goes up and down, but it actually doesn't. If you are on Earth and the Earth rotates around the sun, the sun appears to go up and down, but in space it doesn't — it just stays there. But from the whole galaxy's point of view, the sun is rotating around, apparently, a black hole in the middle. It's all moving. But you can zoom in further — can an atom even see the sun? Depends on where it is. Our lives are so relative, it's hard to even comprehend.
We place too much stock in time
And we forget that. Oh, well, you were late. I got upset like a silly boy yesterday because my ex was late bringing the kids over. I thought they were going to be over an hour or so before. And it's like — remember, there is no time. Relax. Yes, we use time to try and coordinate our activities together as humans, but that's a tool. We place too much stock in our lives on time.
For example, I just had a birthday. That was 42 years ago. But the cells in my body, on average, are like three, four years old, because every seven years or so the cells have, on average, a lifespan. I mean, there's all kinds of different cells, but on average they have a lifespan of like seven years. Some kinds of cells live much shorter lives and some cells live longer. So even if, supposedly, this body was born 42 years ago, the cells in it are not 42 years old.
You start to wonder — wouldn't it be possible to live indefinitely in one of these bodies? Theoretically, it would be, because the idea of time and aging are ideas that don't necessarily have to manifest in reality, but they go together with our clock-based reality. I almost said cock-based reality. In our cock-based reality, our ideas of time and age and all this stuff are so relative, they don't even make sense.
Like, why does the last dog I had that passed — why are there dog years? Why does the dog have an entirely different timeline for his life expectancy versus me? Well, if he wasn't such a mouth breather and his heart would slow down, maybe he'd live longer. But try and tell your dog to mouth breathe.
The peace of God and the zero point
The time is zero. That which is real never changes. That which is unreal doesn't exist. Therein lies the peace of God. The peace of God is, I fundamentally sit at the zero point for all eternity. Everything that appears to happen comes to me. It goes and goes. But I remain unchanged. What I create constantly changes and evolves. And sometimes I create nothing. But somehow when I create nothing, I pop back in and create something.
It's a really crazy world. People talk about, is it a simulation? It doesn't matter. It really doesn't matter if this particular reality is a simulation or not, because you're still stuck with all of eternity. No matter what else happens, you're still stuck with the zero point, all eternity.
Which does make it funny when certain religions try and promise you eternal life if you do something now. I'm like, that's like somebody who lives at the beach and a salesman comes along trying to sell them salt water. It's sitting right there. All you need to do is scoop it. You have eternal life right this second. You're literally just submersed in eternal life right now. You've got it right now. You don't need to do anything for it.
The Q from Star Trek
In fact, sometimes I'm like, can't I give up eternal life? You remember the Q from Star Trek? I used to — the Q bothered me so much, because I identified with being a Q. I'm like, that's so horrible, they're immortal and can't die, that's horrible. But that's me. That's you. That's all of us. That's everything.
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Thanks for watching. I'll see you in the middle of eternity. Eternity.