Tag: Time
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The Last Dualism 3 – Awakening Without Becoming
The Contradiction of Enlightenment in the Light of Eternal Being The modern non-dual discourse is saturated with the language of awakening. One is said to awaken from illusion, from ego, from time, from the false self. This awakening is often described as a shift, a transformation, a sudden recognition, or the end of seeking. For…
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I Am – 2: The Divided Mind – Thought, Perception, and the Illusion of Fragmentation
The Split Between Awareness and Thought The recognition of “I Am” as the unshakable ground of Being is foundational. Yet, despite its immediacy, this recognition is often obscured by the incessant movement of conditioned thought. Why does the mind veil what is most evident? The tendency of thought to divide experience into subject and object,…
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Mind & Heart – 2: The Mental Prison of Time and Change
The Unfolding of Temporal Illusion The sense of loss, anxiety, and regret that pervades human experience is deeply tied to the prevailing belief in the passage of time. Modern thought conceives the self as a transient entity, emerging and disappearing within a flow of moments, each slipping into nothingness. This assumption not only shapes personal…
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Beyond Conditioned Thought: Article 4 – The NDE as an Unveiling—Death and the Fracturing of Time
The Near-Death Experience: A Radical Disruption of Ordinary Perception Near-death experiences (NDEs) represent one of the most profound disruptions of conditioned thought and perception. Those who undergo them often report a sudden detachment from their physical body, a feeling of weightlessness, an all-encompassing light, or encounters with deceased loved ones and transcendent beings. More importantly,…
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Beyond Conditioned Thought: Article 1 –The Limits of Ordinary Thinking
Our everyday understanding of reality is shaped by a deeply ingrained framework: the assumption of becoming. We live within a world where things appear to change, arise, and vanish, and this perception is so fundamental that we rarely question it. Yet, as Emanuele Severino has demonstrated, this framework is not an objective truth but an…
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The Unveiling of Being: Article 2 – Physics and the Limits of Materialism
The Crisis of Materialism and the Limits of Empirical Science Modern physics, in its quest to decipher the fundamental nature of reality, has unknowingly traced the contours of an eternal structure that it has yet to fully comprehend. While materialism once seemed an unassailable framework for understanding the world, contemporary discoveries in quantum mechanics, cosmology,…
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More on Reincarnation: The Experience of Unity and the Misreading of Time
A sequel to: Post 28 – The Contradiction of Reincarnation Much of what is interpreted as “evidence” for reincarnation arises from powerful experiences in which the boundaries of individual identity appear to dissolve—experiences of deep empathy, of remembering what was never learned, or of seeing oneself within lives not one’s own. These moments can be…
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Post 46 – Is Time an Illusion? The Eternal Tapestry and the Unfolding of Truth
Human thought has long been haunted by the passage of time. We watch as moments arise and vanish, as people come into existence and fade away. The past is lost to us, the future unknown, and the present always slipping through our grasp. But what if this entire experience of time were an illusion? What…
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Post 43 – The Structure of Being: Its Unfolding from Parmenides to Severino
The history of Western thought is the history of the appearing of truth—an appearing that first manifested with Parmenides but remained incomplete, leading to millennia of nihilism before culminating in the necessity of its fuller recognition with Emanuele Severino. The unfolding of the structure of Being is not merely an intellectual progression but the necessary…
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Post 41 – Love and Providence: The Experience of the Eternal Within Time
From the perspective of the eternal, all that is has always been and will always be. There is no becoming, no contingency, no arbitrary will. The structure of being is necessity itself—an immutable relation where nothing is lost, and nothing truly changes. Yet, within time, we live as though choices are ours to make, as…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 3
Causality and the Persistence of the Chain of Events In everyday experience, causality—the relationship between causes and their effects—feels like an undeniable truth. We assume that every event has a cause, and every action, a corresponding effect. The idea that one event follows another is so deeply ingrained in our understanding of the world that…
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Understanding the Structure of Being – 2
Science, Common Sense, and the Illusion of Time Time is one of the most unquestioned aspects of human experience. We measure it, plan by it, and recall the past while anticipating the future. Science, common sense, and everyday perception all seem to confirm that time is real—an objective framework within which all things move, change,…
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Near Death Experiences 2: The Illusion of Linear Time
One of the most pervasive features of Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) is their apparent structure as a journey—a passage from life to death, from darkness to light, from earthly existence to an encounter with something beyond. Many accounts describe moving through tunnels, crossing thresholds, or entering vast, radiant spaces. Others speak of being sent back, of…
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Post 36 – Religion and the Necessity of Alienation: Toward a Unified Understanding of Reality
Introduction The empirical self, separated from its transcendental whole by the limitations of time, perceives itself as fragmented and alienated from its own totality. In this alienated state, it naturally seeks meaning and connection beyond itself, often turning to religious or mythical frameworks. These frameworks attempt to bridge the perceived gap between the empirical and…
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Post 32 – The Destiny of Technology: The Origins, History, and Future of Técnica
Introduction Technology (técnica) has become central to contemporary civilization, influencing every facet of human existence. However, when viewed through the lens of the Structure of Being, technology is not a product of progress but a manifestation of eternal necessity. What appears as an endless progression is simply the unfolding of what has always been determined…
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Post 31 – The Unfolding of Thought: From Religious Meta-Narratives to Technological Devotion
Throughout history, humanity has shaped its understanding of existence through various grand narratives, each attempting to explain the nature of reality and the role of human beings within it. These narratives have evolved—from religious explanations rooted in an eternal divine order, to secular philosophies grounded in naturalism, to the nihilistic skepticism of the modern era.…
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Post 27 – The Structure of Being on the Illusion of Dualism
Introduction The Structure of Being perspective challenges a series of dualisms that are often taken for granted. By questioning the very idea of becoming—that things emerge, change, and vanish—this view exposes a fundamental mistake in our understanding of time and existence. This mistaken view gives rise to several apparent dualisms: Moreover, these themes resonate with…
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Post 22 – The Nature of Truth
Truth is fundamentally linked to eternity and the necessary being of all things. Every being, whether a thought, an object, a person, or a moment, is eternal, never truly coming into being or ceasing to exist. Yet, humans live under the illusion of becoming, mistakenly believing that things are born, change, and perish. This illusion,…
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Post 21 – The Joy of Eternity: Death, Overcoming, and the Infinite Appearing of Destiny
Continuing from the previous post, we now explore the meaning of death and its connection to the infinite appearing of all that is (destiny). Beyond the Illusion of Becoming Humanity remains trapped in the illusion of becoming: the belief that things come into existence from nothing and vanish into nothing. This illusion generates fear, suffering,…
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Post 18 – A Person, Their Moments, and Eternity
The Eternal Nature of Moments and the Illusion of Becoming According to the “Original Structure,” every moment is eternal. No moment arises from nothing or vanishes into nothing to make way for the next, as a nihilistic perspective assumes. In this view, a person is the totality of all their eternal moments. But how is…
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Post 10 – Contemplating the Authentic Sense of Being
Describing the Authentic Sense of Being How may we describe the authentic sense of Being? It is not a “sense” in the conventional understanding of the term, yet sensing, feeling, knowing, and awareness are words often employed to gesture toward it. Here, language falters—words become mere symbols pointing to that which they cannot fully contain,…
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Post 9 – Ethics, Morality, Love and Freedom
Ethics and Morality Beyond Nihilism Here’s a provocative question to start with: If everything is eternal and unchanging, does that mean reality is predetermined? At first glance, this might seem disheartening—almost as if our choices don’t matter. But in Post 4, we explored the concept of free will and arrived at an intriguing conclusion: our…
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Post 5 – A Truth That Cannot Be Shaken
Two Selves in One We are always within the Truth. We embody our true being, yet in time, we perceive it only in fragments—one fleeting moment at a time. This fractured perception obscures the whole. Unconsciously, we know the Truth because we are it; however, consciously, we perceive only its fleeting fragments: the present moment.…
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Post 3 – The Structure of Being
In the previous posts, we explored a fundamental misunderstanding about the nature of reality and outlined a path toward resolving this contradiction. Before addressing the inevitable questions raised by the conclusion, that everything physical or abstract is eternal, let’s revisit some key ideas. The Subjectivity of Time and the Eternity of All Things When considering…
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Post 2 – The Eternity of All Things
Intuitions of the Eternal We have spoken of the unassailable truth of our Being and our awareness of time and space, but there is yet another form of awareness; more elusive, less dependent on our senses, and harder to define. It is something we all experience at times yet struggle to articulate. This awareness emerges…
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