First, thank you for your logical and thoughtful reply.
I have no qualms with meditation. I practiced TM for twenty minutes or more daily for several years and it made a world of difference for me. I still meditate multiple times a week because I no longer have time to do it more often. “Living in the moment” is something I feel everyone should do. But I also understand physics and reality. BTW, we don’t “co-create” our reality, we create it. You see a different world than I see and it’s that way for every human alive. We collectively agree that a certain perception is a tree, or a chair, or a house but we don’t see the exact same tree, chair, house, etc. Perception IS reality. And, like it or not, every instant, ‘moment’, is already the past and only exists in memory. And that memory, because it is still and unmoving, seems to be an unmoving ‘moment’. Can you hold a handful of running water? Of course not because that water flows through your hand, yet is still water. Or a handful of moving air? Again, of course not because that air is still moving. Right down to the molecular level, it is in constant motion. “Living in the moment” doesn’t mean a moment exists- it’s nothing more than accepting the passage of time and time doesn’t stop moving. You can ‘live in the moment’ without that moment being a discrete chunk of stopped time. But your perception of time can change. Often, during meditation, time seems to pass much more quickly or more slowly than it would if you weren’t meditating. That’s your perception of time, not the rate at which time passes. When I was younger, I wondered why people older than me said that time moves faster as they grow older. But now that I’m older, I understand what they meant. It’s because that’s their, now my, perception but the rate that time passes hasn’t changed in the least. But for me, that person and everyone else, perception is reality. Perception is creation.
While meditating daily, all those years ago, I did once see the universe in its entirety from outside of it. It had the shape of a long melon. It was ‘still and unmoving’ but always moving in that it flowed within itself and every ‘strand’ within it was a soul that would flare into colorful existence and that was an entire life. Then that flare enfolded again into the flow of the universe. So, it was both still and ever-moving
Continue to meditate for both spiritual and physical growth and health. And keep on with your spiritual search for truth. It’s not out of reach for any honest seeker.
