The Great Illusion of Time Explained

Prehistoric and nomadic cultures lived within event time, organizing life around natural occurrences than abstract measurements. Modern humans rarely access this mode except in deep flow or creative immersion.

Tibetan yogis in extended cave retreats exemplify this transformation. Hermits emerge saying “I don’t know if I was there for month or 10 years”—reporting neural rewiring where time becomes internal landscape. Anyone experiencing extended isolation can access aspects of this state.

Jiddu Krishnamurti, whose insights cut through conceptual fog, relentlessly emphasized this understanding. His teachings challenge spiritual seekers and psychologists to examine how the mind creates temporal experience through constant comparison and becoming, revealing that time is psychological rather than objective.

Albert Einstein’s relativity provides physical foundation for this understanding. Modern physicists and philosophers exploring block universe concept challenge intuitions that time flows and present moment holds special status.

Oracles like Pythia at Delphi or Tibetan prophetic practitioners embody alternative temporal consciousness. Quantum physicists and dreamers access crystalline time aspects without deliberate mastery.

Earth operates on geological time across millions of years without witness or urgency. Geologists read cliff faces as ledgers; humans carry calcium from ancient seas—materially connected yet experientially unable to embody it.