The past is dead

The past is dead, the future is imaginary, the one and only abode of the truly sacred is the eternal now moment. The recurring cry of the charlatan and the hoodwinked is "wait and see."

The fact is that the future is intrinsically unknown, and it is the nature of thought to attempt to predict it -- but what does thought have to work with in its attempt to forecast the coming years, months, days, hours, or even minutes? The answer is that thought can only imagine the future from knowledge, which is information acquired in the past, and therefore, in the words of the sentencing jurist, "dead, dead, dead."

Thought, manifesting as ego, is a survival tool by nature and thus fears its own extinction. Because the future is inherently unknown, the thought-full consciousness cannot face that which contains the very real possiblity of that dreaded ego-death. It marshals all its resources, comprising knowledge, and replaces the fearful unknown with the resulting concocted "future."

Thus does ego imagine its way into the illusion of psychological security, and in the process preclude the exclusively in-the-moment advent of the truly sacred, which theists call "God." That is also why people like Benjamin Creme, who encourage future-fixated consciousness aka "wishful thinking," are, by their actions and announced intentions, clearly opposed to the living, actual "God!"


(excerpt from post to newsgroup - alt.consciousness.mysticism)