Time: A Dimension of Consciousness or of Actual Reality?

Abstract

Many experiences suggest that it might be best to think of time not as of an objectively existing dimension of reality but as of the limited way in which our normal waking state of consciousness can perceive the overwhelming whole of true reality in its timeless 'all presence'. (1) Direct experiences of unification with all encompassing presence (in altered states), (2) time reversals (effect preceding cause) observed in parapsychology, (3) time transcending features of quantum effects (time-reversed waves, temporal holism): these and other experiences suggest that a holistic, non-local timeless 'background' may lie hidden behind outer reality.