We perceive everything using a linear process. Time, in its linear construct and current rules of causality, occurs future to past. For the purposes of perceptions our senses first receive input. Our brain constructs the perceptions, guided by the rules of our reason. Once the particular perceptions are identified by our reason they are defined and formed into a memory of the input received and processed. If we define this as the process of the imagination we can see that this process of receiving input goes from sensory input to imagination to memory. The process of our brain experiencing sensory input, uses its ability of imagination to create a perception, finalizes the perception, then instantly becomes a memory. Imagination is the construction of the sensory input, which gives the illusion of it being the initial (future) process of building a consensus reality of a perception or worldview. Building this reality or worldview consumes processing, which delegates the receipt of the sensory input into its overall imagination of what is being perceived. This process moves from the imagination of what is being perceived to the instant memory of its construct and how it fits into the rules of our reason. The imagination process occurs, then the construct of the perceptions finalizes into a part of the ongoing process of making it fit into a worldview, thus immediately relegating it to the memory (storage), moving this process from the future to the past.
Inside this causality loop, from future to past, how do we define a present moment. The entire ongoing process of building a worldview, from receipt of sensory input, to the constructed perception fitted into our reason's structure, is fed by the universe outside our perceptions. At every instant we are building and re-building our worldview. The impressions upon our senses come not from the past, but from the instantaneous ongoing future in front of our senses (the actual present), since we first have to construct our worldview from that sensory input. Using the brain's ability to imagine, a construct of the sensory input is built by our reason and fit into our personal and collective worldview. By the time that process completes and is fitted into our worldview, it is a memory function that is not the present moment, but is a totality of a process which results in a memory function, and this memory function, which is our worldview, exists as the final step. Our perceptive process moves from the future to the past. Between the future world being presented to our senses instant by instant, described as the substance of what our sensory apparatus is perceiving, and the finalization process of this process of defining each and every sensory input to build the worldview, we define this worldview we perceive as the present moment. Using the rules of causality, past to present to future, in this scenario there is a future outside world of streaming vibrations which our sensory apparatus 'absorbs', and the final result of this becomes our worldview. This entire process is each a present moment. Future streams into our senses, we build a worldview, and then it is relegated to our memory, because this process is being repeated in totality instant after instant (akin to the refresh rate of random access memory in a computer, or the refresh rate of the picture we watch on our LED TV screens). Memory streams a 'coherent' worldview instant by instant. (Built into this streaming are processes and programming forces such as free will, and voluntary and involuntary reprogramming by forces outside of our constructed individuality.)
The issue is, what is the present moment in the causality chain? Is it between the future and the past or is it the process of moving from the future to the past. In our accepted scenario the present is our constructed worldview in its momentary totality as each instant of totality is defined and fed into a moving matrix. The moving matrix is our present reality. But the present we are experiencing is not what the universe outside really looks like. By necessity our senses, limited to six at this time (sight, sound, hearing, touch, taste, and intuition (or instinct), limit what the near future outer world is streaming at us. The more comprehensive outer world is vast in how it is perceived by numerous species. From radiation in its various forms, to Nature in its component structure, the actual present moment exists outside the causality loop of past to future. The totality of the immense variety of perceptible input varies from species to species, and defines the worldview of each species. The only way our species can build a worldview is to assemble this input into the components of our worldview and is limited by our senses. We have constructed, individually and collectively, a present moment which is a matrix. We have an internal structure to our biochemical network that computes the present moment (neurons, axons, glial cells). Though it is normally a process that is totally autonomic, in our case as a species this matrix can be tricked into conforming to deviations and variations which can limit or control various sub-matrices within the entire matrix hierarchy. Just as an observer can effect the outcome of an experiment (the double-slit experiment with the quantum level definition borne out of the observation that the observer of the experiment can effect the experiment's outcome) either each individual can learn how to control normally autonomic perceptual and biophysical functions through practices such as meditation and yoga, or outside programming methods can effect how our worldview is deviated from an unaffected process (mind control, managing mental illness). Thus the matrix of our individual and collective reason is programmable and not totally untouched in its seeming autonomy.
Comprehensive Holistics defines additional senses that have been relegated to the theological sciences. We can add senses such as empathy, telepathy and compassion. These senses, or forces, when fostered or realized, add a 'non-ordinary' dimension to our overall worldview in the functional area of individual and collective personality. This is important because in our worldview we perceive ourselves egotistically as individuals, and as individuals we exist within a matrix which we create, individually and socially, which appears to be outside, or external, to our individual representations within the matrix. Creation creating itself.
The present moment will, in time, be perceived without the cumbersome process of internalization, though the process of internalization is the deep root and foundation which protects us from psychic shock and encounters with the more dangerous elements of the larger psychic worldview and timeline we inhabit. As we understand that we are made up, at the quantum level, of mostly 'empty' space, or at the biophysical level we are made up of mostly water, it is possible to integrate an alternative worldview that erases us as individuals so that we are not using our reason to define us as individuals separate from our surrounding Nature, but completely integrated into our metaphysical environment. It is not the same way we see our world thorough our eyes, it is an alternate perceptual construct that we envision as a larger and more encompassing matrix.
With the loop of causality now being discovered to be bi-directional, thanks to the onset of advanced quantum computing, cause before effect and effect before cause are both viable. Time can flow, under specific circumstances, from future to past and past to future. The past, in the larger concept of the present moment, can effect the future. Parallel processing of multiple possibilities occurring during the examination of the sensory input by the reason may inform certain possible conclusions that will lead to a worldview definition (collapse of a wave function) that are inappropriate for the previous instant of our worldview definition. Observing this process of rational decision making without the constraint of the rules of our existing reason, and thus our currently defined worldview, that is, observing the wave function collapse, automatically enlightens the adept. This graduation to a new perceptual capability exhibits itself in different ways based on individual experience. Collectively, a part of the population of perceivers who achieve this broader expanse of a worldview will move the species towards the expanded worldview as a whole. The battle occurs between the reason as it is comfortable in its defined worldview and the much different perceptions of those who disintegrate and re-integrate their ego-centric perception of their total worldview.
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