Where we come from, every moment is the climax. In this opening reflection, we explore the origins of consciousness, the illusion of linear time, and how yoga and art awaken the presence already inside us.
The topic of this essay is time.
Where we come from—and what we are ultimately made of—is timelessness. I have come to understand this timeless as what I call eruptions of infinity: a continuous flash of wholeness that cannot be contained by a clock or reduced to a timeline. What I have learned through brief (but eternal) encounters with the beyond, is that where we come from, every moment is the climax. There is no anticipation. No separation. Just one continuous eruption of presence. Pure consciousness expressing itself fully, endlessly. Pure aliveness, pure ease, pure joy.
Earth, in contrast, is a physical realm built of single-moment awareness. Life unfolds in pieces—frame by frame. In waking life, we tend to live inside anticipation. We look forward to a concert, we plan for it, we buy the tickets, we invite friends, we talk about it at work. Then it finally arrives—and maybe it’s amazing, or maybe it’s disappointing. Either way, there’s a build-up, a climax, and then a sense of having moved through something.
Because each moment is separate, we can study it. We can see each moment raining down like little shards of glass, holding each one up to the light to see what they are made of. Boredom, grief, joy, empowerment, dissatisfaction—each one a shard of that original explosion of consciousness. Each moment offering us a different facet to examine and a different entry point to presence.
Even more than that: we ourselves are constellations of moments. You are a moment. I am a moment. There was a moment I was born. And this moment, right now, exists in relationship to that moment of origination. And when I’m with another person, it’s not just two people meeting—it’s two moments meeting.
Seeing things in relationship helps us see aspects of ourselves more clearly. Affinity shows us where we resonate. Conflict shows us where we don’t. Both are mirrors that bring hidden parts of ourselves into view.
From that view, it becomes easier to disidentify from the story of who we think we are. I’m not “Dre,” fixed and permanent. I’m a phenomenon, “a Dre happening.” A constellation of moments of awareness dancing through time and space.
There is an inherent contradiction in this juxtaposition. This separation of moments is what gives Earth its learning potential. It’s what allows the soul to see clearly, to evolve. And simultaneously, it creates illusions, because it removes us from the truth of where we come from.
And because we come from timelessness, being here means exploring the space between the illusion of time and the truth of what’s beyond it. Time makes things look separate. It creates before and after, this and that, me and you. But the point isn’t to reject that. The point is to see clearly.
To see how thoughts shape experience.
To see what stands in the way of aligning thoughts, words, and actions.
To see where we’re still hiding from ourselves.
That kind of clarity takes practice. It takes remembering. And it’s reclaimed through a process of remembering the truth of what we are—Beings that contain both Time and Timelessness, Beings that contain both light and shadow, and, even better, nondual awareness of that which has no opposite and nobody to “Be” at all!
That’s the purpose of yoga, breathwork, and meditation—not to perfect a pose, but to remember where we come from and simultaneously be fully here. To have the courage to be with what’s real. To bring awareness to the places that aren’t in ease. To sit with discomfort without needing it to go away. To increase capacity to be with what once felt too overwhelming to touch. What matters is inhabiting the body fully, just as it is. You practice being with yourself more deeply. And in that, there is a kind of grace.
There is a natural state available even within this illusion, and that state is ease. But it’s not ease as a destination. It’s not about creating an easy life, it’s more like being at ease with discomfort, with friction, with the full reality of this plane—not as weary resignation, but as an aliveness. Yoga, breathwork, even making art—these are not escapes from reality; they are tools to help us meet it more fully. They expand the nervous system’s capacity to stay with the truth, to hold paradox. To access the quiet frequency of ease that is available, even if in small doses.
In art or in creative practice, it might be called a “flow state.” However you get there, the layers of the self begin to soften. And as awareness expands more intimately into the various layers of consciousness, the layers that don’t need to know your name, age, or occupation, more and more aspects of the soul become available. Unexpected or mysterious phenomena arise. This gets cemented into being and inner transformation happens.
This is not magic—it is already here. The practices allow you to make space for it.
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