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People in present time would say, "The TV Preacher said it was almost the end of the world and sureenough he was right 'cause there it goes !"

People in the year 5000 would say, "Our ancient computer records show that a subversive named Jesussaid 5000 years ago that our world would end and - sure enough - we don't know what's happening hereand our scientists can't stop this. The time machines will not operate."

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It is similarly incorrect to argue, "I hopped in my time machine and went to the year 2057. I observedthat the Earth was still there, that there were people living on it, and that things looked OK. Therefore, Iconclude that the "end of the world" cannot be before the year 2057."

This argument, like the others, misses the boat. The origin event and dissolution event fort the universehave no relation to time as observable inside the universe. Dissolution, when it comes, comes for 1998,2057, 35, 5000 b.c., etc. at the SAME moment - a moment that cannot be specified by ant reference to"time". (therefore no one can know the time)

Now, let's take a closer look at a "moment". A moment is a slice of time with no thickness - no quantityof time is contained in a moment. However, there are at least two different things in a moment. One isthe creation event and the other is the dissolution event. These two events effect all time simultaneously.Therefore, our slice of time must contain them also. Additionally, if we are in a "moment" there is athird event because we are there also. Creation and dissolution are opposite events, so there should besome "space" between them and we are somewhere between creation and dissolution so in our"moment" we should be between these two events. The moment, then, represents a new vector whichhas a quality of "length" - in its own way- along a new direction that we do not normally travel in oureveryday world. So, one might want to contemplate what else is in this fifth dimensional vector. What ison "the other side" of the creation event or the other side of the dissolution event within the moment.What other goodies might there be hiding inside of our moment. Trying to lock yourself in to a momentis a key step in all meditation exercises. So this discussion is a scientific way - for those who relate toscience - to conceptualize where people "go" when they claim to "go somewhere" in mystic trance ormeditation.

It is from the new perspective we get from travel along this vector that many concepts in the varioussacred books come. When evaluating these concepts, then, we must judge them from the perspectivewhere they originated - where they will likely be found to be completely valid and correct - instead offrom the usual perspective where they are likely to look senseless or confusing at best.

It is apparently from this perspective that we get statements like, "Well, the universe comes and goes injust the wink of an eye.", and so on.

Concluding, the general advice of Spiritual people to live "in the moment" seems to be a very good

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