on presence is spira

Rupert Spira
Only Presence is

When there is no mind such as in deep sleep or what is normally referred to as ‘loss of consciousness,’ there is indeed no time.

It is only the mind that, on reappearing after deep sleep, imagines deep sleep in its own terms of time and space and, as such, believes it to have lasted in time. But in the experience of deep sleep itself there is no time. Time is made out of the thought that thinks it. No thought, no time. It is also true to say that without time there is no thought. In other words, time and thought both rely on the presence of their non-existent counterpart, thought and time, in order to exist.

Therefore truly, time and thought are not. On your second point, if Consciousness could end, it would have to have a beginning and would itself be limited. However, no one has ever experienced a beginning, end or limit to Consciousness. If Consciousness could disappear it would have to disappear into ‘something.’ What would that something be? It would have, at least, to be present and conscious for this ‘temporary consciousness’ to be made out of it. In other words it would have to be Consciousness.

Normally we think that an object is existent and that it disappears into non-existence. In fact, an object, as such, is non-existent and the apparent ‘non-existence’ into which we imagine the apparent object disappears, is in fact Conscious Presence itself. Both ‘something,’ ‘nothing’ and, therefore, ‘everything’ are illusions. Only Presence is.