So I’m sitting in Starbucks drinking my coffee and reading a book when all of a sudden it hits me…

You know how when you trip or get really deep into meditation time doesn’t exist? The same is with dreams and what not. That’s because it’s just an internal perception created to serve a purpose of survival. Outside the internal self, there is no time, there isn’t even a now! It’s all just a happening that has already passed but the internal self creates a perception of a now so conscious awareness can serve it’s evolutionary function and help the organism survive. A psychedelic distorts your senses in a way that it changes that function and meditation does the same thing in its magical way except it is just the awareness contracting in a way where your concentration gets focused on different arisings. The latter is difficult to illustrate, especially via iPhone. This is exactly what Buddhism is talking about when it says “that which is arising has already passed.” Insight into impermanence.