Time and Eternity

1. Sit in a comfortable chair in a quiet, distraction-free room.

2. Progressively relax each and every muscle in your body, beginning at your toes and ending with your face. Take at least ten minutes to do this.

3. While remaining absolutely still, imagine yourself slowly descending levels in an elevator: 100 ... 99 ... 98 ... etc, all the way down to level 1. With every level you sink, feel yourself more and more disembodied.

4. Gradually turn your attention from your body or the endless train of thoughts bubbling up to perfect stillness.

5. Then, consider this:

Time is a line extending from the infinite future to the infinite past, perpendicular to each of the three spatial dimensions and parallel to none ... Eternity is not the infinite extension of time, but a LINE PERPENDICULAR TO TIME, for, if eternity exists, each moment is eternal.

When I did this, I heard a room of ten thousand Keanu Reeves simultaneously and reverently uttering, "Whoa!"