Definition: The future

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Revision: 7 May 2026

The future

A projection of circumstances that have not yet been experienced.
The future is embedded in the learning construct that is time.
The present moment contains the future as well as the past.
Past, present, and future are, in fact, simultaneous.
As healing from the belief in separation occurs, time disappears since it is no longer required.
If there seems to be a future, then a belief in separation is operating.
The arrow of time points in the direction of awakening. To “come from the future” is to operate with a greater degree of awakeness.
There are distinct domains of time that correspond to different degrees of awakeness. When one attains higher degrees of awakeness, one inhabits different domains of time. The yugas can be understood in this way.
In Supreme Awakeness, it is clear that the past, present, and future are all projected simultaneously and are totally mutable.
In Supreme Creatorship, the future is created in each moment and there is nothing to predict.

Sayings:

“The inevitable future is awakeness. To come from the future is to amplify awakeness in the present moment.”
“The level of our consciousness determines the yuga that we are in, which is to say the apparent epoch of relative truth or untruth that we are experiencing.”