Reality is the Here and Now
Time and space are the ways in which the infinite nature of consciousness appears to itself through the faculties of thinking, feeling, sensing and perceiving.
Thought is a sequential progression of ideas, memories, and anticipations. And it is through this linear lens of thinking that the timeless now is stretched out into a perceived past, present, and future. So what is intrinsically one continuous awareness becomes a fractured series of apparent moments which create the illusion of duration and the march of time. From the perspective of the mind, now is a fleeting moment caught between what was and what will be. But from the perspective of reality, from the point of view of consciousness, now is the ever-present reality.
Similarly, the faculty of perception shapes the experience of space. Perception, with its focus on discrete sensory inputs and the mental mapping of these inputs, creates the illusion of distinct objects existing within a defined spatial framework. When consciousness looks at itself through this lens of separation and localization, the boundless unity appears as a collection of here and there, near and far. We perceive ourselves to be located within a specific point in space, separate from other points. However, just as now is eternity viewed through the mind’s temporal lens, here is the entirety of consciousness viewed through the mind's spatial lens. You are always here. But over there is not fundamentally separate; it is simply another point within the same field of awareness. And when you arrive there, it too becomes here within your immediate experience. The infinite, non-local nature of consciousness is merely appearing to itself in the form of a finite spatial construct.
Thus, time and space are not inherent properties of reality itself, but rather the framework imposed upon reality by the engagement of thought and perception.
In other words, reality, in its essence, is timeless and spaceless, a unified field of aware potential. Thought and perception make possible the world of form.