Modern man is a slave to the stopwatch, living under the pressure of clocks and calendars, consuming time by dividing it into seconds. The past is a left behind wreckage, while the future is a target where we do not yet exist but constantly run toward. For us, time is linear; it flows in a single direction like a river and cannot be reclaimed.
What if time were not a flow, but a vast and stagnant ocean?
At the core of Australian Aboriginal cosmology lies the Dreamtime. Though translated into Western languages as "dream" or "past time," it is far more than that. For Aboriginal peoples, this concept is an eternal present where time ceases, referred to as "Everywhen."
While Western thought views mythology as tales of the past, in Aboriginal cosmology, Dreamtime is not a left behind history. That moment of creation when ancestors shaped the world, carved mountains, and dug rivers is not the beginning of a linear history stretching from yesterday to today, but a cosmic reality continuing to unfold here and now.
For Aborigines, a moment lived a thousand years ago and a step taken on the earth today exist within the same eternal span of time. There is no yesterday, no tomorrow; there is only the uninterrupted flow of existence.
The true illusion of the modern world begins right here. Modern man believes he can control time and progress by pushing it forward. He has turned the world into a pile of places to be "conquered, possessed, and rapidly consumed." Yet linear time perception and the hunger for ownership trap man in a constant sense of lack.
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