What is time? “It seems to me that we have ultimately to go
beyond all forms of thought – even beyond the Trinity, the
Incarnation...... All these belong to the world of signs –
manifestations of God in human thought – but God Himself, Truth
itself is beyond all forms of thought.” (Bede Griffiths OSB) Not
only is the Divine Reality beyond all thought, but it is also
beyond our ordinary sense of time, as we heard Clement of
Alexandria say in the second century of our Common Era.
Sometimes in meditation we have a different experience of time.
In your meditation group someone may query: ‘Have we really
meditated for half an hour?’ In previous letters Dr Shanida
Nataraja explained that meditation switches off our usual sense
of time and space; boundaries of space and time disappear; there
is a sense of timelessness and connectedness. When we come out
of meditation, our ordinary mind takes over and normal time
reappears. But what is time? This is a question that has
preoccupied many a sage and mystic. They stress