The Mechanism of Time Dilation

There's three mechanisms for time dilation, which is what you're talking about. As we move into very deep states of concentration, the brain starts performing efficiency, changing. It says, wow, I need a lot of energy for focus and attention right now. And so what it starts doing is shutting down non-critical structures. When this happens, we lose the ability to separate paths from present to future. We're sort of plunged into what researchers talk about as the, you know, deep now,. The elongated now, which is talked about spiritually as the eternal present.

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