How Does Evolution Exist If Time Is an Illusion?

Does evolution exist? With the evidence seemingly stacked in favour of materialism — the big bang, billions of years of geology, bones, dinosaurs, and more — how does our current evolution theory fit into the consciousness-only model of the nature of reality? That is, within the concept of oneness, where infinite consciousness is all that exists and time and space are an illusion, how do you explain dinosaur bones and ageing? Does consciousness evolve? Does the Universe actually evolve? Does the mind evolve? What was here before the big bang? Is evolution real or an illusion?

Rupert suggests how the perception of evolution and the universe work in the non-dual perspective.

Taken from Rupert's retreat at Mercy Center, March 2022.

00:19 Does Evolution Exist?
01:02 Only One Thing Ever Evolves
01:56 What Is the Universe Made Of?
03:00 What Existed before the Universe?
04:00 Does Time Exist?
04:58 How Do You Explain Time and History?
07:30 The Consciousness-Only Model of Reality
09:19 The Problem with Materialism

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[annemurphy]

I had 2 NDE's and there was no time. Just pure awareness and everything was simultaneous NOW. Awareness could be directed anywhere at will, past, future, other realms/dimensions all at once! Multiple lives were being experienced simultaneously as if Awareness projected a bit of itself into many various "lives" at once and it felt more real and natural than "here".

[RobbeyT]

Oh yes! Nothing stands out from God's consciousness, so that answers my own mental dilemma when it comes to Non-duality. They often say that trees, people etc, don't actually exists. "Exist" means to stand out or be apart from something else. God doesn't exist, God simple IS, .. so if God just IS and nothing stand apart from God, then Nothing exists either, everything just IS. Amazing! Thank you Rupert!

[miproci]

I've been watching this guy for like 10 years and trust me, he knows exactly what he's talking about. There is a moment when a man has an explanation for every question asked by another man because he knows what the mind is. This guy is a genius, give him credit.

[moonglow]

"Nothing exists; everything appears to exist." (Nisargadatta Maharaj)

[sunilkamesh]

Rupert guruji....you brought me to tears in a public space listening to this....let the infinity consciousness light every of the 7-8 billion lives

[sumandebroy]

If you were to ask this question to Shri Ramana Maharshi, he would say... enquire who is asking these questions? Once you find out the real "Self" these questions automatically disappear...
Finite mind always asks questions as it can't grasp the infinite! Since there's a concept of time and space for the finite mind, there's also a concept of evolution of things over a period of time and space.
In dreams, we do not question the existence of objects as during dreams everything seems real, the entity within the dream will also find the concepts of time and evolution of things as logical and reasonable.
This is the wonder of the human mind in that it can create things out of nothing....not absolutely"nothing" however. It creates things out of the ever existing Consciousness...

[VinnyOrzechowski]

As a simple human all of this is really hard to compute

[RafaMartinelli]

Love it when this gets to a point where it’s like a riddle whose code you’re trying to understand; you ask questions until you get it, and then you know so you can just answer like the guy you got it from.

[enlightenedentrepreneurbyaw]

What a beautiful explanation! Thank you Rupert. 🔥🔥

[LoveJungle]

I don't think he really answered the question of evolution sufficiently. He started to get there when he challenged the materialist view of reality, but then he kind of spun it into a talk about the evolution of consciousness and the experience of reality from a non-dual perspective. Fascinating, but not really pertinent to the question. I suppose a question like this is hard to answer without first having a discussion about the consciousness model vs material model of reality. Most people are gonna assume the materialist model when asking a science based question. You'd have to challenge their assumption that consciousness emerges from the physical world.

[Zoki_Joy_of_Being]

Wow! Thank you soo much for this questions and Rupert shining light on them. I am so grateful…. ❤ Thank you thank you thank you…this words resonate here fully 🙏

[aaronhall]

It's nice to hear that there's someone who sees life as I do. He perfectly reiterated my intuition.

[squamish]

There is no time at a quantum level so it's kind of odd that the physicist would say that Rupert's view is inconsistent with his.

[tidyblob]

I remembered listening to this conversation in the same room during the retreat. feeling confused, mindblown, and yet resonated at the same time.

Listening to this again after 10 months. This is indeed an incredible pointing

[ratuv_YT]

Words can not express mysticism. There's so much unknown to our perceivable senses. Forget everything we know. Our arrogance and stubbornness are the barriers that stop us from the truth.

[christinedavison]

Wow Rupert you're definitely cooking on gas, awesome posting. 👏👏👏

[blinkmusic]

"Life as we know it, is a narrative written by perception"

[ceeemm]

If time doesn't exist, that would explain why buses are always late, but I wouldn't know because there's no time to prove it.

[anamnesiser]

Nice sidestep on the 'dinosaur' question 😆

Whatever this dream/experience is, it is certainly on a stationary level plane.

[clericknight]

I just read the title and I’d have to say that time is only existent due to the perception of decay and change through the lens of an already evolved being able to precise such changes. So millions of years of trees growing and rock formations poping up and low level life evolution isn’t really millions of years due to nothing being able to perceive time at all. Millions of years to the planet with zero life on it is just one continuous moment of growth I’d assume 🤷‍♂️