Touching Eternity

A woman says she felt like she was touching eternity during one of Rupert’s guided meditations. She asks him to explain what happened. And how does that fit in with what he says about being and abiding?

Rupert says: ‘You’re right, you did fall out of time and into eternity. That’s an interpretation that makes a concession to the separate self – there’s really no ‘you’ to fall out of time. It’s just a poetic way of saying that you sunk deeper into being. And as you did, all the finest layers of experience dissolved – even the very subtle, but deep belief that time really exists and that we are abiding in time fell away for you.

‘And when the mind, which is not actually present during the experience, rises again, it tries to make sense of the experience in terms of time and space. But it can’t quite do it, so it says something vaguely rational, but half poetic, like “I fell out of time into eternity”. The power of a statement like that, because it is informed by the experience, is that it can take the listener directly to the experience.

*This video is from one of Rupert’s in-person retreats at The Vedanta, 18–25 February 2023. For more information on upcoming retreats (many of which can be attended online via livestream) go to:

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