The Concept of An Ageless Body

Two years back, I encountered “timelessness” after emerging from deep meditation.

I had the experience of being able to see the blank spaces in time when my parents were conversing. It would appear like a puppet show where one talks, and then a momentary pause where both of them would remain inanimate, and followed by the response of the other party.

What was once a normally fluid process of conversation becomes a staggered turn-based activity, where the duration of silence measured significantly in my perceived time.

I recognised too that I had a strong affinity with the immediate future – of what another’s response would be. I had tested repeatedly to find out if my internal predictions would come true, and they were accurate – enough for me to influence a person’s response toward that which I had wanted.

In that state of timelessness, it was as if every second passing was no different from before, that at each moment it was just another “state-of-being”. Here I realized and experienced presence in a way that is unconnected to the conventional notion of time that was measured by clocks. I reasoned that if in every “state”, I felt as energetic and healthy, then biologically I was the same as the previous instant.

I then proposed to my dad, a concept of “an ageless body” if one is able to enter the “timeless” state of being.

A few months later on, I would then stumble upon this book by Deepak Chopra on “timeless awareness”.

Each time when I stumble upon another author’s account of the same personal experience, it enforces in me a “truth” of being, and validation that what was experienced was worth investigating further.

I later hypothesized from my experience the idea of a “mental framerate of perception“.

– inspired from personal experiences in the “timeless” zone & later from a similar book title by Deepak Chopra