Childhood Anxiety About Eternity

A woman expresses gratitude for Rupert’s insights about the ego’s drive to create conflict, which helped her understand her autistic son’s seemingly unprovoked outbursts. She then shares a childhood experience of anxiety about eternity, which returned when Rupert asked the group to imagine what might be behind being. Rupert clarifies that he wasn’t implying something exists behind being, but wanted her to recognise nothing can be prior to being – an experiential rather than intellectual understanding. He explains that the root of anxiety is fear of death, which dissolves when we recognise being is ever-present. When the finite mind perceives eternity through the faculty of thinking, it appears as ‘everlasting’ (extending infinitely in time), but true eternity is the vertical dimension of being that intersects with time at the ‘now’ – making ‘now’ both a moment in time and eternity from consciousness’s perspective.

From event 09 - 16 March, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mercy Center, 9–16 March 2025

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