Why Has Life Started Passing More Quickly? Has Time Sped Up?

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

People often bring this up, and I would like your opinion: has time sped up? I feel as though it is not time itself. Everyone says time used to move more slowly, back when our parents were young. But I have the feeling it is not time. Do you feel that time has changed?

AVAlexander Volchek

Yes, some people say time has sped up. The answer matters enormously for questions like: how can I manage to do everything in this life? How should I set goals, choose what to do, and decide how to live through things? If time has sped up, then our systems for perceiving what happens in the world, in terms of cause and effect, have changed. We need to approach this question from different angles to understand the whole picture and decide how to live within it. Has a person's capacity to perceive themselves at a particular moment changed over the last hundred years? When you perceive yourself in the present moment, time as such does not exist. That is very important. Over the last hundred years, that ability has not changed enormously, but it has changed over the last five hundred years, for example, or the last three thousand. Three thousand years ago, people could perceive themselves differently in each moment. They lived not only in a different flow of time, but in a different knowledge of themselves.

If we compare time as something material—the time shown on a clock—it has not changed.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

You mean—

AVAlexander Volchek

The change is an illusion. Of course, something changes physically, but it is such a tiny change that there is no point discussing it.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Yes.

AVAlexander Volchek

But there is a difference in how people experience life. In ancient Egyptian times, for example, people did not remember past lives, but they knew those lives had existed. Does that change your idea of time? Of course. Suppose you are absolutely certain you had past lives, just as certain as you are that you were born from your mother's womb rather than a test tube. I mean that you were not grown elsewhere or cloned, for example. At least, you are certain of that.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

It is interesting that there are children like that now.

AVAlexander Volchek

Look, this is very—

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Yes. How will they experience it?

AVAlexander Volchek

I do not know whether children like that have been born yet.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Not cloned, but the ones who—

AVAlexander Volchek

There have not been complete births that way yet. These projects are being discussed and exist somewhere in some form.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Yes, but many children have already been born—

AVAlexander Volchek

Yes, but that is IVF. That is an entirely different route. I am talking specifically about the womb. Let us consider that. You are certain the event happened that way, although you have no actual confirmation of it.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

And I will never have any.

AVAlexander Volchek

You will never find that confirmation. Look, you cannot find that confirmation. Even if someone shows you a video, a video is no confirmation of anything nowadays. How would you prove it? Did the camera perform a genetic analysis of your entire system to establish that it was you? That system does not exist, yet you are certain. Whatever I say now will not change your certainty. Perhaps it could introduce doubt, but not change that certainty. It will not even introduce doubt. People then were certain that human beings had past lives and that earlier causes and effects influenced them. They knew there were past lives and would be future lives. Today, vast numbers of people on Earth belong to different religions and teachings and believe in incarnation. But if you really question them, most believe socially and intellectually, rather than in the way they believe that you and I have two eyes. It is a different kind of belief.

Ask a blind person, “Do you believe red and green exist?” They will say, “I believe it intellectually, but I have not seen it as a reality.” Most people who discuss incarnations do not truly believe in them on the basis of reality. People living at that earlier time believed with absolute certainty.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Unconditionally.

AVAlexander Volchek

Unconditionally. Before that, there was a time when people knew and remembered their past lives and relied on them. Did time flow differently for them? Of course, at least for this reason: knowing there are past lives means knowing there is a period between death and birth. What kind of time exists between death and birth?

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

None.

AVAlexander Volchek

There is some kind of time, but it is not physical. That is very important. Look, it is not physical. On one hand, it is physical: if we observe the intervals between incarnations, it is physical. But for the spiritual being living through a particular period between death and birth, it is not physical. Let us suppose we would call that “time,” too. Suppose. In my videos, meditations, and practices, I often speak of a timeless state. At this very moment, I see us in the spiritual world outside time. There are spaces set apart from time. It is infinity in every direction; there are no thousands of years there. At the same time, I see you moving through time. What kind of time? On one hand, the time of the spiritual world's development; on the other, the time of humanity's existence within an incarnated planet, such as the current Earth. These are different areas of perception. However much I describe them, how can I actually convey them to you?

Language cannot even describe it. What could I use as a basis? I could rely on what I see and say, “Tanya, look, here we are sitting outside time.” You would ask, “Can you explain what that means?” But I see our presence outside time very clearly. I see a person's spiritual being existing outside time very clearly.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

So time has sped up for people because—

AVAlexander Volchek

I am not talking about speeding up yet; we will come to that. When I see you outside time, I see something, call it “outside time,” and convey or explain it in those words. Consider someone who understands that there was a period between death and birth, when their spiritual being perceived what was happening differently. What kind of flow is that? How does a spiritual being wait for an incarnation, or not want to incarnate? The spiritual beings of a great many incarnated people on Earth live in darkness. People assume a spiritual being is some structure with extraordinary perception, and that they have connected with it. But your task is to work in this world so your spiritual being can begin to see and does not remain in darkness between death and birth. That does not interest people very much; they are interested in the present time. Coming back to—

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

What will happen there.

AVAlexander Volchek

Yes, what will happen there.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Everyone thinks that—

AVAlexander Volchek

It lives with a certain understanding of what is happening. When I say it lives in darkness, I mean that spiritual systems perceive the flow of life in the spiritual world differently. That is mind-blowing. If spiritual beings and systems perceive themselves differently in the spiritual world, then, Tanya, every person here perceives time differently—completely differently. However much we try to convey it, all we can do is study, discuss, spend dozens of hours with it, and compare. We will increasingly see that consistent patterns are missing and enter an ever greater stream of utterly meaningless materialistic or social comparisons. Ordinary time has not sped up. There are laws by which clocks work. There is a reason for expensive, sophisticated watches. Why do many cost $500,000? They have a tourbillon or some other special mechanism that can work indefinitely, relatively speaking. Relatively speaking, a stone will not disappear either. Of course, everything will disappear: all minerals will transform and everything will change. But at least from a human perspective, those mechanisms can work indefinitely, in that relative sense.

Many watches need to be kept in a certain condition. You have to wear them, for example, or keep a special mechanism in the cabinet that rotates them. Everyone knows certain watches need periodic adjustment because they begin to lose a few seconds. It is utterly mundane.

It is nonsense. A person cannot even recognize their own mood toward their wife, husband, or child, and you are telling them about a second their watch has lost over three hundred and sixty days. That second means—

Fifty days, right? They could not care less about that second. Humanity cannot predict tsunamis, weather, or earthquakes.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Earthquakes are particularly relevant.

AVAlexander Volchek

Nobody knows. That is it. It is—

Just probability.

Probability, just probability. Nobody can determine it, even though you would think everything was already laid out and AI should tell you whether it will rain in ten minutes. There is a probability. People do not even fully understand what a 75 percent chance of rain means, what that number actually signifies.

Then you open it and discover that the 75 percent applies only from ten to eleven. And it is a probability, for a particular area.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Yes, and it passed you by.

AVAlexander Volchek

It passed you by, and then suddenly it rains all day. You say, “But the forecast said something else.” Everything has already changed, everything has changed, everything is different now. So what are we saying about the flow of time? Each person perceives it in their own way. If everyone has their own flow of time, Tanya, the question to ask yourself is: what am I perceiving? Today you said something interesting. It may not be in this video, but you said, “It is Friday already. Everything went by so quickly.”

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

It feels as though, every so often, I collect myself and try to understand what I am feeling. I enter a state of awareness. Then the rush begins: twenty projects, three children, and everything else. When I come to my senses again—oh, it is Friday already, like today. I thought Monday had only just begun, and it feels as though I was not aware of myself during that time, never even asking where I was or what I was.

AVAlexander Volchek

Do you know what I caught myself feeling this Wednesday—this Tuesday? It had been a long time since I had so badly wanted the week not to end.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

I caught myself feeling the same thing.

AVAlexander Volchek

Hear me out.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Can you imagine?

AVAlexander Volchek

Usually, I am in a space where I feel I have stopped tracking days, weeks, and time altogether. Some of my psychophysical reactions make me suffer a little socially because of it: here is another Saturday, and another. I understand why: I live with freedom to make decisions and act. I am immersed in it all, with no distinction. But this time I caught myself thinking, “Could I have a little more time?” I am developing many different systems and involved in many projects, and I have started needing physical time. I have a computer and run requests on it; I try to buy time in every system. Those who follow our channel—you heard, right? I do not talk about it on ToTheMoon; I read there. I have Codex, ChatGPT's Codex, version 5.5. I have the Pro version, the highest plan, and click Fast for the maximum speed. I do not care how the tokens are spent.

I ask, “Can I speed it up even more?” It tells me, “No.” I cannot make it faster.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Yes, I would also—

AVAlexander Volchek

I would readily pay thousands of dollars for Codex right now. Perhaps not tens of thousands—although perhaps I would. But thousands, Tanya, honestly, I would pay very quickly to speed up what? Physical time. Yet, to be honest, I do not understand why I need it. It makes no difference whether I solve my task now or in three months. I cannot say I am in a hurry, because I am not in a hurry to get anywhere in my life. For some reason, I still want to speed it up because of a certain social structure. I do not depend on making a lot of money by some date or releasing a particular project. Many of my projects are simply part of my life. It is a project within my life; my life does not belong to the project. I am fully in charge of it. It is the flow of my life, my destiny, rather than a project I need in order to buy tomatoes, for example.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

To survive, yes.

AVAlexander Volchek

There are situations where I understand that someone goes to work and has to sit down and do it today because they need to survive. I have things like that, too.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Yes.

AVAlexander Volchek

I do many projects out of that practical necessity in my life.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Mm-hmm.

AVAlexander Volchek

They are simply necessary in my life. I do not know whether I am for or against that, but that is why I do them. Here, the reason is different. This is an encounter with time that creates a paradox in how you perceive what is happening. You need to see what you want to do and why, to find your balance. Sometimes you can tell yourself, “In that case, let it work however it works.” I realize that what I want from Codex is not a token problem. I want a little more than Codex itself can do. It is not about speed. I want something it cannot do yet, not more speed. I want to buy a little more capability. I know some people have access to it, such as those creating these systems. I would like a little of that access so I can do certain things, rather than speed up the process of creating something. That is a major difference between what AGI is and how people understand it.

Once you begin to understand AGI from this angle, everything changes. When it comes to the people truly creating AGI, 99.99999999999 percent of the market's discussion of what they are doing is illusory. People do not understand what they are doing or what they want to achieve. It is like me: I cannot explain to anyone what I am developing. For the first time, I have become happy about something because I can do it myself, alone. It is like working with plants. I do something by myself, and the less I ask anyone else, the more I am in harmony. That is very interesting.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

That relates to the first question.

AVAlexander Volchek

It is probably very interesting in your experience, too. Imagine working with clients who trust you completely and do not ask questions. You become immersed and receive the full extent of the experience. You see that they are not detached or indifferent; they are in complete harmony with having you there. You, in turn, are in complete harmony with having that client or project. That is not what it is ultimately about. Then the magic happens, like the magic between a man and a woman looking at each other.

TTTatyana Tsvetkova

Yes. A hundred percent.