"No!" to the Impermanence Peddlers

Eternal Moments Are Real

REBELLION AGAINST THE IMPERMANENCE PEDDLERS

Some spiritual teachers seem to relish telling us that everything is transitory and nothing is permanent; that all will pass away; that every one of us will lose everything that’s dear to us.

For some of these teachers, there’s an edge of macho glee in their tone. The idea that they are disabusing us of our delusional lust for life seems to give them a thrill.

While I agree that there is partial wisdom in the theory of impermanence, I also protest the fixation that it’s absolute, complete, and final.

+

An Alternate Hypothesis: Moments That Last Forever

Here’s my alternate hypothesis: Certain moments are so potent, so rich, so meaningful, so TRUE, that they live forever. They lodge themselves in the marrow of divine memory. They become permanent fixtures in the architecture of eternity. Impermanence is NOT their ultimate fate.

These are the moments when time stops not because it has ended, but because it has been fulfilled. The gap between experiencer and experience collapses into a single point of consummate recognition. The Great Mystery bursts through the numbing drone of habit and imprints its supernal glory on the consciousness that receives it and on the archetype of consciousness itself.

+

Breakthrough Example: Gallinas Creek Wetlands, October 9, 2025

One such breakthrough moment came for me at 7:08 pm, October 9, 2025, when I stood and gazed out over Gallinas Creek in San Rafael, California and felt the balmy breeze and smelled the aromatic mud and basked in the pink mauve gray blue light blessing me from the west horizon.

I was awash in a resplendent visceral realization that living here on planet Earth in a human body is the greatest privilege and honor. I surged with gratitude that the Divine One saw fit to provide me with this gift

That perfect moment will live forever in my immortal soul. It will live forever in the Anima Mundi, the World Soul, too, because I noticed it, honored it, celebrated it, and offered it up to Her as a gift from my awareness to hers.

+

Other Eternal Moments

There have been, are, and will continue to be many such perfect eternal moments. Another example is the moment I first held my newborn daughter in my arms, after the difficult and stressful ordeal of her emergence, and she gazed back at me with stunning equanimity, with such surpassing peace, that I involuntarily exclaimed, “She is a serene and cagey Buddha Elf!”

Countless other such breakthrough moments have graced me, not just a few rare eruptions. There was, is, and will always be the eternal instant I fell in love with the woman who would later become my wife, as the song “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” played on a boombox at dawn on the pagan holiday of Beltane and she danced on top of a mausoleum in Evergreen Cemetery in Santa Cruz .

There was, is, and will always be the rainy January afternoon when I pored through the Good Times newspaper looking at classified ads for used bikes, because mine had just been stolen, but instead spied an adjacent help wanted ad seeking an astrology columnist, thereby launching the decades-long career that has been key to my life journey.

There was, is, and will always be the minutes on a May night, as I walked toward the Greyhound bus station across the Duke University campus, when 47 of the gunman’s shotgun bullets slashed into my body, and I knew my destiny was changed forever.

For me, these signpost moments were, are, and will always be direct, unimpeachable evidence that disproves the theory that all is fleeting and impermanent.

+

Beyond Linear Time

Moments like these don’t fade because they never fully belonged to linear time. They simmer in the undying present that runs parallel to our temporal experience: always accessible, always alive, always as vivid as when they first blazed into being. Memory may dim, but the moment itself remains pristine in the deeper layers of reality.

+

Mistaking the Map for the Territory

The fundamentalists who insist on absolute impermanence mistake the map for the territory. Yes, forms change, bodies age, circumstances shift. But the moments of perfect recognition, of complete presence, of pure love become part of the permanent record. They are written in a language that entropy can’t read.

+

Consciousness as Co-Creator

Anyone who has tasted these imperishable moments knows: Consciousness doesn’t merely observe reality. It sanctifies it. By our complete presence, our full recognition, our grateful receiving, we transform temporal experiences into deathless treasures. We become co-creators of an enduring archive.

+

Defying the Compulsive Pessimists of Impermanence

So let the pessimists of impermanence hoard their partial truth. We who have lived the perfect moments know better. We carry eternity within us, and eternity isn’t empty. It’s replete with every moment that ever mattered, preserved in the amber of Divine Awareness, forever available to those who aspire to awaken.

These moments are living realities, as present now as they ever were, waiting to be revisited by anyone who has learned to step outside time’s relentless forward march and into the vast, patient space where righteous moments dwell.

Names and Territories of Eternity

But wait! There’s more. News flash: “Eternity” isn’t just a blah, blank conceptual wish-fulfillment. It’s not a sterile, empty fantasy propagated by those who fear death and dissolution.

Among the rooted, lyrical, colorful names for this realm, unknowable by the hyper-rational, are the Noosphere, Indra’s Net, the Collective Unconscious, the Akashic Records, and the Dreamtime.

And despite the grinding, bullying efforts of teachers who ignore, deny, and renounce these approximations of eternity, many brilliant minds have testified they are not only substantial and genuine, but also changeable. Adamantine moments continually transform this territory and shine, star-like, as forever beacons.

+

The Planetary Mind

Across centuries and continents, poets, mystics, and philosophers have witnessed and named the invisible ocean of mind that enfolds us all. Each is a doorway into the same shimmering intuition: that there exists a planetary layer woven from our shared thoughts, feelings, dreams, and revelations.

This stratum is not mere metaphor, though metaphor is one of its favored disguises. It’s a field both intangible and palpable, a subtle fabric spun from the whole of human memory and imagination.

In it, archetypes and symbols shimmer like constellations, guiding both the private mind and the collective fate. It’s at once a library of eternal images, a memory bank of human striving, and a force of communion that links us to each other, to the other-than-human world, and to the vast breathing body of Earth itself.

Below the noise of ordinary awareness, this realm thrums. It calls to us in dreams, in flashes of intuition, in sudden floods of inspiration, in the altered states we stumble into or cultivate through ritual and art.

At times it stirs us with an almost physical sense of belonging and moral responsibility, urging not just the lone seeker but whole cultures toward insight, transformation, or rebellion.

Thinkers and visionaries across many traditions have given it countless names:

• Collective Unconscious: Psychologist Carl Jung’s theory positions it as a shared substratum of archetypes and instincts, capable of evolving through individual and collective experiences. Jung said that as people confront and integrate archetypal shadows, creative energies, and new insights, they seed changes that may eventually become universal tremors within this psychic field.

• Indra’s Net is a Hindu vision symbolizing the universe as an infinite web of interconnections, with each node containing a jewel that reflects every other jewel in the net—as in a hologram. This image represents the indivisibility and mutual interdependence of all things. Any significant creative act or intervention radiates through the entire structure.

• Akashic Records: A universal, energetic archive that contains every thought, action, emotion, and event experienced by every soul across all time, past, present, and future. They are the ultimate memory bank, preserving the collective knowledge and experiences of all existence.

• The Dreamtime: In Aboriginal Australian culture, this is a timeless realm where ancestral spirit beings created and still create the world, its landscapes, animals, plants, and people. The Dreaming actively shapes, guides, and infuses daily life, relationships, land, and cultural responsibilities right now and always,

• The Anima Mundi or World Soul is a living substance or spiritual field permeating and animating the entire universe, much as the individual soul animates the body. It contains the collective memories, archetypes, and spiritual intelligence of creation: a cosmic repository of hopes, dreams, and myths.

• The Sacred Hoop (Medicine Wheel) of North American Plains Tribes: A symbol reflecting the unity and interconnection of all existence, visible as a circle that contains cycles of nature, community, and the spiritual world. Within this construct, the group’s collective dreams, ancestral memories, and wisdom circulate and inform individuals and groups, blending past, present, and future.

• Pachamama of the Quechua and Aymara people: Not only the physical planet but a conscious, living field whose energies and spirit interpenetrate all life. Human experiences, offerings, and rituals act as threads woven into the generational tapestry, altering and nurturing the field for all beings.

• ‘Āina of the Native Hawaiians: A living web of reciprocal relationships—ancestors, spirits, people, plants, and animals—where every action or prayer courses through the entire field and affects all points within it.

• Yachay of certain Amazonian people like the Shipibo: A living field of spirit and knowledge that animates plants, animals, humans, and the world itself.

• Àṣẹ (“Universal Life Force”) of the Yoruban people: Àṣẹ flows through all reality as the animating principle, linking all beings, ancestors, deities, and humans into a vast, evolving spirit field. Àṣẹ preserves and transmits wisdom, power, and memory, shaping the world soul.

Each of these names points to a single intuition: that our existence is not sealed in solitary skins. We participate in a vaster intelligence—a planetary dream-body of mind and spirit, half archive and half oracle, always humming just beyond the edge of speech.

+

How Eternal Moments Rewire the Planetary Mind

The impermanence peddlers miss a crucial truth: The eternal moments I described don’t merely persist. They actively transform reality. Each breakthrough moment of gleaming presence sends ripples through the planetary mental layer, the luminous sheath of soul records arising from collective human thought and experience.

When I stood fully present in the Gallinas Creek wetlands, or held my newborn daughter, or stumbled on my vocation, or watched my future wife dance atop the mausoleum, or got shot: These weren’t passive observations logged in some cosmic filing cabinet. They were creative acts that altered the architecture of the Noosphere. They inscribed new pathways in Indra’s Net. They added potent imprints to the Akashic Records.

+

Moments That Reorganize the Field

This is why the theory of impermanence is not just incomplete. It’s a dangerous half-truth. It teaches us that our experiences dissolve into nothingness, when the opposite is true. In fact, moments of landmark recognition become permanent nodes in the collective field, forever available as templates, as beacons, as portals.

Think of it this way: When I experience a pivotal epiphany—when I exuberantly witness and register an instant of beauty, love, or revelation—I’m not just recording it. I’m broadcasting it. I’m engraving it. I’m installing new software in the planetary mind. I’m creating what Rupert Sheldrake might call a new morphic resonance, making it easier for others to access similar states of consciousness.

The mystics aren’t speaking merely metaphorically when they describe the interpenetration of all minds. My moment of oceanic gratitude at the wetlands doesn’t remain locked in my private experience. It becomes part of the Collective Unconscious, a frequency others can tune into, often without knowing why they’re suddenly moved to tears by a spectacular stretch of sky or feel inexplicably grateful for their embodiment.

+

The Permanent Record Is Dynamic

Here’s what the impermanence fundamentalists cannot grasp: The perpetual record isn’t static. It’s not a dead museum of fossilized experiences. It’s a living, evolving field that grows richer and more complex with each eternal moment we consecrate through our awareness.

Every time someone fully recognizes and honors a radiant milestone, they strengthen the luminous pathways in the planetary consciousness. They make it easier for the next person to break through the trance of mundane time.

This is how consciousness evolves: not through the dissolution that the impermanence peddlers celebrate, but through the accumulation and amplification of striking recognitions. Each treasured burst of wonder is a seed crystal around which new patterns of awareness can form.

+

We Are Sculptors of the Noosphere

Our true role: We’re not passive witnesses to fleeting phenomena. We’re active sculptors of the planetary mind. Every experience we sanctify through rhapsodic presence becomes permanent architecture in the mental-spiritual field that cradles humanity.

When I held my daughter for the first time and recognized her as a serene and cagey Buddha Elf, I wasn’t just having a private paternal epiphany. I was transmitting a potent reinvention of how human consciousness works.

When I fell in love with my future wife dancing atop that mausoleum and found that astrology columnist ad that changed my life’s trajectory, I etched inscriptions in the World Soul. They became glistening clues for others.

When I honor these victories of consciousness and refuse to let them be diminished by the distorted doctrine of universal impermanence, I’m maintaining and enriching the Anima Mundi. I’m ensuring that the moments of supernal clarity don’t just persist but propagate.

+

The Half-Truth Exposed

So yes, forms change. Bodies age. Circumstances dissolve and reform. The impermanence teachers can keep that territory. It’s real enough, as far as it goes.

But some plot twists matter more than others: those that collapse the gap between self and cosmos, flooding us with recognition of our divine privilege. These moments actively restructure the field of collective consciousness. They are generators of order, meaning, and connection.

This is the proof the impermanence fundamentalists ignore: If everything truly dissolved into nothingness, consciousness itself would be impossible. There would be no continuity, no learning, no evolution, no cumulative wisdom.

The very existence of the planetary mental layer—call it what you will—testifies that some things endure, deepen, and grow more luminous with time.

Those of us who live these eternal moments and recognize their transformative power are not clinging to delusion. We are witnessing and participating in the actual architecture of consciousness itself. It’s a structure more permanent than any physical mountain.

The eternal moments are evidence that consciousness creates permanence through the sacred act of recognition—rendering the doctrine of absolute impermanence not as wisdom, but as a failure of vision.

.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Let’s summon our wisest, deepest love and care for each other as we imprint this Saturday’s NO KINGS Protest on the Animal Mundi, the World Soul.

For info on the October 18 event, go here: https://tinyurl.com/NoTyrantBullies and here: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

These pages give info on protest safety, knowing your rights, and de-escalation training, among many other valuable tips

.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

Links to all my other stuff: linktr.ee/robbrezsny

.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY

Week of October 16

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I’m pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make a big wish upon a bright star. But I must also tell you how important it is to be clear and exact. Even a slight error in formulating your wish could result in only a partial fulfillment. And aiming your plea at the wrong star could cause a long delay. Sorry I have to be so complicated, dear Libra. The fact is, though, it’s not always easy to know precisely what you yearn for and to ask the correct source to help you get it. But here’s the good news: You are currently in a phase when you’re far more likely than usual to make all the right moves.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During World War II, Scorpio actor and inventor Hedy Lamarr developed frequency-hopping technology to prevent enemies from jamming torpedo guidance systems. Her solution rapidly switched radio frequencies in hard-to-intercept patterns. The technology was so advanced that no one could figure out how to fully adopt it until years later. Engineers eventually realized that Lamarr’s invention was essential for WiFi, GPS, and cell phone networks. In the coming weeks, Scorpio, you, too, have the potential to generate ideas that might not be ready for prime time but could ultimately prove valuable. Trust your instincts about future needs. Your visionary solutions are laying the groundwork for contributions that won’t fully ripen for a while.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I guarantee you won’t experience a meltdown, crack-up, or nervous collapse in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. What unfolds may bring a similar intensity, but in the opposite direction: a personal breakthrough, a cavalcade of illumination, or a surge of awakening. I urge you to be alert and receptive for relaxing flurries of sweet clarity; or streams of insights that rouse a liberating integration; or a confluence of welcome transformations that lead you to unexpected healing. Can you handle so many blessings? I think you can. But you may have to expand your expectations to welcome them all.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1959, a Swedish engineer named Nils Bohlin designed the three-point seatbelt, revolutionizing car safety. Working for Volvo, he insisted the design must be made freely available to all car manufacturers. Bohlin understood that saving lives was more important than hoarding credit or profit. Capricorn, your assignment now is to give generously without fussing about who gets the applause. A solution, insight, or creation of yours could benefit many if you share it without reservation. Your best reward will be observing the beneficial ripple effects, not holding the patent.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Your exploratory adventures out on the frontiers have been interesting and mostly successful, Aquarius. Congrats! I love how you have avoided tormenting yourself with self-doubt and roused more boldness than you’ve summoned in a long time. You have managed to ignore useless and superstitious fears even as you have wisely heeded the clues offered by one particular fear that was worth considering. Please continue this good work! You can keep riding this productive groove for a while longer.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In Korean tradition, mudangs are shamans who endure a personal crisis or illness and emerge with supernatural powers. They perform rituals to seek the favor of spirits. They heal the ancestral causes of misfortune and ensure good fortune, prosperity, and well-being for the people they serve. I don’t mean to imply you’re following a similar path, Pisces. But I do think your recent discomforts have been like an apprenticeship that has given you enhanced capacity to help others. How will you wield your power to bless and heal?

.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

If you would like to support my work, please consider:

buying my Expanded Audio Horoscopes and Daily Horoscopes

and/or

becoming a paid subscriber to my Free Will Astrology Newsletter

and/or

donating at my Paypal site: paypal.com/paypalme/GiftsForRob

(contribute as Friends and Family)

.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Life is tempting you to tiptoe to the brink of the threshold of the rawest truth, the wildest beauty, and the most precious love. Your ancestors are conspiring with your guardian angels to lure you into the secret heart of the inner sanctum of spiritual truth. I am totally sincere and serious. You now have a momentous opportunity—a thrilling opening to commune with subtle powers that could provide you with profound guidance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In the forests of America’s Pacific Northwest, “nurse logs” lie fallen but fertile. These dead trees host seedlings, mosses, and new saplings that rise from their decaying trunks. I regard this as a powerful metaphor for you, Taurus. Something old in you is crumbling, like outdated beliefs, outmoded duties, or obsolete loyalties. Part of you may want to either grieve or ignore the shift. And yet I assure you that fresh green vitality is sprouting from that seemingly defunct thing. What new possibility is emerging from what was supposed to end? Resurrection is at hand.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): A deeper, wilder, smarter version of love is beckoning you from the horizon. Are you ready to head in its direction? I’m not sure you are. You may semi-consciously believe you already know what love is all about, and are therefore closed to learning more. It’s also possible that your past romantic wounds have made you timid about exploring unfamiliar terrain. Here’s my assessment: If you hope to get exposed to the sweeter, less predictable kinds of intimacy, you will have to drop some (not all) of your excessive protections and defenses. PS: At least one of your fears may be rooted in faulty logic.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Princess Diana transformed the British monarchy because she insisted that royal duty should include genuine emotional connection. Her generosity wasn’t merely ceremonial but was expressed through hands-on charity work. She had close contact with youth who had nowhere to live. She walked through minefields as part of her efforts to rid the planet of that scourge. She hugged people with AIDS at a time when many others feared such contact. “Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward,” she said. Her ability to maintain grace while remaining emotionally authentic reflected a genius for blending strength with sensitivity. Can you guess her astrological sign? Cancerian, of course. Now is a perfect time for you to draw inspiration from her example. Express your wisely nurturing energy to the max!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Certain African lions in Kenya have no manes. Scientists theorize it’s an adaptation to heat or a reflection of extra aggressive hunting strategies. But symbolically, it challenges expectations: Is royalty still royalty without the crown? I bring this to your attention, Leo, because I suspect you will soon be asked to explore your power without its usual accouterments. Can you properly wield your influence if you don’t unleash your signature roar and dazzle? Will quiet confidence or understated presence be sufficiently magnetic? Might you radiate even more potency by refining your fire? I think so. You can summon strength in subtlety and majesty in minimalism.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): During the next nine months, you will face a poignant and potentially inspiring choice: whether to wrangle with an endless tangle of mundane struggles, or else to expand your vision to the bigger picture and devote your energy intensely to serving your interesting, long-term dreams. I hope you choose the latter option! For best results, get clear about your personal definition of success, in contrast to the superficial definitions that have been foisted on you by your culture. Can you visualize yourself years from now, looking back on your life’s greatest victories? You’re primed to enter a new phase of that glorious work, rededicating yourself with precise intentions and vigorous vows.

.• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •