The future, will be the result of today, the present. There is only the present. Yesterday was the present to you when you experienced it, and tomorrow will be also the present when you experience it. Therefore, experience takes place only in the present, and beyond experience nothing exists. Yes, even the present is mere imagination, for the sense of time is purely mental.
Space is similarly mental.
Therefore birth and rebirth, which take place in time and space, cannot be other than imagination. This is the significance of the crucifixion of Jesus. The stone which is projected upwards remains in constant motion till it returns to its source, the earth, and rests. Headache continues to give trouble, till the pre-headache state is regained. Although indestructible by nature, by false identification with its destructible instrument, the body consciousness imbibes a false apprehension of its destructibility.