Time Restricts the Soul

"The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time."

Marsilio Ficino 

Ancient scripts claim time to be an illusion.  This would explain how time flies or lasts for an eternity.  It is speculated man created time based on nature or seasonal cycles.  The flexibility of time ... feeling lost or out of sync ... suggests that time in not internal.  Physically, our bodies age according to time, but deep within we feel the same ... timeless.

So is it our soul that detects the discrepancy in time?  If our soul is eternal, it would have to adjust to the worldly calendar even though cognizant of infinity.  The soul, then, feels the pinch of squeezing into the physical space as well as the limitation of time.  If this is so, no wonder we as humans feel such restraint and lack of freedom.

In our dreams, time is not of the essence.  We can move from the past to the future, recall or recreate,

or shift shape into different realities, realms, and unknown places.   We can wear different faces or inhabit different body forms and experience wild fantasy; and yet, return to time as we currently know it.  Eventually, the soul sheds the temporary physical body with its timed restrictions, and takes flight once again ... beyond time.