Some background

(Much of this is widely believed today, just like much of "climate change" is, except for, what is now, the fringe-element who usually don't know what they are even talking about, basing their misinformation on religious ideas found in century old books, and scientific knowledge in widely available books they somehow never found. There are always deniers, and naysayers, of course, but they are rapidly falling away as science supersedes fantasy. O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!)

There is no self, there is no me. There is no bob, there is no praybob. There is just neural firings along the wires, along synapses - signals are carried across these gaps by chemicals called neurotransmitters and there are many of them - and all these firings vibrate coherently, heating up the surrounding areas along the line of their travel. After a time, theses threads coalesce with other surrounding threads and together they form "brain activity" which eventually - presumably, since it happened in humans, of that we can be quite certain - becomes the "consciousness of brain activity", creating more "consciousness of brain activity", and on and on to eternity or death of the brain which ever comes first. At some point along the way, the members of the affected species invent language, writing, technology, sciences, religions, philosophies, fantasy stories, political parties, and all the rest of what, today, goes by Human Civilizations - for good or ill.

The part of the brain that stores and manages past memories is the same part of the brain that concocts future plans, hopes, dreams, and simulates what's coming next. Both the past and the future are creations in the brain. Who we are at any moment in time is an ongoing narrative. We are caught in limbo between these two parts of the brain in an eternal/transitory now moment and it is there that we live, breathe and have our being... such as it is at any specific time (also a function of these same parts).

The greatest teachers are those who could dwell in the now, unencumbered by past and future musings, and speak from the moment, the eternal now moment, filling the void in their audiences that could never be filled otherwise, so that later, they themselves might continue this internal process for themselves, with a Real Aim and Desire for the Higher.