It's that "everything is NOW" thingie again.
When I visualize the afterlife and a soul looking at past-present-future lives, I visualize a series of ribbons, all in motion - running in all possible directions around the core (the soul) and creating a 3-D ball of sorts. If you pick a spot on a ribbon and focus on it, you see an event and the people who are participating. All of the ribbons are moving in a circular motion and there are so many of them that they would look like a solid ball or a hollow ball of yarn from the outside if they were truly solid - but they are made of light.
From the inside, it would be like watching a zillion events unfold at once, in full living color and surround-sound. At any point in "time" a soul could enter an event on a ribbon and s/he would then be participating in the events from that point forward. (In other words, the soul would reincarnate at that point.) This means that the ribbons themselves are in a constant state of flux; nothing is static. (Which leads to the whole discussion about alternate dimensions, but I'm trying to stay on topic.)
This is the only way I can make sense of the idea that time is a man-made construct. When you're in one or more of the ribbons, Earth time is real because that's the way the game is played. When you're simply observing the zillions of ribbons, you understood perfectly that everything is happening NOW.
(Raise your hand if you think I need to cut down on the coffee consumption!)
