I would suggest that today, we know about as much concerning the human mind as we knew about the galaxy in 1300.
Alan WattsWe are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.
Alan WattsFor there is never anything but the present, and if one cannot live there, one cannot live anywhere.
Alan Watts