Memory: The End of Belief 2

What does it mean that something happens?

Either we are referring to that which occurred previously or we are referring to something which is currently occurring.

It seems only possible that a perception could occur subsequent to  an event. It implies causality. The element of "Time" would be required between the "event" and the thought of it. Even thought itself would take time to occur. The type of perception referred to here is memory.

Previously, we determined that a memory can only ever occur presently. If this is so, when could any perceived event have ever occurred?

More than just past recollections, this conclusion applies to all perception. What we are observing in this "moment" is nothing other than perception,not "the thing in itself". as Kant pointed out. There is an inference of an event to which it refers, but no evidence of it.

If the perception is occurring "now", when could the event have possibly ever occurred?

It never does. Only perceptions, thoughts, some called recollections or memories apparently supporting prior events are experienced.

The actuality is, then, that we only ever experience Presence, Self itself.