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Time - space the projection of the image
The world is my body, and what I am looking out of is what I am looking at.
...memory gives me a knowledge of the actual past,..(but) I know only memories of the past, and those memories
exist only as a present experience.
In the same way, I never know the future, I know only anticipations ...which are themselves parts of present experience.
To see that the past as memory and the future as anticipation are both present facts is to see all time existing
now.
Ken Wilber
The ouroboros, the snake biting his tail, is a symbol of both spatial and temporal infinity.The ouroboros is also
the symbol of logical paradox...
The ouroboros, the snake with his tail in his mouth, is the proto-type of the vicious circle. What could be more
vicious than to bite yourself, with a view, presumably, to eating yourself. Furthermore this is impossible. Jaws
cant devour jaws, the stomach can't digest itself. . . This task . . . is a good definition of paradox...
The 'Endless Snake' depicts an ouroboros who has become one with himself. It has fallen into the mathematical sign
for infinity.
Wendy Doniger O' Flaherty
We have penetrated matter and found a bit of maya (illusion)- and a glimpse of ourselves.
Michael Talbot
True perception is not exclusively either inner or outer. When you perceive the inner, you can see the corresponding
change in your 'objective ' world. When you perceive the outer, which is always stimulus, you perceive the corresponding
change in yourself. These changes are always occurring whether noticed or not. But to notice either one alone is
little more than a game, for total perception means to become aware of the limited nature of both and the boundless
expanse in which they arise.
Enlightening - G.Bluestone
...if we find that the reality of the past is ...that our minds actually participate with it, there can be no further
historical study as we know it.
Because we are ultimately not separate from the objects we observe, and at some level are a continuum with them,
we cannot interact with them. In some strange sense we are them.
Michael Talbot
Sceptic: I see time as like a flowing river, bringing future events towards me.
Physicist: The motion is illusory! How can time move? If it moves it must have a speed. What speed? One day per
day? It's nonsense. A day is a day is a day.
Sceptic: But if time doesn't pass, how do things change?
Physicist: Change occurs because objects move about through space in time. Time doesn't move.
....the quantum theory reveals that, at the atomic level, events occur spontaneouslv without complete prior causation.
Sceptic: You still haven't explained to me why I feel the flow of time.
Physicist: I'm not a neurologist. It has probably got something to do with short-term memory processes.
Sceptic: You're claiming it's all in the mind-an illusion?
Physicist: You would be unwise to appeal to your feelings to attribute physical qualities to the external world.
Haven't you ever felt dizzy?
Sceptic: Of course.
Physicist: But you do not attempt to attribute your dizziness to a rotation of the universe, in spite of the fact
that you feel the world spinning round?
Sceptic: No. It's clearly an illusion.
Physicist: So, I maintain that the whirling of time is like the whirling of space - a sort of temporal dizziness
- which is given a false impression of reality by our confused language, with its tense structure and meaningless
phrases about the past, present and future.
Sceptic: Tell me` more.
Physicist: Not now. I've run out of time... (!!!)
One suspects then that time, doesn' really 'flow' at all: it's all in the mind.
Paul Davies
Time is so fundamental to our experience of the world...
Our very notion of personal identity-the self, the soul-is closely bound up witlh memory and enduring experience.
...just as all of Infinity is completely present at every point of space, so also all of eternity is completely
present at every point of time. Thus, from the viewpoint of Eternity, absolutely all time is NOW, just as to the
Infinite, all space is HERE. Since all time is NOW, it follows that the past and future are very much illusions...
Space, cannot exist apart from objects, since ..it is that which surrounds them.. Space and objects-in this sense-are
therefore one. Furthermore, objects, in order to exist, must endure; that is, duration or time is necessary for
the existence of objects, for without duration there could be nothing to endure.. Hence space, time, and objects
are mutually dependant and inseparable, and therefore the unreality of any one of these three implies the unreality
of the other two.
Ken Wilber
