[MD] Reality Lies Outside Linear Time

[Ham Priday]

Greetings, Khoo Hock --


This is an outstanding essay on time perception and its relation to 
experiential (cause-and-effect)  reality.

I sincerely hope you're going to be a "regular" here, as the MoQers are 
badly in need of your insight.  Can you tell us something about your 
background and experience?

Needless to say, I look forward to reading your future postings.

Essentially yours,
Ham


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> Dear all,
>
> I would like to reply to at least two threads this weekend, when I get 
> past
> some meetings tomorrow and some work laid out for me.
>
> But before then I want to catch this thought before it flies away.
>
> Take Time. Time is percieved as linear because we have clocks constructed 
> to
> measure it. We have it around us everyday, embedded in our computers, our
> phones, every manmade device around us.
>
> Yet it is the approximation of changes that we observe around us when we
> look at the world in an empirical sense. The seasons change, the day
> transforms into night, the world around us manifests changes every moment,
> every second and we try to capture the change through our invention of 
> time.
>
> Since we think we percieve change as linear, as a chain of cause and 
> effect,
> particularly when in isolation, we think therefore that time is linear. 
> But
> it is a construct of time that we have invented ourselves, manmade so that
> we think through this device, we can control the environment aorund us.
>
> The reality is that Time is an artificial manmade pattern that is a result
> of our empiricism; our objective worldview; where we as the subject view 
> the
> world around us as the object.
> The reality is that cause and effect is only linear when viewed in
> isolation, when we have taken a laboratory experiment and suspended all
> other causes and effects, save the one we choose to observe. The reality 
> is
> that cause and effect, and "Time" itself spreads out as would a ripple
> affecting everything in its path, every molecule in its lattice at the 
> same
> time.
>
> In reality, time is only linear but multilinear and omnilinear and 
> happening
> all at once and everywhere. When we have mastered what time really is, we
> have then mastered the universe. Which then opens up what others regard as
> mysticism.
>
> Subject Object Metaphysics has its roots in this framework of linear time.
> The Reality, the Metaphysics of Quality if you like,  that lies outside 
> this
> worldview shows us an interlocked and interrelated uinverse where we are 
> all
> connected and all the same at the same time. And the secret to the time
> machine; or a machine that transcends Time.
>
> The idea of an individual has no meaning or sense in such a world view.
>
> Khoo Hock Aun