Michael, I like your image of a house of mirrors that disappears when we find the door that lets us out. At the same time, I think it’s fair to say that there is no ‘outside.’ We are ‘inside’ linear time, but perhaps that does not mean we are limited in the way we usually imagine. Your question is good; let me rephrase it: In this moment, the whole of space (with all its contents and happenings) is present. In the next moment, the whole of space (with all its contents and happenings) is present. And somehow those two moments are linked. Surely that link must be a kind of timing. But how can we find that timing, when past and future are part of the contents and happenings of space, and present is just space itself. That is the mystery.
I have been thinking about ‘mystery’ lately, and it seems to me there are two kinds of mysteries: those that cannot be explained and those that cannot be understood. We usually think of the first. I think the passing of time cannot be explained. But it can be understood, because, after all, it is at the very heart of our being.
Peter’s self cannot work with the self. That relates to the two kinds of mystery. The self cannot understand time. Is that because the self is time? Perhaps Peter can tell us more when he returns.
David opposes linearity with opening out, or overlapping. That seems useful. Take a look at what LOK says about single-minded knowing. It is similar.
Jack