I’m interested, if anybody is able to reverse time (LOK 15). If I do it, it’s not really a reversing, like a film running backwards.
It’s more like: I jump back to another point in the “past” and then go “forward again”, then again jumping backwards a.s.o.
My “film” (time) never really runs backwards. How about you?
Klaus,
As Eliana suggests, I wonder if the direction of the flow of time is not the issue so much as the perspective of being somewhere/somewhen and using that as the pole from which we view another time “outside” our bystander viewpoint. Asking whether we can reverse the direction of the flow of time will lead us very far if we can’t really inhabit a flow of time in any direction. My own appreciation of time being more allowing (than my usual sense of being stuck in a tiny present moment) came when I was able to sense that the versions of myself at various moments in the past could be friends and allies of the person I am now. This felt like a communication opened up between two times with the result that I didn’t feel as helplessly emprisoned in a single moment.
I used to invent palindromes (reading the same forward as backwards)–when I had too much time on my hands and not enough to engage it fruitfully. My favorite was:
Trap a dog alive
Evil a god apart
Hi Klaus,
In my understanding, the exercise is leading us to explore the motion of time’s rhythm.
The ‘bystander-outsider’ can only regard the motion of time’s rhythm as entirely inaccessible, its speed something from another dimension. Human experience cannot grasp it; conceptual models cannot make sense of it. KTS 83
Exploring as ‘outsiders’ (as the self, apart from its movement), the motion of time’s rhythm becomes ‘points’, origins and boundaries.
If we look more closely at how the points of lower-level space and time ‘fill in’, we see that the commitment to substance allows for no gaps. Existence comes into being following old lines of force, reweaving the weave of a fabric that has already been woven. Specific points come together in a specified sequence, establishing labels and distinctions. KTS 84
The exercise leads us to see that we usually operate in first level time according to the rules of the logos. For the self time’s rhythm as entirely inaccessible.
Do you agree?